Can we please define "my" license plate as the one that belonged to the car that I bought myself? :) That one, I memorized.
(Longer story - I brought that old Acclaim into the marriage. When I sold it 2 years ago, we transferred "my" plate to the brand-new car, which is now primarily driven by Shash. So it's not really "my" car to the degree that it's anything but "our" car, but I still know the plates on it better than I know what's on the one I'm technically now driving. *That* car was a gift from his parents, and not only was it not "my" car for 4 of the past 6 years, but it originally came with and we drove it using for a year plates registered to them! So, uh, in short, I've been at least partially responsible for 1 car with 2 sets of plates and 2 cars sharing 1 set of plates, and I only really felt possessive of the combination on the Acclaim. The other, well, I know it ends in PUK, and that only because Shash makes "puke" jokes. No clue what the numbers are.)
I'd like to count it, but as the original context is "You're out of town, you leave a conference to find your car has been towed/stolen, you call the police, they ask for your plate number" i'm afraid we can only count the car you'd be driving in that specific scenario.
(assuming it was not a rental, and if it was, that you'd have paperwork on it on your person)
This is, if you'll forgive my saying so, a new and unexpected scenario.
However, in that situation - if we stipulate hypothetically that I've engaged in the highly atypical for me behavior of driving "out of town" alone to a conference (I loathe driving enough that Shash does 90% of it) - I'd be driving the new car, as that's the travel car. So it would, in fact, be the one whose plates I have memorized.
(also, out of fear of just such a scenario, I carry the plate number to the car I can't recall on a scrap of paper in my wallet. I may in fact be utterly anal, I admit. I didn't consult it for this poll, as I thought that'd be cheating, but it's in there.)
and I also work in a city where it's not implausible that my car would be stolen while I'm at work... it's one reason I only park the '93 here, and then think I might need to know its plate # if it disappears like that!
(Longer story - I brought that old Acclaim into the marriage. When I sold it 2 years ago, we transferred "my" plate to the brand-new car, which is now primarily driven by Shash. So it's not really "my" car to the degree that it's anything but "our" car, but I still know the plates on it better than I know what's on the one I'm technically now driving. *That* car was a gift from his parents, and not only was it not "my" car for 4 of the past 6 years, but it originally came with and we drove it using for a year plates registered to them! So, uh, in short, I've been at least partially responsible for 1 car with 2 sets of plates and 2 cars sharing 1 set of plates, and I only really felt possessive of the combination on the Acclaim. The other, well, I know it ends in PUK, and that only because Shash makes "puke" jokes. No clue what the numbers are.)
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(assuming it was not a rental, and if it was, that you'd have paperwork on it on your person)
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However, in that situation - if we stipulate hypothetically that I've engaged in the highly atypical for me behavior of driving "out of town" alone to a conference (I loathe driving enough that Shash does 90% of it) - I'd be driving the new car, as that's the travel car. So it would, in fact, be the one whose plates I have memorized.
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and I also work in a city where it's not implausible that my car would be stolen while I'm at work... it's one reason I only park the '93 here, and then think I might need to know its plate # if it disappears like that!
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