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Do you memorize your car license plate?

Cause, I do not and it is not written on DL nor on your Insurance papers.

...good tip...it will be now!!! thanks!!!

Sometimes I do, but only because sometimes the number is easy to remember. I just had to get new plates on my truck and motorcycle and they are both easier than the previous ones. The truck one is even a little funny and neither are vanity plates.

Beiruty wrote:. . . it is not written on DL nor on your Insurance papers.

It is on my registration receipt that is kept with other records at home.

I have had the same number for a lot of years… kinda hard not to remember.

6 or 7 digits or letters, what's hard to memorize? I routinely memorize number sequences of 16 or more digits and often remember people's telephone numbers for a short while after only one pass and for months to years after only a couple of repetitions. I remember the serial number of my Enfield from boot camp in the Navy, the serial numbers of several firearms that I own, and not only the license plate of my first car, 631-ABD from 1966, but my NY driver's license number L15518-485628-983861-46, first issued in 1964, but surrendered in 1993 when I got my IL license.

When I was in grade school and high school I often got points taken off of tests because I didn't show my work in obtaining answers to math tests. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong, partly because the answers just seemed to come to me, therefore no work to show, and partly because the dogmatic teaching of the 50s and 60s was not good at explaining the whys and wherefores. One of my high school math teachers recognized what was happening, because she had a similar problem, and when she finally got it across to me, a whole new world opened, far too late to become some sort of predecessor to Sheldon Cooper.

I frequently "got" the answer because the same question was used in study at some point, so I just "knew" what the answer was. I really didn't know that others did not memorize as easily as I did and didn't find that out for a long time. These days, and for a long time past, I make a conscious effort to avoid recalling numbers, but it ain't easy.

It has come in handy for parlor tricks and bar bets, but not much else in my career as a telephone man, except for remembering people's telephone numbers for years after I worked on their phones, rather then their names. "Hi, Mrs. 861-5564, how are you today?"

i used to put the alpha-numeric into a code or when you replace letters / numbers with words (I know there is a word for it, but Im too lazy to look it up).
My wife however, would never remember hers, and I do find it quite useful to know them, so I ended up getting her specialty plates so she cannot forget.

I had it memorized, then they changed it.

I do. Not necessarily by design, but it seems that I end up using them so often that I can't help it. Come to think of it, I remember most of the license plates of most of the vehicles I've owned over the years.

Funny...I can remember the license plate on my first truck, the out of state plate that was on it before it was mine, several in between, the plates on the two trucks I drive now...but I have no clue what I had for lunch yesterday.

Vanity plates are too expensive, so I just changed my name to 68B ZT2. Which is easy to remember now...


I have a photo of my plates in my phone. Comes in handy at campgrounds, hotels, when you lose your car at the airport, etc....

steveincowtown wrote:Vanity plates are too expensive, so I just changed my name to 68B ZT2. Which is easy to remember now...


I have a photo of my plates in my phone. Comes in handy at campgrounds, hotels, when you lose your car at the airport, etc....

No. Never had the need.

Teamless wrote:i used to put the alpha-numeric into a code or when you replace letters / numbers with words (I know there is a word for it, but Im too lazy to look it up).
My wife however, would never remember hers, and I do find it quite useful to know them, so I ended up getting her specialty plates so she cannot forget.

ROFL! My late wife's license plate was "BROOM" so when people called and she was out, I could say she was out riding her broom.

Keep the image as photo in cellphone