You’re so vain you probably think this vanity plate is about you

Why is anyone still getting vanity plates? I understand that in the 80’s it might have been cool, but a lot of things were cool in the 80’s that didn’t hold up to the test of time. In 2010 who is still getting these personalized plates? I saw a guy the other day driving a BMW Z3 roadster and the license plate said “BMW Z3”, you know what it said on the back of the car? BMW and Z3, I didn’t need you to personalize your plate to tell me that. The worst are those that you're pretty sure are vanity plates but you can’t figure them out, so you're sitting in traffic going nuts and feeling like an idiot because a) you can’t figure out a vanity plate and b) you’re upset....that you can’t figure out a vanity plate! The fact that they are called “Vanity Plates” should tell you something, so unless you ‘re going to give us some useful information like, “DUCHBAG”, “DTERAPE”, or “MOLESTR”, let the inmates that are stamping your plates assign the letters and numbers.