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Saturday, November 12, 2005
1JI did not grow up in Idaho. Therefore, I was unaware of how the license plate system worked here until I went to college. There is an interesting system that was created by our state government that comes in somewhat handy at times. Each county in our state has a different prefix to the licensee plate numbers. Therefore, we can instantly know what part of our state a person is from.
There was one particular county that I was always warned against while I was in college. And that, was the 1J. These people all grew up on farms and knew nothing of how to drive on the highways, thus whenever we saw a 1J driver out there, we panicked and passed them as quickly as possible.
The truly ironic part of my story is that I am now living in 1J territory. The license plate on my car states boldly that I am a 1J driver. I must admit that my husband and I find this quite hilarious, especially when people try to pass us quickly to escape. It has given us many moments of amusement because we know what the other drivers out there are thinking when they see our car. “Oh no, there is a 1J!”
Today while merging onto the highway, a nice looking Explorer hurried into the passing lane to get around us. I looked at their license plate, they were students up at the University where I first went to school. We were merging onto the highway, so we quickly accelerated up to the necessary speed. This poor couple barely made it past us before we caught up to them. They wanted to drive in front of us no matter what, consequently as we tried to speed up, they sped up. When we slowed down because of another car, we could not pass them because of our friends in the Explorer. We laughed at first, but became annoyed enough that we took the first opportunity to get around them that we could. My husband decided that it was worth risking a ticket on this heavily patrolled stretch of road just to thwart them. He succeeded in passing them eventually and played their own trick right back on them. I kept warning him that a ticket could come to us because of his silliness, but he stated boldly that it would be worth it. My husband would not slow down until we had turned off of our exit. We have an excuse to drive this way of course, after all we live in 1J territory. Beware drivers, we are 1J’s and we know how to use it.
