Register This

I have seen this weird phenomenon several times over the past few weeks.

On my own license plate, I have 3 stickers for the purpose of registration.  One for the county in which the vehicle is registered, one for the month in which it was registered, and of course the third sticker is for the year.  Now, every year when I renew the registration, I just put the new year’s sticker over the past year’s sticker.

However, I have seen several cars on the road who are placing the new year’s sticker next to the old one.  Two had years ’04 through ’08 stretching across the top of the plate.  One more year and they are going to have to start a second line.

What is the point of this?  Is it some sort of bragging right?  Do you think a cop is going to be more lenient if he pulls you over?  “Oh, I see, not only are you registered this year, but you’ve been registered for five years straight.  I’ll just give you a warning then.”

I don’t get it.