Tochi's Hut

I might have mentioned in the past that there are some pretty nifty custom license plates where I work.  Two of coolest ones were CHOCOBO and TARUTARU.  Really tells you how geeky some of my lab mates are.   I've wondered for a long time who owns these license plates, half curious to see what they looked like.

A few weeks ago, as I was leaving a team picnic, I noticed CHOCOBO was parked beside me in the parking lot.  So apparently, someone on my team owns this plate!  I meant to ask around the next day to find the true owner, but the matter slipped my mind.

So today, as I was driving to work, I noticed CHOCOBO was two cars in front of me!  My heart skipped a beat, as I was on the verge of determining the secret identify of the mysterious CHOCOBO fan.  I switched lanes, sped up so I was side-by-side with CHOCOBO.  Turned my head and voila, it's my coworker who sits in the cube right BESIDE mine.  I was so shocked.  How come it took me so long to figure this out?  This coworker isn't that geeky, totally breaking my perception.

I was talking to him afterwards, and he mentioned that he doesn't like to drive.  Whenever our team goes out, we never take his car.  I jokingly asked if he was "ashamed" of his license plate.  It's such a cool license plate!

On a semi-related note, new Ontario license plates are of the form "ABCD 123".  They finally got to BXXX, and the most interest four letter sequence I've seen so far is "BAKA 123". :-)