Welcome to another edition of
Am I Crazy, Or...?
Today's topic: Am I crazy, or have there been an incredible amount of out-of-state license plates in the DFW area the past couple of weeks?
Wait, hear me out. I'm somebody that looks at other people's license plates when I drive. I like to try and form words and phrases out of the digits. But the past couple of weeks the number of out-of-state plates has skyrocketed.
And I'm not just talking a lot from Louisiana, although there have been an inordinate number of those. Literally--no exaggeration--I was driving last night around 11 pm and within 10 minutes, on a small suburban road, I saw plates for Louisiana, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Wisconsin? Really? Who the hell gets in a car in the Cheese State and takes a road trip to Texas?
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Over the last couple of weeks, I've seen plates from Pennsylvania, Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida...the list goes on.
Why are they here? You can't tell me there's that much to do in the Metroplex, and even if this was just a summer roadtrip/tourist thing, wouldn't I have noticed them every year around this time?
No, there's something deeper behind this. People are being drawn here, maybe even subconsciously. I would say they're escaping global warming, but goddamn, it's hotter here than anywhere else.
Theories?