A New Hampshire mom got tired of telling her four kids to go to the bathroom before they got in the car, so she put the message on her license plate: “PB4WEGO.”
The mom, Wendy Auger, said the plate elicited nothing but laughs and appreciative honks from other drivers for the past 15 years. But last month, she received a concerned letter from the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles. The license plate would have to go, the department said, because it was associated with “sexual or excretory acts or functions.”
“I was completely shocked,” Auger told Today. “I was on my way out the door to go to work, and at every stoplight and stop sign I kept taking [the notice] out and looking at it again. I just couldn’t believe what I was reading.”
Auger appealed the notice, but luckily, she wasn’t the only one with a sense of humor. As soon as the governor, Chris Sununu, heard about Auger’s predicament, he intervened.
“Upon this being brought to my attention, I reached out to the Division of Motor Vehicles and strongly urged them to allow Wendy to keep the license plate she has had for the last 15 years,” Sununu said in a statement.
Auger may be safe from an overzealous Division of Motor Vehicles, but will she choose to change the license plate as her kids grow up and no longer need the directive? “They love it,” she said. She had thought of changing it herself a few years back, but “the kids wanted to keep it.”
