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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2013-01-05 05:16 pm
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Memorial cars

While I'm here (and LJ is), this is something else I've been meaning to ask about.

A couple of months ago I was following a car with a man's full name on the rear window and something in a curving line above it which I couldn't read till I got closer. In a very fancy script it said, "In loving memory of". OK, that was weird, but then a couple of weeks ago I saw another car with a much more readable sans-serif "In memory of" followed by another name. Both names were fairly standard English ones FWIW.

Has anyone else seem this sort of thing and/or know anything about it? Is it a new thing or something old which has just surfaced here?

And now I'm off to a barbecue with some people from Greg's work. I hope some of the people I know relatively well are there.

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[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
I've never seen it in the UK either. If it obstructs part of the rear window, then the driver could be rejoining his/her loved one unexpectedly soon.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure the lettering obstructs a fair bit of the window! Advertising on company vehicles is on the bodywork, not the windows as in this case.
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