Hah. Good stories, Roger and Kent. I lived in Montana in another life, and we had the same kind of license plate numbers, by county. (They still do.)
My plates had #4, representing Missoula County, which was considered "big city." (Ala Boise in your example, Kent.) So, the #4 was a big flag. And we'd get shit particularly further down the Bitteroot Valley. No matter where you are, you're from somewhere else. You can localize all the way down to your street address, I suppose. Gary Meyers Kirkland PS. Smiley Creek sure is pretty country. > Roger, an amusing story about you Idaho experience - and completely > consistent with local custom. > > My wife's an Idaho native - her great grandparents were among the > first white settlers in southern Idaho just after the Civil War. Her > roots there run deep and we visit several times a year. > > Last summer, we'd flown to Boise then borrowed the in-laws' Tahoe to > drive up through Sun Valley to the Sawtooths to visit friends at > Smiley Creek. > > I lit out in the Tahoe early one morning to fish the Big Wood above > Ketchum. Remember, in Idaho, vehicle license plates are coded with > the county of registration: thus 1A is Ada county (Boise); 2C is > Caldwell County, etc. > > I had just found a likely looking stretch and had rigged up when a > Jeep Cherokee with local plates pulled up. The two guys sized me up > for a minute, took a look at the Tahoe's plates, then rolled down the > window and shouted "Weirdo. Go back to Boise!" Not waiting for my > reply, they tore away, spraying the parking area with dust. > > Reminds me of a humorous post a Idaho in-law sent me last year. In > part, it reads: > >> 5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a >> lake trout breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for that >> little 10-inch trout you fish for - bait. > > > Kent Lufkin > > > > > > >
