Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Worst licence plate for an Asian CPA
I carpool with my neighbor YA almost every morning to San Francisco downtown, she is an executive in a CPA firm in SF, and also a Philipino.
Yesterday morning after we finally passed the Bay Bridge, all of sudden she just started laughing, I asked her what she is laughing, she pointed to the license plate of the car in front of us, it's "4NOL4#4", seeing me still in deep question, she explained: "First of all, 4 is a bad number in Chinese, it means 'death', it has 3 of them, also 'NOL', in tax, it means 'Net Operating Loss'"
I have never imagined such a plain license plate to me, would mean so much to her, but again, I am not an Asian CPA, trained to be sensitive to NOL, and bunch of 4s, haha.
Yesterday morning after we finally passed the Bay Bridge, all of sudden she just started laughing, I asked her what she is laughing, she pointed to the license plate of the car in front of us, it's "4NOL4#4", seeing me still in deep question, she explained: "First of all, 4 is a bad number in Chinese, it means 'death', it has 3 of them, also 'NOL', in tax, it means 'Net Operating Loss'"
I have never imagined such a plain license plate to me, would mean so much to her, but again, I am not an Asian CPA, trained to be sensitive to NOL, and bunch of 4s, haha.
