I’ve got a little thing I do to keep my mind occupied when I’m driving: I look at the license plates of the cars as they drive by and look for recognizable three letter acronyms. (For those of you non-California folks, CA, license plates are typically of the form 1ABC234, for non-trucks, at least.) I had a weird thought the other day, that there are a bunch of TLAs from FFXI, specifically: STR, DEX, VIT, AGI, INT, MND, CHR, WAR, THF, BLM, WHM, RDM, MNK, BST, SMN, BRD, RNG, NIN, SAM, DRK, PLD1. I wondered how long it would take for me to find a license plate that had one of these in them. Mathematically, each plate has a 21/17576 chance (about .11% or 1 in 837) of being one of these, so it shouldn’t take long.
I saw a “RDM” plate in the Yahoo! parking lot yesterday morning.
For those of you who are interested, my own license is “RTV”, which I couldn’t think of a good acronym for when I first got it. Then, a few years ago, popular culture created one for me.
Yes, my car is now “Reality Television”
1 In order: strength, dexterity, vitality, agility, intelligence, mind, charisma, warrior, thief, black mage, white mage, red mage, monk, beast master, summoner, bard, ranger, ninja, samurai, dark knight, and paladin.