For over a decade and a half, Wendy Auger of Rochester, New Hampshire, drove her car with a sense of humor and a practical parenting tip displayed right on her bumper. Her vanity license plate, “PB4WEGO,” was a lighthearted nod to a phrase every parent in history has uttered before a road trip: “Pee before we go.” It was a family trademark, a conversation starter, and a harmless joke that had earned her countless smiles from fellow drivers since the mid-2000s. However, the laughter came to a screeching halt when a formal letter arrived from the New Hampshire Division of…
For over a decade and a half, Wendy Auger of Rochester, New Hampshire, drove her car with a sense of humor and a practical parenting tip displayed right on her bumper. Her vanity license plate, “PB4WEGO,” was a lighthearted nod to a phrase every parent in history has uttered before a road trip: “Pee before we go.” It was a family trademark, a conversation starter, and a harmless joke that had earned her countless smiles from fellow drivers since the mid-2000s.
However, the laughter came to a screeching halt when a formal letter arrived from the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). In a move that left the mother of four stunned, the department demanded she surrender her plates immediately. The reason? The state’s bureaucratic censors had suddenly determined that the letter combination was “offensive” because it referred to “sexual or excretory acts or functions.” After fifteen years of incident-free driving, the government decided Wendy’s parental advice was a violation of public decency.