My vanity plate is "shrp11", AKA, the lydian mode in music. Most famously recognizable as the second note in the opening of "Maria" from West Side Story (over the second syllable of the name Maria.)
This past weekend, my wife and I were parking at a local restaurant when a guy carrying his guitar in for the gig glanced at my plate and said ... "you'll get a lotta crap for playing those", I said, "I won't hear them, then?", he said "oh yeah, you'll hear plenty of sharp 11's, I guarantee it"
... then the group played polkas and bluegrass ... so I sort of tuned it out.
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