This time last week, spotting number plates seemed simple, getting at least one a day, everything was going fine.
On the way to work trying to find a 136, I saw two sets of consecutive 137 & 138, and driving a 139, I was sure that I would be looking for a 140 in no time.
Still no luck at lunch time, and then on the way home, I saw another 137 driving past me. Then, 20 seconds later a 136! This was going to be easy. I had seen at least 5 different 137s in the last two day. OK they were all moving, but they were all in the area.
But no, ten 138s later, I finally find the 137 a week later. Luckily for me, a 138 then appeared within a few minutes. Next job was to safely pull over, spot my number plate before a 140 appeared. No 140 did appear, nor have I found one yet, but hopefully I’ll find one soon, and my ratio of 0.6318 won’t drop any lower.
Followed the link from your profile on the Haloscan forums and found the title to this entry interesting from a linguistic point of view (occupational hazard!)–had never thought about “f-ing insertion” in connection with numbers. Cheers!
(If you don’t mind, I think I’ll swipe your charsleft script for use in my own Haloscan comments; different blog than the one I gave in the URL field.)