Monorail Mementos for Sale

Seattlest shelled out the $255 and got our new license-plate tag in the mail the other day. (Remind us to tell you the story sometime about the time our brother's mother-in-law, horrified at the state of affairs at her daughter's apartment, took the initiative to vacuum...and inadvertently vacuumed up their new license-plate tag.)

Imagine our surprise when we popped open the envelope to retrieve the world's most expensive sticker and saw what's pictured on this year's version. We felt a pang when we saw that futuristic relic of the past, the monorail, rendered in stark, iconic black and white. Black like the color of mourning? Or is that monorail pointing towards the future...and passing Seattle by? We'll just think of it as a subtle, year-long reminder that $150 of our $255 went towards paying for a monorail that won't be built.