I was heading into work today when a gleaming, canary yellow Hummer pulled in front of me.  Nothing extraordinary about that, but then I saw the vanity license plate: HRDTIME$.  Obviously I don't know the owner, or anything about the owner, but I can tell you that the first words that popped into my head were "What a jack***." 

The rest of my drive into work I speculated as to what the owner was trying to say. Maybe he's made a killing in flipping foreclosed properties.  Maybe he's a franchise owner of a consumer credit counseling concern and has more business than he can handle.  Maybe it has nothing to do with the economy and he's simply sharing an inside joke.  Who knows, but putting a plate like that on the most obnoxiously over-the-top vehicle in the history of man during times like these just seems to be the equivalent of wearing a t-shirt that says "I'm a big fat *******."