You're So Vain

Today I saw something I don't see every day.

Vanity plates.

And not just any kind of vanity plates. The first one said "Vijay", presumably, the owner was a pleasant, though possibly vain Hindu.

The second was "Rani", which, I admit, is more obscure, but stands for "queen" in Hindi. Thus, two cars, two vanity plates, and likely, two Indians.

In India, I noticed that most license plates were hand-made (or perhaps store-made), but did not allow the user to pick their own vanity plates.

Does this sign of individualism ring more for Indian Americans than other citizens from other countries, or am I more sensitized to this than most, or was it mere coincidence?

I wonder.