I had the custom plates NV and ended up in some sort of dystopia where I got hundreds of parking tickets for all different makes and models of cars until well after I returned the plates.
I originally wrote that on Craigslists rants and raves at a point in the process when I was starting to get frustrated.
Just writing it out was therapeutic, it helped me see the absurd humor in the situation. Then someone responded with a link to an LA reporter who had written about similar situations.
I contacted him, he wrote a story about me, and all the bureaucratic problems just went away.
I wrote my story up here...
https://100parkingtickets.com/