There’s no existing thread to put this on. This evening, I found myself behind a car with the license plate “HPYwife.”
I immediately thought, “Harvard Princeton Yale wife? That’s a bit pretentious!”
Then I realized, “Duh, it’s supposed to mean HAPPY wife.”
I am a college admissions addict, and my [screen]name is Consolation. B-)
LOL! I love trying to figure out personalized license plates.
Even though my first thought wasn’t Harvard/Princeton/Yale, I admittedly don’t think I would’ve figured out happy wife. :">
I read it as “hippie wife,” which makes no sense at all!
Nottelling, that was my interpretation of it as well. 
Welcome to the Hippie West!
Ah- context. Seeing those letters on CC I tried to figure out how being a wife of only HYP stood out. Hearing about the license plate- my mind went immediately to happy. Too bad the driver identifies herself most as a wife instead of her own person. Doer her H have HPYhub for his plates???
What kind of car was it? Just wondering what kind of car makes a HPYwife.
I have no idea what kind of car it was. Something dark, I think. (I think it was the capitalization that made me think of HYP. )
Could also be harpy. Or even happy harpy. You just don’t know. Or could be a reference to Heartland Payment Systems which trades as, you guessed it, HPY!
“Too bad the driver identifies herself most as a wife instead of her own person. Doer her H have HPYhub for his plates???”
My first guess is that he bought her the car, or that it was an inside joke because she won an argument about what kind of car to get. I’m facing down that sort of argument this January when our lease is up. Not looking forward to it.
Maybe she is a brewer, in which case it would stand for “Hoppy Wife”. hehe
Once upon a time my SIL had a cute nickname when spoken aloud, but when abreviated to fit a license plate it could be read as “molester”, which she didn’t realize until people started honking at her and flipping her off… And then a neighbor asked us who kept visiting us with the “molester” plates? And what had she done to be forced to have them? (Molly = The Mall Star = Molster (spoken) = who’s that creep with the molester licence plate?)
LOL! Oh east coast, that is too funny! Although I’m sure your SIL didn’t find it so humorous.
I read it as a shortened version of “Happy Wife Happy Life,”, which is a saying that grates on me for some reason. Maybe because it sounds like the speaker is saying the reason you want your wife to be happy is that then she will make you happy, instead of wanting her to be happy because you love her and want good things for her. Selfishness disguised as caring. Is my cynicism showing?
I was thinking Hypnotist.
Would be great if the husband’s tag read HPYlife
@MomofJandL, if “Happy Wife Happy Life” grates on you (as it does me), you would perhaps enjoy the movie Bride and Prejudice just slightly more than most.
And I’m still trying to imagine what “Harvard-Princeton-Yale wife” would mean. Bragging that she married someone who went to Harvard undergrad, then Princeton for law school, and is now faculty at Yale?
I think there is some truth to that saying “Happy Wife Happy Life.” My observation in general is that when women feel appreciated they will give more than their fair share. But take a woman for granted and there is going to be a problem.
Happy wife Happy life sounds good to me. Cash happy, no cash, no happy.
I always thought Happy Wife Happy Life went with the sentiment that the wife / mom is the heart of the family.