This license plate threw me when I was taking its picture.

I found it at the Dole Mansion at the alcohol rehab agency Last Chance House’s Pig Roast that wasn’t.

It looked like one I had taken on the way home from Rockford last Saturday. It turned out to be a University of Illinois alumni license plate.

This one had pretty much the same colors, I thought, but, remember, I’m color blind.

It says,

And, it’s an organ donor plate with Walter Payton’s name, a football with his number 34 and the “Chicago Bears” on it. The slogan for Illinois’ organ donor program, run by the Secretary of State’s Office, is “Life Goes On.” On the bottom, it says, “BE AN ORGAN DONOR.”

I’m an organ donor.

Are you?

Let me re-phrase that.

I’m a future organ donor.

Typing “I’m an organ donor” made me think of the Monty Python skit about the doctors who come to harvest the woman’s organs right after she signed up for the program.

“I’ve come for your liver.”

“But I’m still using it!”

she emphasizes as the docs were attempting to take her organs while she is still alive. (Photo and script thanks to Donorcycle.)

Considering Last Chance House is an alcohol recovery program, I should have figured out the meaning of the license plate right away.

I’m sure you did.

It has to stand for the twelve-step program that Alcoholics Anonymous has made famous.