By BRIDGET SCOTT
WHILE Upper Beaconsfield trader Sally from the Tradies and Ladies Cafe still awaits her signage to be approved, she was stunned to have a set of number plates given the thumbs up.
While this was also a somewhat long process, Sally, who doesn’t wish to use her last name, was overcome with joy when a set of number plates reading BIGARS arrived in her post office box this month.
These have been approved despite an ongoing dispute with VicRoads which has meant the owner of the cafe may have to take down a sign out the front of her business which reads “Sally’s Big Arse Burgers.”
The sign became a problem again when local residents complained that it was offensive, and the trader was told she might have to remove it.
The sign issue is at a stalemate, with Sally saying the process has been handballed between Vicroads and Cardinia Shire Council.
Then came her number plate victory.
Sally said she had originally applied for BIGASS plates, but said VicRoads deemed this offensive.
Two years later, she tried again after she had some business signwriting done on her car.
“I thought to myself, I’ll try big arse plates but just spell it a different way,” she said.
She said it had always been a dream to deck out her car and couldn’t believe it when the approval came through.
“I quickly got my credit card, but they said they needed up to three weeks to review,” she said.
“Six days later I went to Beaconsfield to check the postbox and there was a parcel.”
Sally said she couldn’t remember what she had ordered and figured it would be a box of stubby holders she had arranged to have delivered.
“I thought, what am I waiting for?”
“The plates come up and I said, ‘Oh my God, I feel like I’ve just won Tattslotto’.”
Sally said she jumped straight in her car and drove to VicRoads in Dandenong South to have them registered to her car.
She said the lady who served her knew who Sally was and she quickly put them on her car in the car park.
Sally says she often takes her car for a drive and gets tooted by people impressed with the signwriting and number plates.
The trader is determined to keep her sign up out the front of her business, saying she refuses to back down.
