The license plate: 4 FAT RAT

The car: 2004 Chevrolet Silverado.

The owner: George Sattiewhite, 49, city worker.

The reason: I was on crack cocaine and alcohol for 20 years. I made a promise to my mother on her deathbed that I was going to be a good man.

I went to church and God delivered me. I didn’t have a taste for the drugs nor the alcohol anymore. I started fixing my credit, got my life together. I’ve been sober nine years.

Now I have a beautiful wife, Aleta. I stay in a $200,000 condominium. I have an SUV. I have a sports car.

I work for the city. I have my own landscaping business. The way I live is nothing short of a miracle.

One day my brother, Rock Hound, walked up to me and said, ‘I’m gonna start calling you Fat Rat because you be after the cheese [money].’

Now everybody calls me Fat Rat because they know I’m after the cheese.

- Christopher Evans, Plain Dealer reporter

UNEEK PL8S, PLS. If you have a vanity plate, or you see a vanity plate that merits attention, please contact Christopher Evans at cevans@plaind.com if you have a vanity plate or see a vanity plate that merits attention. Go to cleveland.com/roadscholars for previous Road Scholar features.