I totally fail to see the need to wait for a new plate, its a lease car, who cares – I mean, unless it has some sort of weird smugness/one-upmanship value. But then I am a foreigner, so it’s probably one of those weird UK things that I don’t understand like class deference or middle lane hogging…
I can’t even ask my wife about it as she’s also foreign (and been here a lot less less time than me).
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.