Well, I lived in a country where we had oil shortages, so we had alternating days on when you can drive your car: license plate with even number can drive today

Well, I lived in a country where we had oil shortages, so we had alternating days on when you can drive your car: license plate with even number can drive today, tomorrow with odd number, day after that even again. Was not pretty and drove people to do all sorts of workarounds. Then the country fell apart.