Dude, where's my car?

John calls and asks "You didn't come into town and take the car did you?" ...
Crap. I'm hoping that it's something stupid like the car alarm went off and when no one came to turn it off, they towed it. He had me give him the license plate number so he could call the cops. A few minutes later he called back saying that it wasn't the right number and read it back to me. Sure enough, one of the letters was misheard over the cell connection.

Here is a phonetic alphabet that was passed around back when I was doing phone support for Microsoft. Maybe it will help cut down on the confusion in your calls.

A as in Eighteen
B as in there
C as in Ocean
D as in fence, light
E as in irradiate, mail
F as in effective, epinephrine
G as in Whiz
H as in erb
I as in Eyeball
J as in walk, hawk
K as in Mary, cake
L as in Elephant
M as in Aunty, Emulate
N as in enable
O as in well
P as in Urine, psychology
Q as in cute
R as in Argue
S as in Psychology, essence
T as in Off, Cup, Ptomaine, China
U as in Me, female sheep
V as in Eight
W as in Oui, Wagner (composer vahgner)
X as in Extra, ray
Y as in Not
Z as in Ease

Update: The car wasn't towed by the city, the car was stolen.