"Everybody" has constantly claimed
you have to have a photo ID just to get along in today's society and I said that's bull because I do it all the time. Except for the simple fact that I do have a driver's license I would NOT need photo ID to get along in my everyday life.
- Netflix does not require photo ID.
- QT does not require photo ID when I fill the tank. (I use my CC*; *debit card, actually, not that it's any of your business).
- The grocery store will actually hand out extra cash (up to $40) just by using my CC* for a purchase.
- The only check I write anymore is to my mortgage company, so that's a damn lame excuse for anyone trying to insist people have to have a photo ID to get along in today's society.
Like I said, I haven't shown anyone my ID since I got pulled over for speeding in 2006. If I wasn't driving I would never need one. Bus passes don't require one, taxi driver's don't require one. All limo companies need is a CC number, so they don't require a photo ID, either. In other words, as you just pointed out, there
are other forms of ID, like credit and debit cards.
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People may have to use some form of ID to get along in everyday life but a photo ID need not be one of them.
((Ed: No, I did not count using my DL for voting because I could just as easily use my free voter ID card, which is not photo ID.))
I may not have been up to date on what SS required in the 1980s since I wasn't there doing it. I finally found someone who was there and did it and asked them what it was like. Then, I did what a lot of people here wouldn't do, admit flat-out that I was wrong. You want me to beg your forgiveness, now?? **** off!
That doesn't mean I haven't lived a long life, right here within 30 miles of where I was born. You talk about "common sense" and "tribal knowledge", well, there it is. If there had been some major change in ID laws I would have heard about it from simple word of mouth. But I took your advise and looked it up. I provided references to what I looked up. Nothing has changed. (Well, I did find out we can change our address on-line, now.
) Is there anything else about Missouri you'd like help with?