here is the receipt for your husband, and here is my reciept for your reciept

[phinnia]

Someone said (possibly Terry Pratchett, although I'm not sure about that) that there's a gateway to hell in the DMV.

Actually no, it wasn't PTerry, it was Pinky and the Brain. But they were right, anyway.

Why can I change to a Washington State license by simply showing proof of residency and my Oregon state license as valid ID, but if I want to change my damned hangtag to a Washington state model (which I have to do because the present one is tied to my Oregon state license) I have to either get the local doctor that I don't have to fill out a form, or somehow get my old doctor to fill out a Washington state form and return it to me? And of course, the damnable hangtag has reciprocal visiting agreements in all fifty states, but somehow this generous reciprocity vanishes when you move.

Of course Canada's no better, or at least they weren't when I lived there - if you didn't have a driver's license it was a bitch finding photo ID, because they wouldn't take the health cards with photos on them because there'd been so much health card fraud- so you had no photo ID at all, even though you did. Apparently there was something called the 'Age of Majority Card'. I never saw one. (This, along with my father's misadventures with Revenue Canada (who make the IRS look like toothless baby kittens by comparison) is one of the reasons why I laugh hysterically when people say that Canada's government is so much better than the one here. They're all bastards, just different flavoured ones.)

That reminds me. I should get a spare copy of my birth certificate while I actually can afford to wait the six months that'll take. (My husband? My son? They can get spare copies in a week. Mine? Six months; some bright soul that hopefully has a special place in hell near the ice machines that rattle all night decided to have all requests for that sort of thing go out of Thunder Bay - for the entire province. It would kill them to have two offices, apparently.)

Seaners needs to get over this Madonna thing he's got going. I'm getting sick of listening to 'Confessions on a Dance Floor' three times a day.

Comments

[mephator.livejournal.com]

I dunno about the area of Canada you lived in, but in MB you can get photo ID from the MLLC for like 10 bucks.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I lived in ON. They ostensibly had the same deal going, but nobody knew how it worked, including the employees. Of course, that could just be that I grew up in a town full of idiots, too. That's actually likely.

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

The Age of Majority card program thingie is discontinued. They discontinued it SIX MONTHS before we'd heard of it, and could have gotten Gus the Big Mean Bunny an ID (he didn't drive). What we wound up doing was shelling out $80 for a passport. :P

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

That's totally ridiculous. At least here you can get a non-driver's ID card through the DMV (looks the same as a license, has a license number and is in their system; it's just not valid for actual driving.)

[emmalynne.livejournal.com]

In BC you can get a card like that for ID if you don't drive. My mom has one and has never had any problem (except complaining how much it costs - almost as much as a driver's licience) with them at all.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just the Ontario government that are morons then? That's entirely possible. They did at one time elect Mike Harris.

[kengr]

Weird. Here in Oregon, the ID card is noticeably cheaper than the drivers' license.

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

I was more than a little pissed off to find that I could get a handicapped plate in Indiana when I had one in Georgia, nor would they let me use a form from my doctor, OR let me send the Indiana form to the GA doctor. Nono, it has to be an Indiana doctor. RARghrhrs.fjds.

And your current hangtag still works if it hasn't expired. I hope you didn't surrender it... I refused to give them mine when they wouldn't let me exchange it, despite it being in my maiden name.