Dana Mathewson on the his experience getting the Real I.D.:

This Real ID thing is, if you ask me, a whole lot of smoke but no fire. My wife and I went through the rigmarole of getting them this year. I had no trouble, but my wife had a lot of fuss. She's been married three times, with me being number three. All three marriages are nicely documented, and so are her two divorces, all with stamped and embossed certificates. And so is her birth certificate. But the first functionary at the Motor Vehicles Bureau who looked at everything was apparently overwhelmed by the volume of paperwork and just said "We can't accept all this." My wife said "Yes you can," and walked her through the paperwork piece by piece, and after the girl had called in somebody else to help her, she finally got everything approved and took my wife over to take her photo. Meanwhile I was waiting because mine was all done.


Six weeks later we got our new licenses, and they don't look a damn bit different from the old ones. I'm just waiting to present mine somewhere and have some a**hole say "This isn't a Real ID."

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