Lying about my height on my driver's license

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My Pennsylvania driver’s license contains one bold-faced lie, a tall tale as it were. 



It says I’m 5-foot-10. I’d need to stand on my tippy toes to reach 5’10.



I’m more like 5’7.



Why I chose to tell such a petty bureaucratic lie, I do not recall.



Maybe I thought a cop would be less likely to tangle with a 5’10 dude. Or maybe I thought the deception would be useful