All the best stories start with "Once upon a time..."
Once upon a time, I got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles. It seems my current driver's license is due to expire in a couple of months--on my birthday, conveniently--so I had to get a new one. Being the sort of person that tries -- TRIES-- to be proactive, I looked over the information they sent on the very day I received it.
There's a new system in place: it's called REAL ID and is apparently spearheaded by the Department of Homeland Security, which automatically makes me suspicious of it. Paranoia about undocumented aliens continues to climb, as I had to collect an entire herd of information to prove my identity to renew and upgrade to the REAL ID. The thing with REAL ID is, it's being required at airports even for domestic travel, so not...
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Published on July 29, 2019 10:21