If I’m driving or going to a store, I’ll have my wallet b/c that is where my license and $ live. If my wife and I are driving somewhere, she generally prefers to drive, so I’ll often not bring my wallet or keys. She’ll have both her ID and keys (and we can always get back in thru the garage.) Unless alcohol is served. She drinks (moderately), I don’t. So even if she just expects to have 1 drink, I’ll bring my wallet and drive home. But it occasionally happens that we will drive somewhere, and then I’ll go out an walk - maybe take a grandkid to a park or walk a dog. If stopped then for some reason, I would bbe in a neighborhood other than my own, without ID. Just got back from travel to southern Cal. Any number of times, I was walking along a beach, scrambling on rocks, or walking around neighborhoods - by myself, with no phone or ID.
My dog just died, but when we used to walk him, I would not bring my wallet along. And my sister and I often go on 2-3 hr bike rides. Often, neither of us will have a phone or ID.
I rarely bring my phone with me if I can avoid it. It is exceedingly rare that I will NEED to reach someone or be reached by someone during a specific portion of a specific day. Of course, I’m not sure how effective a phone is as ID.
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No, it’s illegal here, and I carry my ID and cash in my wallet, which I set next to my keys. Always keep them in the same spot, and you’ll never have to constantly look for them (like my mom, who is the one who gave me the advice).
In and of itself, not very. However, if you take a picture of your ID (or at least your health/car insurance cards), it’ll go a lot further in proving who you are than nothing.
While there’s been a time or two that I forgot my ID at home, I’ve never purposely gone without it. I actually get nervous those rare times I forget, imagining myself getting pulled over and hauled away. Even just taking a walk through the neighborhood, I have it on me.
I’ve worked retail, and SO OFTEN would people be writing a check, and not have an ID for me to verify it. Or are using a credit card and don’t think for a single second that I might want to make sure whoever owns it wants to spend $300 on a console. I get the odd forgetful moment, totally, but then don’t scream at ME because you drove here without your damn ID! Refuse to come back all you want - I’d rather not lose my job because you’re a pissant.
My wallet is always in my pocket. Except when I am in Barbados and walking to the beach when I have only the keys to our villa in a zipper pocket in my trunks. But my wife generally leaves her purse at home when we drive to the supermarket. I don’t think it would ever occur to her that she might need ID.
There was a woman here who recently was hit and killed in a crosswalk while walking her dog. She didn’t have any ID on her and the medics and police couldn’t identify her. They took the dog to a vet, found he was chipped, and learned the woman’s identity that way.
So, avoiding being a “John or Jane Doe” is one reason to carry an ID with you or at least have a dog.
I have left the house once or twice in the last year without my wallet. In my other pants or something. There is a moment of panic, and they I realize I don’t really need it most days if I"m just going to work and back.
Do you actually have to have your ID physically on you, and could you be fined for not having it, if stopped while driving a car? Assuming you are properly licensed and insured and are able to prove it later, could you still get a fine for not having it? I’ve never been pulled over without mine, but it’s something I’ve always been curious about. The closest I got was not having an updated insurance card on me when I was pulled over for expired registration, but the cop wasn’t phased at all. The info I had was correct and current - just not the card. Never had that happen with a license, though.
Out of the house? All the time. If I’m in my own fields, or an immediate neighbors’ fields, or wandering down the dirt road I live on, I almost never have ID on me.
Further than that? I’ll drive to a slightly further neighbor’s without ID – it’s less than a mile, all on back roads, and my chances of being stopped by the police are almost nonexistent; and the chances, in my situation, that even if I did have to produce a license they’d do anything drastic to me as long as I could produce the license back home are also almost nonexistent.
Any further than those couple of back roads: only if I forget my wallet by accident; which I think I’ve done once or twice in maybe twenty years.
(enipla, I’m with you on one thing: my pocketknife’s always on me, at least whenever I’m dressed.)
I feel bad for anyone named Puddentaine who gets asked their name by the police. You just know it won’t go well, no matter how often he repeats his name.
I usually have my wallet (and therefore ID) with me, but not all the time. Sometimes/often when I walk the dog (in my city neighborhood) I don’t have my wallet on me.
I frequently leave home without it - even if I’m driving. My wife is horrified by this. I was once pulled over for a missing license plate light, I told the officer I forgot it and gave him my name and address and he looked it up. Satisfied he sent me on my way.
I’m not trying to be a scofflaw, I’m just absent minded sometimes.
I don’t take it when I walk my dogs around my neighborhood, but otherwise yes it’s always on me.
On occasion when I can’t take my full wallet (I don’t carry a purse and women’s pants don’t have big pockets) I take my license, ATM card and a credit card.
I pretty much never have ID on me. I have my phone with a couple of payment cards in the case and that’s it. Even when driving. Never had the need for it. (UK based)
Basically I always carry wallet (with ID), keys, phone with me (and usually glasses).
The reason is that an automatic habit leads to fewer mistakes: if I was deciding each time what to take then sometimes I would forget when I actually needed it.
No ID when walking the dog—although he has ID. And very rarely if I’m making a quick trip across town on an errand that doesn’t need payment. Also, my wallet with ID is kept in a leather messenger-type bag that sometimes gets left locked in the car when I’m out taking photos or walking down the block to the post office.
I am a large black man living in the US. I always have my ID on me. I bring it when I cut my lawn and when I walk out to get my trashcan from the curb.
I have bought expensive items in the 1,000s with credit/debit card and almost never have I been asked to show ID. This is all in case I have to deal with suspicious police.