Yep. I don’t weigh the same as I did when I originally got my license, but at some point (maybe when I changed my name after getting divorced) I had the opportunity to update it.
When I got my license renewed in May, I asked for the old one from before I lost weight. He couldn’t give it to me, but cut out the picture and gave it to me. I keep it tucked in behind my new license.
It is, but as this isn’t GQ, you might like a little anecdote about my **first ** driver’s license:
Back when I was 14, I was 6 feet tall. I passed the exam and driving test and they were tying out my license on the typewriter. (Yes, it was that long ago!)
Only, the “6” key on the typewriter did not work. So, the lady put my height as 5 feet, 12 inches!
I shoulda kept a photocopy of that first license as a souvenir.
My weight is under by about 50 pounds. Workin’ on that.
Height is correct.
Hey, my address and age are accurate!
Not sure how tall I am these days. Probably a little shorter than the 5’4" I listed when I was 17 (33 years ago).
Weight? HAH! Not even close! I don’t think I was even close back when I first put down a number on the application 33 years ago. I was hopeful then–still hopeful today!
Hair color in 1974? Brown. Hair color in 2007? Agressive blond highlights covering gray.
Eye color in '74? Blue–clear and true. Now–bluish gray.
My license still reads 5’4", 120 lbs., brown, blue. Hope they don’t try to use it to identify me in the event of a horrific accident or something. (Knocking wood so hard my knuckles bleed.)
My height is roughly right (it seems to vary slightly depending on who’s measuring it), eye color is right, hair is basically right (it lightens and darkens a little based on length, seasons, and lighting), and weight is off, but only by about as much as it was off when I received the license.
Not accurate. I’ve lost a bunch of weight in the last couple of years so the number on my license is way too high.
Also, I’ve grown three feet.
Which makes shoe shopping rather interesting.
My weight is pretty accurate (license says 150, I weighed 153 last time I checked.) Height is off (license says 5’6’’, and I’m really 5’8’’. No, I didn’t grow, I just wanted to be shorter, so I lied.)
My height and weight are listed at 5’10" and 145 lb - what I was at 16. Now I’m 5’11" and 160 lb.
I couldn’t tell you. How tall is 196 cm and 84 kg?
Just kidding. I’m a little shorter than 196 cm but 84 kg is right on the mark.
Drivers licence…height? weight? eye colour?
WTF is all this nonsense about
Washington State is alone in this bizarre system, as far as I know.
First 5 letters of last name (padded with * if there aren’t 5 letters in it), then initials, then (100 - your year of birth), then a check digit* derived from the whole number, then 2 letters / numbers representing your month and day of birth.
John M. Doe, born 06/14/1973 is DOE**JM272LM
Whereas in Florida, we use the Soundexed last name, encoded first name*, year of birth (last two digits), encoded day of birth ((month of birth - 1) * 40 + day of brith (+ 500 if female)), and then a digit that serves as a tiebreaker.
So, John M. Doe would be D000-473-73-214-0
Wisconsin and Illinois use similar systems, but their tiebreakers are different. I knew my year spent working in a company that dealt with fraudulent checks would pay off someday.
As far as height / weight, we have only height on our licenses, and mine’s a little short.
*I had to look up the check digit system for Washington and the first name encodings for Florida 
My old trainer would be ashamed.
Everywhere I have lived has required this information. Alberta, NWT, Ontario in Canada, and Maryland in the USA. It’s fine with me, since that makes a somewhat accurate way of identifying myself, as opposed to a five-year-old passport picture that looks nothing like me.
Mine is wrong by 2 inches as I told the lady I was 6’2" and 263, she misheard me I guess and thought I said 6’0" 263. I assume the 2 at the beginning of my weight threw her off. :smack:
Florida driver’s licenses don’t have weight on them. It says I’m 5’11", which I was when I was 17. Now I’m 6’.
Okay, 5’11" and three quarters.
ETA: Also, it says I’m a zombie!
Although no great higher truth would be violated by leaving this thread open, it is rather old — what we term a “zombie,” jimi80, an old thread that has been resurrected — and the info, therefore, is outdated. So I am going to close it.
If you would like to open a new thread on the subject, by all means, go ahead. Then others could give current info, etc.
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