I’m another person who doesn’t drive, and therefore has a state I.D. I haven’t run into any non-acceptance of my card, and am shocked to hear that such behavior exists.
–Joe (counting down the days until his legal photo I.D. is denied)
I have a driver’s license. But on a few occasions, I’ve temporarily misplaced my current driver’s license, and been left with only my previous (expired) license, which I was carrying around for no obvious reason. And several times, people have denied its validity as an ID because it was expired. Huh? OK, so it does not legally allow me to drive. Understood. But how does it not officially testify to who I am? Do you think I forged an expired license?
Sheesh. I just don’t get it.
Y’know, I’ve never had a problem using my Panama driver’s license for ID in the U.S.
But I assume that’s because they think Panama is a U.S. state.
Forever in the process of eradicating my own ignorance, I wish to know:
How do you pronounce “Oregon”?
[sub]I just found out a few days ago that “Yosemite” is not pronounced “Yozz-mite”. :o[/sub]
When I lived in Oregon, Ohio (a suburb of Toledo) we pronounced it as if it rhymed with pentagon. Later, after meeting some people from the state, I learned they pronounced it as if it rhymes with gin. Some get quite adament about it too.
Atreyu wrote:
Almost a five-laughy! […wiping tears…]
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Atreyu *
Well I’ve never heard of America, are you sure it’s a real place?
Oops; I don’t know how that got in there, but the sentence in my post above is not a quote of anything originally posted by Atreyu
Actually, alcohol should be sold only to people who don’t have a driver’s license, because it is illegal to drink and drive.
When Van Halen writes a song about Oregon, it can be a state too.
I grew up in California, which is next to Oregon. We pronounced it “OR-uh-gen,” with a hard g, like in good. I’ve heard a few other pronunciations, though. I had a boss that referred to visiting “ORY-gaaahn,” for instance.
Ore-i-gan. There are two syllables. Breathe in and activate your vocal chords to make the ‘i’ sound. I live there, so I should know. Just trust me. As soon as you get it right we’ll change the official pronounciation. My husband and I take great pleasure in going back east to visit family and correcting their pronounciation of it.
Sample transcript:
my mum: " How’s things in Or-ey-gone?"
me: “Ori-gan.”
mum: “Ori-gan?”
me: no, “Ory-gon”
mum: “Ah. Ory-gon”
me: “Almost. Roll the “g”.”
mum: “orggggghan?”
me: “Emphasis on the second syllable”
mum: “orrGGGhan”
me “Close. Orgahn.”
mum “How’s Portland?”
My family could be much more fun if they wanted to be, I’m sure.
I love going out about about when back visiting. I’m from Podunk (Clarion) Pennsylvania, and get tons and tons of “whatzzat? Oregon?” commentary about where I live. Stayed at a Super 8 Motel just outside of Portersville, PA once and had the gal at check in ask me how I could stand living down south like that.
My friend Chris, who used to live in Portland, told us cheeseheads to pronounce “Oregon” as “ORgan.” I said, “Does that make you an Oregon transplant?”
I slay me.
Try this on for size:
New apartment. Shopping for sheets, pillowcases, etc. Mervyn’s.
Me: “Do you have any bedding?”
Girl behind counter: “Um…”
Me: “Does your store, y’know, sell bedding?”
GBC: “Well. Not really. I think you have to go to the race track for that.”
Me: “…”
GBC: “…”
Me: “Okay. Bye.”
I realized as I was leaving that she thought I wanted betting.
Any of you guys who are from New Jersey know how crappy the licenses are. (A laminated card. Really.) When they made mine, the card was crooked, so it’s off-center in the laminate. Even I admit it looks fake, but I rarely got bugged at home. Then I move to California.
You’d think my ID was one of those wallet cards for all the crap I get. After having to produce my old student ID AND a credit card to get a bottle of wine at BevMo (a whole 'nother ball off wax, btw-- Do you really think the lady in a suit buying a $50 bordeaux is using a fake ID?) I realized it was time to get a CA license posthaste. DMV tells me I need a birth cert. and SS card. My passport, that I had to jump through 10 hoops to get, is not valid ID. I can’t find my SS card, so I go to get a new one. All you need to bring is a valid photo ID.
After waiting in line for 45 minutes, the woman at the window tells me it doesn’t look like a valid ID, and I need to have a CA license to get a SS card.
I need a SS card to get a CA license. The Social Security Administration is federal, dammit, and I have a perfectly valid NJ license.
I’m stapling my passport to my forehead and moving to Canada.
This is totally off subject, but while in Belize my family stopped to purchase a watermelons from some Mendonites (Amish). My dad was speaking to the man in German and telling him where we were from. He didn’t know L.A. or California, but he thought he had heard of the U.S.A. before. I thought it was weird, but I guess having no T.V., no radio and not speaking the national language will do that to you.
The circle-K near the college?
You don’t have to go that far - just come to AZ.
When I was in college, a friend of mine (who did not have an AZ driver’s license) would instead use his passport. He would occasionally get some argument from the cashiers, but never got refused outright. And it turns out, he was right. According to AZ law, any state or Canada drivers’ license, AZ state ID, Armed Forces ID, passport, or Mexican voter card is valid ID for the purposes of getting ripped. The only thing that they have in common is that they need to have a picture on them. So, ianzin, you better not leave the passport in the safe…