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  • Didn't think it would happen....

    ...again.

    So, okay, I made a thread sometime early last year about a lady who hadn't gotten her license renewed for two years. Thought I'd never see someone do something like that again, should've known better.

    AND it topped the previous thread.

    The other day I had rung up a lady with various items spanning several departments, no big deal and whatnot. She's paying by check, need to see her ID. She starts looking through her Big Purse of Doom, can't find it but does find her OLD license.

    Which is really old.

    Which expired in 2005.

    I can't except that, it's REALLY expired -- I tell her, lady says that it shows that it's her. I STILL can't accept it, it's been expired for five years. She digs through her purse again -- which looks like it hadn't been cleaned out in five years either -- and keeps muttering that she just went to <random drug store> to pick up her prescription, she just had it.

    Customer spent a good five, six minutes going through her purse, mean while the other cashier was trying to get the massive line done all by her lonesome while my customer keeps trying to locate her *new* license. Eventually says that she has to go back to <random drug store>, they might have it.

    Customer did come back a good hour and a half later, well after I had gone to lunch, come back, and gotten through another massive rush. She went to another cashier this time, who had come in to take over for the other cashier that left after I came back from lunch. Customer paid cash this time and, from what I understand, didn't get her *new* license back -- <random drug store> didn't have it. Big surprise there.


    I'm sorry, but doesn't the DMV take the old license when you get it renewed? I have a Big Purse of Doom myself and it does need to be cleaned out, but I know *exactly* where all the important things are located and it doesn't take me five minutes to try and locate it.
    Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

  • #2
    I still have my very first license tucked away in a box of memories (just can't get rid of a picture that good). But they have never taken my old one when I've renewed. I renewed last week and they punched a hole in the old one.

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    • #3
      I've been renewing mine online. They send me a new one and then I'm supposed to destroy the old one. Texas allows this if you don't have any tickets.
      Dull women have immaculate homes.

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      • #4
        Ontario not only doesn't take away your old licence, but they put a sticker on it saying "Valid Photo ID only" so you can use it with your temporary licence to prove that it's yours. I don't know if there is any rule about when it stops being valid photo ID or not. And yes, I do know of at least one case where one of those got passed to someone to use to show that "yes, really, I'm 19".

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        • #5
          They usually punch a hole in it, rendering it invalid, and give it back. I keep mine.

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          • #6
            Last time I had mine renewed, they took my old one. Now, they've switched to a system here where you get your old ID, and a paper print of your new one (a temporary one) until your new one arrives approximately 2 weeks later in the mail. It's supposed to prevent ID theft, I guess. Just another way for the good ol' IA DMV to take your money and time!
            "And though she be but little, she is FIERCE!"--Shakespeare

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            • #7
              Quoth Android Kaeli View Post
              ...Which expired in 2005.
              I have a DL in my wallet that expired in 1974

              But I also have my current DL that expires this fall, then I'll be an unperson.
              I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
              Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
              Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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              • #8
                They use to take ours here as well, but I got mine renewed recently and they handed back my old one, as a second ID I guess, with no holes punched which surprised me, and handed me the new one a minute later.
                Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb. - exmocaptainmoroni

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                • #9
                  Here in England they don't really have expiry dates

                  That said I think I need to get mine updated as the last time i got asked for ID (I'm 27, but they do a "think 40" policy in a lot of stores round here) they said they couldn't take it as it didn't look like me! (it may be a 10 year old pic)
                  "You can only try so hard to look like you are working before actually doing your work seems easy in comparison" -My Boss

                  CW: So what exactly do you do in retentions?
                  Me: ummm, I ....retent stuff?

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                  • #10
                    Quoth BrenDAnn View Post
                    Last time I had mine renewed, they took my old one. Now, they've switched to a system here where you get your old ID, and a paper print of your new one (a temporary one) until your new one arrives approximately 2 weeks later in the mail. It's supposed to prevent ID theft, I guess. Just another way for the good ol' IA DMV to take your money and time!
                    Yeah I'm a little annoyed that they do this now. I understand they want to cut back on ID theft but its a huge pain in the butt and really, how much ID theft are they actually going to catch? Its not going to stop fake IDs.

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