Thread: Life With an Expired Driver's License

If you don't need a drivers' licence you may want to have a passport: it is an ID and allows you to travel to other countries.

So, while there is other acceptable forms of ID, have you tried to write a check lately? “What is that? We don’t take money orders.”

Remember who you are dealing with. Want a laugh, give them exact change and see what happens? These people are or will be parents.


Make your life easy-er, renew your license.

Lol
I remember watching one use a calculator to multiply 10 x $0.25.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Lol
I remember watching one use a calculator to multiply 10 x $0.25.

Wow. And I thought the metric whackos wanted to force us to use metric so the math would be easy. Silly me.

I was camping in Gettysburg and stopped in to a large chain food store. Spotted an aisle of beer and bought 1 can of Guinness to go with dinner.

I did not realize there was a specific cash line for liquor purchases and had to go back to that line to check out. Then I had to produce my driver’s license so they could check that I was of legal age.

I suppose I could have been happy that at 70 with a mostly white beard and balding head, the young cashier thought I looked so young that carding was necessary. I understand it is a state law requirement for any booze purchase.

The problem was that my date of birth on my Ontario license was in the form YYYY/MM/DD and that totally flummoxed the poor young woman at the cash register. I had to give her a quick lesson in the logic of having dates in that form for filing and sorting purposes.

All in all, it took more than 20 minutes from the time I selected my solitary can of Guinness to getting back in my car to return to our RV.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

Wow. And I thought the metric whackos wanted to force us to use metric so the math would be easy. Silly me.

I learned the old money in England until I was 8 years old, I still understand pounds, shillings and pence, I have very little idea about grams or centimetres even today but I have noticed one thing.

Even with younger people that do grams and kilometres, ask them how tall they are and they will invariably say something like 5' 8".

Canada is metric but the new car we bought recently can tow 3500 lbs according to the book, no idea what it can do in kilograms because it doesn't say (I don't actually care, just saying).

I'd get the Drivers License, you never know when you may need or want to rent a car.

Cashed some checks using the drive through.
Had to send my drivers license through the tube. A passport would not have fit in the thing.

Get a drivers license

Another point

In Wisconsin your license can have an emblem that can of serves as a in state passport.
To get the emblem you have to present a birth certificate and a utility bill sent to your address.

I think most states are going to this type of ID.

I just renewed my license online. There was a place you could check to surrender your drivers license and get a state id.
I opted to renew and retain my license. Never surrender!