DWillowBay
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2010
No one has asked me for ID in 37 years. You'll get used to it.
It has only been 20 years for me, but it is nice, my order goes right in, without wait.No one has asked me for ID in 37 years. You'll get used to it.
I can't blame him there
Which does bring up something I've heard, here I think, as I understand it, technically foreign guests are supposed to have their passports as their ID. I can't imagine carrying that around. Seems like a risky thing to loose, no? Surely they have something else that can be used for proof of age, no?
It's unusual because most people would get a state ID vs a passport or they would have both. If you're traveling a lot internationally I get it but I would personally still get a non-drivers license.
FWIW currently to renew a passport it is $110 for just the application fee.
Ouch! That must be painful losing a passport twice.Yeah and to expedite it, which we have had to do twice (DH and DD) adds a huge chunk of change, about another $75. So if it were your only ID you would have to pay the expedite fees. I'll take $13 over $200 any day.
This alcohol is worse than heroin obsession is just too weird for me as a New Orleanian. I accept that the laws must be followed (unless we are talking about illegal immigration), but it's just still very alien to me.
When I was in college (in New Orleans where 18 was legal) we did NOT have binge drinking. No one had a nervous breakdown because someone had a drink. My peers in states where drinking was illegal were getting blackout drunk on a regular basis because one had to finish off that bottle. Unlike my peers and I who had one or two social drinks like normal people.
When I moved to Arkansas to take care of my elderly father I tried to buy some beer one day at Target. Alarms went off - it was Sunday so no beer could be sold. I'd been there about 4-5 years but never knew that. Now at Target everyone no matter how old had to show an ID. I laugh because I am very, very old - in my 70s with a walker or ECV but I have to show that ID.
I will go to my grave thinking that it is not a mortal sin for a legal adult (18 years old) to have an ounce or two of alcohol.
Ouch! That must be painful losing a passport twice.
The expediting fees are new.
Once upon a time the NYC passport agency was located in Rockefeller Center @ the "Atlas building". It involved walking cool marble lined hallways surrounded by the travel offices of exotic locations which just made it more fun to imagine new places to go at a later date. You arrived in the morning, showed the clerk your airplane ticket and presto! you picked up your passport the latest, next day, with no extra fee. Heck, I once went with a friend to apply for a passport just because it was fun. I have to say the appointment service @ Hudson Street is more efficient but it hasn't the charm of the original locale and no lunch at Saks 5th Avenue either.
My husband had to have his passport expedited when his company sent him to Canada with not so much notice (It was a one day he was called into his boss's office and a "hey in 4 weeks you're needed in Saskatchewan" was told to him). My mother-in-law and sister-in-law had theirs when they planned a Jamaica trip as more of a last minute thing. Thankfully though neither though had to do in-person "need in a hurry" process.Not lost. Neither had realized they had expired (DD because we didn't know kids passports don't last as long) and both were heading out of country. They went to a regional passport office and yup there are lots of fees. This was years ago.
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/passports/FeeChart/Passport Fees Chart_TSG_January 2017.pdf
Who knew that using a passport as ID was so unusual, LOL?
It's as convenient to me as a driver's license and multi-functional to boot. I do a bit of traveling for business and pleasure so need it no matter the cost and think I paid about 70 bucks to renew it the last time which would work out to $7.00 annually. The one time since the late '70's to date that I misplaced it, got another in less than 72 hours but there's a local US Passport Agency here. If I lost it overseas there would be no lessening of replacement time if I flashed a state or municipal ID.
IrishNYC, I too have no idea what a NYCID looks like or where to get one. What part of NYC are you in/from? Me, born in the Bronx, raised my kiddos in Park Slope, now living on the UWS and prolly on my way to Riverdale (we sold the Manhattan coop a few months back).
It's pointless to me, too, and the freebies don't sit well with me, but this isn't the place for that rant.I think places outside of NYC would know because it just says on it New York City Identification Card. It also doesn't have a lot of the necessary ID requirements to be accepted as ID for alcohol, tobacco, flying, etc. To me they are pointless.
The next time I've some spare time to wander the hallways of bureaucracy I'll take a look into acquiring a NYCID. As the commercial says if it's free it must be good.Born and raised in Astoria, now in Bayside.
It's safer to carry an ID than a passport, or at least it used to be, because there's more information associated with a passport that makes it easier for your identity to be stolen. But, in the advent of enhanced drivers' licenses the info in each is about the same. However, a stolen passport can more easily be forged and have a photo switched than a DL.
I don't have an NYCID, either, nor do I know what it looks like. I just know it's available for free, and you can get limited admission/membership to a lot of cultural institutions in NYC for free with it. It's accepted in NYC Public Schools as ID, as well.
It's pointless to me, too, and the freebies don't sit well with me, but this isn't the place for that rant.
The next time I've some spare time to wander the hallways of bureaucracy I'll take a look into acquiring a NYCID. As the commercial says if it's free it must be good.
I think this is a lifestyle difference/choice that begins and ends with my lack of wanting to drive. For those who do (and I acknowledge that's most in the US) I think a driver's license is a convenient piece of ID.
So, Queens, the borough, it's residents refuse to acknowledge, eh? Don't you worry about a thing since I still send correspondence to my birth borough conscientiously and defiantly writing "the" w/i the address. I also enjoy playing "snaps" with my cousins from Forest Hills during family holiday get-togethers.
The man is from Plainview, "LawnG Eyelind", so of course he can legally drive me wherever we want to go and roots for the Mets. I love him despite his obvious flaws.
The man is from Plainview, "LawnG Eyelind", so of course he can legally drive me wherever we want to go and roots for the Mets. I love him despite his obvious flaws.
Mets fan? Obviously flawed. Much like my own man. Everyone knows the team from the Boogie Down is the only one you should be a fan of.
Here's my experience with my 22 year old son last July:
My 22 year old son and I went to Disney last July. He always carried his ID with him, if he wanted to order a drink. We ate at Shula's our first night. I ordered a drink for myself and the waiter asked my son if he wanted a soda. When my son ordered an alcoholic drink and presented his ID, the waiter acted very uncomfortable getting my son the drink. I don't think we were imagining it, but I noticed a different attitude from the waiter afterwards. Then a man in a suit walked past our table several times. This man, probably a manager, smiled but I couldn't help but wonder if we were being watched.
Once, at the grocery store, my daughter unloaded beer from the cart on to the checkout conveyor. The clerk scolded her and me, saying he could get fired and the store fined if law enforcement saw it. Apparently, it's illegal to even handle closed containers when you're underage.