TKO

The very morning after I received my US two year PR card, I accidentally put my British passport through the washing machine. It smells nice, but it's rather a mess.

I'd have been quite upset if I didn't have my PR card - would have been a pain buying beer.

Strange, and lucky, timing for an unlucky event.

mellybrown

you cant buy beer without your passport????? I dont even know where my passport is hmmmm

TKO

I'm 31, but I must just have a youthful aura about me - I get ID'd for beer all the time, especially when I go somewhere new. The only ID acceptable in Alabama for a Johnny Foreigner (without PR card) seems to be a passport.

I did look at the Applebees guy strangely the other night when he said 'can I see your ID, I know I ID'd you last time'..

Juswus

Ocean breeze passport

that WAS good timing

mellybrown

lol thats funny - do they not accept drivers licences? Its crazy to have to carry around your passport allllll the time

TKO

Nope - had by UK DL refused as an ID when buying the amber nectar on one of my first days here. Carried my passport with me all the time since then.

Kar98

I washed my passport once. It went from near mint to foxed, badgered, weaseled and drowned. Time to get a new one (incidentally, I just filled out the form.)

US DL should be enough to serve as ID in every day life, no?
Some jobsworth don't accept anything but that. No foreign DL, no foreign passport. It has gotten irritating, especially when they babble on about THE LAW! No, you asshole, the law says you are not to serve alcohol to minors, it does not say you can not serve to people who are quite obviously old enough to have had their first beer -legally!- 25 years ago. Which, btw, is longer than you've been alive, you twit.

/exit stage left, watching out for bears

TKO

Got my Alabama DL now, so that's perfect.

Couldn't get that till I had my PR card though - Alabama DMV needs proof of at least 180 days eligibility to remain in the country before you can apply for a licence. As someone who arrived on a K1, I never had that till the AoS went through.

Juswus

don't get me started. I want to hurt people when they ask for ID.
I'd like to think it's cos I look like a spring chicken, but I live in the real world. It's just pathetic

Kar98

Just received my PR card today. DMV tomorrow. Been driving on my German "pink floppy tri-folder" license for ... a while

TKO

Heh, good luck - hopefully you haven' developed too many bad habits since your last test. The test guy reminded me that '2 hands on the wheel was preferred...' at the start of my test. Passed it easily enough though.

Kar98

Well... I do keep both hands on the wheel at all times. Maybe I should have a look at the driver's handbook. I hear they're asking stupid questions about fines for teens out after dark with drunk friends on the test.

Ash UK/US

Don't be so sure, I was refused buying beer at Family Fare because I used my green card as ID. License or State ID or military ID only

Mummy in the foothills

Maybe I should have tried washing mine, I lost half a bottle of sun tan oil over mine in the bottom of my beach bag one year in Majorca. It smelled really nice, the Immigration used to always look at it twice, and ask what happened. I traveled with it like that for a good 7 or 8 years.

Bob

Funny that, using a passport for ID...Hannafords, the grocery chain won't accept a passport because they can't verify it's genuine...they also only accept drivers license from the state of the store, New England issues licenses have to be checked by a manager before being accepted and they can refuse any other drivers license.

They also don't accept a greencard or military ID...