Saturday, March 24, 2018

"A license to spill..."

 Speaking of fake ID cards/drivers' licenses, the College of Charleston (S.C.) was founded in 1770 and chartered 15 years later in 1785.

 (No indication why there was a 15-year gap but possibly it was tied in with the growth of the city, the fact that it had finally shucked the awkward original name of Charles Towne, and it started to build and develop its famed Historic District downtown.)

The C of C has about 10,300 students roaming around its beautiful 52-acre campus. 

 Many of these students are under the legal drinking age (21) and yet, many of these same students do a LOT of drinking and partying in public bars, of which there are many.

 Bartenders are wise and have several ways to discern if the proffered driver's license is valid or even real.

 One downtown bar of an Irish persuasion started sticking captured fake IDs around a back bar mirror but, because they were hard to read at that distance, it created a tabletop, covered with all sorts of fake and dubious pieces of identification.
A license with a girl's face on it, shown by a young man, is pretty easy to discern and it is kept by the bartender. 

 One that caught my eye among those on the Tabletop of Shame, was an out-of-state license that was printed vertically, indicating the bearer is underage. Duh.


You go to college to learn. Some quicker than others.

 I just went through the rigid DMV guidelines to renew my driver's license and now have the REAL License. 

 With it, I can go through TSA to board airplanes and step foot on military bases.

 Without the yellow star on the face of the license, you would have to carry your passport to do that after a certain date next year.

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