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Journal Some Woman's Journal: Damn you and your big beautiful green eyes 49

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In honor of September 11, I bring you this JE which has nothing to do with remembering, or patriotism, or massively bad things that have happened. In fact, it is most unrelated to 9/11. I figure that there are people who were there, or lost people, or were more affected by the thing than myself. Let them do the talking on this issue, I say (despite my tendency to poke my nose and opinions into every subject that has nothing to do with me).
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I like to look at people's driver's licenses. It typically goes something like this:

*look at license*
*look at person*
*look back at license*
*snort*

Which brings me to my next idea- all DMVs should be equipped with a scale and a measuring tape. Why do all women think they weigh 115 pounds, and all men think they are 6'1" and weigh 190? More importantly, why do we let people declare their own statistics?

Confidential to Mr. Green Eyes: You are not 5'9". You would get neck cramps staring up into the eyes of somebody who is 5'9". And 160? Ummm..what's that? Probably not your IQ, and definitely not your weight.

Mini Poll: By how much are your height and weight wrong on your license?

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  • It says 6'3", but I'm at least 6'4".Massachusetts doesn't bother putting the weight on the license.

    • My MA license is correct. I'm a measley 5'6 without my heels.

      Props to them for not putting the weight on the license though -- mine would *always* be wrong just be virtue of how much I fluctuate...

      • 5'5" on my license. And my wait is less on my license than I am now (yes, I've put on the poundage).

        I'm really 5'4.5", but who wants to see that extra half inch? I round up in the interest of keeping peoples heads from exploding, not any sense of ego.

        Now. Time to lose some weight (hah!).
  • ...mine says 6'0" and 125 lbs. Well, all right, it's maybe a half an inch too high (I'm juuuusst barely under 6 feet) and my weight bounces from 120 lbs to 130 lbs like a yo-yo (yes, I'm male and yes, I'm skinny as hell, though I've seen worse).

    Eye color says "BLU". Actually, my eyes are blue. So that's wrong, too. ;-)

    Anything else you want to know? ;-)

    FWIW the photo on my most recent license is actually fairly accurate. Nowadays they have digital cameras at the DMV in Minnesota and you can approve yo

    • Wow, your license stats are identical to mine! However, my license predates the "freshman fifteen", which is more or less the current margin of error. I should get a new license a) to correct my stats and b) to get rid of the "UNDER 21 until 07/18/2000", but it doesn't seem worth the trouble seeing as how my Arizona driver's license doesn't expire until 2039... :-p
      • Wow, your license stats are identical to mine!

        At long last I have found you! My dear evil twin, it is time for you to come home. We've been looking everywhere!

        Augh, you were born in 1979...eight years too late. Or didn't Mom say something about carrying you around a hell of a long time past nine months? Can't remember...

        ;-)

        Cheers,

        Ethelred

      • Wow, your license stats are identical to mine! However, my license predates the "freshman fifteen", which is more or less the current margin of error. I should get a new license a) to correct my stats and b) to get rid of the "UNDER 21 until 07/18/2000", but it doesn't seem worth the trouble seeing as how my Arizona driver's license doesn't expire until 2039... :-p

        Mine's spot on too: it doesn't state my height or weight in the first place! Nor does it have a photo, for that matter - just a name and addre

        • OTOH, if things go well, I'll be getting a US license soon anyway. If only the INS didn't have a six year waiting list for green cards in my category! (Offspring of US citizen who hadn't lived in the US for 10 years prior to the birth.)

          I thought children of US citizens got US citizenship automagicly?

          That sucks.
          • I thought children of US citizens got US citizenship automagicly?

            They did - past tense. Now there are residency and age requirements added, which mean I only get a green card (and that only after a 2-3 year wait).

            That sucks.

            Yep. OTOH, there might be another route - but, like all legal questions, it involves inserting money into lawyers.

            • They did - past tense. Now there are residency and age requirements added, which mean I only get a green card (and that only after a 2-3 year wait).

              I don't see why we shouldn't go back to that.

              I find it absurd some of the people we hand out green cards to like they were candy while at the same time some children of US citizens can't even get one. Then there are cases like the Japanese friend of mine who went to college here and has no desire to return to Japan. She's been able to make due with H1B visas
              • I don't see why we shouldn't go back to that.

                It does seem like a better system to me; I think the reason was that you could end up with a US citizen who emigrated, and had kids (who are then US citizens) - who have kids of their own (who are then US citizens)... a few generations later, you have a couple of US citizens who have never even known any relatives who lived in the US. I'm not convinced it's a real problem, but I can see why people might worry about it...

                I find it absurd some of the people we

                • It does seem like a better system to me; I think the reason was that you could end up with a US citizen who emigrated, and had kids (who are then US citizens) - who have kids of their own (who are then US citizens)... a few generations later, you have a couple of US citizens who have never even known any relatives who lived in the US. I'm not convinced it's a real problem, but I can see why people might worry about it...

                  Presumably this would lead to situations similar to what happens with immigrants to th
                  • Frankly I say we give automatic green cards to anyone who:
                    1) has a 4 year or greater degree from any college or university meeting certain accreditation standards, and
                    2) passes a background and identity check, and
                    3) speaks and reads/writes English at the level needed to attend college in the US, and
                    4) can pay fees sufficent to cover processing of their application.

                    That sounds like a good plan. Apart from the numerical limits (which causes huge backlogs of applications) and the need for a sponsoring em

                    • Speed up green card processing (as they do for H1b), remove or raise the annual limit, and allow people to file their own applications (instead of making the employer do it). End of problem: no more H1b needed.

                      Sounds like we are in nearly 100% agreement on US immigration policy.

                      The biggest drawback to the current H1b scheme, though, is that after six years, it forces trained and experienced professionals to return to their own country - at which point, America is actually inflicting a brain drain on i
                    • [H1b forcing people back home after 6 years] That is stupid. I want the trained and experienced professionals to stay here, pay taxes, start companies, and otherwise contribute economicly and itellectually to the US.

                      Absolutely. Fortunately, at least some companies want to keep their H1bs here, and sponsor them to "upgrade" to a green card, but the system certainly doesn't encourage keeping people in the US as it should.

                      As an intermediate measure, perhaps shortening the H1b time to, say, 1 or 2 years wou

  • License]
    Height: 5'10"
    Weight: 260 #
    Eyes: Brown

    Actual]
    Height: 5'11"
    Weight: 198 # (Woo hoo!)
    Eyes: Blue

    It also says I need corrective lenses and I'm wearing glasses in the picture. How do police officers know that I'm wearing corrective contacts? Will I have to let some guy get up in my face to see them? Let's never test that theory.
  • Uh, I think mine says 5'11" and 170lbs. Which is wrong. I am close actually 5'10 &3/4"s tall.

    Mine eyes are blue. Bright, bold beautifully blue.

    They be me bestest feature. Other than my charms.

    You can't take me lucky charms either.

  • My licence says I'm 178 cm tall. Should be 180 cm. The weight's not given. I don't think I've paid attention to this since I got my license when I was 16 (This would also explain the people whose listed weight is too low).

    So why are you looking at people's drivers licences?

    • Because somebody had his wallet out and was sifting through all of his various cards when he passed by his license and I asked to see it out of curiosity. I promise I wasn't doing it to score a date like daoine's various waitpersons. :)
  • The height is correct, but I'm probably around 210 right now...
  • Mini Poll: By how much are your height and weight wrong on your license?

    You have your height and weight on your driving licenses? Whatever for? What business is it of the licensing authority? Isn't the ACLU up in arms about it being a gross invasion of privacy?

    • Maybe it's so that if you commit a crime they can put out a bulletin that they are looking for a man with brown hair and brown eyes who wishes that he weighed 160 pounds.

      I don't know.
  • License: 5'10", 156lbs
    At the time, I was 5'10", probably around 135lbs.

    Now, I'm 5'10" ~162lbs (gained some weight, but passed the wieght on the license).
  • the MA license only lists the height, which is accurate on mine. Maybe MA is a bit too PC to list weight.
    • i had to look at mine to find out for sure. No weight, eye colour, hair colour... my height is off by half an inch (i'm half an inch over 4'10") and the picture (which looks suspiciously like morticia addams with glasses) is inaccurate as well, because my hair used to be dyed when i first came back to Boston. It was a temporary dye. People look at my license, look at me, and tell me that i could never get recognised by my license... and then let me in. *shaking head* that's why i haven't bothered to get it
  • In PA they don't print your weight on the license either. I have claimed to be 5'4 on mine but I think I'm closer to 5'2.

    A few years ago PA used to have you electronically sign your license. Since you could not see what you were writing all the t crossing and i dotting was wrong and it looked like a 5 year old signed it. They've changed that to now just signing a piece of paper they scan.

    They also got smart and changed the white background you used to sit in front of. I know someone who wore a white s

    • A few years ago PA used to have you electronically sign your license. Since you could not see what you were writing all the t crossing and i dotting was wrong and it looked like a 5 year old signed it. They've changed that to now just signing a piece of paper they scan.

      Hmm..I remember electronically signing my license, but the tablet lit up pixels as you wrote, so it didn't look as bad. The I had was that the writing area was way too small for my signature, in both dimensions. My sig tends to loop prett

  • So this JE is especially pertinant.

    I put "blue" for my eye color. I don't know why, I have no idea what color my eyes are. No one has ever told me. Peering into the mirror just now I perceive that my eye color is really "green." All I know that ever since I got my drivers license I've been writing "blue" in that little box. Maybe I just liked the color blue when I first got my drivers license.

    For height I put 6'0". My real height is 5'11". Why did I put 6'? I don't know, I probably guessed an even
    • The person that sparked this entry just turned 21 in August- new license, new picture, new chance to correct his stats. And still, he is overestimating his height by at least two inches and his weight is more than 20 pounds too high.
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  • I got my original license in Oregon, then moved to California immediately there-after. Well, like a month. Oregon keeps the records on file for 9 years, and if you come back in the 9 years it is just a renewal process (written test, and they issue you a new drivers license)

    So, I'm still what I was when I was 16. An inch shorter, and 20lbs under weight.
  • Height is correct, but only because I'm not old enough to have begun shrinking. ;)

    Weight is off by... 15... no... 20 pounds. ;)

  • Weight? (Score:2)

    by Otter ( 3800 )
    No weight on my license and the height is accurate but:

    My first DL, from Connecticut, had me as having black hair. Which by local standards I did. When I turned my license in in Los Angeles to get my California DL, the clerk insisted that my hair is brown, not black. I looked around at everyone else's hair and figured she waws probably right.

  • 5'11" - still right
    190lbs - well I weighed that when I got the license renewed one time. I will weigh that again (briefly, I hope, on my trip to 175).
    It also has my wrong address. Thier computers have the right one, but I refuse to pay to have a new license issued, since it's not legally required.
    • Stick it to The Man(tm)! I moved 3 times over the past 3 years and I still have my parents address listed since all 3 were college apartments, dorms, or what not.

      I suppose now that I moved into my own apartment, I should change that and get it updated.

      Except then I will loose the picture of me with all the no missing hair. :-(

      jason
  • Height-wise it's only off by about an inch.
    Weight-wise it's off by nearly 20 pounds.

    Which is to say, it was off by 20 pounds when I first got my license, but then it was accurate for a while as I had gained a lot of weight, and now its off by 20 pounds again as I have lost a lot of weight.

  • For years I thought I really was 6'0", but since getting my license I've realized that I'm only 5'11"...

    License: 6'0", 145 lbs
    Reality: 5'11", 145 lbs, give or take a pound or two

  • I think that a lot of incorrect height/weight figures on licenses are just a function of time. Considering that many get their permits/licenses at 16 or so, thats plenty of time still for bodily change.
    /points to picture of flower
  • I have bee 6'0" for years and have hovered around the 160 weight for as long (with the exception of 137lbs back when I was doing lots of rock climbing).

    I never had a reason to change anything.

    jason
  • Wh bother having a height & weight on the license at all?

    As a total aside my State actually *removed* information from our license just in case the info was used for the wrong reasons..
  • TN doesn't put a weight (however, it is 197lbs. today), and my height is correct (5'7"). My eye color is listed as GRN, which is correct most of the time. However, if my eyes change color, so if I wear brown, they turn brown. If I wear blue, they turn aqua-green. I wore gray the other day and they almost looked grayish, which I have never seen them do before. Any other color and they look green.
  • Our licences do not have height/weight/eye colour on them. All they have is name, address, DOB, expiry date, photo, licence class (ie, car, light truck, etc) and any special conditions.
  • The most recent time I had to pick "hair color" on a form, I had to write "gray".
  • my license is mostly correct. it was correct when i got it.

    height - 6'0" (technically, i'm about 1/4 inch shy of six feet. i rounded to the nearest inch)
    weight - 170lb (i got fatter again and now weigh more like 180lb)
    eyes - blue (close enough. my eyes are mostly blue and gray around the outside of the iris and are hazel-green around the inside of the iris. they're blue, but once in a while they look green)
  • my drivers license doesn't list a weight.

    I got my first drivers license in California, and when I moved to Texas they just took all the info off that one. Hate to burst their bubble, but I weighed a bit more when I moved here, and certainly more now. I don't remember what weight it listed though.

    It says 5'11. I'm pretty sure I've grown since I was 18 and got my license. I think I'm 6 foot now. I could be wrong. Or my dad shrunk an inch, we used to be the same height.

    Eye colour: I had to ask some gu
  • It's like that saying: "There are lies, damn lies, and driver's licenses" (Or something).

    No, actually, mine says 6' and 200#. It was true when I first got it, but then I've grown to 6'1", and I'm about 193#. I was down at 175#, but I flucuated back up. I'm on the way back down now, though.
  • My license says 6'03" and I'm 6'04", but that's cause the last time I got a license was nearly 10 years ago. We don't put weight on licenses here in PA. My eyecolor is right. My address is wrong, but only cause I just moved.

    The most wrong thing about me is my picture. It has me with a full goatee, thin trimmed beard and shoulder length dark hair ... none of which is true anymore. I'll hold off on actual descriptions pending the FK:PC2 results.

    -Ab

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