re: #334 reine.de.tout

Hey, FBV!
Your brush with the law has me laughing (sorry).

My father died still owing the state of TN some sort of fine for speeding, LOL.

But I really don’t understand the birth cert stuff.

When I went to get my first ever driver’s license I had to produce my birth certificate. That was 40+ years ago. Somehow, the state has managed to keep up with that information all these years. How did your state lose yours?

My husband’s attempt to renew his license was once thwarted when the California DMV asserted that someone else named “CommonAngloGivenName BiblicalMiddleName ScotsEnglishSurname” was wanted for drunk driving with a weapon in the state of Georgia.

Since my husband does not drink, and has not been to Georgia since he was four, we couldn’t figure this out (except for my father, who immediately agreed with the DMV that a drunk toddler with a gun driving was bad.)

The worst part was that it took ages to get him cleared—because Georgia had never heard of CommonAngloGivenName BiblicalMiddleName ScotsEnglishSurname, and had no idea what we were talking about.