Morons and Technology

Is it really surprising to anyone that those two things tend to go hand in hand more often that coffee and cigarettes? Didn't think so, and it's with that thought that I'll be taking you with me on this coffee and alcohol induced rant. Time to go, don't forget your helmet.

Ya know, I'm all for the idea of protecting one's identity from those who would ruin my credit, but seeing as I'm broke and have incured so much debt as to ensure the poverty of my grandchildren, would it really be so bad to just let me have photo ID w/out having to provide 19 different types of identification? Some of which I'm unable to obtain w/out photo ID?

Now I'll admit some of this is my fault. I did come out west w/ no ID at all. I was a ghost, a spook, a spectre, a hidden entity, the missing variable. But never did I dream it would be so difficult to set up an identity in a new province. I thought after having my birth certificate sent from Alberta, I'd just walk into the dmv and get my ID. WRONG!

Perhaps I can set up a bank account. NOPE!

Alright, what do I need?

Well, in order to get photo ID I need a primary piece of ID. This could include a birth certificate, SIN card, passport, or photo ID from another province.

Is having two of these enough for me to get the damn ID? No. Why? Because you need the actual SIN CARD, not just the # that everyone was told to memorize at the age of 11 because those cheap plastic cards splinter by the time you turn 12.

Fine. Ten dollars and two weeks later, I try again. SIN card in hand, I walk up to the counter, only to be turned away yet again. It seems that the new version of the SIN card does not posess a signature strip. You know, the little, funny feeling strip that's on the back of credit cards etc? Yeah, that thing.

Apparently, one of my primary pieces needs to have my name embosed on it and also contain a signature. Ok, what next?

Get a bank account. Cool, can do. I can be paid by direct deposit, so this works to my advantage. The bank can issue me a card with my name embossed, that I can sign, and then take to the dmv and everything will work out fine, right? NO! The bank I chose doesn't issue those cards and are quite reluctant to let me even sign for my account w/out a piece of ID that has a signature or a photo.

Of course.

So now I have three pieces of ID. Can I get photo ID yet? No.

Well, what's the next step? I have to get BC health. Fine. Ya never know when you'll need a doctor, and I'm able to think of a few people that may the next time I visit the dmv, so this isn't really an issue, is it? Of course it is. I need my Alberta health care #.

I'm sorry, I need to hit the bar and cry on the shoulder of a big burly man named Susan right about now.

I stopped paying Ab health about two years ago and they cut my coverage, so that's info I not only lack, but probably isn't pertinant.

As I write this, I'm waiting to hear from BC health to see if my application has been accepted. If it hasn't been, I'm going to storm our sorry excuse for a dmv, take hostages and begin shaving armpits until my demands are met, or I'm taken out in a hail of government gunfire.

But on a happier note:
today is international disadvantaged people day.
please send an encourageing message to a retarded friend as I have just done.
I don't care if you lick windows, interfere w/farm animals, vote liberal, or occasionally shit yourself.
You hang in there Sunshine.
You're something special.

Take care all,

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