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The following is taken verbatim from text messages between my mother and myself.

Mum: Guess who got a jury summons from the state of Texas?
Me: Oh that sucks!
Mum: YOU DID.
Me: OH NO
Mum: Seriously, you are due to report to the courthouse in two weeks.
Mum: I will be so glad to see you!
Me: Funny. Can you send it to me?
Mum: Tell them you hate Amazon.com and they'll let you off.
Mum: It's like hating America
Me: I'm an anarchist and a commie!
Mum: That's my boy. When you got a letter from the Sheriff's office I thought you'd gotten a ticket
Mum: Eating cupcakes in a no-cupcake zone
Me: I'm a rebel without a fork.
Mum: I'll bring you cookies in jail.

THANKS MUM.

Fortunately, in Austin at least, you can exempt yourself from jury duty online, and they accept "I do not live in Texas" as a valid excuse.

Comments

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I needed it to prove I was me TO THE LOL OFFICE. The "limit of liability" office that runs the emergency room didn't want to take my passport. Eventually they gave up. They're probably still wondering why "Dan Starbuck" never called them back.

One time I wanted to buy Sudafed, the hardcore behind-the-counter stuff, and didn't have my driver's license, but I did have my passport. The woman at the pharmacy counter said "We only take driver's licenses."

"What do you do for people who don't drive?" I asked.

"What?"

"People who don't drive. How do they get Sudafed?"

She got a HILARIOUS look on her face. "Oh. Well. I don't know."

"Surely you must sometimes get people who don't drive here. This is the middle of downtown."

"I guess I could try entering your passport number into the computer."

"That'd be great, thanks."

AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW, apparently a document validated by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT will totally prove that I am me to WALGREENS.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You serial identity thief, you!

Oh man, I completely forgot about the existence of the LOL office. I even made a kitten macro for that. :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I have enshrined the LOL office forever in my memory. Occasionally as a reminder to be so, so grateful I have health insurance now.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

I totally discovered my driver's license was expired on a failed Sudafed-buying trip. Because if your license expired a month ago you are NO LONGER YOU.

I got my roommate to go out and buy the evil drug for me instead.