cnelsen
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So I went to the DMV on M St SW in Washington DC. I had with me:
I'm a white guy. The black woman behind the counter at the DMV asked what I was there for. I told her. She looked through my documents and said, "We can't accept this. The letter from the Maryland court needs to be accompanied by the envelope it came in and the letter from the bank has to be a statement.":
I told her I don't even get paper statements, and there was nothing that said the letter from a government agency had to be accompanied by the original envelope.
She said, "Well, we can't accept this", and she leaned back in her chair, and crossed her arms defiantly.
Later that day, I was telling a black guy about the difficulty I'd had at the DMV. He said, "No, it's easy. When I went, all I had was my birth certificate and my Social Security card and they told me I had to have something else, so I went around the corner and bought a blank lease and filled it in and took it back and they accepted it."
- my original birth certificate
- my Social Security card
- an unopened letter addressed to me from my bank and delivered by the US Post Office
- a letter from the District Court in Baltimore requesting my testimony in a felony case with my address
- another letter addressed to me and delivered by the US Post Office
- a utility bill with my address on it
I'm a white guy. The black woman behind the counter at the DMV asked what I was there for. I told her. She looked through my documents and said, "We can't accept this. The letter from the Maryland court needs to be accompanied by the envelope it came in and the letter from the bank has to be a statement.":
I told her I don't even get paper statements, and there was nothing that said the letter from a government agency had to be accompanied by the original envelope.
She said, "Well, we can't accept this", and she leaned back in her chair, and crossed her arms defiantly.
Later that day, I was telling a black guy about the difficulty I'd had at the DMV. He said, "No, it's easy. When I went, all I had was my birth certificate and my Social Security card and they told me I had to have something else, so I went around the corner and bought a blank lease and filled it in and took it back and they accepted it."