Why Connie doesn't have ID

[conuly]

I don't have all the points of identification needed to get a state ID. Most alarmingly, I have been having trouble getting my birth certificate - we believe it got flooded in Katrina. However, even with that, I wouldn't have all the points of identification needed to get a state ID. No pay stubs, no bills, nothing. I never even technically received my high school diploma. I graduated from high school, believe me, I remember - but I didn't bother to show up the next day to pick up my diploma, and it never came in the mail. Our mail delivery sucks out here, so I didn't think much about it.

It is actually easier for me to renew my passport than it would be for me to get a non-drivers license. In order to renew my passport, all I need is to bring in an old passport, and somebody with a valid ID to vouch for my identity.

My old passport is from childhood - it should still work for these purposes, but it makes the need to bring in another person all the more pressing.

None of my close relatives currently has a valid ID.

In order for me to get an ID, my mom or my sister first must take a day off of work to get their ID. Then they need to take another day off to go with me to get my ID - and towing two children along, it may be better to have a third person take off of work to watch the kids.

This is a huge production, and we've all been dragging out feet about it.

And that's why I have no ID at the moment.

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Yeah similar situation here, ID wise.

[failstoexist.livejournal.com]

does it need to be your mom or your sister? do you know anyone close enough to count that has a valid ID? Or is it closely-related, and not close in the "we know her really well" sense...such as a neighbor? a former classmate/friend for multiple years? Not that I know if you've got those with valid IDs who could come with you. but still.

[conuly]

As I recall, it has to be a family member.

Additionally, the vast majority of people I know who could do this if it isn't a family member - they've got young kids and would have to take the day off. And I really only am that close to two or three people.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Well, if its any consolation, when I next come to the city, I will treck with you to get your passport renewed. I have no valid state ID. But that whole military thing works quite well, and Chris and his ID would work evern better. And they would have no clue we arent *actually* sisters, now would they!? :-p

Also, just as a factual question...I was under the impression New Orleans was one of the lesser *hit* places by Katrina, and the damage was mostly flooding by the levees breaking? (if I'm wrong here, tell me!) But, with that mind-frame it kinda irks me that peoepl are like "(in N.O.) Katrina was SOOOOOOOOOO difficult!! ZOMG!" Rather than "hey, my city sucks so damn fucking much, that they never fixed teh levees they KNEW were lousy, and THAT is why my life is ruined!" I do know someone who was stuck in N.O. during this, and she says I am right. Whats your take? :-p

[conuly]

I've heard a lot of people complaining at how the situation with the levees was mismanaged. They've been begging for them to be fixed up for decades now.

It's not just the city sucks. There's a lot of corruption in the politics there, from what I know, but what else is new? They've been going after federal funding, what with the big port, and... nothing.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

So it was the levees more than Katraina Proper, right?

I just wante dto be sure before I said anything to the annoying as hell neighbor who keeps harping about how hurricane katrina was soooooooooooooooo bad to N.O. and LOOK HOW MUCH DAMAGE SHE DID!!!

:-p

[conuly]

I didn't say that, and I'm really far from an expert on this subject.

The levees were a big part of the problem, as well as the continued mismanagement of the situation after the hurricane hit (my father would call it a deliberate conspiracy, or at least proof positive that nobody cares about poor people or blacks. He was like that, but he may have would have been right anyway), but it was a force five hurricane, wasn't it? I can't make any judgment on where the blame lies.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Many people had the same opinion as your father would have expressed, actually.

It was a force five during most of it, but from what I gathered, by the time it got to N.O. it had calmed a LOT.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Yeah similar situation here, ID wise.

[failstoexist.livejournal.com]

does it need to be your mom or your sister? do you know anyone close enough to count that has a valid ID? Or is it closely-related, and not close in the "we know her really well" sense...such as a neighbor? a former classmate/friend for multiple years? Not that I know if you've got those with valid IDs who could come with you. but still.

[conuly]

As I recall, it has to be a family member.

Additionally, the vast majority of people I know who could do this if it isn't a family member - they've got young kids and would have to take the day off. And I really only am that close to two or three people.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Well, if its any consolation, when I next come to the city, I will treck with you to get your passport renewed. I have no valid state ID. But that whole military thing works quite well, and Chris and his ID would work evern better. And they would have no clue we arent *actually* sisters, now would they!? :-p

Also, just as a factual question...I was under the impression New Orleans was one of the lesser *hit* places by Katrina, and the damage was mostly flooding by the levees breaking? (if I'm wrong here, tell me!) But, with that mind-frame it kinda irks me that peoepl are like "(in N.O.) Katrina was SOOOOOOOOOO difficult!! ZOMG!" Rather than "hey, my city sucks so damn fucking much, that they never fixed teh levees they KNEW were lousy, and THAT is why my life is ruined!" I do know someone who was stuck in N.O. during this, and she says I am right. Whats your take? :-p

[conuly]

I've heard a lot of people complaining at how the situation with the levees was mismanaged. They've been begging for them to be fixed up for decades now.

It's not just the city sucks. There's a lot of corruption in the politics there, from what I know, but what else is new? They've been going after federal funding, what with the big port, and... nothing.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

So it was the levees more than Katraina Proper, right?

I just wante dto be sure before I said anything to the annoying as hell neighbor who keeps harping about how hurricane katrina was soooooooooooooooo bad to N.O. and LOOK HOW MUCH DAMAGE SHE DID!!!

:-p

[conuly]

I didn't say that, and I'm really far from an expert on this subject.

The levees were a big part of the problem, as well as the continued mismanagement of the situation after the hurricane hit (my father would call it a deliberate conspiracy, or at least proof positive that nobody cares about poor people or blacks. He was like that, but he may have would have been right anyway), but it was a force five hurricane, wasn't it? I can't make any judgment on where the blame lies.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Many people had the same opinion as your father would have expressed, actually.

It was a force five during most of it, but from what I gathered, by the time it got to N.O. it had calmed a LOT.