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Hell no! I'm proud of my South Dakota license. For the first time ever I have a picture I'm not completely ashamed of. Of course, I make sure to cover up the fake weight when flashing that baby. LOL
Seriously, though. I have never given it a thought when out of state. I was never ashamed of my Nebraska license either. The only comment I've ever received was a casual "oh, you're from Nebraska..." in a few places.
I should've also added that I worked gate-security at a distribution facility from '04-'06.
After having been in CA for a great while and not having gone any place else up to that time, checking and seeing all these different designs of state DLs was an eye-opener to me.
Some were about as dull as the ones in CA, others were flamboyant and creative as can be.
I'll admit that for awhile I had some state pride, but after being exposed to the outside world, my allegiance began to grow soft.
I can't remember anybody ever looking at it or asking for it. I just swipe my credit card and get on with my business.
Well, I can always withdrawal a necessary amount of cash to last me until I need more. ID/DL check problem solved.
If there's anything I would/should be worried about as far as an out-of-state, Scarlet-lettering goes, it would be having different states plates when rolling through a particular area.
I'll just keep it at that to keep the obvious individuals from dancing on my behind!!
Do not know if this has been posted about before, but I regularly drive across all states of the Southwest.
When I'm using my credit/debit cards, or buy certain things in say, Colorado or New Mexico, I feel all small talk is cool until they see my CA CDL.
I don't know if it's just me, but I feel just seeing the word CA on top of it makes me appear as some sort of demon.
After that, I attempt to lighten the dark mood by telling them that "Hey, I was brought there as a toddler, didn't have a choice."
Anyways, it's pretty obvious I don't have any state pride so it goes good either way.
But for the rest of you that do have strong feelings for what you consider your home-state, does that ackward feeling ever arise often enough when having to show your own ID?
Nope, I miss having my MA license, always a good conversation starter at bars
Hell no.. I'm from Texas and I'm proud and I hope y'all hear my pride
You ought to be!!
Texas is the only statutory land-mass that looks like a NINJA STAR!!!
Or a shuriken if you want to be proper.
But still, nobody messes with your state when it's shaped like a kicker weapon!!!
Showing my Pennsylvania CDL seems to be neutral, I think most know the state is bi-modal with both deeply urban and deeply rural characteristics.
The two previous states I lived in were Iowa and New York, and they both engendered different reactions as you might expect. Strangely, I lived in a much larger, more crime-ridden city in Iowa than the place where I was from in NY, and the Iowa residence was 2 hours closer to Chicago than the NY location was to NY City.
I HATED showing my Maine drivers license anywhere outside of Maine when I lived there. First, I didn't care to live there so I didn't like being associated with the state (it seemed people automatically looked at you like some sort of country bumpkin in bigger cities).
Second, it was very cheap looking and there were MANY places that either didn't take it at all, or requested other forms of ID.
Third, I thought it was painfully ugly (rainbow looking sunset with a Loon and "Maine" in tacky font along the top).
and Finally, It ALWAYS prompted some sort of snide comment like "Maine, huh? I didn't know people lived there." or "Aren't you guys part of Canada." or my favorite "Don't they sleep with animals up there?"
Sure, plenty of those are the result of ignorant people and not the fault of the Maine ID, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
Now my Massachusetts ID is much simpler (and real) looking and much more widely accepted. There's very little fanfare involved with showing it out of state and most people don't comment one way or another. The ones that do comment jokingly assume I'm a "Ma**hole." I can live with that.
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