Last week I had to take a trip, driving seemed a bore, didn't need a vehicle at journeys end anyhow, so I choose to fly. During the checkin proceedure, when asked for "ID", instead of showing my drivers license, I offered my carry permit, which is "government issued", and has a photo.
The airline agent, a lady in this case, looked puzzeled, she didn't realize what I was showing her, though my photo was right in front of her eyes, as was I. I told her what I was showing her, and pointed out that it was "government issued". She asked about a drivers license, and I said that I did not have one, but again pointed out that I was offering a "government issued document, complete with a passport type photo".
Eventually, I got on the plane, after a ticketing screw-up had been resolved. Of course, while the "photo ID" I choose to show created "a problem", the fact that the airline had oversold, by six, the number of seats on the flight elicited not a single word from the airline people, I guess that that is simply the way things are done.
At the risk of being "politically incorrect", the entire thing sounds more and more like the old practice of "double selling a slave" something that gentlemen just didn't do. Seems like times have changed.
Of course, P.O. Ackley had something to say on the subject of "change", offering "that while change indicated movement, it was not necessirally movement in the direction of improvement". I do believe that Mr. Ackley had a point.
The airline agent, a lady in this case, looked puzzeled, she didn't realize what I was showing her, though my photo was right in front of her eyes, as was I. I told her what I was showing her, and pointed out that it was "government issued". She asked about a drivers license, and I said that I did not have one, but again pointed out that I was offering a "government issued document, complete with a passport type photo".
Eventually, I got on the plane, after a ticketing screw-up had been resolved. Of course, while the "photo ID" I choose to show created "a problem", the fact that the airline had oversold, by six, the number of seats on the flight elicited not a single word from the airline people, I guess that that is simply the way things are done.
At the risk of being "politically incorrect", the entire thing sounds more and more like the old practice of "double selling a slave" something that gentlemen just didn't do. Seems like times have changed.
Of course, P.O. Ackley had something to say on the subject of "change", offering "that while change indicated movement, it was not necessirally movement in the direction of improvement". I do believe that Mr. Ackley had a point.