Complaint? compliant?

Complaint? Compliant?

 Dear Department of Licensing and all global entities of surveillance.

RantWoman has dutifully taken note of insistence on her WA state ID that she needed to march down and replace said ID before her most recent birthday.

 The first attempt: RantWoman dropped by an office in downtown Seattle wile on the way to somewhere else. There was a line out the door and halfway up the alley. New ID not gonna happen within RantWoman’s time window.

 The next time, RantWoman visited the Departmetn of Licensing first thing in RantWoman’s morning. RantWoman explained to a friendly human that all RantWoman wanted to do was renew an ID. RantWoman got directed ahead of the rest of the queue to…STICKER SHOCK!

$45 to authenticate RantWoman’s identity???? Look, if you want to steal RantWoman’s identity, you deserve the drama that comes with it! But $45 to achieve a little plastic token of identification. RantWoman dutifully handed over debit card and signed required signature. Then RantWoman was directed to wait until called for picture taking.

 RantWoman waited and waited, not terribly long actually. But the fun was only beginning. The faitful public servant staffing the photosection wanted to achieve two goals besides mere photographs of RantWoman:

 --She wanted a photograph without glasses glare.

--She wanted a photo with both of RantWoman’s eyes open.

 Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!

 --Almost every photo of RantWoman ever since … (RantWoman started wearing glasses at age 2) has glasses glare in it. RantWoman thinks if her last ID picture does not have glasses glare, probably it was because RantWoman may not have been wearing her glasses due to swelling caused by medical procedures. RantWoman considers herself lucky that picture does not seem to show any “My doctor got paid to do that to me” bruising. But that picture is an anomaly! RantWoman is going to be wearing her glasses as long as they do ANY kind of good at all and the NORM for RantWoman is glasses glare. So Departmenet of Licensing please COPE!

 --If glasses glare is a fact of life around RantWoman, having eyes reliably open is NOT. RantWoman’s eyes get itchy and start to hurt if RantWoman keeps her eyes open too long or tries too hard to focus for very long. Not even paid medical professionals at RantWoman’s eye care provider’s office can keep RantWoman’s eyes open to their satisfaction without really extreme measures. So the sincere functionary has not a prayer.

 Well the sincere functionary tried. And tried. And tried to achieve something “compliant.”. Rantwoman is unclear how many attempts there were but it was too many. Finally the sincere functionary agreed to send in what she had. “But you might get a letter asking you to come back in for a retake.”

 Okayyyy, but if RantWoman gets such a letter, someone is going to get a slightly eited version of this blog post salted somehow with the words “reasonable accommodation!”

 Word!

 Sincerely,

RantWoman.

 

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