Re: Phone numbers and form fields

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Also not software, but another story of the inability to deal with
data from outside the US...

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Abigail wrote:

[American difficulties with Dutch driver's licenses]
>     What is the state code for The Netherlands?


I remember when I was living in the US and my Dutch boyfriend came to visit
me.  He wanted to try American beer, to see if it was as horrible as everyone
claimed.  I was 20 at the time (under the American legal drinking age), so
I was unable to get him some.  But he was 24 (over it).

We were buying a bunch of groceries and two bottles of a not especially
good beer.  They asked to see his ID.  He tried his driver's license,
but they weren't accepting any of that foreign nonsense.  So he tried his
passport.

"I'm sorry sir, but a passport is not a valid form of identification."

I would have left at that point, but he wanted to complain to that
manager.  The manager upheld the cashier at every point, telling him
that if he wanted to get the beer, he would need to get a Washington
state ID or driver's license.

Guess what valid form of ID you can show to get a state ID? ...a passport.

• Abigail 23:09 on 03 Mar 2005
  • Ann Barcomb 08:23 on 04 Mar 2005
    • Darrell Fuhriman 16:19 on 04 Mar 2005
      • too deep to show
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 13:47 on 04 Mar 2005
    • Michael G Schwern 16:46 on 04 Mar 2005
• Philip Newton 05:39 on 04 Mar 2005
  • Abigail 08:29 on 04 Mar 2005
  • Chris Devers 15:09 on 04 Mar 2005
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 14:36 on 05 Mar 2005
  • Aaron Crane 11:01 on 07 Mar 2005
    • Hakim 11:16 on 07 Mar 2005

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