Identity crises

‘They won’t give me the dole if I don’t have any ID and I can’t get my ID without any money. It cost $37.50 for my own birth certificate.” He said with a snort.

July 11 2006 on the edge, writing in public
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  1. xenmate
    Posted July 11 2006 at 9:12 pm | Permalink

    Catch 22.

    It’s a bummer (no pun intended).

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  2. Julie
    Posted July 13 2006 at 8:54 pm | Permalink

    And there is always a back story. When I offered to trade $10 for his sign he hesitated and said, “but I’ll have to make a new sign”. When I suggested it wasn’t a bad hourly rate and offered to loan him a marker pen, he agreed and we did the swap.

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