Remember the part early in The Handmaiden’s Tale where the women wake up to find their bank accounts are frozen? (Also they are fired from their jobs.)
Well, come next week I cannot cash checks in my own bank on my own bank account.
In May 2001 all of my ID was stolen (in a hold-up). Starting (if I remember right) with my Social Security card, it took the entire summer–three months–to get that sorted out. I finished with a new Connecticut ID.
Comes time for renewal: After a week of insomnia and nightmares (just routine PTSD that comes this time of year, though I’m not really planning to write about that) I get over to the Department of Motor Vehicles before my ID expires. This usually makes things easier–but not this time! The State of Connecticut does not recognize its own IDs as valid identification.
Something to do with Bush’s New America, supposedly. Thought I was living in a blue state. Not true. My point: They are quietly changing the rules, and you may think things are okay in your state, but maybe they are not.
Looking for ways to work around this. I begin in earnest on Monday.
