Fun, Fun, Fun at the Tag Agency

Sitting in a pub with a couple of my former students and their friends recently, I found that among them there was an informal game as to who could get away with having the dorkest looking driver's license picture. They explained to me that the DMV doesn't allow most people to pull a face at the moment the photo is taken because, in truth, the license photo is supposed to resemble the person who carries it.

But one young fellow had the show stopping weirdest looking photo ID anyone at the pub had ever seen. His long hair was parted in the middle and hung down limp on both sides of his head. He was wearing the most ridiculous looking thick black framed eyeglasses I've seen since the 1950s. His shirt was buttoned to the throat and was hideous gaudy print. But best of all (or worst of all) was the completely stupid looking expression on his face - looking somewhat like the expression on the face of someone who's passed gas on an elevator but not been identified or throttled by the other passengers.

Everyone wanted to know how he'd managed to get away with the dorkest driver's license photo ever.

This is his genius: "I walked into the tag agency conspicuously carrying a large Book of Mormon. When it was time to get my photo, I put the book on the counter right in front of the lady taking the picture. I then put on my goofy face. She couldn't possibly have told me to look some other way."

Too bad this kid's intelligence and inventiveness couldn't be harnessed for world peace.