Clueless 50-year-old man tries to renew passport at the DMV with no ID or documentation: 'I actually don't have my wallet with me'

This man was not the brightest bulb at the DMV that afternoon.

Not only did he wait in that interminably long line for a doomed walk-in appointment, but he was also trying to renew his passport without having any of the documentation necessary to do so. 

Look, we appreciate the fact that so many elements of bureaucratic processes that require a visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles are over-the-top. Even if you were to do everything right and procure all the required forms of identification in advance of a scheduled appointment, you will still inevitably question the necessity of the process. Why does it have to be this way? Why do I have to wait in this line? Shouldn't I already be in the system, whatever that is?

In that sense, I empathize with this man's plight. I also understand that sometimes you have to make a naive mistake in order to know better next time. On the other hand, this is a fully grown individual who is now in his fifties. Surely, he had to make a trip to the DMV at some other point in his adult life, and surely he knew that no matter what you're trying to do there, it's a process. Shouldn't he know better by now?

Unfortunately for everyone in the line behind him and for the poor employee who had to explain everything like he was 5 and not 50, he did not know better…

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  • Thankfully, it seems like this man was in a jovial enough mood to understand his errors and vow to come in another time once he gathers all the correct information. Most other people in this position would refuse to accept their own culpability in the matter and would proceed to throw a gigantic fit over the fact that they can't get their passport renewed in that very moment. Most people would make it seem like the DMV employee is at fault for not being helpful. As much as we like to claim that the DMV is the most miserable place on earth, the truth of the matter is that some folks do have some agency in making their own experiences there slightly more bearable.

  • "Guy comes to renew his passport with absolutely no ID or documentation of any kind"

    Just like the title says. I was at the local service centre recently to provide some documentation and get a password for my online service account.
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  • A man who looked to be in his 50s or so came in behind me and went to the other counter. While I was being checked in, I overheard his conversation with the clerk;
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  • "Hi, I'm here to renew my passport." "Okay, do you have an appointment?" "No I just thought I would drop in."
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  • "Okay, do you have your service card with you?" "No, I didn't bring that with me." "Okay, can I see the old passport?" "Oh, I didn't bring that in with me either."
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  • "Okay, can I see your ID please?" "I actually don't have my wallet with me." "So you have no ID and you can't pay the passport renewal fee?" "Oh, there's a fee?"
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  • The guy was actually pretty amicable and accepting, didn't act in an overly entitled way, wasn't rude or impolite, and said he would make an appointment and come back with everything they asked for.
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  • But the idea of a fully grown adult man walking into a government service centre to renew their passport, with absolutely no ID, no documentation, no money, not even his wallet or the expired passport, was absolutely outrageous and I felt like I had to share it here.
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  • One person hands a passport to another at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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    Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

  • Godless Aristocrat Or it's someone who expects all of the biometric identification and tax money to, you know, work? Why should you pay for a government service like this? And since they take your picture and fingerprints, why can't they pull up your old one and issue a new one based on, you know, pictures and fingerprints. It's astonishing that people believe that "we have always done it this way" is just the way something must work.
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  • OP bag_on_tic Are you actually saying that because you pay taxes you shouldn't have to present any form of ID or documentation whatsoever to renew the travel document that gets you across international borders?
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  • Grannykpop I'm a passport agent in the USA, and I had a man come wanting a renewal. The problem was that he was a Canadian citizen. I, of course, had to refuse.He continued to argue with me, saying he had "done it here before. Then, after I said no multiple times explaining that I was a US passport agent and not trained in Canadian passports. He then demanded that I at least do his photo. I explained that Canadian passport photos are a different size and have special requirements. He continued t
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  • OP bag_on_tic Now THATS an entitled passport seeker
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  • bigchrisre Not a passport, but about 45 years ago, I got a drivers license with zero docs. At the time, I didn't have any. Couple years later, got my SS# for college and chased down my birth certificate for a passport. Recently updated my license and needed about 1/2" of docs for the star on my license. But just saying, there was a time...
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  • OP bag_on_tic A time before mine! That's hard for me to wrap my head around but I guess there was a day and age where it might have been normal
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  • Seemill1978 You literally said he wasn't acting entitled. Sounds like he didn't know the process and now he does? Oh no, how mockable.
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  • OP bag_on_tic It was the lack of preparation from a grown adult (who clearly had a passport before and must have had some vague notion of how it worked) that I found kinda shocking. I'm not necessarily mocking him I was just flabbergasted by the lack of foresight
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  • boulddenwyldde "Just like the title says." I see this stupidity in a growing number of posts. OF COURSE that's what the title says. That's the point of your comment, the reason we readers clicked through to read more, and you insult our intelligence and expose your ignorance. I'll go waste my time somewhere else.
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  • OP bag_on_tic ok
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  • Godless Aristocrat Why would I admonish an 18 year old for not carrying their papers? Is this 1930s Germany?
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  • OP bag_on_tic Sorry but if you're renewing something as official as a passport you should at the very least have your drivers license with you. This is the document that gets you across international borders, it should be taken at least a little seriously and a person should do at least a little bit of research first
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  • JiuJitsu Ronin This seems more ignorant and lacking common sense than entitled. Both are common I'm afraid.
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  • Ok_Shallot_1204 This feels kind of sad to me. Like maybe a close family member or friend has been doing stuff for them and recently became unable to in some way.
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  • RentalKittens Sounds divorced. The men that whine the most about being nagged by the wife, are the most clueless when she finally leaves.
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  • mspe1960 That isn't entitiled. That is just ignorant to the level of seeming to have lived under a rock his entire life.
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