I've been asked for ID on occasion. Also, is it just me, or is that signature strip getting more and more hostile to actual signing? It got all slippery, and then they printed things all over it, and then they put indentations in it -- I just got a new credit card that I literally cannot sign. It's too slippery.

no, I agree with you here. I started signing cards with a Sharpie.

My card has my signature printed on the front. It's about 11 years old. My last name has lost a few letter in signage over the years, but it is pretty close. Now the picture....god, I really need to send them a new one to use on the next card.

Way back in the days of yore, I asked every. single. person who came to my register for ID. Having been the victim of a stolen credit card, I tried to make sure it didn't happen to other people. I also got shirty with people who returned shit they obviously wore.

"I didn't wear these, I promise! I never even took them out of the bag!"

"Well, that must have made it hard to iron this crease into these pants."

Huh. I mostly get annoyed when I'm asked for ID. Which happens a lot because of the sig wearing off thing. I mean, if I was buying a big screen and 7 playstations, sure. But I'm sure if I'm using a stolen credit card I'm going to be buying something other than a couple of shirts off the clearance rack or some cough syrup and toilet paper. It'd be a pain if someone stole my card, for sure. But the liability issue has gotten so much more pro-consumer in past years anyway that I'd as soon take my chances.

I hate this pain management guy. Sure he's cute & charming, but I still hate him.

The only thing that annoyed me lately was all the paperwork involved in buying cold medicine. I know it's the law and Walgreens has to do it, but really. Can I make meth with one bottle of cough syrup and 1 box of dayquil? And yet, I had to show ID, and give my name and address which they had to record in a book. I'm standing there with a huge box of Kleenex and cough drops. I think I'm using the medicine because I'm sick.

re: Indigo Children

Ms. Jackson compared people who do not recognize indigos to Muggles, the name used by J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books to describe ordinary people who have no connection with magic. "I would say 90 percent of the world is like the Muggles," she said. "You don't talk about this stuff with them because it's going to scare them."

"Enormous eye-roll" is a fear response?

I know the P.O. won't take "See ID" as a signature. I'm rarely asked for mine. Though the one time I was asked recently, I didn't have it, which sucked.

You know there are some days when I love my job so very much. Like today, when there is a live blues band in the office. I hope they're not done yet.

Oh, I forgot to mention - I have access to my money again. So either Comcast asked my bank to drop the hold on the $, or else the actual charge never went through and my bank's time limit on a hold expired, releasing the $.

Like today, when there is a live blues band in the office.

Cool.

Today a tennant's car alarm went off, directly outside the back wall of my office.