This may be his moment to deliver a well-timed zing, but leaving well enough alone is better… then again he’s got the Lockhorn reputation to live up to.
How about the photo you had on your high school driver’s license?
Actually mine wasn’t that bad. They made me do a three-quarter-profile shot because that was supposed to let anyone carding me know that I was under 21. Finally having passed the road test after many months of anxiety and dread left me so relieved I had a goofy grin on my face.
That was a provisional license that new drivers had to have for one year, and included restrictions like a limit on the number of passengers I could drive and a midnight curfew. A year later I got a regular license, and in the interim the state had completely changed the format. Now it was printed in a portrait orientation if you were under 21, a landscape format for everyone else. Because I was due to turn 21 before that license expired, it did have a helpful ribbon running down the side of it saying the date on which I’d be of age. (It already had my DOB on it, but when a bouncer or bartender or someone is in a hurry, you want to make things as easy on them as possible.)
Now that license picture was horrible. Maybe one of the worst photos I’ve ever had taken, and that’s really saying something. I had a terrible sunburn. hadn’t bothered combing my hair. I was experimenting with a “goatee” that was just random wisps of thin whiskers that I hadn’t properly groomed. I was wearing a white cotton undershirt beneath a ratty old T shirt whose neckline was stretched out much wider than the undershirt’s, so you saw the undershirt poking through. I had some kind of cheap chain around my neck laying on top of it whose purpose I could never recall later; if there’d been any sort of pendant hanging from it, it was out of frame. The euphoria of having just achieved a major goal was obviously no longer in play, so instead my facial expression was shaped by irritation at having spent the morning at the DMV. Put all of that in front of a DMV camera which already takes dodgy enough portraits as it is, and, well . . .
here in japan, you get your license photo taken at the police station, where i’m positive that they’ve installed uglifying software in the cameras they use. i’m no prize to begin with, but my driver’s photo makes me look like i went on a 3-day bender just in time for license renewal…
SHIVA 7 months ago
I bet Loretta was a knockout in high school, literally!!!!
snsurone76 7 months ago
Your police mug shot, Loretta! LOL
Jeff0811 7 months ago
At least she’s younger in the ones from high school.
comixbomix 7 months ago
He’s thinking: “Wedding photos”…
stillfickled Premium Member 7 months ago
Driver’s license.
markkahler52 7 months ago
Yes…
PraiseofFolly 7 months ago
After brief consideration, I burned all my high school yearbooks long ago. ‘Nuff said.
SamT53 7 months ago
The lesser of two evils, whichever one that is.
Spacetech 7 months ago
Yes…
Strider Keninginne Premium Member 7 months ago
This may be his moment to deliver a well-timed zing, but leaving well enough alone is better… then again he’s got the Lockhorn reputation to live up to.
John Jorgensen 7 months ago
How about the photo you had on your high school driver’s license?
Actually mine wasn’t that bad. They made me do a three-quarter-profile shot because that was supposed to let anyone carding me know that I was under 21. Finally having passed the road test after many months of anxiety and dread left me so relieved I had a goofy grin on my face.
That was a provisional license that new drivers had to have for one year, and included restrictions like a limit on the number of passengers I could drive and a midnight curfew. A year later I got a regular license, and in the interim the state had completely changed the format. Now it was printed in a portrait orientation if you were under 21, a landscape format for everyone else. Because I was due to turn 21 before that license expired, it did have a helpful ribbon running down the side of it saying the date on which I’d be of age. (It already had my DOB on it, but when a bouncer or bartender or someone is in a hurry, you want to make things as easy on them as possible.)
Now that license picture was horrible. Maybe one of the worst photos I’ve ever had taken, and that’s really saying something. I had a terrible sunburn. hadn’t bothered combing my hair. I was experimenting with a “goatee” that was just random wisps of thin whiskers that I hadn’t properly groomed. I was wearing a white cotton undershirt beneath a ratty old T shirt whose neckline was stretched out much wider than the undershirt’s, so you saw the undershirt poking through. I had some kind of cheap chain around my neck laying on top of it whose purpose I could never recall later; if there’d been any sort of pendant hanging from it, it was out of frame. The euphoria of having just achieved a major goal was obviously no longer in play, so instead my facial expression was shaped by irritation at having spent the morning at the DMV. Put all of that in front of a DMV camera which already takes dodgy enough portraits as it is, and, well . . .
eb110americana 7 months ago
Loretta has a license to ill.
sirjackum 7 months ago
C’mon, Leroy, help her out.
cuzinron47 7 months ago
I suspect some people are using their high school photo as their profile picture.
Chris Sherlock 7 months ago
Loretta has a driver’s license?! How’d she pull that off?!
gopher gofer 7 months ago
here in japan, you get your license photo taken at the police station, where i’m positive that they’ve installed uglifying software in the cameras they use. i’m no prize to begin with, but my driver’s photo makes me look like i went on a 3-day bender just in time for license renewal…
Ninette 7 months ago
See those pics of you? That’s what you look like.
WentHulk 7 months ago
I’m going to say the Driver’s Liscense.