Oh yeah, THAT's legal. ::rolleyes::

At least once a week we get some idiot on the phone or in the store (and a different idiot every time, too) wanting us to make a photo I.D. We have to ask why, of course, because we HAVE been authorized to do the photo IDs for the community college's EMT training program... but invariably the answer is...
I've lost my license, and...

• I need to cash a check.
  
• The pool hall down the road won't let you in if you're under 21.
  
• I need to get on an airplane and they don't let you on without a photo ID anymore.
  
• I want to buy a pack of cigs/a six-pack of Shiner Bock.

Let's sum up the problems with this, shall we?

1. We have no way of knowing you are who you are. You could be Osama bin fuckin' Laden, and come in here and say "I need a photo ID, my name is Nigel Babbington and I was born on July 18 1979."
   
2. It's NOT going to be a legal ID. They WILL NOT let you buy alcohol, enter a bar, or cash a check with it - and if you tried to board a plane with it, you'd probably end up in a little room without your clothes and with the security officer searching all your crevices.
   
3. It's not like it's going to fool anyone anyway. Really, now, who would be so stupid as to believe accept as legal a square of paper with a name and date typed on it in Times New Roman 12-point, with a photo trimmed out of a 4x5 sheet of Polaroid film glued to it, and cheap plastic lamination that has to be cut with a 1/4" border to prevent it from coming unsealed?

Yet they'll go round and round with you on it.

this may or may not be crossposted to mock_the_stupid

Today we went to Shreveport

And we went to Bass Pro Shop. They have black powder! The real stuff that explodes! It's $12 for a one-pound tin, which would give me about 200 shots with my pistol; I could, conversely, find myself a 32-pounder cannon and spend $132 to shoot it once. I'm not looking to run out of my store of black powder yet - Justin's parents had prodigious amounts hidden in the shed from their shooting days 20 years ago - but it's nice to know where I can get more when I need it.

I saw a gar! They had it in the big fish tank in the middle of the store. They are evil. Do they bite maliciously if you are standing in the creek and they see you? They look as though they'd be willing to have a go at you unprovoked, with their long teethy noses and horrible cavernous eyesockets, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are froward.

They had zippypants for chicks, too, and since I've been looking for some I almost bought them - but they were $30, and I just spent $30 on myself the other day. So I didn't. Zippypants are the kind that are long but the legs zip off to make shorts.

Oh yeah! I saw the next gun I want. It was up by the black powder, of course, in the gun department, which would make sense. It's an Uberti 1873 Cattleman revolver. It's very nice - a copy of the Colt 1873 Single Action Army. It almost manages to be pretty.

I want a Ducks Unlimited visor like this one - the khaki one in the upper left. They didn't have them at the store, though. The only visor I could find in the whole store was camoflaged. I have a horrible time spelling that word.