Posted on 01/08/2005 3:49:12 PM PST by jb6
Gee. I have only been showing my driver license to cash checks, for about 35 years.
So has anybody else. Did you just get a checking account, and you are trying it out at pizza joints?
Then learn to sub contract.
You have no privacy, you're part of the corporate state.
It will save you even more time if you tattoo your SSN on your arm. Inside left forearm, to be precise. Blue ink.
This something I read about a year ago, so I am sure many people have seen it also. Only now with the national id, it seems much more realistic!
Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"
Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."
Operator: "I must have your NIDN first, sir?"
Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, it's 6102049998-45-54610."
Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Email address is sheehan@ home.net
Which number are you calling from, sir?"
Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"
Operator: "We're wired into the HSS, sir."
Customer: "The HSS, what is that?"
Operator: "We're wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time"
Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas."
Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."
Customer: "Whaddya mean?"
Operator: "Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice."
Customer: "What?!?! What do you recommend, then?"
Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."
Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"
Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."
Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then."
Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids, and your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99."
Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit."
Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here."
Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn also."
Customer: "Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take?"
Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while you're out
getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward."
Customer: "Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?"
Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid for and you just filled the tank
yesterday"
Customer: Well I'll be a "@#%/$@&?#!&?#!"
Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 4, 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here on
September for contempt at your hearing for cursing at a judge." "Oh yes see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your return to society?
Customer: (Speechless)
Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"
Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits this.
Thank you for calling Pizza Hut!"
Maybe the cashier was a neighborhood eye.
You may still have some rights under the constitution . but you are a child of the state if you have a drivers linence. Once the linence is entered into yhe equation you have no constitutional protection/ Most freepers agreee holeheartedly with this. Just go Away.
Having my DL info printed on my checks is a far cry from your idea. I'm paranoid, too, but I try not to get carried away with it.
If I read this right, the pizza guy asked for the DL #. I always make one up on the spot. And when ever someons asks for my birth date it is always today.
I used to make up phony SSNs too, but Big Brother has tied too much stuff together and you have to be careful or you'll get caught. My Favorite SSN was 123-45-6789. Never had anyone qusetion it.
Speaking hypothetically, of course, with no actual personal experience with it, mind you, it could be that lots of people make numbers up on the spot or, perhaps, inadvertently transpose digits from the actual number. Just speculation.
The really disturbing thing for me is the way the ladies in the check-out line are always asking for my phone number, but they never call me. And I've been waiting. Are these cashier ladies all just "teases"?
I thought it was going to be a rehash of this:
Ordering a Pizza from Big Brother
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1037035/posts
You know, I don't see the pizza guy having all that intel on you but some bureaucrat sure as hell will and more.
"I just have my DL number printed on my checks by the bank. Saves me and the clerks a bunch of time in the grocery store."
Really bad idea if you are concerned about identity theft.
They now use drivers licence numbers and run them through "tele-check" and other types of data bases.
Anybody who'd steal my identity deserves whatever they get - which won't be much.
Who uses checks anymore?
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