Government workers..........................
I live in Alaska. Driving to visit friends in Az, I have to have a passport.
For flying, all that is needed is a passport card or a Real ID approved document.
“Show me your papers” is just around the corner....
So no only the clerk but her supervisors and their managers are all stupid. These are the people that control your lives.....................................
During my days booking bands, I remember when a new, green band from rural Louisiana asked their agent if they needed passports to go to New Mexico!
Good grief.
One of these stories happens every year or so.
Being a NM native, yes, they are true.
How do you speak english so well is one I have heard a bit.
Some people just can’t name all 75 states. It happens. 57? Something like that :P
Were those asking for a passport Amish?
That has been going on for years. When my dad got transferred to ABQ in ‘63 from London, some of my friends were concerned for our saftety what with the rampaging injuns and gun totin’ cowboys everywhere. And it’s still a SMDH situation. Beautiful state. Horrid politics. Of course Calvada is now in the same boat. Beautiful state, horrid politics. At least no state income tax here. Yet.
One of Bart Simpson’s best lines was “You mean there’s a “new” Mexico???”
A family friend who lived in New Mexico used to regularly share stories along these lines. There are indeed many ignoramuses residing in the other 49 states who are unaware of what NM is, where it is or of its membership in the Union.
And people want them in charge of healthcare and want the government to be the only ones with guns.
Well DC is like another country so maybe now it really is.
Public schools shows their finest.
What are they not telling us about the “government worker”? Someone who was given a pretend job so as not to appear to be on welfare?
Happens to NM all the time. Writing letter to the inlaws in Alamogordo probably 10% of them got rejected by the post office for lacking international postage until we started adding USA in big letters on the envelope.
A guy I used to work with had to contend with the same ignorance 30 years ago. His son applied to Harvard, and he had a hard time convincing the Harvard applications office that New Mexico was in the USA.
Today, that son, a Harvard graduate, owns a hazardous materials mitigation company in central California. He laughs at the snowflakes in state government while he gets rich from ridiculous regulations.
If they had come back with a US map showing NM they would have been accused of Photoshopping the state. Meanwhile, where did these jokers get their public school education? Too busy being taught about being gay and diversity and all that other liberal stuff they teach.
We had a phone answerer who didn’t know England and Hreat Britain had any connection to each other