Angie said, "For 30 bucks, if this doesn't look right, I would like a re-take!"

Okay -- so today I went and renewed my driver license....partly because I am tired of having to explain, "YES, the picture is me...curly hair and 60 pounds more!" and partly because it is due to expire on my birthday -- and who REALLY wants to blow their birthday cash on a license renewal...am I right?  Can I get an "Amen"?  Wow -- sorry for going all T.V.Evangelist on you...

Sooo I went up to the clerk when she called my number and answered the usual questions...
1. Do you have a medical condition that makes you unstable behind the wheel? 
2. Have you been institutionalized or declared mentally unstable?
3. Are you taking drugs?
Blah-blah-blah...certainly, the answers were all a big, fat NO! :)

The clerk then hands me my renew paperwork and sends me to the cashier where I am informed that my new license is going to cost me $30!!!!  I think I about had a mini-stroke.  THIRTY DOLLARS!!!!  Thirty dollars to be licensed to drive by the crooked State of Illinois?  Wow!!!!  The last time I renewed, I think it was $13 or $15.

After paying the cashier, I had to wait a few more minutes.  Then I heard those two words that brought me much delight:  "Angela Good."

I approach the area to sign. 

Clerk:  "Please sign on the line."

Once my signature was accepted, clerk again, "Please stand in-front of the #1.  Look at the red mark on the tower.  Smile.  1, 2, 3!" 

I say jokingly as she is looking at my photo on the screen, "For 30 bucks, if this doesn't look great, I would like a re-take!" 

Clerk then looked at me and I know in her head she was thinking, You have got to be kidding me!!!!

Ummm...no, I wasn't kidding her at all.  For that kind of cash, I want this to be Glamour Shots/Olan Mills-worthy!  I want a rockstar kind of photo...so that when (and please let me say "IF") I am required to show my license and registration to an officer of the police that he might say, "What a great picture!!!"

I'm not vain.  I just want a great license picture!!!!  All those hours at the gym...no sugar...no wheat...no junk food...all of this self-denial so I can have a great license picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ Angie