• Obituarykidney@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    My birth certificate is printed on blue American money paper and says “the Commonwealth of Virginia” on it. Doesn’t mention America anywhere.

    I moved to Australia when I was 13. When I tried to get my driver’s licence it was my only ID, along with a military ID that has a picture of me at 6 years old (passport was expired so they wouldn’t accept it). The woman at the department of transport was like “is this real?” and laughed. She had to Google it before they allowed it. Then passed it around to all her co-workers so they could take a look at the weird American birth certificate.

    When it was given to me as an adult it had weird oil stain like drops all over it. No idea what my parents did to it lol.

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      9 days ago

      I had a passport once I kept in the topbox of my motorcycle during a camping trip. It also had a stick of butter in it for cooking. this went fine when the temperature was sub 20°C. On the return day it was hot as hell however. I pulled out my passport at the ferry and it was covered in butter. The desk lady was like, da fuck?

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        9 days ago

        wait, was the butter in the passport or just the topbox? still wrapped in wax paper or is that why it was in the passport?

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          5 days ago

          Both were in the top box, at the time it seemed like a good idea to have my lunch supplies readily available. It was still in the wrapper but when it melted some got out and spilled on my passport