Remember the post about going to Hawaii? This is a story about Diana losing her drivers license in Hawaii. One day we went to the beach with Daniel and Mona. As we were getting out of the car and loading to walk to the beach Diana moved her DL. The next day she was looking for it and could not find it. That was the last we saw it. We are not sure if got lost in the car, on the beach, on the walk to and from the beach. So we torn up the car, went back to the beach and looked everywhere we could think of with no luck. So off to the police station we go to file a report. The officer was very nice and indicated this happens often. He checked with South Dakota (the issuing state) and filled out some papers for Diana to sign. 3 days later we went back to get some official papers that would allow her to get on the plane to return to the main land. What we failed to consider was that she had no other pictured ID. This is a big problem at the airport for TSA. Before we left for Maui we both went thru our wallets for items we knew we would not need on Maui. Things like our Target card, our Sam's club card and a few other things like that. Unfortunately, we had no picture ID except our DL. So security for me at the airport took about 10 minutes. Diana took closer to 40. She had to answer lots of questions and got patted down several times (I think she liked that part). TSA would not take my word for it that she was my wife and she was OK. Go figure! Finally we were reunited and went to the gate. All flights were fine.
When we got back to Mesa she began looking in to what she needed to do to get a duplicate license. Turns out she had to prove to the state of South Dakota that she had spent at least 1 night in the state in the last 12 months. We have not been in SD for almost 2 years. So she got to get on an airplane,(using her passport as pictured ID) fly to Sioux Falls, spend one night, go to DMV and get a new license, then fly back to Mesa. Not a happy girl and probably the most expensive thing she ever lost!
We now know to take other pictured ID with us when we leave home for a trip.
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