Carmel, Indiana License Branch
I visited the license branch today which you can read more about in my other blog (http://youdeserverecognition.blogspot.com/2007/05/carmel-indiana-license-branch.html). I had another experience of how a normal security situations seemed to fly by them even though they are assuming I am not the person I am acting as.
The first thing when I sat down the lady asked me for my driver's license. Expected. That always happens at the license branch and has nothing to do with my name raising any suspicions with anyone. She proceeded so I figured she must have verified by my license that my ID and the name on the registrations matched.
As she worked she kept making comments like "She will now have a new plate." "She will have the right county on her plate." She used the pronoun she to refer to me in the third person several times. I decided to throw her for a loop and she what happened. I related to her how we had considered putting my wife, Penny, on the plates, but thought it would be easier to just have me on there. I waited for her wheels to start turning in her mind. It was just a moment when I could see on her face that she was beginning to question what was going on here. Now that the veil of the name Brook had been pierced she started thinking about the things that she was prevented from thinking about, by the name Brook being presented to her by a man, when she first took my license. I waited for it and in a moment she said, "Who's Brook?" I smiled and replied, "That'd be me."
I'm not sure what she looked at when she took my license or what she heard when I said, "We thought it would just be easier to have MY name on the plates." I also don't know why it was permissible for me to renew plate in someone else's name when in the past neither of us has been able to do anything with our plates if ther other person's name was on there.
I don't want to be hard on this sweet lady. She was very cordial and got me in and out very quickly. I just want to illustrate how the name Brook being presented by a guy seems to hypnotize people.
The first thing when I sat down the lady asked me for my driver's license. Expected. That always happens at the license branch and has nothing to do with my name raising any suspicions with anyone. She proceeded so I figured she must have verified by my license that my ID and the name on the registrations matched.
As she worked she kept making comments like "She will now have a new plate." "She will have the right county on her plate." She used the pronoun she to refer to me in the third person several times. I decided to throw her for a loop and she what happened. I related to her how we had considered putting my wife, Penny, on the plates, but thought it would be easier to just have me on there. I waited for her wheels to start turning in her mind. It was just a moment when I could see on her face that she was beginning to question what was going on here. Now that the veil of the name Brook had been pierced she started thinking about the things that she was prevented from thinking about, by the name Brook being presented to her by a man, when she first took my license. I waited for it and in a moment she said, "Who's Brook?" I smiled and replied, "That'd be me."
I'm not sure what she looked at when she took my license or what she heard when I said, "We thought it would just be easier to have MY name on the plates." I also don't know why it was permissible for me to renew plate in someone else's name when in the past neither of us has been able to do anything with our plates if ther other person's name was on there.
I don't want to be hard on this sweet lady. She was very cordial and got me in and out very quickly. I just want to illustrate how the name Brook being presented by a guy seems to hypnotize people.
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