You Ought to be in Pictures

In California, where I live, you can renew your driver license by mail if you have a clean driving record. This is one of those rare, brilliant bureaucratic ideas. The Department of Motor Vehicles sends a reminder which gives you the option of by-mail or in person renewal. Why would anyone want to wait in endless lines at the DMV when sending a check is so much easier?

Now that I've received my new license I have the answer.

I always felt the photo on my license could double as a mug shot should I ever get arrested. You'd never mistake it for an Annie Liebovitz. Oh, it's me alright! But it's the 5-years-ago me.

Since then I've weaned myself off monthly L'Oreal treatments and surrendered to the all powerful law of gravity. The weight, which I fudged even then, has come back to bite me in my ever expanding butt.

So 5 years from now I vow to stand in line at the DMV. I've got to do something about that photo. Question is will I still lie about my weight.