My current drivers license picture makes me look like a hag named Large Marge. My mother was even personally offended that someone so hideous could be born from her.

Oh yeah, been there. I thought I looked like hot shit for my recent ID photo--blew my hair out and everything. I literally look like a hostage. Like someone said "Smile or I'll kill you." Those photos always seem to change the shape of your face, too--like they try to make the photo smaller by smushing it from both sides instead of cropping, you know? Good stuff.

I did have ONE good photo once (with bangs!) and when I got a new one I begged them to let me keep it but they refused.

Anyway, I'm a Fed, and I promise you don't have to wear them around your neck. I have mine in my wallet to get in and out of the building, and then it mostly sits in your laptop all day. Good luck with the new job!

If it at all makes you feel better, my last driver's license photo was taken about a month into my Bell's Palsy. With no recovery. With the worst rosacea ever...because I was a month postpartum.

And the lady kept telling me to smile and I kept telling her that I had facial paralysis and literally could not. She kept on. So then I started crying.

So I'M CRYING, PARALYZED, RED, AND PUFFY in mine. So great.

I’ve since had the photo redone (hair color changed massively and it seemed like the right thing to do) but my old work ID picture was so ugly my Mom thought it was a picture of my Dad. Now I’ll admit the face genetics on Dad’s side of the family are powerful but getting misgendered is sort of the ultimate in terrible ID photos.

On the other hand, my husband’s passport photo is so good that I used to keep a copy of it on my computer just to look at.

So firstly, that isn't you - there is no way. They made a mistake and put someone else's face on your ID. It is going to be really weird the day you run into her in the hallway.

Second, the best ID story I ever heard was from my esthetician who told me she went with her husband to get pictures for their health cards (Canada) and when they came in the mail the government put his picture on both of their IDs. It was a huge pain the in ass to get the government to change it.

I think they switched picture with someone else's. Ow vey

The fact that you all do not recognize Chrissy Teigen is hilarious. (The fact that Amalah subbed her face in for the bad photo--also hilarious. I wish I could sub in models/delightfully calorie-oblivious cookbook authors/married-to-EGOT celebs in for my bad ID photos in real life.)

No one ever really looks at your ID. (My dad, post-9/11, bet my stepmother than he could go all the way through a NY airport without ever even being ASKED for ID - and won. Not one person even asked to see it. Granted, he knows how to exploit white-male-in-a-suit privilege like a kick to the head.) My license looks like I'm sweaty and intoxicated - exactly what you want to hand to someone in authority. Even when they do check it (at the beginning of your job), they will see what you really look like. (This is also the tragedy of freakishly good ID pics - I had one once - but they can see what you really look like then, too.)

My work badge photo is heinous. The woman who took it wouldn’t let me check it before printing it. She said ‘that’s super, you’ll love it’. Which makes me think I must really look like the photo. Maybe it’s akin to hearing your voice on a recording- you, but not you. Except I sound like I’m eight on a recording and look like I’m eighty-eight in the photo, and very unwell, and possibly my grandmother (only less pretty) 🤷🏼‍♀️

I look drunk on my current driver’s license photo. I’m stuck with it for the next NINE YEARS unless I want to redo it for the low, low price of $40.

My brother and his wife just got Costco membership cards, and they were not allowed to take their masks off for the picture. Plus they're orthodox, so she's also wearing a headscarf. Basically a pair of eyes.

That's a picture of Chrissy Tiegan. WTH

My husband is in the Navy and I have to use my dependent ID to get on base for the hospital and exchange and whatnot. When I took my younger daughter for her two week checkup, the gate guard noticed that it was expired and while he let me on that day, I'd need my husband to come along with me to the appointment to get a new one. He's a doctor at Walter Reed, so you know, tons of free time to sit around the badge and ID office. He ended up calling me a couple of mornings later when he had free time to say COME RIGHT NOW so I left the girls with my mom who thankfully was still visiting, my breakfast on the table and arrived looking like you do when you have a two week-old and a toddler. I can't wait for that thing to expire.

The amount of people who think that it actually you is making me realize and understand why so many people are posting some crazy conspiracy theory video online. Wow.

PS - I love your husband, Mrs. Legend.

One time when I had to show ID, the bouncer, after glancing back and forth between me and my ID, said "Oh! You look much better now!" Thanks.