What did you learn today?

That buffalo wings are named after Buffalo, NY. :woman_facepalming:

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Glad it worked for you. I usually just drive with my iphone, online license in the myColorado app (official state app). At Walgreens, the clerk said they needed a real license in order to sell me Claritin-D (OTC med that is behind the pharmacy counter).

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Well, haven’t tried to do anything as ā€œhigh riskā€ as buying allergy medicine, so don’t know if I’d have a problem if I presented my apple wallet and electronic driver’s license. Since our neighborhood pharmacy knows me (unfortunately because we are frequent customers), I think they’d figure out how to work with me. In any case, we renew licenses in January so I will get a physical license then.

It’s crazy that we need licenses to buy allergy meds anyway.

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The online license will not get you into a Casino, at least in Indiana! My 69 year old sister was carded at the door and her online license couldn’t get her by the bouncers.

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I had not used my online license much to date. I suspect I can get by well enough over next two months with it until I renew license & get a physical one again. I was pleased the bank accepted my electronic license to cash fairly large check.

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Did you lose your license? Or get your wallet stolen??

Today I learned that some states have online licenses. I live in NC and pretty sure we don’t have that.

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I lost my card pouch that had my license and my medicare & insurance card. Maybe it will turn up but I’m not holding my breath. Nothing else was taken, nor CCards not cash so I’m thinking I may have left it somewhere. I asked my Schwab agent to see if it’s there, since i showed it to the notary there.

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Well, today I learned that you can have Medicare without having an online Medicare account! I mean, I know my late mother didn’t have one, but I just assumed that in the last decade or so, pretty much any interaction with them would be online. (I do remember seeing ā€œprint a replacement cardā€ or something similar as one of the suggested options when you log in.)

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My original Medicare card got a bit tattered so I went on line and got a new one. I have one in my card case and one in my home office safe.

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Yeah - they clearly tell you ā€œdo not laminateā€ but that little piece of paper goes through a lot if you have to pull it out for every doctor visit. I didn’t laminate, but it’s enclosed in a little plastic sleeve!

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Not me - but my daughter learned that you can make pancakes without a store bought boxed pancake mix :rofl:

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Oops, we had my husband’s laminated. It was going to be destroyed if we didn’t.

Why would they say not to laminate?

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Mine is laminated too! Since health care cards went to paper I have always laminate them.

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I honestly don’t remember, but I’m sure I saw that somewhere. Next time I log in, I’ll check to see where I read that and report back.

I suspect social security cards may have some security features on them that laminate may not work well with.

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LOL - I was laminating my brother’s Medicare card and it was going in sideways so I tried to grab it…. he now has a partially laminated crumpled up card. I have asked him to order a new one many times but I think he has forgotten his SSA password.

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I think (but don’t know for sure) that it is easier to change things on them if you then laminate them. Easier to hide a number change or see if the card is a fake.

My first DL was just a piece of paper, not even as strong as card stock. Pretty easy to change a date. Not that I’D do that…

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I’ll tell you what I didn’t learn…

How to undo the endless loop of FB telling me to log in from a different device on BOTH devices. Now I’m completely locked out. Which is fine, except I heavily rely on Messenger for communication and now have no way to access it. URGH. There is in option to send in a screen shot of your face, but they say it takes 48 hours. I’m assuming it’s more than that because of the holiday, but of course there is no other information.

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Tell her cakes too! :wink: :shortcake:

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