I'm not sure what sort of illegal things this woman was up to, but I wasn't having any part of it.
A woman came into the bank wanting a couple of documents notarized. She went to the head teller first, and she wasn't sure about the documents, so she brought her to me. They were very limited power of attorney documents giving someone else (she said her dad) permission to sell a car and a boat for her. She said the car and boat were titled in another state (which doesn't even share a border with us) and she needed her dad to sell them for her and transfer the titles to the new owner.
The documents seemed ok to me, so I told her to go ahead and sign the first document. That's when I picked up her driver's license from where she'd set it on my desk. I immediately noticed that the picture was scored (cut) all the way around it. I asked her if she knew this, and she claimed that it had bubbled up when it went through the laundry, so she'd cut around the picture to flatten it out. That's when I got really suspicious. I've never seen that happen with one of our driver's licences. I've never seen them separate. I've never even seen a dogeared corner on one of them. She made an almost off-hand comment about how the license was expiring next month, so she was just going to wait to renew it and get her address updated then. Which seems backwards. If you move, you're supposed to update your license right away. And if it bubbled up in the wash, that's one more reason to renew it sooner.
But the clincher was when she shoved the paper she'd signed at me. I looked at her signature, then the signature on the license. They were not anything like each other. Her signature was scribbly and slanty, where the one on the license was careful and blocky. I pointed that out and said I couldn't notarize the document for her, unless she had a different photo ID with her signature. She didn't. Of course she got mad. Asked what she was supposed to do now. I didn't have an answer, but really it's none of my concern.
I'm not sure what her scheme was. Maybe trying to sell a car and a boat that didn't belong to her? I don't know how she expected anyone to accept that driver's license as valid. Even if the license had bubbled up, there still wouldn't be a reason to cut along all four edges of the picture to get the air and/or water out of it. Her excuse doesn't make any sense.
A woman came into the bank wanting a couple of documents notarized. She went to the head teller first, and she wasn't sure about the documents, so she brought her to me. They were very limited power of attorney documents giving someone else (she said her dad) permission to sell a car and a boat for her. She said the car and boat were titled in another state (which doesn't even share a border with us) and she needed her dad to sell them for her and transfer the titles to the new owner.
The documents seemed ok to me, so I told her to go ahead and sign the first document. That's when I picked up her driver's license from where she'd set it on my desk. I immediately noticed that the picture was scored (cut) all the way around it. I asked her if she knew this, and she claimed that it had bubbled up when it went through the laundry, so she'd cut around the picture to flatten it out. That's when I got really suspicious. I've never seen that happen with one of our driver's licences. I've never seen them separate. I've never even seen a dogeared corner on one of them. She made an almost off-hand comment about how the license was expiring next month, so she was just going to wait to renew it and get her address updated then. Which seems backwards. If you move, you're supposed to update your license right away. And if it bubbled up in the wash, that's one more reason to renew it sooner.
But the clincher was when she shoved the paper she'd signed at me. I looked at her signature, then the signature on the license. They were not anything like each other. Her signature was scribbly and slanty, where the one on the license was careful and blocky. I pointed that out and said I couldn't notarize the document for her, unless she had a different photo ID with her signature. She didn't. Of course she got mad. Asked what she was supposed to do now. I didn't have an answer, but really it's none of my concern.
I'm not sure what her scheme was. Maybe trying to sell a car and a boat that didn't belong to her? I don't know how she expected anyone to accept that driver's license as valid. Even if the license had bubbled up, there still wouldn't be a reason to cut along all four edges of the picture to get the air and/or water out of it. Her excuse doesn't make any sense.
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