When Conversation Kills Again

Tata: Whatcha doin'?
Siobhan: Working!
Tata: Oh God! It's like a million voices cried out and were silent!
Siobhan: It's OK! I've moved on to filing my nails!
Tata: And now they're making dinner plans...
Siobhan: Whew! That was close! I'd hate to be the destroyer of Alderaan inadvertently.
Tata: Right. You want your genocides to be deliberate and bloody. None of this pussified, nobody-noticed slaughters of innocents. Especially not at work! How will your enemies fear you properly?
Siobhan: My boss stopped by my cube a little while ago. He hasn't done that in a month.
Tata: Did you snap your fingers a few times trying to remember where you'd seen that face before?
Siobhan: No, no. I've seen him, just not at my desk.
Tata: The snapping would have given you time to organize context clues. I believe he would appreciate that kind of logical thinking in his employee.

I can't think or act like most other people. It's a miracle I'm employed, really. Thus, I understand why Deborah Davis did what she did. I have questions, of course, about how any story is reported, about the facts of the case as I've read them, particularly about why a commuter bus drives through a federal facility on the way to other people's jobs. Even so, I wouldn't provide my ID in that situation either. The only point in asking for it is intimidation, and I want to offer as little assistance as possible in my own subjugation.

So yes, I have to go to Motor Vehicle Services Monday evening with all my documents and demonstrate I am who I say I am. I should bring the Fabulous Ex-Husband(tm) to testify that in fact, we are good and divorced. He would find that funny. I wonder if they'd stamp his forehead like deranged notaries. I've had two fights with the agency this week, and I'm sick of their "Because We Said So" and "After September 11th, We Can Make You Dance" attitude. They only get away with it because we let them.

So no. Don't produce ID. Being law-abiding doesn't make you a pussy. And being a pussy doesn't make you safe.