TexasCHLforum.com

longtooth wrote:

JALLEN wrote:
The Texas drivers license I turned in 40 years ago was a pathetic little piece of paper not much more impressive than a supermarket receipt, not much to it. I'm looking forward to having a Texas driver's license again soon, though.

Many of us remember the old paper DLs. How many of yall remember when the DL was just that & not considered ID. It was in the little plastic window holder w/ registration papers held around the sterring collum w/ the little stretchie springs.

Mine wasn't kept there. It was a pink square, maybe slightly rectangular, that was kept in my wallet so I could buy beer. It looked as though it had been typed in one of the ancient Remington manual typewriters. Of course, just about anyone could buy beer with that ID, as long as it said you were more than 21.

This thread drift about dangerous occupations is fascinating but you must know that 66.7% of statistics are misleading, and the rest are flat wrong.

WildBill wrote:

srothstein wrote:The Police Chief article is interesting, but can be more confusing than the situation is.

I wonder if some of the confusion and vagueness about the laws date back to the time when many people didn't have cars or drive. I know that both my grandmothers never got a drivers license. I don't know if they had state IDs.

That reminds me of an incident many years ago. I was at my folks' home, on a visit. I pulled out of the driveway in my dad's car, and proceeded right into a police road block, less than a block from the house. Of course, I had a CA driver's license which set off all sorts of curiosity about why I was there, why was I driving this car with Texas plates etc. Pretty nosy, I thought. My dad's car, same name, etc. Pretty soon, one of the officers recognized me, he having been a classmate of one of my sisters. It's a small town, or was. Anyway he told me they did these things periodically as as many as a third of Texans in rural areas refused to get drivers' licenses. "Refused" sounds awfully deliberate... they just never did bother to get a license, and drove anyway.

The Texas drivers license I turned in 40 years ago was a pathetic little piece of paper not much more impressive than a supermarket receipt, not much to it. I'm looking forward to having a Texas driver's license again soon, though.

Demand in the legal sense is merely a request which maybe be phrased as gently or as brusquely as circumstances warrant. "... to pay, without demand...", "... to pay, promptly upon demand..." are common uses, in both agreements and statutes. Actually, in French, demander is "to ask."

A peace office might state it anywhere from "May I please see your driver's license, sir?" to "Got some ID, buddy!", or worse!