i recently went to Washington DC and when i got to a hotel i realized i lost my driver's license ( 2 weeks earlier i was asked to show it and forgot to take it back ) ... the hotel wouldn't let me check in without a valid ID ( which they said was driver's license or passport ).

i asked them if they would accept an older ( expired ) version i did have on me and they said no.

i then went to another hotel and gave them the expired one without saying it was expired and they didn't notice it was expired and i was able to get a room.

immediately upon getting back i went to DMV and asked for a replacement, which they said i will get in the mail within 2 weeks, in the mean time they gave me a temporary paper one.

a few days later i tried getting a room in Boston using the same trick ( giving them my expired license ) but this time it was a white man and not a black woman checking me in and he caught the fact that license was expired. i then showed him the paper one and he reluctantly accepted it.

all of these hotels were Hilton where i stayed before but that wasn't good enough for them - they still wanted my ID for some reason.

it's like if your kids came home from school and even though they had been coming home that way every day because they were missing some documents you told them to get lost LOL.

i really was uncomfortable with the fact that i went *that* close to sleeping on the street simply because two weeks earlier when i went to get a tour of a fitness center they asked for me ID and then forgot to give it back to me.