December 7th, 2010
Rebel Rebel
Since Leigh-Ann and I officially took possession of our new studio space on December 1st, I’m slowly starting to move my home studio over to “The Nest” (as I’ve started to call it) and as I’ve been sifting through yarn and scrabooking paper, stamps and reference books I came across an incredible gem! My first driver’s license was tucked into a box of things I’ve yet to scrapbook!
I remember this picture so well- I was working lighting for a theatre show in high school and went to get my license in between a dress rehearsal and the show. I had no idea they would be taking my picture, I had a hoodie and pigtails, and was mortified when they asked to take my picture! This was me trying to mask how upset I was that this would be my picture until I was in second year university!
And then I had to take another look at it, because I didn’t really believe what I saw. Guys, I was totally born in 1985. This wasn’t my first driver’s license, it was my fake ID from high school! I forgot I’d even had one!
Sure enough, tucked behind it in my ID case was my real one…
This makes me smile extra wide because my “going out to the bar” phase lasted for a nano second. I started going with friends just before I turned 18, and less that a year later I knew I was done. It was a lot of fun for a little while, and I was trying to find my place- but I’m an introvert at heart and while I wanted to “be cool” and go out clubbing, I’m just not that person! I’d rather be at a concert or catching up with friends one on one, laughing with my knitting girls or trying new food. I haven’t been to a club for years, and it seems like I must have been a whole other version of myself to go to the trouble of a fake ID to get inside one!
Growing up and figuring out who you are (and who you aren’t!) is tough stuff, and this was a reminder of it that made me giggle. I might have been a rebel, but I was a rebel who was in pig tails on her fake ID- something about that’s just perfect. Right from the start it wasn’t really meant to be, don’t you think? :)
That’s pretty funny. I was like wow, looks really fake until I saw the real one and then I was like wow, looks pretty legit. Too funny.
& by lighting design I mean theatre lighting ***
but I am going into theatre lighting design… whoopsie!
wait – you did lighting design in highschool?
if you weren’t included on my amazing females list before,
you certainly would be now!
that’s what I’m going to university for next year! (fingers crossed)
♥
ps. hahaha; I’m 18 still & feel no need to get a fake ID.
if I’m going to drink it’s going to be in my own home or somewhere I feel safe
(& my older sister & mother have no problem with that) not out somewhere sketchy – & if I feel like dancing, well my best friend & I do just fine in my kitchen +/ bedroom. Hahahahaha.
“if I feel like dancing, well my best friend & I do just fine in my kitchen” here here! :)
I did design lighting in high school – although maybe not very well! lol I was really lucky to have a theatre teacher who helped me follow my interests, and who made me a special program so I could take technical theatre from grade 10 – 12 instead of regular drama classes. I stage managed and ran lights for every show that came through for my credit – it was so much fun! :)
oooh! you bad girl!
i got such a kick out of this. fake id with pigtails, i love the irony!
LOL. The pigtails kill me. So good!
you’re a total rebel ;) this to date is the best story you’ve told me to date… I laughed so hard it hurt ;) It actually looks real too!
That is too funny. Ah, the joys of phases.
this is absolutely hilarious, kyla, i LOVE it!
i bet your enjoying your new studio space so, so much! so exciting. :)
I love finding old pics like that!
Gasp! Tsk, tsk, Kyla. I would have never guessed! ;)
First of all – SO CUTE. Second – I guess I never knew your maiden name but now Kyla BEA makes way more sense! :)
I never had my own fake ID, but I used one a couple of times, but not for anything crazy – just to get into a couple of Milwaukee bars during my sophomore year of college.
lol That was definitely what my old blog name was about! Since I can’t really be Kyla Tea without being too cutesy I’ve stuck with Kyla Roma ;)
No fake ID for me. I love the pigtails in yours though.
Bwahaha. That was very badass of you. ;) Too funny.
You are too cute Kyla!
It’s funny because a bunch of my friends who are still huge club-goers constantly bug me about not being that kind of person AT ALL either. Just like you, I had my fun with it when I was 17/18 and then I completely lost interest and started going to shows and hanging out with friends closer to home. Growing up has it’s downsides, but getting to know yourself like that is definitely one of the parts I’m happiest about! I would never go back to being the girl at a club. Not me at all!!
I love this post. I laughed out loud.
And then i was transported back to Vegas and Drunken Diablos and omg how much fun we had… so much fun that I haven’t done anything like that since then :)
I had a fake ID as well but it got passed around since I had other friends who looked like me. I wonder where that ID is now… ;-)
Ahhh!! Look at that hair! Too too funny. Reminds me of Molly the American Girl doll.
Heeehee! So funny. I never had a fake ID, but everyone around here looks forward to turning 19 so they can head up to Canada to go drinking. I spent many a weekend in Vancouver as a 19 and 20 year old :-)
Wow, I never thought you’d have a fake ID! I guess it’s a good thing we can’t see the future because a lot can change and there’s so many directions we can choose to take with life.
Hahaha, that is sooo funny. Wow, that’s a pretty good fake id! I wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference looking at the two. And I love the pic! I always think it’s so funny to look back at my old licenses and see how much (and how many times!) I’ve changed over the years. Too cute.
Baha! That is so great! I love the pigtails and the irony of having them in your fake-ID picture. I think we all have our rebel phase, whether it lasts a year or a decade, but it’s great to look back on it and reminisce about how “cool” we thought we were, right? :-P
Rebel! That’s so funny, you don’t seem like the fake ID type ;) Hilarious.
LOL I love that you still have this! I never had one, but I remember making one for a guy I was dating who happened to not HAVE an ID so he could come out with me, lol :)
I love your fake ID, and love that you kept it. You’re the mos adorable badass I’ve seen in an ID. In BC with the holograms on the ID’s it was next to impossible to get a fake one, but I managed to get a pretty good one. Funnily enough it was busted and taken away about six weeks before my 19th birthday.
I HATED my school id photos, they were always HORRIBLE.
Ha!! That is one of the cutest stories I’ve ever heard. Yes – a fake ID in pigtails makes it SO much more perfect!!!! I’d rather be knitting than clubbing, too. Being an introvert is a good thing and it took awhile for me to realize that, too!! I slowly changed from “let’s go OUT!” to…”let’s stay IN!” and have the same, if not more, fun! :)
Also, I’m one year, one month older than you… unless we go by your fake ID and then we’re practically the exact same age – haha.
This is too funny. I never had a fake ID, but yours looks quite convincing. It’s always interesting to find mementos like this and look back on a previous version of ourselves to see how much we’ve changed.
Hahaha that’s a riot! I never had a fake, but I’m with you on the nanosecond bar phase – mine started all legit-like at 21 but ended about 6 months later. A) It was too expensive, B) hangovers hurt and C) making a fool of myself lost its charm quickly!
Three cheers for growing up :)
Haha, I can’t tell at all that that’s a fake! I don’t think the picture is bad at all, though. You know, in Germany, drivers licenses never expire, so I’m stuck with a picture of my 17-year-old self unless I get married or lose the DL.
Dude, that’s the best fake id I’ve ever seen. Wow. They don’t make ’em like that in the states. And that picture is adorable.
Hilarious. What a miscreant you were, Kyla! :)
Omigoodness Kyla, you look so young!!
I actually NEVER had a fake ID! I was a party-party girl in high school but it was always bush parties (hello small town!). I went to the bar LEGALLY in Alberta for the first time on my 18th birthday!
OMG, Kyla! This is awesome. I can’t believe it – that ID looks totally believable. How did you do this?
I was too much of a chicken to get a fake ID and even after I turned 18, I was constantly carded and asked if my REAL ID was a fake ID, because they thought I looked so young. LOL
Luckily, I didn’t have to go through this too much, because I wasn’t really a clubber either and only went out to clubs/bars occasionally.
Ha, that is awesome! I was pretty much the only girl in my sorority that didn’t have a fake ID! Everyone else had one but I was too much of a chicken to get one. And I never was the bar type, either! I was secretly glad that I always had to work weekends at the restaurant so had a viable excuse to not go out!
These days I enjoy a happy hour drink, but staying out past midnight? No thank you!
Haha loves it! On PEI we used to paint our IDs, so that the 1984 looked like 1981. Most times you only had to run your finger over it to know that it had been tampered with. The paint job on mine (done in green Wet n’ Wild nail polish) was particularly atrocious, so on a summer trip to Toronto, I snuck off and had a “souvenir” ID made… that said I was 26 and from New Jersey (note: I wasn’t even 18 yet!) How that actually worked I’ll never know.
Memories… =)
oh man, that is so funny! the pigtails really do make it perfect. i can’t believe how real it looks! i didn’t have a fake id…i never had any desire to go ‘clubbing’ haha. i still avoid it at all costs :)
that’s crazy you just got higher tech ids. in ontario we’ve had them forever…you guys aren’t that far away! it’s crazy the difference between provinces.
also…our birthdays are very close! mine is the 26th. joint birthday party?…i think so :)
LOL! I wish I still had mine it was taken from me at some bar – I was lucky that I didn’t get in trouble.
I never went through the bar phase in high school, but I quickly figured out it wasn’t my scene in college either. I preferred spending time at the coffeeshop to getting wasted at a bar.
Haha!! That looks like a really convincing fake :) I grew up in NB and it was a lot harder to fake our ID’s because of the holograms – you pretty much had to borrow an older friend’s or sister’s, or get one made from a different province or state. Very labour intensive. Hence the underage drinking at the beach and in the woods!
Our IDs were so low tech until recently! We just got the swipeable one piece ones this year, like they have in the US and I’m so relieved- whenever I was in the US they thought my real ID, that was two pieces and laminated, was a fake! I’ve had to use my passport at restaurants to buy wine!
ahahah! this is absolutely awesome! you rebel, you! my id photo is beyond lame. you know the cover photo from “the 40 year old virgin” with steve carell on the front? that’s….what mine looks like. heavy lighting on my face as i’m smiling and looking up to the side, like i’m looking at jesus or something. oh well!
You might want to blur out your licence number, but cute recollection (and pic!)
Thanks for looking out for me! :) I actually have a different last name now, and the last six numbers in the license just represent your birthday- I’m identity theft safe <3
You think that license picture is bad??? You should see my old one!!
This is super cool! (and so are your scarves by the way)
I’ve kept my id’s from school and think it would be cool to display them alongside my boyfriends. It’s so interesting/funny/embarassing to see the gradual evolution!
Merry Christmas, Kyla
(and best of luck on your exciting new journey in “The Nest”!)
xoxo