Before I go on I want to state something. I do not appreciate when people attempt to debunk my story as a lie, or say things like I don't believe it.
If you don't believe it say why. If you want to debunk my story that's fine. However, saying something like "wait, so you experienced a reality shift
and now you altered your passport...? BS!" you should say something like "I don't believe you. I think that you misread your passport the first time
and thus every time you read it you saw the confused text, and now you are seeing it clearly."
Okay here is the story.
I own a British passport, as I have dual citizenship (UK + USA). I am not speaking about the actual ink changing. I am going off the debunking theory
that perhaps I misread my passport and after that starting misreading it each and every time. However, this is the thing. So did everyone else.
A British passport displays a birth date in the following format as this:
## *** / AVR ##
An example: 15 APR / AVR 88
This would mean that you were born on April 15, 1988.
My passport shows: 21 APR / AVR 93.
But here's where it gets funky. When I looked at it, or anyone else did it did not show AVR *93*. I have starred 93, as it was a constantly changing
number. While 21 APR always stayed the same - AVR 93 did not. I studied my British passport constantly and could never figure out what AVR ## meant.
I, and everyone who looked at it, could never actually figure out how it related to me.
We knew my birthday was April 21, 1993. However, NO numbers on my passport ever matched up to 1993. What I'm saying is that my, and all viewers, of my
passport read the passport with AVR ## not being AVR 93. It was always some other number.
For that reason there was always the thought "well how the hell can someone know if I'm over 18 or not when I purchase cigarettes?".
However, here's the "alteration of my mind" part. I bought cigarettes today from a guy who most likely does not even care about my age, but simply
"looks" at an ID so he doesn't get fired if his boss is watching. He, like every other cashier, was confused by my passport and asked about my
birthdate. I told him, like I tell all other cashiers, what my birthday was and he gave me the very common "err..Okay", thus confused about the
passport overall.
When I got into the car I said to my friend Stephen that I hate using my UK passport because everyone is always confused about it. I told him what i
told you now, about the birth date not making any sense as it doesn't show up, etc etc.
I opened my passport for one, to show the confusing expiration dates. UK passports have an odd way of declaring what year a passport expires.
It says ## MON / MONT ## for when it was issued, and ## MON / MONT ## for expiry.
Ex: 13 SEP / SEPT 11
However, nothing changed there.
When I looked at my birthdate though it was not the normal confusing format that never included 93, (short for 1993) which is my birth year.
However...It did.
It now says 21 APR / AVR 93
It does not make sense. It has never shown up before for me, cashiers, or anyone else that I have told about it. I can honestly say that our
perception of the passport changed. When I had told Stephen I had asked (in my mind) that my passport not be so confusing, as i had been complaining
about my cigarette purchases often turning into lengthy conversations about my actual ID or why i have an American Accent, but a UK passport.
Something in my mind changed, or something about the perception of my passport altogether did as well. Instead of it containing a confusing birthdate,
it shows a valid one.
It does not make much sense, but in a way it does.
It makes sense in the same way reading the following 'meme' wrong makes sense:
I gotta dig bick.
You that read wrong.
that awkward when you read that wrong too.
And said "moment" after awkward.
This is awkward.
However, it is not just like I became more aware of what was there / what I thought was there. I have changed the entire perception of my passport
that everyone else experiences as well. Was my own confusion of my own passport so strong that it actually implanted a false perception of my passport
into other's minds as well? Perhaps. I think so.
That's my story.
edit on 2-10-2012 by Ghostx because: (no reason given)
edit on 2-10-2012 by Ghostx because: (no reason given)