Hah, I have the same experience and despite growing out my hair just for this particular reason, I still get called “sir” all the time. It’s given me a complex. ;D

love it! i saved all mine too. although i don’t know that i’d ever publicly post them…you’re brave. i was a bit of a trainwreck from about 5th grade to my junior year of high school. frizzy hair and bad clothes. fun stuff.
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What a great story! And what a master you are of the short, sweet, and to the point post. Thanks for sharing the ID’s – would that we all held on to our grey-less hair, and our unlined faces. I’d dig my own ID’s out, yet I already know they show my progression through late-80’s, early-90’s high fashion, consisting of ever higher bangs and electric blue eyeliner. You’ve taken me on a trip down my own memory lane, simply by reading. Thank you!

ha ha ha you’re really funny

Now, I wanna go find my old school IDs and write a similar entry. :))

I don’t use LOL but I have to for your story. I had a horrible bowl cross bob hair cut my dad gave me before high school started which made me look like a boy. I’m sure a few people thought I was one, even though my name is Olivia 🙂

You look like my Homecoming date from Sophomore year in your 82-83 photo. He was cute! Granted I was born in 84 so I guess that would have been frowned upon for you to accompany me to Homecoming in 1999. I just blogged about the more colorful signatures from my yearbooks and this reminded me of it!

I did one about old school papers I found and how they relate to now.

What a lovely post! reminds me of my childhood and how I got changed over time!

LOL! Mullets!

That was a nice post.

Just think. We change so much every year, but for those of us born over four decades ago, we imagine we look the same for the past 20 years.

ahhh, the 80’s…..when the coke was good and the hair was bad. you rocked that mullet!

I’m very jealous. I no longer have any of my school IDs. But it’s so nice to see you have them still. Still very jealous.

I love your post! I kept some of my middle school / high school IDs as well to look back on one day. Diggin’ the mullet that you had haha, it looked nice.

I loved this! It so hits home! I did one about old school papers I found and how they relate to now. check it out, please.

This is hilarious! My husband has the same birthday and the first two pictures could be him! Thanks for the funny walk back through time!

Omg the mullet is awesome. You rocked the shiz out of it. I’m impressed, sir.

I think thats quite interesting seeing a) how these old ID’s looked because I never saw one and b) the change while you were growing up. Great (:

Ha ha, what an excellent post 🙂
The worst picture I have on any ID card that I currently own is on my NUS card, where the only picture I had of me facing directly forward, was also the one where I was holding a White Russian next to my face. People would always ask, ‘Why are you holding a glass of milk?’, which would then prompt me to need to explain that it was in fact a delicious, frothy alcoholic beverage, cue raised eyebrows and an evident ‘You’re an alcoholic’ kind-of-look passing across their faces.
Epic, epic fail, my friend.

It’s always interesting to look back and how we changed not just physically, but watching our budding sophistication develop. Thanks for this post, Tom!

I had a similar experience over here in the UK in the early 70s. My hair went very wavy when i tried to grow it long. In a music shop a woman came up behaind me and said “Excuse me, young lady.” I left quick and felt so embarassed, but I think I stuck with the hair for a while longer. It’s funny how we change in photos and in the mirror yet we feel the same inside. I’m sure I’m still 14…..

Great story! I still look about the same as I did in my 8th grade year book, though I’ve finally discovered bangs are not for me.