shortly after i moved out to d.c. after college, i once had staph take away my real california id and told me that it was fake. california used to not replace expired licenses, but would just mail out a paper extension- so, i was still using my california license, which was expired, but i had my extension (staph was quite taken aback with california license rules and practice). plus, my license was the first year california went high tech, and was the only year they used a particular color scheme, which was not represented in the id book.
after explaining the whole thing, staph gave me back my id and said get a local id card.
