Me when I pet a dog and my watch thinks I’m going for a run 😄

We don’t. We show banks picture ID to prove that we are who we say we are. That picture ID is usually our passport or driver’s license, neither of which is managed by the bank.

Hi neighbor! waves across Øresund

Yeah, I’m a big fan of Scandinavian style government (unlike the current governments of both of our countries, it would seem) in general, but sometimes the bureaucracy can get a little bit ridiculous 😂

Fun fact: when my country transitioned to a new public authentication app, the default way was to use your passport to register. My passport was expired, though, so I had to show up in person with my birth certificate and social security card equivalent.

To get my birth certificate, I had to show up at the local office with, you guessed it, my passport.

Lucky for me that they accepted it in spite of being expired (none of the pertinent information such as my face, name and birth date had expired, after all), or I would probably be trapped in the loop to this day, years later.

It’s pronounced escrow

This one literally had me cackling out loud and I don’t even cackle!

I chortle, guffaw, chuckle, sometimes snicker and on rare occasions even bellow with laughter. Never cackled until now, though! 😂