Passed The ID Check With Flying Colors

I worked for my university’s bookstore, and when the students would buy a book, they’d get about 8% off if they scanned their student photo ID’s. 

A girl came up to the register as serious as can be.

Girl: “Hey, so I recently changed the color of my hair, and it no longer matches the color of my hair on my student ID.”

She stands there, expectantly.

Me: “Okay. Did you have a question?”

Girl: “Yeah, so… will I still get the student discount?”

Me: “Of course.”

Girl: “Even with my hair?”

Me: “Your important information hasn’t changed and is still valid. The library and your ID don’t care, or even know, what color your hair is.”

Girl: “I just didn’t want you to think I was someone else with a different hair color. It’s not my natural hair!

Me: “I think even if the system did acknowledge hair color, it would know that your current choice of bright green with purple highlights wasn’t… natural.”

Since she was only concerned about getting the discounts, which I reassured he that she would, the conversation ended there. It was, however, repeated six months later when she walked over with the same concern about her pink and blue striped hair…