License picture

I am a little nervous because it's time for me to take a new driver's license photo. It wouldn't be that big of a deal if i didn't have to carry this picture around for the next, i don't know....10 years! So i want it to be good because on my current license i just look like Mookie, from that old kids tv show Fraggle Rock! You only get one shot at these things and if you screw it up you are stuck with a crap picture. The next thing you know your at a restaurant with a group of friends and someone's going to pull out their license and then another person is going to look at the photo and make some kind of comment about it and the next thing you know, everyone's pulling their's out and comparing pictures and you have to come up with some excuse as to why yours is so bad. I don't want to go through that again! So this is my plan. I am going to pull out my camera and take a bunch of pictures of myself (smiling,serious, glasses, no glasses)and see what looks half-way decent and then try to duplicate it when i go for the real thing. This won't be easy because 1. It is hard to perform under pressure. 2. They don't give you much to work with, like different backgrounds would be nice(like the beach, or Paris with the Eiffel tower in the distance , or puppies).3. The staff usually isn't very friendly. They don't care that this picture could possibly cause me embarassment for the next 10 years.The last woman that took my picture was half-man. I think her name should have been Helga. There was no way i was going to ask her to retake my picture.So i just walked out of there dejected, with a 10 year sentence of public humiliation.This time i am going to redeem myself. I am going to take a good photo no matter what it takes, even if it means having to get a make-up artist, getting a personal stylist, borrowing diamond earrings and getting my hair done. i have a lot riding on this!