Ryan happened upon a Goodwill that feels the need to check your ID before it lets you partake in the pleasures of its restroom.

It’s becoming more crucial every day to keep your ID at the ready. Credit card companies are allowing, and sometimes requiring, merchants to shake you down for your driver’s license. And Arizona passed a law — mostly neutered by a federal court injunction — that required those who resemble illegal immigrants to police to keep their papers handy in case they’re “lawfully stopped.”

And now, at a certain Goodwill, you need a license to pee.

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