Papers Please!

According to Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, "nobody but the Nazis ever asked anybody for their papers."  Too true.  Americans are completely unused to showing documents... unless they:

• fly in an airplane
• travel overseas
• get a job
• rent an apartment
• buy a house
• open a checking account
• get something notarized
• apply for a library card
• rent a car
• buy smokes or alcohol 
• write a check
• get pulled over by the police
• go to the doctor/emergency room

Just the exceptions that prove the rule, I guess.