[Theariwinna]

That totally sucks. And, no, a passport is not cheap. Some levity (for others): I had to get a new one recently and paying for it HURT--psychologically, too! The post office employee helping us (after having no problem whatsoever getting a great shot of my husband) couldn't get a decent photo of me--this wasn't a vanity complaint on my end either! The red eye reduction wasn't working on me and it was taking my as-pale-as-they-come complexion and making me look positively swarthy. I got sent over to the CVS around the corner, tail between my legs, and told to bring things back for processing... Yada, yada, yada, I look really unhappy and appropriately pasty in my new passport.