Weird IDs

[Sylvia727]

I got carded for Mountain Dew!

So four of us go out to a bar/grill on a Friday night. I'd been there before during the week and the food was okay, the service was average to good, no real problems, nothing special. Friday night it was crowded, and it was noisy. So we're sitting at a bar table (taller than other tables), the waitress is in her 50s or so and looking harried. She takes all our orders for drinks and appetizers. Of course, no one's was simple, everyone had a "no sour cream" or a "shaken not stirred" to tack on as she's busy scribbling and asking us to repeat that.

Now I was the only one underage, so I was automatically the designated driver and the only one who didn't order alcohol. I got potato skins and a Mountain Dew. She goes around to get everyone's orders, and then asks for everyone's IDs. I didn't bother getting mine out, because she didn't need to see it, right? Wrong! She gets to me and asks for my ID. Okay, whatever, I dig it out.

Angrily, she points out that I'm under 21 and cannot have alcohol. My smartass reply is that's fine, I'll just have Mountain Dew. This just pisses her off and she starts threatening to throw me out! My friend breaks in with "She's the goddamn driver, what the did you write down for her?" She started arguing with him, so he demanded to see a manager.

Long story short, all our appetizers and my Mountain Dew were comped. I took great pleasure in asking for my free refills

[Jester]

I card hard.

But this lady was a rusty fucktrombone.

Hell with her.

[ParkingWitch]

Best First Time ID'd

The very first time I was ID'd for alcohol was on my 22nd birthday ....



by my Grandfather. I thought he was going to fall thru the floor when it hit him that his grandbaby was really that old.


OK OK the background he was bartending the V.F.W. bar and I was an Auxillary member (we quit saying Ladies Auxillary when several men inquired about joining).

[edible_hat]

I just remembered this one from a few years ago:

Me: "Do you have ID?"
Under-aged kid: "Yes but if I show it to you, you won't give me the smokes. It was worth a try." (walks out)

[gregmaddux17]

I card hard.

But this lady was a rusty fucktrombone.

Hell with her.

Perhaps she didn't know what Mountain Dew is? Either that or she wrote down something different and confused herself.

[Jester]

Oh, lord, more ID nonsense last night.

Table of four. Middle aged guy orders a beer. Two ladies order nothing. 20something guy orders a beer.

JESTER: "May I see your ID, please?"
YOUNG DUDE: "Um, I don't have it with me."
JESTER: "Then I'm sorry, I'm not going to be able to serve you alcohol."
YOUNG DUDE: "I'll take a diet coke then, please."

All that is fine. A bit later, it got strange.

The middle aged guy approached me as he was on the way to the bathroom. I should point out that he was pleasant the entire time.

MAG: "I don't want to cause any trouble, but my nephew really is 22."
JESTER: "I understand that, sir, but without his ID I cannot serve him."
MAG: "I know. He left his ID at the hotel. I don't suppose a birth certificate would work?"
JESTER: "I'm sorry, no. It needs to be a picture ID." Why would he have his birth certificate with him, but not his ID?!?!?!
MAG: "Well, that is my sister's son." (semi-joking) "She can show you her stretch marks if you want..."
JESTER: "Um, no.....that definitely would not be a valid form of ID!"

Later MAG told me that Nephew actually worked as a bouncer in a bar. Well then, pops, he should bloody well remember to bring his ID to a bar if he wants a fucking drink!

[JustADude]

JESTER: "May I see your ID, please?"
YOUNG DUDE: "Um, I don't have it with me."
JESTER: "Then I'm sorry, I'm not going to be able to serve you alcohol."
YOUNG DUDE: "I'll take a diet coke then, please."

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Later MAG told me that Nephew actually worked as a bouncer in a bar. Well then, pops, he should bloody well remember to bring his ID to a bar if he wants a fucking drink!

Just a note, it seems like the Young Guy was cool when the lack of ID was brought up, and the uncle was just simply unable to let it go.
I'd bet money that the kid was horribly embarrassed at his uncle giving you such a hard time over it if he found out he approached you like that.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I'm the most paranoid goon ever when it comes to checking IDs. The ATF sent decoys through my line on two separate occasions. No sale.

I was told not to honor Mexican IDs, either. Seems they're considered a joke even in Mexico. Anyone else heard this?

No but I had a guy try to use a Mexican ID back last winter to buy some beer.

Needless to say, I refused it. I can't read Spanish to begin with, and I couldn't tell what kind of Mexican ID it was supposed to be.

Besides, the Kitty requires either Driver's License, state issued ID, passport or Military ID. Anything else I'm not fooling with.

[ZumZum]

Had one of my cashier's call me over to approve a check. We don't require manager approval so I knew something was up.
She hands me the check and it looked a little funny.

Then she hands me the drivers license. I almost laughed out loud.
PA license have holograms ALL over it. Also the pic shows head and shoulders.

His ID was his head ONLY on a blue screen. The DL numbers were typed onto the card with a different font and there was no hologram. I could tell all this while it was still in his wallet. Just for fun I asked him to take it out of his wallet. It was the most fake thing I have ever seen.

I wanted to ask him if this ID works other places for him.
Instead I just said, this is obviously fake, I cannot accept it. He said ok, took it out of my hand and paid cash for one of the purses (he was trying to get two).

[Jester]

Just a note, it seems like the Young Guy was cool when the lack of ID was brought up, and the uncle was just simply unable to let it go.
I'd bet money that the kid was horribly embarrassed at his uncle giving you such a hard time over it if he found out he approached you like that.

Actually, even the uncle was cool, as I said. It was just funny. Especially the line about showing me the kid's mom's stretch marks!

Yeah, the dude probably would have been embarrassed about what his uncle said, but whatever. Overall, they were cool people....it was just funny.

[Javarod]

At my age I don't have any stories like this any more, or shouldn't, but this morn gave me one. Me and my roomie on the way back from one of my jobs (anyone want a second job, I need a backup, PM me ifn you do), and we stopped at a Circle K at 19th Ave & Dunlap. When we were paying I noticed a signed typed up on a computer taped to the counter stating that store policy was to card everyone under 99 and that a photo ID is required. Written at the bottom of it added two IDs that were not acceptable, and while I forget one, the other was a jail ID. Ok, I know Sunnyslope has some serious problems (more than once I've had a cab fare into the area that was clearly buying drugs, I'm a bit clueless and even I could figure this out), but I'll say that sign surprised me, doubly so since it was about 4.30AM and this wasn't one of the armor plated K's (you know, locked up, use the little window, speak into the mike, that kinda set up).

[HalloranElder]

Slightly off topic...

I get asked for ID a lot now a days. I'm 33, but look mid to late 20's, however I never used to be asked for ID (when I was younger, I looked much older, but now I'm old I look much younger, it's a curse ).

What's changed, I hear you ask? (I've got good hearing, don't I). What's changed is my name. I decided after about 30 years complaining that I hated my name, I changed it legally.

So, as a result, my real name is Random Jones. Yep, that's right, my name is Random.

So, anywhere I go that asks for my name, I give them my name. A lot of the time, they'll ask me to say it again (I thought he just said Random, that can't be right...). Some of the time, often enough for it not to be unusual, they'll ask for ID, just in case.

Most of the time they look at my drivers licence, look again, and then hand it back and walk off with a slightly confused expression on their face.

I love dealing with normal people.

[Jester]

...we stopped at a Circle K at 19th Ave & Dunlap.

WEST SIIIIIIDE!







Sorry. Phoenix thing. I'm very homesick.



The irony, of course, is that I am in fact from the East Side.