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...over getting carded for liquor.
I went to the truck stop last night to drop off a trailer (our yard was full) and grab a bite to eat. I'm standing at the Subway waiting for someone to come over and take my order, and I see (well, hear) a man at the store counter throwing a hissy fit because the clerk refused to sell him beer without ID.
"But I'm OLD!!! I'm 39 years old! Ask her!" *points to Subway girl*
The clerk held her ground and refused to sell to him, so he wound up calling his brother or someone to buy it for him.
Now, granted, this guy looked like he could be old enough and had a rather bushy beard. But the last boyfriend I had before I started dating my now husband was only 20 and had much more facial hair than him, making him look a lot older than 20...and I'm 30 and still look about 20 and get carded for R rated movies on occasion. It's just not always possible to accurately gauge someone's age by appearance anymore. Now if I was working at a place like that and I knew someone personally that was old enough but forgot their ID, then I'd be happy to sell. But if I don't know you, I don't care if you have 10 people saying you're old enough...how do I know I can trust them?
I wanted to smack this guy and say, "If you're 39, then act your age and quit throwing a temper tantrum like a 2-year-old. If you're old enough to drink, you're old enough to remember your frickin' ID to prove it. It's not exactly a new law." But the Subway girl (who did, in fact, know him) said that he was mentally unstable, so I kept my mouth shut, though I did suggest police should be called because he was making me nervous personally. Someone finally came in and bought the beer for him and left.
I went to the truck stop last night to drop off a trailer (our yard was full) and grab a bite to eat. I'm standing at the Subway waiting for someone to come over and take my order, and I see (well, hear) a man at the store counter throwing a hissy fit because the clerk refused to sell him beer without ID.
"But I'm OLD!!! I'm 39 years old! Ask her!" *points to Subway girl*
The clerk held her ground and refused to sell to him, so he wound up calling his brother or someone to buy it for him.
Now, granted, this guy looked like he could be old enough and had a rather bushy beard. But the last boyfriend I had before I started dating my now husband was only 20 and had much more facial hair than him, making him look a lot older than 20...and I'm 30 and still look about 20 and get carded for R rated movies on occasion. It's just not always possible to accurately gauge someone's age by appearance anymore. Now if I was working at a place like that and I knew someone personally that was old enough but forgot their ID, then I'd be happy to sell. But if I don't know you, I don't care if you have 10 people saying you're old enough...how do I know I can trust them?
I wanted to smack this guy and say, "If you're 39, then act your age and quit throwing a temper tantrum like a 2-year-old. If you're old enough to drink, you're old enough to remember your frickin' ID to prove it. It's not exactly a new law." But the Subway girl (who did, in fact, know him) said that he was mentally unstable, so I kept my mouth shut, though I did suggest police should be called because he was making me nervous personally. Someone finally came in and bought the beer for him and left.
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