When I ask for ID...

[Andara Bledin]

My mom and aunt got denied entrance to a bar on their 21st birthday (they're twins).

Funny thing is that they'd been going to that bar for months, already.

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[Darkwolf]

That guy would love it here in Indiana. By law everyone must show ID to purchase alcohol

[KiaKat]

That guy would love it here in Indiana. By law everyone must show ID to purchase alcohol

See, I love this. It makes things EASY. No judgment necessary on my part! I'm TERRIBLE at discerning ages, and I never remember faces unless I'm friends with the person, or they've done something memorable. So frequently I'll card someone, and they'll say "I always get carded when I come in here" and I just don't know what to say to that!

I've already decided on a sign to put up in the store I want to open: "Please have your ID out and ready, EVERYONE purchasing liquor WILL be carded, REGARDLESS of age."

With flourishes, of course.

[PhiSigGirl1988]

Honestly, I'm 22, and I'd be offended if I WASN'T carded. I'm always told that I look young for my age and that I'm going to look great when I'm older, and it would be an ego-killer if someone thought I looked too old to card.

[Vel]

I'm 25 now, and I can probably count the number of times I've been asked for ID on both hands; it's usually when I get the urge to shave off the beard. A shopkeeper-friend once guessed my age to be 32 - I was 21 at the time. I don't get it, because a lot of people say I look 'youthful,' so how can I look older at the same time? Either way, I believe they're supposed to under anyone under 35-40 here.

Anyway, the very first time I got carded was on my 18th. Before that, I was buying cigarettes at the local service station without a problem (there's another amusing tale there, but perhaps another time), and there was a pub across the road from school, where I'd visit now and then - 17 at the time, never once got carded. Of course, on my 18th birthday, I went down there for a beer, and lo and behold, they asked me for ID. And of course, I didn't have any on me (no license at that point). Ended up walking the two blocks home to grab my passport.

(For the record, yes, Australia - legal age of 18.)

[Whiskey]

I've already decided on a sign to put up in the store I want to open: "Please have your ID out and ready, EVERYONE purchasing liquor WILL be carded, REGARDLESS of age."

put it above this

[taxguykarl]

The real winners are the ones who buy the stuff on their 21st birthday and then get pissy because you card

On my big 19 (the age at that time), I entered a bar just after midnight. The bouncer checked the DOB and then his watch and wished me a happy birthday.

That guy would love it here in Indiana. By law everyone must show ID to purchase alcohol

At the tax office, nothing (e.g. returns, customer files, checks) changes hands without an ID, no exceptions, no kidding. Still we get some who forgot or "left my purse in the car".

[PepperElf]

Nineteen out of twenty over twenty-five are tickled pink to get carded.

hell yeah.
i'm 37 and take that as a compliment!

[ShootMePlease]

I always carry my DL on me, whether I'm driving or not. You never know when you might need identification. Furthermore, I'm damn near 40 and I practically kiss anyone who cards me. I consider it flattering

[Racket_Man]

On my big 19 (the age at that time), I entered a bar just after midnight. The bouncer checked the DOB and then his watch and wished me a happy birthday., no kidding. :

you must be like 3 years older than me

when I turned 21 (a holiday weekend Memorial Day) I was pissed that I did not get carded even ONCE.

[Talendor]

I always get carded no matter what I purchase (cigars, lotto tickets or alcohol) except for one place. The only reason why I don't get carded there is because I am a regular at that particular package store. A lot of shopkeeps and clerks guess that I am between 16-19 (I get the 16 one when I shave and get my haircut). I consider it a compliment considering I'm 27.

[Andara Bledin]

Back in the time when stores would cell cigs to kids with notes from parents and their ID, I used to go pick up smokes for my mother all the time. They almost never asked me for note or ID, and I was around 10 or so.

When I hit my teens and things were tightening up a bit (still not how they are today), I still picked up smokes for mom, and even places I'd never been before just handed them over.

The last time I ever picked up smokes was for my brother. I spent an extra five minutes leaving to find my ID. This is rare; I nearly always know precisely where my ID is, but not that day. My brother told me to just go and it wasn't like they were going to card me, but I refused, since I was driving, so I needed my ID anyway. I got to pull an "I told you so" on my brother and report that the store did indeed card me for his smokes.

Then there was the time I went to a bar on my then-hubby's birthday. I was underage, but I was also one of the designated drivers. They didn't even ask me. They did, however, ask the other DD, who for reasons I will never understand didn't have her license on her. O.o

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[underemployeed]

My DM was in the other day and told me to be swiping IDs rather than just looking at them and pressing the override button because some the police were doing alcohol sweeps and sending in minors and people were getting busted. So I went from being careful to outright prick, my favorite was
sc: "I'm 32!!! this is bullshit, I come in here all the time"
me: "I'm sorry but our policy is you have to look above 30"
sc: "its in the car!"
me: "I'll wait"
sc runs to car comes back in pissed
me: "Can you please take it out?"
sc: "You can see the fucking date right there"
me: "Thats nice, however I have been instructed by my district manager an hour ago to swipe IDS"

..... I mean really I don't give a shit I'm no ruining my life because people can't be bothered to carry ID, if your make me remember you for good reasons of being interesting you might avoid it, if you make my life hell where I want you to be out ASAP Ill be nice. Also, it really depends what it is, I'm more relaxed on smokes because the penalties aren't as severe.

Actually, almost forgot about how I hate the "but you didn't ID the younger looking guy before me!" this was at walmart for when I was getting ammo and the clerk responded "But I know which bullets he is going to want as soon as I see him turn the isle"

[Kristev]

Well, I don't know how you'd swipe my passport, because that is my I. D., but then again, I don't by alcohol anymore.

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

I always like to have my ID on me. Is it morbid that I do so because I'd want to be properly identified by the hospital if something happens to me? Not that it would help with diagnoses or anything, but it'd be nice.

Mbuh. I grew up in a country in which it is felony for any person over the age of 14 to not be carrying Id. Nobody complains... and it makes age-check easier.