Sorry, but now I need BOTH I.D.s...

[Amajean]

Well I did have a customer think I was 14...I'm 21. Seriously guy, what porn store will hire a 14 year old? !

[PatchO'Black]

Oh, don't just hum it. Go ahead and break out in song, my friend!

Um...I forget the words...

[Jester]

Damn it....cause I have no idea where they ran off to.

[PepperElf]

I always secretly wish for people to get pulled over after I ask for ID and they tell me they left it at home. I mean seriously, people, why NOT carry it at all times? What if something happens to you? I want my family to be contacted if I am hurt or worse, not be Jane Doe #4815 laying in the hospital bed or morgue for who knows how long.

Exactly. Although I'm extremely forgetful and easily distracted (ADD), I can at least say I've gotten in the habit of almost always having my ID on me when I go out. I think I left it home once in the past 2 years. It's gotten to the point where, if we're going to base, my BF has stopped asking me if I had my ID on me. Cos of course I do!


Now as for being carded for booze, Mom always laughs when she gets carded. The grocery store she goes to has a "100%" policy when it comes to carding for booze. So even someone in their 70s will get carded. Actually they could have demanded Dad's ID too - I mean after Mom said it was for him - but they likely didn't feel it necessary to card another senior citizen (one who's over 80). Although in Dad's case he also had his ID on him (and his dog tags from WW2 too!)

[blas]

I don't always get carded when I buy smokes or beer.

My bf lives in a small town under 5,000 people, and he lives just blocks away from one of two only places to get such stuff. Since he can't leave the kids alone, and he doesn't smoke or walk a lot like I do, as long as it isn't cold or raining/snowing, I'll usually go for him for beer, and since their prices are a bit cheaper than where I live (about 20 miles or so north), when I need smokes or gas, I tend to go there.

Otherwise, the Kwik Trips that are both within a mile or two from my parents' place, everyone has seen me there many a time after work.

[Teskeria]

I miss being carded

Only once have I EVER been carded (including when I was underage and grabbed my dad's preferences) and that was a place where they did 100% carding. I look the same at 'deck of cards' as I did at 17.

[42_42_42]

I'm almost 35. It's only been a couple of years since I've been asked what High School I attend and my fellow college students are always shocked to find out I'm of an age of most of the professors not the students! I still get carded for things you have to be 18 for because people aren't sure if I'm 18+ or not, which I totally don't get. Yeah, I look younger than my age, but not that much younger!

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Interesting tidbit about Wisconsin law, it would be perfectly legal for it to be sold to the hubby w/o the wife's ID even after being told it was for her. It's ok for a spouse to buy the other one alcohol, even if they are below the drinking age.

On a similar note, in Wisconsin you can also go drinking while underage as long as your parent/s are the ones buying and are with you.

[Jester]

On a similar note, in Wisconsin you can also go drinking while underage as long as your parent/s are the ones buying and are with you.

Texas has a similar law, where those underaged can drink as long as they are with their parents. However, at least in Texas, establishment can still choose not to honor that law, and that is also legal. In other words, they can choose to refuse to serve anyone underaged. (I have no idea if this same provision is in the Wisconsin law.)

And naturally, every now and then, those of us living in States like Florida, which strictly prohibit ANYONE underaged from drinking AT ALL (as in, it is technically illegal in Florida for a parent to give an alcoholic beverage to their underaged child even in the privacy of their own home) get the joy of dealing with people from states like Texas and Wisconsin. It usually goes something like this....

THEM: "It's okay, they're with us."
US: "They still need ID."
THEM: "But in Texas/Wisconsin/where we're from, it's perfectly legal for children to drink with their parents."
US: "You're not there. You're here. And Florida has very different laws."

And that is how idiots I didn't have a hand in electing in places called Madison and Austin will occasionally manage to make my working life a little more hellish. Thank you loads, Madison and Austin.

Fuckers.

[Moosenogger]

Yep, I'm in Florida, too. Our alcohol laws are pretty cut and dry - no one under 21 drinks. Ever. No one can buy alcohol for a minor. Ever. If anyone who looks under 30 is seen handing over money for alcohol, or simply carrying the alcohol to the counter, they must be carded. It doesn't matter if it's, "Not for them, dude!" they HAVE to be carded. Hence why I had to card the wife after I found out the wine was for her.

[Argabarga]

Thank you loads, Madison and Austin.

Fuckers.

THat last line made it seem like you were scolding a pair of very-underage kids for trying to sneak in to your establishment..... because I've dealt with wayyyyyyy too many Austin's and Madison's who didn't think the rules applied to THEM either

And why do so many people think that the rules of their state apply when they aren't there? As if the law goes with them like their soiled luggage?

[MadMike]

Yep, I'm in Florida, too. Our alcohol laws are pretty cut and dry - no one under 21 drinks. Ever.

It's the same in PA. We have some of the strictest alcohol laws in the country. They had signs up at one of the local distributors warning people that they could get arrested for buying for minors, even if they were your own kids.

[Jester]

And why do so many people think that the rules of their state apply when they aren't there? As if the law goes with them like their soiled luggage?

It's not just people from other states; as I've stated here many times before, people from other countries can be just as bad on this issue if not worse. It's the whole "But where I'm from" train of thought, which unfortunately derailed 18 miles back, and is currently engulfed in flames from which no passengers survived.

Here is the general scenario: they order a drink, I ask them for ID, they provide an ID. Do they provide an ID I can take under the laws I work under? Of course not. They pull out a National ID Card from Goblowagoatistan, a Health Card from Youvegottobekiddingmeislavia, or a school ID from, oh, I dunno, France.

ME: "I'm sorry, but under Florida law, I can only accept a driver's license or a passport."
THEM: "But this is all I have with me."
ME: "I'm sorry, but as I said, under Florida law, I can only accept a driver's license or a passport."
THEM: "But this makes no sense. In my country, this is a good ID."
ME: (what I actually say) "I understand that, but as I said, under Florida law, I can only accept a driver's license or a passport for alcoholic purchases."
ME: (what I WANT to say) "Listen, fucktard, I don't think you're listening to what I'm saying, so I'll make it really easy on your puny brain. Look out there. See all those palm trees, and all those sailboats on that beautiful blue water? Does that look like your country? No? Do you know why not? Because it's not your fucking country, it's Florida. And since I work in Florida, and not in your country, I have to follow the laws of Florida. So I don't give a lab rat's overworked ass how good that ID is in YOUR country, HERE it isn't worth an over-the-hill porn star's ball sweat. So unless you have a fucking driver's license or a fucking passport, you are NOT getting a fucking drink from me! And if you don't fucking like it, take your complaint, write it out very clearly, stick a stamp on it, shove it up your ass, set it on fire, and walk your burning ass up to Tallahassee to bitch to the legislature about it, because us peons that actually work in bars and restaurants don't have a piss cup's worth of say in what the laws are."

NOTE: I am not bashing foreigners. I am bashing foreigners who do not understand that their native country's laws don't apply here. My thought process is the same for people who try similar crap, like say the Wisconsin/Texas "drinking with the parents" law, who are Americans. Hell, for anyone who tries to force their way into having me violate the alcohol laws under which I work.

I did once actually get to use one of the lines above. These two couples were in from Canada, and while it had nothing to do with IDs or alcohol laws, the two women kept saying, "Well, in Canada, we don't do it like that..." or "Well, in Toronto, we do things like this..." Finally, sick of this nonsense, as the chirpier of these two nitwits started in yet again about how "this" was just not how it was "done" in Canada, I leaned over the bar, got eye to eye with her, and said, "Darlin', look outside. Do you see that?" "Yes...." "Great. Now, let me ask you....does that look like Canada to you?!?"

HER:
HER FEMALE FRIEND:
THEIR HUSBANDS:

[EricKei]

Feel free to add Louisiana to the "parents can buy alcohol for their minor kids" list ^_^;>

[sstabeler]

In the UK, the rule is simple. the law doesn't care what you do in your own home with the beer/wine/whatever. Just shut up about it if it's for your kid. ( I think the fine is actually larger than the average annual income.)