Interesting ID SCs

[Amajean]

Okay so here I am going to just post the random bs I have to put up with in asking for ID. That is outside of the jokingly no or whatever. You need to by law be 18 to be in our store.

Here are some to start with:

Emancipated Minor=MINOR!
Girl and Guy enter store, everyone is busy so I go to them when I am free.

Me: May I see IDS?
Girl to SC: I'm an emancipated minor.
ME: I am hoping that she may mean 18+ or something Okay, I need to see ID.
SC: I'm an emancipated minor.
ME: I need to see ID.
SC: I'm an emancipated minor.
ME: How old are you?
SC: I turn 18 next month.
Me: You can't be in here.
SC: I'm an emancipated minor.
Me: By LAW you have to be 18 to be in here. It doesn't matter if you are an emancipated minor.
SC: *gets huffy and leaves* guy with her after producing ID leaves without anything after about 10.


YES, THIS MEANS YOU
Young couple comes in, I head over. Again, the SC is the girl.
Me: May I see IDs please?
SC: ID?
Me: Yes
SC: For both of us?
Me: Yeah.
Guy darts out and never comes back. SC hands over ID huffily. BARELY 18. Lady, bite me.

And your point?
A group of four guys come in and I ask for ID.
SC: Yeah we just came down from Seattle. Blah Blah. BLAH!
Me: Okay (..)
One guy doesn't hand me anything. I hate this, they never have a thing, but expect me to let them in.
Me: Can I see ID?
Guy: I don't have it. But I'm 18.
Me: I have no way to verify that, I can't let you stay.
SC: But he's 18.
ME: I can't verify that.
SC: Can we just show him something? It will only be three minutes.
ME: (snappy) NO.

More to come later, this is driving me nuts.

[ShinyGreenApple]

People who are JUST 18 are the absolute worst about showing ID. There's no magic sign that goes on your forehead when you hit that elusive number. I'm nearly 29 and still get carded, but I don't bitch about it.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Yeah what annoys me the most are the people who are just going to grab one thing (alcohol/cigs) so they just bring in what they're going to be paying with (a wad of bills/twenty/credit card) and nothing else.

Seriously? You know you're going into the store to buy an age restricted product yet you leave everything except payment in the car. Eff you.

[Amajean]

Porn stores are no exception. There's even a sign outside saying be prepared to show ID. Then there's the people who complain that they weren't carded. :eyeroll:

[Lace Neil Singer]

What I hate is the people who say, huffily, "But you ALWAYS ask me for ID!" Well, despite the fact that I've never seen you before in my life, if you are always asked for ID, wouldn't it be intelligent to produce it the moment you plan to buy smokes? Moron.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Or my personal favorite: "But I buy them here all the time."

There are plenty of people who I can recognize on sight because they are regulars. However, the people I recognize as regulars are nice, sociable people who take some time out of their "OMG BUSY LIFFEE" to have a pleasant chat with the minimum wage worker making sure the coffee is fresh and they get a smile. They ask about my writing/life and are genuinely interested when I respond.

You, however, come in and bark "Marlboro Lights", bitch about producing ID, then pay and leave with no other conversation. I have no reason to remember your face, your name, your cigarette preference, or anything else that might distinguish you from the hundred or so people (not including regulars) that pass by my register every day. Get over yourself.

[XCashier]

Me: May I see IDS?
Girl to SC: I'm an emancipated minor.
ME: I am hoping that she may mean 18+ or something Okay, I need to see ID.
SC: I'm an emancipated minor.
ME: I need to see ID.
SC: I'm an emancipated minor.
ME: How old are you?
SC: I turn 18 next month.
Me: You can't be in here.
SC: I'm an emancipated minor.

"Yes, I heard you the first four times. An emancipated minor is still a minor. Minors are not allowed in here, no matter how emancipated they are. Bye-bye!"

[MoonCat]

"Yes, I heard you the first four times. An emancipated minor is still a minor. Minors are not allowed in here, no matter how emancipated they are. Bye-bye!"

Yup. This. I remember my father telling us a story once about a girl who wanted to be served in a bar that he often went to. When asked for ID, she got huffy. "I'm a married woman!" Yeah, so...? Bartender, who was no fool, still wouldn't serve her without ID.

[Seshat]

There are plenty of people who I can recognize on sight because they are regulars.

Face Blindness aka prosopagnosia is a real condition. Most people are in the 'can't recognise random strangers' category; but if you want to embarass an asshole, you can tell him you're prosopagnosic.

(I have failed to recognise my own mother. I sometimes fail to recognise the two people I live with - D less often, because he's extremely tall, and has a unique gait and stance due to spinal deformation. But you'll note that none of those traits are his face.)

Edit to add: no, I've never bothered to get officially tested. What are they going to be able to do to help me? But in the web tests - such as the ones on that page - I do show up as 'probably prosopagnosic'.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I recognise the various regulars; and they're all nice people. As for the others... well, I'm hardly going to recognise every single member of the human race who walks in thru the doors, am I?

This reminds me of something a friend of mine who used to work as a waitress told me. This guy said to her in an aggrieved voice, after she failed to remember who he was, "What do I have to do to make you remember me?" Her reply was short, and to the point. "Tip me £50." XD

[Peppergirl]

I don't understand people like this. There's simply no need to get so shitty about a simple thing like that.

When I turned 21, I was pregnant with my second son, but went to the store and intentionally bought beer anyway just to get carded. I was so excited. I gave the beer to my (now ex) husband, but was just so jazzed to have finally crossed that milestone to be able to purchase it legally.

Nowadays I still get excited when I occasionally get carded, but only because I'm an old woman and I take it as a compliment.

[Jester]

I can't tell you how often I deal with this nonsense: "Do you remember us? We were here last year!" Yes, and since then I've dealt with thousands upon thousands of tourists, and, added to my propensity for drinking gallons upon gallons of alcohol, that makes remembering a tourist from A YEAR AGO a bit tough on the ole noggin. Not that I have the best memory anyway, but these people are just utterly ridiculous.

As for being carded, I got carded the other day at the grocery store for beer. I'm still 42. Sweeeeeet!

[Beckpatton]

Once I turned 18 (legal drinking/smoking/clubbing age in Oz) I couldn't WAIT to get carded! I finally didn't have to panic while waiting in line anymore as I was LEGAL and they couldn't say no!

Now I'm 34 and occasionally get carded, I am still more than happy to show it! Thank you for thinking I don't look old enough!!

Geez is it that hard really? and 9/10 times it's the people of legal age who put up the most stink!! The underagers just walk away defeated.. What's the point?

[XCashier]

As for the others... well, I'm hardly going to recognise every single member of the human race who walks in thru the doors, am I?

Exactly. I don't remember every single person I've met in my life, and I'm sure if you asked these SCs, they wouldn't, either. Yet they kick up the biggest fuss about you not remembering them, because they are just sooooo wonderful and spectacular and memorable, how dare you even suggest that they're just part of the crowd!

[Primer]

Back in the dark ages, when the legal age was 18, at midnight I made my then BF walk me in the front door of a bar, and I MADE the door person card me! When I was 17 people told me I looked 21. When I was 21, people kept telling me I looked 17. Was I ever snotty about it? Not even once! I think if anyone carded me now, I'd tip them $10 on my drink!