Getting IDed for alcohol and other vices

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This is kind of self absorbed, but I'm feeling good.
Went to the liquor store today to stock up for a party and got IDed.
Then went to buy cigarettes (a damn nasty habit) and got IDed.
To provide some context, I live in Ontario, Canada, where you need to be 19 to purchase the aforementioned vices. I'm 31.
It just made me kind of happy.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 8 March 2003 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

And I invite you to share similar stories of inflated self worth.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last night a really (I mean REALLY) hot chick winked at me. Twice. That made my night.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Not since the last time I was in the States. I get ID'd all the time in the States. I think it's a form of supermarket checkout boy flirting "Oh, goodness, but you look so young!" and they do it cause they know it makes you feel good.

Or maybe they're stalkers and they're just trying to get yer home address off yer drivers liscence.

― kate (suzy), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no vices.

Unless you count masturbation.

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess you don't have to be IDed for that.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

ha! i thought this thread would be about young people getting id's and kicked out and stuff....i friends keep getting kicked out of clubs (in the states) for drinking underage

― liz p.., Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

How old are you, right hand? Can you prove it?!

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

what!
the trick is you dance with the hand that they stamp saying you can't drink down and away in your pocket or something

― liz.. p, Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna to thread! She is (I think) 23, and gets it frequently in pubs/bars (you need to be 18 here) - she is small and cute and does look even younger than she is.

Being 43 and balding, it is some little while since this has happened to me...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

at the 12-foot lizards club they sometimes ask me if i can prove i am 214867581623817629485

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 8 March 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you trying to suggest that you don't look it?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 March 2003 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Buying cigarettes is worse. It hasn't happened much (not since I started waving my passport at the woman in the newsagents everytime I went). You only need to be 16 in Britain to buy tobacco products. It happens to me more in shops than in bars

― Anna (Anna), Saturday, 8 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I get it too obviously, but my friends work in most of the local off licences so not too often. One time recently they point blank refused to sell me the beer even after I showed them my licence and I was very indignant and really having a go and then I left and they said "you left your licence on the counter". I had to laugh really.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 8 March 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 29 and a couple of years ago I got asked for ID when buying cigarettes (you have to be 16).

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 8 March 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

My problem is the photo on my licence is me with a shaved head and it really looks nothing like me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 8 March 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I never get carded buying alcohol, but I do get carded getting into bars pretty frequently. I'm 35, and while I look fairly young, I don't look under 21.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

America is a bit ID mad though. Over here you don't get carded unless you really do look underage.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Some places in Minnesota don't accept US passport as proof, which is very annoying. They want you to have a driving license or state ID, neither of which I have for obvious reasons. I feel like yelling 'what do you do about the other tourists?'

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

This question came from the cosmic unconsciencness.
I was indeed IDed last night for the first time since moving to Toronto.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to see American Pie with a nameless rock critic and he actually got carded by the ticket seller (mind you they were carding most people) even though he was 34-35 at the time. He was aghast and I thought he should be flattered.

― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 8 March 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

And they were OK with the nameless ID?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 8 March 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

That would be great wouldn't it, if there was a nameless rock critic that only was seen in public with a cape and mask and no one ever knew who they were or where they came from and they performed the most amazing feats of band cross referencing and made many VH1 appearances in front of a sparkly curtain with lions and flaming hoops around them and a BBC crew made a documentary about the nameless rock critic but everytime they came close to finding out his realy identidy either the camera battery runs out or El Duce dies.

*sigh*

― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 8 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

America is a bit ID mad though. Over here you don't get carded unless you really do look underage.

Actually, at the DC clubs I go to they make a point of carding everyone. (This is partly due to college students trying to drink using fake IDs, partly due to community anti-fun activists who would happily parlay underage drinking into a reason to shut down these clubs.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 8 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I got carded last night, which in itself isn't unusual, but it was funny because the guy clearly didn't believe I was 21. I was carded with malice! He also underpoured, the bastard.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I've been carded that often, even when I was underage. Unless it's at a club where they card everybody, but yeah not at many bars or liquor stores, no.

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I mostly only drink "where everybody knows your name" so never get carded. Here I know our enforcers (Texas Alcholic Beverge Commission) are so gung ho about ticketing places that most stores/bars card everyone just to be on the safe side.

They tried to card me when I went to see 8 Mile but I just looked at the guy like he was insane and walked in.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I mostly only drink "where everybody knows your name"

Is your name Cliff Clavin?

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn you, you've blown my cover.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry!

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

dear manager of sainsbury's in camden
i understand that you have to protect yourselves from prosecution for selling alcohol to minors, but i am twenty-eight years old and there is absolutely no way i look any younger than twenty-five, even if you are being very very nice. when choosing which of your staff to assign the duty of hanging around the alcohol section and bugging people for their ID to, please choose someone with a fucking clue and not some twat who just wants to talk to gurls kthxbye.

― emsk ( emsk), Sunday, 21 January 2007 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

UNDER 31? WE I.D.

― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Sunday, 21 January 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

haha i've been IDed the last TWO times i tried to buy alcohol in holloway morrison's. i can't wait for ID cards because until then i don't have a lot of options re ID - no driving licence, and i'm not carrying my passport around everywhere ( = "i don't know where it is")

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Sunday, 21 January 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't take the Sainsburys one to heart, I'm 23 and recently got id-ed for ginger beer in the brighton branch

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Sunday, 21 January 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

i can't wait for ID cards because until then i don't have a lot of options re ID

Yes, I also look forward to the UK becoming a police state if it means you can buy Lambrini without getting hassled, Lex.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Find your passport you fool!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, there's no such thing as a non-driver's ID now?

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

id-ed for ginger beer

precisely how stupid were they?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Lex could easily get a proof of age card and not damn the rest of Britain to the incipient fascist tendencies of a series of illiberal Home Secretaries.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been IDed in London for years, but I often get asked when I visit friends in Brighton. I wonder why this is.

― chap (chap), Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sneaky bastards are finally catching on that I dyed this gray into my beard and the wrinkles around my eyes were carefully cut in with my pen-knife. (Hurt like a bitch, but I'll do anything for a drink.) Meanwhile, 10th grade is scary!

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

(quite amused at the fate of Britain in Lex's hands)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yeah, I was just gonna say!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

i get IDed a lot, but mostly by older and/or middle aged people who have forgotten what an 18 year old looks like.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a couple of kids getting id'd when trying to buy cigarettes the other day. The conversation went something like:

youth: (nonchalant) ten benson please mate.
shopkeeper: do you have any ID?
youth: fuck off! I'm twenty-one! course I don't have ID!
shopkeeper: ...you know, saying 'fuck off' is not the most sensible thing to do in this situation.

― ampersand, spades, semicolon (cis), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Blue Jam wine-store sketch to thread!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am tickled when I get ID'ed at Whole Foods, but it insults me beyond all measure when my own fucking mail program asks me for my password several times throughout the day. And it's no good going to your settings to extend the time between password prompts. They say you can do that, but THEY LIE.
I feel disrespected—like if I had higher rank, this would never happen to me.
I feel like that congresswoman who caused all the fuss at the Capitol last year. HOW DARE YOU QUESTION ME?????

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

i just hit 30 and my days of being carded show no end in sight. I resigned myself to it in my 20's but it's becoming annoying lately, yet I know the day I start savoring it it's going to stop so whatevs.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

My son came out to eat with us last night and didn't get carded for the first time. He's 22, and thinks they didn't card because of a new beard. I think it's because he was with us fossils. In Wyoming minors can be served if they're with their parents.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I just take out my ID and give it to them without having to be asked. Makes it easier for everyone. I'll be 30 next month.

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

i was SO ANNOYED. he kept being all "aaaahhh, you should be flattered then!" but no, it's not FLATTERING, it's just IRRITATING. you just fucked up my smooth well-planned journey home into evening, you gurning, dead-eyed moron, and i have been fighting my way through the camden punkgothemokids all day and i want to go home. i mean it was ok, we went to tesco in hackney instead where they didn't bat an eyelid, but it really *really* pissed me off, more than i would ever have thought it would. this prick was really obviously only IDing girls & women and didn't seem to ever have met any at all in his sorry little life - some of them were around 20 and some were closer to 40.

he tried to give me the "social responsibility" spiel but it's such bullshit: if sainsbury's gave a toss about social responsibility they wouldn't be selling tobacco, or pot noodle, or chicken fillet lollipops (whatever the fuck they are, i don't think i really want to know). or alcohol to anyone, whatever their age.

but in the end, i win, because he works in sainsbury's and i don't.

can i take a photocopy of my passport into their office and leave it there for future reference?

xpost i don't carry id! i shouldn't fucking NEED any id! i don't HAVE any id, other than my passport, and what sort of fool would carry their passport around all the time?

― emsk ( emsk), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

In yet another embarassing high school moment, when I went to see Star Wars Ep. 1, I got carded, even though it was a PG-13 movie. I tried to cooly explain that I drove to the theater, thank you.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even carded at the drive-thru's anymore. That's when I finally realized I wasn't young anymore.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

but in the end, i win, because he works in sainsbury's and i don't.

Hurrah for superiority complexes!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

grow a beard, you won't get carded. this works even better if you're a girl, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

I used to get carded a lot - I look nowhere near my age - but in the last 5 years or so it's dwindled :( I've been carded at clubs a few times recently but I think that was more of a "we'll card everyone" thing.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for superiority complexes!

haha yeah i know. but saturday afternoon, i know where i'd rather be. no actually, fuckit, whatever time of day or week, i don't think i could deal with working in a supermarket. and i don't have to.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 22 January 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

in chicago now, with daley's quest to close down the bars (there are roughly half as many taverns in the city now as there were a decade ago), if you don't have an id you won't get served. it doesn't matter if you're 80. when the cops raid the place they card everyone, if you don't have an id on you then the bar's liquor licence can be yanked immediately.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Do you people all have permission to be on the Internet?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

So let me get this straight - do you have to tip the guy who IDs you or not?

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

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