Have you been asked to show your ID lately before you can buy a beer?

9 comments

• steve229

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  15 years ago

  Sadly, the days of getting carded have passed me by. The old time I show an ID now is when I'm trying to get the senior discount.
• casualguy

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  15 years ago

  I was actually quite surprised I was being asked for my ID last night. Maybe she thought I was suspicious sitting down at the bar right next to the 21 sign they had posted and was wondering if I was a cop. I sat at a table for 5 minutes with no service so I moved to the bar.
• shadowcat

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  15 years ago

  I'm 67 now but got ID'd a year ago buying a pack of cigarettes at a gas station in Augusta GA. My usual grocery store will ask for my birth date when buying cigarettes but I do not get ID'd unless I purchase booze. The liquor stores that I frequent NEVER ask for my ID. The places that do this are doing so because they have been busted for selling to underage people. It is managements way of preventing this from happening again. NO EXCEPTIONS! Strip clubs that I have been to will check for ID's at the door if there is any question about your age. The over 18 but under 21 are admitted but have to wear a glow in the dark wrist band. I have been ID'd by strippers that don't believe how old I am. A long long time ago on my buddies 21st birthday his dad took us to Vegas. He looked very boyish but never got ID'd for buying a drink but when he won a small jack pot on a slot machine, they checked.
• jablake

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  15 years ago

  Shades of Diamonds? Always IDs everyone it seems. I believe youngsters have been makeup-ed to look old so everyone gets carded no matter how old.
• robofan

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  15 years ago

  In my local area the police are known to run sting operations all the time. The have undercover people who are under age but look older go into a store or bar and try to purchase alcohol. If they get served the police move in and ticket the place for selling alcohol to a minor. Due to the number of sting operations many places have developed a policy of carding everyone regardless of how old they are or look.
• DandyDan

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  15 years ago

  I'm not as old as the rest of you, but I got carded last week trying to buy beer at a different store than the usual one. Then again, cops were there at the time, so maybe that was it. I also got carded several weeks ago at a restaurant I was eating at, but I'm told that's standard operating procedure there.
• MisterGuy

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  15 years ago

  I've only been asked for ID when entering a few MA strip clubs in recent months. It seemed like they were just carding everyone at the time though. I didn't know that McD's had "senior prices". Their prices aren't low enuff already? lol...
• casualguy

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  15 years ago

  I've used my drivers license so much, it has separated into two halves. Lol, maybe I should ask which part of my license they want to see. I wonder if the DMV would replace it free of charge? They made it defective.
• Clubber

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  15 years ago

  I would bet I've not shown an ID for age verification more than a dozen times in my life. Ironically, the first time I was asked, I was already 21, and I'd been places where I had to be older.