Getting carded as an adult.

Granted I'm not a very old person--24 years old--so getting carded is somewhat routine.
I'm in Rhode Island visiting family, and my license is a NY state license.
First liquor store: "Do you have anything else as ID?" Uhh, no, this is my license, I'm a NYC resident, I have a credit card with the same name... "This doesn't look like you, sorry, I can't sell to you."

BUT!!!!
The second liquor store, also skeptical, scanned the ID with their barcode scanner and informed me that the information on the front of the license did not match the results of the barcode scan. The liquor store manager was a real dick about it--"Sir, do you know whose ID this is?" uhhh, it's mine asshole, the DMV gave it to me when my RI license expired. So now I guess I have to call the DMV and see why my license scans incorrectly??

END RESULT: no beer and the fear that my ID is all fucked up.

I'm 28 and regularly get carded at bars and shit.
lol australian liquor licencing paranoia i guess.

about a yr ago my gf and her friend got carded when they went to see a movie restricted to ppl over 15. they were 27!

i bought beer the other day and was digging in my wallet for it anyway so i pulled it out and the girl was like "oh, haha, i never card people." i admonished her that i could have been a cop. lol.

I was with my 42 year old friend when he bought a six-pack the other day. He got carded.

Carding policies now are dictated more by fears of sting operations targeting vendors than anything remotely like common sense.

at bars a lot of the time i think it's just bouncers gauging inebriation

that sucks ian

you look pretty young tho

hell you are pretty young

i dont get carded all that much but ari does

for me it all depends. obviously i don't get carded at the places i go regularly-- they fuckin know me. but sometimes people are totally idiotic about this shit, like in California right now there's a new law: YOU CAN'T BUY BOOZE WITH YOUR U.S. PASSPORT. why? because U.S. passports don't have your eye color or height on them. so for a while there, when i was wading through bureaucratic red tape in PA b/c of an old violation, all i had was my passport. so if i wanted some two-buck Chuck or Red Oval or whatever, i had to have a friend buy it for me.

fucking ridiculous.

i am almost never carded in NYC. i can understand someone in RI being wary of an out of state license, for sure.
But what worries me is that when my license is scanned it apparently turns up info different than the info on the front of the license???

anyway, usually i think it's kind of flattering, especially if it's a girl who couldn't be more than 18 asking me.

i mean... i dunno, my license photo was taken less than two years ago but apparently doesn't look enough like me?

Safeway in the US apparently won't even accept passports as proof of age for buying wine etc - wtf? I don't drive so no licence either.

I never got ID'd in the UK (or if I did, laughing it off worked) but I thought that over here they just card everyone in bars.
Although:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/11/morrisons-wine-ban-mother

This is just one person at one supermarket in the UK, but shows how paranoid stores can be. Asda is pretty bad too imo.

xp re passports! So that's why. How shitty.

yuh that sux ian. once i was pulled over by a cop and i didn't have my driver's licence on me. and the guy radioed my details to whoever and he came back and started accusing me of not having a drivers licence (when i did). He got totally angry but after a few minutes let me go. It was pretty weird!

I had no idea that IDs could be scanned at registers. That's kind of big brotherish.

Not accepting passports as proper ID is some serious bullshit. Passports are universally accepted form of identification used by all governments in existence, but not good enough to buy a can of beer at the corner store???

I got carded at a supermarket not long ago, and I'm 41.

(Needless to say, it made my day).

i've not gotten carded like twice in the 5 months that i've been 21. makes me feel good, but i look like i'm 18 so it doesn't bother me.

I get carded when I shave. I don't when I don't. I guess I'm right on that line.

^^ that's in line with my experiences too.

The reason I've heard for passports being not acceptable is that you could swipe an older sibling's one and use it, leaving them free to use their own drivers' license legitimately. Also most low-level workers don't seem to have passports, so when they see one they squint hard.

I think it's bullshit and also WTF? Tourist revenue is very important and in a recession they should really be all about trying to find a way to accommodate obviously legitimate customers.

tbh i can sympathize with the storeowners/clerks, especially if theyve already gotten burned once--the laws are really draconian and in a lot of cases its better to just deny someone than to risk a huge fine or getting fired

well that and THIS THING IS GIVEN TO YOU BY THE FEDERAL FUCKING GOVERNMENT.

I try not to buy alcohol from low-level workers

i can sympathize but wtf i just wanted my beer ;_;

just a lil harpoon oktoberfest man, i'm not buying like a cheap handle of whiskey and a rack of natty lite.

hey what's wrong with that dood.

nothin! but just u know it's slightly more suspicious than just buying a fucking six pack of local microbrew.

As the daughter of a bar owner and the sis of a sports bar waitress, and the niece of a former vice squad head, I have no probs with booze laws but federal ID should pwn in that scenario.

I didn't drink any alcohol until I was of age - so to be nearly twice the legal age and hassled over purchases is demeaning to all parties.

does ur fam have booze

yeah i am drinking my mom's bottle of maker's tbh.

I had a permanent resident card, and before the ID requirements changed where 'must show height, weight etc', I used it as a form of ID because it had my birthday on it and I didn't have a driver's license. But it would always be this big dog and pony show with calling the shift supervisor over and 'where is this from', and 'this doesn't have your date of birth on it'...I would always get asked 'where did you get this'....UM YOUR GOVERNMENT GAVE IT TO ME AS A FORM OF IDENTIFICATION.

I found out later after immigrating that in California they want you to get a 'California ID' if you don't have a driver's license...but no-one ever said anything about it and I never knew. Probably would have saved me a whole lot of explaining. But who ever thinks that your goverment issued identification card won't cut it?

i had a friend with a california id instead of a driver's license, and she always got hassled and sometimes refused service at liquor stores because they wouldn't accept it as a government id. very frustrating because the entire point of getting one is to have a legal id for such situations! but this was in massachusetts, maybe they're more used to them in state.

I was advised to get MN ID even though I do not live there. My passport is issued in London so that explains - perhaps a simpler solution is to put height and eye colour on passports of those over 21?

explains my situ sufficiently to most cashiers or supervisors, that is...

seeing as driver's licenses are the most commonly forged type of ID, maybe they should stop accepting those too. maybe we should go ahead and give prohibition another try.

hell no. let's just abolish the laws.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1915000/images/_1916349_drink_boy300.jpg

I turned 21 in January, and I live in NYC now after growing up in Missouri, so I have a Missouri license. When they were taking the picture for my license, someone to my right distracted me, so in my picture I'm not quite looking straight at the camera. I get turned down at bars frequently saying "you're not 21" when my ID in several places says I am 21...Quite annoying.

yeah, if my license was fake it'd be totally different--"okay, busted."

oh man, this makes me very happy these days, but it's really just la bouncers being retarded

See that Morrisons thing wouldnt happen here because we dont sell alcohol in our supermarkets - the bottle shop is a seperate store to the side. I was in awe of the 2L bottles of shite cider on the shelves right there in the aisle in a Safeways.

But i have been in a bottle shop in perth that carded me - I had ID - and then wouldnt sell to me anyway because my friend with me who was over 18 had no ID on him. Same argument "you could be buying it for him". I was like "wtf, he's 24, who cares". But in Perth they're weirdly very strict.

I was carded well into my 30s because I look a lot younger than I am, but I'd be apalled if someone rejected a PASSPORT as ID. :/ What the hell do they think people who don't drive are supposed to use.

From that article about Morrisons:
The assistant said: 'You could be buying the wine for them. It's the policy - I have to see everyone's ID to make sure they are all over 18'

Yeah I was shopping w/my father recently in a Co-op (UK) and he bought a bottle of wine for himself and the checkout guy turns to me and IDs me, and I am over a decade above the drinking age here (and I look it too), so after some confusion and some "uh I don't really have any ID" I found my provisional driving licence and it was OK, but my dad was raging at the poor checkout guy for following the shop's rules, like what about little kids who can't be left alone and have to come to the shop with parents, does that mean a single parent doesn't get to drink until the kid is old enough to be left at home?

i have never had any problems using my uk passport (which doesn't state height or eye colour) in california. i'm pretty sure i've even used my uk driving license once or twice too, which is basically just this incomprensible sequence of characters in 6pt helvetica.

I was in a bar in LA in January that had a sign up saying UK Passports will not be accepted as ID, luckily I didn't actually get carded so it didn't matter. I did forget my passport when I went to a gig at Henry Fonda theatre and couldn't get a beer.

The situation is a bit weird in the UK now, when I was a teenage drunk getting booze in supermarkets was easier than getting served in pubs, now at 33 I get ID'd in Asda, but never in pubs.

i don't mind getting carded. but it's nice when i don't.

when i was living in western MA, i went to this beer bar that had a good reputation among beer nerds, one of those places that has like 30+ taps. i went w/ some friends who were visiting from out of town, we went at like 4pm on a saturday.

i had my ohio ID, the bartender (who was probably younger than me, i was 25 at the time), asked for additional ID, which was fine, except he was a total dick about it. gave my debit card, and he asked for something else. it was summer so i didn't have my wallet - just my ID + debit card. tbf i understand bars wanting additional ID for out-of-state driver's licenses but a third ID? wtf?

he goes on to ask me just about every single detail on my license, asks what my fucking astrological sign is, and has me sign my name three times on a piece of paper to make sure it matches the signature on my license.

was ready to give me my beer, but after all that he kicked us out b/c my wife didn't bring her ID w/ her (tho she wasn't ordering beer).

ha, "it was summer, so i didn't have my ID" = i was wearing shorts and didn't want to carry a bulky wallet in my shorts' pocket

Jeez. One reason to be glad for all this gray hair.

I got carded twice this year and I was fucking STOKED

From this point on, if I ever get carded, I'm just going to assume someone's trying to start some shit with me.

i haven't had any ID for a year and although I've been asked for some on numerous occasions, I've always managed to "uh, I'm 25" my way past it.

Although, having said that, I was carded for cigarettes a little while ago. He wouldn't back down so I just went next door instead.