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A couple of weeks ago and I was thrilled to get carded at 48 until I realized they could not complete the transaction until they swiped my drivers license.
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Getting carded isn't hard to take ~ when I was 29 ~ a few days after being diagnosed with "old man's disease, arthritis) I was NOT carded in Reno, but just told I had to be 21 to play the slots and told to leave. But I'm still being carded at 68~ being carded is the law no mater what Velvet Jones says. Wish people like that were just banned from decent places as they seem to think they are above others.
I was "carded" just recently, trying to buy a single bottle of Belgian beer at age 36, and was refused because I wasn't carrying any government-issued papers with my birth date on them. I took my business elsewhere rather than go home and get my passport.
I don't understand you folks who are happy to be carded -- they're not complimenting you on looking young; they're obeying an increasingly-totalitarian, zero-tolerance state that demands that people carry government-issued papers for something as innocuous as drinking a beer.
It's only humorous until your very-visibly-over-21 self is denied service.
Stores that have policies of carding anyone and everyone should be boycotted. Worse yet are the stores that demand to card everyone in the purchaser's party -- meaning that even if you've got your precious papers on you, you have to ask your friends if they're carrying theirs and have the non-papers members surreptitiously split off from you.
I've lived in the German-speaking world (the home of beer) and in Japan for many years. I've never been carded even a single time in these places. And these are two countries with nothing like the history of personal freedom that America likes to take pride in. In this case, the US could learn from its former enemies.
I don't understand you folks who are happy to be carded -- they're not complimenting you on looking young; they're obeying an increasingly-totalitarian, zero-tolerance state that demands that people carry government-issued papers for something as innocuous as drinking a beer.
If I'm with a group of people and I'm the only one getting carded then that is the bees knees right there.
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I was pity-carded at 43. My husband got carded (he was wearing shorts, t-****, and baseball cap) and the guy who carded him couldn't believe that my husband was actually 44. My husband then turned around and started taunting me so the guy then said, what the heck, let me see your id, too. So, yeah, I'd call it a pity-carding. Ha! Where I live, I'm carded all the time because of the laws. Doesn't bother me at all.
54, buying wine at the grocery store ... I texted my sister about it which is the only reason I remember. It was this past December. I told my sister it was my Christmas present. I obviously look WAY WAY WAY over 21, but the clerk said they card anyone they think might be <40. I'll take it!
A couple of weeks ago and I was thrilled to get carded at 48 until I realized they could not complete the transaction until they swiped my drivers license.
Blueherons, could they have been pulling a fast one on you with this? There's no way that a liquor shop has the capability to "swipe" every possible kind of identification, up to and including passports from foreign countries. Unless they want to run everything through a scanner (and, in doing so, have a record of the names of everyone who buys alcohol from them, which would be absolutely terrifying.
I still get carded and I'm in my 40s. It's been awhile since I tried to buy alcohol and I think the signs say they card anybody <35. I'm not sure if that's everywhere though.
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