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Hello, I am of legal drinking age and I have the under 21 Texas ID still because it has not expired yet.I need to know of good safe restaurants that will serve me in Carlsbad and Alamogordo.I am thinking of Pepper's in Alamogordo but idk if they will serve me. I have had two places in New Mexico that refused to give me a drink on previous trips due to my ID.Thanks in advance.
I gotta call BS on this one. I don't know of any 21 year old who would keep his old ID just because it hasn't expired.
And then come here to ask where he could get served without getting busted?
It's not stupid to card everyone. It is easier to have one policy and safer to protect your investment. A liquor license in NM is very expensive. $250k +. That is a lot of money to have tied up in a license and take the chance of it being pulled by the state.
It is stupid to card an 80 year old. There is no other word for it
Doing so may indeed be the best of some bad options for a business wanting to protect themselves, but that doesn't change it's being stupid. Easy does not equal smart.
For what its worth, we could posit that this stupidity is the result of our foolishly over litigious and overly regulated society, rather than reflecting the preferences of the liquor vendors. I could go along with that
It's not stupid to card everyone. It is easier to have one policy and safer to protect your investment. A liquor license in NM is very expensive. $250k +. That is a lot of money to have tied up in a license and take the chance of it being pulled by the state.
A liquor license is indeed expensive, but it's just not common sense to card anybody who is very obviously many, many years over 21!
I can see carding anyone under 40 years of age, because some people do look really young for their ages. But you won't find a 50+ year old who looks 21 unless it's <TIC>Joan Rivers</TIC>.
I was in line behind a guy in a Walgreens that had to be 80 years old. Clerk carded him! He was so surprised he had trouble finding his license. The older I get, the stupider the world seems to appear.
It all comes down to company policy and how stupid the manager wants to be about it. In general, chain stores and restaurants seem more likely to have strict policies and a disinclination to trust servers'/clerks' judgement.
OP, get a new license and save yourself the hassle. You'll get enough unavoidable aggravation in life without having to put up with that which you can avoid.
While it is legal to sell alcohol to someone with an under 21 ID but a birth date showing they are now legal, most places won't!
I've seen several places that have it posted as such.
whats the rationale behind that rule?I think its incredibly stupid
Is it legal to bring beer over the state line into New Mexico?
I don't see why not if its for personal consumption. Never worried about it myself, driving from NM to AZ and back a lot. Its not like its a dry state or something.
I don't see why not if its for personal consumption. Never worried about it myself, driving from NM to AZ and back a lot. Its not like its a dry state or something.
Okay Thanks a lot.I may just bring a 6 pack with me
I don't know this for sure, but I sometimes have been asked my birth date which the cashier then keys into the cash register, so it may well be the sale can't be processed without that info when the UPC bar indicates it's an alcoholic beverage. Also, I have been asked for my I.D. in the past, even though it's obvious I'm older than Methuselah.
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