Milestone??

[ewx]

I got asked for ID while buying wine in Sainsbury's last night. That's never happened before. (Eventually he let me have the wine anyway, my complete bogglement apparently being convincing.)

[Poll #753206]

Comments

[numberland.livejournal.com]

The one and only time I've been IDed was also in Sainsburys, I think I was 23 at the time. I waved my university card at them as I had no other form of ID and since it showed I had matriculated 5 years previously they were satisfied.

[claroscuro.livejournal.com]

I ticked both I do and I don't for the second question - because I carry ID about half the time...

[nunfetishist.livejournal.com]

I didn't get asked for ID when buying alcohol on my 17th birthday, but I did on my 18th.

[emperor]

I still carry my "proof of age" card from when I turned 18, but a) the scheme was discontinued some time ago b) it's almost unrecognisable c) the card is very worn.

[imc.livejournal.com]

[X] I am old enough to buy alcohol, but never do anyway.

Though I do almost always have (the picture-card bit of) my driving licence with me anyway.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I say 'never' but actually I got carded on our honeymoon [I was 30], when my passport was handily a couple of feet away in our hotel room, but I didn't bother going to fetch it as one drink with a meal didn't seem all that important. This wasn't because I looked under 21 but because US [state?] law apparently requires IDing up to 30 anyway. Ridiculous.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I stopped getting ID'd when I was about 16...

[gerald_duck]

I've never bought alcohol for my own consumption, but I've bought it for others on occasion without getting asked for ID.

…even when I was seventeen, in school uniform, and buying a drink for my teacher whom they'd just refused to serve without ID.

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

I once presented my driving license when Ewan got carded. That's the extent of my experience with proof of age; I just always have my driving license on me.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I don't buy alcohol, but if I did it would be very surprising to be asked for ID at my age!

The last time I was checked was about 5 years ago at a filling station when the cashier refused to turn on the pump in case I was under 16. People that short-sighted shouldn't be allowed to work in filling-stations without wearing glasses.

[aendr.livejournal.com]

I got IDed lots for years, mainly because I'm short I think. The trouble was, I was usually buying a soft drink!

I even got IDed by someone younger than me... but as my cousin was the manager's girlfriend, I got free drinks all night anyway (soft ones, as per usual). The bartender was then made to walk me home and finally beleived I was older than him when he tried to wow me (in the 4th year of physics at IC) with quantum physics (when he'd done 1 course in it and was a 1st year at a lesser place).

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

I was 17 for the first year of university, and never got carded (despite, with honest retrospect, looking if anything rather younger than that at the time). I suspect that the fact that I was always obviously a bluddy schewdent hanging around with other students over-rode any other conclusions people drew.

The one occasion on which I did get carded was about five or six years later, in central london, surrounded by laughing friends who decided I should try and use my UL card. Unfortunately, in the early 90's, a card that indicated its expiry as "Mmm YY", and expired in the next century, tended to confuse people. "But October the 2nd was a couple of months ago ..."

[3c66b.livejournal.com]

Used to happen to me quite a lot in the UK, but the last time was a year ago in Canada.

I almost always just boggle at them until they give in. In the US I did once have to produce my conference badge with `Dr' on it, having no other way of arguing that I was obviously over 21.

[armb.livejournal.com]

When I was 16 I was told "you might be 18" when other members of the group I was with were being told they were definitely under 18 and should leave (so I left too) (I suspect our real offense was using the pool table for too long and not buying enough, though the guy who asked us to leave wasn't the one who had happily served us in the first place).
And when I was 17 I was with a group at an 18th birthday asked to leave a pub because some of us were underage, though I was actually drinking Coke at the time. (In fact I think everyone who was actually underage was drinking soft drinks, although one had his own bottle of vodka to add to it, so the moral high ground was rather limited. But it was time to move to another pub anyway.)
Can't remember being asked since.

[lnr]

I've only just taken to carrying ID around. Mostly because The Soul Tree have been a bit arsey about letting *anyone* in without ID, regardless of appearance. I do rather hate the proliferation of bits of plastic in my wallet, but the photocard of my (provisional:-) driving licence isn't too inconvenient. Poor Mike needs to take his passport, and is rather more likely than me to be IDed!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Yes, I get IDed, but I never have ID on me, and I'm usually able to get the alcohol anyway by arguing/sweet talking/looking confused then happy.

[perdita-fysh.livejournal.com]

We got asked for ID going into a nightclub in Canada last year and, as we were unaware at that point that it is a standard requirement over there to carry two forms of ID all the time for that kind of thing, we were absolutely made up! I think our general attitude "No really, he's 40. Ask him about the 1960's. He saw the moon landings on tv you know!!" plus the fact that is was only 9:30pm and the club was totally empty swayed the doorman to eventually let us in. He did double check on the moon landings though ("So what year was that?" rapid fire stylee).

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

If I plan to buy alcohol, I assume I will be ID'd, so always bring my passport.

Thus, my passport is a lot more battered than most people's, but hey, it makes me look well-travelled...

[naath.livejournal.com]

I usually have my driving licence with me. But I don't recall ever being asked for ID.

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Beards, the true way to look like a child of the 1970s.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't mind, but a few months back when buying a coach ticket to Cambridge in Wallace Arnold's in Bradford the assistant on the till asked me if I'd got an over-50 travel card! Honestly, I don't look that rough first thing in the morning, do I? Barstewards.

[claroscuro.livejournal.com]

Last time I remember being annoyed about being ID'd was when I was 20; I was in an airport, and trying to buy cigarettes. It annoyed me because it was N am and I was feeling grouchy enough without extra hassle (I was waiting for a 6 am flight), and there was so no way I looked to be under 16... I've been ID'd perhaps a couple of times since then.

My brother used to have the opposite problem - he used to get ID'd for kid's tickets, because he looked so old...

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Although I "usually" don't carry ID, I do in the USA which is the only place I've ever been carded.

[mair_in_grenderich]

last time I tried to buy alcohol in a shop (rather than a pub), it went something like ...

"A bottle of baileys please"
"Do you have any ID?"
"Uh... no"
"That'll be 16.99" (or whatever it was)
::pay::

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

After seeing you briefly yesterday for the first time in ages, I did comment to Sylvia about how youthful you were looking. Just enjoy it, and take the occasional carding as an occupational hazard. ;-)

I pretty much always get carded in the US, sometimes when I've been the oldest person in the establishment.