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I teach an underwater photography class at a university. One night a few years ago, we were going to do a night dive and a thunderstorm rolled in. Scuba diving and lightning don’t mix, so we had to cancel the dive.
Students were all 21 or 22, and decided they wanted to go to a local pub for dinner, and asked me to join. I decided to go, and when we got to the pub the door guy was taking his job really seriously. He was examining their IDs super close, bending them and shining a flashlight through them, etc. It was taking a while because he was doing this for each of my students.
When I got to him and started handing over my ID, he just looked at me and said, “You’re good, man.”
If you were born in 19XX and are somehow still getting ID’d then you’re one of the lucky ones.
I’m from Europe and somehow I got carded like 3 or 4 times in my life and I was 18+ at the time even though I bought stuff like alcohol before that. It feels so weird to me but now that I’m older I’m shocked of all the things I got away with
True, it feels like places are a lot more strict about it now than they used to be.
When I was younger, despite it technically not being legal, it was normal to let teenagers drink in pubs, because it was seen as better to have them there where adults could keep an eye on them than out on the street at night. That just isn’t a thing in pubs anymore in my experience.
(My experience is based on the UK and Ireland, I’m not sure about elsewhere)
Yeah, it is more strict. Parents are bombarded with pedophilia news 24/7, same as kidnappings, bullying, deaths…
Meanwhile buisnesses are under constant threat of checks from authority and a lot of legal threat in case shit goes down the drain.
We made world safer, but also…dry and constricting. And then people wonder what’s up with generations becoming less social.
Yeah if theres a control and 1 kid buy alcohol the business is done for and the owner is in for a lot of troubles too
2019 borns are 60 now, feel old yet?
I wish it was that fast for me. I literally grew a 4 inch long half gray beard for my ID, born in the early 1980s, and yet they still gotta scan the barcode on the back of my ID.
Like hell, ain’t I already ugly enough to obviously be old enough to [redacted]?
Sometimes, it’s just for the (digital) paperwork. Especially if it’s a larger company, easier to link an ID scan to a sale for legal protection of their sales license.
Pretty much yeah. It’s usually to protect the new cashiers that just don’t particularly know you yet.
And I totally respect that, I don’t want them getting in trouble or losing their job for not following official procedures.
I used to think this was normal. Few years ago I moved to England and have not once been carded. I don’t even have local ID outside of my UK passport. People even remark how young I look for my age and still nothing.
Oh, cool cool 👍
It’s not usually a problem for me, at least in my hometown area, unless they recently hired new employees that don’t yet know me. Totally understandable.
Be glad that you look young enough that cashiers/bartenders still ask for your ID.
Memes from 2018
I am from the past also.
I look forward to the time when my age and the last two digits of my birth year match. It’s impossible to predict or calculate, and not even world best supercomputers can comprehend it.
