Random question about being ID'd

[jeanie]

After being ID'd for some lemonade & diet coke the other night () after the Dundee class this week, I began to wonder...

At what age did you stop getting ID'd and what for?

I'm 28 and I still get ID'd for booze (or not) and very nearly superglue once! But I have managed to get on a train for a half

[bigdjiver]

Overheard on the top deck of a bus, from three youths :-

"Did you **** that bird last night?"
"Nah, I was too drunk."
(conductor arrives)
"Three halves to ..."

[Trouble]

When i was 31 i went to Michigan to see my husbands family. His neice took me out on one of the nights, she was 22, to a club. They refused me entry. (age limit 21). The very next day, i was in a resturant with my hubby and his family and my one son who was 9 or 10 and they refused to serve me alcohol.

Never had that problem here of course but in America, i had it right up to 31. Unfortunately, do not get that problem anymore...

[Trousers]

i was id'd in Michigan too
Royal Oak

The bloke asked for ID so i gave him my very nice plum coloured passport
the ass hole asked for something better
I proceeded to tell him there was no better form of ID than a British Passport the impudent oik
However I wasn't really naffed off because the only bloke that wasn't ID'd was younger than me.

[Caz]

I got ID'd when buying weed killer last year... at the ripe old age of 28.. I was so shocked when she asked how old I was, that I was like 26, er no, 27, er 28...

Turns out you have to be 16 to buy weedkiller! Check me out!

[Jamie]

I get ID'd to buy cigarettes (for parents or friends etc) and that was when it used to be 16+ to buy em. I always take ID with me if I go to buy alcohol from shops etc (very rare occurance!) it's just easier...

I love though, they ask you for ID - proof of being over 18 - after you hand over a debit card to pay for the goods themselves... Does it not occur to them that you have to be 18 to own a debit card?

[David Bailey]

After being ID'd for some lemonade & diet coke the other night ()

Explain?

[Katie Kicks Ass]

Does it not occur to them that you have to be 18 to own a debit card?

I think you mean credit card, I had a debit card at 16 and my sister at like 12.

[Trousers]

I think you mean credit card, I had a debit card at 16 and my sister at like 12.

You had your sister at 12??????

[Jamie]

I think you mean credit card, I had a debit card at 16 and my sister at like 12.

No I mean debit card, are you sure you don't mean cash card? They're different.

[jeanie]

Explain?

We went to the pub for a chit chat and drinks after the Friary. I asked for 2 lemonades & a diet coke. Bar person said 'have you got any ID?' I said 'for lemonade?' and produced my drivers licence.... Wouldn't have minded but bit embarrasing for soft drinks....

I think you mean credit card, I had a debit card at 16 and my sister at like 12.

No I mean debit card, are you sure you don't mean cash card? They're different.

Think my bank gives you a debit (maestro/solo/electron) card at 16. You could get a solo card which gave under 16's (and over) the chance to use a card in the shop but you had to have the money in your account and you didn't get an overdraft facility like you do with maestro cards.

[David Bailey]

We went to the pub for a chit chat and drinks after the Friary. I asked for 2 lemonades & a diet coke. Bar person said 'have you got any ID?' I said 'for lemonade?' and produced my drivers licence.... Wouldn't have minded but bit embarrasing for soft drinks....

Well, you can't be too careful with the Evil That Is Lemonade, who knows what crazed lemonade-addled addicts could be getting up to?

[jeanie]

Well, you can't be too careful with the Evil That Is Lemonade, who knows what crazed lemonade-addled addicts could be getting up to?

I know.. I may get ridicously drunk and make an exhibition of myself in public....

[David Bailey]

I know.. I may get ridicously drunk and make an exhibition of myself in public....

Indeed. It might even lead to... dancing!

[Trouble]

or another hobby called Tango. Not quite dancing, more a leg swinging romp.

[jeanie]

Indeed. It might even lead to... dancing!

what have I done...




where's the lemonade?

[jeanie]

or another hobby called Tango. Not quite dancing, more a leg swinging romp.

romping sounds fun

[Twirly]

Never had that problem here of course but in America, i had it right up to 31.

Same happened to me too. Able to drink like a fish in pubs from age 16 onwards, never ID'd once...

Though when I spent the summer in the US, aged 19, with my cousins in Louisville (not the most sophisticated place on earth) I remember talking my way into the bars quite easily. Just put on my best English uppercrust accent, explained politely that the only form of ID I had was my passport and I didn't want to carry that around with me in case it got lost... and a spot of eyelash batting. They were all so gaga over my accent that I never had a problem...

Funniest thing though was on the last but one trip to stay with the cousins, when my 70 year old father got carded! Made his day

[dave the scaffolder]

I was in a bar in Texas when I was 22 and an American Sheriff came in and asked me for id, I gave him my Army id and then explained I had been in the Army for 6 years.

He couldnt believe I had joined at 16, he was well embarrassed.

XXX XXX DTS Dave

[Katie Kicks Ass]

Think my bank gives you a debit (maestro/solo/electron) card at 16. You could get a solo card which gave under 16's (and over) the chance to use a card in the shop but you had to have the money in your account and you didn't get an overdraft facility like you do with maestro cards.

Thats about right, I thought that was how all debit cards worked (without the overdraft of course) you have to have sufficent funds in your bank acount for the transaction. Even now I only have a solo/maestro card.