I guess that’s a sign of aging … when getting carded buying booze makes you happy, instead of filled with dread …
Lucky I had my ID on me or I would have had to beg the nice man at the liquor store.
“Really, sir, I’m 28 … I didn’t bring my ID because, well, I haven’t been carded in ages! Really, I only want this bottle of red wine so I can go home and fall asleep in front of the TV …”
heh, heh
::struts off youthfully::
lol.
I got kind-of carded the other week.
Bouncer guy - “Can I see some i.d?”
Me and friends - Sigh and start looking for some.
Bouncer guy - “Only kidding! In you go.”
It was a bit wierd.
(I’m 18 btw.)
Last month I got carded at a pub…
on my 30th birthday 
The last time I was carded, I had just turned 40. Although I think the place’s policy was to card everybody regardless.
When I was younger, it seemed to border on an insult. Now, I take it as a compliment!
heh…I’m 23, look like a 16. I get carded all the time. So it’s still more of a nerve pincher than a compliment.
I’m 21 and I’ve recently been carded for buying R rated movies @ Wally World 
Talk about anal…
I’m 43, 6’ 2" tall, weigh 230 pounds, and have totally gray hair and a gray beard. I got carded in a restaurant recently. My wife started laughing so hard she could barely breath. Which got people at tables around us who had seen it happen to laughing.
The totally clueless waitress never figured out why everyone was laughing at her (and me).
Several years ago, three of my female college buds and I got together in our old college town to revisit our old watering holes. This time it was unusual because we all had husbands or boyfriends now. So the eight of us went from bar to bar, all in our 30s except for Mr. S, who was IIRC in his early 40s and just starting to show some gray in his beard. Nobody carded us until the third place. sigh start digging When we were in college, we’d just whip our IDs out of our back pockets, but now we had to go digging into purses and wallets. You’d think that would give us away. Mr. S was 4th or 5th in line, and after seeing all those 1960s birthdates and then Mr. S’s in 1955, the bouncer finally gave up and waved us all in.
I had a friend once who was a very sweet and lovely woman, training to be a Catholic school teacher.
She played the saxophone, and for some reason needed Zig-Zags (rolling papers for cigarettes and ahem other things) for this.
She got carded ! Bwa ha ha ha ! I have never ever heard of anyone getting carded for buying rolling papers, and the fact that it was my sweet friend who never smoked nor drank … it was the first time she was ever carded for anything, I think. She was pretty insulted but the rest of us found it hilarious.
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She played the saxophone, and for some reason needed Zig-Zags (rolling papers for cigarettes and ahem other things) for this./QUOTE]
Some people use them to clean the pads (place the paper between the pad and the whole, shut the pad, pull the paper out).
I had a similar problem buying pipe cleaners for bassoon reeds when I was a minor…
I think I win at 44. [Scarlett’s ‘1955’ was several years ago].
And it wasn’t at a restaurant by some-one fishing for bigger tip.
But it was NOT warrented; just a very conscientious cashier.
Well hell, my dad got carded for cigs a few years ago. He’s in his sixties and even had a full, scraggly gray beard at the time. But that was just a “we card everybody, we don’t care how old you look” place.
I’m 26. Look 16. I’ve been carded in WalMart for buying epoxy putty.
Carded.
For buying what is essentially GLUE.
You can of course imagine how much fun it was when I went to Vegas for a week’s vacation. My routine upon entering each casino was to find whoever was watching the floor and say, “Here’s my ID, I’ll be sitting over there for a few hours.” (Note that you have to be 21 to gamble - any younger and you aren’t even allowed on the floor.)
When my trip finally wound down, I decided to spend my final $1 at the airport slot machines. I had just approached the slots when the attendant rushed over, screaming at me to get the hell away from the machines. (Contrast this with the hotel casino staff - even those who were skeptical about my age and took extra time to peruse my ID were still incredibly polite.)
I showed the attendant my ID and while she was still fuming, put my last dollar in the slot machine…
And won $100.
As you can imagine, my payback was double.
In Georgia, at least, they’re required to card everybody. It was amusing watching grandfathers getting carded because they were buying beer. 
Louisiana, needless to say, does not have that law. In fact, I’m not sure how many alcohol-related laws there actually ARE. Not very damn many is all I know.
I’m just shy of 28 and suddenly in the last year or so I haven’t gotten carded more than once or twice. I’m not often in a situation where I could be, and it didn’t surprise me at all when I didn’t get carded for a daquiri around Mardi Gras, but it does surprise me when they don’t get me at stores. Maybe I finally look 21?
I got carded to see an R-rated movie when I was 21. Pissed me off.
I don’t understand why people get so angry when they get carded.
I get carded at restaurants (probably at liquor stores, but since I only shop at the one where my boyfriend works, it’s a non-issue) for alcohol and I’m 25.
Take it as a compliment or a law/policy that clerks are required to follow.
Who doesn’t take their ID with them to buy liquor/cigarettes anyway?
This happened to me in a liquor store, which in these parts means something quite specific: an LCBO, a government-operated liquor store, which is just about the only legal place to buy bottles. So I’m quite certain they don’t have a “Card Everybody” policy because I’ve been in other outlets of the same store a million times before, and this particular store at least a hundred, and have only been carded once in the last five years.
Also I don’t have a driver’s license so the only legal ID I can use is my passport, which I usually don’t carry around when I go out for a bottle of wine because, as noted, they never ask for it ! (The nice LCBO man accepted my not-legal-as-ID ID, probably once he saw the birthdate he didn’t want to fight it.)
I’m not angry about it. It’s interesting because before I was old enough to drink, I was terrified I’d get carded and angry when it happened (angry partly because it meant I couldn’t drink, and partly for show so that the server would think I was older. Don’t know if that worked or not, but us underage drinkers are full of ideas!) And now I’m pretty chuffed about the whole thing. The woman behind me in line said “Card me! Card me!”
Once I went to the pub with a bunch of friends from high school. The waitress was someone we had gone to school with (obviously around our age) and she recognized us and didn’t card us. Then one friend arrived who was just gagging for a drink, and the waitress (who also went to school with him) carded him, and he didn’t have his ID, so she wouldn’t serve him.
Just doing her job, yes - but he was really, really pissed ! (The rest of us were quite amused.)
The funniest carding moment was a few years ago, when my SO and I tried to buy wine. We must have been 19 or 20 (legal age in ontario is 19). Both of us, however, are from Quebec, and as such had Quebec driver’s licences. The poor guy at the cash of the LCBO was in training, as evidenced by the tag under his name tag.
So he asks for ID, and I give him my license. The Quebec license doen’t explicitly state “Date of Birth”, but rather that information as the center set of numbers in a code on the card. I pointed this out to the cashier, but he was skeptical, so he asks me if I have other ID. I give him my medicare card, but he says (as is the ontarian law - silly, IMHO) that health care cards aren’t valid ID.
So he turns to my SO, and asks HIM for his ID. He hands it over, but in the process we both get a bit of a laugh as we realise that his card is a whole new format. They changed the look of the cards 10 days after I was issued mine (issued Oct 22, 1999, changed formats Nov 1st 1999) - so here this poor confused cashier in training is faced with two entirely different looking cards, both claming to be valid driver’s licenses, in a language he doesn’t understand, from another province.
Lucky for him, a manager or senoir cashier came along and got caught up on the situation. He was familiar with the old card, but not with the new one, but he let us buy the wine, and thanked us for a good learning opportunity. The poor cashier though looked so horrified at having to be bailed out. I told him to have a good evening as I left, but I think I’d already given him a horrible shift! hehe
My friend has epilepsy, and therfore can’t drive. because of this she didn’t have a driving licence. or any other form of i.d.
When we went to a bar she was the oldest of us at 18. The rest of us were 17. She got i.d while in the bar and had to leave because she didn’t have any. None of the rest of us got asked for i.d, and we were all too young to be there.
I don’t mind being carded. I figure they are just doing their jobs. (Also that I am almost 28 and could still pass as under 18 on some days)
My weirdest carding incident EVER was when I was visiting some friends in Nebraska a few years ago (I live in Nevada) and my friend and I go into a gas station to buy a sodas and some smokes. I get to the cashier set my soda down and ask for a pack of cigs. She says “I need to see your ID” ok says me as I get it out of my wallet. I hand it to her and she looks at it over and over again then she says “I can’t take this. It is a fake ID.” I said “what? 
It is a valid Nevada drivers license” Her response was that she had never seen a Nevada ID and she was not going to take it because it was fake (she did not believe me that it was a real place :eek: ). I was over 21 at the time and I think I was even wearing the same shirt as me in the picture. So my friend says “I get your cigs then”. The cashier would not sell her any cigs because they would be for me :rolleyes: . Her ID was from Nebraska. We ended up going else where and no problems. lame.
Another from the younger side of the discussion…
Here in the states I’m carded for anything and everything possible (I’m 19). Bought a lottery ticket for my mom’s birthday card… Where’s your ID.
Cigs, ID.
Rolling papers… ID.
LIGHTER?!? ID.
This past weekend in Canada:
Not carded once for anything.
Society went into turmoil quickly… Communications and transportation are just now going back into regular service.