And do you laugh?
Today, I got carded. I wasn’t buying beer. I wasn’t buying cigarettes. I wasn’t buying explody things. I was buying canned air at Best Buy and had to show ID. I have to confess that I cracked up while pulling my ID out for the poor clerk.
This isn’t worth a strongly worded email to corp or anything. It just made me laugh.
I got carded buying Robitussin DM in Virginia.
I think it has to do with the fact that both of these things supposedly can get you high.
You can get high on canned air? I really need to get out more often.
Back when I was in highschool and asked for whiteout, the teacher would hold the bottle while I used the brush. I thought it was because she was worried that I’d spill the precious liquid, it was only years later that I learned it was because people could get high from sniffing it.
Yes, I do live under a rock. Why do you ask?
I got carded buying one of those long grill lighters at the grocery store.
I never got carded buying cigarette lighters when I smoked but that’s because I always bought them along with cigarettes. I got carded for those instead.
My mom recently got carded for spray paint. Because Home Depot worries about those sixty-something huffers, who are also buying $2000 worth of lumber… 
I’m 40 and still get carded for alcohol nearly every time. No I don’t laugh, it’s annoying as hell. I have grey hair for crying out loud!
Here in (parts of) California you need ID to buy spray paint and in some instances markers. (Graffiti issues. I don’t know what age you actually have to be.)
They are just saving you from huffing the paint before you build aWinchestor house!!!
Please don’t get all huffy at the poor wageslave who is only doing her job. I never get upset over being asked for ID, it just made me laugh that I was carded for canned air.
I did once leave a store because they were writing names and stuff when I was buying beer. I understand that I have no expection of privacy, and I patiently wait while my name and info is recorded when I buy explody things. I’m not going to buy beer at a place that records my purchases.
I didn’t get huffy at the clerk, I just said that I wouldn’t do that and left.
I`ve managed to hold onto a youthful appearance well enough that I got carded the last time I bought beer.
Can I please see some ID
What? I’m forty years old.
…No you’re not.
I sure am.
Well, I still need to see some ID.
I live a block away. I walked over here on a whim and didn’t bother grabbing my wallet.
Hmmm…
Look, if I was underage would I be buying a single imported Czech beer? No, I’s be buying an 18-pack of Bud.
…Yea, I suppose so.
Well alright then.
Ok.
You’re only forty years old? That’s nothing. A 92-year-old great-grandmother in Essex, UK, was carded last week when she tried to buy a bottle of whiskey. She didn’t happen to have her ID on her, and the shop clerk wouldn’t accept her 60+ bus pass or the pacemaker certificate that she offered.
Yes, same here when buying Dayquil. It’s the dextromethorphan. In high doses (as in, drinking the entire bottle at once*) it acts as a dissociative hallucinogen.
*this is also the reason they make it taste so freaking disgusting - trying to discourage people from doing this. I admit I tried it a few times in high school anyway… ugh, I don’t even want to think about it.
I used to work at a place where the number of every driver’s licence or state ID card that got swiped through the register was recorded (along with the reciept) and kept on file for 90 days. We had to key in the number by hand if the card didn’t scan, but we were allowing the sale. We were also required by corporate to refuse the sale to anyone who declinded to hand over their ID for scanning. And this was just for tobacco; we didn’t sell booze. I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore. Alot of customers, especially male college students, got really pissed and threw huge hissy fits over it.
Maybe because they had fake IDs and were worried they’d get in trouble?
There is a difference between a clerk who has discretion in carding someone, and a clerk who has no discretion and everyone must be carded.
The last item I was carded for was bear spray. Then it was store policy to ask me what I was going to use it for. Ummm Bears, but only if they’re really rude ? I had to fill out a form as well.
I guess they wanted to leave the impression of don’t get any funny ideas Mr. we know who you are.
Anybody here remember when Radio Shack had a chain-wide policy of carding everybody for everything?
Just a few weeks ago, a 50ish yo Walmart clerk carded me for wine. I told her that my daughter, who was standing next to me, is old enough to buy alcohol. She said that she cards anyone who looks 40 and under. I’m 53, so, I felt both complimented and hassled that I had to dig out my drivers license. Oh, and people behind me in line and the next line over are watching… great.
I don’t think I’ve been carded since I was 16, and I’m 30 now. At most I get asked my birthday, so they can put it into the register to prove my age.
I’ve been asked that for nyquil, dayquil, spray paint, and lighters.
As far as I can etll, the local Holiday Inn cards everyone. A friend was in for business a week ago and I met him at the bar there - and the bartender asked for ID. At first I thought it was because I was running a tab and I handed her a credit card, but no, she wanted my ID.
Given that I will be 50 on December first and my hair is nearly white, I figure she just cards everyone.
If this is a competition, I am confident I have you all beat.
My son and his girlfriend, both 21, got carded when they approached the food-sample lady at Sam’s Club to obtain a sample of a tortilla chip.
mmm
My local chain of discount grocery has never carded me or anyone else obviously old enough to buy wine…but the register requires they enter a birthdate, so they enter the same one for everyone. They don’t even bother to get creative and make up dates. I would give them a date if they liked, just so it looks like they are carding everyone. But apparently their corporate office has no problem believing everyone who buys wine or beer there was born on 1-1-80.