What do you folks get "carded" for?

I work with one (not extremely widely used) POS system. When someone tries to buy alcohol or tobacco products, the cash register simply displays the birthday cut-off (Like: “Birthday on or before 05/06/1992?”) and the cashier simply has to answer Y (yes) or N (no). If Y, the sale is allowed. It doesn’t keep a record of this.

I used to get carded occasionally for beer, but that was when I was 23-25. I haven’t been back to the states for a few years, so I dunno if I’ll look old enough these days. Probably so, for the most part.

I’ve posted this here before, but the most ridiculous thing I got carded for was buying sparkling grape juice at Market Basket (NB 0.0% alcohol, not 0.2 or 0.5% like some non-alcoholic beers). Which they wouldn’t sell me, because I wasn’t 21. Retarded policy, and I still haven’t been back. Fuck 'em.

It’s not necessarily for smoking. Boys love setting shit on fire. Raid + lighter = Flamethrower of Fun! They’re also used for fireworks, paper, a gas can they found in the garage that’s got some fuel left in it, etc.

Dumbest thing I ever got carded for was maple syrup. The brand I was buying was in a glass bottle that, I suppose, resembled a fifth, and the cashier carded me. "I need to see some ID for this. " “It’s maple syrup.” “I still need to see some ID.” The store didn’t even sell alcohol at the time.

I usually get carded buying Aleve. I’m 29! Besides, who cares if minors buy Aleve?
I also once got carded at Walgreen’s buying a single bottle of children’s cough syrup (not the meth kind) and I had my sick kid with me. That seemed a little unnecessary.

And I DON’T get carded or even a second glance when I pay the youth fare on the bus.

I get carded for pretty much everything these days - cold medicine, spray glaze from the art store, canned air, grill lighters - it’s really interesting to learn all the new things that I can be carded for but it doesn’t bother me. I know it’s not the cashier’s fault.

When I was a smoker, I never got carded for cigarettes. I’ve also never been carded for alcohol.

Hilarious!

I’m sure I’ve told this before, but back when there were more stringent blue laws in Indiana my aunt went to the grocery store to buy a bottle of vanilla extract. They wouldn’t sell it to her because it was Sunday!

On the flip side, a few years ago, the grocery cashier asked me if I wanted the SENIOR DISCOUNT. I was all, “Excuse me??? I’m forty-effin’-TWO!” Usually in passing conversation, people don’t believe I’m that old; they think I’m younger.

And this cashier was quite clearly eligible for the senior discount herself, not some tweenie airhead. :confused:


And back earlier than that, four of us girls who went to college together decided to go back and check out our old college bars, for old times’ sake. We were with our husbands/boyfriends (which we didn’t have when we were in college, heh), and most of us were in our early 30s. It was a quiet night, and at the first two or three we just walked right in. But the bouncer at the next place was checking everybody, so the eight of us stood in line as he checked all of our IDs. When he got to Mr. S, who was about 4th in line and was also in his mid-40s, he gave up and waved us all in. :smiley:

I used to work at a supermarket that didn’t sell booze (until recently it was unheard of in Pennsylvania for a supermarket to have any kind of alcohol). “Non-alcoholic” beer & wine was restricted to over-21s (in accordance with state law). Then somebody at coporate fucked up and changed the POS system to prompt for ID for the zero-alcohol sparkling juice. Our idiot SM insisted we follow it “because it was in a glass bottle” :dubious:. I thought this hilirious since we didn’t card at all for any of the cough syrup or cold medicince.

I did have customers get confused and hand me some, very obivously fake, fake IDs before trying to use their real ones. I always denied the sale anyway. We were located in a student ghetto with lots of off-campus housing as well as some freshmen dorms. Many of said freshmen were in the hapit of leaving their dorms with no wallet, just cash and their student IDs on those stupid lanyards the RAs hand out on Move-In Day.

Most of the hissy fits came from males who were in the store with their girls. They’d get upset when they were carded, get pissed off I’d deny the sale 'cause they didn’t have ID (or wouldn’t accept student ID). Sometimes the girl would have her ID and try to buy it, but naturally that sale got declined. A few times the girl got so disgusted by her date’s antics she ended the date right there and left. :stuck_out_tongue:

I never get carded for anything. Unless I’m in the USA, where I’m often carded due to “card everyone” policies. It’s a little odd that, after visiting an American tobacconist, and discussing cigars and pipe tobacco with him like a professional (I used to review pipe tobaccos and cigars for publication, and fine tobacco remains a hobby), he asks for my ID when I decide to purchase something. He is usually apologetic, but it’s a house policy. So I show him my passport and/or driver’s license, and we laugh, and he’s okay.

Dissent.

I see what you did there.