You should have thought of that before you took your driving test there. 
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]
But driver’s licenses, even from different states, are something you get familiar with–the look, the feel, the heft in your hand, the shiny holographic seals.
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Onceuponatime, longlongago, I presented a genuine, state-created picture ID card, one that was designed and issued by the state beverage board to be unalterable. But it was in another state, and the bartender rejected it, saying, “It’s too easy to fake those.”
But he accepted my driver’s license, which was a computer printout card with no picture, and one which I had once altered myself (the statute of limitations has passed, right?) to add 2 years. Because it said “driver’s license”, he was happy with the fake, but rejected the genuine.
Go figure.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Go ahead and say it: Texas sucks! (And it does, too.) But still, they don’t need a passport to go down to the ol’ fishin’ crick.
And most Texans I knew back then never ever ventured across the border. That was several hundred miles away; why go all that far? I knew Texans who were darned proud of having never been to another state, let alone another country.
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Soon, you will indeed need a passport to go do whatever you want to down that ol’ fishin’ crick. Not all of Texas is that bad- my brother now lives in Austin, so that’s exempt. 
Sadly, I know this is the case-- We were pulled over by a Utah state patrolman 8 years ago–not because we were speeding, but because he didn’t recognize our plate (IL environmental). He ran a check on my husband’s license while we sat there, somewhat dumbfounded. He came back and said to us that our plate checked out. Well, no kidding. :rolleyes:
I know I’m late, but can I get a hearty Fucko Off to anyone who asks for a patron’s sign? someone no doubt reminds me what my sign is every so often, and I do my best to forget such ridiculous bullshit.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Maybe I’m misreading it, but it still looks to me like it was the liquor-store clerk who asked to see his SS card.
EDIT: No, okay, I WAS misreading it. It was the license people after all. :smack:
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Yeah, I don’t get carded much anymore. OTOH, I never did get carded except for places that checked everyone’s IDs just to enter. I just looked at the accepted documents at the BMV website and they do accept US passports as primary ID. But you need to have something from the secondary list also. The sad part is, my old license had my SS on it (new ones don’t) so all I really needed to show her from the second list was a credit card. But she didn’t say anything about that. 
[QUOTE=EJsGirl]
True, but honestly, many people who work the door are unfamiliar with them and wouldn’t know real from not-real. Again, it is totally at their discretion what to accept or deny. Similar thing happened to my husband with a military (Army) ID card- he had to helpfully show the guy where the birthdate was…
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I used my military ID to drink for a couple of years before I turned 21. Bouncer would take the card, not find the birthdate, and just let me in.
If they found the birthdate, they would just tell me no.
to the OP:
Another round of, Your Need to Drink is Not Worth My Job.
A group of friends and I were going to a club. The only problem was that one friend was not yet of age. Said friend was from Russia.
She met the bouncer at the door after the rest of us had passed the id check.
Bouncer: Can I see your id?
Friend: I don’t have a driver’s licence.
Bouncer: You don’t?
Friend: No, I don’t drive here. I’m from Russia.
Bouncer: Do you have any other id?
Friend: All I have is this student id.
Bouncer: But this doesn’ t have a birthdate on it.
Friend: Well, it lists me as a college senior. Do you honestly think I’d be a senior in college if I was under 21?
Bouncer: Good point. Go ahead in.
What the bouncer didn’t count on was that our friend had graduated “high school” in Russia at the tender (but standard) age of 16 and was two years younger than the rest of us.
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]
Anyone with a copy of Print Artist, a printer, and about an hour of their time could easily construct one themselves, maybe not of a quality that would convince the guy at the border post, but certainly good enough to flash at a bar.
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I wouldn’t accept a little booklet that said “Passport” on it for tobacco sales. I’d ask to see credit cards or something.
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The idea that a passport is easy to fake but a credit card is reputable made me laugh. Are you not aware that anyone with a credit card, a telephone, and 15 minutes to spare can get a card with any name they want printed on it?
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=]
The idea that a passport is easy to fake but a credit card is reputable made me laugh. Are you not aware that anyone with a credit card, a telephone, and 15 minutes to spare can get a card with any name they want printed on it?
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Sure, but notice in the list of secondary IDs the Ohio BMV accepts, credit cards is on there. They can only take it if the SS number is on the Primary ID offered, but they can take it. :dubious:
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
Soon, you will indeed need a passport to go do whatever you want to down that ol’ fishin’ crick. Not all of Texas is that bad- my brother now lives in Austin, so that’s exempt.
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I’ll grant that if you MUST be in Texas, Austin is the place to be. But you’re still surrounded by Texas. Best to get the heck out of there.
I live in Arizona. In AZ, under-21s who don’t have a driver’s license get a state ID that says in big red letters UNDER 21 UNTIL and then the date of their 21st birthday, which in my case was 9/9/2002. This state ID, like all other non-license IDs does not expire, and they cost money to replace with the new over-21 IDs, so I never bothered.
I’ve had to remind supermarket cashiers that it is, in fact, 2007, and that they can sell me my vodka please.
I was in Vegas a few months ago and got stopped at the threshold of a house of drinking, gambling, and other assorted sins. The bouncer asks me for ID, twists it around underneath his UV flashlight, and then says “How old are you?” So, not really thinking about what I was saying, I respond with “Oh, I’m 21,” because that is obviously the important thing and I am 21 in the sense that I have been on this green Earth for greater than or equal to twenty one years. I quickly realize my mistake and follow up with “Oh. I mean, I’m… 27? I thought you meant” and at that point he looks me up and down, hands me back my license and tells me to come on in, having deduced, presumably, that I am in fact an academic and so therefore also a hopeless case in this type of situation.
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF]
I know I’m late, but can I get a hearty Fucko Off to anyone who asks for a patron’s sign? someone no doubt reminds me what my sign is every so often, and I do my best to forget such ridiculous bullshit.
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Yeah, but you know what it is, don’t you. (No question mark as this is a rhetorical question.)
[QUOTE=Una Persson]
“My burly and hirsute friend, I see you are admiring my stamp from Mexico. Ah yes, I remember that trip well. Most of all, I remember a woman - or goddess. Does not every woman contain a goddess, if a man be so bold as to draw her out? On the volcanic beach one moonlit night, I saw a vision rise from the waves, and come to lay with me, wordlessly, on the sand. And although I knew not of her name, and she not of mine, we made passionate love under the full moon, our cries of passion mingling with the sound of the waves and gunfire from the Zapatista rebels in the jungles nearby. In the morning I woke, alone, but knowing the true peace and happiness of having an empty soul filled. You know of what I speak, do you not, my friend? Ah, indeed, you too are a man of the world, my brother in arms. Here, I kiss you as only a European can without being thought of as - how do you say? Ah!, yes, ‘gay’. Now, I shall enter your establishment, and should you wish to take a break, I will buy a pina colada for you, and tell you of another time, another country, and another woman…for there have been so many…”
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This would be sublime if it were— as I hear it in my head— narrated by Ricardo Montalbán.
Ah, Ricardo. I still can’t believe he choked to death on Hervé Villechaize’s vomit.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
I’ll grant that if you MUST be in Texas, Austin is the place to be. But you’re still surrounded by Texas. Best to get the heck out of there.
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:rolleyes: Seriously?
Re: the OP, as a bartender, once I’ve questioned the validity of an ID, even for a second, it’s very rare that I accept it. The risk just isn’t worth it.
And the cruel reality is that I don’t have to serve anybody, for any reason I see fit–however rational or irrational–because of all the liability I have.
I have, however, accepted passports. I used to work downtown here, which is the top tourist destination in the state; after awhile I became familiar with all different kinds of ID’s.
But according to TABC, the only “real” ID is a Texas-issued ID card or DL. If I accept anything else, I’m rolling the dice.
[QUOTE=Audrey Levins]
:rolleyes: Seriously?
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Seriously. (Not a fan of San Antonio, even if IS better than West Texas.)
Well hell with that. I dismiss all general badmouthing of Texas simply as envy, but if you’re dissin’ SA specifically you got somethin’ wrong with yo’ head, boi-ah.
(Even if SA does seem to be gradually drifting southward.)
[QUOTE=Koxinga]
Well hell with that. I dismiss all general badmouthing of Texas simply as envy, but if you’re dissin’ SA specifically you got somethin’ wrong with yo’ head, boi-ah.
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Envy?? I was stuck in Texas for about 25 years. I can’t say I’m exactly knockin’ at the door tryin’ to get back in.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Envy?? I was stuck in Texas for about 25 years. I can’t say I’m exactly knockin’ at the door tryin’ to get back in.
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Are you a native Texan?
[QUOTE=Koxinga]
Are you a native Texan?
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Born elsewhere, but my father unwisely moved us there just before I turned 6.