I got carded just last week when I went to a comedy club.
I’m 30, turning 31 in less than 2 months. And I definitely look like I’m over 21–no doubts about it.
Just got carded tonight for an R rated movie! I’m 23!
I’m 18, and get carded every time. (We’re talking tobacco and tobacco products and “tobacco” products here. I’m nowhere near stupid enough to try to buy alcohol myself or get a fake ID or anything.) I remember not being carded, once, recently.
It makes me feel better to get carded because I think something along the lines of “Aha, fiendish store-keeper, I’ve got your silly card this time!” Feels good to pull out the ID after a year or so of “Uh, um, I don’t have an ID, but I was born in…er…uh…”
I’m carding the OP for ending a sentence with a preposition.
[Pedant] What is the greatest age at which you’ve been carded? [/pedant] 
I used to work in a convenience store and the rule there was that anyone that looked thirty or younger was carded for cigarettes and anyone that looked forty or younger was carded for beer. Not that I actually followed that. I’m sure I sold to minors before on accident but it was too much of a hassle to ask everyone for their ID.
Unless, of course, I was in one of my moods. Then I’d card everyone and then watch the drama unfold. A lot didn’t care, some were elated, and the rest were indignantly furious that I asked. It was fun to watch the last group have aneurysms right in front of me.
Um. And to get back on topic: 22, which is how old I am. I usually don’t get asked despite not looking 21.
Go figure.
I’m 47, and now that I’ve dyed my hair to cover the grey and give it more life, I get carded regularly. Some people mistake me for my daughter’s sister. I went to a new podiatrist yesterday morning, and he thought I was in my early 20s.
I’m 25.
I’m never carded for bars, liquor stores or buying smokes.
But I WAS carded when I tried to go to an R Rated movie a few weeks ago.
Huh?
- Rebekkah
I’m 36, and was carded for buying beer at the supermarket recently. Legal drinking age in NZ is 18, and store policy is to card anyone who looks under 25: I’ve been told I can pass for 20. Clean living, I guess.
I’m 35 and I get carded almost everywhere. It is the whole paranoia thing with stores. I have a friend who is 59 and they even card him. This really starts to get annoying.
I don’t talk like that, (most people don’t), so why should I post like that? Luckily, several people were able to decipher my bad grammar.
What are you doing that for?
32, at a bar in NYC. I was the only one carded (so sorry NY Dopers nyah nyah ;))
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Sir Winston Churchill
I’ve always looked older than I am; I was carded a total of twice in my life between the ages of fifteen and nineteen, despite many instances of irresponsible behavior.
Since then, I have only been carded two or three times (in 21 years) aside from this one rather odd Spring Break trip where every establishment on the Texas gulf coast was suddenly carding everyone, no matter HOW old they looked…
I got carded the last time I bought beer.
I’m 34. Yes!
There was a street fair in Chicago that had one area roped off for the beer garden. I walked up and a kid that must have just turned 21 a few months ago carded me, I was pushing 40 at the time with some grey streaks in my beard. I was kind of puzzled for a moment, then I just turned and walked away. I figure if they were that senseless, I really didn’t belong there.
But I have seen bars that card EVERYONE. Most of them are in high traffic tourist areas, I think their logic is, if you don’t have a valid identification, we don’t want you in here.
I got carded at the liquor store yesterday, and I’m 44. I go to that store a couple of times a month, but it was a new guy. I live in a college town, so if I go to a place where a lot of students go, like the mexican joint up the street, I’ll get carded every time. My husband, who’s 50, never gets carded, and it makes him feel bad when they card me and not him, but I tell him that they must figure that an old broad like me wouldn’t be robbing the cradle.
41? I can’t beat that. YET 
. But I’m 36 (well in two week…just trying to get used to writing that) and I get carded pretty regularly. I think the funniest one was when me and my SO were buying beer at the supermarket. And he was paying and showed them his ID and all…but they still refused to sell it to us because I was in line with him and I didn’t have ID on me. And he was clearly there buying alcohol for his “underaged” girlfriend 
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In my area, the alcohol beverage control troopers often test the clerks with underage buyers so they can arrest the ones that serve/sell to them. This usually happens after some teenagers get killed in auto crashes involving drinking drivers.
They may card everyone for that reason and because some states/cities/ establishments require their personnel to do it.
A relative of mine got carded last week at 65, when he applied for social security benefits. It never ends.
Bought beer at the local discount drugstore, where every cashier is 16 and they have had problems before. I was 56. Carded.