Weird ID story.....

[Kirkygirl]

The Wizard of ID('s)

I remember one time at my last job where I carded someone who looked like they were 19 or so. Turns out they were in their fourties. Whoopsieees! I made their day though!

In July I went to Cirque du Soleil in Vancouver. F***ing amazing, especially since my mom and I upgraded our tickets to Tapis Rouge (red carpet). When we were escorted into the Tapis Rouge area, they were giving out little glasses of wine. I wanted one, but I forgot my ID at home. No dice, said the lady. Ok, whatever. Didn't kick up a stink about it, just didn't want her to get in shit for doing her job. Neither did my mom, but she snuck me a Bombay Sapphire drink a little later on. Hey, it WAS my 21st birthday present, even though it was back in February!

Personally, if people don't have their ID, and if they look underage I ain't selling them jack shit of age restricted stuff. Tough cookies. You want me to get the boss? Ok fine. He'll say the same damn thing as me. Now GTFO if you don't want anything else, or the RCMP will have a few words for you.

[Jester]

Huh, who'd have known, and all the times I used it when I was in Florida.

That's all well and good, but any ID that has no picture, as this one didn't, automatically disqualifies you from getting alcohol from me.

[blas]

I was referring to cigarettes in my previous post. I didn't really have that much of a problem with alcohol at the gas station because we had a B class license, meaning nothing harder than beer and malted beverages.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I've never had any suck when it comes to alcohol/cigarette purchasers at the wholesale club, nor at the grocery store almost nine years ago. Most of the ID suck I dealt with came when I worked at the movie theater. (Already documented in my Movie theater suck thread, probably ten, fifteen pages back by now.)

Short version:
"My ID's in my car!"
"Well, you'd better go get it."
"But the line's really long!"
"Well, you'd better go hurry!"
"Come on! Be a friend!"
"I'm not paid to be your friend."

[Muses_nightmare]

Drinking age in the U.S. is 21, not 18 or 19. Just saying.

Well, the guy was buying smokes, but the drinking/lotto/smoking/etc age in BC is 19, I probably should have specified where I was from. :P

[Nyoibo]

How the hell did they come at 19?

[Chromatix]

Probably the same way that the driving age is 17 in Britain. Or 16 for a moped or if you have a genuine need for it.

[CiggyStoreClerk]

So my mom's 36 (to make a long story short, she had me when she was 16) and she and my dad went to a casino in Ontario not too long ago. The gambling/smoking/drinking age in Ontario is 19.

As my parents were walking into the casino, the following exchange occurs.

SG: Security Guard
Mom: Pretty obvious

SG: Hey!
Mom: *keeps walking cause she didn't realize he was talking to her*
SG: *runs up to my mom* Hey! You! I need to see some ID!
Mom: Really?!
SG: *a little flustered by her reaction* Well, uh... how old are you?
Mom: I'm 36!
SG: Well, have a good night ma'am.

That made her year.

[Jester]

How the hell did they come at 19?

Probably the same way they come to a lot of age-based decisions: pure and total randomness.

Case in point: While the drinking age in all U.S. States is 21, the age you can SERVE alcohol varies. Most States set that age also at 21, while in my home state of Arizona it is 19, and here in Florida it is 21.

I get the logic behind the 21 thing. You have to be old enough to drink in order to serve drinks.
I get the logic behind the 18 thing. You're an adult, and while you aren't allowed to drink, we'll allow you to serve alcohol.
The logic behind the 19 thing in Zona? Completely escapes me.

[draftermatt]

You only have to be 18 to sell/serve alcohol in Maryland.

Go figure.

[Rapscallion]

How the hell did they come at 19?

Brain, meet gutter. Gutter, welcome brain back to your loving embraces.

Rapscallion

[Daisy]

Brain, meet gutter. Gutter, welcome brain back to your loving embraces.

Thanks, Raps. Thought I was the only one.

[Lil Bunny]

Thanks, Raps. Thought I was the only one.

*waves from her corner of the gutter*

[prb]

Drinking age - 19 ontario
Smoking - 19
Gambling (casino) - 19
Gambling (horse track betting) - 18
Lotto (not gambling, just wasting money) - 18
Serving alcohol - 18

Now go to Quebec, it's 18, and you probably wont be asked for ID

With Lotto, I find that I get asked for ID if I buy something and when I pay ask for a ticket, but if I just go in and ask for it I don't :S

[Nyoibo]

Brain, meet gutter. Gutter, welcome brain back to your loving embraces.

Rapscallion

And here I thought I'd escaped for a minute, oh well.

Case in point: While the drinking age in all U.S. States is 21, the age you can SERVE alcohol varies. Most States set that age also at 21, while in my home state of Arizona it is 19, and here in Florida it is 21.

A better one I think is that you have to be 21 to drink alcohol in the US, but you can serve in the military at 18, and if stationed overseas you can drink alcohol on base at 18.

Told to me by a friend who was stationed in Bosnia.