The upside to asking for an id (or "you're like 12 compared to me")

[solidmetalgear19]

For starters, I had no idea where to put this story cause it isn't sucky so much as it is good for a laugh

So SAW 4 came out in theatres this past weekend. Naturally since its rated R here in the states we have to check for ids on any one who even remotley looks under the age of 17.

For most of the weekend, the customers did a pretty good job of this. They either had ID or were kind enough to bring or get an adult with them. Hardley got any guff from anyone.

So it's like 10 on Sat night and I'm ready to call it in for the evening. I'm taking my second shift of tickets for the night when this girl and her husband/brother/boyfriend (hell i don't know, pick one) comes through with tickets to SAW 4.

The girl looked young, or maybe I was just tired and didn't know better. Any hoo, our exchange goes somethinglike this.

Me: Bouncer Mcticket taker
H: Her
HU: Head usher

Me: Can i see an ID please.

H: (seemed a little irate/shocked) Why do you need my id?

I realize that I may have just confused a grown woman with a teen girl. This happened once before and i got my ass chewed out for it. Now begins the whole covering of my ass scenario.

Me: Uh, well we have a policy where we have to card anyone who we suspect of being under the age of 17.

H:

Me: (Okay, must have done something right)

H: I'm like 40 years old (adlibbed by me)

Oh good,this totally went in the right direction.

Me: (still not totally understanding why she keeps laughing) Okay, is this a bad thing on my part or a good thing on your part?

She just keeps laughing and walks into the theatre with her friend.

H: If you ever come to my job I'm carding you.

Me: where do you work?

H: At the mall.

so now i'm laughing it up with my coworkers and the security guards. then she comes out to use the bathroom and goes back into the theatre.

H: How old are you?

Me: Uh, 19

H: Jeez, you're like 12 compared to me. I'm like 36

okay, so i just made this woman's night apparently. I'm feeling better about the whole scenario when my head usher comes to the tickets stand. she had been talking to the woman as well and told me the little conversation that they had been having.

H: do you know that young man over at the ticket stand.

HU: *in her head* Oh crap, she's probably going to tell me he was mean or something.

H: He is the funniest guy ever!

What a night huh?!

[princess4life]

This stroy totally reminded me of a guy I work with. On his first day of work he didn't know I was married or how old I was so he thought it was great to hit on me. One of the lines he used was "You know love knows to age?" When I asked him what he ment by that he said cause I am so much younger then him, and that age didn't matter. So I asked him how old he was the reply 19 I fell over laugh cause I am almost 10 years older then he is.

[Broomjockey]

This totally reminds me of the time I asked a lady for her ID for an 18A movie, as she was by herself, and she turns and YELLS to her friend at the self-serve ticket machine "I GOT ID'ED! I GOT ID'ED!" Turns out she was in her late 30's. She and her friends all had a good laugh out of it.

[XCashier]

I once carded a woman who turned out to be in her early 40s. She was quite flattered. "Wow, wait 'til I tell my husband!"

[BlaqueKatt]

amazingly at the grocery store here, they have a seperate liquor store-I bought a six pack and went to the regular store to get a pack of menthol flavored death preventers(If I have them no one dies ), with 6 pack in hand-I ask for my other addiction AN GET CARDED!! The liquor store didn't card me. So I asked the cashier if I could set my Ale down on her counter while I got my ID out of my pocket

[reformedwaitress]

I tend to get the "You made my day!" thing from a lot of people, cause I will card ANYONE I have ANY inkling might POSSIBLY be close to 21, just to make sure we're covered. Heavy fines and punishments for serving underage and as upstairs at night can be dark, it can be hard to gauge ages. So I err on the side of caution. I rarely get people being pissed off; usually I just get a big grin and "Thank you so much I love you" from women who probably miss being carded.

[SuperB]

A couple of weeks ago we're at the casinos with friends and my husband and his friend were at a table together and both ordered a beer.
Friend was carded, husband was not.
Husband didn't get over that one so well as he's younger than friend.

[Boozy]

I still get carded, and I'm a few months shy of 30. Not as impressive as some of these 40 year-olds getting asked for their ID, but it still makes me happy.

I don't buy alcohol outside my own wine store, and I have quit smoking, so it hasn't happened in a few months.

My plan for my 30th birthday is to go to the liquor store and (hopefully) get carded. I could probably use a pick-me-up that day.

[Andara Bledin]

Heh. This all reminds me of something that happened when I was in junior high school.

I had been picked up the day before and some of my classmates asked if the person in the car was my older sister. I was 11 or 12 at the time.

I had to explain that the person was not my sister, but my aunt. My mom's twin sister. 23 years older than me. They were all shocked. I just laughed, because I was used to it.

^-.-^

[princess4life]

if I pick up a six pack at the grocery store and have my kids with me no one asks for my ID, but if I don't have my kids with me I card carded. I asked the cashier the one time why they didn't ID me when I had my kids with me her reply was "No one under 21 could have 3 kids that age." the thing is how did she know they where my kids and I wasn't the babysitter, aunt, or older sister considering that my kids have learned they are more likely to get treats if they dont talk at the check out

[Tigress]

I get this often when I get hit on by young guys that thinking I'm their age. A lot of times it's "What school do you go to?" "What grade are you in?" "What's your major?" When I inform them that I got my BS in 2001, you can hear the tires squealing as they backpedal.

Ironically, when I was in high school, people thought I was in my 20s. And students that didn't know me thought I was one of the teachers.

[MadRocketScientist]

Sadly, I stopped getting carded at 16 (receeding hairline and the ability to grow a full beard might have had something to do with it)

[TheKit10666]

I always get carded. Sometimes this is very sad. My sister, who by the way is six years younger than I am and a minor, and myself went to the movies together and it was a rated R movie. They asked me for id but did not ask my sister. My sister was thirteen at the time and I was the one that had to buy her ticket. She just laughed the whole way to the line.

[Andara Bledin]

Ironically, when I was in high school, people thought I was in my 20s. And students that didn't know me thought I was one of the teachers.

You, too? When I was a freshman in high school (13 years old), I once got asked if I was attending the local college (which I happened to be walking past), and another time (still in high school, only 17, now) someone at my school thought I was one of the teachers.

^-.-^

[chops]

I've only started to not get carded myself, and I'm 31. Coincidentally, I grew out a mustache and beard around the time the cardings slowed down.

On the other hand, when I'm with GolfCart34, I almost always get carded for the simple reason that I'm in the same party as her.