More ID headaches.

[Imogene]

I'm absolutely horrible at guessing ages on sight. Absolutely. Which is why, if you look less than thirty, and you head straight for our porn section, I'm tailing your ass until you get your hands in the section, and then I ask for ID.

Unless you were that one couple I had just before West County closed its doors, but I've told that story many a time.

[RogueOne]

We're a small place, we only have 1 bartender, care to guess who she is?

Hmmmm, I'm not sure,






gee, this is tough,








wait, wait, I think I got it!








Sam, right?









*runs and hides*

[Anakah]

The people who work in our players club are morons. They'll take ANY kind of ID and then when the people with the crappy and unacceptable ID come up to the cage it causes problems.

For instance, customers get a paper from the players card that is bascially a receipt to how much they've accumulated in their points. Now, we can cash them out but we need ID.

People always get so mad when we ask for ID.

"Why do you need ID?"

Me: Well, if someone dropped their receipt someone else could cash out their points...

Okay, there was this old man who came to my window. His License EXPIRED in 2005!

old man SC: Oh, I know it's expired but I only use it for ID purposes. I don't drive anymore.

me: Um, sir... This is invalid ID. You will eventually need to get some sort of updated ID...

He was sooo confused as to why he'd have to get an updated ID and why his wasn't valid.

But the players club screws us and we have to take the expired ID. I could've been a huge ass and made a big deal and not cashed out his twenty something dollars but I just and got on with it.

How could people not understand the concept of EXPIRED ID's are not acceptable ID. They're invalid! Drives me up a freaking wall. Or they're in another language or forgotten.

[Scottya21]

Regarding people who say, "But I'm <age X>!", I hear that the people who do stings have to answer you truthfully if you outright ask their age. Of course, probably don't wanna hang your job on a piece of hearsay, but yeah..

As far as foreign language license.. I don't know if it's all Canada, or just Quebec, but I get those all the time and it's hella annoying. Where in NY you have a bright red DOB: 01/03/83 or some such, the canadian ones have a huge blob of white letters and numbers at the top, and one of these blobs is the dob all mashed together, like "ASlkjvc?!123)(*!~010383!@#(f/asd["( I threw in a Bold to help you out) . I might be exagerating that one some, but it's still dumb.

I'm also all confused because it's a new year, and I have to switch to paying attention to people born in 89 and 86, not 88 and 85.

[Anakah]

I know this girl came to my window and she was born in 85 and I was confused for awhile whether or not she was 21! But alas she confessed to being almost 22.

I felt so stupid... I forgot that now we're looking for the 1986's!

[purplecat41877]

Yesterday, I had a customer request a manager when I asked him for ID. This customer mentioned that he's gotten the cigarettes in the past and I still insisted on seeing ID. I paged the manager only to find out from my service deck coworker who was about to leave at the time that he wasn't there and that I was the one in charge. I checked with this coworker and she believed he was old enough to have the cigarettes so she ok'd the sale.

[blas]

Oooh me too me too!

I got the "you must be new here, EVERYONE in this store knows I'm old enough" and I'd always say, "I've been here for nearly a year, and have never seen you"

Or they'd think I was kidding when I said no sale.

Or they'd think I was stupid and pull a fast one on me. Kid tries to buy ciggs with no ID, no sale. He walks out huffy. Out of the same car in the parking lot comes in another kid who asks for the same amount of packs of cigarettes same brand with exact same filthy 10 dollar bill. No way, dude. If you're gonna do that, park somewhere where I can't see.

Or they'd throw a fit or leave their beer at the counter and scream.

Boo hoo.

[TNT]

realizing this is an old topic...

Seriously, any business would rather refuse a sale then get popped for underage...

I can point out a few bar owners in the area who made their money in the business by having one very strict rule when it comes to ID: an engraving of George Washington is the only one that really counts. Things weren't quite as tough as they are now, and fines were considered a cost of doing business.

I had a particular dislike for one of them. Every few months, a friend and I would go into his bar. For reasons unknown, everybody thought we looked liked cops... if he wasn't there, the place would suddenly empty. Even if he was, there would still be enough panic to make it worthwhile.

[infavorofnaturalselection]

old man SC: Oh, I know it's expired but I only use it for ID purposes. I don't drive anymore.
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Quite a lot of people don't seem to realize they can get a non driver ID from the state goverment. Only one time that didn't work because a bartender couldn't seem to grasp what it was. I had to pull out an expired military ID card as well as my uncle in law vouch for me to actually get my drink.

Now there are a lot of people that require ID who don't seem to look too closely at it because a lot of people have been able to fake IDs to get into goverment buildings. We aren't talking convincing fakes either that a master forger would do but IDs with obviously fake names, fake addresses, other things that should draw up a huge red flag.

A passport also can be used as an ID especially when boarding a plane. Much easier to just to have that in your hand then pulling it out of a purse or a wallet. Your going to get carded multiple times anyway.

[justZu]

The only thing worse than young people complaining that they got carded is old women complaining that they didn't get carded. Seriously, if you have more wrinkles than a shar-pei and your hands look like vulture claws, give up on the delusion that you look 18. I don't care if you have a boob job and a belly ring, you LOOK OLD. You are fooling no one but yourself. The worst part is some of them are dead serious - they are genuinely offended that I don't think they're a teenager. Sometimes I card them just to get a tip.

[blas]

JustZu, tell those old bitties if they want to get carded and look younger, they better head out and get some Botox.

[Sliceanddice]

I am suddenly filled with much love for the Arizona MVD. On my license, and on people younger or older than I, at the bottom are the words UNDER 21 UNTIL (year) so it elimates some math.

OT
My friend is planning evil curruption when i turn 21 that will involve me getting a passport and learn how to order booze in spanish..... i shouldn't have told her i would allow a browncoat to currupt me.....

[Andara Bledin]

California licenses do that, too, I think.

I didn't get a party when I turned 21. Nor one at 18, either.

My ex was really a putz in that regard, and most of our friends were his friends first.

^-.-^

[Sir Spaniard the 12th]

The other night (about a week ago now), I had the strangest attempt I've seen from someone who I asked ID of.

Her:Why did I need it, since she was <age>?
Me: Because I don't know that, do I?
Her: But I just told you.
Me: Yes, but I don't know you.
Her: I've got my HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION JERSEY. (has the year of completion on the back.)
Me: ... That's not ID. And how do I even know that it's really yours, anyway? I. Do. Not. Know. You.
Her: <Walks out in a huff.>


Turns out that she ended up having ID in the car she was in, but was so huffy that after returning and showing me, stormed out without bothering to buy cigarettes...

[DesignFox]

In New Jersey, there are two ways to know at a glance if the person is 21.

On old licenses: You face sideways in your photo if you are under 21. Straight ahead if you are 21 or older. -OR- you used to be able to get a non-picture license once you turned 21.

On the New and Improved license (which is currently the ONLY valid form of ID- even though if you still have an old one which doesn't expire until the end of this year you can still drive...someone explain that shit to me)-
If you are under 21, your license is vertical. 21+ it is horizontal.

They are now nearly impossible to fake- your birthdate appears in 2 places on the license- it's usual spot up top, and across your photo in UV sensitive ink.