Kind of underwhelming...

[Mental_Mouse]

I wish I'd been on the ball enough to have suggested she take a picture of the beer. After all, in her own words, a picture's as good as the real thing, right?

Per the old Chinese tale: The sound of money is the proper price for the smell of food.

[Sparklyturtle]

You'd regret it a lot more if she was actually underage (suspect that's the case) and you get caught serving her alcohol.

[Dragon_Dreamer]

Kinda like the delaminated, mostly white, chewed in half with doggy tooth marks ID someone tried to give me once for cigarettes. Or the guy who tried to give me a prison ID.

Or the trio of tweenage idiots who could only show me 1 ID for the three of them, came back in later to try again, and when called out on it a third time, threatened to "pop a cap in [my] ass". I live in a small tourist trap, NOT the city. I laughed them out of the store. Never did see them again.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I wish I'd been on the ball enough to have suggested she take a picture of the beer. After all, in her own words, a picture's as good as the real thing, right?

Only if they give you a picture of the money.

[CyberLurch]

Next time they offer you a picture of an ID, you could always offer them a picture of the alcohol they're trying to buy.

I wish I'd been on the ball enough to have suggested she take a picture of the beer. After all, in her own words, a picture's as good as the real thing, right?

[Terza]

I've taken ID when a customer showed me a picture of his passport on his phone, once. But, I vaguely recognised him as someone I'd served before with proper ID, and the pic/name confirmed it. But then, as night shift, I tend to see the same people over and over, so if I've seen your ID once or twice I'm not going to bother to check again!

[Sheldonrs]

One of the Australian states is talking about trialing digital licenses. So that's going to make having a night out interesting for some people when they go out.

Dakhur
Beyond the black stump, breeding the finest in combat wombats

That’s when they’ll start the “my ID is on my phone but I’m out of charge or WiFi isn’t working, etc.”

[EricKei]

What mk said. We'll be lucky if they actually use digital photography tech to take the pictures (rather than the old-school folding cams).

[mhkohne]

Of course she/they will. I'm dead and in purgatory, after all.



Presumably such a system will be a bit more sophisticated than an easily-Photoshopped picture of an ID on a cell phone.

Given the way government software contracts tend to go, I assure you that it will not.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Next time they offer you a picture of an ID, you could always offer them a picture of the alcohol they're trying to buy.

[CyberLurch]

My favorite "lack of ID" experience is still the time someone said "I lost my wallet, but you can call my mom. She'll verify who I am."

I've been hit with similar attempts, though admittedly it's been a while. And they were shocked, and angered, that I'd tell them no. And, of course, the concept that people might lie to get what they want was utterly foreign to them.

[Mriswith]

My favorite "lack of ID" experience is still the time someone said "I lost my wallet, but you can call my mom. She'll verify who I am."

[CyberLurch]

If she'll be back, and in greater numbers... Dude, you're not in Purgatory, but somewhere a little less pleasant. On the plus side, you'll have a REASON for all the "Customers from Hell".

Ah, but eventually I'll die for real, so my suffering will be finite. Plus I get days off. Theoretically, any way.

[Buzzard]

If she'll be back, and in greater numbers... Dude, you're not in Purgatory, but somewhere a little less pleasant. On the plus side, you'll have a REASON for all the "Customers from Hell".

[CyberLurch]

She'll be back, and in greater numbers.

Of course she/they will. I'm dead and in purgatory, after all.

One of the Australian states is talking about trialing digital licenses. So that's going to make having a night out interesting for some people when they go out.

Presumably such a system will be a bit more sophisticated than an easily-Photoshopped picture of an ID on a cell phone.