This week I decided that it was time to replace my 10 year old battered laptop which is basically on it’s last legs. I went to a certain geniuz bar store and got one. It turned out I could use my student/education discount! It’s been so long (30+ year) since I used one I nearly forgot about it. Saved a whopping $150 while the geniuz didn’t bat an eye. I think she thought I was faculty than an old man student.
I got my slightly cheaper laptop and away I went.
When was the last time you were carded at a bar? Were you offended or were you happy when that happened?
The last time I did was at a rave in my mid 30s (not my idea, but it was a friend’s birthday so we went to what felt like the least age appropriate bar in Toronto where I don’t think anyone was over 21… he thought going to this was going to make him feel young… uh, okay.) The bouncer looked me over like I was some pervert driving a windowless van. I shrugged at him and after seeing the crowd of young adults, I kinda felt like a pervert who drove a windowless van. A couple of my friends hung out for less than an hour talking over the annoying as fuck music and then we decided (wisely) to bug out. So shame.
Otherwise open thread/threat…
The last time I got carded, I was sporting fake IDs.
A few weeks ago the cashier at Trader Joe’s carded me to buy some wine. I thanked him for asking and said I appreciate him pretending I don’t look old.
In a classic, “ahh thanks, youthful asshole” moment – he said back to me “oh we had a cashier dinged on a secret shopper because he didn’t card the old lady buying wine.”
Thanks, bro.
i last got carded a few months ago…when the gubment passed a law what says anyone buying cigarettes must be carded…
lasted about a week before all the shops and gas stations stopped doing it due to a sharp rise in aggression towards cashiers/staff..
says something about the people here i think… its still law…but nobodies getting carded anymore…unless you look under 18…like it was before
…not sure?
…but I can think of two times in the past that I wasn’t that stand out in my memory?
…first one was longer ago…so…I was…old enough to drink in the UK…too young in the states…which is where I was…when the waiter made a point of offering me the option of a brandy after my coffee after my meal in the place that was posher than I was…after they moved us to that bit with tablecloths & such from the formica tables in the street-facing part on account of the one I was with done dressed the fuck up that time so I looked like they found me in goodwill…think that was san fransisco?
…the other one was some years after…I was legal to drink…despite being in cali…&…we had to go to “the spot” to “meet this friend of mine”…not mine-mine…of the guy I was with…who…did get carded at the door before his boy with the classic corvette with the curves & the chromed mufflers that really should be called something else when they make those noises showed…let’s see…carry the one…give or take…yeah…so my nobody-asked-to-see-shit ass would have been nearer half his age than the distance from 0-21…like…if you were checking the dude’s age it was to see if they qualified for an OAP discount (AARP if you nasty)
…maybe that’s why I’ve never actually had a fake ID?
If my hair is super-short, it’s still somewhat chestnut, and I can get carded at the grocery store. In Idaho you can buy beer and wine in grocery or convenience stores, so they sometimes ask for my ID.
Oh, and I also have to be clean-shaven. Because any facial hair coming in is gray-silver-white combo that is a dead give-away.