Anyone older than me ever get carded?

[bluehouse]

I got carded in a grocery store in Portland OR buying beer. All I could think of was people in Portland must really be rough if she's carding me. Let's just say I beat 47.

 

[jgln]

My husband got carded buying beer at Piggly Wiggly. He's 53. He's really cute, though, so I dunno if it was a come-on or if the idiot clerk really thought he might be under 30. The sign says their policy to card anyone who appears to be under 30.

Anyone under 30?? No wonder that is a tuff call to make with any certainty.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

My dad got carded a couple weeks ago. It is an unfortunate lady who works at a local grocer. He is 58.... we were floored. We were laughing so hard at her, it was pretty funny. All the other employees were giving her looks like, 'are you serious?' It was pretty comical. Also, he now has an almost completely white mustache.

 

[Jumbo82]

My 29 year old girlfriend and I - 26 years old - were carded two months ago at a rated R movie. Did the grandma behind the register really think either of us was 17? Seriously...

 

[DeathBrewer]

My wife is 37, actually a little bit older than I am. When we go out with my daughter, people think I'm a single dad with two kids.

I'm not sure whether that's hot or creepy :cross:

 

[TXCrash]

I was once the stupid clerk.

Gorgeous woman walks through the store. Can't help but check her out when ever she goes past (I was 19... not that it's changed much...).

She buys a couple bottles of wine - I card her, sure she's over 21, but MAYBE 25-30 (we were supposed to card everyone under 30 I think... been a while).

She was 49. I was shocked - she found it quite the compliment.

*I guess I should add that at 28, I can't remember the last time I got carded...

 

[jpsloan]

I'm getting to the point where I'm getting offended when they don't card me.

This week, I've had two separate occasions where someone literally sitting next to me was carded when I wasn't. I suppose it's all the white hairs in my goatee that's doing it.

Either that, or I don't look nearly as Adonis-like as I think I do.

 

[EvilTOJ]

I got carded in a grocery store in Portland OR buying beer. All I could think of was people in Portland must really be rough if she's carding me. Let's just say I beat 47.

They probably wanted to know where all y'all were from, rather than if you were of age

 

[wild]

I didn't get carded until I turned 21.

 

[bluehouse]

They probably wanted to know where all y'all were from, rather than if you were of age

Yea, 2 of my kids live in Portland we visit there a lot, it's an interesting mix of people. We have a year round sun tan and when we go to Portland that is usualy the first comment we get from new people is wow, you guys got some sun. The first time we were puzzeled, now we just say, yea, 350 days a year.

 

[SchizoFilly]

I can't beat the record here for age, but I did think it is strange when I don't get carded for buying beer/liquor, but damn near every time I buy my wife cigarettes I get carded. It's even happened, more than once, that I'll put beer on the counter and they'll scan it then ask for smokes and they ask for ID? WTF?

 

[TXCrash]

I can't beat the record here for age, but I did think it is strange when I don't get carded for buying beer/liquor, but damn near every time I buy my wife cigarettes I get carded. It's even happened, more than once, that I'll put beer on the counter and they'll scan it then ask for smokes and they ask for ID? WTF?

Not sure about TX but I know that the "Check ID" age for smokes is higher in OR than the "Check ID" age for booze...

 

[SchizoFilly]

Just the logic, or lack there of, thinking I was fine to buy beer but if I want to smoke with the beer I'm gonna need to prove my age. Just seems bass ackwards is all.

 

[2nd Street Brewery]

Iam 50 and was always carded in my 40s before I finally started getting grey. My wife is 2 years older than me and one day after I stopped in to visit her at work years ago one of her younger co-workers asked her if I was her son. I got so much **** for calling her Mom after that.

 

[the_bird]

I was once the stupid clerk.

Gorgeous woman walks through the store. Can't help but check her out when ever she goes past (I was 19... not that it's changed much...).

She buys a couple bottles of wine - I card her, sure she's over 21, but MAYBE 25-30 (we were supposed to card everyone under 30 I think... been a while).

She was 49. I was shocked - she found it quite the compliment.

*I guess I should add that at 28, I can't remember the last time I got carded...

COUGAR!

Some of the stores around here are ridiculous. I mean, I get carded all the time but until I grew my beard I looked 17. But, I've seen guys in their sixties get carded at Whole Foods, and I'm pretty sure the checkout clerks at the Price Chopper are forced to put in a date of birth for EVERY alcohol purchase.

I used to *love* being an ******* about carding people when they came in the store. There was one guy I carded like four times (and he was in his late 30s), but he was fine. I used to love the kids who would come in, grab a sixer, and try and bribe us with like ten bucks to let them walk out of the store - ****in' idiots...

a. do you see that security camera?
b. you think my JOB is worth $10?
c. you're a *********.