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An ID card? Really? Wow. I look as old as AIJ, Assail, and Leo...

#1 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:19 PM

So, I'm in Wallyworld getting groceries, and need to pick up a couple DVD's I've lost or haven't yet purchased. I pick up Transformers, Lost in Translation, and Old School. (This isn't about movie taste, so if you don't like those movies, go bitch me out in the Movie forum.)

After that, I get my groceries, and am over the 20 limit for the fast aisle. Amazingly enough, little old Asian lady in Lane 3 has no one there. Score! I hurry over to her and start unloading my stuff onto the conveyor belt. I'm just laying that stuff out there as fast as possible, because well, it's Wallyworld and the longer I'm in there the greater the chance I see something otherworldly and start laughing hysterically, and I don't want to be rude.

So, while I'm studiously ignoring the other Wallyworlders, a voice comes out of the blue asking for a card. I assume the lady wants my Debit card. Then I track back quickly in my brain and am stumped.

She has asked me for my ID card. I'm furiously thinking... WTF? I'm not buying booze, I don't smoke anymore... LIGHTBULB goes off in my head. And I choke out:

"You want my ID card?" Lady says, "Yes." And I start laughing. Loudly.

I look at her and mid-laugh say: "That is the first time I've ever been carded for a movie."

Old School is rated R you see, and you have to be 17 to purchase it. I continue laughing, and she just says... "Well, it's a good thing... right?"

I am 28 (29 in 4 months) and I got carded for a movie.

When o when will my puberty hit and I won't look like a fresh-faced, angst filled teenager anymore?

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:24 PM

Are you sporting a beard or not?

If you had a beard there would have been no carding.

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#3 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:26 PM

I shaved yesterday. Still... a MOVIE? Lol.

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:32 PM

Wear a fake beard. Then calmly hand them your ID whenever they ask for it. I recommend this advice to all my female friends.

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#5 Slow Ben

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:35 PM

I feel you. I got carded in college to buy bb's.....you have to be 15.

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:36 PM

Yeah, I get carded all the time when I go to buy M-rated video games. It's ridiculous. I do look pretty young when freshly shaven, but still, not 17!

You'll never catch me buying a DVD, so I wouldn't know about that, but I'm pretty sure it's just stores covering their asses by telling employees they can get fired if they don't card everybody...

#7 MTS

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:40 PM

I've never gotten carded in my life. Not for movies, booze, even nightclubs. I look like I'm 16 as well lol.

EDIT Are AIJ, Assail and Leo our youngest members? Shit, I'm not that far in front of Assail...

This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 06 June 2009 - 11:47 PM

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#8 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:50 PM

Evidently Sixty is quite young as well. Bwgan's missing Twilighter daughter's age is unknown.

Also, I don't believe you about the night-clubs. Unless rules aren't as strict in Oz as they are in the US about that stuff. Clubs get shut-down in a hurry if they get caught doing that stuff.

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:50 PM

I was in clubs from at least 17 and first got ID'd at 21. Facial hair is great, as long as it looks like a beard and not bumfluff.

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#10 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:51 PM

Well yeah, but you all can drink a heck of a lot earlier than us as well. (Jealous

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#11 MTS

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:55 PM

HoosierDaddy, on Jun 7 2009, 09:50 AM, said:

Also, I don't believe you about the night-clubs. Unless rules aren't as strict in Oz as they are in the US about that stuff. Clubs get shut-down in a hurry if they get caught doing that stuff.

Clubs usually card most people, but I only really go to two clubs, as I mostly hit pubs and bars, and at one the bouncer is my dad's friend so he doesn't card me. It might be my gf. All my mates get carded, but when I'm with her I go straight in.

Yeah drinking at 18 rocks. There's a lot of underage stuff going though, right? Otherwise Superbad lied to me...

Oh, I think bwgan's daughter is 18...

This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 07 June 2009 - 12:18 AM

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:57 PM

I know people who get IDed for buying soft drinks in a pub... I think it's dumb, but at the same time... having been a barman, I know I have no requirement to serve ANYONE I don't want to for anything, so it might just be an excuse for just not liking the look of someone. In a shop though, that seems dumb.

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:59 PM

How can you get id'd for buying soft drinks?

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:59 PM

I have the opposite problem... im 23, and i never get carded for booze now... and I used to think it was cool, but now it irritates me...

like at the last time, buying beer from a store called HEB similar to wall-mart, any way I digress, the older guys in front of me got carded... they were had at least 10 years on me... but when i come in right after them... no not at all... and by store policy there actually suppose to card everyone... but no not zanth, he looks to fucking old to be carded...

some chics thought i was older then my 30 year old friend once as well at the club... stupid chics...

i think i still have young boyish good looks

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 12:13 AM

HoosierDaddy, on Jun 6 2009, 07:50 PM, said:

Aye, still in high school here.

And even I've never been carded for anything.

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 12:37 AM

Slow Ben, on Jun 7 2009, 12:59 AM, said:

How can you get id'd for buying soft drinks?

Because if you don't want people in your bar, you can refuse them for anything at all. Logic doesn't work in a shop though, again.

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#17 Slow Ben

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 12:39 AM

Ah, I get it.

I was always a bouncer. Its more fun to sling people headfirst out the door. Using their head to open it of course.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 12:59 AM

I got asked my age when buying beer at Tesco a few weeks ago. I was clean shaven and also wearing a hat which hid all my grey hair... But really, WTF? I actually thought the guy was taking the piss, I'm nearly 40 ffs, but it turned out that he wasn't... Very weird.

Bank staff keep on asking me what I'm studying too. I know I do look younger than my actual age but not that much younger.

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 01:19 AM

It's all in the facial hair, my dear Hoosier....

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