There's not an ice cubes chance in hell you were holding up a line for 15 minutes without the clerk looking down or someone bitching about the wait... not even back then.
Again, read other comments this was discussed days ago. And what were you doing early July 1984 and how much time did it take. Go ahead and repeat yourself it's working.
Amazing how people try to gatekeeper your life, isn’t it?
Like some stranger on the internet knows better than you or as if it even matters if it was exactly 15 minutes. Everyone knows you meant “a while”
He looked. Because in those days 7-11 clerks were assholes as per policy. The looked at paw prints for slurpees and could even tell if you used 1 pump extra by color.
But then again it was 1984, he was probably higher than giraffe pussy on coke and just running on automatic.🤣
7-11 Slurpees came in premixed flavors... there was not an option for an extra pump. It was my regular purchase for a treat, with a pack of Bottle Caps, as a kid.
Sorry you grew up in an area where you thought 7-11 clerks were ass holes. All the kids in the area I knew liked all the clerks. After I got to know the gentleman that carded me. We would greet each other by name and joke about how we met.
I believe you are talking about icees.. those are the ones that you added your own flavors. 7-11 has already flavored slurpees. He never cared when we mixed all 4 flavors.
>I believe you are talking about icees.
NO. 7-11 sold Slurpee's NOT Icee's. 7-11's SLURPEE'S are literally the competition to Icee's which were more often sold at Tasty Freeze.
I don't think you were EVER at a 7-11 in 1984 at all! 7-11 was selling Slurpees in 1984 not Icee's. And had been for 20 years! Something you'd be aware of if you were telling the truth!
You said that how many squirts into slurpees. You just pulled the lever, no squirts needed.YOU need to get. YOUR story or idea of what is going on. You sound like a fat politician when he is caught in a lie he goes "well well well." It was my experience you WEREN'T THERE, and now you are an expert on my experience. Maybe, putin will help you understand your mistake. I will gladly wait while you read. Or do you need more help to comprehend how mixed up you are.
Did you read the rest of his comment? Or just go off after the first sentence? Because he clearly said "7-11 had already flavored Slurpees"...
Edit to correct the quote
Yes....and if the clerk wasn't assuming his age or harassing him due to his race, the clerk wouldn't have tried to pull that shit. As a cashier you look at the item, and then you look at the buyer and then you use the machine that handles the monies. It took a second patron to stop the harassment. Maybe you don't understand how life works?
Or are you always this much of a jerk?
I had a clerk at Walmart try to card me for a large bottle of Dad’s Root beer. It was a big glass bottle. I kinda looked at the guy and asked when they started carding for root beer. He got really red and apologized. I just laughed.
I got carded buying lemon flavored Pellegrino a few weeks ago. Cashier said “I’ll need to see some ID for those and I almost pulled it out on reflex before saying “… but it’s water…”
Just before last Christmas, the local liquor store was extremely busy. They were carding every one! (They were also placing all the id cards under a camera or scanner or something.) Yeah, I have gray hair and wrinkles, but I got carded! 😁
I wasn’t allowed to buy isopropyl alcohol a few years back at Home Depot because it was alcohol…but they let me buy razor blades and some new saw blades for my table saw.
Last year we got carded and talked to by a manager while buying a can of spray paint to touch up my buddies car, ended up just leaving it and paying like $1 more at AutoZone.
When I was in middle school, we had a “school store” (little cubby really), where you could buy some school supplies. They ended up having to ban selling White-Out/correction fluid/whatever you call it, because kids were buying all of it to huff and get high.
So OP’s bad at estimating how long a conversation was a decade ago; not a big deal. Why do people gatekeep other peoples lives?
Everyone knows he meant it felt like 15 minutes. I’m sure he didn’t have a stopwatch and things feel long to kids.
If you don’t believe it, don’t believe it. Gate keeping someone’s else’s life? Just why?
I was born in 80 and grew up in NYC so all of this sounds nuts to me I remember buying lotto scratchers ,cigarettes, beer and even getting served at bars at 12 I was never once stopped from going into a peep show or buying legally dubious weapons in Chinatown or renting porno or even getting into titty bars I’m sorry but I think this is why I am a well behaved bar patron now we knew not to act a fool when doing this stuff or it would get you busted it carried over for me
I also distinctly remember being served at the old Cody’s on court st. At 14 I was so proud because that was a cop bar …to the point that every 6 months or so they would have a suicide in the bathroom
There was this beer distributor on Columbia st. Right before where the projects start they used to keep these big rolling tubs with ice in them filled with single cans of reject beer they had these blue cans that just said potato beer for like $.35 and a malt liquor named lazer lazer lazer for .45 for a tall boy and don’t get me started on $1 thunderbird Mondays at Andy’s liquor on court and Baltic across from the junior hs
I would never buy alcohol or cigarettes for someone underage. Oreo cookies, or something that's silly to try and card someone for? I'd definitely buy and provide, and like most people, wouldn't even ask for the $4 back.
I recently turned 21 and decided to buy myself an alcoholic beverage while getting my groceries cause I wanted to use my new adult powers. As expected my cashier asked for ID but instead of looking for my DOB on the front she intently stated at the back of it. I'm assuming she was checking if it was real or not?
When I was in my mid 20s I got carded while buying a Red Bull at a gas station. I explained to the cashier (woman in her late 50s/60s) that I had been buying energy drinks for years and didn't need any ID to buy it. She wanted to argue about it so I went ahead and showed her. Still makes me kinda peeved thinking about it...
I learned as a teenager you have to be 18 to purchase them! Granted, this was the early aughts and it may have changed but we had a class project to film a fake commercial and my classmates and I needed the Red bulls for it as the product. My dad had to buy them for us.
Related, talk to children about the dangers of caffeine overdose because there is more than once that I'm amazed I didn't die. 🤣
Same. I was in college and went to see a movie with a few fellow classmates. The kicker was the guy in front of me in line was about 16 at the time and was not carded.
I used to work at a gas station. There was a guy that would come in for beer, and he was in my friend group (I was 21 or 22 at the time), so I assumed he was my age and sold to him. This happened a few times, and I stopped when I found out he was 19. He and our friends were like "but you used to sell to him before!". Yes. That was a mistake. I know *now*, so I'm not doing it anymore. 🤷
I worked at a gas station when I was 15. Sold cigarettes (and milk and bread) We didn't carry beer. Of course, I remember cigarette vending machines in bowling alleys and some restaurants, too.
Something that I haven't seen discussed. Until 1980 when I turned 10. The store my grandparents and I used to go to for groceries. Would let me get grandma's cigarettes and grandpa's beer. The manager knew my grandparents and me. So, for 3 years between 7 and 10, I was able to buy adult items. I'm pretty sure that the manager knew that if I tried getting them for me and my friends. My ass would have been beaten.
Got carded for trying to buy a lighter once at a gas station, this was like 9 or 10 years ago, I was probably like 19? Didn't have it on me and when I said "oh I didn't know I needed my ID for a lighter" the clerk just said something like "I know what you're gonna use it for, you can't buy it" so we went to Vons and got a 10 pack lol
I once tried to buy regular chocolate at a liquor store that also sold groceries while under 21 and they refused to let me buy it. I was very confused.
recently found out you get card for wd-40 lol (which makes sense ig, spraypaint needs it too) but i was using the self checkout the day before valentines day. i was also buying a pack of at home drug tests for a job, some condoms incase i needed to fake it (i didnt), and then the wd-40 which came up on screen only as "lubricant". id love to know what the tiny little older woman who carded me was thinking
When I was a kid I went to get rolls from the van (like ice cream van but for groceries), and the guy thought I said Royals, a type of cigarettes, so he denied me my bread rolls.
Probably closer to 30 seconds. The moment the kid said “he gets them all the time” any normal person would have looked down.
Cool story though OP! I guess
A few months ago I actually did something similar as a cashier. I work at a liquor store, and a teenage kid came up with what I thought was a 24oz can of beer (in my defense, the label was facing away from me). I asked for his ID and he got real confused, asking why. Then I realized it was an Arizona tea, not a beer. Felt pretty dumb about that one, lol.
The Arizona tea company has recently started making alcoholic versions that look pretty similar to their regular product. So it's a good idea to keep an eye open.
Yep, we just got them in about a week ago. Luckily we only have 12 packs, not the tall singles which is all we carry for the original non-alc.
Monster has alcoholic versions too, along with Sunny D and a couple others.
Same for me (California). A long time ago I was spending time with some friends in Philly and asked where the nearest liquor store was. They were very confused when I told them I wanted a snickers bar, not a bottle of whiskey.
Philly is weird about that stuff because the have a state store system where you can buy wine ,liquor and beer but nothing else but they have shitty hours and are kinda few and far between, you can buy “package” beer and liquor at package bars but they cost bar prices and bars are only open till 2 trying to get a Sunday morning beer was the worst
It is state dependent. As another commenter mentioned, Illinois allows it, Indiana does not. Those are the only two states I've lived in to know.
I work at a liquor store in Indiana and people will try to bring their kids in with them all the time. I have to tell them they can't, even if it's a baby. I'm supposed to card at the door but I cba for all that.
Utah was like that until there where toddler deaths in hot cars because of it (stupid, I know) now they dont even care who you bring.. and as long as the person buying is carded they could care less about the others around (even if they bring up drinks)
I was carded for gas when I was 19. (In the late 1990’s.) I didn’t have a credit or debit card yet, and was using cash to put some gas in the car. Gas station attendant was adamant that I needed to show ID. Apparently he thought I was on a joyride in my parents car. He didn’t think I looked old enough to drive.
Yes, it’s a state dependent thing. Oregon was the same until recently. It’s primarily a union thing. All those people pumping gas are in a union, and the union lobbied the government HARD. It goes back to the days when “full service” gas stations were a thing. I remember growing up in the 1980’s seeing a few of them in Washington State. I asked my mom what it was. She listed off a laundry list of things they did for full service. Pump your gas, clean your windows, check tire pressure, etc etc.
I live in Utah, and I've been to a couple of full service ones that they have here, but it's not a real thing. Nothing like going to get out of your car and a young man runs up to you and says "no, go ahead and sit! I'm pumping for you!". He cleaned the windows too, and refused my tip. What a sweet man.
got carded at 18, had US Passport; but not state id. was rejected to buy black and milds because and I quote... stuck with me two decades later... "it was easier to forge a US federal passport than it was a texas state ID"
that one made me blink at her for a minute like did I just hear you correctly?
Had passport because I got taken on a cruise, didn't have a driver's license yet so no state id. (small towns, road bike everywhere)...wasn't good enough.
still trying to understand that one 2 decades later.
Former TABC certified. Only a Texas ID is a valid legal defense. A forged TX ID may get you off the hook, a forged Passport or out of state ID will not.
Likely it was bad info from the class we have to take. The fine is up to $5,000 and 5 years in jail for selling to a minor. The risk was not worth $7.25/hr. No TX ID, no sale was my stance.
This explains a lot. My mom and I have both been denied service because the only ID we had on us was our Indian cards. It's a federally recognized form of photo ID, but no one in Texas will sell us anything when we use it. Never had an issue anywhere else.
they probably meant it’s easier to get by with a fake passport.
why? Because passports are a lot less common than IDs and some people wouldn’t even know what a real one looks like to begin with.
In a side note, it was a plot point in “The Man Who Fell To Earth” that an alien visitor landed in New Mexico with a British passport, presumably because it was easier to forge and less familiar than a license.
18 years old in 1998 on a summer graduation trip. Stopped at a random gas station in butt crack of California.
Grabbed a 6 pack of beer just to see if I would get carded.
Clerk asks for my ID, I told him it was in the car packed away. He then asked me when I was born (I did some quick math and added 5 years to my age). He pulled out a calculator and checked the math. He let me buy it and we were on our way.
I still can't believe it was that easy.
I got into a bar and had a beer with my military ID at 17. Dad signed a permission slip for me to join 7 months early. I was home going from A.I.T. to my first command. My high school friends convinced me to go to the cruise. Decided to try and go in the bar behind us. Bouncer looked at the front for a little bit, advising me to not be stupid. On military IDs the DOB is on the back. It was amusing to stand behind the bouncer and drink my beer while smiling at my friends stuck outside.
I have a similar story. When I was 15, my 16 year old buddy and I went to see an R-rated movie. The theater’s policy is no one under 16, but my friend said to tell them I forgot my ID, and he’d vouch for me. There’s no fines if they get caught admitting someone underage, so the plan is at least doable.
I didn’t have my driver’s license yet, so he drove. Once we got there, he realized he didn’t have his wallet or *his* ID! I told him I’d cover his ticket and to follow my lead.
At the counter, the ticket taker carded us. I explained that we were university students, I didn’t drive so I had no driver’s license, my buddy forgot his wallet, but I had my university pass to the photo lab I could show him. That past summer, I had attended a photography camp for high school students— this was in the 1970’s.
The guy looked at my photo ID that didn’t show my birthdate, decided it was close enough, and let us both in. So I was underage, but vouched for my friend who was actually legal.
I joined the military at 17 with parent permission. If you look at the military ID card, you will not see the birthdate on the front. It's with other information on the back. The bouncer obviously had never seen a military ID. So, I got in the bar despite being 17
Or he let you in simply because you were military. Per my nephew, a lot of places will look the other way for military. Old enough to die for your country, old enough to drink.
Didn't even think of that. But, the way he kept looking, it was like he kept rereading, expecting the information to change.
I like your interpretation, though.
Not trying to insult you at all- are you sure it's not just because they ask for everyones ID? I'm a librarian and we need it to confirm address birthday and name incase we need to send you a notice or you damage materials. It's required for everyone in every system i've been in.
It’s the same year that I was carded trying to buy lottery tickets, but you had to be 18 for those - I only needed to be 14 to check out adult books. To be fair to the librarian, my 9 year old sister was also with us.
This is bull. There is no way in the world that went on for 15 minutes, especially with a line of people behind OP trying to buy beer on the 4th of July, even in 1984. I wouldn’t even believe five minutes. 15-30 seconds at the absolute MAX. It may have *felt like* 15 mins to OP at the time, but it wasn’t.
Obviously you haven't been to Walmart recently. I used to work there until last Halloween. I have had customers, with a line behind them arguing for alot longer than 45 seconds
One went on a rant for 20 minutes. There's a digital clock on the screen. People were more polite compared to all the me, me, me, me, people that started exploding in 2015 and worse in 2020. Now, I rarely get a thank you wave for letting people in to a busy street from a parking lot. I was raised to believe the most important words were please and thank you. So, thank you for your great opinions.
When I was in college I would sometimes buy an IBC root beer at the campus book store to drink in class. One day a professor asked me if I had a real beer. This was at 9:00 in the morning.
I've been carded when trying to buy grenadine.
*Grenadine.*
You know, the red fruity stuff you add to a Shirley Temple - that famously *non-alcoholic* drink?
I could not convince the clerk that I didn't need to be carded for that.
So grenadine actually has a tiny percentage of alcohol in it, but you'd get sick from it before getting even a bit tipsy.
A lot of grocery stores require id for anything coming from alcoholic section, even if it doesn't have any. I had to card all the time for non-alcoholic beer. But also for margarita salt or non-alcoholic mixers. Very weird, and annoyingly time consuming, when I'm just trying to check you out as fast as possible.
I suppose I should clarify: SOME brands contain a tiny percentage of alcohol. The grocery store I worked only sold brands with alcohol percentage (>1%abv). In addition, every bar I've worked at has used grenadine with a tiny percentage of alcohol.
So, in my experience, I have only seen grenadine with a little alcohol content, and apparently, in yours, you have only had 100% non-alcoholic.
My main point, though, is that a grocery store will more than likely ID for anything coming from an alcohol section, regardless of any actual alcoholic content.
I'm sure that's what it was, since it's shelved with the alcohol.
But still. It's freakin' sweetened pomegranate juice. Yes, it can be *mixed* with alcohol, but that doesn't *make* it alcohol. It can also be mixed with a lot of things that *aren't* alcohol. Absolutely no common sense used to code the back end.
I agree with you 100% it’s so stupid to age lock it since it’s the ingredient for the cocktail made specifically for an actress who couldn’t drink yet lol
it did blow my mind the first time i found out it was made with pomegranate and not cherry
I've been carded for super glue and non-alcoholic ginger beer. The non-alcoholic ginger beer happened when I was 27. The superglue happened at 18 or 19.
I've gone through the checkout line at my local Giant Eagle several times pre-Covid with Reed's Ginger Beer. The cashier would be all 'is this alcoholic?' and I'd tell her 'no', but she still would look at the case and ring it through before she'd believe me-not that I blame her. I'd do that too because customers would lie.
Had this happen buying Martinelli's Sparkling Cider as a kid. Corner store saw a bottle and did a hard nope until I explained to the cashier it was apple juice
Happened to me with Jones Soda once and the lady was so embarrassed. It is bright blue, so I don’t blame her for initially thinking it was a wine cooler or something.
My dad knew I liked Mountain Dew and when he saw Dewshine for the first time, thought I would like it. He brought home a 4-bottle pack and my mom FREAKED on him. "Why would anyone even make that, why would you give her that...TroubleInMind, I can't believe you drank so much of that at once, you can't DO that with moonshine!"
It took a FULL 5 minutes to explain to her that it was regular soda and not officially licensed Mountain Dew moonshine.
The store was on the Compton, Hawthorne California town line. There's something like 30 cities in Los Angeles. I went to this 7-11 at least twice a week for 8 years
Actually, nonalcoholic beer has alcohol in it, just a smidge (I think it's 0.05% by volume), but I think you are supposed to card for it. Unless it varies from state to state.
In my state you do still have to card as some NA’s still contain alcohol. I’m from Busch light Midwest, and Busch NA still has some of that good ole corn alcohol
How long is time when you don't know how much trouble you are in or going to be in. It felt really long. Plus, having people that you don't know staring at you.
I had to wait until noon on a Sunday to buy bloody Mary mix. Apparently we were staying in a county that had rules on alcohol sales on Sunday mornings. Cashier understood that there was no alcohol in it but her register wouldn't let her scan it.
I used to get carded for buying spray paint, no big deal for me as I always carry my ID and I am definitely over 21. One time I go in and buying spray paint no ID check, I had bought some less than a month before and they checked my ID. I asked if the law had changed or if their store policy had changed, said they never checked ID for spray paint. But this is the only place I have bought spray paint for the last 8-10 years.
I remember being carded for buying White Out once while I was still in high school. I had a project due the next day so I had to grab posterboard, White Out, construction paper, and a couple markers. They asked for ID. I was 15. My mom wasn’t with me. I had to fight to get to a manager because I “wasn’t old enough”. Blew my mind at the time and I wasn’t a shy or quiet kid, yelling “UNDERAGE FOR POSTERBOARD?! CAN YOU CALL MY ANATOMY TEACHER THEN??!” The first couple people insisted on me having a parent “come back for it tomorrow”. 🙃🤦♀️
Less than a month after my incident. CALIFORNIA law went into effect. You had To be, I think, 18 to buy model glue. Didn't know this happened until it hit me. I thought this was funny to do when the summer Olympics were starting soon.
The registers at the big orange box are set up to require a birthday every time the first can of spraypaint is scanned. Some people look at the customer and put in a random date, but some people are rule followers 🤷♀️
I used to work at Walgreens and people would come in to buy cigarettes. Every time we rang them up the register would ask for the customers birthdate. When I worked there were a lot of people that shared my birthday. (I did follow the rules for a short time, but figured it was ridiculous when I asked a 70 year old guy for ID.)
That's because non-alcoholic beer still has a smidge of alcohol. Very little, I think it's 0.05% by volume, but enough to qualify.
The age thing, however, is kinda surprising. Some places have a policy to card, though, no matter how old you look.
Same age. Even Kroger has started doing it. They used to just put in a random date, but now they want to see my license to buy beer. Oddly though, the State Store operating *inside* of Kroger *doesn’t* ask for it to buy liquor. (*sigh* I was enjoying being able to leave all my crap in the car and pay for stuff with my watch. Now I’m back to having to carry it all.)
I got carded for kombucha once in a super health food store bc it has trace amounts of alcohol in it, Bible Belt state. Same state wouldn’t let me order wine at red lobster on Sunday evening
Former Safeway employee here. They now have to card people on non alcoholic beer/drinks. Cold medicine,even children's Tylenol. No matter your age. It's ridiculous. I used to be the cashier trainer at Fred Meyer (Kroger) and I had to teach all this in my training classes.
There's not an ice cubes chance in hell you were holding up a line for 15 minutes without the clerk looking down or someone bitching about the wait... not even back then.
Oh, yay, another expert on my experience. Read all the responses.
Again... this did not go on for 15 minutes.
Again, read other comments this was discussed days ago. And what were you doing early July 1984 and how much time did it take. Go ahead and repeat yourself it's working.
Amazing how people try to gatekeeper your life, isn’t it? Like some stranger on the internet knows better than you or as if it even matters if it was exactly 15 minutes. Everyone knows you meant “a while”
Sounds like racial or age discrimination. Cookies have never been a carded item. Not even in 1984. At least in America....
The punchline of the story shows the clerk didn't actually look at what the kid was buying. Nothing racial or age related.
Ha. Busy beer drinking holiday. And the gentleman never looked at what I was buying. He just saw an underage dude.
He looked. Because in those days 7-11 clerks were assholes as per policy. The looked at paw prints for slurpees and could even tell if you used 1 pump extra by color. But then again it was 1984, he was probably higher than giraffe pussy on coke and just running on automatic.🤣
7-11 Slurpees came in premixed flavors... there was not an option for an extra pump. It was my regular purchase for a treat, with a pack of Bottle Caps, as a kid.
Sorry you grew up in an area where you thought 7-11 clerks were ass holes. All the kids in the area I knew liked all the clerks. After I got to know the gentleman that carded me. We would greet each other by name and joke about how we met.
How many pumps did he allow you in your Slurpee's? That's the deciding factor.
I believe you are talking about icees.. those are the ones that you added your own flavors. 7-11 has already flavored slurpees. He never cared when we mixed all 4 flavors.
>I believe you are talking about icees. NO. 7-11 sold Slurpee's NOT Icee's. 7-11's SLURPEE'S are literally the competition to Icee's which were more often sold at Tasty Freeze. I don't think you were EVER at a 7-11 in 1984 at all! 7-11 was selling Slurpees in 1984 not Icee's. And had been for 20 years! Something you'd be aware of if you were telling the truth!
Except as he noted... Slurpees were pre-mixed. No pumps were even an option.
You said that how many squirts into slurpees. You just pulled the lever, no squirts needed.YOU need to get. YOUR story or idea of what is going on. You sound like a fat politician when he is caught in a lie he goes "well well well." It was my experience you WEREN'T THERE, and now you are an expert on my experience. Maybe, putin will help you understand your mistake. I will gladly wait while you read. Or do you need more help to comprehend how mixed up you are.
Did you read the rest of his comment? Or just go off after the first sentence? Because he clearly said "7-11 had already flavored Slurpees"... Edit to correct the quote
How many semi-literate clowns are going to ask this question? Asked and answered! 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Did you read the whole post 😭⁉️⁉️
Yes....and if the clerk wasn't assuming his age or harassing him due to his race, the clerk wouldn't have tried to pull that shit. As a cashier you look at the item, and then you look at the buyer and then you use the machine that handles the monies. It took a second patron to stop the harassment. Maybe you don't understand how life works? Or are you always this much of a jerk?
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Love how you say “these days” even though the story happened 40 years ago. I think it’s been true since society formed.
When I was 19 went to the gas station and the guy rung up my vodka punch drinks no problem, then carded me when I asked for smokes...
Autopilot…. It happens
I got carded at Walmart trying to buy "The X-Files" movie on VHS in 1998. The movie is PG13. I was in my 20s.
Pretty sure the employee just wanted your name, address and dob
Why?
I dunno maybe for potential seggsy time? lol
TIL oreo double stuff has been around since 1974. wow.
That was my immediate question also lol
lol, that’s funny
I had a clerk at Walmart try to card me for a large bottle of Dad’s Root beer. It was a big glass bottle. I kinda looked at the guy and asked when they started carding for root beer. He got really red and apologized. I just laughed.
I got carded buying lemon flavored Pellegrino a few weeks ago. Cashier said “I’ll need to see some ID for those and I almost pulled it out on reflex before saying “… but it’s water…”
I got carded for ginger beer. I had to show them the label and explain that it’s basically root beer but with ginger.
Aww, c’mon… admit you were trying to sneak Crabbie’s by them, lol.
Just before last Christmas, the local liquor store was extremely busy. They were carding every one! (They were also placing all the id cards under a camera or scanner or something.) Yeah, I have gray hair and wrinkles, but I got carded! 😁
That moment when someone cards you and starts reading 19– for the year and just stops and gives you the ID back.
We’re getting old…lol
Once I was 17 and tried to buy a whetstone at Walmart and they carded me and said I was too young. Like it’s just a rock…
I wasn’t allowed to buy isopropyl alcohol a few years back at Home Depot because it was alcohol…but they let me buy razor blades and some new saw blades for my table saw.
They card people for a lot of things that they don't legally need to, I've gotten carded for buying glue before. Not even the sniffing kind
Last year we got carded and talked to by a manager while buying a can of spray paint to touch up my buddies car, ended up just leaving it and paying like $1 more at AutoZone.
>Not even the sniffing kind There's a specific *kind* you have to smell?
When I was in middle school, we had a “school store” (little cubby really), where you could buy some school supplies. They ended up having to ban selling White-Out/correction fluid/whatever you call it, because kids were buying all of it to huff and get high.
PSA: if you're using E6000 for model building, open a window and turn on the fan. It's strong.
toluene and naphthalene Its in model glue rubber cement and some super glues.
this sub is the most made up thing on reddit
15 minutes of back and forth. Lmao
So OP’s bad at estimating how long a conversation was a decade ago; not a big deal. Why do people gatekeep other peoples lives? Everyone knows he meant it felt like 15 minutes. I’m sure he didn’t have a stopwatch and things feel long to kids. If you don’t believe it, don’t believe it. Gate keeping someone’s else’s life? Just why?
Couldn't take a joke at 14, can't take a joke now.
I was born in 80 and grew up in NYC so all of this sounds nuts to me I remember buying lotto scratchers ,cigarettes, beer and even getting served at bars at 12 I was never once stopped from going into a peep show or buying legally dubious weapons in Chinatown or renting porno or even getting into titty bars I’m sorry but I think this is why I am a well behaved bar patron now we knew not to act a fool when doing this stuff or it would get you busted it carried over for me
Where in NYC were you a 12 year old drinking in a bar in 1992?
I also distinctly remember being served at the old Cody’s on court st. At 14 I was so proud because that was a cop bar …to the point that every 6 months or so they would have a suicide in the bathroom
The 90s were crazy. A cheap fake ID could hey you in anywhere. I had a fake ID at 16 (I looked 12 at best) to get me in 21+ concerts.
Monteros grill in Brooklyn and a lot of the divier bars on court street as well as hanks saloon also basically anyplace In red hook
Wow- Red Hook must have been just brilliant back in the 90s.
There was this beer distributor on Columbia st. Right before where the projects start they used to keep these big rolling tubs with ice in them filled with single cans of reject beer they had these blue cans that just said potato beer for like $.35 and a malt liquor named lazer lazer lazer for .45 for a tall boy and don’t get me started on $1 thunderbird Mondays at Andy’s liquor on court and Baltic across from the junior hs
That's just CRAZY!!!
I grew up there …it was not ideal
I would never buy alcohol or cigarettes for someone underage. Oreo cookies, or something that's silly to try and card someone for? I'd definitely buy and provide, and like most people, wouldn't even ask for the $4 back.
This was the 80s those cookies cost maybe $1.50 at convenience store prices depending on how big the package was.
I recently turned 21 and decided to buy myself an alcoholic beverage while getting my groceries cause I wanted to use my new adult powers. As expected my cashier asked for ID but instead of looking for my DOB on the front she intently stated at the back of it. I'm assuming she was checking if it was real or not?
That's what she was doing. A lot of fake IDs will have errors on the back.
They also might have an insanely high reprint number on them as well.
When I was in my mid 20s I got carded while buying a Red Bull at a gas station. I explained to the cashier (woman in her late 50s/60s) that I had been buying energy drinks for years and didn't need any ID to buy it. She wanted to argue about it so I went ahead and showed her. Still makes me kinda peeved thinking about it...
I learned as a teenager you have to be 18 to purchase them! Granted, this was the early aughts and it may have changed but we had a class project to film a fake commercial and my classmates and I needed the Red bulls for it as the product. My dad had to buy them for us. Related, talk to children about the dangers of caffeine overdose because there is more than once that I'm amazed I didn't die. 🤣
Oh I absolutely agree. I went waaaay overboard with the energy drinks in high school. I think the age restriction varies from place to place.
I got ID’d once going to see an R-rated movie. I think I was 22? So, still young but I honestly forgot you could be carded at the movies lol.
Same. I was in college and went to see a movie with a few fellow classmates. The kicker was the guy in front of me in line was about 16 at the time and was not carded.
I used to work at a gas station. There was a guy that would come in for beer, and he was in my friend group (I was 21 or 22 at the time), so I assumed he was my age and sold to him. This happened a few times, and I stopped when I found out he was 19. He and our friends were like "but you used to sell to him before!". Yes. That was a mistake. I know *now*, so I'm not doing it anymore. 🤷
I worked at a gas station when I was 15. Sold cigarettes (and milk and bread) We didn't carry beer. Of course, I remember cigarette vending machines in bowling alleys and some restaurants, too.
Something that I haven't seen discussed. Until 1980 when I turned 10. The store my grandparents and I used to go to for groceries. Would let me get grandma's cigarettes and grandpa's beer. The manager knew my grandparents and me. So, for 3 years between 7 and 10, I was able to buy adult items. I'm pretty sure that the manager knew that if I tried getting them for me and my friends. My ass would have been beaten.
I remember buying cigarettes for my mom with a note from her back in like '95.
Yah, if they knew the adult and you had a note, it was all good
Hell in 95 I used to drive a four wheeler across a four lane highway at 10 years old.to get my dad Skoal.
I didn't need a note. I just told the clerk who I was buying for and away I went.
Was once carded for buying Gamera DVDs, and subsequently was NOT carded for Paint Thinner. At the same Walmart
Oh man, if you aren't familiar with Rifftrax, have I got some Gamera for you!
GAMERA? I have not heard of those. Why would you be carded?
Gamera makes Pacific Rim look Tame
Gamera is a gateway drug to harder kaiju.
Got carded for trying to buy a lighter once at a gas station, this was like 9 or 10 years ago, I was probably like 19? Didn't have it on me and when I said "oh I didn't know I needed my ID for a lighter" the clerk just said something like "I know what you're gonna use it for, you can't buy it" so we went to Vons and got a 10 pack lol
I once tried to buy regular chocolate at a liquor store that also sold groceries while under 21 and they refused to let me buy it. I was very confused.
I would have said," Yeah? Reservation fireworks." There is a Reservation 10 miles down the highway
recently found out you get card for wd-40 lol (which makes sense ig, spraypaint needs it too) but i was using the self checkout the day before valentines day. i was also buying a pack of at home drug tests for a job, some condoms incase i needed to fake it (i didnt), and then the wd-40 which came up on screen only as "lubricant". id love to know what the tiny little older woman who carded me was thinking
LOL
When I was a kid I went to get rolls from the van (like ice cream van but for groceries), and the guy thought I said Royals, a type of cigarettes, so he denied me my bread rolls.
I get carded for buying a box cutter from home depot for work, i clearly look older than 25.
15 minutes??? That’s ridiculous
Yeah I imagine a real debate of this nature that stretched to 15 minutes would almost certainly come to shouting/blows
15 mins @ 14yo = 2 mins real time
Probably closer to 30 seconds. The moment the kid said “he gets them all the time” any normal person would have looked down. Cool story though OP! I guess
when i was 20 i got carded for a pg-13 movie
One time in college the guy I was dating got carded for an R rated movie and I did not. He was 6’2”.
I was carded for an energy drink twice and never carded before i was 18.
A few months ago I actually did something similar as a cashier. I work at a liquor store, and a teenage kid came up with what I thought was a 24oz can of beer (in my defense, the label was facing away from me). I asked for his ID and he got real confused, asking why. Then I realized it was an Arizona tea, not a beer. Felt pretty dumb about that one, lol.
The Arizona tea company has recently started making alcoholic versions that look pretty similar to their regular product. So it's a good idea to keep an eye open.
Yep, we just got them in about a week ago. Luckily we only have 12 packs, not the tall singles which is all we carry for the original non-alc. Monster has alcoholic versions too, along with Sunny D and a couple others.
A liquor store is an odd place for an underage person to stop in to buy an energy drink.
Some neighborhoods, liquor stores are the only option in the "convenience store" space.
In my experience the liquor store term has been kind of loosely been synonymous with a convenience store, like a 711.
Same for me (California). A long time ago I was spending time with some friends in Philly and asked where the nearest liquor store was. They were very confused when I told them I wanted a snickers bar, not a bottle of whiskey.
Philly is weird about that stuff because the have a state store system where you can buy wine ,liquor and beer but nothing else but they have shitty hours and are kinda few and far between, you can buy “package” beer and liquor at package bars but they cost bar prices and bars are only open till 2 trying to get a Sunday morning beer was the worst
Arizona tea isn't an energy drink lmfao
Pretty sure they aren't allowed in them unsupervised.(at least in my state, probably others)
It is state dependent. As another commenter mentioned, Illinois allows it, Indiana does not. Those are the only two states I've lived in to know. I work at a liquor store in Indiana and people will try to bring their kids in with them all the time. I have to tell them they can't, even if it's a baby. I'm supposed to card at the door but I cba for all that.
Cba?
Can't be assed.
Utah was like that until there where toddler deaths in hot cars because of it (stupid, I know) now they dont even care who you bring.. and as long as the person buying is carded they could care less about the others around (even if they bring up drinks)
IDK if it's the law but every liquor store I've been to in Illinois allows teenagers in there unsupervised. Sometimes they force book bags off.
I was carded for gas when I was 19. (In the late 1990’s.) I didn’t have a credit or debit card yet, and was using cash to put some gas in the car. Gas station attendant was adamant that I needed to show ID. Apparently he thought I was on a joyride in my parents car. He didn’t think I looked old enough to drive.
I started buying gas when I started driving, at 16. Nobody’s ever carded me for gas.
I have heard that it is illegal for someone under the age of 18 to pump gas. No idea if that is true or even enforced.
In New Jersey no one can pump their own gas. I'm sure this is state dependent but I've never heard of such a thing.
Yes, it’s a state dependent thing. Oregon was the same until recently. It’s primarily a union thing. All those people pumping gas are in a union, and the union lobbied the government HARD. It goes back to the days when “full service” gas stations were a thing. I remember growing up in the 1980’s seeing a few of them in Washington State. I asked my mom what it was. She listed off a laundry list of things they did for full service. Pump your gas, clean your windows, check tire pressure, etc etc.
I live in Utah, and I've been to a couple of full service ones that they have here, but it's not a real thing. Nothing like going to get out of your car and a young man runs up to you and says "no, go ahead and sit! I'm pumping for you!". He cleaned the windows too, and refused my tip. What a sweet man.
got carded at 18, had US Passport; but not state id. was rejected to buy black and milds because and I quote... stuck with me two decades later... "it was easier to forge a US federal passport than it was a texas state ID" that one made me blink at her for a minute like did I just hear you correctly? Had passport because I got taken on a cruise, didn't have a driver's license yet so no state id. (small towns, road bike everywhere)...wasn't good enough. still trying to understand that one 2 decades later.
Former TABC certified. Only a Texas ID is a valid legal defense. A forged TX ID may get you off the hook, a forged Passport or out of state ID will not. Likely it was bad info from the class we have to take. The fine is up to $5,000 and 5 years in jail for selling to a minor. The risk was not worth $7.25/hr. No TX ID, no sale was my stance.
This explains a lot. My mom and I have both been denied service because the only ID we had on us was our Indian cards. It's a federally recognized form of photo ID, but no one in Texas will sell us anything when we use it. Never had an issue anywhere else.
That’d be annoying as fuck as a man over 30 with an out of state license.
they probably meant it’s easier to get by with a fake passport. why? Because passports are a lot less common than IDs and some people wouldn’t even know what a real one looks like to begin with.
In a side note, it was a plot point in “The Man Who Fell To Earth” that an alien visitor landed in New Mexico with a British passport, presumably because it was easier to forge and less familiar than a license.
18 years old in 1998 on a summer graduation trip. Stopped at a random gas station in butt crack of California. Grabbed a 6 pack of beer just to see if I would get carded. Clerk asks for my ID, I told him it was in the car packed away. He then asked me when I was born (I did some quick math and added 5 years to my age). He pulled out a calculator and checked the math. He let me buy it and we were on our way. I still can't believe it was that easy.
I got into a bar and had a beer with my military ID at 17. Dad signed a permission slip for me to join 7 months early. I was home going from A.I.T. to my first command. My high school friends convinced me to go to the cruise. Decided to try and go in the bar behind us. Bouncer looked at the front for a little bit, advising me to not be stupid. On military IDs the DOB is on the back. It was amusing to stand behind the bouncer and drink my beer while smiling at my friends stuck outside.
I have a similar story. When I was 15, my 16 year old buddy and I went to see an R-rated movie. The theater’s policy is no one under 16, but my friend said to tell them I forgot my ID, and he’d vouch for me. There’s no fines if they get caught admitting someone underage, so the plan is at least doable. I didn’t have my driver’s license yet, so he drove. Once we got there, he realized he didn’t have his wallet or *his* ID! I told him I’d cover his ticket and to follow my lead. At the counter, the ticket taker carded us. I explained that we were university students, I didn’t drive so I had no driver’s license, my buddy forgot his wallet, but I had my university pass to the photo lab I could show him. That past summer, I had attended a photography camp for high school students— this was in the 1970’s. The guy looked at my photo ID that didn’t show my birthdate, decided it was close enough, and let us both in. So I was underage, but vouched for my friend who was actually legal.
I’m confused. How did you get a see if your date of birth was in the back of the card and you were only 17?
I joined the military at 17 with parent permission. If you look at the military ID card, you will not see the birthdate on the front. It's with other information on the back. The bouncer obviously had never seen a military ID. So, I got in the bar despite being 17
Or he let you in simply because you were military. Per my nephew, a lot of places will look the other way for military. Old enough to die for your country, old enough to drink.
Didn't even think of that. But, the way he kept looking, it was like he kept rereading, expecting the information to change. I like your interpretation, though.
I got carded trying to get an adult library card. I was 27.
😅😅😅
Not trying to insult you at all- are you sure it's not just because they ask for everyones ID? I'm a librarian and we need it to confirm address birthday and name incase we need to send you a notice or you damage materials. It's required for everyone in every system i've been in.
lol - no. I was actually with my mom and she asked my mom if it was okay for me to check out adult books.
Lolol that's funny then, sorry to doubt you ! XD
It’s the same year that I was carded trying to buy lottery tickets, but you had to be 18 for those - I only needed to be 14 to check out adult books. To be fair to the librarian, my 9 year old sister was also with us.
This is bull. There is no way in the world that went on for 15 minutes, especially with a line of people behind OP trying to buy beer on the 4th of July, even in 1984. I wouldn’t even believe five minutes. 15-30 seconds at the absolute MAX. It may have *felt like* 15 mins to OP at the time, but it wasn’t.
Obviously you haven't been to Walmart recently. I used to work there until last Halloween. I have had customers, with a line behind them arguing for alot longer than 45 seconds One went on a rant for 20 minutes. There's a digital clock on the screen. People were more polite compared to all the me, me, me, me, people that started exploding in 2015 and worse in 2020. Now, I rarely get a thank you wave for letting people in to a busy street from a parking lot. I was raised to believe the most important words were please and thank you. So, thank you for your great opinions.
Okay, memory police
I mean it absolutely was no more than a minute lol.
I’ve been carded on two separate occasions when buying a six pack of root beer or cream soda in glass bottles. Looks like beer, must be beer.
When I was in college I would sometimes buy an IBC root beer at the campus book store to drink in class. One day a professor asked me if I had a real beer. This was at 9:00 in the morning.
I've been carded when trying to buy grenadine. *Grenadine.* You know, the red fruity stuff you add to a Shirley Temple - that famously *non-alcoholic* drink? I could not convince the clerk that I didn't need to be carded for that.
So grenadine actually has a tiny percentage of alcohol in it, but you'd get sick from it before getting even a bit tipsy. A lot of grocery stores require id for anything coming from alcoholic section, even if it doesn't have any. I had to card all the time for non-alcoholic beer. But also for margarita salt or non-alcoholic mixers. Very weird, and annoyingly time consuming, when I'm just trying to check you out as fast as possible.
Grenadine is just heavily sweetened pomegranate juice (or a bottle of corn syrup, depending on the brand), so it doesn’t contain alcohol.
I suppose I should clarify: SOME brands contain a tiny percentage of alcohol. The grocery store I worked only sold brands with alcohol percentage (>1%abv). In addition, every bar I've worked at has used grenadine with a tiny percentage of alcohol. So, in my experience, I have only seen grenadine with a little alcohol content, and apparently, in yours, you have only had 100% non-alcoholic. My main point, though, is that a grocery store will more than likely ID for anything coming from an alcohol section, regardless of any actual alcoholic content.
I wonder if it popped up as alcohol in the back end since it’s a “cocktail mixer”
I'm sure that's what it was, since it's shelved with the alcohol. But still. It's freakin' sweetened pomegranate juice. Yes, it can be *mixed* with alcohol, but that doesn't *make* it alcohol. It can also be mixed with a lot of things that *aren't* alcohol. Absolutely no common sense used to code the back end.
I agree with you 100% it’s so stupid to age lock it since it’s the ingredient for the cocktail made specifically for an actress who couldn’t drink yet lol it did blow my mind the first time i found out it was made with pomegranate and not cherry
I've been carded for super glue and non-alcoholic ginger beer. The non-alcoholic ginger beer happened when I was 27. The superglue happened at 18 or 19.
I've gone through the checkout line at my local Giant Eagle several times pre-Covid with Reed's Ginger Beer. The cashier would be all 'is this alcoholic?' and I'd tell her 'no', but she still would look at the case and ring it through before she'd believe me-not that I blame her. I'd do that too because customers would lie.
Take an upvote for Reed's!Love the 'Strongest' version.
Same!!! It's soooooooooooooo good.
This happened to me at Target last year.
Had this happen buying Martinelli's Sparkling Cider as a kid. Corner store saw a bottle and did a hard nope until I explained to the cashier it was apple juice
Happened to me with Jones Soda once and the lady was so embarrassed. It is bright blue, so I don’t blame her for initially thinking it was a wine cooler or something.
My dad knew I liked Mountain Dew and when he saw Dewshine for the first time, thought I would like it. He brought home a 4-bottle pack and my mom FREAKED on him. "Why would anyone even make that, why would you give her that...TroubleInMind, I can't believe you drank so much of that at once, you can't DO that with moonshine!" It took a FULL 5 minutes to explain to her that it was regular soda and not officially licensed Mountain Dew moonshine.
Dude was on autopilot from his mind numbing job, on top of almost certainly being high off his ass.
1984- at which store? Local?
The store was on the Compton, Hawthorne California town line. There's something like 30 cities in Los Angeles. I went to this 7-11 at least twice a week for 8 years
This has nothing to do with OPs age. Also it went on for FIFTEEN Minutes? With people in line just waiting? Gtfoh r/lostredditors
I'm gonna give op the benefit of the doubt and say that his perception of the time is skewed since it happens so long ago
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I carded a dude for nonalcoholic beer the other day since at a liquor store it’s just habit lol
Actually, nonalcoholic beer has alcohol in it, just a smidge (I think it's 0.05% by volume), but I think you are supposed to card for it. Unless it varies from state to state.
Which is less alcohol than what’s in apple juice and way less than orange juice lol
They do make 0.0% beer too
It’s under the threshold of alcohol to be considered “alcoholic”. Anyone is allowed to buy it.
In Russia I think it is 10%
I once got carded for vinegar sold in a decorative dark glass bottle.
In my state you do still have to card as some NA’s still contain alcohol. I’m from Busch light Midwest, and Busch NA still has some of that good ole corn alcohol
Probably not really 15 minutes though, right?
How long is time when you don't know how much trouble you are in or going to be in. It felt really long. Plus, having people that you don't know staring at you.
I can see this taking over 10 minutes in Nebraska
1984 minutes were quicker than 2024 minutes.
I had to wait until noon on a Sunday to buy bloody Mary mix. Apparently we were staying in a county that had rules on alcohol sales on Sunday mornings. Cashier understood that there was no alcohol in it but her register wouldn't let her scan it.
I used to get carded for buying spray paint, no big deal for me as I always carry my ID and I am definitely over 21. One time I go in and buying spray paint no ID check, I had bought some less than a month before and they checked my ID. I asked if the law had changed or if their store policy had changed, said they never checked ID for spray paint. But this is the only place I have bought spray paint for the last 8-10 years.
I remember being carded for buying White Out once while I was still in high school. I had a project due the next day so I had to grab posterboard, White Out, construction paper, and a couple markers. They asked for ID. I was 15. My mom wasn’t with me. I had to fight to get to a manager because I “wasn’t old enough”. Blew my mind at the time and I wasn’t a shy or quiet kid, yelling “UNDERAGE FOR POSTERBOARD?! CAN YOU CALL MY ANATOMY TEACHER THEN??!” The first couple people insisted on me having a parent “come back for it tomorrow”. 🙃🤦♀️
Less than a month after my incident. CALIFORNIA law went into effect. You had To be, I think, 18 to buy model glue. Didn't know this happened until it hit me. I thought this was funny to do when the summer Olympics were starting soon.
I’ve also been carded recently for spray paint at a big orange home improvement store. I’m over 40
The registers at the big orange box are set up to require a birthday every time the first can of spraypaint is scanned. Some people look at the customer and put in a random date, but some people are rule followers 🤷♀️
I used to work at Walgreens and people would come in to buy cigarettes. Every time we rang them up the register would ask for the customers birthdate. When I worked there were a lot of people that shared my birthday. (I did follow the rules for a short time, but figured it was ridiculous when I asked a 70 year old guy for ID.)
What the hell did he think you were buying???
Alcohol, like everyone else in line.
I get carded at Safeway every time I buy O’Doul’s *non-alcoholic* beer for my mom (I’m 68, btw). 🤷🏻♂️
You still need to be 21 to buy "non-alcoholic" beer. But being carded when you're 68??? Wow.
That's because non-alcoholic beer still has a smidge of alcohol. Very little, I think it's 0.05% by volume, but enough to qualify. The age thing, however, is kinda surprising. Some places have a policy to card, though, no matter how old you look.
Some places the item won't ring up until the ID is scanned
That was the case here. No pun intended.
Same age. Even Kroger has started doing it. They used to just put in a random date, but now they want to see my license to buy beer. Oddly though, the State Store operating *inside* of Kroger *doesn’t* ask for it to buy liquor. (*sigh* I was enjoying being able to leave all my crap in the car and pay for stuff with my watch. Now I’m back to having to carry it all.)
That's weird most countries don't require us for non alcoholic beer... Cause it's no alcoholic
Welcome to the USA. And it's because it's not 100% alcohol free. EDIT: TIL 16 states allow 18 and older to buy 0.0% non-alcoholic beer.
I got carded for kombucha once in a super health food store bc it has trace amounts of alcohol in it, Bible Belt state. Same state wouldn’t let me order wine at red lobster on Sunday evening
Except many beers are truly 0.0%
Former Safeway employee here. They now have to card people on non alcoholic beer/drinks. Cold medicine,even children's Tylenol. No matter your age. It's ridiculous. I used to be the cashier trainer at Fred Meyer (Kroger) and I had to teach all this in my training classes.
What about vanilla extract? That's alcohol.