Getting asked for I.D. in your twenties

midlandsmissus

I was in a newsagents earlier and got asked for I.D...... I'm 24!!.... I was buying a feckin scratchcard!! I had no I.D so I said to her 'I'M 24!' but she goes "I have to ask ya love'. I told her to leave it and slunk out of the shop feelin about 12.

I felt a bit better in tescos later, when there was a woman in the queue in front of me buying drink. The cashier asked her for I.D. and the woman said shamefacedly that she was 27. The cashier then goes "JAYSUS i didnt think ya were tha OLD!!!" The woman legged it redfaced out of the shop with the cashier shouting after her "AT LEAST YE LOOK GOOD FER YOUR AGE!!!!

This ever happened to you?

Stercus Accidit

I'm 22 and was asked yesterday.

Wearing leather jacket, nice jumper, trousers and nice shoes and I get asked all the same.

Now if I was in full student regalia, maybe, but I was decked out like the fonze that day.


Always happens when I shave, ridiculous.


Young fellas, bit of advice, buy a fake beard, moustache, anything, Its how ye get served!

thebman

Always seem to get asked

In Tesco I just go to the counter with the youngest person at it because they are least likely to ask me.

Got asked last time anyway but I could tell the guy didn't want to. Companies need to cope on with their policies and let employees use their judgement on this type of thing IMO.

PurpleBerry

F**k yeah, I'm always getting carded. I was told why once and all. Upon telling the cashier that I didn't have ID with me as I'm 26 she said "Oh, okay. But you're so short."

I now always wear heels when I buy alcohol. Even if if means bringing a spare pair in my bag and changing into them outside the shop.

rossie1977

pretty much expected in many establishments in the states, got asked for ID in chicago in 2006 (i was 29 at the time), refused entry when i didn't have a passport or an american driving licence :mad:

asked for ID in washington DC and orlando in bars last year (at age 31 and with beard)

thebman

lol, I'm 6 foot tall and 25 and get carded each time. In the actual off license, I never get asked. Only in Tesco and the like. Sometimes going into pubs but less often now that I make eye contact and say hello to the bouncer at the door. Guess they were more annoyed that I wasn't recognising their existence or thought I looked nervous or something.

jaffa20

I'm rarely asked. It always does happen when i don't have id on me though.:mad:

Creamy Goodness

Neesa wrote: »

I now always wear heels when I buy alcohol. Even if if means bringing a spare pair in my bag and changing into them outside the shop.

i'm sorry but would it not be more sensible to just carry a fecking ID rather than a second set of shoes?


wimmen :pac:

SoWatchaWant

I don't get asked too often, lucky for some I suppose. All the same, you can't expect them to believe you if you don't have ID... If you look young, you look young. That's not a bad thing, is it?

df1985

im 23, was in superquinn recently and was in the wine section where a lady was giving out free samples.she offered me one, then pulled back and asked was i 18.same thing happened when i joined a gym.asked was i 18 because they didnt allow anyone under to be doing weights.i was chuffed both times tbh! id never get insulted about it, people are just doing their jobs, theyre not the ones who make the policies.

Ainm

I asked a guy buying cigarettes for ID yesterday, he told me he was 26! Whoops! He looked about 20 at most so it's just really hard to tell sometimes.

He didn't have ID on him though so who knows if he was telling the truth or not.

thebman

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

I don't get asked too often, lucky for some I suppose. All the same, you can't expect them to believe you if you don't have ID... If you look young, you look young. That's not a bad thing, is it?

The problem is many people don't look young, its just a moronic company policy to ask everyone regardless.

sillyputty

I'm 25 and I get carded all the time - I take it as a compliment though and the barstaff/cashiers are always surprised when i show them I'm 25.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Looking for my laminator the other day, couldn't find it anywhere.

So I asked my son has he seen it, red faced he 'fessed up that its broken :mad:

So I asked to look at it, disassembled it and found he's been making fake ID's for his buddies - there was the reminants of one lads ID wrapped and melted around the rollers.

I asked to see some other's, and have to give him credit where its due - they're deadly!.

Oh sorry, yea the little fucker!..

.

PurpleBerry

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i'm sorry but would it not be more sensible to just carry a fecking ID rather than a second set of shoes?

You're being sarcastic, right??! Or in your world is it easier to apply for a passport (I don't drive so Driver's License is out), pay €75 for the passport (and €6 - €8 for passport photos), wait 6 weeks (at least) in order to recieve passport (unless you want to pay extra), then go to garda station and fill in National ID form, another €6 - €8 for more photos (it's a bad idea to use the same photo on two forms of ID), wait another 8 weeks (excluding backlog) for the National ID to come through...

... than it is to carry a second pair of shoes to the off license?


Can I come and live in your world? I bet you don't have to pay taxes there.

BaconZombie

Or just grow a beard, It's always worked for me.....

Neesa wrote: »

You're being sarcastic, right??! Or in your world is it easier to apply for a passport (I don't drive so Driver's License is out), pay €75 for the passport (and €6 - €8 for passport photos), wait 6 weeks (at least) in order to recieve passport (unless you want to pay extra), then go to garda station and fill in National ID form, another €6 - €8 for more photos (it's a bad idea to use the same photo on two forms of ID), wait another 8 weeks (excluding backlog) for the National ID to come through...

... than it is to carry a second pair of shoes to the off license?


Can I come and live in your world? I bet you don't have to pay taxes there.

df1985

Neesa wrote: »

You're being sarcastic, right??! Or in your world is it easier to apply for a passport (I don't drive so Driver's License is out), pay €75 for the passport (and €6 - €8 for passport photos), wait 6 weeks (at least) in order to recieve passport (unless you want to pay extra), then go to garda station and fill in National ID form, another €6 - €8 for more photos (it's a bad idea to use the same photo on two forms of ID), wait another 8 weeks (excluding backlog) for the National ID to come through...

... than it is to carry a second pair of shoes to the off license?


Can I come and live in your world? I bet you don't have to pay taxes there.

yeah because passports are so useless, no point in getting one of those silly things.where do you go on holidays, bray??

timmywex

Mairt wrote: »

Looking for my laminator the other day, couldn't find it anywhere.

So I asked my son has he seen it, red faced he 'fessed up that its broken :mad:

So I asked to look at it, disassembled it and found he's been making fake ID's for his buddies - there was the reminants of one lads ID wrapped and melted around the rollers.

I asked to see some other's, and have to give him credit where its due - they're deadly!.

Oh sorry, yea the little fucker!..

.

Contact details for your son please?

Whats worse is being 17 like myself, getting asked in most places, and not having noe, i really must get around to getting a driver license or something done!

Pigwidgeon

timmywex wrote: »

Contact details for your son please?

Whats worse is being 17 like myself, getting asked in most places, and not having noe, i really must get around to getting a driver license or something done!

+1
theres one pub where i'm pretty much a regular now so they know me there... other places can be a bit of hit and miss...

PurpleBerry

Oh yes, holidays. The be-all-and-end-all of life. Howsoever would a person live without the holy grail that is Holidays? How would one breathe?

I've never been on a holiday in my life. It's the probably the thing I most can't understand about the Irish, and the English too. People take out loans to go on a holiday. People on the dole go on a holiday. My husband thinks it's something to do with being Spanish.

arybvtcw0eolkf

timmywex wrote: »

Contact details for your son please?

Whats worse is being 17 like myself, getting asked in most places, and not having noe, i really must get around to getting a driver license or something done!

My son is 17 too.

He is what the recession needs, someone willing to go the extra mile

sdanseo

midlandsmissus wrote: »

I felt a bit better in tescos later, when there was a woman in the queue in front of me buying drink. The cashier asked her for I.D. and the woman said shamefacedly that she was 27. The cashier then goes "JAYSUS i didnt think ya were tha OLD!!!" The woman legged it redfaced out of the shop with the cashier shouting after her "AT LEAST YE LOOK GOOD FER YOUR AGE!!!!

This ever happened to you?

Have to say, if a cashier tried that with me (granted I'm not a woman) I'd deck the cheeky cnut. Should be sacked for that carry-on too tbh.

Stercus Accidit

Neesa wrote: »

Oh yes, holidays. The be-all-and-end-all of life. Howsoever would a person live without the holy grail that is Holidays? How would one breathe?

I've never been on a holiday in my life. It's the probably the thing I most can't understand about the Irish, and the English too. People take out loans to go on a holiday. People on the dole go on a holiday. My husband thinks it's something to do with being Spanish.

Ireland is a wet dreary kip.

Maybe if you left the country once in a while, you'd realise that.

Oh, and ye hardly need a bankloan to get ye to france.

Nothingcompares

i get carded a lot. i think i look young for my age (25) and look a little bit like a knacker.

towel401

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i'm sorry but would it not be more sensible to just carry a fecking ID rather than a second set of shoes?


wimmen :pac:

wimmin like their shoes

df1985

Neesa wrote: »

Oh yes, holidays. The be-all-and-end-all of life. Howsoever would a person live without the holy grail that is Holidays? How would one breathe?

I've never been on a holiday in my life. It's the probably the thing I most can't understand about the Irish, and the English too. People take out loans to go on a holiday. People on the dole go on a holiday. My husband thinks it's something to do with being Spanish.

of yeah of course, its only irish and english people that go on holidays, the rest of the world thinks we're weirdos. look at them crazy irish, visiting somewhere theyre not from.:rolleyes:

Creamy Goodness

Neesa wrote: »

You're being sarcastic, right??! Or in your world is it easier to apply for a passport (I don't drive so Driver's License is out), pay €75 for the passport (and €6 - €8 for passport photos), wait 6 weeks (at least) in order to recieve passport (unless you want to pay extra), then go to garda station and fill in National ID form, another €6 - €8 for more photos (it's a bad idea to use the same photo on two forms of ID), wait another 8 weeks (excluding backlog) for the National ID to come through...

... than it is to carry a second pair of shoes to the off license?


Can I come and live in your world? I bet you don't have to pay taxes there.

not being sarcastic, i'm just being practical.

so you have no id whatsoever? that's just mad tbh. no passport/no drivers license/no college id?

i think of things in the long term, i go get myself an id (garda one) wait 8 weeks, wear my heels to off licenses for those eight weeks and then when i get my card i ditch the heels as there's only so many times i can say i'm going to see rocky horror.

and the last passport i got took 10 days, for 75 euro. it's pretty standard tbh.

i just can't see where you're coming from thinking it's easier to carry an extra pair of shoes than a credit card sized piece of plastic?

11811

Mate of mine was asked for ID recently when buying cigarettes, which is fair enough - cant have the kids smoking and all, thing is he's nearly thirty...wtf?

midlandsmissus

df1985 wrote: »

of yeah of course, its only irish and english people that go on holidays, the rest of the world thinks we're weirdos. look at them crazy irish, visiting somewhere theyre not from.:rolleyes:

I think she probably means that people will get into debt just to go on their precious holiday.

I know two particular people who have just lost their jobs, and have also just booked a holiday for this summer with money they definitely do not have. I said to one of them 'emmm I thought you were going to try to pay off your debts?' and he said 'Yes but its my HOLIDAY!' i cant go without my holiday!"

I've been on 4 holidays altogether. I wouldnt go every year, They're expensive stuff and I wouldn't go a year I couldn't afford it.

Having said that, I couldn't imagine having no I.D. whatsoever. I'd feel lost! And you need it for so many things: banks, houses etc how do you manage?

emeraldstar

I've often been out with my younger sister where I got asked for ID going into a club and she didn't.

Last year someone asked me if I was 15 yet. I was 22.

Rhyme

Got carded in the off-license last night for the first time in years... she just asked "Are you over 18?" I replied "um... I'm 23", got the suspicious eye until i'd bagged my purchases.

I've found behaving like you expect to not be carded gets you by easily enough.

The cashier did ask me how old i was afterwards again with genuine curiosity, it seems being in a reasonably good mood takes a few years off of me

Creamy Goodness

midlandsmissus wrote: »

Having said that, I couldn't imagine having no I.D. whatsoever. I'd feel lost! And you need it for so many things: banks, houses etc how do you manage?

another good point? do you have a bank account neesa?

you'd need id for that and a utility bill?

so no id = no bank account?

how do you survive?



answering the OP:

i get asked for id, only when i have just shaven, if i have a little bit of stubble 1/2 days growth i won't get asked i'm 22 btw.

Adiboo

When I was working in Dunnes, we were told to ask for ID from anybody that looked under 25... Just don't get it tbh

Creamy Goodness

Adiboo wrote: »

When I was working in Dunnes, we were told to ask for ID from anybody that looked under 25... Just don't get it tbh

it's easy enough to understand.

if they are caught selling to under 18's they'll be ass raped by the government/parents/the 50 etc.

it's just called being over cautious.

tbh i don't get the big deal, "OMG someone thinks i'm younger than i actually am, call the freaking drama police tbh".

midlandsmissus

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

it's easy enough to understand.

if they are caught selling to under 18's they'll be ass raped by the government etc.

it's just called being over cautious.

tbh i don't get the big deal, "OMG someone thinks i'm younger than i actually am, call the freaking drama police tbh".

It IS insulting when you're in you mid twenties and somebody thinks you're not even 18!!

Sarn

How about being asked when you're in your 30's. Happened to me twice, once in an off-licence (discussed it with the manager and it was all ok, second time heading to a club, just showed work id and all was grand). The look of amusement on my face probably helped.

Hasn't happened in a while...must be the stress.

Creamy Goodness

midlandsmissus wrote: »

It IS insulting when you're in you mid twenties and somebody thinks you're not even 18!!

seriously how is it?

i think it's great that someone thinks i'm younger than i am.

and tbh they probably know you are over 18, but they are on camera for the whole time they work, they know that every single action they take is being watched. if they are told to ask for id then they have to.

tbh i would have thought women would love to be mistaken as being younger than they are considering all the anti-aging cream **** that's marketed towards you all.

Sleipnir

Don't worry, just wait till you're all a bit older and they don't ask you anymore. Then it's not annoying, it's depressing.

Fad

I get carded a bit, its the BEST feeling not getting carded sometimes, not really sure why.

matrim

I used to work in a off license and occasionally carded people who were in their late twenties and once or twice thirties.

The way some people react when they are asked is really bad. I had one guy threaten to wait for me until I'd finished work because I wouldn't serve him without ID. Apparently he was 25 but looked about 21 and the store policy was to ask anyone who looked under 23.

The reason you keep to that is because if you do accidentally serve someone under 18, you'll get fired and the store will get a fine if they are caught serving to under under eighteens.

For anyone who does get asked and doesn't have any, always be polite to the guy serving you. If you look genuinely shocked and are nice about it you might get served and you might be remembered and not be asked next time.
If you're an asshole about it, you won't get served and will be remembered. Then every time you come into the shop you will be asked for ID.

For myself, the last time was about 3 years ago, which is the last time I didn't have a beard too.

towel401

if they don't ask i feel like i'm an old **** inches away from death

minidazzler

Mairt wrote: »

Looking for my laminator the other day, couldn't find it anywhere.

So I asked my son has he seen it, red faced he 'fessed up that its broken :mad:

So I asked to look at it, disassembled it and found he's been making fake ID's for his buddies - there was the reminants of one lads ID wrapped and melted around the rollers.

I asked to see some other's, and have to give him credit where its due - they're deadly!.

Oh sorry, yea the little fucker!..

.

What kind of ID's was/is he making????

Did you get him his own laminator???? Does he charge his mates for them??? I hope he is handing up money at home if he is Charging his mates.

pipeliner

its the main reason i never took up smoking. I was always too self concious in case i was asked for id, so i never bought a pack.
The worst case with me was going into a 15's film years ago. Enemy at the gates i think. I was 21 at the time

Tyranax

I got asked for it in Dunnes when buying booze at Christmas. I am six foot four, I am twenty one, and I have a beard. She wouldn't accept my student ID either, despite the fact that it had a picture and birthdate on it, surely that would have been sufficient for most people, but not her. I was civil, smiled and accepted my fate. In the car on the way home I stewed about it, big time. An hour later, and I'd seen the funny side. I still do, I just think that it was ridiculous. I'm lucky in that I don't get carded often, and I find that if you act like you aren't going to be asked, that definitely does help.

redshoulder

Never get asked for i.d, but when I used to shop in Tesco I would get asked regularly.

seanybiker

I havent been asked for me ID since I was 16. Everyone always thinks im older than i am.

yoyo

Most local off licenses are ok imo, some will ask for ID, but will be more lenient on the type as I've found (They will accept DIT student ID, I.e a card with photo of me on it and DOB :pac:), Spars and Centras seem to be less strict too, however Tescos or Dunnes and the likes are another story... I've heard of people been refused buying alcohol there with passport ID! My local offie doesn't ask me but they would know me by now, I'm 20 btw :pac:

Nick

n1ck

I used to get asked all the time, haven't been asked in ages though amazinginly, i've even fooled people into thinking i'm 15 even though i'm 21, we admitted I wasn't 15 later on but asked them how old they thought i was and they usually reply with "17?"

Last time i was asked i was with a friend who is 26, we were buying drink in Tescos, i left my drink with him and went to the toilet.. came back to buy more drink for a mate who had rang me and then got turned away, had to get my mate to go back in and buy it for me!

Nightwish

I'm 25 and I always get asked for ID when I go out Maybe I should be happy about it, but I think its embarrassing.

Mrmoe

If it's for beer I don't mind having to show id as I look younger than I am but a lot of the girls I chat to say that I make them feel like a pedophile as I look about 10 when in reality I am 25 with a bushy beard and hair as wild as the moors of Scotland.

Creamy Goodness

ohh tesco's are awful gob****es.

i once got refused there under the following.

clerk: id please?

me: sure, hands passport. sorry we only accept garda id.
me: hands over driving license. sorry garda id only.
me: hands over credit card. sorry garda id only.
me: hands over work id (with DOB and photo). sorry garda id only.
me: last ditched effort i hand over a duty free receipt that i got when i bought stuff in stockholm airport dury free (was alcohol too) that very day, and a boarding pass for said flight. sorry garda id only.

what made it a little worse was the guy serving me knew me from school, he was two years below me and he actually greeted me by name.