Flattered but also a little annoyed!!

itsallaboutme!! · 11-12-2009 11:20PM #1

Hi just wondering how others would feel or did feel if this ever happened to you!

Was on my way to my mams house earlier this evening she asked me to stop at a shop and pick her up a packet of cigs on my way. So i pulled into a garage near her house. I went into the shop and asked the guy behind the counter for 20 cigs.He then turns to me and says have you got any ID!!! I am 28yrs old!!! I didnt have any on me but was so shocked I was being asked for ID I just laughed and told him Im 28! He looked at me a bit funny and then says just checking and gave me the cigs.

There were a few people in the shop and i got a bit embarrassed. I didnt know whether to be flattered that I apparently look more than 10 years younger than I am or be insulted that I dont look like an adult old enough to buy ciggarettes!

How would you feel??!!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 11-12-2009 11:22PM

At ten years older than you, seriously weirded out.

LEIN · 11-12-2009 11:24PM

Take that as a compliment!

mikemac · 11-12-2009 11:25PM

You should be flattered

11-12-2009 11:26PM

What's there to be annoyed about?

It happens to me all the time, take it as a compliment.

Why focus on the negative?

AlmightyCushion · 11-12-2009 11:27PM

You should be insulted. He thinks you look like a teenager. They talk stupidly and listen to terrible music on their shíttey phones on the bus all day. You should have spat in his face, almost as bad as confusing you for an outie.

TheZohanS · 11-12-2009 11:27PM

itsallaboutme!! wrote: »

Hi just wondering how others would feel or did feel if this ever happened to you!

Was on my way to my mams house earlier this evening she asked me to stop at a shop and pick her up a packet of cigs on my way. So i pulled into a garage near her house. I went into the shop and asked the guy behind the counter for 20 cigs.He then turns to me and says have you got any ID!!! I am 28yrs old!!! I didnt have any on me but was so shocked I was being asked for ID I just laughed and told him Im 28! He looked at me a bit funny and then says just checking and gave me the cigs.

There were a few people in the shop and i got a bit embarrassed. I didnt know whether to be flattered that I apparently look more than 10 years younger than I am or be insulted that I dont look like an adult old enough to buy ciggarettes!

How would you feel??!!

It's all about you, isn't it?

I'd be flattered.

Ickle Magoo · 11-12-2009 11:28PM

Don't be annoyed. I LOVE getting asked for ID. Hadn't happened for a few years now but it certainly happened in my mid-late twenties & I took great delight in seeing the look on their faces when they saw my birth date.

:D:D

Thrill · 11-12-2009 11:28PM

Hmmmm, probably a compliment.

Either that or he should have gone to specsavers.

alwaysadub · 11-12-2009 11:29PM

Happens to me all the time! Other people think its a great laugh and i should count myself lucky but It gets a bit annoyin over time. No doubt i'll be wishing for the days i looked too young back in another decade or so!

11-12-2009 11:30PM

Thrill wrote: »

Hmmmm, probably a compliment.

Either that or he should have gone to specsavers.

Off topic but your username makes me think of budgies :pac:

dceire · 11-12-2009 11:33PM

Smoking is bad... Mkay!

jesus_thats_gre · 11-12-2009 11:35PM

itsallaboutme!! wrote: »

There were a few people in the shop and i got a bit embarrassed. I didnt know whether to be flattered that I apparently look more than 10 years younger than I am or be insulted that I dont look like an adult old enough to buy ciggarettes!

How would you feel??!!

How about you shrug it off as one of those things like a man would do instead of dwelling on it and wondering whether you should act differently and are entitled to be upset about something like a woman would do.

itsallaboutme!! · 11-12-2009 11:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Off topic but your username makes me think of budgies :pac:

Budgies!!!!!??????ha why?????

phasers · 11-12-2009 11:36PM

Shouldn't you have had your driver's license with you?

Because Thrill ---> Trill, which is a brand of budgie food

Thrill · 11-12-2009 11:38PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Off topic but your username makes me think of budgies :pac:

My granddad had budgies so I know what you're on about.......

http://www.lamp-post.co.uk/prodimages/pedigree/budgie500g.jpg

I don't know whether to be flattered or annoyed.

itsallaboutme!! · 11-12-2009 11:39PM

dceire wrote: »

Smoking is bad... Mkay!

I know! I dont smoke myself been trying to get mam to quit for years:rolleyes:

Why do i need my drivers licence to go to a shop!?

jumpguy · 11-12-2009 11:40PM

Since I'm 16, I'd have to be convinced the guy behind the counter is blind and completely retarded to not ask me for ID (and believe me, it's more common than you think, there's one or two of em in every town).

Huggles · 11-12-2009 11:41PM

I'm 29 yo female and I got ID'd buying Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PS3

I had no id so I had to get my Mam from the car LOL

phasers · 11-12-2009 11:41PM

You need it to drive a car :rolleyes:

Thrill · 11-12-2009 11:43PM

itsallaboutme!! wrote: »

Why do i need my drivers licence to go to a shop!?

Dont you need to have your licence with you when you're driving anyway?

itsallaboutme!! · 11-12-2009 11:45PM

i didnt have it on my person, its in the car for if i get stopped by the gardai. I dont carry my licence as being 28 i dont expect to be asked for id in a shop. first time its happened to me in a long time maybe i should take it as a complimemnt and carry it with me from now on!;)

Mrmoe · 11-12-2009 11:45PM

Thrill wrote: »

Dont you need to have your licence with you when you're driving anyway?

Maybe she cycled and thats why she looks so young and was asked for ID.

Thrill · 11-12-2009 11:56PM

Mrmoe wrote: »

Maybe she cycled and thats why she looks so young and was asked for ID.

True enough. I assumed from the OP that she was driving.

opinion guy · 11-12-2009 11:58PM

I never understand why people get annoyed about this kind of thing. Would you prefer if you got offered OAP special prices when buying things ?

TamNaz · 12-12-2009 07:04AM

Some men do that to flirt, card you when they know better.

It is usually accompanied with a puke-inducing "ain't I the charmin' one" grin...as if you should now thoughtfully consider leaping across the counter and planting a wet one on them for it.

which of course, I always DO, seeing as it's only polite...

(not to mention, they often forget to charge you for the purchase).

Em....hope you didn't pay for those smokes.

kowloon · 12-12-2009 10:07AM

itsallaboutme!! wrote: »

I know! I dont smoke myself been trying to get mam to quit for years:rolleyes:

Why do i need my drivers licence to go to a shop!?

Heading down the shop to pick them up for her isn't exactly a winning strategy in that respect.

dny123456 · 12-12-2009 10:16AM

OP, you should take up smoking. That would sort out your problem fairly quickly.

Joey the lips · 12-12-2009 10:27AM

When i was 16 i was getting served in off licences.... When I was 21 i was refused a lot more.... I blame it on oil of olay......

Now i am an ugly fart who buys meals for one and 6 cans. I get asked "Are you sure you dont want more"

Handsome Bob · 12-12-2009 10:37AM

It's alright for the women, but not for blokes. I get annoyed when I'm asked, but maybe that's because it's the same tool who asks me every week, I think he's just taking the piss at this stage.

robby^5 · 12-12-2009 10:54AM

It's not that he thinks you look 18, he just thought you looked 21 or younger as they have to ask id if they cant tell... some just do it as routine to anyone in their twenties.

Flattered but also a little annoyed!!

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