Flattered but also a little annoyed!!

antodeco · 12-12-2009 11:01AM

I was 28 on Thursday. Had to buy smokes for someone. I was asked for ID. 10 years to the day it was legal for me to buy smokes (ive never smoked) and I was ID'd!

ronkmonster · 12-12-2009 11:08AM

LZ5by5 wrote: »

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.

Just shop elsewhere then.

bullets · 12-12-2009 11:11AM

I thought when I saw this thread title it was the Grinds Teacher feeky was after coming on hear to say she was flattered but also a little annoyed!

I'm 33 and got asked for ID to buy a bag of coal in my local
Co-op store outside of the city. It happened last Christmas
I'm still annoyed about it. Something about needing to prove I was outside a certain limit from the city to burn ordinary coal vs smokeless. You'd swear I was trying to buy bombs and cocaine.

~B

seraphimvc · 12-12-2009 11:25AM

happened to me once.that dunnes's liqour store near the james joyce statue?the cashier asked me ID for buying drinks!!!i m like 'wtf?????'.man,i just look too young huh?:Pno jesus,hated that when people ask me id,i am a manly man!!!

in fairness maybe because i was wearing T-shirt+light hoodies and i am from japan :P

Agricola · 12-12-2009 11:54AM

If I was 23 and was asked for ID goin into a club I might be alittle annoyed. But If i was 28 and asked for ID to buy cigs, Id see it as a compliment! I think the age where this change in perspective happens is in the mid-twenties.

Jim · 12-12-2009 12:39PM

My ID is my beard.

*stroke*

Whenever I shave it off (usually only once a year) I get ID'd everywhere. I don't think I've ever been ID'd with it.

12-12-2009 01:45PM

I don't get why people are saying to take it as a compliment. It's really irritating. I don't particularly want to look like a 17 year old in my mid twenties. I don't want to have to carry around my passport (many places don't accept provisional licenses as ID) in case I want to buy alcohol or cigarettes. I don't want to be looked at with suspicion and made to feel like a naughty child for doing something I have every right to do as an adult. I often have my ID scrutinised and rechecked by another staff member or asked my date of birth while other customers are staring at me. I've been refused alcohol even after showing my ID because apparently my passport photo doesn't look like me (funny how it's never been questioned in an airport) or I can't possibly be 24 (outside of supermarkets and off licenses, most people think I'm at least that, I'm a teacher and my adult students guessed I was 27 the other day) It's so irritating!

A Primal Nut · 12-12-2009 02:03PM

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??!!

Women get so paranoid when it comes to age. There is no need to feel anything. The shopkeeper was doing his job - its well known government inspectors purposely send in mystery shoppers who look older.

When I worked in Lidl, we were told to ask anyone who looked under 30!

KarmaGarda · 12-12-2009 02:24PM

Can't see the problem. I usually manage to embarrass the bejaysus out of bouncers/shop attendants if they ask me just by my sheer excitement of getting asked for the ID. If I don't happen to have any on me I just show them me hairy arse.

Monkey61 · 12-12-2009 02:46PM

Hmmph, you think that's bad?

I'm 26 and I got stopped at the passport check at Dublin airport a little while ago and quizzed as to where my accompanying adult was! Which means that they thought I looked under 16!!!

I get ID'd constantly. It has gone past the annoying stage and right back to the hilarious stage now. The older I get the funnier I find it. I am just hoping that it still happpens when I am 35. Brilliant. It's always worth it for the looks on their faces when they see my passport.

MissFitz · 12-12-2009 03:59PM

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??!!

Same thing happened me a few weeks ago at my local petrol station. I'm 28. At first I wasn't paying attention to what the guy was saying to me but realised he wasn't handing over the cigarettes and was awaiting an answer. Then I got him to repeat himself and I just laughed, thought he was joking

He did give them to me in the end though!! Was definitely more flattered than embarrased though

Aidric · 12-12-2009 04:02PM

A Primal Nut wrote: »

When I worked in Lidl, we were told to ask anyone who looked under 30!

Now that's just plain ridiculous. The people in their mid to late twenties who say they're flattered by being asked for ID are lying.

12-12-2009 04:07PM

I know a few people who are in their early 30's and often get asked for ID. And some places won't even accept a drivers silence!

Tinkerbell09 · 12-12-2009 04:34PM

im nearly 35, and get asked for id about once a month. i used to get annoyed when i was in my twenties, but now it puts me in a good mood for the day. i smugly produce the drivers licence.

it usually embarrasses the clerk/bouncer/bar staff more when they see my ancient date of birth, and for some, the shameful realisation that im practically as old as their ma.

my oh even got asked once if i was his daughter... and he is only a year older. oh the fun.

it only bugs me when they are too thick to figure out your age from your date of birth, and just have a blank look on their face. if they are too stupid to do simple subtraction, then they shouldnt embarrass themselves by asking.

Buceph · 12-12-2009 04:37PM

I rarely get asked for id, having a beard helps, I suppose. But I was asked one time, and upon producing the card with a little chuckle while saying "heh, I rarely get asked for id" it was refused for being too clean. Too clean? Of course it's clean, I rarely take it out of my wallet because no one fupping ids me.

CrazyRabbit · 12-12-2009 04:47PM

I'm 33 and get carded quite often. The most recent case was when I tried to buy a can of petrol.

I look a lot younger than I am, and people are genuinely shocked when they find out my age. I always take it as a compliment.

RHunce · 12-12-2009 07:06PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I know a few people who are in their early 30's and often get asked for ID. And some places won't even accept a drivers silence!

i'd be pretty pissed if they gave me a silence instead of a licence

K4t · 12-12-2009 07:09PM

Give up the fags.

itsallaboutheL · 12-12-2009 07:13PM

TheZohan wrote: »

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

No it fucking well isn't.....

Wacker · 12-12-2009 09:43PM

I used to work in Bus Stop next to the IMC in Dun Laoghaire. Anyone who used to go there (it's closed now) might remember the 80 year old who worked there too. I guess when you're 80, anyone below the age of 50 appears to be a whipper-snapper. I once saw her ID a guy buying smokes who was 39!

PatHawkins · 12-12-2009 10:28PM

no need to be flattered. It's called the POLICE STATE.

stovelid · 12-12-2009 10:36PM

Produce ID. Purchase cigarettes. Leave shop. Continue life.

PatHawkins · 12-12-2009 10:39PM

stovelid wrote: »

Produce ID. Purchase cigarettes. Leave shop. Continue life.

Who ever needed human rights or even a touch of dignity, sure those are old fashioned noitions anyway.

"what time are those simpson repeats on?"

stovelid · 12-12-2009 10:48PM

PatHawkins wrote: »

Who ever needed human rights or even a touch of dignity, sure those are old fashioned noitions anyway.

I would be the first to agree that the UN charter of Human Rights is crying out for an update with regards to cigarette-purchasing identification, in fairness.

sunnyjim · 12-12-2009 10:53PM

TamNaz wrote:

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.

Ah, sure we only do it for the banter.

Oh, and if we see a sour-puss like you walk in and head over to the wine section, it's game on between all lads on the tills. Whoever gets the coldest reaction wins

Ah, the lads.

Lemondrop kid · 12-12-2009 10:55PM

TheZohan wrote: »

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

.

Dabnabbit, you stole my comeback!

danjo-xx · 12-12-2009 10:56PM

If he wasn't takin the piss then take it as a compliment, a prob I would luv da have.

PatHawkins · 12-12-2009 10:59PM

sunnyjim wrote: »

Ah, sure we only do it for the banter.

Oh, and if we see a sour-puss like you walk in and head over to the wine section, it's game on between all lads on the tills. Whoever gets the coldest reaction wins

Ah, the lads.

Or in my case you would have to return the booze as I walk out the door after telling you to f'uck off.

sunnyjim · 12-12-2009 11:00PM

Tell me to **** off for IDing you?

:cool:

Dudess · 12-12-2009 11:01PM

OP, you should be annoyed at the way society makes you feel happy about being mistaken for younger. You should embrace ageing instead of bowing down to social constructs deeming it negative...

Nah, fuk that - it's always awesome being mistaken for younger than ya are... :pac:

Flattered but also a little annoyed!!

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