Why do people get bent out of shape over ID?

Jester252 · 06-11-2013 05:24AM

How dare she do her job responsible

Lapin · 06-11-2013 05:27AM

^^
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Maybe she read this and was just letting your bump know what to expect in about 16 years time.

Talula_d · 06-11-2013 05:28AM

Jester252 wrote: »

How dare she do her job responsible

What I meant really was that she seemed to take great joy in asking me for ID for the sake in asking me rather than for the responsibility of her job.

Talula_d · 06-11-2013 05:30AM

Lapin wrote: »

^^
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Maybe she read this and was just letting your bump know what to expect in about 16 years time.

Haha! Well right now the little bump is up and parched for her bottle of milk longer it stays like this the better!!

stefan idiot jones · 06-11-2013 05:41AM

In the States you have to provide ID to get a drink in a bar however old you are.
My mate and myself were working in Baltimore and we couldn't get served in quite a few bars because our passports were back at the hotel.
We were both thirty at the time and believe me, we both looked every bit of it.
They wouldn't serve us even though they said that we were over the legal age, no ID, no drink.If the Liquor Commision spot checked them and found customers drinking without proof of age they would get their asses whooped.
Continental Europeans carry ID all the time, it's just common practice. As said before, if more shops/pubs keep on asking for proof it will become no big deal.

long range shooter · 06-11-2013 05:53AM

Ill show my id when the person who asks for it, shows his

Cookie_Monster · 06-11-2013 06:55AM

long range shooter wrote: »

Ill show my id when the person who asks for it, shows his

:rolleyes:
why would they need to show you any ID, you are the one who wants to buy alcohol / fags

SusieBlue · 06-11-2013 07:38AM

I don't mind, I always carry my passport around with me anyway.

Being a student, as a default, I just hand my passport and student card if I'm asked. What grinds my gears even more is if I'm asked for a third type..Happened to me recently trying to buy a bottle of wine in an off license. Showed the passport and student card, and after a lengthy inspection, I was asked if I had anything else on me with my name on it. Luckily I had a few bank cards and my boots card on me as extra proof but jesus, at 22 I would have thought 2 forms was enough!

Aldi/Lidl is even more irritating. My boyfriend was buying drink there not too long ago and I picked up a few bits for the fridge while we were there too. I had no cash on me so my boyfriend was paying for all of it with his card. They wouldn't sell the alcohol to him because I didn't have any ID on me, even though he had an age card and a passport on him :rolleyes:

No issue with showing ID but this ridiculous business of everyone accompanying you having to have ID too is seriously annoying.

06-11-2013 08:06AM

I don't get it either. Get a guards ID. What are they? 10 or 15 quid?

Mine's always in my purse, I still get asked for it (although the instance of that is reducing

) and I'm over 30. It's very handy for when you're in other countries (America!) too.

Cookie_Monster · 06-11-2013 08:08AM

WhiteRoses wrote: »

They wouldn't sell the alcohol to him because I didn't have any ID on me, even though he had an age card and a passport on him :rolleyes:
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I really really hate that :mad:

April O Neill · 06-11-2013 08:33AM

thecatspjs wrote: »

I have had my Garda ID or my driver license with me at all times since I was 18.

I don't drive and have never had a Garda ID. I'm not going to go to the hassle of getting one at this stage seeing as I'm pushing 30, and I'm not comfortable carrying my passport with me.

April O Neill · 06-11-2013 08:40AM

Jester252 wrote: »

How dare she do her job responsible

I read this in a Southern US accent.

wolfpawnat · 06-11-2013 10:38AM

At 26, with 2 kids pulling out of me, I am more at risk of losing my passport/ it being stolen. I am above the required age to be asked so why should I be worrying about that. Though I love the compliment it implies!

Jester252 · 06-11-2013 03:02PM

Talula_d wrote: »

What I meant really was that she seemed to take great joy in asking me for ID for the sake in asking me rather than for the responsibility of her job.

So you got to dealt with a joyful shop assistant who was doing her job. Is that really worth getting annoyed over? Would you rather she yelled abuse at you or just pretended you didn't exist.

Talula_d · 06-11-2013 03:35PM

Jester252 wrote: »

So you got to dealt with a joyful shop assistant who was doing her job. Is that really worth getting annoyed over? Would you rather she yelled abuse at you or just pretended you didn't exist.

Why would she yell abuse at me?
I was just disgusted that she found it entertaining in asking me for ID not necessarily annoyed.
Anyway I gather you wouldn't be and I am not looking for an argument, we obviously have different views.
I understand it was her job but when she laughed in my face and embarrassed me in front of several other customers I did find it unnecessary.

Jester252 · 06-11-2013 03:43PM

Sure we should just sell alcohol to anyone because someone might overreacted to being asked for ID

Jarrod · 06-11-2013 03:48PM

I used to work in a Spar shop and we used to play a game on Saturday nights to see who could ID the oldest person. You had to refuse to sell to them until they gave you ID, in other words you couldn't jokingly ask someone who was obviously old, you had to pretend to be serious.

Anyway, the winning age was usually late twenties. Then one day I IDed a 38 year old woman. She hit the fcuking roof! In fairness, I thought she was mid to late twenties at most. Anyway, she rooted out her driver's licence and I won the game that night.

06-11-2013 03:51PM

Talula_d wrote: »

I understand it was her job but when she laughed in my face and embarrassed me in front of several other customers I did find it unnecessary.

She went from looking delighted to laughing in your face? that's a bit of a leap.

Talula_d · 06-11-2013 04:01PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

She went from looking delighted to laughing in your face? that's a bit of a leap.

She did I happened to be on the phone to my friend at the time and had told my friend I had just been Asked for ID to which she started laughing at me!

thecatspjs · 06-11-2013 07:50PM

Talula_d wrote: »

She did I happened to be on the phone to my friend at the time and had told my friend I had just been Asked for ID to which she started laughing at me!

I hated this when serving people, maybe that's why she was rude

Vito Corleone · 06-11-2013 07:55PM

I'm 19 and whenever I go to buy alcohol or whatever I just show them the ID before they can ask me because I look so young.

MadsL · 06-11-2013 07:56PM

I had a major pain in the ass trying to get my brother into a club in the US, he's pushing 60 and his drivers licence had neither photo nor expiration date beyond when he turned 70.

Not an easy quandry in a State that cards EVERYONE!

thecatspjs · 06-11-2013 07:58PM

MadsL wrote: »

I had a major pain in the ass trying to get my brother into a club in the US, he's pushing 60 and his drivers licence had neither photo nor expiration date beyond when he turned 70.

Not an easy quandry in a State that cards EVERYONE!

Clubbing at 60? Fair play

JenEffy · 06-11-2013 08:08PM

WhiteRoses wrote: »

I don't mind, I always carry my passport around with me anyway.

Being a student, as a default, I just hand my passport and student card if I'm asked. What grinds my gears even more is if I'm asked for a third type..Happened to me recently trying to buy a bottle of wine in an off license. Showed the passport and student card, and after a lengthy inspection, I was asked if I had anything else on me with my name on it. Luckily I had a few bank cards and my boots card on me as extra proof but jesus, at 22 I would have thought 2 forms was enough!

Aldi/Lidl is even more irritating. My boyfriend was buying drink there not too long ago and I picked up a few bits for the fridge while we were there too. I had no cash on me so my boyfriend was paying for all of it with his card. They wouldn't sell the alcohol to him because I didn't have any ID on me, even though he had an age card and a passport on him :rolleyes:

No issue with showing ID but this ridiculous business of everyone accompanying you having to have ID too is seriously annoying.

The same thing happened to me in Lidl. Does that mean they don't serve alcohol to people shopping with their kids?!

Fred Swanson · 06-11-2013 08:29PM

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cailinardthair · 06-11-2013 08:51PM

Its only in the last year and half that people have started asking me for ID. I'm 26 so I do get a bit annoyed but I will show one(my driving licence). But I never carry around my passport. (because I think its silly to expect everyone to bring it around with them, it cost so much if you lose it) and have bother getting an age card!

Most place are fine with it and when I show a couple of other ID's.

There was this one time in Marks when I was buying my mom a jam compote that had alcohol in it and got asked. I showed my ID and she started saying I don't know and being kinda rude about it. I got annoyed at the way I was being treated and pointed out that I am 7 years over the age limit and its jam. She eventually let me buy it. My boyfriend thought it was funny.

I think its more the way your treated after you show one and they still doubt it. I don't mind showing one but come on! After 21 you should be fine!

Hopefully when the new driving licence and PPS cards are out it be fine!

MadsL · 07-11-2013 12:02AM

thecatspjs wrote: »

Clubbing at 60? Fair play

Lemmy sez...

http://i.imgur.com/BxJat38.jpg

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 07-11-2013 12:08AM

I once got id'd in dunnes once buying wine. I carry the old age card, and when the foreign girl behind the counter asked me for id, sure I was beaming from ear to ear. Gave it to her and she was basically like, we can't accept this form of ID. It's only age cards or passport. I'm like "eh that is an age card". She had to ask someone else if it was okay, came back to me and apologised that she had never seen one of those before because it was so old. Way to snatch back the youthful feeling she gave me!

ElvisChrist6 · 07-11-2013 12:55AM

WhiteRoses wrote: »

I don't mind, I always carry my passport around with me anyway.

Being a student, as a default, I just hand my passport and student card if I'm asked. What grinds my gears even more is if I'm asked for a third type..Happened to me recently trying to buy a bottle of wine in an off license. Showed the passport and student card, and after a lengthy inspection, I was asked if I had anything else on me with my name on it. Luckily I had a few bank cards and my boots card on me as extra proof but jesus, at 22 I would have thought 2 forms was enough!

Aldi/Lidl is even more irritating. My boyfriend was buying drink there not too long ago and I picked up a few bits for the fridge while we were there too. I had no cash on me so my boyfriend was paying for all of it with his card. They wouldn't sell the alcohol to him because I didn't have any ID on me, even though he had an age card and a passport on him :rolleyes:

No issue with showing ID but this ridiculous business of everyone accompanying you having to have ID too is seriously annoying.

Jesus, anytime I've been asked for ID, I've never been asked for another type (I've seen friends being asked because it was student ID). Passport is always more than enough if it's needed. Is this common?!

Thoie · 07-11-2013 10:53AM

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

Jesus, anytime I've been asked for ID, I've never been asked for another type (I've seen friends being asked because it was student ID). Passport is always more than enough if it's needed. Is this common?!

I think this is one of the reasons why adults well over the age of 25 get annoyed. You're asked for ID when you don't expect it (because you don't think you look under <insert arbitrary shop-set age limit here>. You then miraculously find that you do have some ID on you, only to be told it's not the right kind of ID. Particularly frustrating is being told that your government issued ID is not acceptable, and that shop only accepts this one very specific form of ID that most grown-ups never get.

I can be admitted to another country with my driving license/passport, yet it's not good enough to buy a bottle of wine in some places.

Why do people get bent out of shape over ID?

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