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What age did you stop getting asked for ID?

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  • #32
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Still get asked... Pain in the hole!


  • #33
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    I got asked once when I was 29. Before that it would have been fairly regular until I was about 25.


  • #34
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    I've never been asked for ID, I feel left out.


  • #35
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »
    I've never been asked for ID, I feel left out.


    +1. Never been asked for id/refused a drink. It was definitely easier back in the day. Someone posted about a DOB of '93 I was a seasoned campaigner then. There was at least one spot in most towns where a tall 15 year old had no bother "getting in". Used to go for a drink mid-week with the oul boy in the local when I was 16.


  • #36
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    14


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  • #37
    nc19
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    15


  • #38
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    I'm 25, and I still am asked for ID everywhere except my local shop, and that's only because I worked there 10 years ago, so they know my age.

    When I met my bf's mother a while back (he's 29), she was convinced I could be no older than 16, and gave him a talking to about going out with kids, when I went home :o


  • #39
    livemusic4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭livemusic4life


    I'm 32 now, last carded in Ireland about 6 months ago, before that it was regularly til i was 29. Still get carded all the time in the uk.

    i was talking to the electric Ireland dude at the door the other day before i went out. Brother was doing some painting work for me. EI guy came back when i wasn't there, spoke to my brother and said "i was speaking to your daughter earlier" :D he was very insulted :D


  • #40
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Still get asked regularly enough.

    The day I turned 28 last summer I was in the supermarket buying 4 bottles of beer to celebrate but your one at the checkout wouldn't serve me.
    I was both disgusted and pleased all at once :pac:

    Not happening as much as it used to though :(


  • #41
    Gadgie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Gadgie


    I don't think I ever have been asked, except when they're ID-ing everyone. I've never had an age card, nor do I bring a driving licence or passport out with me.

    I started going out when I was 15, and my friends were all 16 or 17. They all used to get asked for ID (they had terrible fake IDs ordered from the back of magazines; this was in 1999, pre-Garda age card), then when it was my turn I would be told "it's OK, you're alright".

    I got asked in Tesco a couple of years ago and I was quite shocked, until the girl on the checkout burst out laughing and said "only joking!" :(

    I used to work in a shop and a customer once asked me if I had children. I was 14 or 15 at the time. :eek:

    I don't really look that much older now, so it's all good. :pac:


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  • #42
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
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    I was about 24 or 25 when they stopped asking me regularly for ID!


  • #43
    vickers209
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭vickers209


    Been asked bout 3 times all me life im 29

    was asked for id about a year ago buying a scratchcard!! I thought i was hearing things.
    I was being served in pubs and off licences since i was 16 never a bother.

    Got asked in the states once when buying a bottle off beer in a shop.


  • #44
    relax carry on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,187 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    34. And I kinda miss it now. Sad.


  • #45
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Jhcx wrote: »
    21 with a beard got told i look like im 16/17 so think i'll be getting asked for another few years Thats fine with me.

    We talking bum fluff here? In a beard off between you and that Eurovision winner, who would win?

    Can't remember last time I was asked for ID. Course I'm balding and 36, so I got that going for me.


  • #46
    Stheno
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    relax carry on wrote: »
    34. And I kinda miss it now. Sad.

    same


  • #47
    Addison Narrow Rumba
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Addison Narrow Rumba


    I got asked once or twice when I was around 16 that's it really
    Still get asked all the time how's college going :(


  • #48
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    22 and didn't get asked in Aldi the other day. :cool:


  • #49
    sunflower27
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    many moons ago I was asked going into Fitzsimmons in Dublin. I was 30 :D


  • #50
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Haha I remember being at the cinema before and some power-mad ticket checker was insisting to this guy that she needed ID to let him into a 15's movie! The lad was about 20!

    They were arguing for about 10 minutes, the guy absolutely incredulous that she didn't believe he was at least 15, when eventually the frustration got to the guy - he points at his face and roars to the entire cinema "I HAVE A FÛCKING BEARD!"

    Found that hilarious :D


  • #51
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    pajor wrote: »
    22 and didn't get asked in Aldi the other day. :cool:

    The guy on the till asked a pensioner in my local one during the week.

    Aldi have a 25 and over policy for buying booze.


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  • #52
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    many moons ago I was asked going into Fitzsimmons in Dublin. I was 30 :D

    Something similar for me. The one and only time I was ever asked for ID.


  • #53
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    About 25 when I stopped getting asked, when I was trying to get a passport at the garda station for my upcoming honeymoon with my wife, the bangarda wouldn't sign my forms as she didn't believe I was 29!
    My wife still gets pissed that the garda had no problem believing her age! :)


  • #54
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I have never been asked for ID - not once, even though I was having the occasional drink in a local bar at the age of 16. Not much drink, since I was really there to practice my Snooker, and you need to see straight for that to work. I should explain that this was in South Africa, where they were a bit more casual about such things in the 80s. By the time I moved back to the UK In my early 20s, I looked old enough to get straight in anywhere.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #55
    herisson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,676 ✭✭✭✭herisson


    I get asked sometimes, I'm 22.

    I had one guy ask me for id before in aldi. He gawked at it for ages. Then looks me straight in the eye and goes "Thank you.....Herisson". I was a tad uncomfortable.


  • #56
    Olive8585
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 360 ✭✭Olive8585


    Used to get asked every time until I was 25. Only get asked the odd time now. It's a funny thing, it used to annoy me being asked but it was kind of a compliment at the same time. I'm quite pleased to be asked now and I always wonder if it's because I look young or they just ask everyone under 40. :D


  • #57
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »
    I've never been asked for ID, I feel left out.

    Does mummy and daddy know you are on here? ;)


  • #58
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    around 23, ten years ago:(


  • #59
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    I've barely been asked for I.D. since I was 17. I suppose a mix of hanging around with older people and having the 'gift of the gab' with bouncers/offy workers worked. I'm 27 now and I look around 40 so I took the good with the bad on that one...


  • #60
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    freedominacup wrote: »
    +1. Never been asked for id/refused a drink. It was definitely easier back in the day. Someone posted about a DOB of '93 I was a seasoned campaigner then. There was at least one spot in most towns where a tall 15 year old had no bother "getting in". Used to go for a drink mid-week with the oul boy in the local when I was 16.

    I'm not even from "Back in the day" :p

    (Or at least I consider myself to not be...)


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  • #61
    Neyite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,946 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    I was asked a few months ago, when I was almost 39.

    Do I win?


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