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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 47 and got carded this weekend.[/quote]

Isn’t  this the law? I get carded every where and never thought that I look 20.[/quote]

Not per se. The law is that you can't serve someone under 21 (for alcohol) or 18 (for cigarettes and so on). The law in most places doesn't require you to check ID, but corporate or establishment [i]policy[/i] may require any of the following:

-Must check EVERYONE'S ID. You see this a lot at Total Wine, which IIRC (?) scans your license, grocery stores and so on. Although if you're just incredibly obviously over 40 or 50, the clerk might not ask and just enter a random 40+ birthdate in order to speed things up. Clubs often have this policy.

-Must check ID, but kind of flexible if they're regulars and you've seen them and checked ID more than once before.

-Must check ID of anyone who looks like they could plausibly be under 35 (except maybe regulars). This was a common policy in restaurants I worked in.

-Must check ID of anyone who looks like they could plausibly be under 21. A little riskier, but not if your employees have decent judgment and really do check IDs if it's even [i]plausible[/i].

If you're 47 and always carded somewhere they "always" card people, who cares? If at 47, you're always or even sometimes carded at places where most people 40+ are not, that's more impressive. The difference is especially apparent when you're out with people around your age and you're the only one carded.

I was about to say that it's even more impressive when you're in a place like Salisbury (I used to live & tend bar there) where they rarely even bother carding people under 30. But Salisbury is full of white people with a lot of sun damage, so maybe it's not that impressive if they card you there.  :lol:

Re: the "check everyone who could plausibly be under 21," I worked at a place like that in DC, and because I wanted to be safe (you can be fined, or sued!) I cast a wide net. I often found that the IDs I requested put people at 30, or occasionally older. One day the (Black, brownskinned) woman I asked was almost 50! I was like, "Ma'am, I am truly not just saying this! I am so busy today, that I am honestly ONLY carding people who could be college students!" LOL, and her mother piped up like, "Yes, she gets it from me, I'm 75" (and of course, looked 45).

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