BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO

Subject: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:20 PM

The first time it happened I assumed it was an over careful clerk. But it happened again today with Jacqui as my witness. So is that rock music making them blind as well as deaf? I know I don't look my age (CAN IT, Jacqui) but this is ridiculous.
SINS, doing her happy dance foolishly

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:37 PM

True - I was there.

The checkout girl DID say that she had to leave her seeing eye dog at home today, but it's still the case that Mary got carded!

For those in the UK this is when you have to show some form of identity to prove that you are of an age to buy alchohol.....

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:41 PM

SINSULL--You didn't specify, were you carded to see if you were, indeed, a senior citizen.   HaHaHaHaHa.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:52 PM

Thank you John for stealing my line and the obvious joke...LOL......And exactly WHAT were you doing Sins????

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:05 PM

>>rock music making them blind<<

I think you may be a year or two behind on the music trends. Unless the checkout clerk was in her forties.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Tinker
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:05 PM

I would so be dancing.... There are a number of places near us that are supposed to card everyone, but they rarely do...enjoy the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:41 PM

Last time I bought a pack of smokes a while back they ask your birthday ... I said
01/01/01    They young girl keyed it in and never flinched ... I guess I look like I am 109 years old at 57 ...

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:45 PM

Hell, I got carded just a couple hours ago, buying two books at Waldenbooks. Before that I was carded at the ophthmalogist's office (well, they asked for my insurance card). Then there was the cop who wanted to see my driver's license....

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:56 PM

Buying wine, Spaw, cheap wine.
I got carded HEH HEH HEH
Next I'll get picked up in a bar...

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 08:11 PM

Subtitles?

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 08:26 PM

Hmmmppff! That's better than being offered a senior citizen's discount when you didn't ask for it!

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 10:26 PM

Sure it wasn't to prove you are still young enough to drink? I mean, they don't want a buncha geezers tying one on, now, do they?**BG**

****Congrats, Marigold******

luvyaMsKittywho'dlovedtogetcardedbutmightbreaksomeguy'sbackifhepickedmeupinabar:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: maire-aine
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 10:36 PM

A few years ago, within the same week (diff. days) & by the same clerk, I was carded to buy alcohol & asked if I wanted a senior discount. Go figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: ranger1
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 11:00 PM

I hate to break it to you Mary, but Jason and I paid them to do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 11:23 PM

Ha. Everybody calm down. I too got carded- at a local pizza joint last spring. You should have heard me; I made a fuss. At first I thought the boy was kidding.

Turned out that Alaska had passed this really dumb ordinance/law that an establishment has to 'verify' each person's legality in order for them to buy even a beer.

I read the statement they gave me and said, It says you have to verify that I'm old enough. It does not say that you have to look at my drivers license. Look at my face. Doesn't that verity my age?

He mumbled, Could I see your drivers license, please.

I gave up. (Sorry, Sins.)

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 01:22 AM

many years ago my very petite 25 year old friend was out with her 17 year old sister & sister's friends & she was the only one asked her age!

ps. drinking is legal at 18 over here.

I was also given a Senior's discount at the Craft Show several years before I retired (at 55 & Senior's Card is issued to 60 year olds!) I didn't realise I'd been given the discount until I passed another entry booth & I wasn't insulted - I'd saved a few dollars!! So naturally I wanted to tell someone, but for the first time ever I didn't meet a single woman or man I knew. I had to wait till I got home

sandra (15 months from her Senior's Card)

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: GUEST,crowsister
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:29 AM

I was refused alcohol-free lager at one supermarket because I didn't have ID to prove I was 21. I was 34 at the time and had two older women with me who vouched for me. When I was refused by the checkout girl, she called her manager. The manager also made the decision that I wasn't over 21. One of the women I was with (in her mid fifties) offered to buy the alcohol-free lager for me. She was refused on the basis that she would be buying the alcohol-free lager for me, and that they suspected me of being too young to be allowed to have alcohol-free lager...

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:36 AM

What a great way for someone to glean all your information, and while being flattered by the distraction, too......sheer genius!
Lock you doors!

Wink,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:48 AM

Richard... To be carded (ID Card usally a driver's license) in the US is to have a cashier request to see identification proving you are of legal age to purchase alcohol/tobacco/pornography or to receive the senior discount on any purchases.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Slag
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:52 AM

That one half of one percent will knock you off your duff around can number 300 or so!

Bill_D, I hope they didn't gently take you by the elbow and guide you toward the door or a walker! Maybe the little electric grocery cart?

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:54 AM

I was asked if I was over 21 when I bought a packet of cigarettes last year in W H Smith's by a cheeky smiling young shop assistant lad. Having two grown up sons it was obvious that I must have been well over 21. He blushed with a smile and said 'It is company policy to ask' I admit I was flattered at the suggestion that I could have been 'underage' so I bought a bar of chocolate as well. His tactic at sales worked.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 03:48 AM

My ex-wife and I were carded in Denver when we were both about 40, and were refused admittance even though we showed our papers.

In this case it was because they were getting a lot of "marginals," many with fake ID, and we arrived in between a couple of "questionable groups." They were carding everyone to avoid arguments about "don't I look old enough." The refusal was because they had posted "photo ID required" due to large numbers of forgeries, and the only identification the ex had was her Kansas drivers license, and those didn't have a photo at the time.

I'm afraid I'd have trouble with working in such a place now, because at my age all the people working in such places look - to me - like they're about 12 y.o..

John

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 08:34 AM

I suspect the store did not trust their clerk's judgement and decided it would be better to card everyone than risk selling alcohol to minors and getting fined + lots of bad publicity.

BUT...I was carded!

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 10:55 PM

Congratulations, Sinsull!

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: LadyJean
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 12:11 AM

I kissed the last guy who carded me.

When I worked on the 1990 Census, there was a question on the long form that asked if the respondent was female had she ever had a baby. I was working around the universities, talking to a lot of students, some of who took offense at the question, so, if there were men living there, I would ask them if they'd ever had a baby. If there weren't, I would say, "Sorry, but I have to ask this. I really hate asking the guys."

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: akenaton
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 04:44 AM

"Are you between 18 and 80?"......I just walked away....shaken but not stirred! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:17 AM

Back in the 'Good Old days' (1961 ish)if my Bro and I went out for a beer he was REGULARLY asked if he was old enough to buy alcahol (18 in UK)
He is 14 months older than me and I had been in the R A F THREE Years !

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 01:23 PM

During the summer when I was still 61 I was carded at a grocery store that sold wine and beer in Lenox, MA. They had just carded the woman in front of my who looked only a little younger, so I think they card everyone. I don't get carded here in RI.

When my son was 19, he married a 29-year-old woman. One night they went out with members of her family, all visibly of drinking age. Knowing he was underage, my son ordered a Roy Rogers which, like a Shirley Temple, contains no alcohol. The waitress came back with a Rob Roy! My son realized it was a mistake and had her replace the drink.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:10 PM

Don't flatter yourselves. If some clerk ask ANY of us, for our ID, to check our age...I'd ask the clerk for theirs!...then bitch to the store owner that he's got a nincompoop working the register!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: ragdall
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:03 AM

He mumbled, Could I see your drivers license, please.

Ebbie,
Does this mean if you don't drive, you can't drink?

;-)

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: open mike
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:31 AM

what's in a rob roy? (drink)
Ingredients:

    * 1 1/2 oz Scotch
    * 1/4 oz sweet vermouth
    * Angostura bitters to taste
    * maraschino cherry for garnish



kid's drinks are called mocktails...

A Roy Rogers is a non-alcoholic mixed drink made with cola and grenadine syrup, garnished with a maraschino cherry. (aka grenadini)

A Shirley Temple (also known as a Grenadine Lemonade) is a non-alcoholic mixed drink originally made with two parts ginger ale, one part orange juice, and a small quantity of grenadine.[1] Nowadays, the drink is usually made with either seltzer or lemon-lime soda (7up or Sprite) , and mixed with grenadine syrup garnished with maraschino cherries and a slice of orange.

(this sounds like tequila sunrise without the vitamin "T")

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: GUEST,Seth from Olympia
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 10:11 PM

I got carded at the local Value Village thrift store because the clerk didin't think I looked old enough to get the senior ten percent discount (age 62). (I'm sixty-five) She was not laughing or joking about it just stone faced and serious. Perhaps they have had a rash of those darn sixty year olds trying to sneak by-anyway it was weird, sure enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 01:25 PM

Insulting, Seth.

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 01:40 PM

I'm stuck in the middle; To old to be carded, not old enough for a senior discount!!

...and I'm complaining??????

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Amos
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 01:47 PM

Besides, wehn you get accused of being a card-carrier, you deny it vehemently!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 02:29 PM

Sins,
The police officer saying "Ma'am, may I see your ID" is not the same as being carded. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 06:35 AM

My wife still dines out on the time I was asked "is it senior discount" when I was about 40. AND the time my driving instructor (I was a late learner in my 30s) came to the door and asked her "Is your father in" (I'm only 5 years older!).

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Carded at 63 WHOO WHOO
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 19 Nov 10 - 04:00 AM

Incredibly before becoming the official age to drink I was let into pubs without question with my then fiance but somehow as soon as I reached 18 I would be questioned about it. I wonder if the reason for that was having reached the official age (18 in UK) perhaps I wasn't making so much of an effort to appear older.