Yeah it's awful when you're a teen, surprising how fast it changes to hoping you look younger than your age though! :laugh:

America’s a nightmare when it comes to things like that. 21 being the official drinking age is already absurd but over there they essentially operate on challenge-40, meaning basically any young-ish person gets ID-d everyone and without fail. A lot of my cousins (and I have a lot of cousins in the States, especially North Carolina) still have it real-tough. Me, my U.K. problem has never been anything much more than patronisingly being asked for my age by the shopkeeper when I was 18 and buying alcohol (they must’ve been part of the small body of people who thought I only looked about 16) or the same person asking for it over and over again. There’s a woman in a Home Bargains I go to sometimes who always, always used to ask me for I.D. despite remembering my face well (with me being quite a regular customer then) and insisted it were the shop’s rules, not hers, and that she were only doing her job. But the thing is either no-one else asked me for proof of age or even if they did they only asked once and stopped when they’d seen me enough times to remember me. It’s not like anyone ever de-ages back to being a 17-year-old once they’re 18+ so it makes no sense whatsoever to keep asking for I.D. when you know they’re old enough. You should’ve taken note at some point between the first 1027 times you asked.

Oh, that’s the one. It’s good to look younger and fresher when you’re older but when you’re only on the cusp of legal adulthood in the first place being told you essentially look like a kid is like a slap in the face.

awww I just found a picture of that tiny Pub in Boston we would get served in

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/58...bebd7500ef.jpg

Not a pub. serving then-underage people ironically being called ‘little’ […]. :laugh:

:smug:

I remember a time when my best friend came with us clubbing - she was more of a home body at the time and preferred to stay home. I went to this particular club every week and knew the door staff. Anyway, my friend got asked for ID (luckily she was 18 as she was a year older than me) but had no idea. I just looked at the bouncer and said "it's ok - she's with me" and they let her in. I gloated for ages that she was such a baby face and she said then wait will we're older and you still look older than me.

She still reminds me now of that day (and yep, she looks younger than me still ):bawling:

Do you think you'd be okay with your son going clubbing when he's a little older (16/17)?

God no :laugh:
Although I don't think he'd get away with as much as I did anyway...for one I would be checking for signs of drug use, for another I don't think my parents knew where I actually was and they wouldn't check up on where I said i was but with phones kids don't have the luxury of going off grid like we did.

Unless he takes me of course and then I'd be fine with it :laugh:

I remember going to a club only to find one of the mums from daughters school on the desk and getting in for free

And another times friends were in a packed club with no one being let in my friends came down and told the staff I was her fiancée and I got it

I see what you mean. Teenagers (no-matter how good they are) are always going to be getting up to stuff behind your back that remains a secret (they might open up about it in their 20s or 30s) and I feel like it’s pointless (I’m talking generally) to pretend otherwise but it’s definitely harder for people now to stay under the radar completely, in this era of instant communication.