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Originally Posted by AnnieK

I can't remember ever getting asked for ID here when clubbing. I did always look older than I was and a lot of the people I went with were older too so I kind of got in the middle of them on the way in

When I was in the States it was a pain as I was 20 and they card you EVERYWHERE there. I turned 21 whilst I was there but used to use my International Driving Licence as ID and that fooled them into thinking I turned 21 a couple of months before I did as they read my birthday as 3rd January instead of 1st March due to the inverted way they write dates

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.