<p>We were eating at BWW on Sat with D2 and her new BF. H ordered a beer and was asked for ID ( he’s 53) He pulled out his AARP card and completely embarrassed D. He was excited until waitress said they have to check everyone’s ID. (Like he really thought he looked of questionable drinking age).</p>
<p>Haha, I am 28 but look MAYBE 18 at best. If I dress in my nice work attire I MIGHT pass for 21… and that’s a big maybe. I get carded almost everywhere. Every once and awhile if I am out with my boyfriend they will let me go without it… but not always. Sometimes he gets carded as well… he’s older then me and by no way shape or form does he look under 21. He says I bring him down, lol. </p>
<p>I had one of our AVP’s shadowing me at work one day (he was new to the company and trying to get an understanding of how we did things) and he was probably dying to ask me how old I am… he didn’t ask but he did ask how long I had been with the company. I didn’t give him my age but I did tell him that I started working there after I graduated from college and had been working there for over 5 years. Hopefully that made him feel better about the teenager clone he probably thought he was following around, lol.</p>
<p>I once had a customer tell me I should be working for sesame street and that if I ever needed a reference to give her a call. I wasn’t sure if that was a compliment or not… haha.</p>
<p>I get my looks from my mother… she is an AARP card carrying individual as well and doesn’t look a day over 40…</p>
<p>The grocery nearest us has a universal ID program. They just ask me for my birth-date since they don’t need to see my actual ID. Recently a friend mentioned that rattling off your DOB in public wasn’t a good idea - she always just showed her ID to the check-out person. My new practice - give my day and month with a different year. Easy to rattle off but no personal info given in public. So far I have discovered that the check-out teens don’t raise an eyebrow if I claim to be 20 years younger. Yikes, if they think I look 35, we are all in trouble!!!</p>
<p>dragonmom, I get that too. Many of the grocery stores or drug stores here need your birthdate for purchasing certain medicine. if i go to a self check out and it pops up asking for the cashier to put in my birthday… sometimes they come over and ask me for my bday and enter it… other times they somehow skip me past it from where they are… i dont know if they can skip it or if they are just putting in a random birthday… at rite aid they ask me every time i try to buy nyquil, lol.</p>
<p>I got carded at Costco. I was excited until the cashier explained that it was universal, and then added that all of the middle-aged moms love it. Ugh.</p>
<p>I was carded in a grocery store that I do not regularly frequent. As I smuggly handed over my ID I told the young (16?) cashier that I was old enough to be his mother.
Completely nonplussed he replied that according to my ID, I was as old as his Grandma.
Ouch!</p>
<p>I recently visited my much younger cousin and her husband and, when we went to a local bar, there was a guy checking IDs at the door. I had mine all ready to go but, when he looked at me, he said he didn’t need to see it. :(</p>
<p>DD is 22 but looks about 12 so it always surprises servers when she orders an alcoholic drink. We even had one server look at us after checking her ID to ask if she was really 22.</p>
<p>splashmom, my younger sister is 22 and looks about 12 also. We went somewhere together and the person at the door was like OH MY GOD HOW DID YOU DO THAT?? when they saw her age on her id, lol!</p>
<p>laketime…sorry but I laughed out loud at your post.</p>
<p>Well it’s not funny one bit. As an older mother, I was asked by a teller at the bank “how’s your granddaughter these days?” Ugh.</p>
<p>I was carded a few years ago at O’Hare. I thanked them…LOL. </p>
<p>Last night, I was eating out…three of us were women in our 50s and the fourth person was my 24 year old daughter. The waiter asked if we were all over 21. I said that three of us are delighted to be asked and one probably not so much. He did not check the IDs though. </p>
<p>But I have to admit that today made my day. I was visiting a college with D, age 24, and we stopped in an office to ask about grad student housing and the person asked which one of us it was for! :D</p>
<p>sooz… Loved your post regarding which one of you it was for… Years ago my best friend came to tour my college with her mother… I met up with her in our student union and introduced her to a friend of mine who just happened to be there at the same time… He didn’t realize that the lady with us was her mom and he goes to her “are you a student here too?” She was so excited she says “i like this boy.” my friend goes “wow, my mom likes you. i guess we’ll have to get married some day.” she was just joking about but but they’ve been married for 5 years now and have 2 kids!! I asked him about it afterwards and he was like boy did i feel dumb for not realizing it was her mother… he’s like i didn’t think she was our age but i thought maybe she was a non traditional student or something… haha!</p>
<p>^cute story, fendergirl.
Mine, not so cute. At a grocery store, the young checker glanced at me and asked, “Miss” and then did a double take, “I mean, ma’am, would you like paper or plastic?”</p>
<p>I travel alot and get carded every now and then. I usually think either they’re REALLY stupid, or mocking me. So I don’t feel flattered.</p>
<p>Though I must admit, after all those years of fake ID’s, I still feel kind of guilty, like I’m getting away with something!</p>
<p>My son is 30 and still gets carded even when younger people at the same table don’t. I only get carded at places like Kroger.</p>
<p>I got carded buying beer at World Market when my 20-year-old son was with me. I suspect they thought I was buying it for him–and that was partly true, because he has an occasional beer at home.</p>
<p>LIke Fendergirl, my D is 28 and looks much, much younger. Always carded. A few years ago, at one of those guess your age booths at Wildwood, she was guessed at 15. So she won the prize-worth-about-a-dollar that she paid two bucks for the chance for.</p>
<p>I work in a wine bar. We card everyone who is even the slightest questionable because in my state the fine for serving underage goes to the server and not the owner of the bar. The fine is several thousand dollars. O’hare and several airports now have to card everyone. Including my 52 year old husband last time we flew.</p>
<p>I asked H, who doesn’t drink at all, to pick up some beer, for a bridge night, at the grocery store a month or so ago. Although I haven’t been carded there (we are both 60+) for some reason they carded him. He got such a kick out of it, everyone heard the story at least once.</p>
<p>On my 40th birthday, at Safeway, where they are supposed to card you if you look as though you could be 30 or under. I was wearing gym shorts, and my hair was in a ponytail. I did a little victory dance, right there at the cash register. Might even have chanted a bit.</p>
<p>As a foreigner with an accent, when on holiday in the US I get the mandatory carding sometimes. I just force them to explain, what they want (it does sound silly) then do a ‘I must show I am not 21 theez face is not enough?’. Or a ‘no need papers I have dollars cash’ and wave $1000 around. Sort of Borat-lite.</p>