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I realize now that at the airport bar they card you even if you use a walker and have an oxygen tank. so i don't get thrilled about being carded there anymore.

today i was at a local bar i had never stopped at, a real neighborhood hangout, vets and bikers and daytime drunks, real salt of the earth.

i was wearing jeans, a black T-shirt that said "Last clean shirt" and a Chicago Bears cap that i had on ... backwards.

The bartender, who i took to be well under 30, carded me, and it made my day.

I just said "bless you, son" because i'm probably old enough to be his dad, and showed him my ID.

I have noticed that when this very occasionally still happens, very often i will have on a backwards hat.

Apparently this makes me look younger.

I have a theory that it actually makes me look not younger, but rather it makes me look stupid, which in a bartender's mind subconsiously translates to "younger".

any similar experiences, ye middle aged brethren?

if you haven't been carded like this in some time, how old were you the last time you remember being legitimatly carded?

40, and much like you it made my day.

Nearly 4 years later, however, with a pre-teen girl starting middle-school, my hair has greyed to the degree I don't expect it to happen ever again.

I bartend. My carding kind of varies. My workplace requires us to 'card every single drinking customer, zero exceptions." So theoretically I should card my great-grandmother. As it is, I have simply expanded my carding from anyone under the appearance of 30 (that's the theoretical law) to anyone that could bizarrely somehow be 20 in some bizarre alternate reality. I figure that I look like someone certainly a few years past 21, but I don't mind being carded. And I card people that look (and are) obviously over my age all the time.

Basically, you gotta figure that the bartender knows you're not a 19 year old. He's just doing what his boss, and the law, make you do.

Maclowery wrote:I bartend. My carding kind of varies. My workplace requires us to 'card every single drinking customer, zero exceptions." So theoretically I should card my great-grandmother. As it is, I have simply expanded my carding from anyone under the appearance of 30 (that's the theoretical law) to anyone that could bizarrely somehow be 20 in some bizarre alternate reality. I figure that I look like someone certainly a few years past 21, but I don't mind being carded. And I card people that look (and are) obviously over my age all the time.

Basically, you gotta figure that the bartender knows you're not a 19 year old. He's just doing what his boss, and the law, make you do.

no, i'm 44. usually i sit down and don't get carded, even if they card the next guy who's 35.

I'm not sure I've ever actually worn a hat backwards. But I am going to get carded regardless for at least the next 15 years. I'm not Brad Thompson but I'm close. Only if I haven't shaved in a few days do people let me slide.

This thread made me think of this:

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories ... 2221c.html

OLYMPIA, Wash. - She has headlined parades, appeared on television and signed legislation.

But all that couldn't get Governor Christine Gregoire into a downtown Olympia bar.

Gregoire got carded and turned away last weekend from a bar called Hannah's.

She and her staff had just served burgers at the annual Capital Lakefair nearby. With their state patrol escort, they went to the bar for a celebration.

"There was someone at the door checking ID. I didn't happen to bring my wallet," Gregoire said. "The young man said if you don't have ID, you can't get in."

The 23-year-old bouncer wouldn't budge, even when others stepped in to vouch for Gregoire's identity.

"He simply said, 'Yes, I understand, with no ID she can't get in,' so I went home and my husband went in," Gregoire said.

Since I've grown a beard my carding has gone way down.

As I said, I'm in the same boat as the "23 year old bouncer" - obviously we realize you aren't 20, but our judicial system has made this pretty serious. If a cop busts a waiter/bartender serving underage people, it's our job, immediately. And a 500 dollar ticket to us. And, at least in Iowa - I can't recall Illinois' specifics - a 1500 dollar ticket to the place and some kind of warning/punishment depending on number of times caught. A nice pizza joint in Ames, Iowa that a best buddy of mine delivered for was completely shut down for 6 weeks because they served Bud Light on draft, and were caught three times in 2 months or something serving it to non-uniformed, 20 year old cops. The business folded, and everyone lost their jobs. It was many peoples' favorite pizza joint, but due to their meager little keg that was barely sold, the city screwed over a couple dozen poor college kids, and, worse, the managers that fed their families.

Obviously, I'm pretty much against the penalties for this 'crime'. Personally, I freakin' know not to serve kids, and I certainly won't serve late teenagers, either. Jeez.

/rant!

StatmanCrothers wrote:no, i'm 44.

Then you are too old to wear your cap backwards.

Radbird wrote:

StatmanCrothers wrote:no, i'm 44.

Then you are too old to wear your cap backwards.

Even if i have a giant dog with me?