101 replies to this topic

[lsto]

Got ID'd by some spotty teen for spray paint at halfords, wouldn't mind but I'm 26 and had my misses and baby with me...

[RedRuby]

I wonder at some of the items they check your age on, but I love being asked my age can only figure the relative assistant needs glasses 'cause sure as hell I do not look under 18

[cal844]

Im 21 and i got ID'd for cigarettes(not for me!)

[Anthony30]

Not ID'd, but asked for my age for the Michelin rally car simulator @ Wales Rally GB, Spray glue at B&Q, and SPAR refused to serve me cigs.If you can get ID'd for it, I will.  

[Ben_O]

I love the fact that we spend out youth wishing we didn't get asked and then when you stop being asked it's upseting.

 

I am 29 and haven't been asked once since i was 16. That makes me think that i look really old

 

On another note, i remembered i was asked ID for chocolate liqueurs when i was 15. They were my nan's fave and it was her birthday. I had to leave without them. 

[Tamworthbay]

I don't think its about how old you look. Trading standards warn local shops they are having a purge so people are told to check age on anyone who isn't obviously drawing a pension just to be sure. And it can happen the other way, I went to watch Tamworth at the Lamb a few years ago with my father in law who was about 52 at the time. He went through the turnstile first and I followed and said same again to the bloke. He replied 'you cheeky .......... You ain't no OAP' my father in law likes to save his cash so just found it funny. He has had very white hair since he was thirty.

[Berrybox]

Just remembered when I gOT IDed for some non alcoholic mohito mix.. i was so annoyed, the whole point was that it was supposed to make a non alcoholic cocktail!

[Thorpsta]

I've been Id'd for bleach, when buying alcohol or my dads cig's I've been id'd and theyve refused my military id

[AlexMozza]

Got asked just now when buying a new Angle grinder from B and Q, My reply was 'really, do I look under 18'

He did not bother in the end! Thats with stubble and all!

[AVV IT]

My understanding is that the guidance now is wether someone looks obviously over 25 or not. To be fair establishing that at a quick glance can be a bit of challenge sometimes. Take it from an oldie though, once you get to a certain age you actually start hoping that someone will ask you for ID one day. A friend of mine is 41 and she got asked for ID whilst trying to buy a bottle of wine recently, she was quite flattered but didn't have any on her, and apparently they wouldn't take the fact that her 19 year old daughter was standing next to her as living proof.

Oh and my best one was setting off the age verication alert at the self scan till in Tesco, because I was trying to buy a potatoe masher! Let's face it in the wrong hands, one of those could be pretty lethal!

[1984mini25]

I used to get id'ed or refused to be served all the time when I used to go out for drinks with the ex. Thing is I was 2 years older than her and she never once got id'ed.

 

Along with the usual spray paint and even petrol when I was 18 and just passed my test.

 

Although more recently down at the local swimming pool, were one stroppy member of the public refused to believe I should be swimming in the pool at a certain time. So called for me to get out and prove it with id in my locker. Thing is I was 28, witch is just few years older than the over 16's only limit.

[Thorpsta]

I used to get id'ed or refused to be served all the time when I used to go out for drinks with the ex. Thing is I was 2 years older than her and she never once got id'ed.

 

Along with the usual spray paint and even petrol when I was 18 and just passed my test.

 

Although more recently down at the local swimming pool, were one stroppy member of the public refused to believe I should be swimming in the pool at a certain time. So called for me to get out and prove it with id in my locker. Thing is I was 28, witch is just few years older than the over 16's only limit.

 

 

So, was the petrol already in your tank? Bit late id'ing you

[littlemissmagic]

I used to get ID'd all the time. Once got ID'd buying a 15 film when I was 20.... lol
My favourite is my great aunt though, shes in her 60s and got ID'd in vegas buying a drink.

Edited by littlemissmagic, 14 December 2014 - 03:37 PM.

[Wise Old Elf]

I have never been id-ed

 

I started shaving at 10 and was in the pub by 14. 

[M J W J]

 

I used to get id'ed or refused to be served all the time when I used to go out for drinks with the ex. Thing is I was 2 years older than her and she never once got id'ed.

 

Along with the usual spray paint and even petrol when I was 18 and just passed my test.

 

Although more recently down at the local swimming pool, were one stroppy member of the public refused to believe I should be swimming in the pool at a certain time. So called for me to get out and prove it with id in my locker. Thing is I was 28, witch is just few years older than the over 16's only limit.

 

 

So, was the petrol already in your tank? Bit late id'ing you

 

 

I've had  this problem at a petrol station and more than once.

 

The worst was when I was 24 and had just stuck £50 worth of petrol in my Mondeo. At 24 I didn't expect to have to show ID and I didn't have it on me. I said this to the checkout lad to which he replied that he couldn't serve me then. I sarcastically asked if that meant I got the petrol for free to which he genuinely replied that I would have to come back at another point, prove I was over the age of 16 and that there would be a £1 surcharge for late payment.

 

Needless to say I was not happy about this and after waiting quite a while I eventually got to speak to the manager who accepted my cash and put the transaction through. After they had waste my time I complained and I was given a £5 Morrisons Miles voucher as compensation. Luckily I am unlikely to have to use that Morrisons petrol station.

 

A friend of mine who works at a petrol station told me afterwards that you have to be 16 to Petrol and Paraffin but there is no restriction on Kerosene or Diesel. Considering I had driven into the petrol station in a MK3 Mondeo and was wearing a shirt and tie I was a bit surprised that they needed to ID me.

 

I was ID'd once going through the checkout at Wilkos. Considering I had just handed them a staff discount card I was a bit surprised. Turns out that it wasn't for the tin snips and grinding discs I was buying but for the Baileys Chocolate bar.

 

I was refused service (again) at a Morrisons while trying to buy alcohol as my driving licence had expired by a few days (I have a 3 year restricted licence due to diabetes). Its still a genuine ID though and the picture on it looks like me. Its not like it was 10 years out of day.

 

Odeon Cinemas refused my University of Nottingham ID as proof of being a student just because it didn't have the NUS logo on it. My card was a proper plastic car which had an expiry date on it. My friend Hugh's Stafford university card and my friend Greg's Derby University card which are both just laminated pieces of paper and neither of which had a start or end date on, they accepted as they both had the logo on it. Instead of £4 I got charged £10.50 to see the same film. To add insult to injury they also then tried to short change me by claiming I had given them a £10 note instead of a £20 note.