At what age did you stop getting asked for ID?

Peter333

I am with Duchy and Billie-S. I have never been asked. (Born early 1960s.) it is much more common now to be asked than it was when I was a teen.

FBaby

To be fair, I don't think the reason why those in their 30s/40s are asked for their ID is so much because they look young, but because there are many youngster who do look so much older then they are. I suppose you could be 17 and look 30 or be 35 and look 25, so it is very much a case of better safe than sorry considering these staff can be disciplined and even sacked for selling alcohol to an under age.

lozzy81

I am 33, I always get asked, whether I am with my husband or 10 year daughter, I do look about 15, or so everyone says!!

I am used to it now as the law has changed to "look 25" and it is the seller who will loose their job and could be prosecuted for breaking the law if they were caught selling to minors, so I understand fully why they check!

Gloomendoom

Not since I was 47, buying alcohol in a supermarket.

rock_queen

I started getting ID'd when I turned 30. Up until then I had never been asked before.

Kimmie26

I'm 30 and haven't been Id'd since I was about 15 I don't think I look old just look my age I guess.

About 4 years ago I was in tesco buying wine with a friend, the checkout assistant asked my friend for ID looked at me and said 'I don't need yours' - I don't get offended easily but that has always stung! Especially as I am only a year older than my friend!!

Mad-Frog

I bought some ciggies at age 37, the sales assistant asked me for my date of birth

I looked at her gone out and did describe my date of birth, to which she replied 'oh my son is your age ........age 37

I wish I had replied .. you should have gone to spec savers....

I got asked for ID in a supermarket once, buying a bottle of wine. had GD with me, 2 bottles of white, 1 bottle of red, had the you could be buying for infant debacle, I said which one?
The GD in the pram?
Do you think a premature baby who isn't on solids at 5 months will be fed Pino grigio?
Had to prove I wouldn't feed it to her? I said It doesn't normally last an hour when opened
She refused purchase (as the baby was so small)

I did say if you see me feed her, or any child for that matter alcohol feel free to call the police

Supermarket next door sold wine to me with no problem

gazebo

Still regularly asked at the age of 34. I enjoy the look on the face of the person asking when they manage to do the tricky maths.

One place I visit frequently, I have a bit of banter with a cashier, because he always wants to ID me if I've gone in with scruffy hair but doesn't bother if I'm more groomed

Person_one

Billie-S wrote: »

That's a weird one. Because anyone past their mid 40s, will have been late teens in a time when not many people asked for I.D. I was born in the very late 1960s, and in the late 1980s (when I was in my late teens,) I could buy booze at 16, without being asked for I.D.

The law is way way way more strict now, and stores won't take any chances. You only have to be 18 to drink, and yet many stores insist they won't serve you unless you look over 25!

My girls are 19 and 20 and as long as they have their I.D. with them; they have no trouble. But without it, they can't get served, as they look like they could be anything between 16 and 21. So the cashiers won't take the chance that they may be underage.

But I genuinely don't think I have EVER been asked for I.D.

Probably different for people born in the early 1980s and onwards...

That includes me, just! I've hardly ever been asked for ID though, only really in the US where they seem to ask everybody. I think I've always looked old for my age which was great at 15 but is less great now!

It did used to bug me when using a self-checkout when the staff member would just glance at me and then press 'customer is obviously over 25', especially when I was only 26 or 27!

Person_one

*max* wrote: »

With or without makeup, you can tell who's underage for alcohol purchases for the most part. Some people look younger than they are, but that's a very tiny minority, and it happens in late twenties - not forties. If anyone in their forties claim they got ID'd, they're either lying, or got asked for ID because the shop person was being nice (or stupid). Very, very, very few people look like 20 year olds when they're in their 40's. It's just another feelgood thing. "Oh, I got ID'd in Tesco today!" "Hahaha! No wonder, you look so good!". Hahaha...

Nope. You can tell. Don't fool yourselves people! lol

There are definitely people who look young enough to get genuine ID requests in their forties, I'm surprised you haven't met any. I find they tend to be very petite, with good skin and a bone structure that gives them that 'baby faced' look.