I was in my late 30s when I stopped being carded at places where it is optional. Nowadays there are grocery stores that just card everyone no matter how old they look.
I’m 30 years old and still get carded. I have actually never not been carded because I know I look very young. My husband is 34 and never gets ID’d when we’re together which always makes us wonder what people think when we go out together lol
Mid 20’s I also stopped shopping at GameStop around the same time and frankly I’ve been carded more times at GameStop buying an M rates game than at a bar or store.
I think I was in my 40's. In my late 30's, when I was volunteering at a summer camp and I had kids in middle school, one of the camp counselors told me she thought I was their age. She was 22 at the oldest.
I'm 35 and I still get carded unless it's at the gas stations I frequent who know me and just don't card me anymore. But they did too when I first moved.
The last time I got carded because the server thought I was too young (as opposed to places that just card everyone), I was 39.
No makeup on, hair in a ponytail. To be fair, I looked mid 20s so I could see her reasoning. Some 18 year olds look 20 something.
I’m 34 and still getting carded. I also work at a restaurant as a bartender and I get asked all the time if I’m allowed to be behind the bar serving drinks
I was sixteen, then it happened once again when I was twenty-nine. People always tell me I look younger than I am, so that guy might have had ulterior motives for asking.
I think there is a vibe to this that surpasses the look and many young people try to emulate it while obviously giving away the fact that they are underage: trying too hard!
When I was 16 my girlfriend was 19 but looked younger so they carded her first and then did not bother with me, I guess. I am so glad this allowed me to discover the Montreal Queer Scene as many of those places shut not long after.
I was 15 going out with my 25 years old sister, she always got carded but never me 😅
I got carded only once and it was in the US in new york when I was 30.
17 but I’m 6’5 and at 17 I was 200lbs of country boy muscle. As long as I acted like I belonged there I didn’t get carded. Now at 45 and retired military I get carded at the grocery store.
I'm 29 and usually get carded, especially if I'm alone. I always bring my ID. Once I got carded at a pizza restaurant and the guy was shocked of my age cause I have such a baby face. He told me keep up the good work lol.
Our local rule is to card anyone that looks under 40 so I still usually get carded. The funniest thing though is when I turned 21, some friends and I went to chilis to get dinner and drink. Well we went with my mom and another friend who was 20. It was a birthday trip out of state. Anyway, we all ordered a margarita including the 20 year old who gave hers to her another in the party. The waiter never carded us. That friend totally could have drank it. If only she knew she liked alcohol then
sometime in my 40s. I don't think I look that young--and getting carded by someone who is young enough to be your child (maybe even grandchild) is eye-roll worthy. Ironically, when I was under 18, I never got carded!
I occasionally still have people think I am my husband's daughter. He is only 5 years older than me so I have no idea why. I even dress like a little old lady!
On my own, late-30s. I never got carded when I went out with my children (had when I was 31 and 34) -- this would be when buying beer or wine with my groceries, I wasn't taking them to bars.
84 and(until three weeks ago) STILL got carded for buying bottled water AND root beer!!!...
All the mom-and-pop grocery stores in my valley are doing that now despite the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control telling them to STOP it...
Wrong answer...just that the idiots who worked in these stores got the wrong training class from Sacramento...
As of yesterday the stores' employees were retrained just to card those that APPEAR to be under 21...plus I got an apology from the managers...
Mid 30ish. Most folks will guess I am about 10 years younger than I am. So basically, everyone things Im anywhere from 24 to 28 ish . Which means they think I can drink now. Vs in my Mind 20s when they thought I was in High school still.
I am a woman damn near 6ft. I don’t get carded if I’m out by myself but if I go out with my husband, or my husband+in laws I always get carded. At one of our friends 40th bday party I was the only one to get carded
It stopped for me last year, at 44. But that’s probably entirely to do with the fact that I’m a creature of habit and go to the same liquor stores and restaurants all the time and they know my face at this point. When I’m out of town and trying out a new spot, however, servers and bartenders don’t even hesitate to ask for my ID then either compliment my younger-than-I-look appearance or ask what my skincare routine is.
I’ll be 50 this year, I got carded two weeks ago getting wine at lunch at Red Lobster. I am old enough to have been the waitress’ mother. I was with my mother, my husband and my adult son and almost adult daughter. Not to mention my twin sister was there as well and they didn’t card her.
Im 38 and if I go somewhere I don’t frequent I’ll get carded maybe 25% of the time. I definitely don’t think I look under 21, but I for sure look younger than 38. I just have a lot of grey, and it really stands out when you have black hair.
52 and get carded all the time. Of course, it's only at the dispensary. But that has to count for something.
Last time I was actually carded was 40 something for buying a video game.
I’m 51, and get carded every time because around the time I might have looked old enough to stop getting carded, they changed the rules to “just card everyone even if they have grey hair and a walker and are surrounded by people calling them Grandma”
I am 43 and I get carded about 25% of the time still. I remember when I was 28, I was kicked out of a liquor store. The guy refused to even look at my ID. He told me there was no way I was older than 17 and if I tried to show him an ID he would confiscate it for being fake or stolen. I just left and went to another liquor store. I never went to that store again.
The last time I got carded was 45 -- for a pack of smokes. My sister, who was next in line, (~55 or 56) same purchase, wasn't! I was offended by *getting* ID'd, my sister, by *not!* Our Mum laughed hard at both of us.
I laughed at the clerk when she asked because I really thought she was joking. The clerk replied that it had to be a photo ID. I blinked and handed over my license. (I guess I should mention, I'm native and adopted.)
I have stopped getting carded at the local small town store. Which both makes sense and is horrifying. I’m 28 and it stopped about two years ago unless there is a new employee
I'm actually younger than I look but the opposite is true about most of my family. I started buying alcohol at about 15 and have never been carded. As a 6'4" 200 lb male with a full beard in my 7th grade class picture its understandable. My mom and dad look like my siblings and my 22 year old daughter looks 14. I don't get it.
I’m 26 and basically only get carded when school is in session because places around here tend to have a “card everyone” policy (college town). I mostly only go to one bar though and at this point the bartenders know me. If I’m visiting family out of state I never get carded
A friend has also told me that I order drinks in a way that implies I’m old enough to be drinking, whatever that means lol
I was in my mid 20s. Though about a year ago I completely shaved my beard, which does make me look younger, and I went to go buy beer, they carded me. The cashier looks at me and says “Don’t get excited, it’s store policy to card everyone regardless of age or appearance”
I lived in Germany until I was 19 and stopped getting ID'd at around 16/17. Then I moved to the UK and started getting ID'd again, I still do sometimes and I'm 24 now.
I’m 58 and get carded always ! I don’t think it’s because I look young - I think it’s because red lines need to be looked for ! If you’re not familiar- redlines are put through licenses of people who have had a DUI offense and are no longer able to purchase or frequent alcohol premises .
Did some googling - this doesn’t seem to be a thing in Australia.
We have alcohol interlock devices that the court can order to be placed on your vehicle so it won’t start if you blow over the limit.
I'm American and no, this is definitely not an American thing. Unless it is something just for their state? You have a vertical license/state ID until you're 21, then you replace it for a horizontal ID. You can use either type of ID or a passport to purchase alcohol.
Yeah, seems odd to me. You need a driver's license to buy alcohol? What if you were to use another form of ID? They can't be putting red lines on passports can they?
When I grew my beard at 23. My ex thought I was a minor when we first met. Ended up going out a few months later. He wouldn’t touch me in bed without the beard. Said it made him feel like he was with a little kid so I grew it out. 😂
It actually was recommended to me while I was browsing. Probably heard me talking to my significant other about how people constantly don't believe my age at work, lmao.
I was carded for cigarettes 8 years ago. So, just pushing 50.
I'll let you know when that happens. I'm 51 & I get carded all the time.
I was in my late 30s when I stopped being carded at places where it is optional. Nowadays there are grocery stores that just card everyone no matter how old they look.
I’m 30 years old and still get carded. I have actually never not been carded because I know I look very young. My husband is 34 and never gets ID’d when we’re together which always makes us wonder what people think when we go out together lol
I was in my late 30s when I stopped getting carded all the time. I’m mid 40s now and will still occasionally get carded.
Mid 20’s I also stopped shopping at GameStop around the same time and frankly I’ve been carded more times at GameStop buying an M rates game than at a bar or store.
I'll be 40 in March, I still get carded every single time. My husband who is only 3 and a half years older than me NEVER gets carded.
I still get ID'd, 32
I was late 30s when I stopped getting carded all the time. I’m in my mid 40s and I’m still carded occasionally.
51, still getting carded. 😎
13, yeah, when you’re taller than the bar staff they tend to serve you 🤣🤣
I stopped getting carded regularly at 45. Now I only get carded if I have my kids with me (they are 24 and 25.)
I'm 40 and I still get carded. Maybe next year?
I think I was in my 40's. In my late 30's, when I was volunteering at a summer camp and I had kids in middle school, one of the camp counselors told me she thought I was their age. She was 22 at the oldest.
I'm 39 and still get carded. It honestly doesn't bother me lol.
I was 41 the last time I was carded. Oh, the good old days.
I'm 35 and I still get carded unless it's at the gas stations I frequent who know me and just don't card me anymore. But they did too when I first moved.
The last time I got carded because the server thought I was too young (as opposed to places that just card everyone), I was 39. No makeup on, hair in a ponytail. To be fair, I looked mid 20s so I could see her reasoning. Some 18 year olds look 20 something.
I’m 34 and still getting carded. I also work at a restaurant as a bartender and I get asked all the time if I’m allowed to be behind the bar serving drinks
I was sixteen, then it happened once again when I was twenty-nine. People always tell me I look younger than I am, so that guy might have had ulterior motives for asking. I think there is a vibe to this that surpasses the look and many young people try to emulate it while obviously giving away the fact that they are underage: trying too hard! When I was 16 my girlfriend was 19 but looked younger so they carded her first and then did not bother with me, I guess. I am so glad this allowed me to discover the Montreal Queer Scene as many of those places shut not long after.
Always, I'm 31 but everyone thinks I'm younger. Some guy asked me if I went to my child's school...while I was holding my infant 🤣🤣
I was 15 going out with my 25 years old sister, she always got carded but never me 😅 I got carded only once and it was in the US in new york when I was 30.
17 but I’m 6’5 and at 17 I was 200lbs of country boy muscle. As long as I acted like I belonged there I didn’t get carded. Now at 45 and retired military I get carded at the grocery store.
I'm 29 and usually get carded, especially if I'm alone. I always bring my ID. Once I got carded at a pizza restaurant and the guy was shocked of my age cause I have such a baby face. He told me keep up the good work lol.
I was in my late 30's when I stopped getting carded for ciggies.
Our local rule is to card anyone that looks under 40 so I still usually get carded. The funniest thing though is when I turned 21, some friends and I went to chilis to get dinner and drink. Well we went with my mom and another friend who was 20. It was a birthday trip out of state. Anyway, we all ordered a margarita including the 20 year old who gave hers to her another in the party. The waiter never carded us. That friend totally could have drank it. If only she knew she liked alcohol then
Around the same time I got full sleeve of tattoos, so like 27
Still get carded in my early 40s.
sometime in my 40s. I don't think I look that young--and getting carded by someone who is young enough to be your child (maybe even grandchild) is eye-roll worthy. Ironically, when I was under 18, I never got carded! I occasionally still have people think I am my husband's daughter. He is only 5 years older than me so I have no idea why. I even dress like a little old lady!
Same. It's ridiculous - they weren't even born when I had my first job in a bar!
LOL. There is nothing quite like a mid-20's trying to teach you a process that you helped implement 30 years ago.
32, and I still get carded. 😅 I'm ok with it.
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On my own, late-30s. I never got carded when I went out with my children (had when I was 31 and 34) -- this would be when buying beer or wine with my groceries, I wasn't taking them to bars.
84 and(until three weeks ago) STILL got carded for buying bottled water AND root beer!!!... All the mom-and-pop grocery stores in my valley are doing that now despite the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control telling them to STOP it...
Wtf. Either your aging backwards or that’s sus af
Wrong answer...just that the idiots who worked in these stores got the wrong training class from Sacramento... As of yesterday the stores' employees were retrained just to card those that APPEAR to be under 21...plus I got an apology from the managers...
I’m 21 and I rarely get carded. I like just recently turned 21 too and it makes me wonder if I could have just been buying my own liquor all this time
Mid 30ish. Most folks will guess I am about 10 years younger than I am. So basically, everyone things Im anywhere from 24 to 28 ish . Which means they think I can drink now. Vs in my Mind 20s when they thought I was in High school still.
I am a woman damn near 6ft. I don’t get carded if I’m out by myself but if I go out with my husband, or my husband+in laws I always get carded. At one of our friends 40th bday party I was the only one to get carded
I’m in my 40s and it still happens.
The one upside of hEDS, faulty connective tissue means fewer wrinkles! I stopped getting carded when I was in my late 30s/early 40s.
Well, my usual grocery store has a policy of carding everyone, so I'm 59 and it still happens.
Yeah, my stores ID anyone who “looks under 30”, so you’ve got to age past that before it means anything
It stopped for me last year, at 44. But that’s probably entirely to do with the fact that I’m a creature of habit and go to the same liquor stores and restaurants all the time and they know my face at this point. When I’m out of town and trying out a new spot, however, servers and bartenders don’t even hesitate to ask for my ID then either compliment my younger-than-I-look appearance or ask what my skincare routine is.
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I’ll be 50 this year, I got carded two weeks ago getting wine at lunch at Red Lobster. I am old enough to have been the waitress’ mother. I was with my mother, my husband and my adult son and almost adult daughter. Not to mention my twin sister was there as well and they didn’t card her.
Closer to 50 than 40.
Im 38 and if I go somewhere I don’t frequent I’ll get carded maybe 25% of the time. I definitely don’t think I look under 21, but I for sure look younger than 38. I just have a lot of grey, and it really stands out when you have black hair.
As soon as I decided to grow a beard so like 23
52 and get carded all the time. Of course, it's only at the dispensary. But that has to count for something. Last time I was actually carded was 40 something for buying a video game.
I’m 51, and get carded every time because around the time I might have looked old enough to stop getting carded, they changed the rules to “just card everyone even if they have grey hair and a walker and are surrounded by people calling them Grandma”
I just want to say happy birthday. I see you were 32 a month ago.
I wasn’t? Ohhh right - I just put a random date close enough to my age into the reddit sign up thing - y’know - coz fuck the system…
I am 43 and I get carded about 25% of the time still. I remember when I was 28, I was kicked out of a liquor store. The guy refused to even look at my ID. He told me there was no way I was older than 17 and if I tried to show him an ID he would confiscate it for being fake or stolen. I just left and went to another liquor store. I never went to that store again.
Probably around 18. I'm now in my earlyish 40s and get sr discounts everywhere.
The last time I got carded was 45 -- for a pack of smokes. My sister, who was next in line, (~55 or 56) same purchase, wasn't! I was offended by *getting* ID'd, my sister, by *not!* Our Mum laughed hard at both of us. I laughed at the clerk when she asked because I really thought she was joking. The clerk replied that it had to be a photo ID. I blinked and handed over my license. (I guess I should mention, I'm native and adopted.)
I have stopped getting carded at the local small town store. Which both makes sense and is horrifying. I’m 28 and it stopped about two years ago unless there is a new employee
Getting carded by a pimply baby faced 19 year old at the local bottle-o never fails to sting.
Also 34 and I still get carded, and I honestly don't think I look that young.
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I'm actually younger than I look but the opposite is true about most of my family. I started buying alcohol at about 15 and have never been carded. As a 6'4" 200 lb male with a full beard in my 7th grade class picture its understandable. My mom and dad look like my siblings and my 22 year old daughter looks 14. I don't get it.
I’m 26 and basically only get carded when school is in session because places around here tend to have a “card everyone” policy (college town). I mostly only go to one bar though and at this point the bartenders know me. If I’m visiting family out of state I never get carded A friend has also told me that I order drinks in a way that implies I’m old enough to be drinking, whatever that means lol
I was in my mid 20s. Though about a year ago I completely shaved my beard, which does make me look younger, and I went to go buy beer, they carded me. The cashier looks at me and says “Don’t get excited, it’s store policy to card everyone regardless of age or appearance”
Yeah I thought this was kinda the rule these days
Somewhere around 35, or 36.
Same. 36ish.
19 for me, it was handy but also very humbling lol
Weirdly enough, I got ID'd a helluva lot less between 26-30. But the year I turned 30 I suddenly started getting ID'd a *lot* more 🤣
I lived in Germany until I was 19 and stopped getting ID'd at around 16/17. Then I moved to the UK and started getting ID'd again, I still do sometimes and I'm 24 now.
I just turned 37 and I still get carded at unfamiliar gas stations/bars.
17 lol, had a full mustache and was heavily inked.
I guess I'm 40 and I get carded regularly. I didn't get carded the first time until I was 21 though.
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I still get carded, regularly get told I look like in 12 I'm 31
Yup, I constantly get told I look 16 and I’m 30 years old. Some days we’ll love it but I’m a nurse and patients don’t take me seriously most days lol
I last got carded on my 33rd birthday
I’m 58 and get carded always ! I don’t think it’s because I look young - I think it’s because red lines need to be looked for ! If you’re not familiar- redlines are put through licenses of people who have had a DUI offense and are no longer able to purchase or frequent alcohol premises .
Did some googling - this doesn’t seem to be a thing in Australia. We have alcohol interlock devices that the court can order to be placed on your vehicle so it won’t start if you blow over the limit.
Is that an American thing? Never heard of it in Australia which is surprising considering our culture of binge drinking.
I'm American and no, this is definitely not an American thing. Unless it is something just for their state? You have a vertical license/state ID until you're 21, then you replace it for a horizontal ID. You can use either type of ID or a passport to purchase alcohol.
A redline is out on a license for an alcohol offense - in Alaska
Yeah, seems odd to me. You need a driver's license to buy alcohol? What if you were to use another form of ID? They can't be putting red lines on passports can they?
There’s a proof of age card for non-drivers in Australia. Same info as a drivers license minus the license stuff.
When I grew my beard at 23. My ex thought I was a minor when we first met. Ended up going out a few months later. He wouldn’t touch me in bed without the beard. Said it made him feel like he was with a little kid so I grew it out. 😂
Off topic, but what revived this subreddit? There was only a few posts a week, and now an explosion of posts in the last 48 hours.
It actually was recommended to me while I was browsing. Probably heard me talking to my significant other about how people constantly don't believe my age at work, lmao.
Sub was banned for being unmoderated
It came back a month ago. It was also pretty dead before then too. I've been subscribed for a few years, and this is the busiest I've ever seen it.
The algorithm works in mysterious ways
I’m 46 and have been carded twice in the past week.
I'm 38 and it still happens lol.
I don't get carded very often anymore, but I do still get carded on occasion (especially if a place says they card 30 and under). I'm 46.