This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2008.
No attitude, just your ID please.
A server or bartender asking for your ID is NOT rude service. The server is not trying to show you up, or trying to be a jerk, or trying to make you feel inadequate. He’s just doing his job. Like the security guard at the club, or the cashier at the liq
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I enjoy being carded…it kind of becomes a little thrill once you hit 25+ 😛
These are the people who will bitch when they’re asked for ID and, in about ten years, bitch because no one asks them for it anymore.
This is another thing that pisses me off about NS. If you’re ever at a gig I’m playin’ and you get ID’d, just ask for me… I got guys at the door and they’ll see you get in… Lickety split…
Card away, seriously. I don’t always have mine out because I feel stupid walking around carrying it. Nobody cards me at liquor stores, restaurants, anywhere. And when they do I feel bad because they’re so apologetic about it that I wonder whether people freak out at them often for doing it. Screw the people who get offended by being asked to prove that they’re of age. You’re better than them.
Seeing as how a place could use their license if they do not card I do not see what the problem is.Card them, if they could walk around with money or debit or credit card they can walk around with that piece of plastic!
While I almost never get ID’d at the NSLC, they always get me at bars, which is funny because I rarely drink while I’m at a show because it’s so damned expensive. But it doesn’t normally happen at the bar, but at the door. I think I’d be a little thrown if I was ID’d at the bar after being ID’d at the door, but I wouldn’t be mad about it.
Servers are more than welcome to card me. In fact, please do! I love the compliment. 🙂
“If you’re ever at a gig I’m playin’ and you get ID’d, just ask for me… I got guys at the door and they’ll see you get in… Lickety split…”So we should avoid your “gigs” cause they’re filled with teenagers?
I don’t mind being carded, but i hate when they look all suspicious at me and ask for a second piece. yes, I look young- but I’m well over 19, thanks. no, that’s not a fake id, and while my hair is different in the picture, aren’t most people a little different looking than the id they got years ago? I’ve had security grumble and barely let me in, even though I always carry a second piece and usually have a wallet full of bank cards, credit cards, whatever cards, with my name and signature on them.
Hedgyhog the same thing used to happen to me when I shaved off a goatee I’d had since the picture was taken. I was asked for two pieces of id at just about every bar.Unfortunately I’ve never had much of a baby face so bouncers sometimes just have a lack of imagination.
Chances are that if they get pissy about being carded, then they are illegal in the first place.