I got carded

Years ago a bunch of us from Maryland were entering a bar in Colorado and showing ID.
The bouncer is going "Maryland, ok, Maryland, ok, Maryland, ok, United States of America???"
 
My college has a bar on Campus and everyone who enters is carded. I sometimes stop in before a football game. The first time I stopped in, I was asked for ID. Took off my hat to show my bald and grey head but that wasn't enough. After I said, "I graduated from here in '64", the guy said "Welcome back and do you have an ID?"

I must admit my dates are pleased to be carded so it does have an upside.

Cheers
 
LongRoadBob said:
The thing that I find weirdest of all, seems like others living there when we talked with them, just see this is normal.
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Policy trumps customer service and any sort of intelligent customer interactions at all sorts of companies these days. Companies want robots and they get them. Cheaper than mechanical robots. For today, anyway.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I said no, its a pilot license and it isn't a photo ID.

She is doing her thing and goes "Who do you fly for?" I say "I just fly for fun"
She says "Oh I was thinking you are a real pilot"
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Believe me, it's even worse in countries that have no concept whatsoever of general aviation. The only other pilots I know in my little ex-pat enclave in Saigon fly for Vietnam Airlines.
 
I'm at the point where getting carded is just annoying. I'm over 30 and I look it. It's especially annoying when I'm at a restaurant with my 3 kids and get carded.

I didn't mind it so much when I was in my 20s (especially in the first half of my 20s), but now it's just a nuisance.
 
Timbeck2 said:
Walked off...to get you a beer?
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Maybe! ;)

I got carded the other night three times at the local movie theater.

First, the cashier wanted to know if I was old enough for the movie. Second, the ticket checker wanted to see if I was old enough to be alone in the theater past 9pm. Third, a police officer also wanted to know if I was old enough! :mad:
 
ARFlyer said:
Maybe! ;)

I got carded the other night three times at the local movie theater.

First, the cashier wanted to know if I was old enough for the movie. Second, the ticket checker wanted to see if I was old enough to be alone in the theater past 9pm. Third, a police officer also wanted to know if I was old enough! :mad:
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You also look younger than you are. As annoying as it is at your age (damn kids, get off my lawn) I find it gets more annoying as you get older and you are obviously old enough to do whatever it is that you're getting carded for.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
You also look younger than you are. As annoying as it is at your age (damn kids, get off my lawn) I find it gets more annoying as you get older and you are obviously old enough to do whatever it is that you're getting carded for.
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Anyone want to take bets if someone will say I'm too young to be their pilot?

I deadhead out this evening from home.
 
ARFlyer said:
Anyone want to take bets if someone will say I'm too young to be their pilot?

I deadhead out this evening from home.
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Well you look too young for that, too. ;)

Something else to realize is that, as you get older, people younger than you look even younger. I really can't tell whether someone is high school vs college age anymore in most cases - they all look like kids to me. When I was in college I could tell. Maybe I'm the only one, but I doubt it.
 
Shepherd said:
It's hard to humiliate a pilot (what with our egos and all), but that certainly works.

My own embarrassing moment

1973- A party in Greenwich Village
Sweet Young Thing: "You used to be a pilot?"
Me: "Still am."
SYT: "Who do you fly for."
Me: "Myself."
SYT: "Do you make any money at it?"
ME: "No, they stopped paying me."
SYT: "Why?"
Me: " I stopped dropping napalm on people."
SYT: (Throws drink in my face). "Murder!"
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Place: Bryan, Texas

Time period: 1973 (I was 14)

Scene: Me walking home from school in uniform. (I went to a private military school)

A green VW bug, hand painted flowers paint job, pulls up next to me, slows almost to a stop.

A female with flowers painted on face leans out the window and throws a half full (or half empty) beer can at me and yells, "Baby killer, baby killer..!!!"

Said green bug with flowers painted on it speeds off as fast as an old VW bug can.
 
Zeldman said:
:lol::lol::lol::lol:


The other day my wife told our waitress that I am a senior citizen, and she gave us the senior discount without even asking my age...... and that's not funny....:frown2::frown3:
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What's bad is when you are old, but you don't think you look that old, but places give you the senior discount without even asking. It's very humbling. lol.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
Well you look too young for that, too. ;)

Something else to realize is that, as you get older, people younger than you look even younger. I really can't tell whether someone is high school vs college age anymore in most cases - they all look like kids to me. When I was in college I could tell. Maybe I'm the only one, but I doubt it.
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Nope. You are not the only one. I have interviewed several Vet School graduates and thought they looked like they should be in high school. They had to be at least 25 minimum.
 
Seems like I saw a sign in a Walmart the other day about that you would be carded if you looked younger than 40 years old. So at least they don't card everybody. That might have been for tobacco.
 
BrianNC said:
What's bad is when you are old, but you don't think you look that old, but places give you the senior discount without even asking. It's very humbling. lol.
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I think that goes to the other half of my statement, which is that as you age, you don't necessarily think you look that much older. You have a perception of yourself and while that evolves, you don't necessarily realize it's evolving. Then I look at pictures of myself that are more recent vs. when I was in high school/college. The high school/college me definitely looks like a kid to the today me.
 
To those offended by being carded sorry. But if an undercover person comes in to check policy it is a $1000 fine. That I would have to pay.... That's allot of avgas. So yeah I card everyone.

Those getting a senior discount say thank you. Geez. I got the senior discount somewhere and I'm only 43... Cashier said eh you're here alot.... Money for avgas.
 
GlennAB1 said:
A bank took my A&P as second form of ID.... I was worried when she walked away with it for supervisor approval , but she did give it back.
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I don't give the bank my driver's license. Instead, I hand them my CPL license. It's state issued photo ID. The tellers accept it without question. One asked if I was carrying, to which I replied "YES". She gave me a thumbs up.
 
Shepherd said:
It's hard to humiliate a pilot (what with our egos and all), but that certainly works.

My own embarrassing moment

1973- A party in Greenwich Village
Sweet Young Thing: "You used to be a pilot?"
Me: "Still am."
SYT: "Who do you fly for."
Me: "Myself."
SYT: "Do you make any money at it?"
ME: "No, they stopped paying me."
SYT: "Why?"
Me: " I stopped dropping napalm on people."
SYT: (Throws drink in my face). "Murderer!"
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I hate f'ng hippies, thanks for your service.
 
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