Rarely did. I was briefly legal at 18, legal for 6 days at 19, then had to wait two years. However no one really cared back then.
About 10 years ago I got carded at a baseball game. Even worse that’s when I found out my drivers license expired, so they wouldn’t sell me a beer despite my obviously being well over. To get some amusement out of the fiasco, I slipped my 21 year old coworker a $10 to buy me a beer
Pretty much always still am.
Cashiers used to be able to use their judgement and not ask for ID if the customer appeared to be older than 27. But I guess there was some abuse of that, so now they card you even if you’re clearly 100. The ABC (alcoholic beverage commission) will even sometimes do stings to see if the cashier asks for ID, and stores can even lose their license to sell alcoholic beverages if they get caught.
When I worked in retail locations that sold alcohol and tobacco, the official policy was that you didn’t have to ask for ID if the customer appeared to be older than 40. That was 20+ years ago, though, and it’s possibly a regional or company-specific thing.
These days, it seems like most cashiers at most places that I shop have a blanket policy to check ID and enter it into the register regardless of the customer’s age. So, I’m thinking that their training is leaning heavily towards scaring them into IDing everyone. It’s a legit concern, though. The alcohol enforcement stuff is serious and some of the people doing that job will try to trick cashiers.
Your experience reminds me of my own: When I was younger, I rarely got carded. Now that I’m well above the legal age, my ID is checked much more consistently and frequently.
A lot of places ask anyone and everyone to provide ID which I don’t think was the case in years past. My wife and I are 40 and we still get carded frequently and I don’t think it’s because we look underage.
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They never really started :(
When I stopped acting like a little bitch buying booze.
Cashiers still ask me, but restaurants and bars have not asked me, even when I was just 22.
I always pull it out and stick it on top of the alcohol so they never have an opportunity not to ask. They can get in trouble for not checking id (or they can in my state) so its kinda a polite thing to do.
They still ask.
At my job the computer won’t let me finish the transaction until I type in the customer’s birthday. I assumed they were all like that.
I haven’t gotten carded since I was about 35. I have visibly graying hair, a receding hairline, and graying stubble.
22 :(
In my hometown, which has a large state university, they ask everyone no matter what age. Moved to a city about an hour away where there is a small university around age 23 and have never been asked for ID there.
29 🫠
I guess about 30.
Around 34 years old when I’d put on some weight and my face finally aged.
