Still getting ID'd at 31

It does annoy me in supermarkets, im 28 and i had less hassle when i was 16!

If it annoys peeps that much put the beer first near the front, load up the rest of the conveyor with your other £150 worth of shopping, (really what 17 year old buys half the stuff a weekly shop entails) if you get ID'd, say no your having a laugh im 28, if they insist just leave yor shopping on the conveyor and walk out, they will think twice next time and the look on their face is worth it :D
 
gizmoy2k said:
If it annoys peeps that much put the beer first near the front, load up the rest of the conveyor with your other £150 worth of shopping, (really what 17 year old buys half the stuff a weekly shop entails) if you get ID'd, say no your having a laugh im 28, if they insist just leave yor shopping on the conveyor and walk out, they will think twice next time and the look on their face is worth it :D
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I would do this, the policy's are completely ludicrous. My mates ( I'm the youngest one and youngest looking one) had to ID themselves just because they talked to me while I was buying beer. That's a policy in some shops around here, if you buy alcohol, everyone with you must identify themselves and be over 16 too :mad:. I always protest but they always say they are forced to and may have to pay a fine if they don't ask for it. If they were under 16 would I bring them with me? I'd just let them wait outside if I was buying for them.
 
snowdog said:
I always protest but they always say they are forced to and may have to pay a fine if they don't ask for it. If they were under 16 would I bring them with me? I'd just let them wait outside if I was buying for them.
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This is completely true though. If one of you were under 18, and the police found out you had bought alcohol from there, then the person selling the alcohol would get fined.

gizmoy2k said:
It does annoy me in supermarkets, im 28 and i had less hassle when i was 16!
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Maybe that would be because they didnt have the fines back when you were 16.

if you get ID'd, say no your having a laugh im 28, if they insist just leave yor shopping on the conveyor and walk out, they will think twice next time and the look on their face is worth it
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That to me is just childish, and no it wouldnt make them think twice at all. They have the age check policies for alcohol in place to prevent their staff from getting fined, you making an ass of yourself isnt going to stop them from ID'ing people who look under 25 if it is their store policy set in place to prevent checkout staff from getting fined. If you do have a problem with it, then you should shop elsewhere. I have been to several pubs / clubs which simply ID everysingle person, regardless of how old you look. Even if youre 80 years old, if you dont have ID, then you cant get in or buy alcohol. Supermarkets at least have enough sense not to ID anyone that is clearly old enough, but if they have a policy which states that they have to ID anyone that looks under a certain age, then all staff there have to adhere to it, and customers complaining and embarrassing themselves over it isnt going to do anything to change that.

The ID policy for purchasing alcohol will have been clearly written on signs at the entrance, alcohol isle, and at the checkouts, if you choose to ignore them and simply say 'you shouldnt ID me because I'm older than 18', then you should simply not shop there to save the staff the problem with having to continuously deal with the same thing almost on a daily basis. They cannot change their ID policies until the police stop issuing fines for underage alcohol buyers, and the reason for the age limit is simply that a person who 'looks 18' could very well not be, so they need to set the ID limit much higher to completely avoid getting fined.
 
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bhavv said:
This is completely true though. If one of you were under 18, and the police found out you had bought alcohol from there, then the person selling the alcohol would get fined.
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16 in my case ;).

But isn't it logical that I would leave them outside if they were under 16 ? Rather than let them come near me when buying them alcohol.

This seems like a rule that only prevents complete retards from getting a couple of beers. Anyone smarter than a monkey who has under 16 mates and is the only 16+ guy there would let them wait outside for the booze. A completely pointless rule imho. That the buyer has to ID himself, okay, that makes a a little bit of sense, but everyone you are with too ?
 
snowdog said:
But isn't it logical that I would leave them outside if they were under 16 ? Rather than let them come near me when buying them alcohol.
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Yes this is just silly, but wasnt what I meant.

I am sure that the law in the UK regarding the fines is only limited to the person buying the alcohol. If you are of legal age, have been ID'd you can buy as much alcohol as you like regardless of who is with you because the cashier isnt responsible for who you are buying the stuff for, you are.

Its even sillier because most people go shopping with their kids and they buy alcohol, asking the parents for ID because they have their kids with them would be obvious shop suicide.

If an underage person gets alcohol, the blame / fine is only placed on the adult that they got it off.

I only meant stuff about when you are buying it yourself.
 
I haven't been ID'd once. And I'm 16, yet according to the local police and most cashires. I look 25-26.

Never really seen the point in going out and getting smashed though, so I don't try it too often.
 
sjcf1 said:
I haven't been ID'd once. And I'm 16, yet according to the local police and most cashires. I look 25-26.

Never really seen the point in going out and getting smashed though, so I don't try it too often.
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By the time you turn 25, you will look like you are 60 :D.

I'm sure the police would love to have you as an undercover booze buyer to fine cashiers.
 
Dafted one I ever had was when I was about 24. I filled up with petrol at a Tesco petrol station, went to pay:

Him "£20 please"
Me "OK and can I have 20 cigarettes"
Him "you got ID?"
me "erm, you have just sold me petrol for a car that I've driven in here and i'm about to drive out of here??"
Him "Don't care. ID"

:confused::rolleyes:

EDIT: oh and by the way, the law for tobacco was 16 then
 
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mame said:
Dafted one I ever had was when I was about 24. I filled up with petrol at a Tesco petrol station, went to pay:

Him "£20 please"
Me "OK and can I have 20 cigarettes"
Him "you got ID?"
me "erm, you have just sold me petrol for a car that I've driven in here and i'm about to drive out of here??"
Him "Don't care. ID"

:confused::rolleyes:
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Thats why he works in a petrol station you seen, no IQ and no common sense
 
gizmoy2k said:
If it annoys peeps that much put the beer first near the front, load up the rest of the conveyor with your other £150 worth of shopping, (really what 17 year old buys half the stuff a weekly shop entails) if you get ID'd, say no your having a laugh im 28, if they insist just leave yor shopping on the conveyor and walk out, they will think twice next time and the look on their face is worth it
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That sounds like an excellent way to waste your time.

Say an hour for you to do the travelling and shopping.

It would take the cashier about 2 mins to move on to the next customer.
 
gizmoy2k said:
Thats why he works in a petrol station you seen, no IQ and no common sense
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Petrol stations are funny, especially when they think you left your engine on. Lights still on for example.

When Dad was working in Kendal, road testing a car with another mechanic, they ran out of fuel on the bypass but managed to roll into the petrol station where the 2nd hand car dealer is now. Passenger got out to start filling as Dad hunted for the fuel card. Over the tannoy "Turn the engine off." Both of them = LOLOLOL!
 
sjcf1 said:
How does one go about getting this? Does it pay?
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I'm really not sure, they just want people who are under 18 but look older to go into supermarkets to buy alcohol. If successful, they fine the cashier. I dont know if it pays though.

gizmoy2k said:
Thats why he works in a petrol station you seen, no IQ and no common sense
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Its nothing about common sense, only alcohol / cigs are finable. If you drive a car illegally / underage, and go to by petrol, the people working at the petrol station arent responsible for that. But if they are selling alcohol then they are. I never ID'd people for anything other than alcohol.

Now one funny thing is after they made it a law for knives only to be purchasable by people 16+, I were scanning a pack of kids safety scissors that a teacher was buying for her class. When I scanned it, a message came up on the till 'Is cust over 16 y/n'. I just stared blankly, the woman looked well over 30, and I literally said sarcastically, something like:

'This thing is telling me that you need to be over 16 to buy a pack of children's scissors' and laughed afterwards, and she picked up on it and it as a joke / not serious thing and it started an interesting conversation (from which I found out she was a teacher buying them for her class).
 
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Mucky_Pup said:
I get ID'd most times, although I bought 48 cans of cider yesterday and didn't get ID'd, I'm 22.

What annoys me the most about being ID'd is when you get ID'd going in somewhere, then they ID you again at the bar? Either believe what your door staff judge to be overage people, or don't bother having them ID people on the way in, lol.
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It's not about that. The problem is that proof of age is required, not optional. If it isn't required by law, it's required by the employer. Increasingly, employees are not allowed any discretion. They're not even allowed to use their discretion if they were present at that person's birth and know for certain exactly how old that person is.

So in your example, the issue is whether or not bar staff do what they have been explicitly told to do and will be held personally responsible for not doing.
 
Enjoy it while it lasts, I used to look a few years younger than I was, got regularly id'd until the age of about 23. Even when I was 26 I looked about 22 people would say. But I've since put on a couple of stone and have started going grey so that never happens anymore :)

My wife turned 30 this year and still gets asked for id in tescos sometimes (by the same cashier even...)
 
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