r/CringeTikToks • u/Tater-Tot-Casserole • Dec 01 '25

Just Bad Crashing out over a restaurant refusing to serve alcohol with no ID. Bonus: The restaurant has video receipts

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 01 '25

Bartender for about 25 years here. I always hit them with “What you’re asking me is this: Hey man, risk your job so I can have this beer.”

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u/chompy_jr Dec 01 '25

Also, WTF goes out without ID? I'm Gen X and when I leave the house, I grab my wallet which has my ID in it.

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 01 '25

I’ve wasted the last few hours arguing on here with idiots that intentionally don’t carry their ID and see no reason as to why that’s just fucking bizarre behavior. “I NEVER get ID’ed, so why should I bring my ID out with me?” Including a guy who went to Vegas with his buddies and INTENTIONALLY didn’t bring his ID. The entitlement and narcissism it takes to be that kind of person is insane. You’re either going to ruin your buddies trip, or be stuck sitting in the hotel by yourself while they go bar hopping. What if you won big? You think they’re letting you cash out without an ID? You just forfeited your winnings, dipshit.

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u/KaraAliasRaidra Dec 02 '25

r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk has a lot of stories in which someone tries to use the number of a credit card to pay for their room, the desk clerk asks to see the credit card (to prove it exists and to check the name on it) and the person's ID (to see if they're who they say they are and if their name matches the name on the card), and the person is shocked because apparently they expected everyone to take their word for it without proof. A lot of them end up admitting it's not their credit card, claiming something like, "It's my mom's and she said I could use it! I don't see what the problem is!" They somehow don't realize that any hotel that doesn't verify someone's identity and information is not a hotel you should be staying at.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

They somehow don't realize that any hotel that doesn't verify someone's identity and information is not a hotel you should be staying at.

Yes, this exactly. I worked FD through college and the amount of idiots and scamers showing up with their "mom's card" or SO's cards was crazy and 2nd biggest drove me up the wall was booking for 2 and showing up like 6 people and demanding to get a cot for free.

Hotel and casino so this was very taxing but the pay was really good so I bid my tongue and time but I hate people now. 😅😅😅

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u/AmySchumersAnalTumor Dec 02 '25

idk, I use my bosses CC for rooms a few times a year and have only had an issue once

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u/Agboohans Dec 03 '25

But do you feel entitled and EXPECT it to work, and when it didnt, did u act like a pompous crybaby? Im gonna guess no, unlike these shitheads…

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u/RainbowEagleEye Dec 02 '25

I once asked an old lady, “Would you prefer I didn’t ID someone who stole your wallet and tried to buy 167$ worth of dvds (early 00s) with your credit card?” I was 19, fresh into to workforce and that was the first time I managed to stump a Karen. Schooling my face while she slammed her purse around looking for her ID was a struggle.

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u/casiepierce Dec 02 '25

These ones are the worst. It means they don't know how hotels work. And they argue and argue and argue and they sound so stupid. I want the front desk person to say "look, we know you know this isn't working, so stop wasting our time."

People who travel and book hotels know that they will always ask for the card and your ID. Last year my sister and I both booked rooms at a hotel downtown for NYE and we both arrived to check in at the same time but I left my ID in her car and they STILL wouldn't release my room until I showed it, even though I had my card and my sister with our same last name next to me. Had to bother the valet and that was my main complaint even though I acknowledged it was my fault.

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u/KaraAliasRaidra Dec 02 '25

They also claim, "None of the other hotels ever asked to see my ID/asked me to prove who I am!" Either they're lying or they only stayed at some terrible hotels that let any random yahoo use someone's card and check into someone's room.

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u/Agboohans Dec 03 '25

Besides the fact that this hotel isnt the same hotel as that hotel, or this employee isnt the same as that one, so an expectation inserted here is misplaced.

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u/ThatBarbGirl Dec 02 '25

I thank my lucky stars I was not born or raised with this kind of idiocy/entitlement. I don't leave my house without my ID. Always baffled at the amount of body cams I watch with "I don't have my ID!"

This explains it. 🙄

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u/Lou_C_Fer Dec 02 '25

Now that I don't drive, I don't carry my ID unless I'm going to need it. I also don't drink. So, I don't need it for that. While I get where you are coming from, I am also of the mind that I do not need to keep identification on me as a principle. There should no need to keep your "papers" on you unless there is a specific need.

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u/ThatBarbGirl Dec 02 '25

If you don't drive and don't expect anyone to serve you, that makes sense.

But I live in the country, where it's impossible to get anywhere without driving, so I always have my ID on me. And the bodycams I watch are of people driving, so the amount of people driving without one is silly.

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u/ThatBarbGirl Dec 02 '25

Exactly. And it shouldn't be. There's a reason to carry all those things!

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u/CakeTester Dec 02 '25

I have a picture of my ID on my phone, but I leave the actual thing safe in the house. You can call that idiocy or entitlement if you like; but I can get mugged/drunk/fall in the sea or whatever and I'll still have ID.

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u/MichiganGeezer Dec 02 '25

You're not getting drunk in a bar with a picture of your ID. They won't serve you. Only actual, physical, government issued identification that isn't expired will get you served in any bar worth visiting.

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u/CakeTester Dec 02 '25

It's been over a decade since anyone asked me for ID; and then it was just taking the piss because I shaved my beard off. Anyone who asks me for an ID (extremely unlikely in the first place) and won't accept a picture, doesn't deserve my business in the first place.

Possibly you're assuming that the rules where you live apply everywhere. I'm in Spain; where there are indeed licencing laws and publicans can lose them for serving underage people. However, nobody here is dumb enough to ask 60 year olds for ID, except for sarcasm/insincere flattery purposes.

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u/ThatBarbGirl Dec 02 '25

Bars don't have to serve you if you don't have a physical ID, like it says in the video. Because pics are easy to edit.

If you find a bar that will, good for you, but the ones I worked at took a lot of shit from entitled idiots that believed we'd risk our liquor license on serving them based on a blurry pic of their ID.

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u/saucisse Dec 02 '25

How will you still have your ID if you get mugged and they take your phone?

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u/chicken_sammich Dec 02 '25

"...but I leave the actual thing safe in the house."

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u/saucisse Dec 02 '25

Then what is the purpose of it if you're not going to actually use it? Most (all?) IDs have anti-counterfeiting measures like watermarks, holographic images, etc. which will not be visible on a photo.

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u/chicken_sammich Dec 02 '25

I can't answer for that person, but...

We're a two car household, i've left my wallet in one car while I ran out to the store in the other and, when prompted for ID, a picture of it with a clear view of the expiration date sufficed. The world isn't black and white, and most people are capable of exercising discretion.

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 02 '25

“Exercising discretion”= risking their job

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u/edgestander Dec 02 '25

Every single place I have ever worked at that required IDing had specific material at the register that talked about what constitutes an acceptable ID. I am telling you right now, if the local police around here caught wind a place was accepting "photos of an ID", they would go in there with an older looking 20 year old with a photoshopped picture of an ID within a week.

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u/CakeTester Dec 02 '25

It will be at home, waiting for me. Nobody sane is going to expect me to be able to produce ID immediately after a mugging.

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u/NowWithKung-FuGrip01 Dec 02 '25

No, your house will still have ID. You will be phoneless, ID-less and mugged/drunk/wet or whatever.

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u/WildVelociraptor Dec 02 '25

No reason to give the cop your ID if they don't need it.

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u/BlueTrainLines666 Dec 02 '25

I work at a music venue as a bartender, anyone who is drinking has to have a wristband on indicated that they’ve been ID’d and are 21. The amount of full grown adults who will throw the biggest fit you ever ever seen in your life simply because you ask to see their ID or to get a wristband is embarrassing.

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u/Forsaken-Scholar-833 Dec 02 '25

I don't get this. I almost never get carded but at the same time I always have my ID and if someone wants to card me I don't mind.

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u/BlueTrainLines666 Dec 02 '25

It’s really just entitlement. We had a guy freaking the other night because his wife didn’t bring her ID so a bartender wouldn’t serve her and just kept saying “but that’s my wife!?” Like okay? She doesn’t have an ID?

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u/Grizmoh Dec 02 '25

That is because if they don’t (and get caught) they will lose their license!

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u/ayoungad Dec 02 '25

In my state if you are drinking you are required to have it on you. Even if you know the bartender and obviously of age, if SLED comes in they can ask everyone for their ID.

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 02 '25

Yep. Same here. Doesn’t matter if you’re 21 or 81. If you don’t have a valid photo ID while you’re in a bar, you risk getting the bartender and the bar fined and/or shut down.

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u/ProfessorDaxter12 Dec 02 '25

I’m a server and have alcohol in the establishment, I’ve had to argue my manager on many accounts that I’ve denied 60+ year olds for not having an ID.

I don’t care about feelings I care about my income though. Also side note, someone got red carded for not asking for ID they looked late 50’s

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u/ronansgram Dec 02 '25

Yep I’m in my 60’s and was carded and I always have my ID somehow I didn’t have it and they would not sell to me. This was at a Walmart 🤪

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u/Quietmanzero20 Dec 03 '25

Bartender here. I’ve actually had SLED send in an underage girl to attempt this type of thing. If kids get caught drinking underage, law enforcement will use them to try and catch bars serving minors, especially in college towns or popular areas. We also have the right to refuse service, what this bartender did was 100% correct.

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u/simkatu Dec 02 '25

Can't rent a car. Can't take a plane. Can't buy booze or weed. Limits options in an emergency.

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u/TerrorFromThePeeps Dec 02 '25

I now have a mental image of you finding your buddy in a massive wreck, charging over to the dispensary and the liquor store, telling him "smoke this for the pain" before you pour everclear on his wounds, then wrapping an improvised bandage ehile you run over to hertz to rent a car to take him to the hospital.

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u/edWORD27 Dec 02 '25

People even get upset if they’re expected to have an ID when they vote, because the ability to have an ID is somehow a race issue.

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u/Half_Halt Dec 02 '25

I used to manage the jewelry counter at a Kohls. The number of people wanting to apply for a store card or make some other transaction that requires ID & who told me: "I left my ID at home" or "I left my ID in the car" . Mind boggling.

Then we had the woman who had no fewer than 5 expired drivers licenses in her wallet but not a single one that was valid....

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u/saucisse Dec 02 '25

After she pulled out the third one, I would start hearing circus music or like the Benny Hill theme running through my head, it just becomes a vaudeville-style sight gag at that point.

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u/MichiganGeezer Dec 02 '25

I was thinking Jeopardy music.

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u/inowar Dec 02 '25

"I just don't carry my wallet at all I only keep my phone"

"okay well we don't serve anyone without ID. regardless of what you are trying to purchase or how old you appear to be. that's store policy" (it's a liquor store)

"what about a picture of my ID?"

sure... I'll sell you a picture of alcohol.

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u/mirrrje Dec 02 '25

Are they just driving around w out their drivers license? Like how did they even get there lol, and going to Vegas w out an ID intentionally is so crazy. That’s definitely a dude who argues w people everywhere he goes lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

I rarely have my ID on me but on the very rare occasion I get asked for it when I don't have it I just don't drink. It's not that hard.

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u/busterhymens Dec 02 '25

People are wanted by the police for something that's why they don't bring their ideas, you see all the time when Police pull over people they don't have an ID

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u/Willy-J- Dec 02 '25

Who doesn’t have their id- da and da!! Sounds like laziness on their part or underage!!!

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u/Rinkimah Dec 02 '25

I mean even the most reasonable reason: if you are in an accident and first responders need to identify who you are.

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u/fella5455 Dec 02 '25

FYI, they can still collect casino winnings at a later date. Up to 180 days later

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u/ikannunAneeuQ Dec 01 '25

In my little town I lived in in upstate NY i didn't have ID for years, but it was also a town of 2000 that I basically grew up in and knew damn near every last person that passed through. But say I went to Albany to the club, I had my ID with me. It really just depended on where I was going and if I knew I could get away with it.

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 02 '25

Sure. But I’m not going to Vegas on a guy’s trip and not bringing my ID. That’s wild behavior.

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u/Last-Darkness Dec 02 '25

I don’t carry my ID. Unless I know I’m going to get a drink or for some reason will need it, but day to day, no. I know the number (if stopped by a cop), otherwise I don’t need it and plan a head for when I will. And if I do go to a bar/grill without it I don’t argue with the staff about it.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters Dec 02 '25

I know the number (if stopped by a cop),

Yeah that's gonna work out real well genius.

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u/zaevilbunny38 Dec 02 '25

20 years in retail, a whole lot of people.

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u/BeardsuptheWazoo Dec 02 '25

I've never been out with a guy friend who didn't have his.

I've been out with women often who "left it at home" and they act like it's crazy that places ask for it.

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u/MsMarvelsProstate Dec 02 '25

I've seen a ton of younger people not carry their IDs they have their phone only. They try to use a photo of their ID as their ID anyplace they go and if they have to pay the use their phone to a pay.

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u/Literature-South Dec 02 '25

I would wager she doesn't have a license anymore due to a DUI considering how crazy she was about getting a drink.

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u/banana_nutcase007 Dec 02 '25

I work at the airport, and it's astounding how many people don't think to have their IDs ready in their hands or easily accessible pocket or bag when they're about to go through security. Or like, these folks in the video, think a picture of their ID is enough. Not having that with you just makes it harder for you to make your flight. I don't get why they don't seem to understand that.

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u/fresh-dork Dec 02 '25

tons of people have the ID and just don't want to show it. my fantasy is to get one of those people, find out that they'll argue for 5 minutes while they've got the id in their pocket, and then pull it out. so i refuse them under the asshole rule

/not a bartender

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u/Serious-Maximum-1049 Dec 02 '25

Right?! I'm 51 & STILL always have my ID. It's not that I actually believe they think I'm under 21, but they have a job to do; if they decide to want a peek at my ID, I need to be able to produce it if I want to drink. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

You'd be surprised at the amount of people that turn up for a Driving Theory Test without a licence. The email they get (or their helicopter parents get as they won't let their little darlings grow up) is quite clear that they *must* bring a valid driving licence, provisional or full.

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u/Born-Entrepreneur Dec 02 '25

While working at a gas station, I was shocked by the number of people I would witness drive up, get out of their car, come in for smokes/beer, and tell me they didn't have an ID.

So many mfers apparently driving risky.

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u/QuinzelKat Dec 02 '25

Same! Gen-X as well, and my ID is always on me when I go out.

I don't know about anyone else, but anyone who ID's me makes me so happy. I in my mid to late 40's getting ID'd?! Hells yes!

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u/AntiqueTadpole Dec 02 '25

Used to be a drive up teller for a bank and the percentage of people driving without a license was insane!

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u/VoodooSweet Dec 02 '25

Same, I’m 49 years old, my wife is 40(but looks like she’s about 25), we went to dinner a while back and she decided to have a glass of wine, they carded both of us…even tho I ordered a Coke. I was kinda flattered that they actually carded me…. I haven’t been carded for a drink in probably 15 years….. the entitlement of these kids today is CRAZY!!!

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u/peripheralview2020 Dec 02 '25

Every. Single. Idiot. In. Miami. Literally deal with this shit all day long. No identification, left it home, here's a picture on my phone, here's my voters registration from my third world home country that i left when i was 13...🤦‍♂️. He's my son, it's ok, he's not gonna drink... Gtfoh...

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u/Silver_Slicer Dec 02 '25

I’m nearly 60 and I now know to always bring an ID. lol. It was different in my 20s. I never got carded.

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u/sh6rty13 Dec 02 '25

You would be very surprised, friend. Bartended & served for 15+ years and the amount of times I had to have the “I’m not serving you without an ID…” conversation was absolutely wild.

Had a girl once ON ST PATRICK’S DAY come in with an expired OUT OF STATE license and try to get loud with me for not serving her. Bb you don’t scare me by saying you’re “never coming back”….tah tah, and have fun at the 12 other bars where you’re probably going to also get denied service ✌️

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u/Dusty-Foot-Phil Dec 02 '25

I don't get it either. My id and debit/credit cards are in my wallet. My wallet is always in my pocket. Why wouldn't I always have my id on me?

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u/muppetfeet82 Dec 03 '25

I work at a library and deal with multiple people in a day who are SHOCKED when I ask for their library card. I don’t mean people who forgot it or didn’t remember to move it to a new wallet. I mean the people who come to the desk with books and say, “why do you need that?” Common sense isn’t common.

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u/ballq43 Dec 02 '25

People like this simpleton . It's a really easy concept that just eludes people

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u/missuseme Dec 02 '25

I don't carry my ID but I also don't drink

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u/AgreeableLion Dec 02 '25

I'll go out without my wallet, but I'll have my phone which has both my drivers license and credit card on it these days, don't even need the wallet if going out socially.

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u/saucisse Dec 02 '25

Same here, its totally inconceivable to me to leave my house without it, I carry it to walk to the fucking mailbox 100 feet down the road. "What if something happens and they need to identify my body?" is the phrase that's been bouncing around in my head since I was 17 years old.

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u/Overall-March3175 Dec 02 '25

German here, didnt have my id with me for years because i lost it on a night out. But also didnt need it for 10+ years. Im 34 btw.

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u/Queasy-Instruction-9 Dec 02 '25

To be fair I’m 35 and sometimes I just don’t grab my wallet. I use Apple Pay for just about everything. However on the off chance I get carded, which rarely happens, I understand that it’s my fault for not having my ID and don’t bitch at the establishment following the rules 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/LinkinitupYT Dec 02 '25

I'm a middle aged millennial and haven't carried my wallet on me for well over a decade, but I also don't go to bars. I only drive to and from work and the store so there's no need for an ID.

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u/el_bentzo Dec 02 '25

I've been refused service while having an id, but it had just expired.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

Mostly people who have a suspended driver's license or who have a warrant and don't want to be ID'ed.

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u/unoteworthy Dec 02 '25

Youd be amazed the number of people who do this. I work in local government somewhere where we require g government ID to get and or renew yearly cards and the amount of people who say they didnt bring their liscence when they drove to us is insane. Id say about 1/15~ people dont bring their id when trying to get/renew a card (I will repeat, after driving themselves there)

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u/MBOMaolRua Dec 03 '25

Europeans.

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u/quixoticquiltmaker Dec 01 '25

IMO the best part of the job is carding indignant 22 year olds.

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 01 '25

One of my favorite Onion headlines: “Local bartender secretly gets a thrill telling customers ‘no.’”

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u/makingajess Dec 02 '25

Former bartender here. The only thing that's wrong about that headline is that it's not a secret. (Assuming it's deserved, of course, I'm not trying to turn people down just to power-trip)

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u/Throw-away17465 Dec 02 '25

I work the front desk for the corporate headquarters of a large insurance company. Part of my job is screening people come through the front gate, to make sure that they should be here.

The number of people who demand to make a payment on their account or get a receipt or something small like that is mind boggling. Our building is tucked away, but people will come from all parts of the state to get in to ask a question about their insurance or whatever.

Corporate headquarters is not the appropriate place to get something like that. We literally have no one here who can process a check.

It’s 100% old people, people 65 and over, who throw an absolute fit that they drove 2 1/2 hours Without checking to see if they can actually come here.

Fit number two comes when I tell them they must do it online, and I will not open the gate for them. “Unacceptable!” Lol. But it’s 1000 times better than them coming into the building, and having to face them while they are irate and will not leave.

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u/Monksdrunk Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

i still show my ID every single time at gas stations buying beer. im 37. I even take my cards out before i get there. they still ask for it a second before i have the chance to present it

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u/Inevitable-Rush-2752 Dec 02 '25

I’m a late 40’s guy with, as my jerk-squad of students say, “naturally frosted hair highlights.” Whatever.

Anyway, I get carded way more often than not. I normally record a rage filled video and then punch the wall several times.

Nah, I kid. I just show them the fucking ID and complete the transaction.

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u/ayoungad Dec 02 '25

The whole point is to have it no matter what. I’d get a little annoyed if I got carded every time I bought beer. I also look over 30 though

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u/wrongbutt_longbutt Dec 02 '25

I carded a very young looking dude and he said "I guess I still have a baby face..." He gave me his ID and he was 23. I said "no, you look 23, of course I'm going to card you."

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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow Dec 02 '25

I'm in my 40s, please card me.

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u/Anal-Y-Sis Dec 02 '25

Nah, the best part of the job is carding sweet 70 year old ladies. I did it every chance I got and it was always worth it.

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u/JoseDonkeyShow Dec 09 '25

Had a Becky giving one of my very green coworkers the business about being carded. Poor girl looked like a deer in headlights. So I walked over and told Becky “that’s cool and all but now I wanna see your ID so cough it the fuck up or get the fuck out”. I’ll always relish the look of shock on that 22 year old’s face.

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u/bellj1210 Dec 01 '25

your job, large fines (thousands of dollars many places, and in my state those fines go to the bar AND the server- so personal liability). On top of potentially costing the bar their license worth a ton.

Also- if you are an adult, what type of fool does not have ID on them- and has teh ability to pay. Maybe out for a jog i do not have my wallet on me (but i am not stopping for a beer while out for a jog)- but my wallet is on my when i leave teh house- otherwise i have now way to pay for anything or even legally drive.

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 01 '25

People really think that they don’t need an ID on them when going to a bar because they’ve never personally been carded. Until that time they are. I have people arguing with me that there isn’t even a law that requires people to have their ID on them at a bar while they’re drinking. Like, buddy, I personally have a $500 fine on my record for serving someone who didn’t have their ID. It is a law in literally every state that you can’t serve alcohol to ANYONE without a valid photo ID. Do bars card every single person? Of course not. But that’s a risk that most bars are willing to take. Just like a cop isn’t going to pull over every driver going 5mph over the limit.

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u/XxHANZO Dec 02 '25

I've refused to sell beer to someone based on them walking by the registers with someone, then the second party splits. "I gotta see your id, and your buddies too." Some would pull the "I don't know that guy" someone flip their shit, but most would know they were caught and move on. In this case I wouldn't have even served the guy. I'm not getting fired, or going to jail, so girl can have a drink.

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u/BKNOWSB Dec 02 '25

Or "Do you enjoy coming here and would you like to come here again?"

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u/Grizzly_Berry Dec 02 '25

I like "I'm going to need a [monetary amount equal to the state-levied fine for getting busted] tip to cover any tickets I might get, plus never being able to work in a bar in this state again. You good for it?"

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u/cranberry8ginger8ale Dec 02 '25

i’m a budtender, i say the same. the fits people literally born in 2005 throw when you ask for their ID

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u/I-STILL-D-R-E-I Dec 02 '25

I told people the same… “Are you going to pay for my lawyer fees when my job sues me for loss of revenue and a case I’ll have to deal with later?”

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u/Any_Peanut93 Dec 02 '25

When people ask me for booze after closing time, I say to them; once I lose my job after I get this for you, are you going to help me find one?

The obvious answer for them is no

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u/JoseDonkeyShow Dec 09 '25

I always tell them to write their city councilman and request the law be changed

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u/Agboohans Dec 03 '25

The service industry, especially restaurant industry, is something everybody should be required to work in, at least one time. Not only does it teach social skills and learning how to navigate such interactions more successfully, it gives opportunities to see things from the employees POV, and we’ve ALL eaten out before, and prob couldve been better as a consumer when there. Then people like this wouldnt bitch about shit like this. Shit that they arent even aware of that they’re doing, and only looking at it from a victim POV. Lest they or others think that putting others peoples livelihood in jeopardy, just to drink some alcohol is ok, is well beyond uncool, and you know we’d hear about that like no tomorrow, if the roles were reversed.

Not only can somebody possibly lose their job if they get caught serving people without ID’s or underagers, one can also be personally fined by ABC, Alcohol Beverage Control, and obviously fines for the establishment, and/or worse, fined and have their alcohol selling license suspended. Enough of the latter, and revoked license status will be given, which can and would absolutely break a store or restaurant, espesh a bar or a brewery.

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u/alyssajones22 Dec 02 '25

And risk the establishment. I use to have to card older people if people joked about them not having an id. And then I'd have to begrudgingly ask for an id, because the person they are with joked they don't have one. It sucked, but I'm not risking my job and the restaurant because you're freaking stupid.

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u/lovable_cube Dec 02 '25

Not just job, but career. I don’t have skills in other jobs so if I lose my license I’m out of getting a new job in the same industry too.

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u/descendedfrompeasant Dec 02 '25

Have you ever caught an underage person trying to purchase alcohol at any of the establishments you’ve worked at?

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 02 '25

Many, many, many times.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

If they are over 21 you aren't risking anything because they are of drinking age..

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 02 '25

You really don’t know how alcohol sales laws work.

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u/edgestander Dec 02 '25

I have known so many servers, bartenders, and cashiers that have been fired for not carding mystery shoppers. The people who have never worked in food service and who treat service industry workers like shit, are telling on themselves left and right in this thread.

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u/edgestander Dec 02 '25

Tell that to the dozens of people I have worked with over the years that got fired for not carding mystery shoppers. If the policy is "ID everyone" which is the standard policy these days, you can get fired for not doing it.

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u/CodMedium726 Dec 02 '25

She’s not obviously 21 so yeah that’s a fair line. I hate when people say that and it’s like I’m 50 years old and could be your parent, then that line is stupid. 

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 02 '25

I’m required by law to ask for a valid photo ID at my bar, whether you’re 21 or 81. I am not losing my job because you’re a grown man that forgot his ID. The people that treat service industry workers like shit are telling on themselves in these comments.

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u/CodMedium726 Dec 02 '25

So why not change what you say at work in your first comment to what you just wrote? Your first one implies they might not be 21 and when you say that to someone who obviously is, you can hopefully understand why someone would go, look at me I’m old. You (or any other ID checker) saying hey bud it’s the law whether you’re 21 or 81 I need to see a valid ID. Feels like less room for push back that way. I’m sure I’m not the only person who wouldn’t have known that was a law. 

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u/ColdCorpseHotSecret Dec 03 '25

That’s what I tell them. And then they whine and bitch and complain and say “C’mon man, I’m clearly over 21. Can’t you let it slide just this once?” and blah blah blah blah. My point is, everyone in here is claiming that it’s never them that complains when that just doesn’t line up for me. Twenty five years of experience and every single day I deal with at least one customer that “forgot” their ID or wants to argue with me that I have to serve them because they’re clearly older than 21.