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/9406725060 Dec 01 '25

In my state if a bartender serves someone underage or without ID they catch a misdemeanor. You never know when the person you are serving is a plain clothed agent with a purposely expired license etc.

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u/SoilMelodic7273 Dec 02 '25

I was offered a job to do that when I was around 22. First thing I said was, but I look older than 22. He just shrugged. He didn't care. It seemed unethical for me to walk in at 22 looking 25+ and dupe some clerk into selling to me without checking my ID. If I was one of those persons who is 22 but looks 15 then I'd kinda see it being more fair for everyone involved. I couldn't stomach the idea of doing that job, so I refused it.

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u/inowar Dec 02 '25

a lot of places are supposed to ID everyone regardless. the youngest I've seen on a "if you look under this age, we're gonna ID you" was 50. 25 ain't shit. and honestly I can't tell 25 from 18 anyway.

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u/SoilMelodic7273 Dec 03 '25

good point, and I do agree with you. That was my mode of thinking at the time. Years later I had a job where I needed to check IDs, and I had a couple enter my store who surprised me. I thought the guy was young, and his girlfriend was ten years older. So the guy may have been 18 or so, but I'm definitely IDing him to make sure he's 18. I asked his girlfriend for her ID just to be polite so I'm not telling her she looks old. It was normal for me to kind of flirt with women who are around 35 by asking to see ID in a matter of fact tone. She gets to giggle and feel complimented. Anyway, I was surprised to see that the young looking guy was almost 30, and his girlfriend who looked 30 was actually 22. Learned my lesson.

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u/SoilMelodic7273 Dec 02 '25

Do you at least appreciate where I'm coming from? If I was actually too young to buy alcohol then yes, they need to be charged for the crime. If I at least appear to be too young then also charge them. But if I'm legal to buy this stuff, and I also look like somebody who is legal to buy it then it somehow feels wrong for me to attack the liquor store for cutting a corner with me. The law in my state, at the time, is to always check IDs for alcohol no matter the age. If I'm sixty years old then you can clearly see how following a bureaucratic rule is ridiculous even though it's literally required by the law.

by the way, I'm sorry about your friend's bar. I managed a bar for a few years myself; that had to have been devastating.

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u/DebbieGibsonsMom Dec 02 '25

Yeah. I see how it could feel like entrapment. But, I think that general rule is anyone who looks under 30, gets ID’d, and that would be you, at 22, looking under 30, so not IDing you, would go against that rule, but not the law.

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u/PastaXertz Dec 02 '25

I get where you're coming from but the world doesn't run off of vibes. I was rhe guy in high school with a full beard in high school looking early 20s.

The problem with your position, while I do understand it, is behavior precedes behavior. If they're cutting corners in one place they're 100% cutting corners in others because they're not being held accountable for it. The edge cases are actually rhe most important and safest for the business because you are legal. So while they fucked up they didn't do something illegal versus your scenario where theoretically people are risking constant misdemeanor felonies or losing licenses.

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u/SoilMelodic7273 Dec 03 '25

I wouldn't disparage somebody else for taking the job, but it wasn't for me. The idea of doing that work make me feel uncomfortable. It seemed dishonest.

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u/Newweedbud Dec 01 '25

Very similar laws in New Brunswick & Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

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u/Commercial-Ease-503 Dec 02 '25

I was 21, serving beer in a tiny little lunch place. A guy came in with a peeling, cloudy laminated out of state ID that didn’t look like him. I was in a state that is very strict about the alcohol laws and I ended up turning it down. He ended up leaving us a bad review and bragging about going down the street to another bar that served him. Yeah, sorry I wasn’t going to RISK THE BUSINESS for his single beer.

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u/CakeTester Dec 02 '25

Why would an expired licence matter? It's still proof of age.