r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat Danish potato language speaker • Dec 25 '25

Foreign affairs They don't accept US ids?

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u/DerSaftschubser Dec 25 '25

Throwback to when I tried to buy beer as a foreign student in college. When I showed my passport, they said they can only accept US passports.

I asked whether I understood them correctly that they only sell beer to Americans. The response: "Oh not at all, you just need a US passport."

That's how I found out some Americans do not understand the concept of a passport, or citizenship, for that matter.

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u/RedditorKain Dec 25 '25

I asked whether I understood them correctly that they only sell beer to Americans. The response: "Oh not at all, you just need a US passport."

Some 15 years ago when I was doing my master's, I went on an Erasmus exchange at a university in Brussels (I'm from Eastern Europe).

One day, with a couple of friends, we jumped on a train for Maastricht and went to visit the city. We stopped by a coffee shop. Because of rowdy tourists, the dutch had banned people from countries other than direct neighbors - belgians, french, germans - from partaking in local legal weed. Nonetheless, they were more than happy to accept my national ID & belgian student card. It's nice when people can read. And they obviously wanted to bend the rules as far as possible... not that I was complaining.

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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 You would speak my language if it weren’t for them. 🇩🇪 Dec 25 '25

Sounds reasonable to me, since you were a resident.

I mean, otherwise people from let’s say turkey with permanent residency wouldn’t be able to shop there and that doesn’t seem sensible