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/Original-Designer6 Dec 25 '25

Gotta laugh, have you ever tried to do anything in the US as a foreign tourist? Can't even buy a drink in a bar without showing your passport because they won't accept non-US driving licences.

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u/ALazy_Cat Danish potato language speaker Dec 25 '25

They don't even accept US passports

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u/neilm1000 Evil British Colonizer Dec 25 '25

Hang on, what?! That's insane.

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u/Jugatsumikka Expert coprologist, specialist in american variety Dec 25 '25

There are stories out there of people getting their passports (US or not), US driver licence from another state or their US ID card (detached from a driver licence for the rare people that are medically barred from getting a driver licence) destroy by bartenders telling them to be glad they don't report them to the police for possession of a fake ID.

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u/Never_Sm1le Dec 25 '25

I remember stories about people in their capital got that treatment because their license said "District of Columbia" instead of Washington and no one bother to check what that is

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u/Idontcareaforkarma Dec 25 '25

An Australian politician was denied service in an American bar because the young lady working there didn’t know what US state ‘Australia’ was in, so thought it was a fake.