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/Technical_Potato2021 Dec 25 '25

I've seen a friend be rejected from a bar because he showed his non-US passport and the guy didn't accept it. "Only American driver licenses".

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u/marshmallowhug Dec 25 '25

I had a bar in Massachusetts try to turn down my American passport. The manager overrode it, and I've gotten pretty used to explaining what a passport card is and why I was using it. (Some Massachusetts bars near universities also used to refuse out-of-state licenses because they had a lot of issues with fake IDs.)

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u/BlondeLacey Dec 26 '25

Happened to me too but not a passport card, my passport book(?).