What we do for a bottle of wine

[the_local_echo]

Today has been an odd day. As my previous post explained, I got an odd phone call from the solicitors on my way to work, and on my way home afterwards I managed to get carded when buying a bottle of wine

Comments

[elbeno]

Round here the usual rule is if you look 39 or under. OK, so the drinking age is 21, but it's still odd when you're out for lunch with colleagues, not one of you looks a day under 30, and everyone gets carded when ordering a beer.

[choptliver]

I'm guessing it was a case of someone blindly following rules rather than actually engaging their brain.

Plus, well, when you get really old like me, it's hard to tell the ages of younger people. Was the cashier aged?

[cmcmck]

I've been carded buying a bottle of wine (it was a present as I don't drink alcohol) and I'm over fifty as you know. Just crazy, especially when I don't generally carry my passport around with me (for US readers, the drinking age here is eighteen and the UK doesn't have an ID card system except a voluntary one run by the drinks industry for under 21's) :o/

[lnr]

Last time I got carded was 18 months ago in ASDA, where they said they were carding anyone who looked under 25. Which is much more plausible than me looking under 18 at the time. It was a similar sort of transaction too.

[ewx]

I only started getting asked for ID some time after turning 30. Very odd.

[scribb1e]

There has to be a joke in there about measuring out your life in coffee spoons...