goofyernmost
Aged to Perfection
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- Oct 8, 2002
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Agreed, the world has gone crazy. Really, carding 80 year olds? I would feel completely ridiculous doing that, I don't care that some bureaucrat has made it a rule/law. A 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 year old is clearly of age, it's a waste of everyone's time.
The law states that you cannot serve or sell alcohol to someone under the age of 21. There is no law broken if the person is over 21, carded or not. If they sell to a minor and hadn't carded them they are in big trouble, but you can sell alcohol to a person of the proper age all day long without seeing a card and nothing bad will happen to you, law wise.
It is the establishment that makes the rule to card everyone so they can have their butts covered without having to rely on an employee not making a mistake in judgment. When the establishment decides to inconvenience or humiliate an older person just to cover themselves then frankly they should not expect to get my business. This is a completely self protecting "rule" and not a law. I know that sometimes it is hard to tell the age of people but I can tell you right now that Ray Charles could have been able to tell that I was well over 21. I am not blaming the employee's because they are in a no win situation, but, perhaps if enough "older" folks express their displeasure by withholding patronage, then maybe the thought will sink into desk pushing management that there might be a better way.
If I go into an establishment for a drink and I am asked to show ID at this point in my life, I will just get up and leave. No one, I promise, will say...he must have been under 21 that's why he left. They will know, because I will tell them not only by words but by gray hair, wrinkled skin and that angry look on my face that only us codgers can come up with. I've paid my dues in this life and I am not about to be some "victim" of an over protective dweeb, that is afraid to make a decision or a judgment. (management, not server)
