I mean, clearly a legit gripe (not getting your ID checked but people bitching about getting their ID checked).

But where's the poetry? Where's the pettiness? This I,A gets a solid A- for righteousness but a C- for entertainment value (I do like the accompanying picture).

No, there is no requirement that the bar check every ID. The law is that you can't serve anyone under 21. Now, an experienced professional knows they can make mistakes, so they card everyone as a matter of policy. Pot Shops, on the other hand, have to scan every patron's ID. Our state is seriously backwards in terms on regulatory intensity.

I'm getting ID'd and scanned buying wine at QFC. I'm damn near 60. It's obviously policy.

Just acknowledge that it's ridiculous and management is making you do it. Watch their anger melt away.

I'm old, and I look old. I get carded all the time. I don't care. At Bartell's they even scan your ID.

Think how awkward it would be if bars were required to check IDs of people who only looked old.

What irritates me is the requirement some places that you have to take your ID out of the wallet so they can scan it. The problem is that Washington is super uptight about alcohol. Look at how long it took to break the state liquor store monopoly.

Citizens, please remember that compliance with the Enforcement Agent's instructions is mandatory. Obey arbitrary commands without complaint and there won't be any problems!

Oh jesus, I worked the door as a volunteer at a Fremont solstice celebration side event back in about 2002 and I was instructed very sternly to ID everyone. I'm just some guy trying to help out how I'm told. Some 40-something asshole woman decided that I was making her get her ID out as some kind of "power trip" (her words) because I happened to be the guy standing at the door. For fuck's sake, lady, I don't actually want you to show me your ID, and I don't relish the idea of denying you access. I'm asking because I'm doing this organization a favor so they don't get into trouble with the liquor control board. Fuck you and your dumb confrontational ass.

it's the law.

look up WAC 314-11-025.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=314-11-025

"Look at how long it took to break the state liquor store monopoly."

Yeah, now the monopoly is Costco.

@13
What?

@12,

What the hell are you talking about? That link is a list of acceptable forms of identification and doesn't prove shit!

Also I'm quite certain @9 is correct. It's store policy, not state law. So the IA writer is correct that people getting in their face for simply doing his/her job are assholes, but it can also be an idiotic store policy to require him/her to follow.

For over-30s who don't like getting carded, just pretend it's a compliment, and that you don't actually look old as fck and the person asking for your ID isn't younger than your kids and that you're so hip to be out past 10pm at a club and who says you're not still totally hardcore and just wait until the next time that little b*tch Aveyn in marketing says "okboomer" when you post something funny to #offtopic in slack and you can tell her GenZ ass that you got carded.

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them Master-
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me just
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@20

Righteous! I assume that when you are carded, you politely tell the bouncer or clerk that you've changed your mind and you'll shop elsewhere, right? After all, you wouldn't want to support a business that "doesn't deserve customers," right?

Right?

Oh. Your dumb ass makes a scene instead and insists that you want your Night Train and you don't want to show ID? Huh. I think we met, didn't we? Wednesday? I was the one who said "Hello, do you have your ID" and you were the one who said "I'm 42 years old you piece of shit f**t?" You're the one who got kicked out of the grocery store because you can't behave?

Or was that not you? Were you a different entitled middle-aged white man who can't handle being asked for ID? Oops, sorry about that. There are so many of you and you're all so very unpleasant and interchangeable. (Don't like being on Team Piece Of Shit Slur? Good news! Quit acting like him and you don't have to be!)

LEGAL FACT CORNER: Did you know that there is NO LAW prohibiting you, "Park Place," from fucking right off? NO LAW AT ALL! It's true! It is 100% legal for you to crawl back under a rock until you learn some manners!

@23 Dodging the question, I see. Do you say "no thanks, I don't shop in stores that card" and walk away, or do you throw a hissy fit? I think we can all guess the answer.

https://lcb.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Alcohol_Education/Working%20Copy-%20RESPONSIBLE%20Age%20Resticted%20Products%20SALES%20-%20JULY%202019%20(002).pdf

There is no state law requiring ID be presented for purchases.

It's a rule because if there is not an absolute requirement then some twenty something will get all riled up when asked. Easier to ask all than to have a decision at the door which will generate more conflict.