What’s the stupidest thing you’ve been ID’d for ?

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CoffeeCove@reddit

I went to pay my cable bill and was asked for ID. They changed their policy. I said, "but no ID is needed if the payment is mailed".

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I bought a bottle of Prosecco once, it was a couple of days after I turned 18 - the lady asked me for ID and then walked off to get her manager and I asked why, she said “you haven’t been 18 very long so I need to double check”

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No_Presence_9168@reddit

About a year ago, I got ID'd for an energy drink (age limit of 16). I was 30 years old, covered in tattoos (which were visible), decent sized beard, had my wife with me and my car keys in hand. I laughed because I thought they were joking. I wasn't carrying my ID because I have been getting served since I was a teen, and ended up just going to a different shop because they were adamant not to serve me.

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The_V8_Road_Warrior@reddit

I once went to my then local Sainsbury's and got a scratchcard, wanted my ID.

The very next day I went into the very same Sainsbury's for a kitchen knife so I could cut up vegetables etc, never asked for ID at all!

I'm glad they had their priorities right, making sure I was old enough to win money but not bothered if I could go around k!lling people

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LuminidMishy@reddit

I had my second kid late 20s and was ID'd for some children's cutlery..

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Outrageous_Shirt_737@reddit

I didn’t get asked for ID but I bought some small artist’s palette knives on the weekend and the lad on the till wasn’t old enough to sell them to me 😬

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paul114114@reddit

Bottle of wine - I was an old (66) fat white guy. I just said “Seriously?/“

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ogresound1987@reddit

A big bottle of cloudy lemonade.

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cancercellofsociety@reddit

A can of Red bull in the petrol station. After they seen me drive in and approved me for fuel. One indicates I’m 17 at least and the other I need to be 16. Crazy

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peanutbudderlover@reddit

Going back quite a few years but got ID'd for fags in the petrol station. i think you had to be 16 back then. Mate, you just watched me drive my car in here and I'm paying for petrol?!

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vilpto@reddit

Orange juice in Spoons. Apparently because the rest of my party was drinking alcohol that meant that I might pour their beer into my orange juice and therefore I needed to be ID'd. My friends were all served before me and were not ID'd and I was the oldest out of the lot of them. 31, heavily tattooed and car keys in hand.

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pintsized87@reddit

a dvd of Casper. Which fellow redditors is a PG, and I was in my 30s at the time.

I am still baffled to this day.

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z96girl@reddit

Nail polish remover (when I was 14). I actually read online nobody asks for ID for that unless they suspect you're using it to get high or something. If that's true it's genuinely upsetting they would think that of an autistic person.

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Empty_Magician5698@reddit

Calpol, and standing with me, my children aged 11 and 8 🤨 wtf age did they think I had kids?!

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Commercial_Biscotti6@reddit

A potato peeler

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SamsonsHaircut@reddit

I'm in my 40s. This gets me flagged in Tesco every freaking time.

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b_of_the_bang_@reddit

I got asked for ID for hummus once on the self service till, the shop assistant was as confused as I was.

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PerkeNdencen@reddit

What's the reasoning behind that? Are tinned vine leaves boozy or something?

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SamsonsHaircut@reddit

That's what I'm assuming. I have asked, repeatedly, but they don't have an answer. For what it's worth, I'm never flagged when I buy the fresh Tesco vine leaves.

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pantyfire@reddit

Purdys apple and grape soft drink on a Waitrose meal deal last week.

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Alternative-Kiwi1221@reddit

Plastic picnic knives.. in my 20s..

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liluniqueme@reddit

Last week I got ID'd for an energy drink. My purse was at home because I pay for everything with my phone.

Not long after Christmas I got ID'd for a 16+ game.

I'm 38.

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Chris_M1991@reddit

A pack of razors I was in my 20’s and had a facial hair

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West_Yorkshire@reddit

Paracetamol in a supermarket I've been working at for 12 years.

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Icy-Tear4613@reddit

Could have started when you were 5?

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fr3yababii33@reddit

Paracetamol is 16 lol

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West_Yorkshire@reddit

Was born 'ere

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GothicGamer2012@reddit

Paracetamol and monster energy drinks. Also Reddit keeps asking me for my ID and they're not fucking getting it. I'll leave the site if it becomes mandatory.

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XJustCallMeJayX@reddit

A pair of scissors. I didn't have id with me so they took it off me at the checkout. No scissors for me I guess

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collisl83@reddit

Non alcoholic wine. I'm over 40!

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BigBananaBerries@reddit

A bus ticket. I was around 40yo at the time & wanted a full price ticket. I just laughed at the driver. I think their mind must've been elsewhere & their brain was on autopilot as they didn't follow up when I said my age.

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bluesam3@reddit

I was offered a half on the bus to my PhD viva.

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AdStreet8083@reddit

Walked into asda at 1am to buy black bags and duct tape.

I was ID'd not for age but because it was suspicious 🤣

Window had smashed and was raining, so needed temporary cover!

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iuseemojionreddit@reddit

Probably wasn’t to see your DoB but to have a mental note of your name for when the missing persons report came up.

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yougavememagical@reddit

Suspicious or not, what would be the point of IDing you? Did they note your details? That's mental

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craftyorca135@reddit

I swear this guy at the co op once took my details. He took my ID and then started writing something as if copying. I mean he could've been doing the maths to see if I was old enough...

He disappeared shortly after several run ins with me. One was for paracetamol, and after that once he was funny with me. Then he did the above with my ID and I never saw him again.

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HotRabbit999@reddit

Ah I can answer this one. Some places (shops) want proof their cashiers are checking people's id, so if they ask you for it they write down the details so they can prove they are asking people for id. It's a check on the cashier & can be for individual cashiers of they fail a secret shopping test for example

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PistolPeteWearn@reddit

Once in Sainsbury's the man in front of me was buying duct tape, extra strong bin bags and two gallon sized containers of bleach. I'm sure he wasn't *actually* disposing of a body, but it really did look like it

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MarsStar2301@reddit

I think it’d be quite amusing to buy suspicious-looking items like those, plus one completely innocent and/or totally random unrelated item…!

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Rymundo88@reddit

No I definitely was

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EmiaraUK@reddit

That’s what all the cashiers and fellow shoppers think until they see it on Crimewatch!

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rohepey@reddit

How can you be so sure?

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lalagromedontknow@reddit

Totally unrelated to IDing but you reminded me of something I'd totally forgotten - a group of us were drunk 18yos, my friend had forgotten the key to their flat but knew one of the windows was unlocked so me (being the smallest) could have a leg up, open the window, get in the flat and open the door.

There was a police station opposite the flat and we all went in to say "oh hey, we're not breaking in, friend forgot their key so we're going through the window". The police were like well thank you for letting us know, we may have arrested you. We had no proof friend lived there. Thought process was just "we should tell them the group of people helping someone through a window isnt a burglar".

I've always kinda thought oh ok, just tell the police you're going through a window and they're fine with it apparently lol

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ThisIsAnAccount2306@reddit

So it's a cover story

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hazbaz1984@reddit

Fetish shit! I like to bind…. I like to BE bound!

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rohepey@reddit

Buying duct tape and body bags at 1am? Nah, not suspicious.

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iuseemojionreddit@reddit

Rizzlas. At a petrol station. After driving into the forecourt.

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Dizzy_Investigator91@reddit

Super Glue

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KiPhoe@reddit

Superglue.
I had a fucking massive long beard that went down below my chest at the age of 23.
"Can I see your ID"
"When was the last time you saw a 16 year old with a beard"

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Fluffycatbelly@reddit

I got IDd for superglue recently, was standing there with my toddler, who was wailing because his transformer toy was broken and needed a quick fix. Got denied it as hadn't taken my purse with me for a wee wander outside. I'm over 40 btw 🙄

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hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit

They obviously assumed you were buying glue for your stick-on beard to hide your rosy 16 year old cheeks.

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chee5ychicken@reddit

I can do you one better - my mum was IDed for a pritt stick and came home fuming because they wouldn't sell it to her. She was in her 50s

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Able_Cabinet_9118@reddit

Tbf I bought a couple of bottles of scrumpy jack cider and a bottle of vodka for my friends and myself when I was 15. When I was asked for Id I said you don’t get tits this big under 18. They lad sold me the booze !

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E-Widgey@reddit

A slice of baileys chocolate cheesecake from a market. There was a chocolate ball on top I assumed was hollow that I gave to my friend cus she didn't like the taste and it was full of liquor 😂

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PotentialSpare6412@reddit

Alcohol free Becks beer when I was 12. She knew it was alcohol free and still wanted to see ID.

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Dr_Quink@reddit

12 year old me walked into my local Mace for a pint of milk. Mum had sent me with a £20 note (in the early 80s). Owner of the store didn’t like that so he took my name and address because how dare I have a note of any value.

Went home, regaled the story and both my mum and sister sent me back with £245 with a single solitary fiver in the middle. I was forced to slowly go through all the larger notes before buying the next pint of milk with the fiver.

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always-aimee@reddit

I was ID'd for Bailey's chocolate truffles. I didn't have ID on me and they refused the sale. I'm 33 years old.

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LittleoneandPercy@reddit

Id’s for tobacco when I was 39. I accept I’m the height of a small teenager but the face does not match !

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Willing_Coconut4364@reddit

a red bull.

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Neddykins82@reddit

A scented candle

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Important-Double6821@reddit

Maybe not the item specifically, but it still gets stupid:

When I was either 16 or 17, I was IDed in Asda for paracetamol, which I kinda expected given they use think 25, and before this I had looked up Asda's age policy on paracetamol to make sure I could buy it. I showed my ID, which showed I was above 16. Was told you have to be 18. Wish I was more confrontational lol, definitely was and still is 16+ in Asda (their website's policy for reference):

(it was not an online order, it was in person at the self checkouts, all I said was like "oh I thought you only needed to be 16" [I knew I was right but wayyyy too shy and socially awkward to say that] and then I left without it)

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bobmanuk@reddit

On the lower end of 20 I was IDd for claiming a scratch card. My job at the time made everyone wear a shirt and tie, I took the tie off after work and went to the shop. Guess I looked like a school kid.

Also spray glue in my mid 20s, had a job looking after a car park in Derby, they had new signs they wanted put up but the signs didn’t have any adhesive. So I went to buy spray glue to fix the signs with. I don’t think there was anything suspicious about me then, but they said they ID anyone buying aerosols, makes sense I guess, but I didn’t have ID on me. Had to get my boss to go to the shop and buy it for me. He didn’t have ID either and they also refused to sell it to him, a quite old, rotund and bald bruiser looking type, hardly under age

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Lunar_Raccoon@reddit

A bottle of Fentiman’s Cola.

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Intelligent-Peach570@reddit

Party poppers!... when I was 32!

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Kpnutfree66@reddit

Tipex

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IntrepidMaybe8579@reddit

Monster energy

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Different_Fall1391@reddit

In Dunelm I was Id'd for a 24 peice cutlery set. If I wanted to stab someone it wouldn't be with a gold coloured dinner knife.

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herefromthere@reddit

Maybe they expected you to go on a bludgeoning rampage with the case?

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Different_Fall1391@reddit

Well, it was in the run up to Christmas and I was quite frazzled after deciding we needed matching tableware.

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EzriDaxwithsnaxks@reddit

I got ID'ed in Asda for plastic spoons so at least yours was a full set. What damage am I going to do with a plastic spoon? Do an Alan Rickman and cut their heart out with it?

(Reference to Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Theives)

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LahmiaTheVampire@reddit

It’s a great movie and I will fight anyone (with a spoon) that says otherwise.

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Dry-Magician1415@reddit

This will be because the checkout assistant is just reading stuff off a screen. What you bought will be categorised as "Cutlery" in the system and some idiot has set all cutlery (not just knives) to require ID. Screen says "ask the customer for ID" the assistant asks the customer for ID.

I saw it myself with mineral water. After thinking about it, it must have been because mineral water was in the same category as alcohol in their system.

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BouncyCatMama@reddit

A national treasure taken from us far too soon.

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K1mTy3@reddit

I got ID'd for a 16 piece stainless steel cutlery set in Tesco last year. 8 of those pieces were spoons.

I mean, unless you're my lunch you don't have much to worry about!

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E420CDI@reddit

I'm 37

Your birthday is the 8th May 1969?

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So_Southern@reddit

I got ID'd for cutlery and got an apology. I had no ID on me so they wouldn't sell it. I went back a few days later with ID and wasn't asked for it

I think this was John Lewis

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blozzerg@reddit

Not quite ID related but my friend got an expandable back scratcher taken off them in a foreign airport recently. Tried to argue it and demonstrate but nope.

If we were gonna take a plane down it wouldn’t be with a tiny hand on a collapsible stick.

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EndPsychological2541@reddit

Tbf I know someone who got into a fight and someone had called the police on him to say he's got a weapon and he's trying to stab them.. It was a spoon.

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ScriptingInJava@reddit

Officer we were having a dispute and then he starting eating a Müller corner - menacingly!

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Still-BangingYourMum@reddit

With wicked intent.

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BouncyCatMama@reddit

I mean, I think a spoon would be more painful, but you'd have to be the hulk to use it.

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captain_crackerjack@reddit

I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before

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CodeToManagement@reddit

Oh so you’re too good to stab someone with your fancy cutlery? Got to use the cheap knives for us common folk eh?

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

And you wouldn’t be able to stab anyone with a butter knife 😭😭😭

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Nottsbomber@reddit

Not with that attitude

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BouncyCatMama@reddit

It's all about effort

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knotmidgelet@reddit

I wasn't ID'd, but the self-checkout had to get staff approval to allow me to buy 4 teaspoons from Dunelm last week!

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spriz2@reddit

I tried to buy a knife in Dunelm when I was 28 and she asked for my ID. Didn't have it on me. My neighbour was the manager there at the time so after 10 minutes of arguing with her I just phoned him and he came out and told her I was of age. He was embarrassed, she was embarrassed, I was embarrassed. Stupid cunt. I still get angry when I think about it

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No_Star_7408@reddit

My friend was asked for id, at Wilkinsons, for plastic cutlery, she says to the person "I'm 40 years old", the person replied "I hope I look as good as you when i'm 40". This person looked to be, at the least, 50. They would not accept my id they knew I was buying them for her. We left without the cutlery.

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Character_Whereas123@reddit

pumpkin carving kit, deicer and paracetamol whilst holding car keys with tattoos

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amboandy@reddit

My partner got ID'd when I was buying a £21 bottle of Amerone in M&S. I had to chuckle because apparently I could give this fine Italian red to my underage looking (she was 34) partner to drink on the swings. The youth of today are classier than I was.

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Gothywinelady@reddit

You’d have to bring a corkscrew and would probably get arrested for carrying a dangerous weapon.

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amboandy@reddit

What would you know about bottle opening r/Gothywinelady

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Gothywinelady@reddit

Many years of practice.

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GrandVizierofAgrabar@reddit

I was ided in Sainsbury’s buying a copy of the Guardian for my dad

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Olivander05@reddit

Not stupid but i still get ID'd for energy drinks as a 20 y/o. Apparently i look under 16

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badbwoiiriddim@reddit

potato peeler in The Range, aged 30 with a large full moustache I might add

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MarsStar2301@reddit

I know you meant you had the moustache, but I’m now wondering what a 30-year-old potato peeler with facial hair would look like…!!

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ImaginationCalm4817@reddit

not me but my brother. he was 24 at the time and was in tesco with my dad. they both brought energy drinks and my dad was paying for them both. the cashier asked for my brothers id which he said he didn’t have . and she said she couldn’t sell my dad any energy drinks because “you could just be buying it for him” . insane 🤣

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DanielleBun@reddit

Calpol. I was in my 30’s and had my unwell infant with me who came down with a fever while we were out. Luckily I had my ID because I think I would’ve had a meltdown if I’d been refused.

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Icy-Material-4828@reddit

A lighter when I was about 25

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Willing_Temporary_73@reddit

My sisters friend ID’d me when I brought a lottery ticket from her… she was at my 18th birthday celebration the night before and helped me get drunk. This was a fair few years ago

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MarsStar2301@reddit

I’ve had the opposite of that in Tesco, as one of the staff knows my age as I was in her sister’s year at school🙂

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Kitchen_Current@reddit

Cutlery, party poppers & energy drinks, I was 34 at the time

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Proper-Throwaway-23@reddit

Falafels! I gpt to the till at my then local sainsburys and I got ID'd. The lady behind the till explained to me that it was company policy and that they always ID people fpr falafels. Which was obviously nonsense. I had just finished work and was tired, hungry and wrung out. My patience for stupidity isnt always high at the best of times so I told her that she was being absurd and walked out of the shop with nothing. I contacted and questioned Sainsburies head office and was assured that falafels wete not age restricted (I mean duh?!) and that they would put the member pf staff through additional training to prevent it happening again. This was a good 10 years ago, I was early 30'd and very clearly not under-age. I often find myself wondering what happened to that lady at the till.

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Blind_Melon2@reddit

A tiny wee pot of wood knot sealer in B&Q. I was livid as I didn't have any ID on me and I'm clearly well over the age of 25!

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bohoratchetdisco@reddit

A scourer in Poundland. I asked if they thought i was going to scour my wrists off when i got home and she just put it through with no further comment. the old guy behind me was in stitches!

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Uk-guys2@reddit

A pen with an srew driving hidden in it, Btw it was an philips inside.

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hhfugrr3@reddit

Non-alcholic drinks. Waitrose doesn't ID for it. I don't really understand why tesco does.

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readlikeanerd@reddit

I got ID’d buying stamps at a Tesco express cigarette counter. I can only assume he got confused about what items he needed to ID for

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Vequihellin@reddit

I'm in my 40s. Got ID-ed in The Range for craft blades. I didn't have ID. So my husband tried to buy them instead. They told him they wouldn't sell them to him because they knew he was buying them for me. We're both very obviously in our 40s. Wtaf?

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Top-Narwhal-1053@reddit

Petrol.

I had just driven into the petrol station and you only need to be 16 to buy petrol.

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stewieatb@reddit

A friend of mine learned to drive in her early 20s and had this problem. Petrol station wouldn't turn the pumps on for her. She is 4'11, looks very young and dresses like an Edwardian china doll, but she'd driven the car in.

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Buddy-Matt@reddit

I guess it's a case of - if someone is driving underaged and illegally, that's not the petrol stations concern. Whereas if the petrol station sells them fuel that is their concern.

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mel0dyssey@reddit

This is exactly what happens to me and it is SO frustrating

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fickle_tartan@reddit

I got ID'd for a scratchcard back when they were still available at 16 at the petrol station, while I was buying petrol.

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BrieflyVerbose@reddit

What were they gonna do if you didn't have ID, siphon it back out of your tank?!

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alicatpow@reddit

I was once ID'd at the self checkout for buying vanilla extract (it contained alcohol). I was about 20 so wouldn't have been weird for a human to ID me for proper booze, but I was just stood staring at my basket for a while trying to work out why my baking supplies were ages restricted.

Also, when my sister was 29 she was ID'd for party poppers. She made something of a scene.

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herefromthere@reddit

a multipack of wooden bbq skewers.

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Salt-Trade-5210@reddit

In Lidl a year or so back I had to show ID to buy a bottle of alcohol-free wine. I'm in my 60s.

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Euphoric_Rough_5245@reddit

A dvd rated 12. I was 24/25

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DeltaMikeXray@reddit

Hot chocolate. But it was NYE so I kinda get it..

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thisnametookmeages@reddit

Candles for a birthday cake in the co op.

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ZigZagIntoTheBlue@reddit

I drove to a petrol station, filled up with petrol and then when I went to pay, got ID'd for cigarettes - they just looked at me blankly when I suggested I would happily wait while that called the police if they thought I was under 16 and driving without licence or insurance rather than actually over 18!

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fortyfivepointseven@reddit

Alcohol free beer.

I do understand that it contains small amounts of alcohol, but I also just think if a fifteen year old is enough of a dweeb to be drinking alcohol free beer, we as a society should just let that be.

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thisnametookmeages@reddit

My parents became sober 2 years ago and said the most time in their life they’ve ever been ID’d is for non alcoholic beer. They’re in their 50’s 🤣

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RainingBlood398@reddit

I've just been to Asda to buy my kids some lucozade sport for after football training and we got stopped on the way out because it's an 'age restricted product' so my 10yo wasn't allowed to carry it out of the shop!

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zeddy123456@reddit

Not sure if it's right but I've been told it's because it's hard to tell the difference immediately plus looking back at camera footage so thats why. Though that's just what I've been told when I asked my boss about it a while back.

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Ketty_Monday@reddit

Yeah it's because the branding is so similar it's also really not a good look to be selling it to anyone underage. At a glance the alcohol free stuff can look identical.

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iaderia@reddit

Yeah I think it’s actually legal to sell it but companies just have a blanket rule that it’s ALSO required for ID.

Recently I moved over to 0% alcohol (was an alcoholic) with my wife, both mid-30s, and the self service checkout guy asked for ID. I forgot my damn wallet at home but my wife had hers. He said ‘just let her buy it’ and let us pay.

It was alcohol-free beer!
He looked early 20s, I’m over a decade older!

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Either_Sense_4387@reddit

My heavily-pregnant sister (when she was well over 30) was ID-ed for alcohol free beer and she didn't have any and they wouldn't let her buy it... 🙄

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Impossible_Nebula590@reddit

Batteries. That I had ordered and paid for click and collect from Argos. And I was 35

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11theman@reddit

forks

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lbc2013@reddit

Christmas crackers. I know they’ve got a tiny bit of gunpowder in them, but I doubt I could’ve done anything dangerous with them.

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Potatusha@reddit

A very long time ago but the corner shop across from where I used to live refused to sell me a pack of playing cards, didn't ID me because she knew I was early teens.. Just refused to sell me them incase I was gambling.. Funny thing is that another shop down the road used to sell me cigs, booze and fireworks when I was 15.

I also got stopped by the police once because me and a friend had been eating pot noodles in the street but still had the forks 'cos they were his mams and we had to take them back. Police seriously said it could be an offensive weapon.

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BeanOnAJourney@reddit

Car screenwash.

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rmedge1986@reddit

My brother got ID'd for a football manager game when he was early 20s. Luckily he had his driving license on him.

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SpoogleBoo@reddit

A PG-13 DVD

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Electronic-Fennel828@reddit

I got ID’d for flour when I was about 18. I just wanted to buy a cake!

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MarsStar2301@reddit

If it was near Halloween, perhaps they were trying to make sure you weren’t going to be throwing it (and/or eggs) at people. In any other context, it seems a strange thing to need ID for.

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oli_ramsay@reddit

Knife sharpener in wilko

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E420CDI@reddit

garden shovel

...and the cotton sheets, rope, quicklime, and cement?

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thewaifandstray@reddit

A vitamin drink in my local Asda a few days ago. I'm still boggled as to why it came up, as was the member of staff who cleared it. My only thought is that it had been lumped in with energy drinks in their system.

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HekkinFlip@reddit

Got ID'd in a bar for ordering a diet coke. I was the driver, and in my 30s.

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VanshipNavi@reddit

Washing machine limescale remover. If a 17 year old cares enough about laundry to be deep-cleaning household appliances, then let them at it, honestly

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

Hahaha I think this to myself when I get ID’d for boring house cleaning stuff, like what 17 year old wants to buy this shit, I don’t even want to buy this shit.

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Silver_Switch_3109@reddit

A lot of cleaning supplies can be used to make chemical weapons

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squirrrrrm@reddit

Can i have 12 bottles of bleach please

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

Just wanted to say incase anything came from this, im well aware of the risks of that and i do think kids should be ID’d, i was just kidding !

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VanshipNavi@reddit

Same here, I didn't make the joke very well!

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LazyEmu5073@reddit

It can be mixed with another regular household cleaning product to make a dangerous gas.

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VanshipNavi@reddit

I know, I was just joking about being carded for dull household items instead of alcohol

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turtleship_2006@reddit

I mean you could say the same about bleach, if a 17 year old wants to be responsible and clean the toilets, let them

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mecasaesucasa@reddit

A plastic putty knife (it’s literally just a spatula for light wall-crack filling) from Wilkinson. It’s not even knife shaped.

I was 26 at the time. Clearly had a full on beard and covered in tattoos. Didn’t have my ID on me though… Had to walk a 45 mins round trip to grab my ID from home.

When I got back - I didn’t get IDd for the same item. I asked if I was meant to be IDd for it in the first place and the new server said no.

I asked the original server on my way out why he wasted an hour of my work day (that I wouldn’t be getting back) - his response - ‘it had knife in the name so I thought it must be dangerous and age restricted’. Server was somehow a supervisor and must have easily been in his 50s. 🤦‍♂️

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knightsbridge-@reddit

When I was 28, I was ID'd for buying a used blu-ray of Alien (1979). That film is rated a 15.

I wouldn't have minded, but I was

Wearing my work lanyard with my photo ID and the logo of the company I worked with, as I was on my lunch break
Paying with a credit card, which you can't get until you're 18
The guy serving me was clearly under 18 himself
... And I didn't have any ID on me, because my driving license was currently in the midst of being replaced because I'd recently moved.

So I couldn't buy it. I was maddened.

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Sanguine_Rosey@reddit

Similar experience but mine was a game, (but i did jave my ID but not on me) they did a remake of resident evil nemesis couple of years ago. I really enjoyed the game on the PlayStation 1 Went into game picked up got to the counter was having a bit of a general chat (woman buying a game for herself especially late 30s must still be an oddity) and i presume what was the manager asked me for some ID, had to go back out the car for my driving licence and went back saying thanks for the compliment

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lime-enthusiast@reddit

I was onced ID'd for a PG film

Like I have a full length beard, I think I can handle Shrek 2

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Cornelius-Figgle@reddit

Idk bro, that's some pretty scary shit

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No_Whereas_5203@reddit

Sounds similar to me. I got asked for my ID for a movie that was rated a 12 when I was in my 20s

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gogoluke@reddit

It used to be 18. How long ago was it?

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craftyorca135@reddit

That happened to me in a charity shop. I was buying sweeny todd and I hadn't even gone to pay when the woman called over to ask my age. Didn't want proof either.

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Sharp_Success_7937@reddit

A pumpkin carving kit. I was 30 when it happened.

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NugzYKnot@reddit

WD40. I'm 23 with a visible beard. I didn't have any ID on me so I asked my partner who did to go in and buy it for me, the lady on the till was taking the piss out of me for being underage and trying to lie about it!!

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KaleidoscopeNo1456@reddit

a bonne maman baba au rhum dessert

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Critical-Reporter316@reddit

Tins of starbucks coffee in Morrisons.

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idekkanymoree_@reddit

A ham hats age rating was 12

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Fantastic-Gas-387@reddit

Wallpaper scraper. I'm 53.

They wouldn't let me purchase it because I didn't have any ID on me (I didn't think I'd need any!)

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GREENGRAVY_@reddit

Yeah I've been asked for ID for a putty knife.

Also still get asked for ID for alcohol, I'm 40.

My sister - when buying cigarettes you had to be 16, had no ID on her and wasn't allowed to buy them but they let her pay for the petrol she put in her car, which was very kind of them.

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Ill_Apricot_7668@reddit

For which you have to be 16 (to pump petrol), so by that they have accepted that she was of legal age to also have a smoke.

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craftyorca135@reddit

Amazon did this with some scissors. My mum doesn' have ID and despite having children that are old enough, the man and his manager obviously needed ID. She ordered them again when I was in so someone would have ID.

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Isgortio@reddit

I worked at homebase when I was 16 and my colleagues let me buy all sorts without asking me for ID even though they knew I was only 16. Good thing I wasn't nefarious!

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BrieflyVerbose@reddit

Let me guess, this was B&Q?!

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Fantastic-Gas-387@reddit

Close, Wickes.

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alexblues145@reddit

I was also denied a putty knife from bnq despite being Iver 40

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Ok-Task3135@reddit

Nail glue

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tragic-clown@reddit

I got ID checked after ordering a Lucozade with a meal through deliveroo.

I also get ID checked ordering batteries on Amazon (because they are used for Vapes). I do not get ID checked ordering the Vape liquid, or nicotine shots, just the batteries.

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

I known someone getting ID to buy condoms he was a few months older then me (this was not me) but one of my colleagues as he was having a lads holiday I told him I could not buy them for him. as I would buy extra small for him.

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Whatever_Newts@reddit

I got ID'd trying to buy a DVD in Asda. It was a 12 rated, I was 17 but had no ID. Guy wouldn't let me buy it and took it off me!

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Ajsmonaco@reddit

Glue - I was 17 and knew the lady behind the counter for years (she was 19) and didn't serve me due to being under age. Forgiven but not forgotten 20 years later!

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So_Southern@reddit

Non alcoholic beer

Self service one asked for ID for porridge to go bars. Still baffled as to why!

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splendidvinyl@reddit

WD40 in b&q this morning

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BrieflyVerbose@reddit

There some thick cunts working in my local B&Q. I was ID'd for some sandpaper before. I asked her if she was taking the piss, she told me it's because I had my son with me.

When I asked her why did it matter, she didn't have an answer. I told whoever came over to help "Look at my face, I'm nearly 40. And that's sandpaper, what do you think I'm going to do with sandpaper" he told the woman on the till to "Just serve him this time". So even though I was served, I still felt like I was appar6in the wrong!

I have no idea what's going on there!

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MarsStar2301@reddit

This is a complete guess, but do they maybe think young/immature people might use the sandpaper to hurt others or self-harm? 🤔

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flohara@reddit

That's some textbook corporate nonsense.

It's going to be someone behind a desk, not the folks on the shop floor.

They are probably monitored on camera, so they make a point of IDing everyone, just in case.

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

I swear they do it for the sake of ID-ing you in B&Q. I get ID’d everytime

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antimathematician@reddit

Glad this isn’t just me, I now leave and sit in the car while my bf makes the purchase.

I once actually asked what the issue was with what I was buying (spray primer) to which my bf helpfully explained to me and the cashier how you huff spray paint… on the plus side she was so flustered she let me by with just a photo of my ID…

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

When I went in Tesco’s before to buy alcohol and I did have my ID on me. She basically said that my husband looked a lot older than me and she didn’t want to age about our age gap marriage so we both needed ID. He’s 25 aswell. So I usually wait in the car too 🤣

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craftyorca135@reddit

Me and my sister made a point of not being neat each other in tesco once so I could get scissors and she wouldn't get ID'd. She's old enough, just never has her ID. So we didn't even make eye contact around the store. I went to the self service and she went to another. The staff member asked for my ID, then went over to my sister and asked for her ID as well. I just said we're nothing to do with each other, why do you need her ID for my scissors and she backed down. She must've known us, or thought we looked alike.

All that fiasco for some scissors.

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Outrageous_Shake2926@reddit

Reddit.

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Lexa302@reddit

I got asked for ID once when buying a glue stick and that's when I learned people were getting high by sniffing them.

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StrengthForeign3512@reddit

Wallpaper scraper [aged 28 years; Homebase]

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runrunrudolf@reddit

I was 30 with a wedding ring on, tattoos on my arms and I was pushing a baby round in a pan and got IDd for paracetamol.

About a year later I was IDd for buying paint from a DIY store.

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

Yeah I have 2 full arm sleeves, leg sleeve and my full stomach done and I’m also married too and I always say to bouncers when I go out like ‘do my tattoos not make me look older ?’ But I guess you can get tattooed under age if you go to someone dodgy enough haha.

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runrunrudolf@reddit

Actually yeah my first tattoo is a really crap one I got at 14 by my best mate's step dad 😂 but I figured the tats and the wedding ring and the baby all pointed to a bigger picture but apparently not aha.

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BulkyHulk78@reddit

Back when I was 25, it was a couple of days before new years so I got a load of booze from my local shop (Vodka, JD and beer) and I didn't get ID'd. The next day (NYE) after having a shower and shave, I went back to the same shop for cigarettes and got ID'd (at that time in the UK you had to be over 16 to buy cigarettes and over 18 to buy alcohol!)

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infiresbeach13@reddit

A pumpkin carving kit, also there was a time when me and some mates wanted to buy a crate from Tesco, we all had i.d apart from my partner who wasn't buying it, and because he didn't have i.d they wouldn't serve us incase we gave some to him outside!!!! Even thought he looked waaay older than any of us

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Madruck_s@reddit

2 come to mind both my wife.

ID for a Stanley knife she needed to cut wallpaper in her flat.

ID for real ales as part of a £200 monthly shop. What 16-17 year old would be spending £200 on shopping and buying old speckled hen?

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

Ahahaha when me and my husband go big food shopping and we get ID’d for alcohol we do always find it funny because I don’t think a 16 year old wants a charcuterie board with their wine 😭

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

A playstation magazine, it had no demo game on it

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darkeight7@reddit

coconut water with a meal deal

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

Wait WHAAAT

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NotYourDoll_xo@reddit

I got ID’d for alcohol which is fair enough, however they then tried to refuse the sale purely because I had a provisional driving license, not a full license.

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DoctorSkelly@reddit

Not me being ID'd but I work in a shop and I ID'd someone for orange juice once. I saw her coming from the alcohol aisle and when she came to the till my autopilot kicked in and I asked to see her ID. She was so confused, I then even continued to explain that for anyone that looks under 25 I have to ID them. She said "for what though?". That's when I saw that she didn't pick up any alcohol, only orange juice. I apologized and felt very embarrassed.

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InternationalMud1163@reddit

bnm worker asked me for id when my dad was buying a cutlery set, i was 14🥀

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Jonny_rhodes@reddit

They checked clearly over 25 for jagermeister but refused to sell me red bull without id… I was 31

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anxiousgeek@reddit

Infant calpol. A couple of years ago. I'm 43.

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_FreddieLovesDelilah@reddit

Deodorant

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itsableeder@reddit

Rolling papers, back when I smoked.

I get why, obviously, but... It's paper and a strip of glue. It's basically the same product as an envelope.

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noahtn98@reddit

Lucozade, 10 years ago.

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Musashi10000@reddit

A copy of Top Gun.

I was 19, in a student town, it was 4am, and all I had bought was milk, cheese, onions, and that copy of Top Gun because it was on sale.

Wtaf kind of 14-year-old did they think I was?

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tumshy@reddit

Bonjela teething gel (for 6 months +)

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

You must look good for your age if they think you’re under 6 months old ! 🤣

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MarsStar2301@reddit

A 15-certificate DVD box set, when I was in my 30s and the shop worker asking for the ID was probably way younger than me.

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SureSell6750@reddit

A knife SHARPENER

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Choice-Lemon4500@reddit

I saw an OAP getting ID-ed for alcohol before. He didn't have ID, so he didn't get the booze. Nothing I could do, unfortunately.

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VeganHaggisLover@reddit

A copy of Rob Zombie’s Halloween in a charity shop, it was £1.50, I was 45 years old and had to get my mum to buy it 😂😂😂

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Fun_Yogurtcloset1012@reddit

McDonald's. I ordered a lot of free stuff with my points I collected. Obviously, I don't carry ID into McDonald's. Got the manager, even the manager looked annoyed and told the staff to just give it to me. 🙄

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mooseeaster@reddit

Nail clippers at Lidl

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Cornelius-Figgle@reddit

Engine coolant. Apparently I can drive the car, buy petrol and oil for it, but not glorified water? Thanks Halfords

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Capsaicin01@reddit

Alcohol free beer, just don’t get why it’s age restricted.

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Intelligent-Ant-5770@reddit

Lucozade - And Lucozade isn't even like Red Bull or Monster it's an energy drink with glucose not Caffeine. I don't know why someone's old grandma had it in for me as I literally walked across the street to a greggs who gave me a bottle without IDing me.

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Old-Refrigerator340@reddit

Me too. It was in a Co Op and I'd just finished a run, so was all sweaty with both my full arm sleeve tattoos out. I thought the cashier was taking the piss but nope, wouldn't serve me. I was 34 at the time lol.

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Intelligent-Ant-5770@reddit

Honestly, I just think they're having a bad day and shrug it off they've been many times the opposite has happened like 'I've seen your ID many times I know you can drink this'.

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The_Sideboob_Hour@reddit

This might get buried at this point but I stopped by sainsburys on my way to way to work to get a meal deal, im next in the queue and the guy being served gets ID'd for alcohol and kicks up a fuss.

He eventually gives up and leaves without it. As I approach the counter I'm chuckling a little bit to the guy to lighten the mood.

Me "Does that happen a lot"?

Him "Yeah it does but if you've no ID then you're oit of luck"

Me "Fair play"

He proceeds to scan my sandwich, crisps and bottle of Pepsi.

Him "got any ID"

Me (laughing) "good one"

He suddenly looks really serious and I realise he's not joking.

Him "I have to ask"

Me "for what"?

I'm pointing at my total lack of alcohol. Then the penny drops

Him "oh crap, sorry"

I pay and leave

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radandro@reddit

a bottle of mountain dew at 28 🤣

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AlexisOnren@reddit

a small cheap energy drink (im 35 next month....)

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Great-Elevator3808@reddit

Energy drink in Poundland... I'm 48 lol

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SDhampir@reddit

Lighter. But tbf I don't look my age, but still twas ridiculous 🤣

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richboyadler@reddit

buying lucozade … yes they asked for ID over a bottle of lucozade

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kingfosters@reddit

Not been ID'd but I had to ID a student for a pasta spoon and glass mixing bowl when working as home shopping delivery driver.

Stamps were also on the ID required list.

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DJT3052@reddit

Can opener in Poundland in Freshers week 2007, buying a bunch of beans and a can opener, cunt wouldn't sell me it as said it was a blade, telt him a didn't want anything then and to cancel and was pissy as fuck - why the hell would I want a bunch of cans I canny open?!? 19 years later am still raging

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navs2002@reddit

0% Prosecco

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theroch_@reddit

At the age of 36 I was id’d for pva craft glue. You should have seen the supervisors face when she got called over as I didn’t have any ID.

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Balnagask@reddit

XBox magazine cause it has an 18 demo hand in it.

I was 30!

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ImDankest@reddit

Paracetamol... I'm 28 and 6'8"...

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patrickmitchellphoto@reddit

I was ID'd at Kroger for NA beer...I'm 56.

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Writing_Bookworm@reddit

A newspaper when I was maybe 10/11. I was buying it for my Granny because she liked to do the crossword but it happened to come with a dvd of a movie that was a 15 so I was asked for ID that I obviously didn't have. Thankfully they ended up letting me get the paper so long as I left the dvd behind.

My friend also got asked for ID one when trying to buy a little handheld battery powered fan. We were 12 at the time and obviously didn't have ID but also she was told that you had to be 14 to buy it. It was weird because I had bought one the day before and no-one had said anything. So the next day I went in and bought one for my friend and again wasn't asked for ID and I had a real baby face and did not remotely look 14. So I guess that woman just did not want to sell my friend a fan

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ellieneagain@reddit

Marmalade - well not me, my ninety year old father.

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Plastic_Truth3053@reddit

A bottle of wine. I was 56

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IONIXU22@reddit

Alcohol free beer.

And I’m over 50.

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Fiercat99@reddit

Alcohol free Koppaberg, last year, im nearly 40...

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Early_Ticket_8777@reddit

Olive oil - when we said mate thats olive oil he got very embarrassed and left mid check out. Someone else has to come in.

Actually good friends with the bloke now.

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HylianPalian@reddit

A mini cheese grater

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Scrot123@reddit

Paint in B&Q. I asked if she thought I was going to have 6 pints of crown emulsion in the park.

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Forward_Athlete_3187@reddit

Christmas crackers

And Disneys beauty and the beast live action dvd

I was 30 when I bought both of them

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salmonboy5@reddit

got ID'd for a 15 at the cinema once when i was 20. of course my 15 year old brother who i was with did not.

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InstanceExcellent530@reddit

ID'd for tobacco. I was 46 at the time, wrinkly and balding.

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mdmnl@reddit

Chocolate bar with "Advocaat" cream filling.

Having said that it's apparently 2% alcohol...

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CalligrapherInner914@reddit

Superglue in poundland

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DueInitial2944@reddit

Not the stupidest, but shocking for me. I was refused vodka in LA even though I was nearly 40!

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TulipTattsyrup99@reddit

Birthday cake candles. The cashier said they were classed as fireworks. She’d obviously been to some pretty crap firework displays🤣

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Emergency_Pea_2232@reddit

Fabric dye, at aged 31.

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TheManginalorian@reddit

Party set of plastic cutlery

I was 32

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Ok_Taro7430@reddit

A 15 rated film, I am in my late 30s.

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SuddenlyDiabetes@reddit

Not me but one of our thick till staff tried to id someone for J20

I say thick because she's the same woman who asked the customer and a supervisor for help when it came up on the till saying she can only sell 2 paracetamol

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Dragon_M4st3r@reddit

I’m glad you asked, in Poundland last month I got IDd for vitamin D tablets. I thought he was taking the piss at first so laughed but then realised he was actually studying and scrutinising my face in earnest. I’m 34. He refused to sell them to me be because I haven’t needed to carry around my drviver’s licence in years.

I’m still pissed off about it to be honest. Especially considering I went back to buy them a few days later and they no longer needed to be approved. I don’t even know what dark purpose people might be buying vitamin D tablets for anyway

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Most-Tension-9635@reddit

I got IDd for matches in a petrol station, after filling up my car with petrol and paying for it.

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Background_Bug1102@reddit

Bottle of grenadine syrup. I was 45 years old.

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Novel-Structure-2359@reddit

A can of energy drink in Glasgow

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fisher_row@reddit

I was blown away that there was age verification for a bottle of non alcoholic prosecco in the supermarket. The woman in the shop couldn't get the bottle to scan correctly, no code in the system so gave it to me for nothing. Score.

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T_raltixx@reddit

Rennies

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Formal-Proposal7850@reddit

16 year olds with indigestion can tough it out! /s

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BigInfluence2166@reddit

my partner and I both walked into Tesco with a stinking cold to pick up a single pack of paracetamol... we were ID'd and refused service because we didn't have it. They also said even if only one of us had ID they still wouldn't be able to serve us in case we were buying it for the other?

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Opinion87@reddit

Silly String. Karen on the till told me you can "huff" it, which wasn't something I was aware of. She sold them to me anyway, after I pointed out that trying that would result in a mouthful of silly string- but did warn me not "huff" it.

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bent-ref@reddit

I was buying a sharpening steel from John Lewis and was id'd which isn't too weird but I was then told I had to also buy a bag because they weren't legally allowed to let me walk out the shop "openly carrying a knife".

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Flat_Development6659@reddit

At b&q the plastic wallpaper scrapers are categorised as knives. I didn't have to show ID because I'm not under 25 but the lass had to come over to self serve to approve the purchase.

You'd probably be able to kill someone with a butter knife if you were determined but I think it'd be pretty difficult with a blunt, light piece of plastic.

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WarmSpoons@reddit

That's a pretty good one. IDed for buying something that's functionally the same as the credit card you're using to pay for it, and the driving licence you probably showed as ID.

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Unable_Efficiency_98@reddit

Wanted a can of coke in a pub. Got ID’d for that. I was 25.

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DiscoDoberman@reddit

Cat laser toy.

I will add that I was wearing a very bright, clearly logo'd front and back, cat sitting business jacket.

Woman on the till didn't believe I was over 16 and thought I was gonna run out to flash some passing motorists with my clicky clicky mouse.

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DollySheep32@reddit

A pair of sewing scissors. I'm 30. M8 they're not even for me!

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Absentmined42@reddit

A pack of Rennies. I was 39 and didn’t have my ID with me.

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BlackStarDream@reddit

A kids meal. Because my sister was buying alcohol.

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EccentricDyslexic@reddit

Porn.

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TSC-99@reddit

Alcohol free beer

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Affectionate-Car-145@reddit

Grenadine

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intenseskill@reddit

During covid at 40 I got asked to pull my mask down so they could check I was old enough. It felt good

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Altruistic-Orchid157@reddit

Citric acid for winemaking.

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mierneuker@reddit

My sister was ID'd for a movie on her 18th. The movie was a 12.

I, a 14 year old (at the time), was not ID'd.

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Mysterious_County154@reddit

I got asked for ID when I tried to buy a pay as you go sim card in the corner shop a couple years back

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SpecialistGeneral794@reddit

Razor blades (lady razors) I'm Hella old

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pharmer25@reddit

24 pack of full fat Coke - cashier must have thought I was trying to buy Madri

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SquishTheNinja@reddit

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets VHS

its a PG

I was a teenager but i didn't have ID or a parent or guardian with me so they wouldn't sell it to me

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Otherwise-Eye-490@reddit

A box of chocolates. Had to be over 16. They did NOT contain any alcohol.

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CharmingSwing1366@reddit

hamilton in the west end 😂me and my friend went the other week (we’re frequent theatre goers so being asked for id we were a bit like ummmm?) out of curiosity we looked at if there were age restrictions- basically if someone is under 16 they have to be with an over 18, i get we might look young and often get the ‘challenge 25’ but at 23/24 i hope i looked over 15 😭😂 another thing was a wallpapering kit to decorate my room lol

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DrunkTalkin@reddit

A pumpkin carving kit

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The-Ginger-Lily@reddit

A red bull, whilst paying for petrol...

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CertainJudgment5045@reddit

Got ID'd for Lemsip, whilst obviously desperately full of a cold, 31, a teacher ID around my neck from the school in town and in my car.

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stormotron91@reddit

Energy drink. I was 32, obviously not 16. Lady said it's policy. I didn't have my id, so I just got a coffee instead

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mysteriousmistress66@reddit

Candy canes. Not even alcoholic ones either.

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Foodicide@reddit

I once got fired for repeatedly carding a regular customer for Fiddle Faddle. Some people have no sense of humor.

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CryptographerMore944@reddit

CBD drink

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GopnikOIi@reddit

Basic Internet usage. I've basically been permanently on a VPN because I'm not dealing with a subpar browsing experience.

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CodeToManagement@reddit

I went to buy red dead redemption 2. I was like 33.

The girl in the shop couldn’t understand she didn’t have to Id every single person for an 18+ game because she “just had the training that morning”

I also don’t look young and haven’t been carded for anything since I was about 15 lol.

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Ephemeral-lament@reddit

A videogame, it was 12+, i was 17 at the time

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No_Application_8698@reddit

Scratch cards. I was 44 at the time, a few weeks from my 45th birthday. No makeup, greying hair, wrinkles all in evidence. Made my day

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The_Outsider82@reddit

On my actual 30th birthday I got ID’d for buying a kitchen knife.

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veryblocky@reddit

I was ID’d for a palette knife. Don’t let the fact this has “knife” in the name confuse you, it’s completely blunt.

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waveform06@reddit

Tesco: Chocolate bars from Eastern Europe that have a bit of advocaat in them. So classified as alcohol

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Chegwarn@reddit

I bought a pack of tobacco from my local Sainsbury’s express then after leaving realised I neglected to buy beer. So I went back inside, waited a few minutes to be served only to be denied the sale as I didn’t have ID… By the same person who sold me the tobacco….

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pullingteeths@reddit

Christmas crackers at age 40

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Remarkable_Movie_800@reddit

Gochujang (korean chilli paste) - twice, in Morissons

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hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit

It usually contains alcohol, as an ingredient. There's not a high enough abv for it to actually require IDing, but the system probably flags it from the ingredients list.

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Alone_Improvement735@reddit

Yes, this happened to me with some vanilla extract. Even the cashier was confused.

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Chordsy@reddit

I can only assume it's because it's fermented? Idk. Weird af.

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TheCarrot007@reddit

Weird.

It's not a thing on morrisons (amazon) delivery (where I get mine). but then again ocado did not bother to ask today for gin. Amazon do always ask your year of birth (nothing more), but not on morrisons for the gochujang, seems inconsistant.

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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

Ooh, me too! I normally buy it from Tesco and it is fine, but Morrisons is special

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Remarkable_Movie_800@reddit

Such a weird one!!

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Unfair-Delivery7092@reddit

My misses got id for a cuttlery set 🤣🤣

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elhazelenby@reddit

A potato peeler. Mum sent me to Morrisons to get one for her when I was 16.

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spicyzsurviving@reddit

A multivitamin. Apparently that pharmacy can’t sell any vitamins or supplements to anyone under 16 (I was 21, but I’ll admit I didn’t look my age sometimes). But for VITAMINS??

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Mysterious_County154@reddit

I asked for ID when I tried to buy a 12 rated DVD in HMV... when I was 17

Didn't have it on me so I could not buy the DVD. I went up the road to Asda and they let me buy it no problem

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argosafe@reddit

I visit a companyy every two weeks or so. I meet the same e, ployees each time. On every occasion, I am greeted by the same receptionist. BY NAME. On every occasion they check my driving licence as I'D. Fkn stupid.

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Striking_Cell5433@reddit

Buying the cheapest cutlery knifes from asda, the forks were more dangerous!

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jesuseatsbees@reddit

A pack of false lashes, because of the tiny 1ml bottle of lash glue inside. I was about 32 at the time.

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TheSecretIsMarmite@reddit

A plastic fish slice

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acryliq@reddit

Grenadine syrup.

It’s non-alcoholic. Like, not even a “trace amount” situation, but because it’s usually used for making cocktails and is thus typically kept in proximity to the alcohol, I guess some supermarkets have it flagged on their systems as alcohol at checkout?

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StateDapper3818@reddit

i got id for paracetamol whilst wearing my ladbrokes uniform

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mel0dyssey@reddit

A pack of plastic spoons. I was 14 when I was trying to get them (for my picnic) and was refused to be served! When I asked why they said because 'you could snap them and use them to stab people' ??!? (I am from Luton so maybe that is why?) and this was in Poundland in the town center. Safe to say I was pissed off lol

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

But you could snap them and stab people at any age right ?

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turtleship_2006@reddit

I mean you could use a knife at any age but those are still age restricted

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mel0dyssey@reddit

You could snap many things and use them to stab people though, so I think suggesting that is the reason I wasn't being sold them was ridiculous. Would I also be IDed for a pack of pencils? Haha

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mel0dyssey@reddit

Yes you could. It is actually an absurd reason not to serve me

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Pretty-Experience-96@reddit

8 teaspoons in Asda.

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Blair-Witch1@reddit

Can opener

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StuPick44@reddit

Was collecting a parcel from the sorting office, bloke behind the desk was my next door neighbour who I see at least twice a day - Chatted to him for 5 mins or so, he called me by my name - I had no ID so I went home without my parcel. Glared at him for about a year. Knobhead.

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Pircster38@reddit

In Walgreens USA they ID everyone for certain products. So if you were 90 you'd still be IDd.

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TongueDemon75@reddit

Was this close to getting ID'd at Asda for whisky recently. Girl at the self scan looked at me, the till, me, the till and a 5 second stare before accepting the sale - I'm 50. Actual thing I got ID'd for was either lighters or skins from Amazon ~ covid times.

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Future-Split1304@reddit

I got a pack of caffiene pills and a monster at Tesco. The pills went through first, all fine. Then the monster flagged for age verification.

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whiskeydumplings@reddit

Christmas crackers - “it’s because of the bang”

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ClaireMadMax@reddit

Cigarettes when I was 25 😀

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Orrery-@reddit

Christmas crackers. I was 26

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BuffaloPancakes11@reddit

I was ID’d for and refused one can of deodorant when I was 17, I just wanted to smell nice

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United-Ear-2360@reddit

Drain cleaner. I was 34 at the time 😂

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OkGrapefruit7174@reddit

Two weeks ago for some painkillers (16+), I’m 25.

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LimesFruit@reddit

had the same experience, am a fair amount younger, but I do look old enough and I get served at bars without being asked for id. Absolutely wild to me.

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OkGrapefruit7174@reddit

It’s so weird, I don’t think I’ve ever been ID’d for alchohol (I do rarely drink) but paracetemol and scissors..

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SubZerox27@reddit

I got ID'd for sugar and milk, admittedly the woman at the checkout had just previously ID'd two people in front of me in the queue, so I attribute it to her being on autopilot (rather than her being thick.)

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PerkeNdencen@reddit

If they think you are 'with' someone they might ID you for their purchase.

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TentativeGosling@reddit

I got ID'd buying Schloer once, back in around 2007 (23 at the time). Not 100% sure if it was the cashiers own opinion or "computer says no" type thing, but had to get a manager over to allow me to buy it.

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whynotehhhhh@reddit

I work in retail and it is crazy but things labelled 'alcohol free' are 18+ 😂 so if that Schloer had that written anywhere on it, it was for sure a pop up on the screen or at least trained into the staff.

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Illustrious-Milk6518@reddit

Were the people in front buying sugar and milk ?

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mysterygirl487@reddit

Plastic spoons in Woolworths and then a few years later was told in a pound shop that I couldnt buy paper scissors. I asked why not and the cashier said I needed to be over 18. I pulled out my driving licence and explained that she should have asked to see my ID before presuming my age. Apparently I looked under 18 at the age of 29. Doubt I'd get told the same now!!!

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Longjumping_Mood3729@reddit

My wife got id'd for an energy drink in Tesco's, she's 29

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D3mentedG0Ose@reddit

Monster, by a fella who looked like he’d just sat his A-Levels that afternoon

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Taucher1979@reddit

I tried to rent a cd from a local library when I was about 20. The old dear at the library saw the ‘Parental Guidance’ sticker and said she is not sure she can let me have it without my parents there. I said “I’m an adult that doesn’t apply to adults” and she got a colleague to confirm she could give me the cd. I didint look like a young twenty year old I don’t think.

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berry-worm@reddit

Carb gels for exercise. On the other side of the till, I've been scanning things without looking at them and once asked someone (obviously over 18) for ID for a pizza cutter because the notification popped up on the screen

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TalkToFFFrank@reddit

Energy drink at 6am Monday in an empty Morrisons while wearing full work clothes carrying my van keys. I felt attacked.

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Epic_J2338@reddit

A dvd rated 12

I was 17 and movie was Black Panther Wakanda Forever (I had facial hair back then too)

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Top-Bet1435@reddit

I got ID'd for wanting to buy Goldeneye on VHS (rated 12) when i was 13. The woman made a big scene of it and made me go and find my mum and buy it with her permission. I think I was often the victim of people thinking "I know a 13 year old who is 6ft tall, this boy isn't 6ft tall, so he must not be 13".

I also got ID'd for a Family Guy DVD (rated 15) when I was 18. I'd driven to the store. I had my car keys.

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Jesssca@reddit

Eye lashes in TK max because the small glue in there…

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nihilistkitty@reddit

A scratch card after buying beer. I was 27 years old

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OutsideTheRain6070@reddit

A knife block. No knives, just the storage block.

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Longjumping-Equal895@reddit

I got ID for rizla once I was like wtf I have the tobacco and filters in my hand I just need paper.

Your conscious is clear my friend just sell me the damned paper

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Conscious_Lie_9266@reddit

Rice wine vinegar

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pixpix89@reddit

U film when I was in my 20s.

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BugLow7784@reddit

A 35p energy drink. I was 19/20. My boyfriend was younger than me but got served by the same person for cigarettes with no problem 🙄 lol

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wehttamman@reddit

Wooden bbq skewers. There are sharper sticks outside on the ground

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FornyHucker22@reddit

Smart price cutlery set

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bigfannyflap@reddit

When I was about 12 the cashier at morrisons wouldn't let my dad buy a bottle of wine on the weekly shop because I didn't have ID on me and he could've been buying it for me.

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irimid@reddit

A garden trowel from b+m, I was 36 at the time.

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Transasaurus-Hex@reddit

I got ID'd for Winegums.

Apparently there was computer issue that listed them as alcohol due to wine in the name. But they still ID'd me. It was a very strange interaction.

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Sarahspangles@reddit

If you buy a can of Fix8 Kombucha in our local Sainsbury’s you get ID’d. Specifically it sets the light flashing above your self checkout till, and the assistant rolls their eyes and approves your purchase of milk and a £3.95 meal deal like you’re some kind of day drinker

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ForeignWeb8992@reddit

Nappies

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su2dv@reddit

Gorillaz first album. Parental advisory. No ID. Declined.

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App1047763@reddit

Stool softener. I was 33.

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crystalballbreaker@reddit

A DVD of Ferris Bueller's Day Off in a charity shop. I'm 42.

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dinkidoo7693@reddit

I got IDd for A lotto scratch card a couple of weeks ago. Im mid 40s.

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Acceptable-World-175@reddit

'Sexy Beast' on dvd. It's a 15, I was 28.

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gillybomb101@reddit

Gochujang paste

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ThisIsAnAccount2306@reddit

Only one which struck me as silly was 0% alcohol beer in a supermarket. I imagine they just have the whole department set up to trigger a check.

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Mog_X34@reddit

That's right - the zero alcohol beer & wine is in the same category as the real stuff.

Same for why you might get checked if you buy spoons, as they are in the cutlery category. The buyers can flag those sort of items as exceptions, but they usually don't bother.

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ManIsready@reddit

Rizzlers, when I was like 21 too, and I was working out loads at the time and am 6ft1 so definitely didn't look 16 or younger, asked me for ID and I was just like "You're joking of course" He wasn't, he just refused to sell them to me

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ManIsready@reddit

Rizzlers, when I was like 21 too, and I was working out loads at the time and am 6ft1 so definitely didn't look 16 or younger, asked me for ID and I was just like "You're joking of course" He wasn't, he just refused to sell them to me

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All-Hail-The-Ale@reddit

Not me, but the wife got id'd for Christmas Crackers 🤣

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Dalarielus@reddit

Simple syrup at Sainsbury's - it's literally sugar in water.

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trevord92@reddit

Teaspoons

In Argos - because they're cutlery which could potentially include knives

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ClimbsNFlysThings@reddit

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Deep_Pepper_5405@reddit

yea, one subreddit about coctails wanted me to send a photo of my ID. WTF?

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ThatNiceDrShipman@reddit

I got carded for the Sober subreddit, which makes no sense whatsoever

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Chris-TT@reddit

If it was "CocTails" rather than Cocktails, perhaps they were checking if you were young enough 👀😬

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BigMasterDingDong@reddit

Damn you beat me to it

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PotatoPeeler58@reddit

Sir, you win.

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az22hctac@reddit

Apple wants me to verify my age. I’m using the same Apple ID for about 20 years now so surely it’s safe to assume I’m over 18!

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FloofyRaptor@reddit

A copy of Edward Scissorhands on DVD. It's a 12, I was around 23 or 24 at the time.

We weren't IDed but a cashier in Asda once refused to sell us a bottle of wine because my friend had her kids with her and "we might have been buying it for them". The kids were 3 and 5.

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turtleship_2006@reddit

My dad was ID'd buying a copy of GTA from Argos

He was mid 40s at the time

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FluffofDoom@reddit

My husband, aged about 35, got IDd for a 12 rated film. I get that they have to do think 25 and all that and he is pretty short but he had a full beard and a 5 year old in tow. He didn't have ID so we didn't get the film.

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Reasonable-Key9235@reddit

Oh, went into a Tesco quite late in the evening to buy a bottle of JD. Got to the till and was asked for ID. I was 55 with a grey beard. I looked 55 ffs.

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EveryChemistry9163@reddit

Substack.

And buying a 12-pack of Red Bull at Sainsbo’s.

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kernowgringo@reddit

One of those Purdeys drinks

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craftyorca135@reddit

Ginger beer. The woman was foreign, english wasn't very good. She just kept running her finger across the word beer and saying 'no' at me, over and over. I couldn't beleive it, the queue was laughing (Which I did kinda feel bad about) I did try to explain ginger beer wasn't alchoholic, and she was reading the back, but obviously not understanding it at all. I just showed her my ID, and she let me buy it.

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Extreme-Kangaroo-842@reddit

Many years ago I had to explain this to my wife, a born and bred brit, when I picked up a bottle of ginger beer after a particularly heavy night out.

"Didn't you have enough last night?"

So I ask her permission every time I fancy some when we go shopping now, and her face drops, much to my amusement.

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_Nagashii@reddit

Colour Catcher sheets in Dunelm a few years ago, for some reason

i was stuck at the till for like half an hour because i didn’t have ID but needed the sheets

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Reasonable-Key9235@reddit

Walking. Copper took a dislike to me, stopped me, searched me and even radioed in for an ID check. Finally got away from him, got stopped 300 yards down the road and had to go through it all over again. They didn’t like me much back in the late 70’s early 80’s lol

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Silly-Industry1527@reddit

Non-alcoholic grenadine.

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OneSufficientFace@reddit

Im 6'2", i have a very deep voice, i have a full blown beard and mustache, tattoos. I am very very clearly in my 30's. I got ID'd for a monster energy....

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space_coyote_86@reddit

I got ID'd at the cinema to see Paul (the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost film about the alien)

I was 19/20 and the film is rated 15.

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Hulkenberk@reddit

Fentiman's curiosity cola, it's a soft drink but has a very low (<0.5%) trace alcohol content due to the botanical brewing process

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Ok_Aioli3897@reddit

It's challenge 25 now for those things so it's not stupid

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

I didn’t know a shovel had a legal age restriction on. I’ve just googled and it said it didn’t ?

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carlitobrigantes@reddit

it might be up to a particular store/company’s discretion, for example i’m 99% sure energy drinks aren’t actually illegal for under 16s but most shops will still have a voluntary ban in place

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DameKumquat@reddit

Correct, and there's always staff who weren't listening during training and then decide to err on the safe side.

My 14yo was refused a coffee drink in a petrol station recently. She was particularly miffed because it was a decaf one. I chatted to the manager later and he confirmed it wasn't policy.

I've never been IDd for age in the UK - I looked haggard from a PhD when Think 21/25 first came in.

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turtleship_2006@reddit

Most supermarkets will specifically flag up any age restricted items, and say what the age is, so staff shouldn't need to play guessing games with what is and isn't restricted

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Prudent-Pressure2146@reddit

It’s been challenge 25 for years I think

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-Gadaffi-Duck-@reddit

Am energy drink after they'd just served my daughter for the same thing without asking her for ID.

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flowers2107@reddit

Whiskey chocolates. They have maybe a drop of alcohol in them. I was 30 years old.

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90210fred@reddit

My free NHS script for over sixty: it actually has my DoB on the piece of paper

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Random_Guy_47@reddit

Maybe they asked because they needed the photo to verify you're the right person rather than to verify your age?

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Pyjama365@reddit

Always just done by name and address and verbal DoB in my experience - so that relatives/friends/carers can pick up scripts on behalf of those less mobile or too ill to leave home, or just for convenience.

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chemhobby@reddit

unless it's controlled drugs

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lithaborn@reddit

I'm far too old to be carded but being age checked for zero alcohol booze and shandy soft drinks is just idiotic.

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TheCarrot007@reddit

And not required. They just flag them at head office and staff have to follow orders. Never happens in a independant.

Go to a chain, expect this.

One day head office will learn there is more alcohol in a banana and add them too.

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lithaborn@reddit

Don't give them ideas!

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keklol69@reddit

Energy drink, at a petrol station, after just filling up my car (the only car there), at 3am. I have a full beard.

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dukeofplazatoro@reddit

Cold and flu tablets. I was also buying snacks, tissues and about a gallon of orange juice. I was visibly unwell. Bloke kept going on about challenge 25, even if it’s products you have to be 16 to buy. I was 35 at the time.

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-Po-Tay-Toes-@reddit

Madagascar on DVD when I was like 13

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GuiltyCredit@reddit

Plastic cutlery for my baby...

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

Matches when I was a young teen so didn’t have ID. I was older than 12 but couldn’t prove it

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ItGetsEverywhere1990@reddit

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on Blu Ray

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Lumpy_Benefit666@reddit

I went to b&q to buy some wood glue and 6” screws because i was building a wooden workbench for my projects.

I got asked for id but didnt have any so said “ah ill leave the screws and grab the glue then”.

They said “you can have the screws, its the glue you need id for”.

They let me buy screws which could be a pretty nasty weapon in the wrong hands, but wouldnt let me buy wood glue in fear of me huffing it. You cant even fucking huff wood glue, its pretty much the same shit as pva.

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No_Watercress8123@reddit

A garden hoe.

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octobod@reddit

Hot melt glue gun glue sticks

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No_Whereas_5203@reddit

Got ID'd for a DVD with the age rating of a 12 year old. I was in my 20s

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vikatoyah@reddit

Using my own iPhone.

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OptimalPaddy@reddit

A packet of Rizzlas at Alton Towers on my 25th birthday. That was over 10 years ago

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Crochet-panther@reddit

Until last week my answer would have been a dvd of the PG film Piglets Big Movie, bought when I was about 20 as a gift. However ASDA self checkouts beat that last week when they insisted that I must be IDd for a box of original red coloured lindor truffles. Even the staff member was confused by that one.

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DrachenDad@reddit

Smokes a few years ago at Asda, nevermind she asked me a couple weeks before, and before that. I was 30 something with a child. I'm nearly 40 FFS!

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International-Wear57@reddit

Press on nails.

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Initial_Statement317@reddit

Petrol

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Affectionate_Tap_631@reddit

Non alcoholic beer 🤷‍♂️

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Busy_Entertainment40@reddit

Petrol

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RipsnRaw@reddit

A wooden cutlery holder (like one that you put in a drawer to separate things). There were no knives included, it was essentially just a wooden box.

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doraisexploring27@reddit

Alcohol-free Prosecco

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Damage2Damage@reddit

"Star Fox 64 3D" for the Nintendo 3DS

I was in my 20s, the game was rated PEGI 7

Also this was when PEGI ratings were recommendations rather than legal minimums

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Cool_Doubt2152@reddit

WD40 😆 I’m 31!

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CraigTheBrewer12@reddit

I went to a petrol station to fill up, left my wallet at home as I usually pay via the app and I was going purely to the petrol station and then home.

For whatever reason the app wouldn’t load so I went in to pay and grabbed an energy drink at the same time. Was asked for ID due to the energy drink, which I didn’t have on me so she refused to sell me the drink, still served me for the petrol though stating “well I saw you drive in so you must be old enough to drive, so I don’t need ID for that.” The logic baffles.

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XenoCraigMorph@reddit

Ginger Beer. Old Jamaica Ginger Beer...

The lady at the till did not believe me when I said that is is an alcohol free soft drink.

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axeman020@reddit

Cigarettes... Whilst buying petrol.

Think about it. Take all the time you need...

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awakenkraken@reddit

Petrol. Filled up my car, went in the pay, told I needed to be 18 and to next time let my parents do it. I was 26 at the time.

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AreaMiserable9187@reddit

A lottery ticket when I was 25. It wasn't even for me!

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HooverBeingAMan@reddit

Oh that reminds me of the time I cashed in a winning scratch card and was ID'd when I tried to use my winnings to buy another one. Just got a blank look when I questioned whether they should have asked me before giving me the fruits of my potentially illegal gambling.

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IndividualCurious322@reddit

Wallpaper scraper at Wilkinsons (before it closed). I was 25 at the time and the lady at the till was convinced I was 15 and didn't think my ID was legitimate.

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MingePies@reddit

Bonjela, at Morrisons. This was a while ago. I was over 18 but I did look young for my age in all fairness, but what nefarious purposes are they expecting me to use it for?

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Active-Strawberry-37@reddit

Plastic spoon. Apparently there’s an age limit on cutlery.

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Mammoth-Passion-413@reddit

Minstrels!

I kid you not. I am 70!

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Odd_Championship7286@reddit

A family size tiramisu. I wonder how likely I would be to die of overeating before I got a buzz from alcohol content.

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Less_Instruction_345@reddit

Glow sticks

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thebittertruth96@reddit

Im 28 and get ID'd for energy drinks in my local one stop every single time I go, which I've been going to a few times a week since I moved here (7 months now)

The woman who always asks me must have memory issues I guess

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beefboxer84@reddit

Rizzla papers when I was in my early 20’s.

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Final_Flounder9849@reddit

A fork. Just a single fork. An ordinary fork.

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KLAE-Resource@reddit

Amazon insisting you show ID when non-alcoholic gin gets delivered...

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BellendBuilder@reddit

The Daily Sport when that was a thing.

Stupid as I didn’t get ID’d for the Redbull I also purchased then realised I’d forgotten the old boys paper so went back for it.

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thingymajigg_@reddit

I got ID'd for an Amazon order... For icing piping nozzles.

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HooverBeingAMan@reddit

Amazon are weird, the last time I bought batteries, they censored the product from the email header "for my privacy". Can't have anyone looking over my shoulder and knowing that my DVD remote wasn't working anymore!

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Local_Beautiful3303@reddit

Noughty Sparkling Chardonnay, one of the few absolute 0 alcohol alternatives

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CrocodileJock@reddit

Alcohol free beer.

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Love_Aurora6997@reddit

Cashing in a scratch card

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Leeroywildman@reddit

Got I.D’d in b&m for garden twine. 🤷

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Ok_Direction_3372@reddit

Oven cleaner

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newtonbase@reddit

I was ID'd for a lottery ticket when I was 29. This is before Challenge 25 existed.

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sneakylithops@reddit

Plastic scissors for toddlers. The packet said age 2+ and I had to get my partner to buy them.

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Dangerous_Pepper1024@reddit

Non alcoholic beer and tea spoons are probably the stupidest I've had personally. my nephew who was 15 at the time and nearly 6 foot tallgot was refused a 3+ Xbox game because he didn't have ID on him

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gaspoweredcat@reddit

teaspoons, the only other things i was buying were yogurt and milk (id just moved, that was the parts of breakfast i didnt have and spoons because i couldnt be bothered digging them out) apparently i didnt look 18 at like 33 and you need id for spoons??

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Binty_B@reddit

Calpol

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Lynex_Lineker_Smith@reddit

Two bottles of Purdeys at the age of 40 something

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HooverBeingAMan@reddit

Bottle of Gaviscon, which wasn't even for me. Had to traipse home and apologise to my mum that as I couldn't prove I was over 16, she'd just have to suffer for longer and go and get it herself.

I was also ID'd when I tried to buy Grenadine once "because it's in the same aisle as the alcohol". So was the Appletiser and Tonic Water, but apparently that was different.
Then they said grenadine is used in cocktails. I said so is orange juice, but apparently that was different too.

Oh, and teaspoons, because they're cutlery, and so are knives, so you need ID for both??

I almost miss going to the checkout and wondering what erroneous product I need permission to buy that day.

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Rinlow05@reddit

Chocolate containing alcohol

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Tall-Nectarine-5982@reddit

Cutlery in Dunelm at 31. I’m male, had my 6 and 5 year old with me, and most importantly I have not aged well. Glad the teenager got his power trip out of it though, nice to make someone’s day.

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Candy_Lawn@reddit

A beer while I was in Idianapolis - I was 51 !!

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SeverusSnape__@reddit

I was 17. It was payday. I lived a 2 minute walk from my job at Morrisons. I had a shift at 2pm that day, but payday money was burning a hole in my pocket. So I took a stroll down to Morrisons to check the entertainment section and grab some snacks.

I see Ace Ventura: Pet Detective on sale, so i take it to the entertainment counter and pay for it, no problem. Bearing in mind this film is a 15.

On my way to pay for my snacks, I see Thunderpants for sale, a PG film. It was sealed which meant I could buy it at a normal checkout, so i pick it up and walk to the checkouts.

Lady serving me, turns to me and says... "I think you need to be 12 to buy this" as she holds up the Thunderpants dvd.

I have to take a moment to process what she said, before I reply "but im 17, I work here!"

"You do?!" She responds.

"Yeah, on the salad bar".

She proceeds to sell me the dvd and when I come in for my shift later that day, I see her on my to clocking in "oh, I remember you!" She says to me.

Such a bizarre experience.

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acorn222@reddit

A tyre repair kit in B&Q!

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LazyEmu5073@reddit

B&Q ID'd me for PVA glue. I mean, it's even safe for kids to use!

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Bennjoon@reddit

Got ID’d for a lottery ticket I was thirty.

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UnderstandingKey5065@reddit

Paracetamol box at Costco. I was with my grownup kids

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morbidcuriosity123@reddit

Knife fork and spoon set in asda. And in a odd job shop some white spirit. I was about 30, had paint on my hands, paint on the shirt, clearly I had been painting, and an adult..

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Icy-Belt-8519@reddit

Calpol, while standing there with my child crying cause he has sudden ear ache so we were out, I was 32

Energy drinks

First aid kit

Energy drinks

Drives me nuts

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an1uk@reddit

A pallette knife in Sainsbury's, cutlery knives in Morrisons. I'm guessing basically anything with "knife" in the name is automatically checked.

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Curious_Peter@reddit

Energy drink......(I'm 50+)

Tbf I think it was MC by the staff as they said sorry have to ask everyone 🤷‍♂️

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Accomplished-Salt797@reddit

Redbul, I'm 35

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Bumpyslide@reddit

Silly string many moons ago

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acidic_tab@reddit

I got ID'd for paracetamol, which while inconvenient would typically make some sense (despite not looking anywhere near 18 years old), however this immediately after picking up my prescription medications at the pharmacy which I wasn't ID'd for (same till, same server, with the transaction immediately after my initial transaction). My prescription included a large quantity of strong opioids, and more opioids mixed with paracetamol. I understand why checks exist, but surely in this instance it's redundant? Either check for both, or check neither.

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Arcendiss@reddit

Going shopping with my daughter at a festival.

She bought a bottle of Amaretto for her for the weekend, they ID her, yup sure she was 20 or 21 at the time.

"Because you're with her, sir, I need to see yours as well"....

I ... I was old enough to have a 20 year old daughter!

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Runfromdogs@reddit

Beer…. But with my 6 your old brother.

It was the height of summer - I had a 10 pack of beer and him an ice cream.. couldn’t get the beer as I was purchasing with a minor with me… according to the Karen. The minor was clearly a sibling and well under age. He was 6 at the time:

In the end, they banned me from the store for 24hours (refusal of service) so I told my brother to open the ice cream and eat it.

They said am I not going to pay for the ice cream… I said no, I’m not allowed to be served 🤣 and walked out.

It’s a local Tesco petrol station, which I use all the time and the counter lad still laughs about it now

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

This happened to my mum when she was in her 40s and I was a kid and she was getting food shopping and a bottle of wine and the shop assistant accused her of drinking around the corner with young children

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PuzzleMeDo@reddit

A palette knife. A blunt plastic thing for distributing plaster, but it had the word 'knife' in it so someone had to verify my age.

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simplespell27@reddit

It made me laugh the other day when I had to prove I was old enough to buy my daughter infant calpol

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mgs20000@reddit

Zero alcohol Prosecco and blue cheese

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samiDEE1@reddit

Dust sheets for decorating

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TheNinjaPixie@reddit

Whiskey marmalade

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Pristine-Sherbert560@reddit

Carrier bag in Asda

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stripeyfox2015@reddit

The local shop refused to serve my son some AA batteries which he needed for his Xbox controller. He is 15!

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Strong-Librarian-OOK@reddit

A picnic bag. It had cutlery in

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dundops@reddit

6 1970s coffee spoons from eBay. I was astounded when the delivery driver asked for ID. I'm 62!

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Haunting_Home3007@reddit

Paracetamol in Asda i was 33 it was during Covid and apparently in a mask I could of been 15🤦🏼‍♀️

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Nevernonethewiser@reddit

Non alcoholic beer.

On the self service checkout, no less, so the system knows what product it is. Not like it can mistake it for anything else.

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Electronic_Cover3522@reddit

When I was a heavily pregnant 37 year old I had to prove my age for a packet of plastic cutlery 🙃

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Snoodini@reddit

I was beind a woman at the checkout who was IDd for red wine vinegar. She didn't have ID with her but clearly looked to be in her 30s

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CharieRarie@reddit

I got ID’d trying to buy calpol! I was in my early twenties, toddler and baby with me and a trolley full of boring family shopping, which included a bottle of calpol. I didn’t have any ID with me, so I wasn’t allowed to buy it. I suppose it was kind of flattering?!

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Delicious_Bet_6336@reddit

FHM back in the day.

ID wasn’t even a thing for it AFAIK

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qbnaith@reddit

A red bull. For which there is no age restriction, although some supermarkets require you to be over 16. I was 34.

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priortothen@reddit

a canned matcha latte at WHSmiths.

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FleanNCresh@reddit

Christmas crackers!

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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

Superglue

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Tomb_Brader@reddit

Iron Bru

They thought it was an Alcopop

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

Buying grenadine

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magicians_Hat2021@reddit

nail polish

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Yuniseis1@reddit

Paul, the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost alien film, was helping my mum out picking up a weekly shop for her, saw the film reduce and thought I'd grab it, got to the till and was I.D'd for it, it's a 15 and at the time I was 19.. I didn't have I.D on me but had other things that could clearly prove I was over 15, a 18-21 bus pass, a blood donor card etc. After refusing all of them I told the person have fun putting this weekly shop back and I walked out. Then came back did the weekly shop again and left, petty but I think it was justified

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wishuponareddwarf@reddit

My teen kid was recently IDd to buy headphones, so she couldn’t get them, cos she’s 16. Baffled tbh

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

See this is the stuff I mean, when have headphones ever been age restricted

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notspringsomnia@reddit

When I was 20 I got ID’d to see The Favourite at the cinema and wouldn’t be let in unless I presented ID. The last time I’ve been ID’d at a public venue and it still infuriates me lol

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Lassitude1001@reddit

For what it's worth, at 25 you're literally in the "think 25" guidelines so that's not stupid in the slightest.

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

I don’t think it’s stupid for alcohol, vapes, knives whatever but for a shovel ?? I googled and there’s no legal age requirement to buy a shovel

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Lassitude1001@reddit

The shovel will be because it's been put on the same category as things like scissors and knives.

The check 25 I referred to was about the energy drinks & tablets though. You need to be 16 for them, but they're still on the check 25 policy.

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Captain_Piccolo@reddit

That’s store policy though, not the law. There’s nothing in law restricting the sale of energy drinks or tablets.

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

Yeah I didn’t think that part was stupid, I just had to write more stuff or they wouldn’t let me submit the post. It was more bragging rights that I still look 16

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EcstaticAd9234@reddit

Biscuits that had about 0.0006l of Bailey's in them

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Careless-Cooker@reddit

A Television!

Back in the day (I don't think it's a thing anymore), the TV licensing Gestapo made retailers capture your details for TV licensing menacing.

Unfortunately, I didn't have any, and couldn't remember my own details very well, either. The retailer was more interested in a sale.

The last TV I bought, only this year, was completely hassle free.

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Disastrous_Let7964@reddit

I feel like getting ID'd for a Monster is pretty stupid, though looking at the comments here mine is definitely on the lesser side LOL

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BorderCollieDog@reddit

A bike tyre repair kit from Poundland when I was 26.

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antimathematician@reddit

My click and collect shop at Sainsbury’s! Nothing age restricted in it, just have to be 18 for it. I was like “I drove here, what are the odds I’m a 17 year old with a license and a car doing a full food shop?”

They accepted a photo thank god. Have also bought alcohol in click and collect and not been IDed?

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smg658@reddit

Was just ID'd for a sewing kit in home bargains.

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Subaruchick99@reddit

On my fourth date, with my now partner, we were in the supermarket buying some booze, and I got carded at 42 (he was 40).

I was delighted :-)

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se43@reddit

I was ID'd for a basic cutlery set recently. Not been ID'd for absolutely ages for alcohol etc. as I'm 30 so mostly don't carry it anymore. Was at the manned checkout and he wouldn't budge was like really. Just walked straight back in after paying for rest of shopping and went to self checkout instead and walked back out with it no issues.

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Suspicious-Rub8976@reddit

Profiteroles, good luck to anyone trying to get drunk from profiteroles

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horridbloke@reddit

A bottle of wine about 3 months before my 40th birthday.

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togtogtog@reddit

I don't think I've ever been ID'd in my life, even when I was underage in pubs. It must be all the wrinkles and my massive beard (I am a woman).

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hoody13@reddit

A can of Red Bull. I was 36 at the time.

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Fine-State8014@reddit

A potato peeler in the co op. I was about 30 at the time.

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Captain_Piccolo@reddit

A potato peeler. I was 18 getting stuff before going to uni and Ikea’s system classed it as a “knife”. I had ID, but they still wouldn’t sell me as IKEA have set their own higher age limit of 21 for knives.

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Helpful-Secretary-91@reddit

Alcohol free beer at the automated supermarket tills (UK). Why?!

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JGEARZ@reddit

I got ID for a bottle of Mountain Dew when I was 18. I did look really young in my youth but still gives me a chuckle when I remember it

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Hazzadcr16@reddit

I got ID'd for eggs last year.

Admittedly it was the day before Halloween, so maybe something to do with it, but I'm also in my mid 30's.

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Nearby_Cauliflowers@reddit

Christmas crackers. I'm late 30s.

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ArgosBucephalus@reddit

A can of G&T. I was 35 at the time. 🙄 I gave her the only ID I had on me but it had just expired so she wouldn’t accept it. I told her the ID may be expired but my DOB hasn’t! I ended up getting served by the manager.

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D0wnb0at@reddit

Petrol, when I drove up in a car, filled the tank and went to pay.

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QuiteFrankE@reddit

I saw a frail old man get ID’d for a garden rake and because he didn’t have ID, they refused him and he had to leave without it.

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John-Mulaneys-Wife@reddit

Nail varnish remover

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Prestigious_Emu6039@reddit

My wife likes to wear just her feet and all the supermarkets know her and make sure to check she has footwear :p

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BoysenberryTiny8138@reddit

They had none of the lubricant in the car section so I bought normal water based lube from the sexual wellbeing section - got asked for an ID and I’m out with gold rings, nose piercing, ears pierced, car keys in my hand, goatee and a product that has a security tag which cost £1, insane some people lol.

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PamVanDam@reddit

A 15 movie when I was 23 and with my boyfriend (24) who had his ID with him. As I didn’t have mine (who does for an 11am screening? Or the cinema in general?! ) so I wasn’t allowed in.

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Blood_Brothers@reddit

I remember going to big Tesco on my lunch break and bought the 1990s IT miniseries, rated 15. It set the age rating thing off, and when the lady came over, she genuinely insisted I show her my I.D.

Mind you, I'm 6ft 3, and was about 25 at the time.

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liverpoolfuckingsuck@reddit

Cashier refused to sell my ma a lotto ticket as I was with her, I was 16 at the time. Apparently my ma could have being buying it for me and I couldn’t prove I was 16.

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mollyangel69@reddit

Mcdonalds Monopoly

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SuccotashStandard135@reddit

You're 25, then then they're doing their job. Challenge 25.

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Ill_Ad_791@reddit

Rum cake at a coffee shop

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Viola_m@reddit

One can of white pray paint. Was getting some to mark parking spaces for takeaway drivers during COVID times. I was in my late 20s at that time. 🤣

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truckosaurus_UK@reddit

Cutlery set (ie. basic knifes and forks to eat your dinner with).

Back in the day Tesco marked the 'lad mags' like Nuts, Zoo and FHM as 'adult only' and they needed ID.

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NotAProperAccount3@reddit

From experience they are great tools for murdering people and hiding their bodies, very versatile pieces of kit.

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Brave_Weekend9049@reddit

Cheese grater

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call092@reddit

Years ago i actually got told i needed to be 18 to buy littebigplanet in GAME😂 i think i was about 16 or 17.

I was telling the guy its a kids game, i dont even think it had a age rating but he wasnt having it.

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ProperChopperGAF@reddit

I used to run a pub. I once got ID'd buying booze for my pub.

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Moppo_@reddit

A PG movie DVD. I was in my 20s.

That's not how that works.

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Stinkinhippy@reddit

Pepsi max.

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Pixiebel81@reddit

OTC pessaries for a bacterial infection

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Either-Equivalent314@reddit

monster zero

didn't even bother trying to explain why it is the same as buying apple juice and just laughed

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Dusty_Miss_Havisham@reddit

hayfever meds. and i was mid-30s at the time but the cashier was so surprised it flagged they must have forgot to look up

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Hello_Panda99@reddit

Cosmo magazine

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Succulent_masc36@reddit

Non-alcoholic cordial

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MainGeneral4813@reddit

Getting ID'd for a can of Monster is quite upsetting at 40

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DivasDayOff@reddit

I got ID checked buying a bottle of Prosecco a few years ago. I was 49 at the time.

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Rasty_lv@reddit

glue stick in whsmith. Fork and spoon set in asda. all in my 20s. Porn - 20min ago..

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DiskBytes@reddit

A bottle of car shampoo. Even the cashier thought it was odd that the system flagged it up.

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Admirable-Garden189@reddit

Jack Daniels BBQ sauce. I get it says jack Daniels on it but It has 0% abv

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Deep_Pepper_5405@reddit

Once at Gatwick I gave my passport at the check-in desk. I was assigned to exit row and he asked if I was over 15 yo. He had my passport in his hand and my 28yo face infront of him.

I was id's last month at the shop buying a cider. At the tender age of 36. I was very happy.

I wanted to buy the Chapagne Magnum ice cream but couldn't cause I didn't have ID with me. I was well over 20yo and it had 0.5% alcohol.

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LJ161@reddit

Grenadine. Im 35.

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vextedkitten@reddit

I was asked for ID in the range when i was 39, this was when we had to wear masks in public. I Cant remember what i was buying but i did have grey hair at the time so not very young looking at all. I told the cashier i was flattered and she responded i have young eyes!

Once my daughter wanted to buy a can of Irn Bru in poundland with her pocket money, the cashier stated she couldnt serve her as it was age restricted. I took the can and bought it for her

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qqqqtip@reddit

i got ID’d to watch an age 15 film the other week. i’m 22

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witchestoscarebairns@reddit

Sudafed at Asda. I know it's got stuff in it that you can use to make other stuff, but given the fact I'd also bought tissues, cough mixture lozenges and looked like I'd just been punched in the face by a professional boxer, it felt like overkill.

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Proud-Stand-2841@reddit

Plasters at Asda! Wtf 🤦🏻‍♀️

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freyavulpine@reddit

It's almost like there's a list of those exact items that require you to show ID if you look under.. oh yeah, the exact age you are now, otherwise the shop could risk losing its licence. Pretty stupid, yeah?

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RowItchy260@reddit (OP)

Yeah I understand knives, alcohol etc but a shovel ?? I’ve just googled and there’s no legal requirement for a shovel to be age restricted ?

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No_Art_1977@reddit

Party poppers

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UnhappyCow0@reddit

A trowel and wallpaper scraper believe it or not.

Didn’t have my ID on me so I couldn’t have it. Apparently too sharp on the end.

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ShiteCrack@reddit

I got ID’d for 6 cans of been, fair enough - felt like a compliment, hadn’t happened in years. He then proceeded to say ‘sorry mate you can’t buy those either’ whilst pointing at my wooden knife & fork set… Strange convo with wife when I got back into car having to send her in for them and saying ‘don’t let the 20yo fella with long black hair see you as he will know your buying for me’. I was 27ish at the time.

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