This hurts. | TheaterFire

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PistolGrace@reddit

My son just turned 18 this month. Yes, it really hurts.

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DrewBaron80@reddit

I have enough gray in my beard and my hair that I only get carded when they absolutely have to like at the grocery store.

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

And here I thought we were the why bother... don't give a shit generation. So why is getting old such a big deal for so many.

Rub some dirt in it! Stop crying about aging or I'll give you something to cry about. It's 11:40pm; do your children know where their chidren are?

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I think most of us are less concerned about getting old and more concerned that time seems to be folding in on itself. A year used to be a long time. Now it seems like if you sneeze you'll miss a decade.

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

I don't understand why people say that. I definitely don't feel like a decade was last week. It feels more like it was a lifetime ago.

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iminthemoodforlug@reddit

Ah yes, the year I turned 21.

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JunkHead1979@reddit

The other day I went to Walmart. Self check out aisle. Bought a case of beer. The girl came over to check my id. Prompt on screen says "is person under 40?" She immediately clicked "no" and walked off. I thanked her. This was the first time in many months that they haven't carded me.

I thought it was funny.

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timezombies@reddit

😣 I was graduating college 🤦‍♀️

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MyBestCuratedLife@reddit

This should come w a NSFW flair!

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SilverAsparagus2985@reddit

lol my youngest is an 05 baby. She’s turning 21 in a few months. It’s like a right of passage to go to the winery with her mom.

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Paradise5551@reddit

In Alberta it's today's date in 08

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DHammer79@reddit

07 for Ontario

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BeeBeeDrinkDrink@reddit

Oh how I loved crossing over to Canada as a 19 year old New Yorker.

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bluemitersaw@reddit

I'm in Michigan but same.

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snarkwithfae@reddit

Yeah :( my kid turns 21 in June.

Just turned 41 last month 😭😭

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nelmski@reddit

But but but

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Professional_Hall233@reddit

Ugh yeah, my oldest was born in 2005. He’s a month away from the big 2-1.

What a life.

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PIG20@reddit

To think my daughter can legally purchase alcohol this coming October is wild.

Not super crazy considering how easy it's been for her to get a fake ID and into bars for the last year and a half though....

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brainvheart143@reddit

It hurts that i don’t even kind of get carded anymore. Like only the places that absolutely belligerently card EVERYONE.

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juniper3411@reddit

Yup! I’m always like you have to card everyone don’t you when that happens.

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PolarXnl@reddit

It hurts more when you have a 21 year old kid that can purchase alcohol anywhere. 😂

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juniper3411@reddit

Almost there myself. My daughter will be able to drink legally in September! Eek!

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

On the day I became old enough to legally purchase alcohol, someone who was as old as I am now was born in 1959.

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juniper3411@reddit

Oh jeeeeeesus. This hurts.

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OAKandTerlinden@reddit

You shut your hell mouth

You shut it right now

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

Stop it.

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

...that hypothetical person, in my case, would have been born a few weeks after World War II ended.

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wiserTyou@reddit

I really would have been fine not knowing this.

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

For a Xennial born in 1977, on the day they became old enough to legally purchase alcohol, someone who was as old as they are now was born in 1949.

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

My birth is closer to the 1939 World's Fair than it is to today haha

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wiserTyou@reddit

Phew. I'm '83 so not that old yet.

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CarmenxXxWaldo@reddit

On the day I became old enough to legally drink, someone was born who is now old enough to drink and would have been drink before now as I was born.

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GreaserGreg@reddit

Damn son

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brainvheart143@reddit

That’s just diabolical math right there

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juniper3411@reddit

Tell me about it. My daughter is about to turn 21! Although not gonna lie it’s helping me card people easier lately cause I know for certain the cut off for drinking is 2005 haha (my adhd ass and mental math…bad combo).

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PaperBeneficial@reddit

I refuse to believe this.

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Nomadzord@reddit

I actually noticed this today while buying my booze. I was flabbergasted!

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Bruh.

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NearbyPerspective397@reddit

I was confused by this until I remembered how old you have to be drink in the USA. I was working in bars at eighteen.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Nah. What hurt is when they took my fake ID 3 months before I turned 21. I was already in the life! Didn’t know what to do on weekends (okay also many weekdays)

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Ok-Brick6831@reddit

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wheatgivesmeshits@reddit

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JaxxisR@reddit

My ability to drink legally can drink legally.

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Emannuelle-in-space@reddit

Yeah the day I realized that was the day my midlife crisis began

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illinoishokie@reddit

Soon your ability to drink legally will be too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Norse_By_North_West@reddit

I'm not American, so my ability to drink is 30 years old quite soon. Well outside Leo's age range.

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jacksonmills@reddit

Why did you have to do us all like that dawg

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crazycatlady331@reddit

Mine came in 2001. I think it's pushing it.

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tellmywifiloveher1@reddit

I turned 21 in 2004...I am become elderly, rememberer of the good old days.

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

My youngest child will be of legal drinking age in a couple of months.

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Procrasturbating@reddit

My Reddit account is approaching adulthood. Can already get a driver's licence in many places.

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A_Bad_Man@reddit

Same here and I was a lurker for a while before signing on. Time flies when you're procrasturbating.

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Metamorphica_0226@reddit

As will mine in a few months time

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

So can my 2005 truck, with a build-sticker date in April 2005. And believe me, it drinks the oil! 😆

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Left_Maize816@reddit

Wait, they’re only selling to people under 21?

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

Wait.. what?

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Left_Maize816@reddit

It says anyone born after 2005 may not buy or consume alcohol

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erindizmo@reddit

Yeah. Anyone born after 2005 would mean, for instance... someone born two weeks ago. That two week old infant may not buy or consume alcohol.

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

Okay, I see now.

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Left_Maize816@reddit

Well that’s embarrassing. Confidently incorrect strikes again

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

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Significant-Rush-129@reddit

Oh! I got carded recently! I have to share, I feel so proud! The Botox is totes worth it. ❤️

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blasto2236@reddit

Over the holidays I was working part time at a liquor store and a dude came in and showed me his ID.

I felt old as fuck because I used to buy weed from his mom when I was in high school. She stopped selling because she got pregnant with him and it wasn’t worth the risk anymore. I saw him as a baby.

The fact that baby is now old enough to drink made me feel very old.

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ThanksALotBud@reddit

Luckily im not a "drinker" I dont have liquor in my house nor do I drink any hard stuff. Occasionally I'll drink beer or wine when I go out social with dinner. I definitely dont go to bars.

That being said, my first job was working in a liquor store in NYC at ripe age of 16 until I was 18. Making good old $5.50 per hr cash. And the owner had zero issues with me purchasing liquor for my parents "friends".

Luckily my mom was a bank teller and the owner of the liquor store would frequent the bank often, so she aske if she had a position for me avaliable and luckily she did. If any officials would ask, I was a friend of a family helping out. My main job was stocking shelves and doing the lotto & scratch offs. So I would get lotto tickets for my "parents" too lol

Once in a while when it got busy and lotto was closed, I would help out at the register and it was weird checking ID as a 16 year old lol.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Next year it’s gonna say 2006.

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Rubik842@reddit

The age is 18 here, coming up on 3x in a couple of years.

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

Dude it's 2008 born kids here in Alberta 🥃🍸

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Spooky_scary_sheri95@reddit

I was 10 in 2005... I'm 30 now 😭😫💀

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Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit

I made the dad joke at the target self checkout that my birth year had a 19 in front as the girl checked my ID to buy beer and she put t 1961 in as my birth year instead of 1981 and I died a little.

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