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to be a bit miffed that woman on checkout in supermarket said ''oh I don't need to ask you for your ID'!!

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worrybum · 03/10/2008 12:45

when i was buying a wine! . Yes I hardly look 21 but I'm only 30 and hardly ancient looking either! I just laughed it off but think I would have felt better if she'd kept her mouth shut! Better still she could have asked me for it anyway just to humour me a little . Next stop was Boots for some antiwrinkle cream

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curlywurlycremeegg · 03/10/2008 12:47

I got asked for some last Christmas, I was 34 and with my 12 year old son at the time! I really thought he was taking the piss.

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Flamebat · 03/10/2008 12:47

aww

I got asked for id the other day. I said that I didn't have it what with being 27 and not thinking i would need it... she just put it through Why ask if you don't care about seeing it??? (I would have been stroppy had she not sold it to me obv)

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bran · 03/10/2008 12:48

I remember being on holiday in the the States when I was about 30 and being miffed that the doorman at a bar didn't ask me for ID. YAB a little U, although the checkout woman would have been better to think the thought silently.

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curlywurlycremeegg · 03/10/2008 12:50

I picked up a pregnancy test with my shopping when DD was about 8 months old......the checkout assistant felt the need to comment on the fact that there wouldn'#t be much age gap

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GeorgeTheCarpetThrasher · 03/10/2008 12:51

look what happened here - what a compliment

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gemmiegoatlegs · 03/10/2008 12:52

i was rejected for a flyer for an indie night on my uni campus yesterday. i am 26 and obviously not hip anymore! I made myself even less hip in the eyes of the uber-cool 18 year old chick handing out said leaflets saying" why do you think I wouldn't go to an indie night exactly??? I was going to indie nights when you were cacking in your nappy!"

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CherryChapstick · 03/10/2008 12:54

I had the same thing in Lidl last week. Was buying wine, the 'kid' didn't even look up at me. I said sarcastically "You could at least humour me and ask." To which I thought he would jokily ask for ID, but he said "It's ok Ma'am, I can see you are well over 21." All serious. Not a drop of shame.
I hate him!

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Guadalupe · 03/10/2008 12:55

I remember being very pleased when a boy called over the supervisor before putting my wine through. Why, I thought, he obviously sees me as a peer and thinks I'm not much older than than him. Do you think I might be underage? I said smarmily

He said, sorry, no, I'm just not old enough to sell it.

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HuwEdwards · 03/10/2008 12:55

look, face it, middle-age is staring you in the face

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worrybum · 03/10/2008 12:55

GTCT - so . What's worse is dh get asked for Id without fail every time we visit the states and he's 4 years older than me. Doesn't believe me when I tell him it's just the American waitresses falling for his English accent and their way of flirting. (TBH I don't either but we i can hardly let it go to his head now can I?)

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Tortington · 03/10/2008 12:57

i went out with my young cousin and her then partner - they got stopped everywhere - eentually i begged a bouncer to ask for my id

he just pissed himself

fucker

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worrybum · 03/10/2008 12:58

HE middle aged?
[makes swift exit from thread to book botox...............}

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girlandboy · 03/10/2008 12:59

I was stopped last week while shopping to complete a survey. I was stopped with the words..."I'm asking all ladies 55 or over if......"
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I'm 42. I now feel ancient.

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LouMacca · 03/10/2008 13:09

lol @ CherryChapstick

My young looking brother got asked if he was the new YTS at work when he was 29. He is 42 now and still look about 30

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CherryChapstick · 03/10/2008 13:11

Lou, my DH is the same! He is 40, 5 years older than me.
I hate him too!

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worrybum · 03/10/2008 13:19

Thinking about it maybe I'm ageing prematurely and it's a hereditary thing. My dad once took dd(9) shopping with him when she was a baby and had her in a sling only to overhear 2 women obviously thinking dd was his commenting "he's way too old to be a dad" (he was 45 at the time!!)

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TheInvisibleManDidIt · 03/10/2008 13:23

Checkout woman in asda refused to sell me a bottle of wine few months ago because I didn't have id.

Had a huge shop, over £100, and 1 bloody bottle of wine. Only had debit card, left bag & wallet in car. She told me if I was that bothered to go back to my car and bring up id.

I'm 32. Should have been flattered but was furious as she's served me loads of times when I have my boys with me.

Witch was probably just jealous of my youthful looks

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hellsbells76 · 03/10/2008 13:38

i got half-id'd in lidl once. was bending down with my hair in front of my face loading up my trolley with wine. checkout girl said 'have you got any...' i looked up and she said 'oh, don't worry'. bloody mortifying

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PinkyDinkyDooToo · 03/10/2008 14:13

My Mum(55) is constantly being mistaken for the Mum of my two boys 5 & 1. GReat for her and all that, but sometimes it's when I'm there too. I want to shout WHO AM I? My Mum said they must think I'm the teenage daughter from her first marriage . I'm 31

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