To think challenge 25 has gone too far?

I think also Gov Wallet is coming which means you can store IDs securely on your phone. I also found I can add my passport to Google Wallet if It wanted to also.

I’m mid thirties. I get ID around 2 to 3 times a year, that’s started dwindling of late. When the year comes that I don’t get ID I will have to accept I officially look old 🙈

Exactly this. I work in a bar and the ammount of 18 year old young women who look mid 20s is surprisingly high. Especially if they are into having aesthetic procedures! I generally find that it's mostly the mid 20s people who get uppity and offended while the young ones have their ID ready in their hands. I'm now mid 40s and I miss being asked 😂

But why on earth do they need to check if you are almost certainly over 50? It’s called challenge 25. Not challenge 40. This is where it’s gotten out of hand.

Unless, as stated before, you are over 40 or 50 and don’t have ID. Many people of that age do not.

The 'check age' thing flashed up when I bought a fork at Dunelm this weekend! (Sadly she took one look at me and decided i was definitely old enough not to cause any bother with it). The assistant said it sometimes goes off for spoons too 🤦🏽‍♀️

Just carry your driving licence with your phone, problem solved

Not everyone drives. And it’s incredibly difficult to get photo ID such as a provisional licence if you don’t already have…valid photo ID!

Yes, it's mission creep gone crazy. Think 25 was brought in to provide the buffer zone from 18, but then people quite literally do 'think 25' and start worrying that somebody may be under 25 - as though 25 were the age limit for purchasing - so they mentally shift it to 30, and then, well, some people may look 40 but they've actually 'had an uphill paper round' and might only be 30 or even a bit younger...

It goes on, up and up, and then you get the US culture whereby they ID everybody - even if they literally look like they could die of extreme old age at any moment! It becomes a mania, and the group absurdity just builds and builds.

Many of us actually do that, but has it occurred to you that not everyone drives, so not everyone has or needs a driving licence.

Same with passports. Not everyone travels abroad or wants to, so not everyone has or needs a passport.

There is no legal obligation to have either document.

But people don't want to - they like the minimalist approach, which is why they already use their phones for loyalty schemes, making payments, travel tickets etc.

Granted they maybe can add their driving licence digitally to their phone, assuming they actually have one - although many people will not think to do this, or may be concerned about the security aspect of having it on there... as indeed they may be concerned about carrying the physical card of their driving licence with them.

It just seems such overkill to have to always carry a form of your driving licence with you at all times, in case you might want to buy even alcohol-free beer or a set of table cutlery... and this is all notwithstanding the point that, when you are clearly in your 30s or older, and old enough to be a grandparent, common sense should mean that nobody ever remotely suspects you of still being a child in the first place.

In 63 and had my age challenged at the weekend.

It felt wonderful!

Similarly, I once had a cashier refuse to sell me alcohol, because (she explained) my son was with me, and I might give it to him...he was 22, and had always looked old for his age generally, and had ID with him, but she wouldn't look at it...sometimes i think the perssons having a bad day, and/or enjoys the power they have, rather than it being store policy they are following 🙄

Until we discover that they were trying to see if you qualified for an extra 25p a week in your pension

How can you add your driving license to your phone?

So she had no legal justification whatsoever for denying you the purchase? I would have complained to the store, as that goes way beyond "Might this person/somebody with them potentially be under 18" when it becomes "No, the people are provably both/all over 18".

That's just bullying and being nasty for the sake of it. Shame you couldn't have said you'd take your shopping to another cashier, because 'you reckoned' that she might not be smart enough to conduct the transaction correctly!

OP

You do realise that spot checks are done. If staff fail the spot checks, they can face disciplinary action. Staff are rather be cautious than

It's a good job you don't live or are in Utah, where EVERYONE is told to show ID when they buy alcohol, REGARDLESS of AGE. It used to be in Tennessee when I visited in 2009. This is for anywhere that sells alcohol - liquor stores, bars etc. ChatGPT said this stopped in 2012.

Then Sept 2027, Texas - IDs will have to be physically checked and scanned in all shops, bars etc. Unless the internet/system is down and only ask those who look under 40.

A couple of US states used to have a think 50 state law. So if look under 50, ID. Can you imagine if you are 38 and stopped being asked for ID then?

Take a photo of it.

I worked for a supermarket and we would not accept photos of ID. As I remember refusing a lad because he doctored his photo of ID making him turned 18 a few weeks previously. He changed the month and the area round the month looked dodgy.

From what I can remember it was May/June time and he made his ID look like he turned 18 in April but I'm guessing he turned 18 in Aug.

Visit Utah

The posters above are saying you can add it. To your wallet. That’s what I want to do.

Aw you’ve just shattered my delusion! 😞

Dunelm is notorious. I had to show ID to buy 4 dinner knives despite having just purchased a Stanley knife and blades at the B&Q next door. I'm 41 btw and no injectables or effort to appear younger 😀

So they've manipulated what was a sensible law and deliberately taken it to an extreme in order to abuse it and gain personal information under false pretences? Like the scammers who phone you pretending to be from your bank?

Does anybody actually fall for their officially-sanctioned lies and honestly believe their methods to be genuine and honourable? What a disgrace.

Is that going to work the same way as whenever you need bank statements and utility bills for ID checks, DBS checks etc. - except they have to be ones you've received in the post and not ones that you've downloaded and printed (identical to the ones that you would previously have received in the post), as is standard for so many people nowadays?

You can get a Post Office Pass card for £15.