Am I the only one here who had a fake ID card to buy alcohol? God I hope not!

I never had a fake ID. Sorry.

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Originally posted by tenderfootsquest:
I never had a fake ID. Sorry.

Well than you were a goody goody two shoe weren't you? Sorry, I wasn't!

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Originally posted by Dirigo Maine-iac:
Am I the only one here who had a fake ID card to buy alcohol? God I hope not!

The legal drinking age was 18 when I was younger. I never drank before that. I never knew anyone who had a fake ID, Dirigo. But I'm happy that it worked out well for you.

Holy Bhagworm

I knew people who had them. They were the cool kids, and I was never that cool. But, like Holy, I didn't start drinking till I was 18 anyway.

 
I was officially emancipated when I was 14, but I don't know how that would've worked out w/ regard to drinking, which I legally couldn't do until I was 18.

But I was regularly served in bars when I was underage and no one ever asked me for ID, so I never felt the need to even think about acquiring a fake ID. I discovered early on that drinking wasn't my "thing," so even if I had been carded, I would've been fine w/ a cold .



*CJ

A good girl goes bad...

My uncle, a great bartender starting mixing me drinks after I became engaged (to an older man of legal age) at age 18 years and 10 months. He would usually mix me a Tom Collins which was as close to lemonade as you could get. He served them when I went to my Sunday night card game where he, my aunt and the Ensign, who was stationed at NSCS Athens, Ga. were trying to teach me to play bridge. I guess he and my aunt thought it important that I know "how" to drink and play bridge as a married woman...and if I was old enough to get married, I should know how to "hold my liquor."

After marriage we lived in Key West and man, everyone drank all the time....nothing else to do there, much. Problem was, I could only drink at the "O" club legally. I wasn't allowed into the civilian bars there which was probably a good thing. They were the type places where you were carded at the door....but it embarrassed me. Oh how I HATED being the youngest everywhere I went...So I started smoking to seem older.

Stop me if I have told this before TFQ, but I bought my first legal drink...A Manhattan, at Shraffts on 5th Avenue in NYC along with an egg salad sandwich...On my 21st birthday. The new twist to this story as I just learned is that I had not been there long and I guess I didn't know that the legal drinking age in NY was 18 as Mole just said...

Peachy

I didn't have a fake ID, but most of my friends did. If I was outside of the small town I grew up in, I could pretty much bluff my way to a stiff drink. Did it all the time. I also remember spending a week on our senior class trip in NYC. The drinking age at the time was 18, but since I was only 17 at the time, it took a big of thought and good dressing to pass for 18. Not much of a problem, as I recall I only got one lecture from a bartender and eventually I got what I wanted anyway.

Being a goody two-shoes was never a part of my paradigm.

When I was a freshman in the dorms, my roommate made me a super-phony-on-purpose fake ID with tape and cardboard. My pic is of a woman with long hair like mine modeling a low-cut dress with her arm up and behind her neck. On the back is an organ donation statement that talks of exchanging a boyfriend's "organ" for a better one. Yes. We was classy.

We never had much trouble getting beer. And when we really felt like partying, we'd cross the border to Mexico and whoop it up. The Federales were bad enough then, and this would be pretty scary business these days. With all the liquor license risks now, also, IDs are checked EVERYWHERE. I can see why fake IDs are up.

We always talk about how grateful we are that we didn't have video cameras and reality shows around then. We were fairly innocent by comparison, but that was a time probably best left unrecorded on anything other than our memory banks and in stills.

I still carry that thing in my wallet. Do you think I could get busted for it?

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I still carry that thing in my wallet. Do you think I could get busted for it?

I dare you to scan it and post it on FB.

Peachy

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Originally posted by Avenging Peach:

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I still carry that thing in my wallet. Do you think I could get busted for it?

I dare you to scan it and post it on FB.

Peachy

Done. Nobody dares me! I have NO shame.

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Originally posted by The Queen:

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Originally posted by Avenging Peach:

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I still carry that thing in my wallet. Do you think I could get busted for it?

I dare you to scan it and post it on FB.

Peachy

Done. Nobody dares me! I have NO shame.

I BELIEVE YOU!

It does appear though that you weren't a freshman because when I subtract 1961 from 1974 I get age 13. I especially liked the lamination process which appears to be strips of scotch tape.

Of course, the picture is incredible!

Peachy

It's actually 1977 (the last no. looks like a 4)... which must have been when I first got my learner's permit in my H.S. Sophomore year? The license was "printed" in 1980, when we were young frosh girls at college... oh my. What absolute fun we had!!!

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My housekeeper works at an elder care where they are constantly firing and hiring. One thing that has remained consistent with every new hire has been those they hire spend more time messaging than working, at work. One was observed cleaning a spot on the floor with one hand while messaging with the other, for an HOUR. She was only faking work. She didn't know anybody saw her.

The cook was found standing at the stove messaging while the food was boiling over right in front of her.

I don't believe that low wage workers loafing on the job began with the text message.

I don't either but I guess I can't seem to relate how excessive and obsessive is the texting I am trying to describe.

These people text while talking and supposedly listening to people. They do much of everything all day with one hand so to be able to text with the other. And the example of the cook was to show how disconnected they are from what they are otherwise doing.

This isn't just a matter of a little loafing on the job.

But I guess it is hard to relate until you see it.

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Am I the only one here who had a fake ID card to buy alcohol? God I hope not!

I needed one only to get into higher class clubs that I could rarely afford anyway. Buying wasn't usually a problem, 'cause if you looked 21 they didn't card and I had a pretty full goatee by 16. Nowadays they I.D. anybody that looks like they aren't in assisted living.

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Originally posted by Avenging Peach:

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Originally posted by The Queen:

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Originally posted by Avenging Peach:

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I still carry that thing in my wallet. Do you think I could get busted for it?

I dare you to scan it and post it on FB.

Peachy

Done. Nobody dares me! I have NO shame.

I BELIEVE YOU!

It does appear though that you weren't a freshman because when I subtract 1961 from 1974 I get age 13. I especially liked the lamination process which appears to be strips of scotch tape.

Of course, the picture is incredible!

Peachy

I read the date as 1977, not 1974... what -is- the date, Queenie?

*CJ

I think that date on the old licenses was when you first got your learner's permit, or perhaps full DL. So it sounds about right as I was a high-school sophomore as of June '77, and would have been heading into my Junior year that fall.

As I noted on FB, even if we wanted to try the deliberately horrible IDs out on the blindest of blind liquor store owners, my roomie included my actual birth year, so I'd have been SOL. Silly gurlz!

 
BTW Q... if you wanted to share that pic here, head down to the IMAGES forum, post it there as an attachment, and link to your image posting topic in this topic. Or ask me to do the same.

*CJ

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Originally posted by *CJ:
 
BTW Q... if you wanted to share that pic here, head down to the IMAGES forum, post it there as an attachment, and link to your image posting topic in this topic. Or ask me to do the same.

*CJ

Thanks for the tip on how to do that. For this one, however, I'll pass. Too much personal info in the pic. It's hella safer with 500 of my "close," "personal" FB friends.

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Originally posted by The Queen:
Thanks for the tip on how to do that. For this one, however, I'll pass. Too much personal info in the pic. It's hella safer with 500 of my "close," "personal" FB friends.

Yeah, my ex-boss's sister-in-law's third cousin twice removed gardener's mulch guy's former girlfriend's nephew liked the image, too.



*CJ

Hahahahaha! Where's the "Like" button around here?

but these kids aren't getting married. There will be no Mezvinski/Clinton style wedding in Warsilla Alaska anytime soon.

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It's Official,
U.S. Secret Service Says Chelsea Clinton Best Presidential Family Kid They've Ever Had.




Secret Service: Chelsea Clinton Was Best First Child
By Ronald Kessler

Of all the offspring of presidents in recent memory, Chelsea Clinton was the best first child, according to Secret Service agents.

“In my career, Chelsea Clinton did it the best,” says an agent familiar with both her detail and the Bush twins’ details. “Treated the detail right, told them what was going on, never gave problems that I knew of.”

 
I wonder, Rayne, how much of Chelsea's "best-ness" is a function of being an only child.

I've been watching my Gentle Giant and his friends... they're all "only children"... and there is a decided lack of (what some may call) routine teenager hijinxs.

No alcohol, no drugs, no tobacco... no boosting the family car or sneaking out at night or breaking curfew (well, no post-breaking of curfew... sometimes I'll get a call asking for an extension due to them wanting to see a movie or finish a World of Warcraft raid or some such, but it's always before the curfew and rarely denied)... they text us (their parents) when the leave for/arrive at locations, they drive carefully enough there've been no accidents or tickets, all the parents say the other kids are deferential, well mannered and help around the homes they're guests in, they don't blow their money, they're generous amongst themselves and there's -zero- drama.

Mebbe NOT having a sibling as a partner-in-crime helps keep only-kiddos on the straight & narrow??

*CJ

Interesting observation, CJ. The Bush Twins, well were twins and joined at the hip so we can understand ones antics and the other participating. Chelsea was indeed an only child and it is easier parenting one than a brood or a pair of twins. I don't know, it's possible Laura was a bit weak and differential to the man of the house and not much of a female role model, who knows. Dad was admittedly a bit of a drunk and a drug abuser that was never treated and when the girls read these revelations in the press they acted out. I think the twins will survive and go on to make productive lives for themselves but Chelsea will always be the Secret Service departments favorite and best White House kid.