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I always pull it out and stick it on top of the alcohol so they never have an opportunity not to ask. They can get in trouble for not checking id (or they can in my state) so its kinda a polite thing to do.
Depends on the place. My go-to grocery store always asks. Convenience stores don't.
Like 32
I'm albino and have had facial hair since I was 13. I think I got asked a few times over the years since turning 21, but it was always rare.
They still ask.
At my job the computer won't let me finish the transaction until I type in the customer's birthday. I assumed they were all like that.
I live near a college town and closer to it, everyone gets carded all the time. Some places must have not done even that well enough because at some places you had to have your id scanned or sign a log swearing it is, in fact, your id.
Outside of that, once I started showing grey.
I haven’t gotten carded since I was about 35. I have visibly graying hair, a receding hairline, and graying stubble.
Most restaurants stopped asking when I was around 30, but many stores have id readers now and the computer forces them to scan every restricted sale.
22 :(
In my hometown, which has a large state university, they ask everyone no matter what age. Moved to a city about an hour away where there is a small university around age 23 and have never been asked for ID there.
I have only bought alcohol legally one time. It was at a burlesque show and it was for the MC who was a friend and forgot their money. I was in my late 30s and was not carded.
Cashiers still ask me, but restaurants and bars have not asked me, even when I was just 22.
They never really started :(
Pretty much always still am.
Cashiers used to be able to use their judgement and not ask for ID if the customer appeared to be older than 27. But I guess there was some abuse of that, so now they card you even if you're clearly 100. The ABC (alcoholic beverage commission) will even sometimes do stings to see if the cashier asks for ID, and stores can even lose their license to sell alcoholic beverages if they get caught.
A lot of places ask anyone and everyone to provide ID which I don't think was the case in years past. My wife and I are 40 and we still get carded frequently and I don't think it's because we look underage.
I guess about 30.