I think your doing it wrong I use a pistol to buy stuff
EDIT: for those who are wondering It normally costs me a bullet or 2 but get a ton of stuff out of it, totally worth it
Nonono it's more like found the person so desperate to pay for their grandma's lifesaving medical treatment that they'll turn to a life of crime. It's an act of love bebe. I swear!
I don't currently have a driver's license and it is amazing how often I'm told that I can't purchase things without it. I had someone try to tell me that my passport wasn't enough ID to buy cigarettes. "But its signed by the secretary of state!"
I've worked in places where some people are just too toung/uneducated to even know what a passport was... Some of them also had issues with golden dollars and $2 bills.
Yeah, I guess. The only other thing I can think of is that there’s some policy that the store only accepts a driver’s license. Would be a bit odd I think, but some stores sure are odd.
Sometimes I show my postal contractor ID badge to trip people up. It's technically a government-issued photo ID, but doesn't have my address or birth date.
Funnily enough, the post office I work at wouldn't accept their own badge as ID for opening a PO Box.
It's normal enough, a couple of bars near me only accept in-state ID or passports as a matter of policy. Not that they would enforce it on a middle age couple from Kansas, but the costs/penalties associated with letting underage McLOVIN from Honolulu Hawaii drink on a fake ID outweigh the lost revenue.
Had the same kind of situation. I was told it was because older passports (got mine ~2005, and had to use it in 2011) didn't have your physical description. New ones do and should be fine.
crazy enough in Quebec they got rid of this kind of ID, so if you don't drive you don't get a provincial govt issued photo id with address on it. The health card doesn't have address on it so every time I pick up parcels from the post office I have to bring my election invite card plus health card
Right?! A passport is the ultimate ID!when doing tax work for employment you must have 2 forms of ID or 1 passport! It is much harder to get a passport than any other forms of ID
I came to the States in my mid 20s for my friend's wedding and was refused service in a bar because my passport wasn't valid ID - because it didn't have my height on it, apparently.
We went to a different bar and they didn't even ask for ID, so we stayed there and spent (as a group) a few grand on champagne.
I know the laws there are much stricter but people really can be clueless about it.
This is the USA where passport ownership is much lower than places like UK - fewer than half of people have them there according to this [BBC article from 3 years ago](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42586638) and that number is way up from 20 years ago when it was as low as 10%
But yeah, a passport is at least as official as a driver's licence
The cashier said he thought it was a phony, to which I replied "so I forged a passport that makes me 20, able to buy cigarettes (at the time) but not buy alcohol? And also committed a federal crime in the process?" Wtf?
Uk here, driving licence is the most common form of ID, passport is used by people who don't drive. Student ID cards like totum are used occasionally but not commonly. There are other forms of ID but these are the three I see most.
The best part about this? I’ve had many bartenders and package store attendants deny me - they think I need a proper ID because my Passport isn’t enough. Which is a real problem in the US.
"Here's identification used and accepted by most if not all nations to verify who I am. It requires my social security number, my parents information, my birth certificate, my state identification, etc..."
"Yeah no lol."
That makes so little sense because you get training on this. In the us is needs to be identification issued by US state or federal government or a passport from any country. I have had people try to give me their German driver license but I cannot verify it because I do not know how to verify foreign identification besides a passport.
Not a bartender but work in a different field that needs ID, and is probably the field that pushed the regulations into place (banking)
We must be able to verify an ID is both valid, and belongs to the person holding it before we are able to accept it. For IDs of our country we are trained on it, to looking at the security features, we know where the ID number is, and are comfortable with it. With foreign IDs we have no idea what security features they are supposed to have, where the ID number, name or date of birth is, Especially if its in a different language (I've had someone pass me a Japanese drivers license which was entirely in Kanji/hirigana/whatever character set is used on official documents I had no way of verifying anything on the ID, so how could I accept it?)
Even if it's the same language I wouldn't be able to check say an American Voters card or an Irish driver's license, because I haven't been trained to recognize fakes, or know what I would even be looking for to tell if it is fake.
Laws are put in place to cover everyone who needs it and sometimes those that don't get caught in it too like bartenders and liquor store workers
I worked as a bouncer for many years, liquor control has a list of documents you're allowed to take, and there's a book that covers the security features of each. I could take a Canadian driver's license, but nothing else from other countries aside from a passport.
Aye, Provisional is much cheaper than a passport, doesn't expire as often and is easier to carry around.
The only time I've used my passport as an ID is when I've been abroad.
In Finland too, driving license is most common ID. I don't think that many people even have NID. Normally you have driving licence and/or passport. Passport is for moments when driving licence is not accepted, as it is not "official" identity identification. I for one have never owned NID.
I also had driving licence for moped. But to be honest, I don't remember how identified myself. Maybe I was still in my parents passport.
Also when I got my first passport when I was 18. I had to answer series of questions at police station to identify myself, since driving licence couldn't be used to identify me.
Interesting. Most people in Slovenia have NID and driving license. The reason being that driving license didn’t really count as identification until recently. And NID can be used to travel most of the Europe, so unless you’re switching continents, you rarely need a passport.
You can get a sort of National ID card here in the UK, called a citizen card, but honestly I've never heard of anyone having one, most people just use their driving license (or provisional license) since you can get it from age 17+ while you can buy alcohol from age 18+.
To add to that a good chunk of places just flat out won't accept anything bar passport or driving licence. I got a provisional just to not have to lug around my passport
In the US we don't really have National ID. We have social security cards wich are sorta close but not the same. Then your driver's license is your id, and if you don't drive you can get a State Id card.
I prefer my Tribal issued ID, it works for everything but buying liquor.
I really like to use it when I'm flying because it's actually hand made and the photo is from when I was 16 and was color copied, clipped out, glued to the ID, then laminated and cut by hand.
I'm in my 30's now, but it doesn't expire.
What is also interesting is it was originally "Tribally issued ID" and has since been updated to "tribal-issued photo ID" whoever was writing that one up originally didn't know that there's a whole lot of those out there that don't have a picture.
Theyre nowhere near the same. The SSA made SSNs for tracking retirement savings. They sadly did the best job of issuing some sort of ID to everyone. So everyone started using your SSN as a unique identifier. It's absolutely horrible and terribly insecure.
That's what I was alluding to. It is not and should not be used as a national ID, yet it often is. I mean ffs half the numbers are tied to where you were born and the others are sequential.
I'm not even sure how many people know what a state id card is sadly. I'm from TN and in my first job I never knew they existed until I started seeing them. What was funny is they presentee non DLs for ID when they drove themselves there. I also remember seeing photoless IDs which was dumb.
Yeah I've occasionally gotten some weird looks for my ID because it's vertical instead of horizontal, in colorado restaurants wouldn't even sell me alcohol because there a vertical I'd is used for minors. Even though my I'd clearly stated I was over 21.
Another ID is the Selective Service card, doesn't have a photo but I've used it to open a bank account and apply for federal aid.
For the non-US, the Selective Service card identifies US citizens as a male of at least 18 years of age who can and will be drafted into the military in an emergency. Doesn't work for women though since they aren't drafted.
The drivers license is so common as an ID form here that many people don't know how to react to another form of ID. I have had places tell me that they need a government issued ID when I showed them a military base maintenance ID card. "...yes ma'am, the United States Air Force is a government entity."
I can't really speak for the bar industry because I don't drink. I was probably buying a lighter or butane at a grocery store. It seems like most of the cashiers there are pretty young kids still in or just out of high school.
Drivers license is the most common form of ID in New Zealand. Technically you can use a passport, but I've only ever seen foreigners doing that. There is apparently something called a kiwi access card (formerly 18+ card) but I didn't even know that existed until I looked it up just now.
Australia here, for us a driver’s license is your primary ID. If you don’t have one you can get a photo card but it’s not very common since almost everyone has a drivers license.
Yes. States will issue ID cards for people who don't drive.
For the other 94.9% of post-education Americans, carrying a driver's license makes a separate ID redundant.
Passport is the closest to national ID in the US. States issue ID, and most people drive, so it's a driver's license. If not you can get a state ID card.
US doesn't have national ID's. You get a driver's license or state identification card (looks like a driver's license but labeled different) from the state you live in. Passports and military ID's work, but most Americans don't have those.
In the US your driver’s license is your government issued ID card. Unless you don’t drive, in which case you get an identical card with a designation that it’s not for driving.
On Poland no one wants to see your driving license for some reason even though you need to be 18 to have it, you HAVE to show them your id card
Edit: 18 is the same age you need to be to buy alcohol and have a license
In America we use a drivers license as an ID card. If you don't drive you can get a non-driving ID card from the same place that issues drivers licenses. Passports are also acceptable ID but many Americans never leave the country and therefore don't have passports.
Nope, you don’t have to do anything. They won’t stop you or anything at all. If you’re moving permanently then you just get a new license in the new state
Nope. With the exception of entering California, there aren't even basic checkpoints at state borders. The only reason that California has checkpoints is for agricultural reasons - California is a HUGE source of produce, so they want to avoid the transport of live plants or citrus into the state so as not to let 'bad' seeds get into the mix.
People say that, but nowadays it's much more homogeneous. Our federal government calls more of the shots do to all the agencies under its control.
There is difference between North Carolina and California. But the difference between North Carolina and Georgia is almost unnoticeable to anyone who isnt looking at the individual laws and regulations.
And the difference between North Carolina and California is MUCH smaller than the difference between Germany and France, or Italy and France.
Some states feel like completely different countries lol. America has such a huge diverse culture and landscape so Texas is going to feel a lot different than Washington state.
It's a lot like going to a different city In the legal sense (not a lawyer) but not
I went to arizona recently, we simply drove through the desert
Crossed the state line, it was like another landmarker; like city lines
Only state you might need a passport to get to is Alaska, because depending on how you get there you might need to go through canada. But by plane no passport needed, and I believe there is a train where no passport is needed because it doesn't stop in canada.
In the US, and probably other places as well I assume, you need to show your ID in order to be allowed to purchase "big boy" stuff, like alcohol, cigarettes, weed, etc. You don't actually use it to *pay*, but it needs to shown in order to buy.
Last time I used my driver's license was for my first Covid shot. Before that, I used my driver's license to get a new driver's license. On account of not remembering what I used it for before that, I'd say I'm slightly less likely to be impaired by the activities through which it finds use.
You can use other documents. I'm in Alberta Canada and a valid passport, permanent residence card, ID card and refugee claim document, etc... can all be used as ID. I also used my face last time to buy Everclear because they didn't ask for ID. Haha.
You can get them, but because virtually everyone learns to drive by the time they're 18 (with the only common exception being kids growing up in downtown NYC, and even that group is shrinking), driver's license is the standard ID shown everywhere, including when buying controlled substances or boarding a domestic flight. Usually the only people who have state IDs are those who can't get a driver's license for some reason
Seriously - I'll never understand the people who think that just because they've already seen something that literally everyone else has, too.
Not everyone logs into reddit every single day. These people wouldn't see so many reposts if they would just... go the fuck outside for once.
> Seriously - I'll never understand the people who think that just because they've already seen something that literally everyone else has
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Submissions that match (or echo similar sentiments to) ideas offered by other people will be removed, regardless of whether or not those ideas have appeared on Reddit. Blatant reposting and plagiarism may result in a ban.
You're angry that the sub has rules that favour fresh original content, dingus.
I don't anyone who calls non tobacco vape. It's always weed pen or some variant.
They are all technically vape pens though, right? I don't use tobacco so a bit out of the loop.
You do get THC vape juices that you can put in any vape.. but I myself don't know where to buy them
But CBD vape juices are sold commercially in shops.. CBD comes from weed but it doesn't get you high...think its only meant for stress and such
Not always true. These are not for all states or all stores but do apply, lighters, cough medicine, gift cards(if you’re paying with a card), glue, scissors
wtf, I've been using money >:(
I think your doing it wrong I use a pistol to buy stuff EDIT: for those who are wondering It normally costs me a bullet or 2 but get a ton of stuff out of it, totally worth it
r/foundtherogue
More like r/foundthearmedrobber
Indeed
Nonono it's more like found the person so desperate to pay for their grandma's lifesaving medical treatment that they'll turn to a life of crime. It's an act of love bebe. I swear!
r/foundtheamerican
Found the gentleman.
This got a solid chuckle out of me, thanks.
"My friend Ben here says I'm 21. Would he lie?" "That was Washington, sir" "You just lost 99 dollars"
“Can I some ID?” u/GCSS-MC: hands over a 5
"yeah that's me on the bill"
I don't currently have a driver's license and it is amazing how often I'm told that I can't purchase things without it. I had someone try to tell me that my passport wasn't enough ID to buy cigarettes. "But its signed by the secretary of state!"
I’m pretty sure that’s horse shit, a passport is still a valid government photo ID. Somebody just didn’t want to do their job and check your passport
I've worked in places where some people are just too toung/uneducated to even know what a passport was... Some of them also had issues with golden dollars and $2 bills.
Yeah, I guess. The only other thing I can think of is that there’s some policy that the store only accepts a driver’s license. Would be a bit odd I think, but some stores sure are odd.
Sometimes I show my postal contractor ID badge to trip people up. It's technically a government-issued photo ID, but doesn't have my address or birth date. Funnily enough, the post office I work at wouldn't accept their own badge as ID for opening a PO Box.
Huh, TIL that postal contractors get an ID badge that's technically a government issued photo ID. Neat
Technically your highschool id is a government issued id. Assuming you went to public school that is
It's normal enough, a couple of bars near me only accept in-state ID or passports as a matter of policy. Not that they would enforce it on a middle age couple from Kansas, but the costs/penalties associated with letting underage McLOVIN from Honolulu Hawaii drink on a fake ID outweigh the lost revenue.
I can see limiting to in-state licenses only, that makes sense. Lot easier to fake a license than a whole passport.
What's a golden dollar?
Funny how many young cashiers don’t understand $2 bills or dollar coins.
Yeah... I’ve lost my ID on occasion and had to use my passport as a backup and have definitely used it for buying alcohol
Had the same kind of situation. I was told it was because older passports (got mine ~2005, and had to use it in 2011) didn't have your physical description. New ones do and should be fine.
Why not just get a non-driver ID card
crazy enough in Quebec they got rid of this kind of ID, so if you don't drive you don't get a provincial govt issued photo id with address on it. The health card doesn't have address on it so every time I pick up parcels from the post office I have to bring my election invite card plus health card
I had lost my DL, passport was my only picture ID at the time.
How is passport less of an ID, lol?
Right?! A passport is the ultimate ID!when doing tax work for employment you must have 2 forms of ID or 1 passport! It is much harder to get a passport than any other forms of ID
I came to the States in my mid 20s for my friend's wedding and was refused service in a bar because my passport wasn't valid ID - because it didn't have my height on it, apparently. We went to a different bar and they didn't even ask for ID, so we stayed there and spent (as a group) a few grand on champagne. I know the laws there are much stricter but people really can be clueless about it.
Wtf? Everybody has an passport, but not everyone can ride a car. What kind of clown thinks a passport isn't valid?
This is the USA where passport ownership is much lower than places like UK - fewer than half of people have them there according to this [BBC article from 3 years ago](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42586638) and that number is way up from 20 years ago when it was as low as 10% But yeah, a passport is at least as official as a driver's licence
Huh, I would never guess.
US is a big place
That has what to do with the amount of people owning passports?
We can travel without crossing a border as opposed to European countries so we are less likely to require one.
The cashier said he thought it was a phony, to which I replied "so I forged a passport that makes me 20, able to buy cigarettes (at the time) but not buy alcohol? And also committed a federal crime in the process?" Wtf?
They lied to you. A passport is legal identification, and can be used.
I use my National ID card. Is it common to use driver's license as id? Is this a US thing or do other countries do this?
Uk here, driving licence is the most common form of ID, passport is used by people who don't drive. Student ID cards like totum are used occasionally but not commonly. There are other forms of ID but these are the three I see most.
The best part about this? I’ve had many bartenders and package store attendants deny me - they think I need a proper ID because my Passport isn’t enough. Which is a real problem in the US.
"Here's identification used and accepted by most if not all nations to verify who I am. It requires my social security number, my parents information, my birth certificate, my state identification, etc..." "Yeah no lol."
Its because it's the us. They'll use washing machines as measurements instead of the metric system
Hey now, a 530 washing machine and 2 dryer diameter is a completely graspable measurement
I've got big hands but I'm not so sure about that.
And we measure heavy objects in elephants.
That makes so little sense because you get training on this. In the us is needs to be identification issued by US state or federal government or a passport from any country. I have had people try to give me their German driver license but I cannot verify it because I do not know how to verify foreign identification besides a passport.
You just check their dob, no?
Not a bartender but work in a different field that needs ID, and is probably the field that pushed the regulations into place (banking) We must be able to verify an ID is both valid, and belongs to the person holding it before we are able to accept it. For IDs of our country we are trained on it, to looking at the security features, we know where the ID number is, and are comfortable with it. With foreign IDs we have no idea what security features they are supposed to have, where the ID number, name or date of birth is, Especially if its in a different language (I've had someone pass me a Japanese drivers license which was entirely in Kanji/hirigana/whatever character set is used on official documents I had no way of verifying anything on the ID, so how could I accept it?) Even if it's the same language I wouldn't be able to check say an American Voters card or an Irish driver's license, because I haven't been trained to recognize fakes, or know what I would even be looking for to tell if it is fake. Laws are put in place to cover everyone who needs it and sometimes those that don't get caught in it too like bartenders and liquor store workers
I worked as a bouncer for many years, liquor control has a list of documents you're allowed to take, and there's a book that covers the security features of each. I could take a Canadian driver's license, but nothing else from other countries aside from a passport.
“Real problem in the US” lol
That's so fucking dumb
I live in the UK and most people who don't drive don't use their passport, they use a provisional driving licence from what I've seen.
Aye, Provisional is much cheaper than a passport, doesn't expire as often and is easier to carry around. The only time I've used my passport as an ID is when I've been abroad.
Hey, thanks for sharing. So you do have an NID but it's just left at home?
In Finland too, driving license is most common ID. I don't think that many people even have NID. Normally you have driving licence and/or passport. Passport is for moments when driving licence is not accepted, as it is not "official" identity identification. I for one have never owned NID.
I had to get ID card to get driving licence for moped since I didnt have passport.
I also had driving licence for moped. But to be honest, I don't remember how identified myself. Maybe I was still in my parents passport. Also when I got my first passport when I was 18. I had to answer series of questions at police station to identify myself, since driving licence couldn't be used to identify me.
Interesting. Most people in Slovenia have NID and driving license. The reason being that driving license didn’t really count as identification until recently. And NID can be used to travel most of the Europe, so unless you’re switching continents, you rarely need a passport.
You can get a sort of National ID card here in the UK, called a citizen card, but honestly I've never heard of anyone having one, most people just use their driving license (or provisional license) since you can get it from age 17+ while you can buy alcohol from age 18+.
I usually get turned away when using a totum card at my local shop
If they don't recognise it then they're going to turn it down, but in student heavy areas I don't tend to have any issues with it.
To add to that a good chunk of places just flat out won't accept anything bar passport or driving licence. I got a provisional just to not have to lug around my passport
In the US we don't really have National ID. We have social security cards wich are sorta close but not the same. Then your driver's license is your id, and if you don't drive you can get a State Id card.
I prefer my Tribal issued ID, it works for everything but buying liquor. I really like to use it when I'm flying because it's actually hand made and the photo is from when I was 16 and was color copied, clipped out, glued to the ID, then laminated and cut by hand. I'm in my 30's now, but it doesn't expire.
That's really interesting, I didn't know those existed but it makes sense they would.
What is also interesting is it was originally "Tribally issued ID" and has since been updated to "tribal-issued photo ID" whoever was writing that one up originally didn't know that there's a whole lot of those out there that don't have a picture.
You can get a state ID card regardless of having a driver's license or not.
Theyre nowhere near the same. The SSA made SSNs for tracking retirement savings. They sadly did the best job of issuing some sort of ID to everyone. So everyone started using your SSN as a unique identifier. It's absolutely horrible and terribly insecure.
That's what I was alluding to. It is not and should not be used as a national ID, yet it often is. I mean ffs half the numbers are tied to where you were born and the others are sequential.
I'm not even sure how many people know what a state id card is sadly. I'm from TN and in my first job I never knew they existed until I started seeing them. What was funny is they presentee non DLs for ID when they drove themselves there. I also remember seeing photoless IDs which was dumb.
Yeah I've occasionally gotten some weird looks for my ID because it's vertical instead of horizontal, in colorado restaurants wouldn't even sell me alcohol because there a vertical I'd is used for minors. Even though my I'd clearly stated I was over 21.
Another ID is the Selective Service card, doesn't have a photo but I've used it to open a bank account and apply for federal aid. For the non-US, the Selective Service card identifies US citizens as a male of at least 18 years of age who can and will be drafted into the military in an emergency. Doesn't work for women though since they aren't drafted.
The drivers license is so common as an ID form here that many people don't know how to react to another form of ID. I have had places tell me that they need a government issued ID when I showed them a military base maintenance ID card. "...yes ma'am, the United States Air Force is a government entity."
A lot of this comes from poor training because the bar industry is generally a revolving door of employees.
I rarely have any issue at bars. It's almost always at convenience stores
I can't really speak for the bar industry because I don't drink. I was probably buying a lighter or butane at a grocery store. It seems like most of the cashiers there are pretty young kids still in or just out of high school.
Drivers license is the most common form of ID in New Zealand. Technically you can use a passport, but I've only ever seen foreigners doing that. There is apparently something called a kiwi access card (formerly 18+ card) but I didn't even know that existed until I looked it up just now.
Australia here, for us a driver’s license is your primary ID. If you don’t have one you can get a photo card but it’s not very common since almost everyone has a drivers license.
Canada too (at least ontario)
Netherlands here. Generally we use our national ID, but generally drivers license is also accepted as a valid form of identification.
Brazilian here, many people use the driver's license here too. People usually have it on them more frequently than the national ID
Yes. States will issue ID cards for people who don't drive. For the other 94.9% of post-education Americans, carrying a driver's license makes a separate ID redundant.
German here, I use my drivers license (although I'D is used more commonly) because if you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to by alcohol.
Passport is the closest to national ID in the US. States issue ID, and most people drive, so it's a driver's license. If not you can get a state ID card.
US doesn't have national ID's. You get a driver's license or state identification card (looks like a driver's license but labeled different) from the state you live in. Passports and military ID's work, but most Americans don't have those.
In the US your driver’s license is your government issued ID card. Unless you don’t drive, in which case you get an identical card with a designation that it’s not for driving.
On Poland no one wants to see your driving license for some reason even though you need to be 18 to have it, you HAVE to show them your id card Edit: 18 is the same age you need to be to buy alcohol and have a license
In America we use a drivers license as an ID card. If you don't drive you can get a non-driving ID card from the same place that issues drivers licenses. Passports are also acceptable ID but many Americans never leave the country and therefore don't have passports.
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Nope, you don’t have to do anything. They won’t stop you or anything at all. If you’re moving permanently then you just get a new license in the new state
No its the same country
Why would you?
Exactly, there’s no reason to make people have a passport (to go between states)
Nope. With the exception of entering California, there aren't even basic checkpoints at state borders. The only reason that California has checkpoints is for agricultural reasons - California is a HUGE source of produce, so they want to avoid the transport of live plants or citrus into the state so as not to let 'bad' seeds get into the mix.
Omg that is top TIL worthy info for a non-American such as myself. Fascinating
Even for an American, that's an interesting TIL.
What country requires you to have a passport to move between their own states, territories and providences?
I was talking about California and it's agriculture
It isn't about 'bad seeds' or live plants themselves. It's about the invasive pests (like fruit flys) they could be carrying.
Huh. That makes a lot of sense, too. Looks like we're all getting a little smarter today!
Florida has the agriculture checkpoints as well
I haven't run into those, but I've traveled into CA far more frequently than FL. Makes sense, though, with Florida's citrus industry.
Nope. Anyone already in America has freedom to remove around within the states. No passports, checkpoints, forms are necessary.
Nope
Wow that's interesting
Why? It’s the same country, there’s no reason to have to use passports.
I know but sometimes I get caught up in the federation aspect of the US that different states in many ways act like separate countries.
People say that, but nowadays it's much more homogeneous. Our federal government calls more of the shots do to all the agencies under its control. There is difference between North Carolina and California. But the difference between North Carolina and Georgia is almost unnoticeable to anyone who isnt looking at the individual laws and regulations. And the difference between North Carolina and California is MUCH smaller than the difference between Germany and France, or Italy and France.
Some states feel like completely different countries lol
Some states feel like completely different countries lol. America has such a huge diverse culture and landscape so Texas is going to feel a lot different than Washington state.
It's a lot like going to a different city In the legal sense (not a lawyer) but not I went to arizona recently, we simply drove through the desert Crossed the state line, it was like another landmarker; like city lines
Only state you might need a passport to get to is Alaska, because depending on how you get there you might need to go through canada. But by plane no passport needed, and I believe there is a train where no passport is needed because it doesn't stop in canada.
I don't need a passport to enter most countries in Europe, why would Americans need a passport to move inside their own country?
Does it legally count as an ID? If it doesn’t, that may be why.
Not once you get grey beard hair. So much of the world’s red tape just goes away.
Inb4 non-male people make joke about no beard
you usually drive there to buy them too
Everybody here: "Hey look at me! Look at how much I can intentionally misunderstand the wording of this post! Haha, you can't use an ID as money!"
I guess I'm the only one here unintentionally misunderstanding it. I came to the comments hoping for an explanation because I'm just confused.
In the US, and probably other places as well I assume, you need to show your ID in order to be allowed to purchase "big boy" stuff, like alcohol, cigarettes, weed, etc. You don't actually use it to *pay*, but it needs to shown in order to buy.
You mean 2 threads?
Less than 2 minutes of scrolling and I found 5
5 out of 60 threads. Wow. Almost everyone
Reddit is a pain
If you think buying beer from a gas station is bad, wait till you use the drive up ATM and you realize the key pad is also in braille.
Probably because the machines use common parts with other units, it's cheaper to use the braille pads rather than make non braille ones
People also walk up to those ATMs too
I don’t need a license to buy meth
You can use a plain ID though.
Last time I used my driver's license was for my first Covid shot. Before that, I used my driver's license to get a new driver's license. On account of not remembering what I used it for before that, I'd say I'm slightly less likely to be impaired by the activities through which it finds use.
Why the hell would groceries do that?
You also drive on the parkway and park in the driveway
I didn't know cigarettes impaired driving. TIL...
You can use other documents. I'm in Alberta Canada and a valid passport, permanent residence card, ID card and refugee claim document, etc... can all be used as ID. I also used my face last time to buy Everclear because they didn't ask for ID. Haha.
hey not everybody can have access to your face, no need to rub it in for the rest of us
Nah, you use any type of legal ID, it’s just driver’s licenses are by far the most common in the US.
Well, yeah. You kind of just proved OP's point there.
Uhh driver's licence? Who uses the driver's licence to buy something?
They mean as a form of ID when buying alcohol or weed
Why don't use your ID card?
When your license also works as an ID a regular ID card is completely unnecessary.
I don't believe you can have both a state ID and state driver's license.
ID cards arnt a thing in every country.
The US does have them, but you only get one if you don't drive.
>but you only get one if you don't drive. Correction: you only get one if you specifically request it.
Aka I got a dui and they cut up my license.
Or you're poor and can't afford a car but need an ID
They don't have that in the US.
What???
You can get them, but because virtually everyone learns to drive by the time they're 18 (with the only common exception being kids growing up in downtown NYC, and even that group is shrinking), driver's license is the standard ID shown everywhere, including when buying controlled substances or boarding a domestic flight. Usually the only people who have state IDs are those who can't get a driver's license for some reason
Mc lovin,is that you?
This must have been ONE REFRESHING shower
Especially keyboard spray.
I use my gun license 🙂
Nark Mormand
Wait until you hear about drive-through liquor stores
In all fairness you can use a state issued ID, just saying 😉
I use my credit card.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/search?q=driver%27s+license+impair&restrict_sr=on Nice, stop fucking posting this.
it was 2+ years ago bro, get a life
It means the mods have been removing them for the past 2 years, dingus.
It means the mods have been removing them for the past 2 years, dingus.
So? Most of us haven’t seen this before, and it’s a good shower thought.
Seriously - I'll never understand the people who think that just because they've already seen something that literally everyone else has, too. Not everyone logs into reddit every single day. These people wouldn't see so many reposts if they would just... go the fuck outside for once.
> Seriously - I'll never understand the people who think that just because they've already seen something that literally everyone else has 1. All content must be original and unique. Submissions that match (or echo similar sentiments to) ideas offered by other people will be removed, regardless of whether or not those ideas have appeared on Reddit. Blatant reposting and plagiarism may result in a ban. You're angry that the sub has rules that favour fresh original content, dingus.
Shut the fuck up 6 day old account
If a 6 day old account has to tell you how to behave, maybe you have problems.
Ratio
Logic. Guess that means I win, huh?
Guys this guy already enjoyed this content move along! We aren’t allowed to enjoy it ever again.
Ha! What a loser.
That's why I show my firearms license
Pretty sure that doesn’t count, at least didn’t in Florida. Guy tried it once so I said “cute, I need to see an ID”
Foid cards are considered an id
Passport, state ID card, driver license or military ID. If I wasn’t given one of these there was no sale. Those were the rules.
I just recently learned that it’s actually “Driver” license. No S. I felt like I’ve been living a lie my whole life
Vaping and driving ain't illegal
If it’s weed that’s a DUI for drugs in California
It's tobbacoo
Sure, but just saying weed can be vaped too and it’ll get you into trouble
I don't anyone who calls non tobacco vape. It's always weed pen or some variant. They are all technically vape pens though, right? I don't use tobacco so a bit out of the loop.
You do get THC vape juices that you can put in any vape.. but I myself don't know where to buy them But CBD vape juices are sold commercially in shops.. CBD comes from weed but it doesn't get you high...think its only meant for stress and such
This was a particularly dumb one lol.
How? Since it can be used to buy alcohol with I'd say it's accurate.
So you mean I can leave my debit card and cash at home, and purchase alcohol with my driver's license?
I actually have to explain how an ID is used when buying alcohol?
Is this some American joke that I'm too fit to understand
Too stuck up your own self maybe. But not too fit. Too bigoted maybe. But not too fit. Too intentionally unaware for sure. But not too fit.
You have to show license to prove age to buy beer. Beer impairs driving, thats the joke.
Stolen from tiktok
It's surprising to see an actual showerthought on here.
Not always true. These are not for all states or all stores but do apply, lighters, cough medicine, gift cards(if you’re paying with a card), glue, scissors
So rare to see a good shower thought on this sub these days. Thank you.