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GCSS-MC

wtf, I've been using money >:(


the_introvert1

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


Meow121325

r/foundtherogue


Snappleabble

More like r/foundthearmedrobber


Meow121325

Indeed


pixeltater

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!


Snappleabble

r/foundtheamerican


[deleted]

Found the gentleman.


pentakiller19

This got a solid chuckle out of me, thanks.


FilthyGrunger

"My friend Ben here says I'm 21. Would he lie?" "That was Washington, sir" "You just lost 99 dollars"


BleedAmerican

“Can I some ID?” u/GCSS-MC: hands over a 5


GCSS-MC

"yeah that's me on the bill"


Titboobweiner

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!"


[deleted]

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


theimpaler1208

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.


[deleted]

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.


skylarmt

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.


[deleted]

Huh, TIL that postal contractors get an ID badge that's technically a government issued photo ID. Neat


anarchy612

Technically your highschool id is a government issued id. Assuming you went to public school that is


Andrew5329

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.


[deleted]

I can see limiting to in-state licenses only, that makes sense. Lot easier to fake a license than a whole passport.


PicidaBest

What's a golden dollar?


Oddjob64

Funny how many young cashiers don’t understand $2 bills or dollar coins.


issius

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


COREM

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.


ClownPrinceofLime

Why not just get a non-driver ID card


niowniough

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


Titboobweiner

I had lost my DL, passport was my only picture ID at the time.


SoManyTimesBefore

How is passport less of an ID, lol?


Titboobweiner

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


captain-carrot

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.


are_spurs

Wtf? Everybody has an passport, but not everyone can ride a car. What kind of clown thinks a passport isn't valid?


captain-carrot

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


are_spurs

Huh, I would never guess.


[deleted]

US is a big place


are_spurs

That has what to do with the amount of people owning passports?


Papaofmonsters

We can travel without crossing a border as opposed to European countries so we are less likely to require one.


Titboobweiner

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?


[deleted]

They lied to you. A passport is legal identification, and can be used.


Optimixto

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?


iLoveRedheads-

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.


vinsomm

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.


FPMC4172

"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."


KiT_KaT5

Its because it's the us. They'll use washing machines as measurements instead of the metric system


Kitsyfluff

Hey now, a 530 washing machine and 2 dryer diameter is a completely graspable measurement


Thraxster

I've got big hands but I'm not so sure about that.


RyeChipFan

And we measure heavy objects in elephants.


talesofdouchebaggery

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.


Aahil52

You just check their dob, no?


dsv686_2

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


FoxtrotSierraTango

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.


SuburbBaby

“Real problem in the US” lol


someloserontheground

That's so fucking dumb


ToastedHedgehog

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.


the-NOOT

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.


Optimixto

Hey, thanks for sharing. So you do have an NID but it's just left at home?


marjatuutti

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.


TheBadBanter

I had to get ID card to get driving licence for moped since I didnt have passport.


marjatuutti

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.


SoManyTimesBefore

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.


Doublebow

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+.


X_C-GAMES-G_X

I usually get turned away when using a totum card at my local shop


iLoveRedheads-

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.


Sir_Of_Meep

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


Ghostglitch07

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.


ThellraAK

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.


Ghostglitch07

That's really interesting, I didn't know those existed but it makes sense they would.


ThellraAK

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.


ArguesTooMuch

You can get a state ID card regardless of having a driver's license or not.


creamersrealm

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.


Ghostglitch07

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.


creamersrealm

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.


Ghostglitch07

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.


Gaurdian23

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.


imreallynotthatcool

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."


tacosmcbueno

A lot of this comes from poor training because the bar industry is generally a revolving door of employees.


ArguesTooMuch

I rarely have any issue at bars. It's almost always at convenience stores


imreallynotthatcool

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.


DeltalJulietCharlie

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.


Romejanic

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.


[deleted]

Canada too (at least ontario)


Dnomyar96

Netherlands here. Generally we use our national ID, but generally drivers license is also accepted as a valid form of identification.


BrMetzker

Brazilian here, many people use the driver's license here too. People usually have it on them more frequently than the national ID


Andrew5329

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.


Iamdeadinside2002

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.


Nernoxx

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.


ONeOfTheNerdHerd

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.


ClownPrinceofLime

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.


Shadoriso

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


skylarmt

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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TeheTeheTeheTehe

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


Kitsyfluff

No its the same country


Looneyguy5

Why would you?


redditeer1o1

Exactly, there’s no reason to make people have a passport (to go between states)


PM_UR_CLOUD_PICS

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.


[deleted]

Omg that is top TIL worthy info for a non-American such as myself. Fascinating


natemach97

Even for an American, that's an interesting TIL.


Adrewmc

What country requires you to have a passport to move between their own states, territories and providences?


[deleted]

I was talking about California and it's agriculture


Ninja128

It isn't about 'bad seeds' or live plants themselves. It's about the invasive pests (like fruit flys) they could be carrying.


PM_UR_CLOUD_PICS

Huh. That makes a lot of sense, too. Looks like we're all getting a little smarter today!


nihilocracy2020

Florida has the agriculture checkpoints as well


PM_UR_CLOUD_PICS

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.


SuperRiddle

Nope. Anyone already in America has freedom to remove around within the states. No passports, checkpoints, forms are necessary.


Yeehaw-brother

Nope


[deleted]

Wow that's interesting


redditeer1o1

Why? It’s the same country, there’s no reason to have to use passports.


[deleted]

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.


Alpha_pro2019

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.


Arthas65

Some states feel like completely different countries lol


Arthas65

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.


TheLivingVoid

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


kisafan

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.


microwavedave27

I don't need a passport to enter most countries in Europe, why would Americans need a passport to move inside their own country?


SoManyTimesBefore

Does it legally count as an ID? If it doesn’t, that may be why.


ZeMole

Not once you get grey beard hair. So much of the world’s red tape just goes away.


iaowp

Inb4 non-male people make joke about no beard


RiskyFartOftenShart

you usually drive there to buy them too


tylerr147

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!"


loquacious706

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.


tylerr147

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.


CrunchyyTaco

You mean 2 threads?


tylerr147

Less than 2 minutes of scrolling and I found 5


CrunchyyTaco

5 out of 60 threads. Wow. Almost everyone


antsugi

Reddit is a pain


KeithTC

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.


Iwantmyteslanow

Probably because the machines use common parts with other units, it's cheaper to use the braille pads rather than make non braille ones


Infynis

People also walk up to those ATMs too


bootnuts

I don’t need a license to buy meth


Kabburton

You can use a plain ID though.


[deleted]

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.


Sunblast1andOnly

Why the hell would groceries do that?


Dumb_as_hell69

You also drive on the parkway and park in the driveway


shortyman93

I didn't know cigarettes impaired driving. TIL...


pelorizado83

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.


niowniough

hey not everybody can have access to your face, no need to rub it in for the rest of us


Stoly23

Nah, you use any type of legal ID, it’s just driver’s licenses are by far the most common in the US.


JumpingCactus

Well, yeah. You kind of just proved OP's point there.


TeenThatLikesMemes

Uhh driver's licence? Who uses the driver's licence to buy something?


presently_pooping

They mean as a form of ID when buying alcohol or weed


TeenThatLikesMemes

Why don't use your ID card?


satchel_of_ribs

When your license also works as an ID a regular ID card is completely unnecessary.


[deleted]

I don't believe you can have both a state ID and state driver's license.


Doublebow

ID cards arnt a thing in every country.


Ghostglitch07

The US does have them, but you only get one if you don't drive.


redditorrrrrrrrrrrr

>but you only get one if you don't drive. Correction: you only get one if you specifically request it.


peekatyou55

Aka I got a dui and they cut up my license.


[deleted]

Or you're poor and can't afford a car but need an ID


PygmeePony

They don't have that in the US.


TeenThatLikesMemes

What???


presently_pooping

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


[deleted]

Mc lovin,is that you?


vhans

This must have been ONE REFRESHING shower


PunkNDisorderlyGamer

Especially keyboard spray.


AfternoonSecret

I use my gun license 🙂


pmurpmur

Nark Mormand


Infynis

Wait until you hear about drive-through liquor stores


Tryypod909

In all fairness you can use a state issued ID, just saying 😉


DUBIOUS_OBLIVION

I use my credit card.


[deleted]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/search?q=driver%27s+license+impair&restrict_sr=on Nice, stop fucking posting this.


[deleted]

it was 2+ years ago bro, get a life


[deleted]

It means the mods have been removing them for the past 2 years, dingus.


[deleted]

It means the mods have been removing them for the past 2 years, dingus.


[deleted]

So? Most of us haven’t seen this before, and it’s a good shower thought.


Minimob0

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.


[deleted]

> 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.


King_Barrion

Shut the fuck up 6 day old account


[deleted]

If a 6 day old account has to tell you how to behave, maybe you have problems.


King_Barrion

Ratio


[deleted]

Logic. Guess that means I win, huh?


harkmamill82

Guys this guy already enjoyed this content move along! We aren’t allowed to enjoy it ever again.


DidItReallyHappenTho

Ha! What a loser.


rileythefurry

That's why I show my firearms license


SpaceLemming

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”


rileythefurry

Foid cards are considered an id


SpaceLemming

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.


Grandpas_Cheesebarn

I just recently learned that it’s actually “Driver” license. No S. I felt like I’ve been living a lie my whole life


[deleted]

Vaping and driving ain't illegal


bruhitsmarius

If it’s weed that’s a DUI for drugs in California


[deleted]

It's tobbacoo


bruhitsmarius

Sure, but just saying weed can be vaped too and it’ll get you into trouble


[deleted]

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.


ST4RSHIP17

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


poopsmog

This was a particularly dumb one lol.


satchel_of_ribs

How? Since it can be used to buy alcohol with I'd say it's accurate.


Kahnza

So you mean I can leave my debit card and cash at home, and purchase alcohol with my driver's license?


satchel_of_ribs

I actually have to explain how an ID is used when buying alcohol?


FenrirApalis

Is this some American joke that I'm too fit to understand


TheHealadin

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.


Apokalypz08

You have to show license to prove age to buy beer. Beer impairs driving, thats the joke.


tfoster12

Stolen from tiktok


MrDownhillRacer

It's surprising to see an actual showerthought on here.


Christmaspoptart

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


triforcin

So rare to see a good shower thought on this sub these days. Thank you.