There is a scheme in place where you have to prove you're over 21 to buy alcohol in supermarkets. Unfortunately I've ytet to be challenged to prove my age *sigh*
I didn't think you had to prove you were actually 21 - it's just that they use whether you look 21 or not to decide whether to id you and then as long as you're 18 they'll still sell it to you. Apparently it's because it's easier to judge whether or not someone looks 21 than 18. Some places even have it at 25. But even though I've been id'd, I've always been served in supermarkets at 18.
Yeah, you're right. You don';t have to prove you're over 21 but they can refuse to serve you if the ask for id and you either a) don't have it, or b) it shows you're under 21
All of this is way too confusing. Here, it is 21. That is because the Feds decided to tie something - I think Highway funding - to legal drinking age, as there were way more drunk driving accidents among people under 21.
I think it may have worked to reduce drunk driving accidents, but then a lot of things were working on that so hard to sort out what. Anyway, it does strike me as ridiculous that at 18 you can sign up to go be in the army and be shot at for a living, but can't be trusted with liquor. Like M-16's are so much less dangerous...Especially, like the other other guy's weapons are so much less dangerous...
Glamorizing alchohol is a bad thing. It is just - alchohol. Take the mystique away and I think you'd really have less trouble with it. But I could be wrong, I suppose.
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I didn't think you had to prove you were actually 21 - it's just that they use whether you look 21 or not to decide whether to id you and then as long as you're 18 they'll still sell it to you. Apparently it's because it's easier to judge whether or not someone looks 21 than 18. Some places even have it at 25. But even though I've been id'd, I've always been served in supermarkets at 18.
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I think it may have worked to reduce drunk driving accidents, but then a lot of things were working on that so hard to sort out what. Anyway, it does strike me as ridiculous that at 18 you can sign up to go be in the army and be shot at for a living, but can't be trusted with liquor. Like M-16's are so much less dangerous...Especially, like the other other guy's weapons are so much less dangerous...
Glamorizing alchohol is a bad thing. It is just - alchohol. Take the mystique away and I think you'd really have less trouble with it. But I could be wrong, I suppose.
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