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In the last year I have been asked for ID at bars a total of 13 times. 9 of those incidents occured at my local pub where I had shown the very same barmaid my ID a total of 9 times! The other two occasions were at my place of work by someone who didn't recognise me without my uniform on.
I have been stopped in the street by the police and accused of being truant from school.
I have been asked to prove I am over 16 when buying a CD with explicit lyrics in Our Price.
I have been asked to prove I am over 16 when buying aspirin in Boots.
At the Leeds Festival I was refused admission to the beer tent because they thought I looked too young (didn't even bother to ask for ID just plain turned me away!)
At work I have had people ask me which school I go to.
I am 19 years old. It is depressing me now. I am starting to get really scared whenever I go to a bar, which in turn is making me get asked more because I look scared.
Well, just wanted to get that off my chest!
I have been stopped in the street by the police and accused of being truant from school.
I have been asked to prove I am over 16 when buying a CD with explicit lyrics in Our Price.
I have been asked to prove I am over 16 when buying aspirin in Boots.
At the Leeds Festival I was refused admission to the beer tent because they thought I looked too young (didn't even bother to ask for ID just plain turned me away!)
At work I have had people ask me which school I go to.
I am 19 years old. It is depressing me now. I am starting to get really scared whenever I go to a bar, which in turn is making me get asked more because I look scared.
Well, just wanted to get that off my chest!
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Put it this way... I'm 15, 16 in January. Recently, while acting in a play, I was wandering among the audience at the interval and heard someone say, "Oh doesn't that young dark haired girl make a convincing 11 year old? She looks just right!" :yeees:
I've never been to any pub or club in Dundee I haven't been to before, without being ID'ed.
In the summer, I have neighbours asking if there's no school today, like they think I'm skipping. Stupid old fools don't even realise it's summer and there's no school.
Three times since I left home I've had people asking if my mam or dad is in. In my own fucking flat :mad:
Then there's the whole thing about people taking advantage of me because I look like a mug, but that's another story
but then again some people have said i look 14
Bumble, think of it this way. Every time I complain to my mum about looking younger than I am, she says, "Just think... when you're 40 you'll look in your 30's whereas those people will look in their 40's."
She's 25.
Sorry, that tickled me, hehe. Just the image of that happening.
i have the same problems bumble!
He thought I were 16! :eek: ( Yeah Maybe I was on work experience at 1:00 in the morning eh!:rolleyes:)
Either bouncers are thick as shit (I think that to be true in Croydon) or the small amount of power they do have go right to there little heads! (Flaming idiots!)
As you've said, it works out in the end when we are old and look young!
Too true! Some bouncers turn into right Hitlers.
The last time I was asked for ID was on my 23rd Birthday.
The the worst one though, was in the pub I frequent the most when the bouncer wouldn't let me in, so I asked to speak to the bar manager and as soon as he saw me I was walking passed the bouncer and giving him a large smile as I entered the pub. Twat.
Oh just quit your whinning!!! Look, in six years time you will hit 25. Then you will be permenantly obsessed with looking young enough to be ID'd and refused to served in pubs. If you ever actually are, you will proudly boast this to friends, family, and strangers in the street. You many pretend to be shocked, but inside you will be gloating.
Enjoy your youthful looks while they last, and before you hit 25 and become a bitter, shrivelled up old prune of a spinster, watching her youthful looks disintegrate by the hour. So stop whinging, and enjoy it!!!!
Sheesh! Youth! It's wasted on the young! (A phrase you will start to mutter under your breath once you become that old spinster in six years time). :rolleyes:
Mr_Wobble
She should have said no lol, then legged it before the police arrived to arrest her for underage driving.
As for looking young, i've been cursed with extreme facial hair, I have a full beard after 3 days and permanant stubble most of the time so I'll never look too young, which is good cos I'm 19.
Get yourself an older boyfriend to go around with. This should up your apparent age a bit.
on the other hand im 26 and my mother in law bought me oil of olay for xmas - what does that tell you.:(
Quit smoking. problem solved.
I would love it if I looked younger than I actually was. Unfortunately, I just look my age.
As long as you've got ID, thats all that matters. Now can you please just enjoy your beautiful, youthful looks!!!:)
And the reason I am bothered is because people think I look way younger than I am. I am 19 and wouldn't mind being asked for ID in pubs, but to buy aspirin you have to be 16 so I obviously look 15!!
i drove into a petrol station in my car, paid for petrol using my credit card, tried to buy fags for my friend and go IDed.
true story.
you think it's bad being 19 and passing for under 16?? i still do, and i'll be 22 in a couple of months.