Have just enough gray in my beard to demonstrate it is likely I have/recently had teenagers and the likelihood I’d buy would therefore be really remote.
Currently living in an area with few kids, mostly retired folks (constantly getting free food and good DIY tips), and where I used to live was a small town where the unofficial drinking age is ~13, so never been asked, and if I’d wanted to drink, I wouldn’t have had to ask.
If some teens asked me to buy them beer, I’d give them a good lesson on drinking like a civilized person and get them some liquor with mixers. Cocktails are the best.
When I was 14 at a camp one of the 16 year olds asked me to walk a mile down the road to the country store and get them some beer. I stared at him for a few seconds, then said, “I think you’ve had too much already. I’m younger than you!”
Beer no, cigarettes yes. I was somehow naive enough not to understand what was going on, so I did it without ever questioning why he wasn’t buying them himself until the whole thing was over.
No, but… The one time I asked an adult to buy me beer as a kid (15), I almost got arrested. The guy who I asked was, apparently, a local drug distributor and was being tailed by cops. After he bought us the beer and we drove off, we were pulled over and questioned, car searched, questioned more. For about 2 hours. The cops ended up letting us go because we were just dumb kids, but figures out a way to use our experience to bust the guy (one of the police said "like Al Capone for tax evasion). The next day my friends and I went to Lalapolooza 93. And i was terrified the entire time.
@elimanningface Around here all the church youth centers have disappointing beer selections. Too many Baptist churches. Down south, the Catholics have it going on pretty good, though.
No, but some time after I was 18 I had a younger friend ask me to go with him to Waterbeds n Stuff to buy some stuff. Had no idea why he needed me there until we actually got there and went straight down the stairs through the beaded curtains…
@theporschephile I like that you think people know what Waterbeds and Stuff is. From context, I’m guessing it is an adult video store or a mattress store with an adult video section.
@elimanningface Haha, nah, apparently they sell a lot of drug paraphernalia. It was indeed a mattress store upstairs, but downstairs was bongs and other stoner stuff as far as the eye could see. Really quite interesting.
So I just looked them up. Apparently not only do they still exist (the one near my parents’ place closed shop years ago), but they’ve given up all pretext of being a mattress store. Their website is all paraphernalia, with a little bit of waterbed stuff at the very bottom of the page, and their Facebook cover photo brags that they were voted best smoke shop in Columbus.
no, because i lived in a place where no one ever carded
no, because after that during the time i lived in an area where that kind of walk-by traffic was prevalent i was also underage
no, because after that i still looked underage
no, because after that i shopped at a liquor store known for not putting up with that shit (carded at the door under a massive sign composed of confiscated fake IDs, and again at the register, and had employees floating around outside)
no, because after that it wasn’t teenagers but homeless people asking me
no, because now i order my booze online and have it delivered
Does being asked where to get weed count?
Does it count if I used to be one of those teens hanging outside a store asking people to buy beer?
Actually, I was the shy one, so I didn’t do the asking, but I was part of the group hanging out. And I drank my share of the beer.
Wow, that was a long time ago.
Have just enough gray in my beard to demonstrate it is likely I have/recently had teenagers and the likelihood I’d buy would therefore be really remote.
Currently living in an area with few kids, mostly retired folks (constantly getting free food and good DIY tips), and where I used to live was a small town where the unofficial drinking age is ~13, so never been asked, and if I’d wanted to drink, I wouldn’t have had to ask.
@simplersimon Sounds like a great place to be!
Only my kids and grandkids, but they just come to the house and ask for one.
If some teens asked me to buy them beer, I’d give them a good lesson on drinking like a civilized person and get them some liquor with mixers. Cocktails are the best.
@Dizavid But they’re teenagers… They’d probably just take shots of the liquor
@candreasen Damn, you are probably right…
When I was 14 at a camp one of the 16 year olds asked me to walk a mile down the road to the country store and get them some beer. I stared at him for a few seconds, then said, “I think you’ve had too much already. I’m younger than you!”
Beer no, cigarettes yes. I was somehow naive enough not to understand what was going on, so I did it without ever questioning why he wasn’t buying them himself until the whole thing was over.
Sometimes I wonder how I survived my twenties.
I look young for my age so I still get carded so not happening
No, but… The one time I asked an adult to buy me beer as a kid (15), I almost got arrested. The guy who I asked was, apparently, a local drug distributor and was being tailed by cops. After he bought us the beer and we drove off, we were pulled over and questioned, car searched, questioned more. For about 2 hours. The cops ended up letting us go because we were just dumb kids, but figures out a way to use our experience to bust the guy (one of the police said "like Al Capone for tax evasion). The next day my friends and I went to Lalapolooza 93. And i was terrified the entire time.
@00 That’s pretty awesome.
Had a fake id as a teenager. People were always asking me to buy beer. That was a long long time ago.
I was asked by a single teenager in a hotel/shopping center kind of place to buy him beer…I was 19, so I had to tell him I couldn’t
@guyfromhawthorn You stole my story. How did you do that before I even wrote it?
In my case, I had a beard. Back then it wasn’t grey or white, but it was sparse, so it looked like a teenager beard.
"Superbad’
@gfreek
/giphy yeah McLovin
We don’t have a store in our neighborhood where teens would hang out. They hang around the mall, air conditioned.
@olperfesser no 7-11, Wawa, church youth center?
@elimanningface Around here all the church youth centers have disappointing beer selections. Too many Baptist churches. Down south, the Catholics have it going on pretty good, though.
@elimanningface where i live none of those places sell alcohol.
I think most of the teens around here are into heroin or opioids. So, no?
@MrHappypants to be fair, so are many adults.
No, but some time after I was 18 I had a younger friend ask me to go with him to Waterbeds n Stuff to buy some stuff. Had no idea why he needed me there until we actually got there and went straight down the stairs through the beaded curtains…
@theporschephile I like that you think people know what Waterbeds and Stuff is. From context, I’m guessing it is an adult video store or a mattress store with an adult video section.
@elimanningface Haha, nah, apparently they sell a lot of drug paraphernalia. It was indeed a mattress store upstairs, but downstairs was bongs and other stoner stuff as far as the eye could see. Really quite interesting.
So I just looked them up. Apparently not only do they still exist (the one near my parents’ place closed shop years ago), but they’ve given up all pretext of being a mattress store. Their website is all paraphernalia, with a little bit of waterbed stuff at the very bottom of the page, and their Facebook cover photo brags that they were voted best smoke shop in Columbus.
I’m the teenager outside the store…
Not exactly, but it can be hard to find a buyer in a new area.
no, because i lived in a place where no one ever carded
no, because after that during the time i lived in an area where that kind of walk-by traffic was prevalent i was also underage
no, because after that i still looked underage
no, because after that i shopped at a liquor store known for not putting up with that shit (carded at the door under a massive sign composed of confiscated fake IDs, and again at the register, and had employees floating around outside)
no, because after that it wasn’t teenagers but homeless people asking me
no, because now i order my booze online and have it delivered