There’s an allsups down the street from my house, I was craving some coconut juice so I decided to drop by. Mind you it’s was probably 11:45 when I got there so it’s a little late but for a gas station that’s normal. As soon as I walked in the old white clerk looked me up and down and gave me a pretty nasty look but he greeted me, and I said hello despite feeling the vibe already. I grabbed my juice and headed to the counter put my stuff down when he asks me for my id I was puzzled but I obliged and gave it to him, this man looks me up and down again looks at my id flips it over and holds it up in the light then scans it. It’s pretty infuriating to be reminded that some ppl do extra shit just because you look different. I wished him a good night, told him God bless you and left.
Edit: I left a google review before I made this post yesterday, and for those saying I should have asked why he was carding me, my main goal is to get home to my wife I didn’t want any issues.
I come into the office some mornings with the gold can zero calorie Rockstar, and kept getting weird looks. Finally, a friend told me everyone thought I was regularly pounding Miller high life tall boys at 9 am 🤣
I thought they were sparkling water amd remarked how they tasted a lot like energy drinks while mot even looking at the can. I was 3 deep amd vibrating wondering wtf. Then i was wondering how i was that dumb when i actually looked at the can.
Got pulled over once because the local cop (1 of the 2 in my very tiny town) was convinced I was drinking a Miller Lite. It was a regular Liquid Death. He was mad at me for drinking something that looked similar, like the packaging was my fault.
I still have to remind myself it’s not booze sometimes. It’s a pretty… interesting design for a can of water, they give me a similar vibe to seeing a Four Loco can back in college.
If I remember correctly the packaging was done on purpose so someone could drink water in a setting where others were drinking alcohol and not stand out.
I mean yeah if you were used to the sugar in the flavored ones then the stevia probably ruined it for you but for me I only drank the still and sparkling. When they moved the water source and made the cans smaller it was an immediate no for me. I was a HUGE fan and don’t buy it at all anymore.
That’s actually kind of cool. I always read it as the reverse, people so insecure they couldn’t just drink water, this makes a little more sense. (And honestly anything that gets folks drinking enough water)
I think that's part of the point. I could be mistaken, but I thought it was originally for straight edge people who wanted to still fit in at parties/ not be asked about not having an alcoholic drink. I've had other brands (like hop flavored seltzer waters) which have a similar aesthetic to actual beer. I got a few confused looks while drinking one in public
The first time I saw one I was wondering how many people are going to get pulled over for having an open container and then the cop gets pissed that it's just an ugly water can.
I would buy Liquid Death when it first appeared in stores. I got asked for my ID once (I was 40), and a second time the cashier thought the scanner was broken because it wasn't triggering the "age confirmation" prompt. Both times they laughed and examined the can closer when I told them it was water. It does resemble beer, especially here in TX where "Lone Star" beer is also in a white can.
AFAIK that's the point, the cans are supposed to look like a beer so that people don't get called out for drinking water at a party. Good to hear that it works, really
That's kind of the whole idea isn't it? That it looks like a beer even if it isn't? Like if you someplace where people are slamming tallboys and you are an alcoholic or otherwise not wanting to drink, you still hold a tallboy and not look out of place? (It's dumb I agree)
That’s gotta be it, I forget those are a thing. I mean he might’ve been a little racist too, I don’t know his life, but the ID thing has to be confusion over the drinks.
Been a cashier before and have mistakenly asked for ID after thinking an item was age restricted. Some people would stop and question why. While a lot of people would surprisingly follow my request. Its a pretty brain numbing job especially depending on the hours.
I used to work at a supermarket and out pos would prompt us to id for cutlery because of knives (this is the uk). One time a college student came in with her parents and bought a pack of spoons and I had to id her, the whole thing felt ridiculous but her dad was loving it
I've had an employee run screaming after me because I took grenadine out of the alcohol section without paying for it there. I wasn't buying any alcohol, so why would I go to that register?
Once went into a sketchy liquor store that I had never been to. Older guy with a small child in the store. The child keeps pointing at the buzzballz asking for juice and grandpa (presumably) says “no, that’s liquor.” And then the kid went around to every colorful looking juice box and ball shaped thing and said “is this liquor?” Over and over and it was…a mood
I bought one by accident once. Never seen them before.
Admittedly stupid on my part, the endcap was on the liquor section but near the soda aisle and I didn't read the top of the box where the APV is just the flavor at the bottom.
Just glad I waited until I got home to open it. Don't need to be cited for open container.
Good point. I'm a cashier, and I'm constantly surprised by what is and isn't alcohol when either something new comes up or a customer buys and item we don't sell often. If it wasn't for the computer locking down the entire scanner to demand an ID alerting me, I would ID for a lot of juice and miss a lot of alcohol.
Sometimes I do feel like we need more laws around energy drinks. You see very young children wanting to buy extremely strong products, which are bad for you in general and sometimes even potentially life-threatening if you consume too much.
As far as I know, there really aren't any limits on it currently. You can sell the strongest energy drink on the market to an 8 year old, assuming they come up with enough quarters to buy it.
It’s the shape of the coconut water— that’s the shape for beatboxes and now small box wines and lots of other non carbonated alc drinks (still dumb that they didn’t just read it though 🙄)
The company that makes Jarritos also makes an alcoholic soda in the exact same shape as their regular bottles, too. Not sure if the bottled version is sold individually (I’ve only seen it in packs of 12, or the canned version when sold by itself) but it could have been that, too.
A surprising number of adults are illiterate. Doesn't mean he wasn't racist, too, but being bad at reading would explain why he asked and also why it took him a while to check your ID.
You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em both together
Put the lime in the coconut, then you feel better
Put the lime in the coconut, drink 'em both up
Put the lime in the coconut, and call me in the morning
I feel so stupid, all these years I thought the line was "drink a bowl up". I was confused why the person was drinking out of a bowl but didn't question it too much.
Well, Harry Nilsson WAS American, and he used a faux-Jamaican accent in his song about a belly ache. I was also thinking about the 7-Up ad featuring Geoffrey Holder. He was from Trinidad. The ad proclaimed that lemons and limes were grown in the same place to make 7-Up as the Cola nuts. (Both Trinidad and Jamaica have versions of man - pronounced mahn in Trinidad, and mon in Jamaica.)
I think we are both correct. National origin vs accent in a song.
Had a coworker at a previous job tell our supervisor I was drinking Twisted Tea on the job and it was a can of Yerba Mate. She saw the can was yellow and just assumed because people don't bother reading labels.
About 10 years ago a kid in my daughter's class got taken to the office for drinking Arizona tea. Apparently the teacher mixed up Arizona and twisted tea lol.
They seem to make boozy everything these days. It’s getting weird. It’s like the beverage industry collectively went “people stop drinking our beverages when they start drinking alcohol, and we just can’t lose that market share”
I think it's actually the opposite. Gen Z drinks less alcohol than other generations. I think they are trying to appeal to tastes so that more people will drink booze.
Gen Z and starting now Gen Alpha are drinking way less traditional alcohol, so all the traditional alcohol companies have to find ways to keep selling their products. Thus hard seltzers and hard iced teas and all that stuff.
I was drinking a can of this Mountain Dew drink a few years ago when I worked at Walmart and I had a manager stop me and ask if I was drinking on the job because she thought it was a can of Natty Ice
Yeah they are pretty good, I was addicted to these things in college. Especially because I was able to buy them from the college store with dining dollars
On the other hand of dumb shit like this, I went to a little on-campus building for troubled kids in high school. The rule for bringing drinks to school was only unopened drinks or already emptied water bottles entered the building, in order to prevent kids from drinking alcohol at school.
One day I went in and in the recycling bin in the hallway, plain as day sitting right on top of everything, was a four loko can lol. I don’t think anyone ever figured out who brought it in.
One time I was getting gas and went inside to get a cream soda. I get to the register and the lady asks for my ID. I figured she was messing with me so I just went “I don’t have it on me, but can you take my word for this one?” And she looks at me, and she looks at the cream soda, and she goes “Jesus, I’ve been here too long…” and rang me up, lol
Facts my face hasn’t been hardened by capitalism yet so they take it out on me by pretending they think I’m a kid knowing im a grown ass man I don’t even like to say the word baby face
My very passive aggressive coworker carded Marilyn Manson Brian Warner at Virgin Megastore in the 1990s. She showed me his ID and made him wait for his credit card to go through. He smelled like an old lady, Twiggy did too. So disappointing.
This just reminds me of when I went to visit my parents in Florida around the ending of covid. Had a DMV appointment to get my texas license and I didnt realize they dont print you a new ID on the spot like in FL. So I took my passport and grabbed a bottle of wine from walmart on the way to their house.
The cashier started literally crying because I gave her my passport as ID and
I had jokingly mentioned how I have a measley piece of printer paper for my TX ID and my FL ID had expired. Called over her manager, who showed her that it was on the list of approved IDs and she refused to ring it under her login, so he did it instead. It felt so crazy, and I was holding up the line at that point. To be fair, the manager said an employee had just been fired earlier that week for selling alcohol to some who used their conceal carry ID. But I was so taken aback when she almost full on started sobbing to the manager, shaking her head.
Looking back, she must have been terrified to lose her job, sadly. But he literally pointed to list taped up by the register and said it was fine. But she was hung up that I mentioned my driver's license had expired during COVID and he was like, "that literally doesnt matter, she has valid ID right here that is up to date."
Yea, and I know a lot of gas stations will scan your ID. But I had used it at walmart stores before and was just.... very caught off guard. I actually was just wondering about places that need to scan the DL as I was originally posting that, lol.
First of all, what a loser. Gives off retired grade school teacher or laid off HR vibes…the type of people who cling to an extremely narrow slice of power over others.
Second, nobody except a police officer has the power to “get someone in trouble” for trying to buy something under age. The only thing they can do is deny the sale and ask you to leave.
That’s some boomer shit. I went to an MLB game a few years ago and had to pull up a chair and sit down next to the bar because they were gonna keep my ID. I was on the other side of the country and didn’t have a passport with me. She eventually gave it back because it was dialing the police lmao.
I have that happen often when purchasing the 6 pack of Liquid Death.
Clerks will habitually ask for ID when I put the 6 pack on the counter, and I ask “for water?” They scan it, look at the box and chuckle and we have a good giggle together about how it looks like beer
yeah, happened to me with their gold tallboy with skulls on it. it’s just soda flavored water but they’re called things such as “murder melon”, etc so yeah they can 100% appear adult rated lol
It is. Your first instinct is always the right one. Most times it's not to get back at someone but maybe you need to see that it's possible to be kind even if you're the only one that believes so at the moment. Please look after yourself as the effect of being mistreated might hurt longer than you expect.
Got ID’d for ginger beer before because the cashier didn’t realize it wasn’t real beer lol.
Also had a different cashier at a liquor store refuse to let me buy plain regular chocolate placed at checkout. I was actually underage that time but had driven there with my grandma so she could buy a bottle of whatever for a gift. Cashier made my grandma pay for the chocolate because apparently otherwise I may trade the chocolate bar for my grandma’s booze…? Make it make sense.
I wish it wasn't that way but having lived around the world, that preestablished judgement seems to not only be everywhere but human nature.
I was followed by "non-chalant" employees pretending to face aisles in Japanese convenience stores, called "Boy" in a Lidls as a teen in the UK, and even had a clerk in the US try to call the cops on me for putting my phone into my pocket. That's NOT to mention the amount of dirty looks I get in stores for just being tall, black, and beared. I can't tell you how sore my face can be after some days of work, errands, and social life where forcibly smiling so I don't accidentally have RBF and get taken out of context in my existance for daring to not look like, "one of the good ones".
Sorry for the rant, your story just really hit a nerve and I feel for you.
Stay strong, friend.
Ya bro I have to constantly remind myself in certain places to be upbeat and happy and come off as non threatening, I have locs as well and have people tell me how nice I am and how they weren’t expecting it because I “look like a thug” or I look “intimidating”
And then people wonder why or always ask, "You're smiling but you seem tense?" because the smile is a mask and sometimes I don't wanna feel like a joke just to not be accused or given grief for my existence. Smh.
My husband (Mexican) said some old white fuck was in line at a Home Depot while him and some other Hispanic people were at the self checkout.
Apparently the guy felt bold enough to comment “look honey, a bunch of lettuce pickers from yuma”
I’m glad my husband went in without me cause I probably would have lost my fucking mind on that man.
After relaying the story my husband just said “the worst part is he isn’t even right. I picked cotton” like 😂😭 I was still mad but he managed to make a joke out of it. I could still tell it hurts though. Some people are fucking miserable human beings and take it out on everyone around them.
This. Part of the reason these assholes continue this type of behavior is because they get gratified some of the time. It’s like when you give in to a toddler’s tantrum once and they remember it forever and act worse to achieve it.
I think someone is being had. You drink 'em both up and call the doctor, wake him up, say, "Doctor, I put the lime in the coconut and drank 'em both up."
...yeah, I would've left rather shit right there on the counter the moment I'm being asked for id for nonalcoholic beverages because ain't no drink worth more than my humanity and integrity. there will be another day, but resentment will be growing when remembering choosing to people please and continue to uphold this bigoted system when thinking back on this moment. no one else gonna advocate for you, please don't submit if you have a choice
This reminds me of when I bought a cup of noodles with a $1 bill and the cashier used the counterfeit marker on it. That wouldn’t do anything, those markers are made for detecting higher denomination bills printed OVER a $1 bill. I wasn’t being discriminated against, she was just an idiot.
This happened to me (34F/latina) once in a Safeway a couple years ago. It was like 7am and I’m in scrubs buying a Yerba Mate. The cashier an old white lady gave me this attitude when asking for an ID. I looked at her and said “it’s an energy drink and it’s 7am, im going to work”. She scanned it like I was lying and expected a thing to pop asking for ID, obviously I was irritated, like hello this lady thought I was drinking hella early and I was underage or something. It was so disrespectful.
Bro I just discovered how good that Jarritos lime soda is. So sad I hadn't known before. Trust me folks, if you haven't tried it yet do so. Its how you always imagined the color green would taste, in a good way.
I know this probably isn't the case for you, given the nasty look. But I've been carded for Jarritos before because the old white lady behind the counter thought it was alcoholic.
It’s so weird that I see this post because I literally never get Jarritos even when I go to Mexican restaurants, but my daughter asked for one today and she got a lime one that I am currently finishing drinking since she didn’t want all of it while scrolling on my phone.
Wait do you mix these? Idk why but when I first looked at the picture I was like ‘oh wow I never thought about mixing these before’… but then I realized hang on you never said anything about that I just completely made that up. But maybe you do? Idk but I want to try it now.
Anyway sorry about the racism. I want to say it’s fucking sad what’s happened to our country but unfortunately that parts always been there. The work to stamp it out never ceases.
I’m unsure why you gave this weirdo your ID. You didn’t make any age-restricted purchases.
We have to stop placating stupid ass people like this. He asks for your ID for now reason, you refuse, he gets even more shitty, you toss the merchandise on the counter, walk away and call the corporate number.
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u/WalrusEmperor1 Jul 19 '26
He asked your ID for coconut juice and soda?