carded...!

Just a quick post to pass on an amusing incident. I went to Sainsbury's (a grocery store) the other day to buy a bottle of wine for an MBA happy hour gathering at someone's building. And when I got to the counter to pay for it, the cashier actually asked me for ID!

You only have to be 18 in this country to buy alcohol, and I'm going to be 28 in three weeks and I actually got carded???? I handed the guy my ID, and he looked at it and said '1977'? ;) Flattering, I guess? Well, maybe in another ten years it will be flattering if people think I'm 28.