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Gotta chime in on this. Seattle (in general a great place) has some pretty horrible things re: purchasing alcohol. Idiot/mis-placed store/bar-workers who only
by Rediscover 5y ago
Gotta chime in on this.
Seattle (in general a great place) has some pretty horrible things re: purchasing alcohol. Idiot/mis-placed store/bar-workers who only want a state ID. My U.S. passport=NO. My U.N. passport=NO.
Freakin' weird.
Edit: I worked at Boeing for eight years, very often in a sec/reserved area. My passport was good there. Buying booze down the street from [Boeing] plant 2, no.
- morpheuskafka 5y ago> My U.N. passport=NO. I wouldn't blame a regular store clerk for not knowing what a UN Lassiez-Passier is, especially since it doesn't have the word "passport" in the name. But a passport, especially one from their own country, definitely ought to be recognized.
- mypalmike 5y agoWeird. Even during covid when I was wearing a mask, I never got ID checked at a store in WA. It seems much laxer here than in other states I've lived in.
- ashtonkem 5y agoNot entirely unique to Seattle, in my experience. Seared into my head is my experience of trying to buy alcohol in Boston back in 2009, when I was in town for a wedding. I had just turned 21 so buying alcohol was still novel and exciting. I had multiple bars and liquor stores refuse my valid Illinois license, forcing me to hand alcohol to my father to purchase, and find shady bars that wouldn’t card me. It was extremely frustrating to have to rely on such tactics despite being legally allowed to purchase alcohol.
- sbierwagen 5y agoWhen I lived in downtown Seattle in 2010 I had no problems using a passport to buy alcohol. (Unfortunately, routinely carrying around my passport resulted in me losing it, and replacing a lost passport is a giant pain in the ass)