The Real Reason Beckham Wants out of L.A. [he gets carded]

Started by Josephus, April 14, 2009, 08:03:43 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1 2
User actions

Josephus

April 14, 2009, 08:03:43 PM
David Beckham was a superstar in Europe but when he moved to America a waiter demanded to see his ID and refused him a glass of wine, according to a book due out in July.

GettyImages

Asked for ID to buy glass of wine
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=637172&sec=mls&cc=5901


"The Beckham Experiment," by Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl, features interviews with 33-year-old Beckham and other major figures in Los Angeles Galaxy, the soccer team he joined in 2007 after a stellar career in Europe.

[snip...boring stuff...]

Anecdotes include an occasion when Beckham was denied a glass of wine because he could not produce an ID document for a U.S. waiter who did not recognize him, Crown said. Many bars in the United States card people well over the age of 21, the legal age for drinking alcohol.
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Razgovory

#1
April 14, 2009, 08:28:53 PM
Clearly you didn't <snip> enough.  There's still lots of boring stuff in that post!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Sheilbh

#2
April 15, 2009, 12:54:48 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 14, 2009, 08:03:43 PMMany bars in the United States card people well over the age of 21, the legal age for drinking alcohol.
I wasn't IDed and I was under-age.  God bless America :wub: :weep:
Let's bomb Russia!

Razgovory

#3
April 15, 2009, 01:10:15 AM
I've never been IDed.  Of course I've never actually gone to a bar...
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

DisturbedPervert

#4
April 15, 2009, 01:49:59 AM
Normal.  Some places will refuse senior citizens alcohol without ID.

Syt

#5
April 15, 2009, 01:52:32 AM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on April 15, 2009, 01:49:59 AM
Normal.  Some places will refuse senior citizens alcohol without ID.

Probably made some bad experiences with kids suffering from Progeria.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

sbr

#6
April 15, 2009, 03:40:27 AM
Whiny soccer bitch.

Martinus

#7
April 15, 2009, 03:53:24 AM
I have never been to a bar where the waiter or the bartender would try to card someone.  :(

Richard Hakluyt

#8
April 15, 2009, 04:01:46 AM
I guess all that freedom was just too much for the lad from Leytonstone  :bowler:

jimmy olsen

#9
April 15, 2009, 10:40:46 AM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on April 15, 2009, 01:49:59 AM
Normal.  Some places will refuse senior citizens alcohol without ID.
:yes: I saw a woman who must have been near 60 turned away at Gillette stadium.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

garbon

#10
April 15, 2009, 11:28:12 AM
NYC is nice. It rarely ever cards.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

#11
April 15, 2009, 11:31:19 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 15, 2009, 03:53:24 AM
I have never been to a bar where the waiter or the bartender would try to card someone.  :(

It totally depends on the locality.  Some states and cities really crack down on bars and others do not care.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverages Commission is like some sort of Baptist Gestapo.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Josephus

#12
April 15, 2009, 11:52:14 AM
The only Amercian state I was ever carded (after I turned 21) was in Massachussets.

It was actually very strange. i was spending the summer taking a semester at Brandeis University, and we went out to this bar about a 10 minute walk away, in the heart of puritan Massachussets, which was filled with transvestites.

Seeing a guy at the urinal in a mini skirt and stockings was wrong on so many levels.
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

jimmy olsen

#13
April 15, 2009, 01:41:56 PM
Quote from: Josephus on April 15, 2009, 11:52:14 AM
The only Amercian state I was ever carded (after I turned 21) was in Massachussets.

It was actually very strange. i was spending the summer taking a semester at Brandeis University, and we went out to this bar about a 10 minute walk away, in the heart of puritan Massachussets, which was filled with transvestites.

Seeing a guy at the urinal in a mini skirt and stockings was wrong on so many levels.

Massachusets hasn't been Puritan since the 1700s
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

garbon

#14
April 15, 2009, 01:43:16 PM
And yet the puritan legacy remains.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Print
Go Up Pages1 2
User actions