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.
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Asked for ID to buy glass of wine
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"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.
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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.
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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:
I've never been IDed. Of course I've never actually gone to a bar...
Normal. Some places will refuse senior citizens alcohol without ID.
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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria).
Whiny soccer bitch.
I have never been to a bar where the waiter or the bartender would try to card someone. :(
I guess all that freedom was just too much for the lad from Leytonstone :bowler:
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.
NYC is nice. It rarely ever cards.
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.
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.
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
And yet the puritan legacy remains.
Anything that drives Beckham and his hideous wife out of America is okay with me.
A bartender in America was unsure about my age but I told him I was 29. He took my word for it.
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 15, 2009, 02:30:03 PM
Anything that drives Beckham and his hideous wife out of America is okay with me.
I would have resented this if they'd come back here, but it seems that Italy is going to be lumbered with them :cool: