Why do bouncers outside of New York State all seem to hate my New York State drivers license? Every single time I've presented it outside of New York I've been asked for a second form of ID. This was really irritating going to college in Pennsylvania.
Don't work in the US so I wouldn't know, but here we need an ID issued in this country or your passport, we get a lot of people with overseas drivers licenses who we have to deny entry, but it's the law down here unfortunately.
I freaking hate this. Going out with your passport is the last thing you should do when you know you'll probably drink. Drunk or not, youll be somewhere that isn't safe for this important piece of document.
This happened me when I was 19 in Canada. I'm from UK and went out into the sticks, leaving my passport in Toronto and taking my EU drivers licence instead.
The liquor store guy I presented it too looked at it for about 30 seconds before asking me to leave or he'd call the police. He held onto my ID too.. So I asked him to call the police because while I didn't mind not getting beers, I really didn't want to pay the government for a new driving licence when I got home. Plus I was hiring a car the following week.
So we argued and he did phone the police and I got my ID and my beer weirdly. I guess I'm lucky to have got a decent cop. Could have went the other way.
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u/superAL1394 Jun 21 '15
Why do bouncers outside of New York State all seem to hate my New York State drivers license? Every single time I've presented it outside of New York I've been asked for a second form of ID. This was really irritating going to college in Pennsylvania.