> You will however be asked for ID before being allowed in a strip club, brothel or casino, or before being sold a DVD of some action movie.
The action movie too? I’ve never seen that happen, and I’m certain I rented a whole bunch of age inappropriate DVD’s (or was it VCR’s?) back in the day. Maybe we were required to be ID’ed and the teenager behind the counter just gave zero fucks?
Again, depends on the country and time I suppose but "Video stores" back in the day used to be completely off limits to kids where I was. Just couldn't get in until 18. I never understood why as a kid.
One time my parents got me in. They had made a deal with the owner that I'd be shielded by a parent from seeing anything in the store on my way to the small corner of "age appropriate" VHSs, so that I could pick out what I wanted and then I'd have to leave the store while my parents went to rent it, coz from the cashier's counter I'd see too much.
Of course today I understand but back then I was just like "WTF!, why not!?"
Funny to think about now. It was a tiny corner I could see and a huuuuuge store I wasn't allowed in.
This sounds like the one I went to as a kid except the kid friendly stuff was up front. Beyond that was a huge room full of porn tapes, that iirc was locked so age filtering happened at the second door instead.
I've been ID'ed as a teenager when I was trying to buy Skyrim, which at the time was rated for audiences older than me. Gamestop and electronic retailers also generally didn't have teenage employees.
I know movie theaters are different from video rental stores - but I once got carded on a date at age 16, to see the movie Johnny Pneumonic. It was rated R. Still had one more year to go. It was rather embarrassing.
The action movie too? I’ve never seen that happen, and I’m certain I rented a whole bunch of age inappropriate DVD’s (or was it VCR’s?) back in the day. Maybe we were required to be ID’ed and the teenager behind the counter just gave zero fucks?