THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Indeed, how can anyone “definitely” look under 30? I look pretty young for my age, and I’ll be 30 in a couple years. When I am, I will attempt to find a store with a similar sign, and when they ask me for ID, I will say, I am 30, I look 30, I won’t show you my ID, now please serve me.

There HAS to be a grey area if you are required to ID someone who looks under 30 but not under 30.0000001.

However, if these mystery shoppers definitely look young, then he probably made a mistake in not ID’ing this one.  However, of course he should not be fired on the spot.  Then again, it is their company and they can do whatever they want. Maybe they have a no tolerance policy toward ID’ing someone who obviously looks young.  That does not strike me as being outrageous (having a no-tolerance policy).

On the other hand, one person’s “obviously very young” can be another person’s “obviously over- 30.” So who knows.

As is usually the case, we might not know the whole story and there might be other reasons he got fired.

If we are outraged every time someone gets fired that maybe does not deserve to be fired, we would be outraged every second of every day.

Why don’t they just raise it to 40? The drinking age in the US is only 3 years higher, and at Yankee Stadium they ID under 40 (at least according to their little pins).

Drinking age in Ontario is 19, in Quebec it’s 18. But yeah, that immediate firing is ridiculous.