Big congrats to the guy who used a Blockbuster card as ID to buy beer

RIP Blockbuster.
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Jessye McGarry
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After 14 tries, do you give up? Throw in the towel? Finally accept the defeat that your Blockbuster membership is not a legal form of identification and cannot prove your age to a liquor store?

No. You try for the fifteenth time. And as Redditor boomboomsaIoon wrote, "It took about fifteen tries but I was finally able to use my Blockbuster membership as proof of age."

Of course it would work. The last Blockbuster (which was a video rental place) withered away around the same time as the drafting of the United States Constitution. Don't they rap about it in Hamilton?


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Our rough estimate is that the cashier at the beer store must have thought that this person was at least 500 years old.

If you don't have a Blockbuster card, but you're of age and seem to have misplaced your government issued ID, perhaps a Forever 21 gift card will do the trick.

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Jessye McGarry

Jessye McGarry is an acquaintance, middle child and former Humor Intern at Mashable.

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