Student dresses up as grandma to buy booze, goes viral

Not to be tried at home...
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Sam Haysom
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It may sound like something out of The Inbetweeners, but apparently this is real life.

This is Reema, a student at Virginia Commonwealth University:

On Sunday, she tweeted four throwback photos of the time she apparently dressed up as her grandma for a very specific reason.

At at the time of writing, those photos have over 12,000 retweets.

We're sure we've seen something like this before...

Probably (in fact, most certainly) best not to try this one at home.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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