In Baton Rouge, I always get carded. Drinking age is 21, and I'm 22. When I'm at home, a suburb, they never card for wine in the grocery store - its just not the same level of security I guess.
Once, my mom and someone from her work took me out to dinner at a restaurant here in Baton Rouge, I was 19 at the time. Well, the rule here is that you can drink in restaurants with a parent, provided you are over 18. So, my mom ordered me a glass of wine. Well, the waitress served the wine, and then a few minutes later came back and got an attitude about it - said that she had to remove one of the glasses of wine on the table! And THEN she said the manager required her to card everyone at the table - My mom was 51 and her friend was 43! Being carded by someone probably barely old enough to have their bar card.
21 is a stupid age. LA always had it at 18 until Congress threatened to take away federal hwy money if it wasn't raised to 21. Hmm...so much for that constitutional provision that allows states to set their own drinking age. It says nothing about the government being able to threaten that right with sanctions.
*gr* When will everyone realize that LA was founded with French and Spanish influences, and we just don't have that uptight Puritain way that influenced the original colonies, and eventually spread to the legal systems of the other states?!
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