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I never had a fake ID, though when I was in college, the drinking age was 18. I still think it should be 18.

I'm 53 with a little gray in my hair and I still have clerks ask me for my ID when buying alcohol. When I look at them incredibly they usually look down and mumble something about it being the law. What idiots came up with a law requiring you to ask for an ID of a man who is obviously over 21 just in case he might be the one in a hundred million 20 year old that looks like he's in his 50's?

Between being an airline pilot and being in the military I've been traveling around the globe for 30 years. Never once have I been asked for an ID in a foreign country yet in the U.S. we're obsessed with making sure alcohol never touches the lips of a 20 year old. In Germany the drinking age is 16, in Italy you'll see ten year old's drinking wine in a restaurant. Amazingly the world doesn't blow up when this happens. These countries also have far fewer problems with alcoholism than the U.S.

In the U.S. today we treat a 20 year old with a beer like he's carrying a kilo of meth. That same 20 year old can be given a machine gun and told to go kill terrorists to keep all of us safe. Meanwhile we'll let some pervert nutcase convince a five year old boy that he's really a girl and pump him full of drugs in preparation for cutting off his genitals.

Our priorities are so screwed up in this country.

In the mid to late 70’s I was in Stillwater at OSU.
You could drink in bars with a student ID no matter your age.
Legal age in OK was 21. They just gave up in Stillwater.