There are places here in Houston card silver haired old men too. The State requires that everyone in a bar have an ID regardless of age or distinguishing characteristics and some bars make absolutely certain of it.
You can’t be trusted to be an adult in the modern world.
I was buying beer at the local place yesterday, and the snot-nosed clerk asked me, "What's your birthday?"
After a cold glare and several seconds I replied, "December 30."
That was as far as it went.