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In reply to the discussion: Any chance the drinking age will get lowered to 18 any time soon? [View all]brewens
(15,359 posts)the age was 21 to buy beer. We're right on the border. Lewiston, Id and Clarkston, Wa. Now who'd be dumb enough to try that? I would, and I got away with it almost every weekend for two years! It was a masterstroke. They didn't even look at me close. They got so they knew me and I'd go right back in the cooler and grab full cases, before it was common to have a walk-in for customers.
Other guys were coming from Clarkston to Lewiston because it was 19, using fake ID's and everything. I know of no one else that played it the way I did. I kept my mouth shut about it though. Only a couple buddies knew where I went and I always went by myself. I was a big kid and was cool about it. I didn't have a beard or anything like that though.
We drank all the time when I was a kid in the 70's. They make it pretty tough these days.