I didn’t start drinking coffee regularly until I was 17 or 18, but carding teens for caffeine is a bit absurd.
This is hilarious to me, because when I got my Free Iced Coffee, I was in line behind two unaccompanied young boys, about 6 and 9, who both got their Free Iced Coffees and the counterfolk didn’t blink an eye.
These kids walked into Dunkin Donuts alone, with no adult in sight. They asked me if today was the Free Iced Coffee, and I told them it was. The younger boy wasn’t able to read the Red Sox posters hanging in the shop, and the older kid struggled to sound out the words. After they got their Free Iced Coffees and left, I was actually a bit dumbfounded. My first instinct was to pity their adults, because the boys would be a handful that evening (this was about 6 pm); my second instinct was that if you allow children that you are responsible for to wander around a major city with no adult supervision, you deserve hyperactive, caffeinated brats.
