Marring of special occasion IDs commonsense problem

ONE of the benefits of being born a baby boomer was society’s expectation that we should be able to think and decide for ourselves.

Alas, our daughter’s 21st birthday event demonstrated this attribute is now lost to the X and Y generations.

Our daughter and her mother made prior arrangements with management for a modest group of friends and relatives to decorate and utilise part of a local cafebar. Incredibly, after most guests had arrived, the duty staff refused to allow our 21-year-old daughter a drink until a “suitable photo ID” was produced.

We must be seriously concerned for this generation’s future as leaders. Have they lost the ability to process physical observations and make decisions?

We’d expect the 21st birthday decorations, the 21st birthday cake, the 21st birthday cards and gifts, and slide show of hundreds of photos of her 21 years would evidence that she was, indeed 21.

To properly demonstrate this lost skill set, they also would not accept her parent’s protest: “She’s not 17, it’s her 21st birthday.”

No, they required her mother to leave the event and drive home to locate and return with suitable photo ID, “to prove she was 21”.

This was not a high-risk venue in the Valley at 1am. It was 4pm Saturday at a riverside cafe-bar in the company of responsible adults.

However, these Xs and Ys blindly impose so-called “rules” without a thought to if they actually apply in the situation or even make sense, then bully us into accepting them.

It’s crazy to accept such sloppy thinking. Is the PC world just left to creep over our society; no one thinking for themselves, no ability to apply common sense?

We fear George Orwell (1984) only got the date wrong; unquestioning adherence to thought police has become the norm.

Save us from this stupidity please. ALLAN MORTON, PARADISE POINT