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Why Am I Always Getting Carded in Alabama?

  A friend, now in his 60s, asked me why he must show his driver’s license to buy an alcoholic beverage in Alabama. Let me do some lawyersplaining. First, the server might think he looks under 21. Unlikely, but it could happen. In Alabama, you cannot sell (or...