Jennifer Coolidge recalls dressing up as her friend’s mom to buy beer when she was 12: ‘You look so old!’

https://ew.com/jennifer-coolidge-dressed-up-as-friend-mom-to-buy-beer-at-12-11692829

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  1. > “I was up in her [mother’s] room, in her dressing room, and I found her wig and her cat glasses, and I put it on, and then all of a sudden Marie goes, ‘You look so old!'” Coolidge said on Thursday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “And then we sort of just figured out. We started talking about it, and then I put on her mother’s coat and everything and … she’s like, ‘We can get beer this way.'”

  2. When I was in high school I didn’t shave for a month so I looked older. There was a dive bar in town where you could buy carry out liquor. I sat down at the bar and ordered a beer. They didn’t ask for my ID. I was pretty scared and drank the beer quickly. Since they had already served me, I ordered a case of beer for a party. While I was waiting, they put another beer in front of me. I said no thank you I only wanted the one. They pointed at the end of the bar and said that lady wanted to buy you a beer. This really old toothless lady was smiling at me. I waved, thanked her, drink the second beer even more quickly than the first one and got the hell out of there. My friends were waiting in the car this whole time and thought I got arrested.

  3. I used to go to the bowling alley bar with my of age friends to sing karaoke. I was 16 and not supposed to be in that area of the bowling alley. I didn’t try to drink, it was never an issue. After several years of not going there, I was of age and went in and offered to show ID. The bartender said, “don’t worry, I remember you!” I could have been drinking that entire time! I “matured early” but I never really took advantage of it, because I was a square. Like the Jennifer mentioned here, I’ve looked about the same for 30 years.

  6. When I was in high school, we had a kid in our class who, when he was 14, looked like he was 40. He was about 6 feet tall, with a broad build, a full beard (like FULL beard), shoulder-length curly black hair. The whole thing.

    This guy must have bought an entire pallet worth of beer over the years. No one in their right mind would have ever carded him. He looked like he’d just walked off the nearest construction site and could easily beat the snot out of you.

    Just to add, he was a nice guy who, as far as I know, never got caught and never got in trouble. Never fought either, seeing as he could have probably killed anyone in his age group fairly easily.

  7. But in all fairness the legal drinking age was like 14 back then.😀

  8. Cool stories…made me chuckle. Can’t relate as i  grew in a country where a 2 year old could buy as much alcohol as he could possibly carry.

  9. Anyone else say ‘You look so old!’ In Jennifer’s voice?

    🙋🏼‍♀️🤣

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