--- title: This Man Used His Blockbuster Membership Card to Buy Beer description: A hilarious Reddit user decided to show his true age when buying beer by using his Blockbuster membership card as proof that he was of age. canonical: https://time.com/4527937/blockbuster-member-drinking-age/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-12T15:56:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:33.585Z og:title: This Man Used His Blockbuster Membership Card To Buy Beer og:description: It only took 15 tries og:url: https://time.com/4527937/blockbuster-member-drinking-age/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b3061fbba1cb2b/6988a9a9cd1bbaa98a702ad0/man-uses-blockbuster-card-to-buy-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Blockbuster To Close 300 Stores In U.S. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Man Used His Blockbuster Membership Card To Buy Beer twitter:description: It only took 15 tries twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b3061fbba1cb2b/6988a9a9cd1bbaa98a702ad0/man-uses-blockbuster-card-to-buy-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Uses Ancient Blockbuster Card to Prove He's Old Enough to Buy Beer > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) A sign marks the location of a Blockbuster video store on January 22, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Dish Network Corp., which owns the video rental chain, says it plans to close about 300 Blockbuster stores across the country, eliminating about 3,000 jobs. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Scott Olson—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 12, 2016 3:56 PM UTC The next time you forget your ID, don’t panic — there are plenty of other ways to prove that you’re of [legal drinking age](http://time.com/72546/drinking-age-alcohol-repeal/). For Reddit user[ boomboomsaloon](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/570ra6/it%5Ftook%5Fabout%5F15%5Ftries%5Fbut%5Fi%5Fwas%5Ffinally%5Fable%5Fto/), invoking the [archaic practice of renting DVDs or perhaps even — gasp! — VHS](http://business.time.com/2010/09/23/why-blockbuster-couldnt-avoid-bankruptcy/), was enough to act as ID to buy beer. In a Reddit forum, he posted about using his Blockbuster (you know, that chain store of yesteryear where people rented movies before there was Netflix) membership card to prove that he was legal. “It took about 15 tries, but I was finally able to buy beer using my blockbuster membership as proof of age,” he wrote. Those looking to also forgo traditional forms of identification might consider bringing back other markers of your advanced age — CD collections, original boy band merchandise — the possibilities are endless. \[[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/570ra6/it%5Ftook%5Fabout%5F15%5Ftries%5Fbut%5Fi%5Fwas%5Ffinally%5Fable%5Fto/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4527937/blockbuster-member-drinking-age/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4527937/blockbuster-member-drinking-age/"},"headline":"Man Uses Ancient Blockbuster Card to Prove He's Old Enough to Buy Beer","datePublished":"2016-10-12T15:56:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:33.585Z","description":"It only took 15 tries","url":"https://time.com/4527937/blockbuster-member-drinking-age/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Funny","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b3061fbba1cb2b/6988a9a9cd1bbaa98a702ad0/man-uses-blockbuster-card-to-buy-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b3061fbba1cb2b/6988a9a9cd1bbaa98a702ad0/man-uses-blockbuster-card-to-buy-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Blockbuster To Close 300 Stores In U.S.","caption":"Blockbuster To Close 300 Stores In U.S.","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4527937/blockbuster-member-drinking-age/","name":"Man Uses Ancient Blockbuster Card to Prove He's Old Enough to Buy Beer"}}]}] ```