drinking age

I just got back from eating dinner at my work. It was our friend's birthday and she wanted to eat there so we went. When we walked in, we were followed by two sheriffs. We were like "uh ohhhh I wonder what's going on here!" Apparently the ABC (alcoholic beverage commision) had been sending people into restaurants to make sure they were IDing people. One of the girls that works with me had unfortunately forgotten to ID someone and it just happened to be someone underage, sent in from the ABC. She was busted and that's why the sheriffs were there. It's a really serious offense when that happens. You don't go to jail or anything, but the restaurant gets fined about $500-$600. Also, our boss had to fire her. It was really sad because the girl had been working there for five years. I know it's a big deal, but I don't think she should've been fired. My brother did the same thing once. He was fired from a previous job because he forgot to ID someone. I've been really lucky. Sometimes I forget to ID, but luckily no one has ever been underage. It's something that you have to be really careful about.

While we were eating, and talking about it, my roommate said that she thinks they should just change the drinking age to 18. I don't think it's that great of an idea. I mean yeah, it would be nice to be able to buy alcohol, but I'm a responsible person. Many people our age, however, are not that responsible. I think if the drinking age went down, there would be more drinking fatalities and incidents. My roommate was right though saying that if kids want to get it, they will. It does hinder the ability to get it and makes it a lot harder to get if you aren't 21. I just think that's a bad idea. I really don't think it should be as serious as it is though. It really sucks that we lost a really good waitress because of a small mistake.