Jeff Burkhart: ‘Can I see some ID?’

Jeff Burkhart (Photo by Lou Lesko)

I looked at the two young women with the two young men and decided to head off the inevitable by checking their IDs immediately.

“Can I see some ID?” I asked before they even ordered.

Four rolled eyes and two guffaws later, I was presented with three IDs. Two were vertical — portrait versus landscape — meaning that they had either recently turned 21 or weren’t yet. But what it really meant was closer inspection was needed.

“We’ll have two piña coladas...