My friends and I found an ID and tried to use it at a bar where that person worked.

0:00 Hello.

0:00 Hello, can you hear me?

0:02 Yes, is it Lea or Lee?

0:03 Lee.

0:04 You just never know with these spellings.

0:07 That's tough.

0:08 I was excited for you guys to guess.

0:10 I get Lea a lot, I get Lay a lot.

0:12 Lay is inappropriate, but Lea and Lee, that's tricky.

0:19 How do you spell Lea, Leia, Lay, Lea, Lea, no, Lea.

0:24 How do you spell Lea?

0:25 L E A H usually.

0:27 Where are you at, Lee?

0:28 I am just a stone's throw away

0:30 from some of your many references in Northville, Michigan.

0:33 Oh, I know Northville inside and out.

0:36 Do you cruise Hines Park?

0:38 Of course, I'm like a mile away.

0:40 Wonderful.

0:40 Yes, we would go cruising in Hines Park quite a bit.

0:44 My very good friend went to Novi High.

0:46 My husband went to Novi High.

0:49 Wow.

0:49 And then we would cruise downtown Northville.

0:51 That's the story, Monica, that I met the girl when I was lying about

0:54 my age and she tooted when we were hooking up.

0:57 Remember that famous story?

0:59 I know.

1:00 That's all from Northville.

1:01 Bringing back all the memories.

1:04 [laughter] Lee, did you grow up in Northville?

1:06 I grew up in Northville and I met

1:08 my husband at Michigan State where the story takes place.

1:12 And then we moved all around.

1:13 I was by Wabi Wab in Chicago,

1:15 down in Dallas, and now back in good old Northville.

1:18 No stints in Atlanta?

1:20 What do you have against Atlanta?

1:22 You know, I worked for United Airlines, so they're very Delta country.

1:25 So, it's maybe my only rivalry there.

1:28 Do you still work for them or no, you don't?

1:30 Now I'm a stay-at-home mom and a personal trainer.

1:32 Okay.

1:32 Oh, nice.

1:33 Oh, I have gains.

1:34 Monica's worked out 1.2 times, 1.1 times.

1:38 muscles are huge.

1:40 [laughter]

1:40 I'm sorry to scare you.

1:41 How often are you working out?

1:43 We're so off track, but I'm curious.

1:45 Probably five to six times a week.

1:47 There we go.

1:48 Always a rest day, sometimes two.

1:50 How about five or six days rest days?

1:52 And I like the six-day workout.

1:54 Okay.

1:55 Yeah, sometimes seven on accident.

1:56 Let's hear our story.

1:58 Okay.

1:58 So, as we were from Michigan State,

2:00 sort of known as a party school, which is where the story takes place.

2:04 This is January 2014,

2:06 which would make me a 18-year-old freshman at Michigan State.

2:11 We are back for second semester and I was on a sports team at MSU.

2:17 And I actually want you guys to guess what team you think I was on.

2:20 I think you're a soccer player.

2:22 Uh lacrosse.

2:23 We're going to go lacrosse cuz my husband was lacrosse.

2:26 So, I'm going to keep that part anonymous, but I like lacrosse.

2:28 Okay, so neither.

2:29 Neither.

2:29 Because I'm on the lacrosse team,

2:32 there are girls who are a lot older that I've become friends with over

2:35 summer trainings and we kind of have this big age group of friends.

2:39 All the girls who are 21 obviously are going

2:41 to the bars on Friday night and that gave

2:43 a big incentive to the younger girls to find a way to also go to the bars.

2:47 So, there are two ways at the time it felt like you could get a fake ID.

2:51 First one is the one I opted for, which

2:54 was to take some sort of very sketchy passport-like photo

2:58 to send to who knows what country via whatever boy

3:01 on the dorm floor was willing to take on this endeavor.

3:05 Get all of those fake IDs back in like a necklace box from again,

3:09 who knows what country and who knows when

3:11 and he would kind of go and pass them out.

3:12 Terrible, very clearly fake from Connecticut.

3:15 Not great, but worked at the bars you knew it would work out.

3:17 The more ideal way to get the ID was a cousin that turned 21,

3:22 pretends they lose theirs,

3:24 you look enough like them, you use a real Michigan driver's license,

3:27 you know, more of a sure fire.

3:29 Yeah.

3:30 ID was always preferred.

3:31 I didn't get to have that obviously cuz nobody looked like me.

3:34 One time I used Callie's ID, we've talked about that.

3:36 Anyway, go on.

3:40 [laughter] So, I've got my fake ID.

3:40 I'm 18, feeling good,

3:42 getting into the bars I know I can get into with my older teammates,

3:45 but uh some of the other girls in my grade were still looking for an ID.

3:49 Well, turns out, feels like fate,

3:51 one of the older girls on the team is at a party and sticks her hand

3:55 down cuz she drops her phone in the couch

3:57 cushion and pulls out a driver's license.

3:59 Oh, bingo.

4:00 For someone we don't know, but immediately she looks at it,

4:04 blonde, blue eye, could have been any one of our teammates.

4:07 So, she holds onto this morsel and she decides

4:10 that she is going to night one of my best friends,

4:13 another freshman, Janine, with this fake ID.

4:16 Now, Janine is about 5'1, 5'2, cute as a button and this ID does say 5'10.

4:22 Uh-oh.

4:22 Other than that, we're going to roll with it.

4:38 [music] So, Friday night comes around, January, it's freezing cold.

4:43 Monica, as you know, the best part of going out is the getting ready.

4:46 We're getting ready in the dorms,

4:48 skater skirts, peplum tops, big chunky Charlie's necklace.

4:52 We're ready to go.

4:53 We're hyping each other up.

4:54 Janine parts her hair the way that Haley, the fake ID name, has her hair parted.

5:00 She wears it straight, which she never does.

5:02 We're trying to make Janine Haley.

5:03 She is living the role.

5:05 We get to the bar and this is the bar on campus, okay?

5:08 Rick's American Cafe for all my fellow Spartans.

5:12 I got to ask my sister about this.

5:13 My sister's a MSU graduate.

5:15 She will know.

5:16 It is a basement bar as all good college bars are and the way it's set up is

5:20 you kind of can see the front door

5:22 and that's it because you immediately go down the steps.

5:26 So, the line goes out and around the corner and you have

5:28 to wait outside until you get to the bouncer and go in.

5:31 So, we've got our group of all my teammates and we are strategizing here.

5:35 We've got someone who's 21 with a real ID first, then me,

5:39 then someone else who's 21, you know, we're intermingling the fakes.

5:42 We think this is going to help us.

5:43 I cosign on this.

5:44 Thank you, I appreciate that.

5:45 We're there and we are strategizing and while we're in line, we're all studying.

5:50 Everyone who's underage is studying their info, right?

5:52 Address, what's your date of birth, what's your full name,

5:55 what's your middle name, what's your hometown, all the things.

5:57 And Janine is locked in as Haley, she's ready to go.

6:00 And we decide because she this is her first time using fake,

6:03 she's going to go very last because the rumor

6:06 is kind of like if you're cool with the bouncer, even if he turns you away,

6:10 usually they'll give you your ID back and just say,

6:12 "I know this is fake, skurry off." She's like,

6:14 "I'll just go back to the dorms if I don't get in." So,

6:16 we get up to the bouncer.

6:17 Somebody goes, they get in.

6:19 I go, I get in.

6:20 Next person goes in and then we look at Janine and we're all kind

6:23 of trying to like creep down the steps so that we can hear what's happening.

6:28 Sweetie Petey, little farm town.

6:31 She's been peer pressured into using a fake ID really is what's happening here.

6:34 She hands over the ID and immediately the bouncer looks at it, smirks, and goes,

6:39 "How do you know Haley?"[ __] Yeah, see, this is the risk you run.

6:45 The bouncer knows Haley.

6:47 We're on a campus of 50,000 just undergrad,

6:50 but Janine is fast on her feet and immediately,

6:52 instead of trying to be the I am Haley, which is what I would have done.

6:55 I would have doubled down, panicked, gone with it.

6:57 Immediately doesn't miss a beat, goes, "We're really good friends,

7:01 like all my friends just got in.

7:02 Can you just give me the ID back?" And she

7:04 was just I think trying to get the ID back.

7:06 I don't even know if she wanted to get down the steps,

7:08 but he kind of like rolls his eyes, gives it to her and lets her down.

7:12 Yes.

7:12 [screaming] Good job.

7:15 reveal her at the end, she's too cute to let her go home.

7:18 So, Janine gets down the steps and we are celebrating

7:21 like it is Super Bowl Sunday and we have won.

7:24 We are Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce high-fiving.

7:27 This is the greatest thing that's happened to our freshman selves.

7:30 The bar is split because you go down the steps,

7:32 you go to the left side we called the dark side cuz that was the dance floor,

7:35 the booty bumping of it all.

7:37 And then the right side was the light side and that's

7:40 where you would go to like watch the game, order a drink.

7:42 It's a big oval, so you can walk kind of all the way around.

7:45 So, we're into the bar, we are there for probably 45 minutes,

7:49 just enough to get a couple vodka crans in us.

7:51 Oh, yeah, that was my drink, too.

7:54 Oh, yeah, it's every 18-year-old's drink at MSU, I order.

7:57 My 18-year-old drink was amaretto sour.

8:00 Oh.

8:01 That's what we would all get and then I worked my way up to vodka cran.

8:04 I like that you're also always like it's a twofer,

8:07 you're getting drunk and then also kind of buffeting yourself from a UTI.

8:11 Exactly, you're being healthy.

8:12 It's the wellness choice.

8:14 We're having a good time, we're booty bumping.

8:16 Now, the manager of this bar,

8:18 we're going to call him Hank cuz I'm pretty sure he still

8:20 works there and I want to be in good graces as an alumna,

8:23 but he is exactly what you think of when you imagine a Midwestern bar manager,

8:28 like big, burly, he's wearing the Rick's East Lansing t-shirt.

8:31 Everybody kind of knows his face in East Lansing.

8:34 We spot him walking over to Janine.

8:37 So, there's a couple of us that are all hanging out

8:39 and Janine is near the bar getting a drink on the dark side.

8:42 Hank walks over, steps right in front of Janine and just

8:44 puts his hand out palm up as if to say,

8:48 "Hand it over." Right?

8:49 Like I know you're using a fake, hand it over, but he's saying no words.

8:52 So, from the opposite corner of the bar,

8:55 I am watching this go down and immediately I

8:58 clock that the person standing next to him is Haley.

9:04 [screaming] The reason that the bouncer immediately recognized Haley

9:07 is because they're co-workers and she's a bartender.

9:10 Oh my gosh, what are the odds?

9:14 That is a bad, bad sim.

9:17 Bad luck is what that is.

9:19 As she's fumbling through her crossbody to get this ID out,

9:23 she goes to give it to Hank and Haley snaps

9:26 it out of her hand and just turns and walks away.

9:29 Kind of drew the conclusion that at some point in the bouncer shift,

9:32 he ran down the steps and said to Haley,

9:34 "I just let your friend in with your ID." And Haley said something like,

9:38 "What do you mean my friend?

9:39 I lost my ID at a party." You're right and that's why he let her in.

9:43 He's like, "Oh, it's one of Haley's buddies, she works here,

9:45 we're going to let it slide." I'm caught up now, that makes sense.

9:49 So, now we've pissed off Hank,

9:51 we've pissed off Haley, and we've pissed off the bouncer.

9:54 There's a lot of lies happening here, right?

9:56 From far away, I just see Haley get her ID

10:00 and Janine turns immediately and walks the other way.

10:04 So, I'm like, "We're good.

10:06 I've got three vodka crans and I'm booty bumping.

10:08 Come on back and join the party.

10:10 I think we're fine." And she comes to join the group and is like, "We got to go.

10:14 They're mad.

10:14 This is bad news." Now, truly like out of a movie,

10:18 cut to the next thing we see is we're trying to get up the steps

10:22 and at the top of the steps

10:23 with the bouncer are two East Lansing police officers.

10:27 __] that.

10:28 No, we're going all the way.

10:29 Am I P?

10:31 They were known to send the police officers

10:34 in and kind of have a good relationship and say,

10:37 "Oh, we don't know who's using fake IDs, but if you want to come down, Mhm.

10:41 you're allowed to go and ask people to see their IDs." So,

10:44 we're at the top and we just hear the bouncer say to the police officers,

10:49 "Yeah, blonde in the big pink necklace." Oh.

10:53 Describing god.

10:53 Janine.

10:54 She just pulled off the necklace and throw it?

10:57 Literally.

10:57 So, we are walking the steps.

10:59 Our walk turns into a full-blown sprint.

11:02 We turn the opposite way from the police officers and at this point,

11:06 I don't know if it's the adrenaline, I don't know what's happening,

11:08 but there are no words being said between the group

11:11 of the three of us that are sprinting away from this bar.

11:14 We are just like all somehow telekinesis going

11:17 the same direction and getting out of there.

11:20 End up running away from the police officers.

11:22 They do not chase us.

11:23 In my mind, I was like,

11:25 "We're now going to be on a foot chase." That did not happen.

11:27 We ran around the corner, went into the drunk food spot,

11:30 ditched the pink necklace in the bathroom, and all was well.

11:33 Scary.

11:36 All's well that ends well.

11:37 The full circle full circle of it is she obviously got her fake taken.

11:42 I was like the young one.

11:43 I didn't turn 21 until well into senior year.

11:46 Oh.

11:46 And I got very cocky with my fake ID because it had worked for so long.

11:51 So, for her 21st birthday,

11:52 I tried to use my fake ID and they guess not a good idea.

11:57 And that's when I got mine snatched.

11:58 Happened to the best of us.

12:00 Two things, I used Ken Kennedy's at times when

12:02 I needed to, but mostly we lived in downtown

12:04 Detroit and they did not give a flying[ __]

12:06 what age you were in downtown Detroit in 1993.

12:09 They didn't care at all.

12:10 You go to the liquor store and buy whatever you want and they're like, "Great.

12:13 You got cash, you're good." Mine got taken

12:16 my senior year right before I turned 21.

12:21 It ended up being okay.

12:23 I got 3 years out of it.

12:25 What was yours?

12:25 How'd you How'd you get yours?

12:27 kind, obviously.

12:28 You bought it off of a freshman in the dorm?

12:30 I had a friend who was making them.

12:33 Okay, handmade.

12:35 literally glued to the back of a Blockbuster card.

12:38 You couldn't take it out of the wallet.

12:40 Oh.

12:40 You know, you had the wallet with the clear

12:42 thing and you would just like give them that.

12:44 You know, if they said,

12:45 "Take it out," then you're like, "Actually, I got to go."

12:48 Actually, I have diarrhea.

12:49 I got to go home right now.

12:51 Yeah, that's what happened.

12:52 So, he made me and I cried.

12:55 fugazi.

12:55 You cried?

12:58 Yeah.

12:59 [laughter] I was so embarrassed.

13:01 Janine's coming out.

13:02 Someone over here.

13:03 Gabby might be behind too.

13:05 Hold on, I'm giving my airpod.

13:06 Oh my god.

13:08 Look at this.

13:10 You're still friends.

13:11 Roommates to best friends.

13:13 Oh, that is so cute.

13:16 member?

13:16 I'm was not a part of the story.

13:18 I met them after, but I'm just a huge

13:20 armchair and so Lea and I text all the time.

13:23 When episodes come out,

13:24 we're always just like bonding over it and she was like, "Okay,

13:26 you have to come over to bring some moral support

13:27 for the story and sneak in and say hi if you can." So,

13:30 just wanted to say I'm a huge fan.

13:31 Oh, I love it.

13:33 All right, well, nice meeting all of you.

13:35 Yes.

13:36 Yeah, nice meeting you, too.

13:37 Thank you for letting us tell our story.

13:39 Yeah, thank you.

13:39 So fun.

13:42 [laughter] Bye.