I would have leveraged the hell out of the no license thing to explain the trouble with Johnny Law.

Fun fact: This lie is actually based on something that actually did happen to my father. 3 times in the same day at 3 different liquor stores, he got pulled over after leaving the parking lot because the cop saw him and thought he looked underage (he was, at the time). All 3 times it was the same cop, all 3 times he got his beer confiscated, and all 3 times he had a buddy in the back seat who had a lot of weed on him.