Supermarket Staff Set Up Us The Bomb
by SynRaptor on Oct.30, 2010, under Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb
Brief question here, why is it, when you buy alcohol in a supermarket, that when the person in the kiosk spends a good 23 seconds assessing whether you’re older than 25, you present them with ID, they then decide to tell you about the other 90 times they ID’ed someone for alcohol? I don’t fucking care! I just want to take my intoxicating liquor and fuck off home with it?
I don’t know if it’s some kind of embarrassment that they asked someone nearing 30 for something of which they have been able to buy for the last 10 years and the only thing to save one’s blushes is an unamusing diatribe which bears no direct relevance to your current situation?
It was even more of a pain in the arse when I didn’t have my driving licence with me because the DVLA decided to upgrade my picture that I had to argue my way into getting a measly four pack of Becks Bier? Granted, you can argue that I don’t look my age, but nevertheless, I certainly don’t look like some immature adolescent. If I was wearing a hat at an incorrect angle or had my trousers hanging down below my arse crack then maybe. But by virtue of the fact I am quite eloquent and honest, isn’t that indicitive of someone of legal age? Yes I understand that they can have a fine if they get it wrong but usually I buy my beer on the way home from work and I certainly didn’t go to school in a fucking suit!
But it begs the question when can such a situation be politically incorrect? What if someone was suffering from a disease whereby they had a syndrome where their body aged at a third of what it should be? Is that then mocking someone’s degenerative illness? I appreciate the laws have to be stringent to stop all these little shits getting pissed and hanging out at the park throwing bottles, but surely common sense needs to be implemented?
And its even worse when you have staff who seem to take the moral high ground because they think that they have some divine right to deny you the sale of goods. It pisses me off. The law is there, fair enough, but execise a tiny bit of common sense, please?
October 30th, 2010 on 3:20 pm
lol I agree, a while back I was in Tesco with my wife buying a couple of bottles of wine and a pack of beer, and the moody mare on the till insisted that I provided ID. Fair enough. Then she insisted my wife provided ID too!
Sadly my wife didn’t have any ID as we were on a last minute dash to the store before it closed and I wasn’t insured on the car. So I had had to pull her out of her comfy chair when I discovered that I had no beer and no car to get to the beer shop.
Nevertheless I tried to explain (without being too patronising) that I was the one buying the alcohol and not my wife, so here is “my” ID, that you require from the “purchaser” of said intoxicants.
Well we got through eventually, but after an argument about the law and who was buying the wine and beer. It’s ridiculous, I thought what about a single mother who has no one to leave her child with when she goes shopping, so takes little Tommy aged 5 round the shop. She thinks to herself “I could do with a couple of glasses of nice wine to relax to tonight”, so picks up a bottle of Shiraz and proceeds to the checkout. Is it fair that she’s denied the purchasing of the wine just because little Tommy can’t provide ID to confirm he’s over 18, and because he just so happens to be “with” her at the checkout?
Ridiculous!