Is this standard practice now?

Went into the supermarket this weekend and at the counter it said "If you
don't look 25 years old, you'll have to provide proof that you're 18 before
we'll sell you alcohol.

I can understand the "If you don't look 21" signs, but 25? How long will it
be before you need a fooking bus pass to get a bottle of plonk/can of beer?

And bear in mind, I don't even drink, so it matters not a lot to me, but
still an' all.

 

A few months ago the duff Doris at ASDA asked if I was over 18.
I'm a bloody pensioner FFS but "its the rools, we have to ask"
Yea right.

 

a stupid person in Tesco, Hereford refused to sell me a 4 pack of beer
because I had my then 17 year old son with me. I left £50 of shopping on
the belt and fucked off to Morrisons.

 

"Do you want any help with your packing?"

"Humm, for half a baskets worth of goods? No, it's ok... I think I'll
just about manage, thanks"

 

"Only when you learn that bread and eggs don't go at the bottom of the
bag and your carrier bags won't hold more that the weight of a tin of
beans."

 

Yes, national chains have a FEAR of trading standards officials and
negative publicity. They prolly don't give a shit about the fines, mind.

I'd sure there are some retail bods here ready with chapter & verse.

 

Dangerous coves, picnics.

 

It is intended to make it easier for the staff, who are placed in an
awkward position time after time. They /have/ to ask the question, as
apart from anything else, Trading Standards are running one operation
after another, checking retailers and pubs. I've seen some of the kids
they use, and I tell you, it amounts to entrapment.

Take a 5' 10" 14-year-old girl, dress her in office-type jacket,
trousers and heels, with makeup and jewellery and send her into an
off-licence to buy a bottle of Bacardi. Staff take one look and serve
her without question as she looks like she just got out of her company
BMW round the corner and must be at least 23. TSO pops out from behind
the crisps, waving a camera and shouting "You're nicked!". Then
there's fines all round and a black mark on the guv'nor's licence -
three black marks and the licence burns.

Apart from that, when an already half-pissed scrote wanders in and goes
for the White Lightning, it isn't so easy to give them great offence by
asking them to prove their age because they don't look 25 - or 30, as
I've seen on some posters. Ask 'em if they're 18 and you get (slurred)
"Whaddyafookin' mean, fookin' 18?" Ask 'em for ID because that the
rules and they don't look 30 and they have to agree with you.

That's what it's all about.

 

I had one checkout droid start discussing the England vs USA match
last week, and he proclaimed that 'Heskey had played well'.

I can see why he works on a checkout...

 

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Beav escribió:

Scared shitless, innit. I got asked for proof of age in the states when I
was about 35. My hair was already greying.

 

This happened to my ex and my middle daughter last week - my daughter
is 21 and carries ID[1] with her all the time because she is only 4'
11" tall (short) and honestly doesn't look 18 half the time. The idiot
on the checkout refused to serve them alcohol even though he knows them
both and was shown Jess's ID, giving the reason to my ex of "But I know
you have a son under 18". My 17 yr old son was at that moment 200 miles
away in Yorkshire. Jane walked out leaving two shopping trolley's worth
of shopping half scanned through the checkout

[1] Full licence and passport plus other photo IDs

 

It's Grumpy Old CuntMan!
I'm sure that's what they think of me when I've voiced similar concerns.
Amazing how many checkouteers think that bread is some form of memory
foam.

 

For an instant, that struck me as odd.

 

I've got a 9" pianist

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That's the one.

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The spotty faced oiks in my local store ask everyone for proof of age
i just point to the grey hair

 

You got the intelligent one then

 

No, but you can help with paying for it if you want.