Exactly right. The same thing happens here in CA; one store I frequent has signs at the register that state "If you are under 40, expect to be carded when purchasing alcoholic beverages."Originally Posted by W3WN
Exactly right. The same thing happens here in CA; one store I frequent has signs at the register that state "If you are under 40, expect to be carded when purchasing alcoholic beverages."
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Yeah but its this one person that always cards me but not rcl..grr daily lol. Guess she dont like me. And yes I know they do the little sting things. A friend of mine got a fine and lost her job that way when we were in high school.
"A night sky full of cries. Hearts filled with lies. The contract: is it worth the price?"
But that is the funny thing. In this area I swear that they card more often for smokes than booze. More often than smokes they card for glue, fabric paint, bondo, material that may be explicit, etc. I just think they have their priorities screwed up. Not saying its bad to card but the manner in which it is done is simply strange.
And again I make my point that the clerk was incapable of math or simply lazy. Unless there is a fake id ring in my area that I dont know about produced just so teens can by smokes. Add in the fact that if she knew how to run her register that when the card wouldnt swipe she would have known that she could scan it. ;)
"A night sky full of cries. Hearts filled with lies. The contract: is it worth the price?"
Card you for this, card you for that, store savings cards, club cards, and SSN's... the vice database, it grows, and grows, and grows, awaiting the day insurance companies and law enforcement can finally harvest it's bountiful goodness.
I'm busy skewing the results by "forgetting" my store cards when buying things society has issues about. It gets put on the managers card.
"Bacon, Beans and Limousines"
"Actually, it's a Democratic Republic; Democratic comes first".
Please don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is obviously me, But my attitude depends largely upon you.
Only place I ever get carded for alcohol is at the Renaissance Festival. I tell the cute chicks (all of 'em, at my age) that "I've got socks that are old enough to drink." That usually gets a smile.
All the other places I buy alcohol, I'm just known as "that guy who's sending my kid to school."
I fear there may be some truth in that...
Move here, they will card you. They carded my grandfather at the gas station the other day.
"A night sky full of cries. Hearts filled with lies. The contract: is it worth the price?"
When a store cards me for cigarettes, it's always the same old story when I ask, "Do you really think I'm not 18?" The answer is, "My boss makes me card everyone."
I walk out and go elsewhere. There's lots of other stores that have the modicum of judgement to know that I'm old enough.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
I'm seriously thinking of putting velcro on my forehead and sticking my ID on it when I go to 7-11 for beer.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
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