Just been in Tesco for some ale, goes through the self serve checkout and the machine says I need approval.  So some woman comes over and asks me for ID.  I'm 34 years of age and she won't put it through without ID, which I had to go out to my van for and hold the fucking queue up. Thirty four. I do not look under 18 you silly cow

Take stuff like that as compliment pal. I know its annoying but its not worth their hassle letting under age through. Major individual fines these days.

 

Or maybe you wanted gumbo to respond!

Edited June 7, 201412 yr by tomski

Another example of a big corporation and their ''Computer says no...'' mentality - poor cow probably had no choice but to follow the rules however daft.

 

On a sort of related note, I read somewhere a bloke brewing his own beer had asked folk dropping off empties (at the bottle bank of a big supermarket beginning with S) if he could have them instead, the manager tried to get him done for 'wandering abroad whilst begging for alms' or some other antiquated law. This was even more daft as it happened in Berkshire (or somewhere like that).

Take stuff like that as compliment pal. I know its annoying but its not worth their hassle letting under age through. Major individual fines these days.

 

Or maybe you wanted gumbo to respond!

It's a minor affront to civil liberties, enough of these start creeping into everyday life, they become the norm.

 

I'd have put the ale down and walked out, told them I wouldn't be coming back (even if I wasn't going to not come back again - ever.)

Was asked twice at M and S recently and while stood with my 9yr old daughter. I am 38. I did say are you having a laugh.

The assistant manager at my local lost her job and licensee last week for serving two 15 year olds.

 

They were sent in by police to catch them out.

 

Not the same I know,but that's why they have to be so stringent.

 

On a lighter note our peg got asked in the Newton arms last year aged 29 on a family meal. She didnt have her drivers Licsence or such but only had her publican/ licensee card with her photo on it.

 

They wouldn't accept it,much to my wife's annoyance. Not wanting to make everyone up sticks and leave we carried on and ate there as the beer was only for me anyway so I just ordered my own. Then at 9pm the manager came over and asked us to leave as under 18's had to be out of the building after 9pm! Haha.

 

Much like your story chippy tea ...it was just ridiculous and all down to the manager having fuck all comon sense.

a few years ago in memphis saw a 76 year old man with a walking stick get id'd for two glasses of wine for him and his wife.

 

struggled to get his id out of his wallet he was that old

 

funny as fuck

Take stuff like that as compliment pal. I know its annoying but its not worth their hassle letting under age through. Major individual fines these days.

 

Or maybe you wanted gumbo to respond!

 

Know what you're saying but surely common sense should apply?  Any idiot would know a man in his 30's doesn't look under 18

I hope you went into the bogs and trashed it before you left?

Money talks, if enough people tell them to stick it up their arse when wrongly challenged and/or asked for i.d. then the lost revenue from sales outweighs potential fines.

 

If we blindly accept it, it's the thin end of the wedge...

As an aside, I had some 'beer' made from stinging nettles t'other day - a mate brews his own booze and has a garden the size of Kew so he combined tidying up with 'harvesting' and knocked some up.

 

I'm normally quite dubious of his concoctions (ooer) but it really wasn't a bad drop at all - tasted a bit like cider infused with herbs, very crisp and did the trick, I was half-cut off a couple of glasses.

Here's the link he got the recipe from, don't let the title put you off...

 

http://www.farminmypocket.co.uk/growing/wild-food/nettle-beer

I got done by trading standards a few years back, young lass came in arm in arm with a middle aged bloke, he disappeared and she ordered the drinks...

 

turns out she was 15.. he was the trading standards officer...

 

£80 quid on the spot fine.. Officer said they had hit everypub in Bolton and caught someone at every pub..

Get him reported to Operation Yewtree, filthy bastard, or, better still, find out where he lives and take a lynch mob around, get him strung by his heels from a lamppost and be damned.

this was about 10 years back...

Know what you're saying but surely common sense should apply? Any idiot would know a man in his 30's doesn't look under 18

Defo, but common sense sadly lacks in some of these cases. When it doesn't laugh it off etc.

Know what you're saying but surely common sense should apply?  Any idiot would know a man in his 30's doesn't look under 18

  

Defo, but common sense sadly lacks in some of these cases. When it doesn't laugh it off etc.

Some do look young, take Tomski with his boyish good looks for instance.....

Get him reported to Operation Yewtree, filthy bastard, or, better still, find out where he lives and take a lynch mob around, get him strung by his heels from a lamppost and be damned.

When you get to his house write "paediatrician" on his wall.

 

I got ID checked at Chicago airport when I was 40. I was chuffed to fuck until she also check a bloke who looked like JR Hartley. When I questioned her over she point to the sign that said "We ID check everyone"

Just been in Tesco for some ale, goes through the self serve checkout and the machine says I need approval.  So some woman comes over and asks me for ID.  I'm 34 years of age and she won't put it through without ID, which I had to go out to my van for and hold the fucking queue up. Thirty four. I do not look under 18 you silly cow

 

 

I hope you spat your dummy out

All the major supermarkets now operate the 'Task 25' policy which the majority of customers are not aware of.

 

You have to be 'appear' to be 25 or older to purchase, if not you will get asked for ID. It used to be 21 but was rasied to 25 to ensure younger people were still challeneged for 18. It's another safeguard in their checks and balances. You can still buy alcohol once 18 and onwards but you will be challenged, if you have youthful good looks.

 

The cost of one of them losing their alcohol licence would run into the thousands and various fines for the checkout operator (financial and potential criminal record, serving underage) and the store manager. That's why they are so tough and stringent in implementing.

 

If they even had the slightest of doubts their trained, not to process the sale.

Edited June 7, 201412 yr by DIPS

Thought this was gonna be about Bob the landlord et al

When you get to his house write "paediatrician" on his wall.

 

I got ID checked at Chicago airport when I was 40. I was chuffed to fuck until she also check a bloke who looked like JR Hartley. When I questioned her over she point to the sign that said "We ID check everyone"

Chillis in Chicago Airport by any chance?

Thought this was gonna be about Bob the landlord et al

Best film ever!

 

 

Billy from eastenders, Tina's dad in corrie, Aunt Sally's step son, the black doctor bloke in eastenders, that dude out of dazelle and pascoe, the ginger Yorkshire bloke that twatted Martin Platt in corrie...every fucker is in it.

Best film ever!

 

 

Billy from eastenders, Tina's dad in corrie, Aunt Sally's step son, the black doctor bloke in eastenders, that dude out of dazelle and pascoe, the ginger Yorkshire bloke that twatted Martin Platt in corrie...every fucker is in it.

How can you forget Owen from Eastenders, staring role

Chillis in Chicago Airport by any chance?

Sorry can't remember. It was over 10 years ago.

How can you forget Owen from Eastenders, staring role

Fack off Gumbo!! Haha

 

Martins Wife who he forcefully took against the wall before the xmas party was also in something recently but I can't think what it was. Really bugging me now in fact

Edited June 7, 201412 yr by gonzo