101 replies to this topic

[Cooperman]

You can get married at 16, but can't buy a set of cutlery to eat with in your new home, nor paint & solvent to decorate it unless you take your mum or dad with you to buy it for you, after saying it is for themselves!

You can join the army at 17 and learn to fire a sub-machine gun, but you can't buy a pen-knife. You can fly a aircraft solo at 17, but can't buy petrol to re-fuel it after getting a full pilot's licence until you are 18. 

The law is clearly as ass.

The retailers do have a problem if they don't check, but when those checks are stupid it is simply insulting. Best then to walk out and if you have a shopping trolley full of goods which might include a 4-pack of beer, they will have to put it all back on the shelves  .

I'm still waiting to be asked, but then .............. one lives in hope!

[Ethel]

 

I've had  this problem at a petrol station and more than once.

 

The worst was when I was 24 and had just stuck £50 worth of petrol in my Mondeo.

 

Mind boggling, how can you be old enough to drive a car but not old enough to put fuel in it? Or did they report you to the police as potential unlicensed driver?

[xrocketengineer]

I only get id'd for senior discounts.

[Tupers]

I was asked for ID buying Far Cry 4 last week. It's an 18 and I'm 24 but I supposes it's nice to look young.

I've also been asked for ID when buying party poppers which is slightly ridiculous.

[Domneon]

My mate was id'd for paint at halfrauds even though he had driven there. He had to go home to get his id and on his return wasn't asked to produce id.

I occasionally get id'd for alcohol and once in the royal Enfield, they were asking for id from every single person that went in after 9

[Mini Cheddars]

You can have sex at 16 but you can't watch others have sex on video until 2 years later.

[Thorpsta]

 

You can join the army at 17 and learn to fire a sub-machine gun, but you can't buy a pen-knife. You can fly a aircraft solo at 17, but can't buy petrol to re-fuel it after getting a

You can start your application at 15.5 months,and attend  Harrogate AFC at 16, there's a lad at my battalion who is still only 17, and most places won't accept military ID

Edited by Thorpsta, 20 December 2014 - 10:17 AM.

[lyndseyp27]

Asked last night for ID for a manicure set from boots as it had those tiny little nail scissors in it..

[M J W J]

The retailers do have a problem if they don't check, but when those checks are stupid it is simply insulting. Best then to walk out and if you have a shopping trolley full of goods which might include a 4-pack of beer, they will have to put it all back on the shelves  .

 

I spent 7 years in retail stacking shelves and people who do this are complete and utter f***ing a*****es. Your poor shelf stackers have other things to do and are usually under enough pressure to get stuff out, especially around christmas time.

 

I agree that the law is stupid but anyone who considers doing this, please think twice about it. The people asking you for ID did not create the law they are simply just policing it to prevent themselves from potentially facing law suit, loosing their job and getting their management prosecuted.

[Steely]

Just the average things, like getting into places, buying alcohol etc. hasn't happened for ages though since growing my beard lol

[Cooperman]

 

The retailers do have a problem if they don't check, but when those checks are stupid it is simply insulting. Best then to walk out and if you have a shopping trolley full of goods which might include a 4-pack of beer, they will have to put it all back on the shelves  .

 

I spent 7 years in retail stacking shelves and people who do this are complete and utter f***ing a*****es. Your poor shelf stackers have other things to do and are usually under enough pressure to get stuff out, especially around christmas time.

 

I agree that the law is stupid but anyone who considers doing this, please think twice about it. The people asking you for ID did not create the law they are simply just policing it to prevent themselves from potentially facing law suit, loosing their job and getting their management prosecuted.

 

 

If a person is around, say, 28 to 30 and is asked for ID by some stupid check-out person who can clearly see that they are over 18, then they must expect to be treated as idiots. I heard about a lady in her 40's who was refused a sale of a couple of bottles of wine because she had her 16-year old daughter with her. Now how stupid is that? It is not even illegal for a parent to allow a 16-year old to take wine with the family. The law says alcohol must not be sold to an underage person, not that it is illegal to buy alcohol if you are accompanied by an underage person.

Too many 'Jobsworths' who just want to appear to have some authority and a dearth of common sense trying to make the law up to suit their inflated egos. If a checkout person 'bends' the regulations to suit their egos, or to meet their supervisors ignorance, I have every right to decide not to buy anything from them and if that means I leave a partially loaded trolley at their check-out, they have only themselves to blame. I even heard of a 70-year old being asked for ID to buy a bottle of scotch - crazy! 

[leaky]

Funny enough I saw this thread and thought I don't really get I.D'ed much. If I am away somewhere and out at some pubs I do but most of the time no one asked. Then later that day I went to buy some lunch and a scratch card and some kid barely tall enough too see over the counter decided to ID me for the scratch card. Talk about wanting to make himself feel important haha.

[skinnyminny]

Got IDed to buy a hatchet today - but otherwise I rarely get asked (I'm 21)

[Ben_O]

 I heard about a lady in her 40's who was refused a sale of a couple of bottles of wine because she had her 16-year old daughter with her. 

 

I have seen this too. Been behind people at the checkout a few times when the parent has been refused due to having their children with them.

 

I can sort of understand it if an adult goes through with 15-17 ish year olds buying alchopops etc but one of the ones i witnessed had two 10 year olds with him. Now that is utterly ridiculous and i agree with you that if this is the way they want to behave then let them deal with having to put everything back should you refuse to buy your shopping there due to it.

 

This bloke was very angry and i sided with him when the checkout assistant decided to have a moan to me about it once the bloke had left.

 

If i was say in my 40's and looked that age and someone asked me for i.d to buy alcohol etc, i would leave without it even if i had i.d on me because i think it is insulting to be asked when you are clearly well over the age restriction.

[M J W J]

 

 

The retailers do have a problem if they don't check, but when those checks are stupid it is simply insulting. Best then to walk out and if you have a shopping trolley full of goods which might include a 4-pack of beer, they will have to put it all back on the shelves  .

 

I spent 7 years in retail stacking shelves and people who do this are complete and utter f***ing a*****es. Your poor shelf stackers have other things to do and are usually under enough pressure to get stuff out, especially around christmas time.

 

I agree that the law is stupid but anyone who considers doing this, please think twice about it. The people asking you for ID did not create the law they are simply just policing it to prevent themselves from potentially facing law suit, loosing their job and getting their management prosecuted.

 

 

If a person is around, say, 28 to 30 and is asked for ID by some stupid check-out person who can clearly see that they are over 18, then they must expect to be treated as idiots. I heard about a lady in her 40's who was refused a sale of a couple of bottles of wine because she had her 16-year old daughter with her. Now how stupid is that? It is not even illegal for a parent to allow a 16-year old to take wine with the family. The law says alcohol must not be sold to an underage person, not that it is illegal to buy alcohol if you are accompanied by an underage person.

Too many 'Jobsworths' who just want to appear to have some authority and a dearth of common sense trying to make the law up to suit their inflated egos. If a checkout person 'bends' the regulations to suit their egos, or to meet their supervisors ignorance, I have every right to decide not to buy anything from them and if that means I leave a partially loaded trolley at their check-out, they have only themselves to blame. I even heard of a 70-year old being asked for ID to buy a bottle of scotch - crazy! 

 

 

 

Trust me these people are not being jobsworth. It is their management or store policies that are making them ask.

 

I have been in this position and I have had people have a right go at me. I'm sorry but there isn't anything I could have done about it. Those were the rules of the company and also the law. If I broken either I could have lost my job and worst still be prosecuted if I had got it wrong. Just because I am having to follow company procedures is not a reason to act like a complete a*** towards a member of staff and create extra work for them.

 

Most people these days have a photo card driving licence or a passport. Anyone with a paper licence can get theirs changed free of charge. Its not hard to provide ID these days so instead of complaining why not just show it. Apart from the incident in the petrol station where I had already put the petrol in my car and they were going to charge me more for a late payment as they wouldn't accept payment then without ID, I don't have an issue with it. I was ID'd on my 25th birthday this year. Big Whoop.

 

 

Also often when a store starts IDing everyone it is because they or another store in their region has been caught serving underage and the area manager is on probation. This happened to my local branch of Weatherspoons and was why my dad and I were refused service when my dad didn't have ID yet he was clearly older than I was.  The police send children into stores on purpose to buy stuff which they are underage for, just to catch people out. I know this as my sister had some 11 year old try and buy a pack of stanley knife blades and a mars bar. Luckily she asked for ID and had to refuse him service. Afterwards the police came in interviewed both my sister and the store manager.

 

 

I have seen this too. Been behind people at the checkout a few times when the parent has been refused due to having their children with them.

 

The checkout person doesn't know they are related. The people involved could just be acting. If both produce ID then you can tell that they are related although it would be irrelevant as it would show whether they are old enough to buy it themselves or not.