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Think 25 for a scratch card

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ImAllOut · 23/08/2018 19:53

I'm 27 and married with two children (who were with me) but today I was asked for ID when buying a scratchcard. As much as shop assistants try to claim it's flattering, it's really just fucking annoying. She told me she knew I was over 16 but not that I was over 25 so she had to challenge as it's their policy in Wilkinson's. It was particularly annoying because my purse was in the changing bag my husband had just started to walk off with so I had to chase him out of the shop. I probably buy a scratchcard once every few months so never a planned purchase.

I can't be the only one who thinks this is stupid surely. I can sort of understand with alcohol I guess. And I know people will tell me she could lose her job etc. but it's a ridiculous policy is it not!

PS I have just come to rant at the inconvenience and not posted this on AIBU purposely! (Mainly because I know I'm not being unreasonable )

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NellieBee · 23/08/2018 21:33

YABU.

kashleesi · 24/08/2018 07:06

Next time this happens to me I’m just not gonna buy one. I know it’s their job and it’s the law, but the shop assistants aren’t allowed to use common sense. (It’s not their fault but sometimes they are very rude about it)
Especially when you get your driving license out and it’s pink so clearly I’m over 17 yet they spend ages studying the date anyway ‘ohh you look young’
Yeah thanks I’m quite aware it’s not a compliment it makes me feel like a 12 year old
For a bottle of vodka or something ok I get it but once I was asked for Id for petrol ?????

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ImAllOut · 24/08/2018 08:09

NellieBee
I'm not though

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Mhw02 · 24/08/2018 08:13

I was once asked for ID when buying a 12 dated DVD. I was 27 at the time. I think I did ask the assistant: 'really?!'

YeTalkShiteHen · 24/08/2018 08:15

Why ask then?

maggienolia · 24/08/2018 08:55

There was an off licence in the town I used to work in where it was no ID no alcohol. To the extent that they refused to sell sherry to an elderly lady from the local care home.
I'm afraid common sense doesn't get a look in these days.

YeTalkShiteHen · 24/08/2018 08:57

If you’re asked for ID and can’t provide it, they’re not legally able to sell it.

Aye the elderly lady example is a ridiculous one, but if they asked for it (no idea why) and she didn’t have it, they could lose their licence for selling it.

I did it when I worked behind a bar. Only once. Man clearly in his 50s had been leching and perving over me and the other bar staff and just generally being an obnoxious dick, chucking money around and making sure everyone saw him.

So I asked for ID. He didn’t have any and didn’t get served again.

MeetOnTheLedge · 24/08/2018 09:08

My 14yo DS was prevented from buying an Xbox game in Sainsburys because he had no id - he wouldn't have minded if it was age rated 12 but it was age rated 3(Fifa). He is obviously older than 3.

maggienolia · 24/08/2018 14:05

I had to be age checked for buying a grapefruit once in Tesco. The cashier was as nonplussed as I was.
Maybe it can be squirted as a dangerous weapon?

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ImAllOut · 24/08/2018 14:28

@YeTalkShiteHen I didn't!

Grapefruits are definitely heavy enough to injure. She made the right call...

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JynxaSmoochum · 24/08/2018 15:10

I had alcohol confiscated at the till recently because I didn't have ID on me. I was old enough to buy alcohol before the Millenium!

It does amuse me when they're so surprised to see my birth year on my ID and struggle to work out how long ago it was

Flyingpompom · 24/08/2018 15:14

I remember a girl I taught in year 11 being refused birthday candles because she was under 18. I'm not sure of the law, but apparently she couldn't make the man understand that she wouldn't be able to start a fire with unlit candles! She wasn't asking to buy matches or a lighter!

OutPinked · 24/08/2018 15:35

I was once prevented from buying alcohol because I was with my younger brother. I was 20 and showed my ID but because he was 14, they wouldn’t let me. Apparently it’s because I could have been buying it for him . So if you’re a parent in the supermarket with your teenage child, you can’t buy alcohol in case it’s for them? Ludicrous!!! If I were buying it for him surely he’d be loitering around outside anyway, it was so, so stupid.

I’ve also been ID’d whilst I’ve been with my three DC. I didn’t have my ID on me so I literally said “no but I have my three children if that’s enough evidence?” She replied “they could be someone else’s” so I said “yeah, sure, I just kidnapped someone else’s children so you wouldn’t ID me” . She sold me the wine.

MongerTruffle · 24/08/2018 15:38

maggienolia The Tesco self-service checkout once made the assistant age check me so that I could buy bin bags.

YeTalkShiteHen · 24/08/2018 15:44

Fair point, sorry OP!

Needlemaker · 24/08/2018 16:05

My college lost his job 3 weeks ago for failing a Camelot test purchase (3rd strike) were also fined £90 If we fail

An adult buying with a teen will often get asked who it's for pointedly
A 20 something with an underage teen no chance it's screams test purchase

We also do this in my shop for energy drinks it's not fun we don't like doing it but we'd like to keep our job thanks

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