to be fuckinging pissed off with cunting tescos

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My kids are being brats. We have no food in the house. I bugger off to Tesco, do a monster shop, and grab a bottle of red, so desperate to have a glass I almost slug it in the aisle. And I get fucking ASKED FOR ID. IM A 24YR OLD MARRIED MOTHER OF TWO FOR FUCK SAKE. My shits darling kids have obviously played with ,my purse again as my driving license is missing. So no wine.
AHHHHHHHHHH. I almost told him I didnt want any of the fucking shopping, but I really needed it. God damn you Twat Face in Tesco.
As you were.

I had the opposite problem - went to buy a bottle of wine at M&S. The young whippersnapper at the till burst out laughing, saying - "the machine is asking me to check you are over 21, but you so obviously are!"

Getorf - so funny - just sprayed my bran flakes ( dont ask ) all over my laptop -cheers !

Once I was ID'd in a tesco garage for faaags, I said 'don't be silly, look at me closely, I need botox' and the young whippersnap leaned forward and went 'oh yeaaaah'

Oranges - - now sprayed the dog in branflakes and milk - but hes seems strangely chuffed.

Asda are bastards for it. My DP gets ID'ed every Thursday night (he does a late shift and enjoys a few brewski's afterwards) and he's 33.

Unfortunately he doesn't have a driving licence and he'll be damned if he's going to carry his passport with him day in, day out.

So yeah he usually comes home effing and jeffing like a trooper...funnily enough he stops of to purchase his tinnies from the Tesco express as they never question him.

YANBU IMO. I could understand if you weren't buying a 'big shop' with the kiddies in tow...but it sounds like typical jobsworthy behaviour to moi.

I got "JOKE ID'd" in Asda at the weekend. You know "Have you got any ID for that wine? hahahaha HAHAHAHAH hahahaha"

Getorf - should've nutted 'im.

Hmm! what if like me you don't have any ID. I don't have a passport and I don't drive, does this mean I won't be able to buy a bottle of wine ever again? I am sure I am not the only one in the country with this dilema.

I got stopped in the street a few years back and asked to complete a questionnaire and the man told me I needed to be aged under 19, I could have kissed him !

But it would have been a different story if he had been trying to get between me and a bottle of wine so YANBU.

Better than the other way round. When my friend's husband was in casualty after passing out in the street she went to the hospital and the nurse told her - i will show you where your son is...

Actually I think you should have walked out. This policy has now officially gone mad. I think frankly the only dignified response is just to leave the shop, leaving all your shopping on the belt. I am planning to do that the next time I get asked for ID and can't laugh it off. I am 36. I don't always carry ID because it would be ridiculous.

ImASlattern - same here. I did have a license, but it was whipped off me for medical reasons, and I can't afford a passport.

Basically, I never buy alcohol incase I'm ID checked. I'm 23, so would have to be checked according to their guidelines, and I don't fancy being turned down. It's sad that I can be a full five years past the minimum drinking age and still be unable to purchase a bottle of wine to put in a sauce, should I feel like it (fortunately for me I'm not a big drinker).

It pisses me off that they keep increasing the age at which you have to provide ID to buy alcohol. Surely there can't be that many people under 18 who've so trashed their looks that they appear to be in their mid-twenties? When I was in retail, I always used my common sense. If someone was buying a bottle of wine with a weekly shop and three kids, chances were they were over 18. (Admittedly it was think 21 at the time, so not so much pressure to ask every man and his dog.)

With Tesco it's not about how young you look unfortunately. My sister's (65+) mother in law was refused a bottle of wine in there because she had her 15 year old granddaughter with her and she couldn't 'prove' it wasn't for the GD.

Hope you're over your found-yourself-with-no-wine rage now. We've all been there.

'With Tesco it's not about how young you look unfortunately. My sister's (65+) mother in law was refused a bottle of wine in there because she had her 15 year old granddaughter with her and she couldn't 'prove' it wasn't for the GD.'

See, this is just crazy. It is against the law to sell alcohol to under 18s. It is not against the law for your sister's MIL to give her 15yo granddaughter a glass of wine... not that this was even her intention, but just demonstrates that policy-makers at Tesco don't seem to know what is legal and what isn't.

I remember when it was 'think 21', I got asked for ID in Waitrose to prove I was over 21. I showed the girl my driving licence and said actually, you have to be over 18, not over 21 to buy alcohol, and was rewarded with a blank stare. But I got my bottle of wine, so hey ho.