To want to add Sainsbury's to the list of "c*nting " shops?

[SpecterBooAlot]

Mum, DS and I went shopping today at Sainsbury's. I queued up to pay whilst mum said she would go and change DS. Included in my shopping were the following items: three travel packs of baby wipes, two nappy reels, a pack of nappy sacks, a pack of six tea spoons, baby cough syrup, Lemsip powders, an iron, a book, chicken breasts and some veg.

Guess which item I wasn't allowed to buy because I was under 25?

To top that off, the Nector Card we used in the cafe within the hour was rejected at the till because it had been blocked - because it had been used in more than one store. So the £13 that was on it as points to almost pay entirely for the iron had to be covered in cash. Of course we can call the helpline to talk about the issue and resolve the blocking, but its an 0800 number.

And I was charged three pounds extra for the book.

The item I wasn't allowed to buy because I was under 25?

The teaspoons.

Not a kitchen set containing knives or sisscors, which I could have understood. But a pack of six teaspoons.

The cashiers suggestion was that it was to prevent underage heroin addicts accessing equiptment and the security gaurd who was walking past at the time asked me if I was planning on spooning anyone to death .

I've used my nectar card in more than one store even in BP petrol stations
An 0800number should be free froma landline
But I dont get the teaspoons thign at all

Spoons?

Freaky - I would have guessed the Lemsip (containing evil paracetamol).

Sorry, but it is getting more and more ridiculous isn't it?

They are getting stupid.

Teaspoons?

What are you going to do? Stir someone to death?

Sorry but I am laughing at that.

Spoons.

I thought it would be the lempsips. SPOONS fgs

I work in a shop and the spoons automatically flagged up to I.D. My manager says this is because they are cutlery, same as knives and to ignore it and sell them without requesting I.D first. There is no law on spoons AFAIK.

You weren't refused a sale because you are under 25 (I hope anyway!) it would be because you could not prove you are aleast 25. I don't blame you for being annoyed though.

I'm terrified of using common sense at times where I work- no one wants to lose their job/get huge fine/criminal record or even jail for selling a poxy knife, 18 rated dvd or fucking false nails to someone who might or might not be 18 or over.

sorry but that's madness!

aleast 18 I meant not 25!!! If you look undr 25 they I.D in supermarkets.

yet it isn't a legal requirement to carry photo ID.

I would be screwed if I ever was ID'ed at a supermarket. I don't have a drivers license nor a passport.

Yanbu

Utterly ridiculous.

Do you live in an area with a high number of intravenous drug users? They use teaspoons. Even so, it's a bit much. I was once refused citric acid from the chemist for the same reason.

The convo went like this:

'Yes, we do stock it, but we can't sell it to you I'm afraid.'

'Oh. Why not?'

'Because it is used by drug addicts and you might be one'.

'Yes, I might, but I'm not. How do you tell? And who can you sell it to?'

'Well, we can't tell, which is why we don't sell it to anyone.'

'So why do you stock it then?'

'I'm not sure'.

'So what happens to people like me, who just want to make lemonade? How am I supposed to do that? My book says go to the chemist for your citric acid'.

'Sorry madam, it's company policy'.

See, that's what's wrong with this country. Too many heroin addicts carrying on regardless while harmless lemonade makers are tharted at every turn.

Irons can do a lot more damage

< very sad as the realisation hits that I will never be mistaken for under 25 ever again >

You could quite easily iron someone to death :o. It might take a while with my stomach the way it is, mind you.

Citric acid is also recommended for getting rid of the clouding on glasses that dishwashers can casue.

I was thinking of trying it to clean some of our good glasses that have got this problem: I must remember to take my passort, dress well and go to a chemist that is a) not part of a chain and b) not near an area (that I am aware of) with high numbers of drug users

Good point Jamie. You could burn someone and knock them out. Can't do either with a teaspoon.

yep, irons definitely do more damage.

OTOH re books. Quote from Doctor Who (Tooth and Claw 2006):

"You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room's the greatest arsenal we could have - arm yourselves!"

Spoons are very dangerous.

You could, erm, wave them maliciously?

Sharpen them to a point?!

Specter - there will come a day, maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, when you'll look back and sigh longingly for the days when anyone thought you could possibly look under 25. Or for the days when you actually were under 25.

Sigh.

Spoons are very dangerous for desserts. Seriously- you can really damage them by repeatedly stabbing them, until they vanish into nothing.

I had a saturday job in a chemist. We weren't allowed to sell codeine linctus to people who looked 'dodgy'. I'm not exactly sure how you ascertain that a person is 'dodgy' simply by looking at them.

This was in the 1980s, which complicated matters because everyone looked a bit odd with their big perms and jump suits.

Made me laugh WhatsThatDuck ... all those batwing sleeves and white boots

Shall I write a letter? I do like writing letters to complain...

It just seems utterly illogical to me.

yes yes

its fucking nuts