to have told these girls 'no'?

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I was queueing up in the supermarket earlier today when two young girls (say, 16/17 yo?) asked me if I would buy a bottle of red wine for them - apparently it was to be a present for someone.
I've no doubt it was - who likes red wine at 17 yo?
I told them 'no, I'd be breaking the law, go away and get older!' they got rather huffy and stalked off, and I mentioned it to the checkout lady.
As I say, I'm pretty sure they weren't buying it for themselves, but all the same, I didn't particularly want to break the law, and I'm sure the checkout lady would've been in trouble too!
Was I being 'the fun police' or did I do the right thing?

I would do it if I knew them...but not for strangers

My ex DP did this a few years back. (I wasnt there).
Some lads asked him to buy them some cider as they were going fishing! When he told me about it, I wentfuckingmad pointed out the error of his ways.
Then I spent the rest of the day worrying about the lads falling in the river whilst drunk on cider!!!

They might have been only 14 or 15. YANBU.

I do think you did the right thing, I don't believe if you had chosen to buy it the old bill would have knicked you or the checkout lady.

They don't sit in cards outside supermarkets waiting to see a person come out and give wine to teenagers.

I don't know why you need to ask-it would help if all adults refused-even if they know them.

If they were really buying it as a present they would have got one of their parents to buy it.

I would say they were DEFINITELY buying it for themselves.

I wouldn't buy it for underage kids I know either - and I would be horrified if anyone I knew bought my DCs alcohol so they could get pissed on the street.

Years ago when I was a student 2 teenage boys approached me in the street and asked me to take their money into a shop and buy them a bottle of cider. God knows why I did it, but I did. I came out of the shop, handed over the cider and was immediately given a very scary bollocking from a policeman who had witnessed the whole exchange. I was stupid to do it and never did it again.

YANBU. You did the right thing.

I was asked to buy cigarettes by some young girls yesterday - they must have been around 13 years old

I said no

They gave me evils though ...

If it had been red wine, I would've pointed out that what they were picking was cheap and poor quality so one would not appreciate that as a gift.

I would not usually resort to namecalling but I can't help but find bettymoody a prat for her stupid nob head comment...

Some people just love to be (stupidly) provocative!

They probably thought they were being really clever "gwan, ask her to buy us a bottle of red wine - that'll throw her off the scent".

We drank anything we could get our hands on at that age. Most memorably, a bottle of Martini Rossi .

Thanks, everyone (yes, even naughty bettymoody - see how nice I am?) I know I often ask some silly questions on here and you probably all think I'm a bit of a numpty (I am like this in RL!) but I do like to get people's opinions on various things/ get things of my chest/have stuff clarified/ etc.
Sorry if that annoys anyone!

See, bettymoody - I've even changed my name in your honour!

not unreasonable not to do it, but I'd imagine their bad reaction was more to do with the "go away and get older" comment. A bit sarcy.

Your're right mayorquimby that was my intention!

a right.
I wouldn't buy it for them either but I'd be sercretly hoping they found a way to get it. I miss being 17 and getting drink on the sly. Most fun ever.

Exactly what mayorquimby said

i agree that they should find other ways. i shall be most impressed if in a few years time DD finds a way to get /(away with) drink/fags/drugs/partying that i don't know about. ill probably let her away with it if its original and impressive. I did everything you weren't supposed to do as a teenager in a million different ways so my DD is fucked as i will be able to see through every ploy and lie.

OP YANBU they need to walk the streets to find the dodgy offy that will sell it too them. their way is just lazy

A related but slightly irrelevant story.

One of my friends got ID'd in a local off licence recently and was slightly put out (she is 32 & I wouldnt' have said she looks particularly young). She didn't have ID with her ........ tried to persuade cashier by dint of boring credit card, dull groceries in her shopping bag that she was actually older than 18 but he wasn't budging.

Returned with her partner (also early 30s) who had ID. Cashier then refused to serve partner as he was buying alcohol for a minor!

ID checks are weird. I always get ID'd when I'm buying alcohol but never cigarettes this is from the same store as well.
You did the right thing by not getting it for them BTW. I wouldn't do it for anyone I didn't know, probably would for someone I did under certain circumstances.

On a side note I can't believe how many people on here like wine! It tastes horrid! Give me beer or cider any day