To leave my £80 of shopping for the checkout assistant to put away

[mummytopebs]

Was in supermarket doing my shopping got to the till, had £80 worth of shopping in this was 4 cans of john smiths for dh. The drink was at the end of the shopping so everything had gone through, the checkout lady asked for id (I am 29 but do look young but not that young and god its 4 cans of beer with a full shop not some chavvy drink) I said i did not have any on me but i used to work in the said supermarket so said can you call my old manager who will verify my age. She tutted at me and called the line manager who i used to work for, she said yes she is definitly over age it was 6 years when i worked there and i was definitly over 18 then. The jobsworth sorry checkout lady still looked at me distastefully and the manager said it is up to the checkout lady though cos she originally akked for the id. I said can i have it then and she looked at me and went nah !!!!!!!! I said are you joking and hse said no i dont think you are over age!!!!!! So i said well i'll leave it then and she said ok and put the beer down and said thats £80.71p and i said no i will leave the lot - grabbed my dd and flounced out of the shop with an air of triumph.

I dont care if i had been shopping for an hour, i used to work in that supermarket and know she will have to put it all away ha ha ha

If your a teacher that means you must be right and all other opinions are null and void. cant be bothered to comment on this thread anymore as I feel my comments are being devalued.

I don't see anywhere where scaryteacher says that other opinions are null and void

Like Scaryteacher, I was brought up with plenty of access to alcohol, yet chose not to drink it. I just plain didn't like it and it was only when I went to Uni that I started drinking at all (and yes, I was 17 when I went but I was at a Uni where the majoirty of students were English so they assumed that all the students were over 18) - and gradually developed a taste for it.

I will continue to expose ds to alcohol - and also continue to discuss with him, even though he is only 8 - about the dangers of peer pressure - and hope that that steers him away from the culture of binge drinking.

I can't guarantee that he won't drink to excess - any more that I can't guarantee that he won't start smoking - but what we (dh and I) can do at this early age is try to ingrain certain attitudes about what is and isn't acceptable. That's all we can do as parents.

While I can see what ruddynorah, trikken at al are saying about the Think 25 approach, they are missing the point that it is a "butt covering" exercise by the retailers. It may well be necessary to ensure that no under 18s are served alcohol, but the point remains that no-one will get fined or penalised for selling an 18 (or over) year old alchohol. It is not illegal to do so.

IMHO there are more important things to get concerned about. For example, my ds (who as I've said is only 8) recently got attacked in the street - unprovoked - by a kid in the year below him and by 2 other slightly older kids (9 and 10). Turns out the younger kid had been pressure into doing so by the 2 older boys who were apparently carrying knives (stanley knife and kitchen knife).

Now that is malign peer pressure And at such a young age.

Disagreeing with you is not devaluing your comments Trikken; but I do disagree with you.

I grew up with a father who was an alcoholic and it killed him in the end at 60. He didn't binge and I never saw him drunk, but he was addicted to alcohol. I have been aware since I was a teenager in the 80s therefore of the issues around alcohol, and I don't binge drink. I am passing the message on to my ds as well.