to be annoyed by the refusal of a supermarket to sell me two packets of paracetamol and a tube of bonjela?

[ruthosaurus]

I was told today that I could only buy two "over-18s" items at a time, and the (adult) bonjela counted because it has an ingredient that could react with paracetamol.

Point 1: What if I want to buy, say, an 18 certificate film, a bottle of wine and a tube of bonjela? If that's the kind of evening I had planned, what of it? What kind of joyless rule is "only two naughty items" anyway?

Point 2: Why the hell do you need to be over 18 to buy mouth ulcer gel? Tell me it isn't because bonjela contains ethanol.

I did ask if it was because of the "one pack of paracetamol at a time" rule and they said no.

Why could this be, then? I am baffled and a little perturbed.

I am laughing at this thread - the peroni suicide, the clowns braces and the FAMOUS pile cream for a horse.

It is exasperating but I don't moan because I generally feel sorry for the checkout staff - with this and alcohol sales they are only following regulation, it's not their fault.

Lol at the idea of killing yourself by taking paracetamol and ibuprofen together. That's my cure for migraine - I take two paracetamol and two ibuprofen, and it helps. Either medication on its own does nothing.

Not the fault of the check out people but some of the stories are really ridiculous. I love the 3 for 2 offer that they are not actually alloved to give you. ROFL

I am the same with combining paracetamol and ibuprofen - I had an absess once and the dentist recommended it. Works so much better than either tablet on its own.

If it's 'only 2 over-18 items at once', does that mean that no-one's allowed to buy 3 bottles of wine, or god forbid a case, or 3 cans or packs of beer?

If so they must have lost 80% of their customers during the World Cup!

Some till person needs a bit of retraining, methinks.

so why do they say you can't buy say 2 packs of 12 but can buy 2 24s?
Why not make it on total amount of drug?

sorry 3 packs of 12 i meant

I had to have my transaction for NO alcohol lager checked by an assistant at the self-service till in Sainsburys - which I thought was a bit daft.

I have had a woman ask me for id with a bottle of appletiser! I did tell her it was pop, and she said she thought it was one of them "new-fangled alcohops"!! Made my day!

It is 32 tablets iirc. Enough for 1 or 2 days at max dosage (i can't remember)

i once got asked when buying a piece of plastic from Homebase. It was to be used with a saw, but I wasn't buying a saw, I was buying the plastic thing!

what would it have been called?

Oh yes i have had this nonsense too, when we were all full of cold - could not buy lemsip, baby calpol and 6+ calpol at the same time. i said i could just go put some in the car and come back in for the rest. the cashier was very sorry but thats the rules. so I ended up giving the older DCs an extra large dose of baby calpol instead!

If I saw someone refused in similar circs and i was sure they were not out to top themselves i would put their stuff through with MY shopping and settle up in the carpark!!

I'm surprised that people have been able to order more than the allowed amount online at Tesco, when I've tried to do it just always defaults to the maximum allowed.
Interesting point about the self serve tills, I would have thought they would be the same

The plastic thing for my saw - is what it is called Stealth.

I have become so absurdly engrossed in this thread (bonjelagate) that I have nursed the baby, put her upstairs to sleep come back down to the pc to continue reading - and only then I noticed that my right tit was still hanging out . This isn't so much of a problem, unless you take into account that my pc is right beside the front room window

saw box or something

You could of made a right tit out of yourself there honeydragon.

Does the supermarket accept responsibility if someone does the worst with their two over 18 items? What's they're reason for stopping someone buying what they want?

LMAO honeydragon!

Queen- I use both for migraines too. Only thing that makes a (slight) dent in the pain

I thought they'd stopped selling paracetomol in large jars to prevent "unplanned" suicides - i.e. someone who is at home and depressed and sees the bottle and goes for it.

You have to be fairly motivated to pop all the individual pills from the packaging.

Same here, Scout! Strangely enough, there are no large-scale deaths from ibuprofen or Tylenol overdose suicides, either.

PMSL but obviously YABU, the limit on over 18s items is clearly to prevent a person who is bit tipsy from their bottle of wine and distracted while watching an over 18 movie from mixing up their mouth ulcer gel with their pile cream.

and battering themselves over the head with a plastic box

Yes I was IDd not so long ago for wanting to buy some scissors in Tescos.

I am 38 and no I don't look younger after 4 kids lol

I didn't have an ID so they didn't let me buy them FFS.

I was annoyed beyond belief and one man in the queue kept making hilarious comments and other people were giggling.

Grrrr