You Should Be Honored

[Firecrackers Not Included]

Idiocracy is coming true, centuries ahead of schedule!

Idiocracy is one of my favorite top 10% movies for sure! Simply because of its theory. When it came out I showed it to as many people as I could. Yeah, one big problem I had was that it will NOT take 500 years to reach that point. No Way! More like 100 from 2005.

[Jack7957]

Jeez, how difficult is it to send the overage guy with a written list of the beer you want?!

Nobody thinks anymore. Idiocracy is coming true, centuries ahead of schedule!

Idiocracy is one of my favorite top 10% movies for sure! Simply because of its theory. When it came out I showed it to as many people as I could. Yeah, one big problem I had was that it will NOT take 500 years to reach that point. No Way! More like 100 from 2005.

So is this where I give you the bad news that this was only 20 years ago?

[dalesys]

Idiocracy ...

"My grandad, viewing earth's worn cogs,
Said things are going to the dogs.
His grandad in his house of logs,
Said things are going to the dogs.
His grandad in the Flemish bogs,
Said things are going to the dogs.
His grandad in his old skin togs,
Said things are going to the dogs.
There's one thing I have to state,
The dogs have had a good long wait!"

[manybellsdown]

"You should be honored. It's not everyday I pull my ID out for an employee."

*looks at ID*

"Oh my god! JOE SMITH?! WOW I am honored! Joe Smith here in my store! Imagine! I'm a huge fan!"

[Lace Neil Singer]

The problem is that the weight of blame has been massively put on the cashier, rather than the person actually breaking the law by trying to buy product while underage. This means that cashiers get really paranoid about asking for ID and therefore ask practically everyone, simply cuz they don't want to get hit with a massive fine, possibly lose their job and not be able to get another, and be the cause of the store losing its licience as a result. So blame the "Think of the CHILDREN!" mobs who caused the way the law is written, not the store.

[Estil]

Indeed, you pretty much have to figure anyone who gives you a hard time about IDing might very be someone sent undercover to test you.

[Jack7957]

Indeed, you pretty much have to figure anyone who gives you a hard time about IDing might very be someone sent undercover to test you.

They do stings here from time to time, usually makes the newspaper the next day with the name of the cashier/bartender and location that "failed" the test. One article did give part of the procedure, basically they use an obvious underage person to go in without any id to make a purchase. If the clerk asks for it, they are to say they don't have one, and if the cashier/bartender goes ahead and makes the sale (or never asks for it in the first place) they are then ticketed by cops waiting outside.

[Firecrackers Not Included]

If the clerk asks for it, they are to say they don't have one, and if the cashier/bartender goes ahead and makes the sale (or never asks for it in the first place) they are then ticketed by cops waiting outside.

That's exactly what happens round these parts too. Government stings are so easy/obvious with a child trying to buy the product. It's the third-party company stings that are trickier; they can be a balding 37 year old because our company standard is to card individuals who appear under 40.

[dalesys]

T... they can be a balding 37 year old ...

I attended high school with a balding 17-year-old...

[Firecrackers Not Included]

I attended high school with a balding 17-year-old...

NICE.
Well in that case, I'd say they've earned the right to smoke

[Lace Neil Singer]

Once we passed a sting, but believe me, we didn't know it was one at the start. This girl came into the petrol station and asked for twenty Mayfair. She was in the "maybe" range; could be old enough, but could not be, I just couldn't tell. So I IDed her just to be on the safe side, like I always do. She didn't have ID so I refused the sale and recorded it in the book. About ten minutes later, an email came thru saying that we'd passed the sting with flying colours. Gave me a hell of a shock, but glad that I'd passed it rather than the alternative.

[Hitokiri Akins]

In my area, in order to sell things like cigarettes, booze, R rated movies and M rated games, they have to swipe your ID at the register, or the system won't allow the sale. So whether you look over 30 or not, you're getting carded, because they POS systems demand it.

[Puzzlement Gum]

"Oh my god! JOE SMITH?! WOW I am honored! Joe Smith here in my store! Imagine! I'm a huge fan!"

I'm getting a nice chuckle imagining this said in the aforementioned monotone.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Last time I bought booze (including a mason jar of 70-proof moonshine), I wasn't carded.

Then again I have noticed I might be beginning to go gray....

[CrappyToHelp]

Oh, it never gets old.

It's always the freshly 18s and 21s that think they don't need to be carded.

Really, really. It's so dumb.

When I was 18, I carried ID with me everywhere. I still do. Sometimes, if I've forgotten my bag at work and want to buy a drink I'll go to a checkout where they know me - at my store you need to be over 18 to work tills - so I won't be carded.

If I am though and I don't have it, the conversation is normally:

Cashier: I can't sell this to you without ID I'm afraid.
Me: Don't worry, it's not a problem.

People fail to realise that cashiers *need* ID. These people don't *need* cigarettes/gin.

Asshats.