Wow, you're so much more mature than your daughter!

[GroceryGIrl]

I'm telling you, I'm getting them all this week.

Today, this guy and his daughter of about 9-10 years old arrive at the service desk. The guy wants to be buy scratch lottery cards, and starts instructing his daughter to pick out the cards she wants. I quickly pulled out the cards myself before the girl could reach for them, telling the guy she could not pick them out herself because she was under 18. Obviously, it's illegal to sell lottery to minors, even if the child is accompanied by his/her parents. I was once told they're allowed to point to the ones they want, but the parents have to handle the cards themselves. Whatever they do with them afterwards is none of my concern. Give them to your kid, I don't care.

This is when the guy starts,

"Unbelievable! Can't let my kid have a little fun! Every other place has no problem with letting my daughter pick out the cards."

Yeah, and maybe the other places don't care about having their lottery retailer license revoked either.

So I replied,

"Well, we can get fined for that."

And this is the point where I was left to wonder whom between the two was the adult and who was the child. While the daughter was completely silent, the dad starts saying in a parrot-like, singsong voice,

"We can get fined for that, we can get fined for that..." repeating this over and over again until he was out of the store.

And to think it's only Tuesday. What other kinds of characters will the rest of the week blow in? Now I'm just waiting for the back to school rush. That should be interesting.

[Kristev]

"He should be fined for that. He should be fined for that."

Sorry, SC. The law will get you, my pretty, and your little girl too!

[Anakah]

That reminds me of when parents let their kids plunk down chips in my window and expect me to pay the child so they can feel grown up.

Funny, though, as long as we pay the parents nobody cares. I miss the old days.

But that guy sounded like a prick.

[Shalom]

When I was about 5, my mother snuck me into the voting booth with her on election day and let me pull the Big Red Lever when she was done. I was so proud. I went around telling everyone "I voted!" and my mother would shush me.

[evillebee]

I only wished retailers could get fined for letting SC little precious put their PIN numbers in the machines at checkout. It's not cute to be held up in line while a child who barely knows their numbers is jabbing their tiny little fingers at the machine and failing miserably.

[Shalom]

It's not cute to be held up in line while a child who barely knows their numbers is jabbing their tiny little fingers at the machine and failing miserably.

And this differs from the average debit-card-using adult SC ... how, exactly?

[tropicsgoddess]

But that guy sounded like a prick.

More like an overgrown child in an adult's body.

[Sheldonrs]

"the dad starts saying in a parrot-like, singsong voice,

"We can get fined for that, we can get fined for that..." repeating this over and over again until he was out of the store."


Polly want a boot up your ass?!

[bsaana]

And this differs from the average debit-card-using adult SC ... how, exactly?

Not by much, but the adults probably have bigger fingers.

[ZedOmega]

I remember being in an HEB where a mother waiting in line for Customer Service while her kids were buying scratch-offs from the machine nearby. I told the girl at the service desk about it when I got there, and she said that there's nothing they could do about it.

Hey, if they want to get in trouble with the lottery commission, no skin off my ass.

Polly want a boot up your ass?!

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