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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 377992" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Sometimes it backfires on you too! Our local grocery store has a policy of asking for your birth date at the check out if you're buying any kind of alcohol or tobacco products. I'm in this store almost every day and buy cigarettes there. Supposedly they ask everybody for their birth date which is ridiculous since I just retired and will receive my first Social Security check in a few weeks! I don't kid myself that I don't look old enough to buy cigarettes - unfortunately I look my age. Except for one lady who is older than I am (bless her!), their cashiers are all young high school or college kids or other young people. Mostly they don't ask me any more, but there's always at least one cheerful new kid with the fake smile who will loudly ask <strong>"WHAT'S YOUR BIRTH DATE?"</strong> And when they do that, everybody standing behind me in line immediately stops what they're doing and turns and stares at me, eagerly waiting to see what I'm going to say! It's like those old E. F. Hutton commercials ... And when they do this, I have been known to give them the evil eye and growl at them, between clenched teeth, "MAKE ONE UP!" They never ask me more than once! Might as well ask me to stand up on the counter and yell, 'HEY, EVERYBODY! I'M 64!!!!" I wouldn't mind slipping them my drivers license or something, but don't ask me to announce my age in front of everybody in the whole dang blasted grocery store! NOYB! I guess when you're 17 or 18 like these cashiers, you don't mind telling people how old you are, and it never occurs to them that not everybody feels the same! Sheeeesh ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 377992, member: 1883"] Sometimes it backfires on you too! Our local grocery store has a policy of asking for your birth date at the check out if you're buying any kind of alcohol or tobacco products. I'm in this store almost every day and buy cigarettes there. Supposedly they ask everybody for their birth date which is ridiculous since I just retired and will receive my first Social Security check in a few weeks! I don't kid myself that I don't look old enough to buy cigarettes - unfortunately I look my age. Except for one lady who is older than I am (bless her!), their cashiers are all young high school or college kids or other young people. Mostly they don't ask me any more, but there's always at least one cheerful new kid with the fake smile who will loudly ask [B]"WHAT'S YOUR BIRTH DATE?"[/B] And when they do that, everybody standing behind me in line immediately stops what they're doing and turns and stares at me, eagerly waiting to see what I'm going to say! It's like those old E. F. Hutton commercials ... And when they do this, I have been known to give them the evil eye and growl at them, between clenched teeth, "MAKE ONE UP!" They never ask me more than once! Might as well ask me to stand up on the counter and yell, 'HEY, EVERYBODY! I'M 64!!!!" I wouldn't mind slipping them my drivers license or something, but don't ask me to announce my age in front of everybody in the whole dang blasted grocery store! NOYB! I guess when you're 17 or 18 like these cashiers, you don't mind telling people how old you are, and it never occurs to them that not everybody feels the same! Sheeeesh ... [/QUOTE]
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