Hi every one: OK, a couple weeks ago, I was in the process of making evergreen trees. I had all my supplies except for hair spray. So, I stopped at our local K-Mart on the way home from work to pick some up. I’m in line and get to the register, and the girl at register looked at the hair spray and asked me for my birth date. I thought she was kidding, and asked her if K-Mart was going to give me a birthday present. The icy stare I got back told me she was serious. So I told her 9/13/44, then she rang up the sale. Then she asked me why I wanted hair spray. I hesitated a moment, I was going to tell her “to hold my hair in place”, but I didn’t think that would go over too well, so I told her “to make trees for my model railroad”. Then a blank stare, bagged my hair spray, and I left the store. After I left, I thought, jeez, kids these days must be sniffing aerosol,now. Anybody have an experience like that?
Welcome to the real world. Yes, kids are sniffing anything aerosol to get their kicks. Even though I’m 71, I’ve been asked at K-mart and Wal-mart because it’s a federal law that they’re not allowed to sell certain products to minors.
When I was 59 the grocery clerk asked for my ID because I was purchasing wine. I said “are you kidding?” Got a blank stare in response, so I showed it to her. Do you suppose the manager required her to check the ID of all customers purchasing alcohol because of her previous poor judgment?
Mark
DJ, I wouldn’t give any personal info of any kind to any of these people. None of her biz what you want it for. My answers are usually a little more creative to those types of questions but really aren’t suitable for these forums. Basically however, they amount to this…
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I work at a Kmart store and the people they hire are dumber than bricks. (at least at my store and the one it seems like you were at). I realize this is a cheap shot at myself and I can live with that but it’s true, they hire morons. I had one girl the other day ask me how to turn the water on to water flowers. I kid you not. I told her to turn the valve to which I got “which one?” I said turn them on till water comes out! and left.
Its nuttier by the day. We in Ontario the good(?) will have to show ID when buying tobacco products as of June 1. I think getting carded by kids not as old as my grand kids is a bit much. They are not old enough to buy them is is insulting as it can get. I quit by the way.
Dave
No, sometimes it’s corporate policy to do that regardless of age.
That couldn’t be the case in this situation. I have shopped at that same store once to thrice a week for nearly 20 years, and it only happened once.
Mark
When I was in my early 40’s, I stopped at a fast food place for a lunch…was not asked to pay for the coffee. I asked, why not? The teen replied, “We don’t charge senior citizens for coffee”
I said, “I’m not a senior yet, by a good number of years, but since you insulted me like that, I’ll take you up on the free coffee that I had planned to pay for!” [%-)]
To avoid the risk of being off topic, I’ll just add that businesses may need to “train” their employees a little more, to keep them on the right “track”.
Yes, carding is generally set by policy. It’s not a new thing, either. I remember being in college (like, in the 60’s, man) and seeing them card a retired professor (Emeritus, no less) in the graduate dining hall, which served alcohol at the time. The “no exceptions” rule gets them around the sticky issue of “profiling” or whatever.
I was at a ball game a few years back, as part of a company group. They carded most of us. My supervisor was absolutely ripped that they hadn’t carded her, even though they carded her father!
I’ve seen Wal Mart card kids for spray paint, but I think that’s a good idea.
In Tn. it’s a law that all people have to show pictured ID for alcohol. That REALLY ticked off the illegals that have bogus or no ID. [:-,]They’re probably gonna start that for tobacco too.
I don’t get why they do it for hair spray though?[%-)] Kids usually huff butane or gold and silver spray paint.
Thats the thing about this hobby. You tell someone what you do and they give you a blank stare. So… if you are like me, and explain what you do and how you make things for your layout, they are in shock. Most people then are like, why you must be a artist, or you must be tallented. Makes you wonder if they are being a smarty or they are serious on how much you can do with this kind of hobby.
You get carded for hairspray,yet they argue you cant make people show ID to vote.Another case of the powers that be keeping a safe distance from genius.
Dale, I apologize in advance, but I have to have a little fun at your expense. Please go back and re-read the first sentence in your first post.
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-Crandell
I hate to ad fuel to this fire, but I used to sub at a grocery store and the cash register computers would not ring up alcohol without a birth date being input to the computer. Originally we used 1/1/1911 but as soon as the computer guys caught that we had to use a real date. Of course, people were just asked if they were over 30, so they could tell you pretty much anything. However, if they caught you not carding someone under the age (I forget what the law says - either 25 or 30) it could be the end of your job!
You can use the hair spray with a lighter or other fire to make a really nifty torch.
Enjoy
Paul
I get carded almost every time I buy something age restricted at Wal-Mart. Now, it’s really obvious looking at my gray hair and the wrinkles on my face and hands that I’m old enough to be somebody’s grandfather. What are they thinking, that some kid is gonna make himself up to look like he’s almost half a century old? Come on, give me a break!
Memories! When I was a teenager, in the 50’s, I was a pin setter. On Friday night some of us would stay after closing for pot games. Of course they gave us “refreshments”. The owner had a bar next door. I graduated and a couple of years later I enlisted in the army for three years.
When I was 25 and a civilian, my brother and I went to a local bar and lo and behold the owner of that bar was the person whom I worked for setting up pins. Yep, he carded me. Now that law came out when I was in the service and knew nothing about it. I looked at him and laughed. He asked what was so funny. I told him that I used to set pins for him and his buddies for the Friday night pot games. He didn’t card me but we had a good time talking about old times.
I can relate to the ID thing…I picked up 2 spray cans of Krylon paint at our Wally World and the sweet pea running the cash register ask to see my ID…All I said was “Surely you jest?”…Nope she was dead serious…Let’s see then…I am 60 and look 55 and have salt and pepper hair.Hardly a youngster that might want the paint for mischief.
She just wanted to know where you live so she could come over later and “tap” some Brakie![:P]