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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging

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VonKleist:
Last week a selling lady mumbled something like "We´re over 16, are we?" at me with my two cans of cheap beer. I rumbled in my most gravelly voice that I was born in the beautiful year of 1986. She didn't want to see my ID :-)

The fines on selling to minors are pretty hefty (in Germany up to 10000€, or so I hear) so people should just deal with it.

lepetitfromage:
I worked at a Eckerd in Brooklyn a few years back and we were told to ID absolutely everyone. You're 80 years old? ID-ed. You've come here every week for the last 6 months to buy a pack of smokes? Sorry, need to have your ID. Didn't matter at all, which was kinda nice but I did feel like a jerk for turning away someone who was obviously old enough and just left thier ID at home. On the flipside......I don't know anyone personally that goes anywhere without an ID. Yeah, it sucks to lose it, some people can't afford one, etc., etc.....but if you can afford something you need to be IDed to buy, that whole "I can't afford one" thing doesn't fly with me. (Especially considering that a pack of cigarettes is the same price as NYS Non-driver IDs).

This was also around the time they passed a law stating that everyone had to be IDed for Sudafed (thanks to the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act). We actually had to keep a log book as well to make sure that people weren't buying excessive quantities. I can't tell you how many people got pissy about me writing down their name and the product they bought that contained pseudoephedrine. It really sucked, especially when the person was obviously miserable in the first place and just wanted to go home and recuperate.

nekowafer:
I know that law is in place here, but I also know people that have no problems whatsoever getting medicine with dextromethorphan, which apparently really fucks you up. And I really wish stores were more strict about that.

But anyway when I worked at Wal-Mart, we had to key in the customer's ID number, I believe... I rarely got anyone too upset when I carded them. And then at Hot Topic I only had to check IDs for certain movies, and I was very strict about that.

Barmymoo:
I think I've told you guys before about having to ID someone for vanilla extract - we were both in stitches at the idea of anyone drinking enough vanilla extract to get drunk, but it is 90% proof and I guess the computer which produces the little "Check Customer ID" box doesn't know how daft an idea that is.

I also once refused to sell a computer game certificated 18 to a man who was quite clearly buying it for his primary-school aged son. The kid came up to his dad in the queue and said "I want to get this" and handed over his pocket money. I felt really uncomfortable because it felt like I was making a personal judgement on that man's parenting (and let's be honest here: I was. No seven year old should be playing Grand Theft Auto or whatever it was), but it really was just that I knew it was illegal for me to sell it in the knowledge that it was being purchased on the behalf of a minor. That's the disadvantage of being a law student, I guess.

On the subject of being a law student, I've just written and am about to read over and submit an essay essentially informing my supervisor that I think his area of study is kind of pointless. It doesn't just say that, it's 1,400 words on the moral value of the rule of law, but that is the underlying theme.

Edit: make that 1,600. Just added some (probably now over the word limit, I can never remember what it is) to make it a bit more jurisprudency. I am unlikely to get a particularly great grade in this subject because the more I study it, the more I think philosophy is stupid, but I'm really enjoying grappling with and ultimately dismissing all the ideas! Quite proud of the essay, if only as an exercise is making an argument.

Bluesummers:
$8 for a non-driver ID? wow...not bad. In CT it's about $25 or so, last I remembered.

Yah, sudafed laws are a little ridiculous...especially seeing as a pharmacy employee can make off with the entire stash...or a determined meth maker with enough financial backing can just go hijack the delivery truck. Or pull an Enfield Heist.
...It took federal authorities over two years to find the guys who did it.

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