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Alcohol without ID
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I'd like to know some of the rubbish you try and spin the sales staff whenever you try and buy booze without ID.
I ask because I spent most of last night asking people for ID, and they were really boring. It's like they're following the worst script in the world. 'Do I look 17?' 'But i'm 19!' 'Oh, you've got to be shitting me'...
I ask because I spent most of last night asking people for ID, and they were really boring. It's like they're following the worst script in the world. 'Do I look 17?' 'But i'm 19!' 'Oh, you've got to be shitting me'...
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But I have a friend who if shes ever asked for ID just bursts out laughing, and then when shes stopped says something like "Oh-You were serious?!" They usually let her in TBH.
How charming...
I just like to know that i'm doing my bit to help save the lungs and liver of children.
I expect somebody's going to do you a favour one day and spark you out.
Hey, I can't stand smokers. If I want to tell them how bad it is for them that's my business. Spark??? What the hell does spark me out mean?
ahh those were the days
Yeah, he's supposed to ask for ID, not give them a lecture on whether or not they should be smoking / drinking / sniffing glue.
By the way I know how you feel, I worked on a till for 10 months, I've had some right mouthy underrage twats. You've just got to be professional and keep your cool.
My friend has also been ID'd when she was heavily pregnant, which we found slightly amusing, although the amount of underage mothers, we shouldn't have been too surprised.
I think the way you act is the main thing. I remember being a little shifty when buying cigs because I'd get killed if family friends saw me, but when buying alcohol I forgot I was underage, when I'm around town or in a pub etc. so it doesn't make you feel nervous at all.
thats why i like my local offie run by the friendly indian guy, also does under the counter fags
probably no more with all these tesco metros popping up everyone
I don't mind asking for ID really, if they're old enough they should have the ID on them and so it shouldn't bother them.
Unrelated but I remember once I wasn't allowed to serve a woman 'cause she was pissed.
How can you tell the exact age of someone? Oh you look 23 so I'm not serving you
Unless they're a townie and then you should actually want them to die. If not there's something seriously wrong with you:p
no cause it hard to tell difference between someone who 18 or 17, so if you id anyone looking under 24, theyll get seved, if they have ID
i just wouldnt sell cheapr cider, special brew, and tacky wines and spirits though
Your buisness is to take the money and ID them if they don't look old enough. It is not your job to be some cocky little gob shite giving out lectures.
Thump you. Hard.
What's a narc?
I don't normally give lectures, I don't like giving lectures, I just save it for people who I really don't like the look of. Specifically, the ones that give me lip but in truth look like little wimps and really wouldn't have the bollocks to complain about me anyway. Generally speaking, my supervisor doesn't really care what I do because I fill the refused sales book with plenty of evidence to prove we're doing our bit when the auditors come round.
Generally speaking, I wouldn't make such comments to these group of people. I know of occasions where they haven't been served and waited around for four hours specifically to thump whoever refused to serve them. My usual line with these individuals when they give me lip is to remind them that as they have no ID I am refusing to serve them, and that if they did not stop harassing me i'd be very happy to call the security guard or the police and have them removed.