Boycott Walmart!, Part II

[Vern Humphrey]

I was wandering around Walmart near the sporting goods section, and saw a case stocked with Federal .22 LR. There was a guy on my side of the counter, and the clerk reached out and put a box in front of him. Then he put one in front of me. At checkout, I was asked for my driver's license.

"I'm snooting my gun, not driving it!"

"I'm sorry. We have to be sure you're over 21." (I'll be 80 in December.)

So I can't buy some prescription meds without a picture ID, nor .22 Ammo, nor tobacco!! You know what this means? Walmart is trying to suppress the poor!!

[barretcreek]

It's your youthful demeanor,Vern.

Local mid box farm store does the same thing-when I use plastic. Cash? We don't care. Not sure if it's the banksters or Gub'm'nt. But I think it also works for the other two letters.
A and T.

[togor]

Were my father still alive, he would turn 95 this year. And to him, and his generation, the idea of "papers please" for everything comes straight from behind the Iron Curtain.

With his 95 years he would look with dismay on an 80-year-old who gladly agrees to show an ID for everything, including voting, so as to be easily tracked, and wonder what "these kids" are doing to the country he knew and loved.

Perhaps fortunately for him he's not alive to see what happened to his political party.

[Sako]

I was wandering around Walmart near the sporting goods section, and saw a case stocked with Federal .22 LR. There was a guy on my side of the counter, and the clerk reached out and put a box in front of him. Then he put one in front of me. At checkout, I was asked for my driver's license.

"I'm snooting my gun, not driving it!"

"I'm sorry. We have to be sure you're over 21." (I'll be 80 in December.)

So I can't buy some prescription meds without a picture ID, nor .22 Ammo, nor tobacco!! You know what this means? Walmart is trying to suppress the poor!!

WalMart is probably collecting names and addresses for the ATF.

[togor]

WalMart is probably collecting names and addresses for the ATF.

I bet the CMP would turn over sales records to the FBI in a heartbeat.

[Mark in Ottawa]

A few years ago I was at the Ottawa Blues Festival and decided to buy a beer. The young lady asked for proof of age (I was over 70 at the time). I wanted to kiss her but my wife, who was with me at the time, would have cut off valuable body parts. With some embarrassment, she explained that they had previously had so many complaints from people who were young but actually over the legal drinking age, that they had made the decision to ask everybody for proof, even if they were elderly. From their point of view it solved a marketing problem but it was a bit silly. I still wanted to kiss her but......

[lyman]

A few years ago I was at the Ottawa Blues Festival and decided to buy a beer. The young lady asked for proof of age (I was over 70 at the time). I wanted to kiss her but my wife, who was with me at the time, would have cut off valuable body parts. With some embarrassment, she explained that they had previously had so many complaints from people who were young but actually over the legal drinking age, that they had made the decision to ask everybody for proof, even if they were elderly. From their point of view it solved a marketing problem but it was a bit silly. I still wanted to kiss her but......

years ago when I was in my 30's , with some gray hair, we went to a local ball game,

older woman working the beer booth, and asked for my ID, (was in the business at the time, so I know she was supposed to card anyone that looked less than 27,, that age was determined by the State)

I looked at here and said really (in a nice way)
she said, without so much as a smile or anything,,, 'do you want a beer?'
I said yes,
she said, 'then show your id,,,"

so I did, and got my beer