"WTF" stories

[Teaos]

I ran a service station for awhile and I once got a man come in with his son wanting to return a magazine the kid had brought. It was a mans magazine with pics of woman in panties ect, non nude but obviously for men. There is no rating on it and nothing to overt in it so we sell it to who ever wants it.

The man didnt think we should have sold it to his 9 year old son, i asked him why his son came here to buy it when you have obviously told him not to do such things... guy just stuttered and walked out.

[Lt. Staplic]

that's funny.

[Sionnach Glic]

Welcome to the Someone Else's Problem method of parenting.
"My son bought a violent and innapropriate game? That's not my fault, they never should have let me buy it for him!"
Replace "game" with whatever you want. It's always the same response. Yet another reason why people should require a license to reproduce.

[Mikey]

That was always my answer: "I'm so sorry, sir/ma'am! Which of my employees did you tell to not let your child purchase this?"

"Er..."

"Thank you, have a ncie day."

[Aaron]

Hah! You know things are screwy when the guy with a bunch of grey in his beard gets asked for ID but the kid ahead of him just walked out with Dead Space.

[Lt. Staplic]

I've seen that happen unfortuneately

[Mark]

I was at a convenience store they night before last, a little mom and pop place. A kid in front of me (about 16), goes up to the counter with a Hustler magazine, a case of beer, and two packs of cigarettes. I smirked at how brazen he was, until the store clerk just asked him......paper or plastic?

[Teaos]

Not sure if the law is the same over there as it is here but, here the only way a store can be fined for selling to under ages is if the government agency reposncible for it tests them with kids working for them. This agency cannot give these kids fake ID's 1) because its illegal 2) you cant expect a store teller to be able to tell a fake ID all the time.

Thus when I was at the service station we served anyone with an ID saying they were 18+ since we knew it wasnt the agency. A 8 year old white kid could have a ID saying he was 50 year old black chick and we'd still sell to him.

[Mikey]

Around here, they tend to try and verify the info contained in an ID.

[Lt. Staplic]

that's still the main way a store can get in trouble over here. One of my friends has a parent in the PD so he got a job one summer being one of those agent kids.

[mwhittington]

Before I worked at Radio Shack, I worked at a gas station, so we also sold alcohol and tobacco. However, the manager was a smart man, and had black lights installed by the registers to determine fake IDs and currency. It works amazingly well, as long as you look at the photo on the ID. Some of the customers would use someone else's ID, but some of the employees just didn't look at the photo, so as a result, we got fined big time, and the employees had to find other means of employment. Yes, stupidity is alive and well.

[Lt. Staplic]

well you know...
God must love stupid people...
he sure makes a lot of them

[Mark]

It's so he doesn't raise the bar to much.