I just got carded at Walmart...

[RoJoHen]

...because I attempted to purchase a PG-13 movie.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Wow. Who'd you piss off?

 

[Amaris]

Did you shave?

 

[RoJoHen]

Nope, sporting a full goatee.

 

[Amaris]

Well, then that's odd.

 

[RoJoHen]

I was so caught off guard. I didn't even know how to respond.

 

[Amaris]

I would have just stood there, eyebrows raised, mouth agape.

 

[AstroSmurf]

Those ass-hats do that to me all the time. I wouldn't let it bother you. Take it as a compliment. When you are my age, you will welcome it and even find yourself feeling guilty later because it made you feel good.

 

[Maestro]

Wowsa. And I was annoyed yesterday when I purchased The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the computer blipped, "Check ID/Over 17?" Fortunately, the cashier looked at me with my greying beard and my four-year-old bouncing in the cart and just pushed the "Yes" button without a word.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, I gave her a weird look and then slowly pulled out my ID. She studied it way too carefully.

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

As if I needed any more reasons to boycott Walmart...

 

[Rett Mikhal]

I once got carded at the grocery store for buying beef jerky. No joke, I couldn't make up anything that originally stupid if you paid me. Another reason to avoid those stupid auto checkout lanes. You get carded for meat products and it eliminates the "faster" aspect.

 

[AstroSmurf]

As if I needed any more reasons to boycott Walmart...

Isn't that the truth. I normally boycott them but they are the ONLY game in town for DVD's. The tiny little town I currently live in just doesn't have anywhere else to purchase them. I order what I can but sometimes... I just got to have a movie right now. (I am addicted to DVD's. I just can't fight the need sometimes.)

But I am pleased to report I haven't purchased anything else from them.

 

[Capn Flukie]

What movie was it btw?

 

[RoJoHen]

"The X-Files: I Want To Believe"

I just got finished marathoning through the series, and I wanted to watch the last movie.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that they feel the need to card to make sure a 12 year old isn't buying a PG-13 movie or that they could possibly have thought you were 12 years old.

 

[Capn Flukie]

"The X-Files: I Want To Believe"

I just got finished marathoning through the series, and I wanted to watch the last movie.

Ah, almost makes sense...

Spoiler: Character in the movie

There's a pedophile priest in the movie.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's still PG-13!

And I don't look even remotely 13! I haven't looked 13 since I was 10!

 

[Owain Taggart]

Heh, reminds me when my Dad was buying beer at the grocery store, which is a thing you can do in Quebec, but not Ontario, and it was through one of those self-service machines, and the machine carded him. Then the clerk comes over to see what's wrong, and she looks at the machine and then at my Dad, and then my Dad asked her if she needed to see something and she said no.

 

[RoJoHen]

Here's a question:

Do 13-year olds even have IDs? I sure didn't when I was 13. How does a 13-year old prove they are 13? I didn't have any legal form of ID until I was 16 and got my driver's license.