Make my day.

[Rodney Mills]

Talk about make my day.

I did my weekly shopping this morning at Walmarts. And something happened to "Make my day" and I swear it's not a joke.

Amongst my supplies I purchased a 5 liter cask of Pinot Grigio ($21.00). It was the last item to be rung up by the clerk and she had some sort of problem and called over a supervisor. The supervisors tapped in on the till then looked at me and said "I.D. please," Which meant she is requesting a photo I.D., a drivers license. TO CHECK MY AGE!

I looked at her, she wasn't smiling. I said "You're kidding, right?"

She was holding tight to the cask as though I was going to snatch it and run (leaving a cart load of groceries and cleaning supplies etc..

I burst out laughing. I said "I'm old enough to be your grandfather. I'm 83 years old."*

She still wouldn't budge, just held a hand out.

I handed over my driving licence. She looked at the photo, back at me and back again at the photo. The photo was taken two years ago when I renewed my licence (on my 81st birthday), however I have a beard now, but it's grey, like my hair, and I wasn't wearing a hat today. I told her "I couldn't wait to tell my great-granddaughter. about this. "Flagged" at eighty-three."

I know you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a "check-out chick" at Walmart. But who ever heard of an under twenty-one, pasting on wrinkles and dying hair and a beard grey to buy a cask of Chateau Cardboard. I'll be chuckling with my first sip tonight instead of the last.

Anybody else ever had a "Make my day" moment beside Clint Eastwood and me?

Cheers, and bottoms-up. Rodney

[vic mcclymont]

I had that problem a few years ago Rodney, at 71 got checked out for buying booze didn't whether to laugh or cry.
Could have been new operative on the till, unsure of what to do.
Vic

[Tony Taylor]

I often buy whisky on special offer on Amazon and the delivery driver always demands ID before he will handover

[Keith at Tregenna]

Had a bus driver question my pic on my pass last year, he suggested I got a new
photo - card, explained it was fairly new. Only taking the bus as I was not driving
due to my eye op. I said lets try again, took off the cap that was worn to protect
my eyes, then the large dark glasses, got oh! OK. Sat at the only seat next to a
lady all I can tell you is the colour of her eyes. Guess she paid cash.

K.

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[Frank Thorp]

Hello all.

I had a similar experience about a year ago with a bus driver in Cambridge. We get a bus pas here at the age of 65.
I am 81 now and I do not use the bus very often. Usually you just put the pass on the ticket machine and the driver may just have a quick look at the picture.

On this day the driver asked me to get the pass out it's holder to check the back. I gave it to him and he informed me that it was out of date, and I would have to pay £2 fare.
I told him that I was not getting any younger, but he insisted that i had to pay up. The busses on that route are every 10 minutes, so I stepped off and waited for the next bus. I have never been asked before or since. I did get my bus pass renewed.

Frank.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Rodney, we are the same vintage, I now get pizzed off when they don't ask for proof of age!

[John Arton]

Well lads, having just turned 70 , I get the opposite. At least 10 of family and friends have commented on how young I'm looking...,true.
Rgds
J.A.

[j.sabourn]

Can’t look as young as me John . In two days am off to join the RAAFA . Qiuet a big career change, however failed to get in as a boy entrant. Must have forgotten to shave. Cheers JS.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Well lads, having just turned 70 , I get the opposite. At least 10 of family and friends have commented on how young I'm looking...,true.
Rgds
J.A.

John, at 70, you are young, life is just beginning

[j.sabourn]

Time to settle down and raise a family ??? JS