Walmart check-out had a question for me

[lonewolf]

I look MUCH better now than I did at 18.........

[Razgriz]

Hmm, so I can buy 9mm if I was buying it for a rifle? Interesting.

[TNT]

picked up some .22 LR in WalMart on Monday, and got asked the same question. Pretty sure I look over 30. The man that had come to the counter to help me didn't even know where to look for the ammo I was calling out - I had to point it to him. I think he was just on auto pilot and the register prompted that question so he asked.

[Texas_Tactical]

I bought a box of Winchester PDX1 .40 ammo tonight at Academy and the young girl at the just looks at me and ask "Were you borned before 1990?" I said "yeah 88'" she just punched some buttons and I was done. there system is fool-proof especially for people like me who look young.

[Tallinthesaddle]

They asked me that one time at Academy. The girl at the cash register was just following someone else's orders.

[terryg]

This story is only marginally related, but it was pretty funny.

I needed to go talk to my daughters new volleyball coach at her practice. I had not yet met her so I asked my daughter (13 years old) to describe her.

"Blond hair, elderly, wears too much eye makeup"

I was a little skeptical on the elderly part and sure enough - it took me a few minutes to pick her out of the group of coaches there - but she is probably 25!

My wife and I were like "If she is elderly, what does that make us?"

[Texas_Tactical]

This story is only marginally related, but it was pretty funny.

I needed to go talk to my daughters new volleyball coach at her practice. I had not yet met her so I asked my daughter (13 years old) to describe her.

"Blond hair, elderly, wears too much eye makeup"

I was a little skeptical on the elderly part and sure enough - it took me a few minutes to pick her out of the group of coaches there - but she is probably 25!

My wife and I were like "If she is elderly, what does that make us?"

[KaiserB]

The best part about buying 9mm at Wal Mart is telling them it is for your AR-15 9mm which is a rifle. Then they will proceed to "school you" on how an AR does not use 9mm, so it has to be for a pistol.

[Keith B]

This story is only marginally related, but it was pretty funny.

I needed to go talk to my daughters new volleyball coach at her practice. I had not yet met her so I asked my daughter (13 years old) to describe her.

"Blond hair, elderly, wears too much eye makeup"

I was a little skeptical on the elderly part and sure enough - it took me a few minutes to pick her out of the group of coaches there - but she is probably 25!

My wife and I were like "If she is elderly, what does that make us?"

Yeah, old age is a perception thing when you are young.

I had a similar thing when my daughter was in 2nd grade. I was at her school and overheard a couple of boys talking about a teacher. I rounded corner laughing when the principal (lady, about 55 at the time) asked what was so funny. I told her the two boys, who were probably 2nd graders, were talking about 'Old Lady Dubose'. She laughed and said 'Well, at their age I guess she does seem old, and they probably think I was married to Noah.' Old Lady Dubose was a new teacher that year, just out of college and was 23.

[KD5NRH]

" are these to be used in a handgun?"

Just glance at the rubber sheets, three bottles of Hershey's syrup, and value-size jar of raspberry jam you're also getting, and say "uh, no, and please don't ask for more details."

[jamisjockey]

Tell 'em "Neither - it's for a submachine gun" - watch the instant deer-in-the-headlights look

You suck, because now I have barley-soda in my sinuses.

[mgood]

At a couple of stores, I've been asked my age when buying gun magazines. Not the kind you put ammunition in, the paper kind with words and pictures and stuff. I'm not sure if that's happened here in Texas. I think it was in California. I wasn't sure if it was just the store policy or some kind of law. Oh well. I guess I was old enough, they sold them to me.

I have the opposite problem, in that I look older than I am. When I turned 21, I went into a store to buy a 6 pack of beer as a "ha! I'm 21!" thing. The clerk didn't even bat an eye, just rang me up. Kind of disappointing, as I wanted to show off that yes, I was legal. If I had known they weren't going to check I would have started buying beer earlier.

That whole year, I only got carded about half the time I went anywhere/did anything.

The night before my 21st birthday, I went to the liquor store to get some beer. More for a laugh than anything else. If they turned me down, I was going to say,"Look, in a few hours I'll be legal."
. . . They didn't card me. For once I didn't even care if I got the beer. My mission was to annoy them and I failed.

This story is only marginally related, but it was pretty funny.

I needed to go talk to my daughters new volleyball coach at her practice. I had not yet met her so I asked my daughter (13 years old) to describe her.

"Blond hair, elderly, wears too much eye makeup"

I was a little skeptical on the elderly part and sure enough - it took me a few minutes to pick her out of the group of coaches there - but she is probably 25!

My wife and I were like "If she is elderly, what does that make us?"

She's 13 and thinks a 25 year old is "elderly"? I think she may be pulling your leg just a little.
After years of observation I've come to the conclusion that anyone 15 years older than you is "old" and anyone 15 years younger than you is "a kid," regardless of your age.

[Abraham]

" are these to be used in a handgun?"

My response would be: Nope, gonna throw the whole box in the camp fire Friday night and watch the fun!

[zero4o3]

I could buy beer when I was 17. I occasionally got carded, but usually not.

I remember one time I said in passing that my 35th birthday had been a few days earlier, and I had become eligible to run for president. The man I was talking to, who had known me for a while, was incredulous that I was not at least 40.

I think the clerks who ask for ID when the customer is obviously well over 21 are just acting like robots because that is what they were trained to do.

(Employers really don't want employees who can think independently, because those employees might decide they need to be paid more or be treated better).

- Jim

I used to like asking for ID on things when I worked in retail, if it was clear they where over the limit, I would ask just for fun