Following on from Grandma's Gin, further evidence of retail stupidity has come to light. Today, DIL (that's Daughter-in-Law) of TMWSC - who was 'Granddaughter' in the previous post - experienced a further dose of lunacy at the hands of a checkout operator. This time, the offending establishment was Wilkinson, where DIL attempted to buy a few household items as there is to be a bit of a 'spruce' up of the premises where she works. So, a quick stop at Wilko was in order, for some cleaning cloths, detergent, a broom, a wallpaper scraper, a bucket, and a couple of other odds and sods. At the checkout, at the hands of a 19-year-old female, DIL was 'challenged' over her purchase. Yes, you're ahead of me here and have guessed exactly what the problem was.
It is a well known fact that no one under the age of eighteen in the UK is allowed to take off wallpaper. At any age, one is entitled to hang the stuff (with paste of course, not glue - heaven forbid!) and create an improved environment. But taking the stuff off is apparently a banned activity. Why? Because you have to be 18+ to operate a wallpaper scraper.
DIL was surprised to be asked for ID, and it seemed madness that the young person on the till was inspecting the ID of someone who was three years her senior, because amongst the collection of items was a scraper. Luckily, DIL had not bought tooth picks, or she'd have quite obviously stabbed them in the eyes of the checkout operator, because they too are offensive weapons and you must be licensed to buy them. So, DIL left the shop to clean and scrape, having learned that the British Army might want to consider swapping bayonets for scrapers as a cost-cutting exercise. By the way, those with guns and bayonets are 16 and over, but to play a computer game with guns rather than use real ones, you have to be 18.
Roger, Wilko & Out
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