Obama Drama, Part 5
At The Checkout, Jerk, Retail, Tennessee, USA | Right | July 8, 2018
(At the store where I work, it is policy to card for ALL tobacco and alcohol purchases. It doesn’t matter if the person has grey hair and more wrinkles than a Shar Pei; we still have to card them. Failure to card can lose me my job and cost me and the store a hefty fine. The customer I am serving here appears to be in at least his 60s.)
Customer: “I’ll take a can of [chewing tobacco], please.”
Me: “Certainly.” *unlocks the tobacco cabinet and gets out the can* “May I see your ID, please?”
Customer: “You’re kidding me!”
Customer’s Buddy: “The state of things now! Is this an Obama rule? This is ridiculous how things are nowadays! Is his one of Obama’s rules?”
Me: “No, it is a store rule.”
Customer & His Buddy: *laughs* “A store rule?!”
(The customer handed me his ID, I typed in the birthdate and told him his total, and he paid and left, both of them still laughing. This is not the first time a customer has railed about “Obama taking away their rights” when asked for ID.)
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