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From Haltse’s “Tilting at windmills” The what gets on my goatee series.

Erin bought the demon drink from Fry’s the other night, ok it was wine which may have us on a list of French sympathisers , and I am , I am sorry they’re  French.. ooo that’s not fair  but I digress and I needed a pun, the wine was New Zealand and  no one hates them .. Ok Scottish rugby fans do but that doesn’t matter.

Anyway usually they card you, maybe for the ego boost  woman to woman of being mistaken for under 21, maybe because  intelligence is not highly prized in the checkout line and dammit a policy is a policy.

They not only wanted the licence, they wanted to write the number down and then have you sign it.  Curious, I wonder if they had heard of ID theft and the best way to find out is to call them on it.  Well after  two to three abortive attempts to find the correct person I settled on voicemail  and received a call back later in the day. 

So they are doing this to prevent fraud.  Somehow their customers like the security theatre and they believe it helps.  This customer doesn’t. Having questioned them prior on  why I had to wait 10 minutes for them to unlock the condom cabinet  ( DAMMIT I’m Horny now)  since they can’t possibly have those out in the open and basically they are happy with  treating everyone as a criminal. This is where I am told that  I should be reasonable .. Fuck that. When other businesses in town can sell  direct from the shelf without a paperwork dance that’s were I shop.  I’m just highlighting the reasons why Henry’s and Sprouts see a lot more of us these days.

They seemingly are placed in a safe after the shift, go to accounts , and  are stored, never to be opened unless there’s a dispute. I don’t think my grocery store needs to keep my driving licence  on file just to do business with them.