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  • I'm the (accidental) ID idiot this time

    Let me start by saying I never have any problems showing my ID to purchase age restricted items.

    So, I'm in the store buying cigarettes, and the clerk asks me for ID. I open my wallet and show her. Now, I keep my license in the little window pocket so this is easy. Some stores ask you to take it out, and that's not a problem for me. Anyway, the clerk gives me a funny look and says "that's not you". I give her a quizzical look and say "of course it is!" and start to get a little irritated. My driver's license picture is recent is is actually a pretty good picture. She then tells me she can't accept my ID. Now I'm confused and irritated, but right as I start to get agitated, I turn my wallet around and see what ID is actually facing outward.....

    And then nearly fall over laughing. My 12 year old son has to have a state issued ID card because he has a handicapped parking permit. Somehow or another, my own driver's license got tucked behind his ID, and the child's ID was showing.

    Oooops. We all got a good laugh out of it. I apologized to the clerk and it was all good, but I still felt like a moron. Thankfully the clerk was in good humor and accepted my apology, saying she knew what it felt like to have those kinds of days.
    At the conclusion of an Irish wedding, the priest said "Everybody please hug the person who has made your life worth living. The bartender was nearly crushed to death.

  • #2
    At least you didn't pitch a drama-diva tantrum about the matter.
    "Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit

    "Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77

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    • #3
      You are definitly NOT an idiot.

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      • #4
        You posted it! I was the store clerk in this story. I looked at the picture and the birthdate on the ID and was wondering why he was trying to buy cigarettes with an ID that made him look way too young for anything, which is why I said, "That's not you." I asked for another ID. He actually almost went into SC territory insisting that it was him, so that is why I told him that I was not selling to him because the ID said he was too young. We did have a good laugh about it once he looked at the ID I was seeing.
        Last edited by Titi; 07-01-2014, 07:37 AM.

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        • #5
          Wait. So Titi and Mathnerd interacted with each other in this scenario and didn't realize it?

          Holy crap! I do believe this may be the first known instance of this around here.

          Tell us more!
          "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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          • #6
            Hmmmm. I don't think so. Titi's customer was a guy. I'm a woman. It is funny that the same thing happened to somebody else. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
            At the conclusion of an Irish wedding, the priest said "Everybody please hug the person who has made your life worth living. The bartender was nearly crushed to death.

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            • #7
              Yeah, Pepper, that's what I got too, until I got to the "he" part; I think the "I was the store clerk...." is shorthand for "I was in the exact situation, except on the other side of the counter..."

              Would be a bizarre coinky-dink. I keep waiting for it to happen up here in Cheeselandia; CS'ers are pretty thick on the ground in these parts, and one of us is bound to snap sooner or later.

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              • #8
                Oh, ok. My head was about to fly off with the 'small world-ness' (new word I just made up) of it all.
                "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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                • #9
                  It is still very amusing, as the only group of kids I can think of that would have state issued ID's are disabled minors and child actors. Other than that, you pretty much have to be 15 before you'd have a state ID (except the few states that give learner's permits and driver licenses to 14 year olds...there are still a few left). That's a pretty small group of kids.
                  At the conclusion of an Irish wedding, the priest said "Everybody please hug the person who has made your life worth living. The bartender was nearly crushed to death.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth mathnerd View Post
                    It is still very amusing, as the only group of kids I can think of that would have state issued ID's are disabled minors and child actors. Other than that, you pretty much have to be 15 before you'd have a state ID (except the few states that give learner's permits and driver licenses to 14 year olds...there are still a few left). That's a pretty small group of kids.
                    In Ohio, they have a non-drivers ID for minors. I had to get one as a kid when I went to the National Scout Jamboree (required by the BSA for all scouts to have official ID at that event)
                    The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Peppergirl View Post
                      Oh, ok. My head was about to fly off with the 'small world-ness'....
                      Well, there's always this thread if you wanna ride the Teacups.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Peppergirl View Post
                        Wait. So Titi and Mathnerd interacted with each other in this scenario and didn't realize it?

                        Holy crap! I do believe this may be the first known instance of this around here.
                        Some years back, Bookstore Escapee posted information (confirmed by PM) that he/she (can't recall gender) worked at a place where I had picked up a couple loads. Didn't pick up any more loads there after seeing here that they worked there.
                        Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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