An age warning for THAT?

[Dreamstalker]

At Pause And Browse, we sell/sold (they're probably on clearance today) some cheap New Years "party kits" with hats, leis, horns and tinsel.

It was busy yesterday but not insane (chaos in a good way, everyone seemed in a good mood). SM was on register, which rarely happens; I got freed up just when he opened the register so I dart over to bag on that lane. He scans one of the kits, and the scanner pops up with "Is customer over 16?"

Bwuh? I can see that specific age warning for something containing silly string, any aerosol or sharpies, but this was none of the above. Customer actually scrutinized the box for a good minute trying to figure out what tripped the warning. They were cool about it though.

...on a related note, I got that age warning when trying to buy a Pokemon game of all things once (employee was as confused as I was)

[bainsidhe]

Well Pokemon I understand, they were trying to protect young minds. Unless maybe they thought children shouldn't have that much money (Pokemon stuff is expensive).

[Bright_Star]

Well Pokemon I understand, they were trying to protect young minds. Unless maybe they thought children shouldn't have that much money (Pokemon stuff is expensive).

Those Pokemon will "Blue Screen" your mind...lol.

[dalesys]

I can see our (Utah) legis-slobberers requiring ID for age on party stuff... After all, they just outlawed "Happy Hour".

[Food Lady]

And I get weird looks when I have to ID them for cough syrup. I can't imagine the fits they'd have over party kits. Paging MOD to register 8!

[Gizmo]

I used to have horrible issues when I was prompted by the tills to ID for non-alcoholic beer/wine.

Apparently it falls into some weird classification where its considered restricted as it once had alcohol in it even if its now been removed?

It caused serious tantrums though! (Especially the time I spotted it and asked for ID before I rang it up. Tantrum then about it being non-alcoholic and then another when the till confirmed I needed to ID for it!)

[LillFilly]

I've been ID'd for spray paint and certain cleaning products.

[emt_cookies]

I know at my store, we had to card if they bought fireworks including those popper things you throw on the ground.

[dalesys]

...those popper things you throw on the ground.

One of my friends put those under the toilet seat lid legs in the mens teachers lounge...

[Dreamstalker]

Well Pokemon I understand, they were trying to protect young minds.

This happened last year; was the encounter here in MA I can kinda understand...maybe (our laws are still WEIRD) but it was up on OR.

A fundie uncle of mine treated me to an epic rant many, many moons ago about how Pokemon was "demonic". At that time I carried around a spring-loaded toy Pokeball, I start bouncing it on the end of its tether and Mew pops out and bounces straight for him

[mharbourgirl]

A fundie uncle of mine treated me to an epic rant many, many moons ago about how Pokemon was "demonic".

I should introduce my parents to your uncle. Anything even remotely 'supernatural' was evil. So I wasn't allowed to watch Ghostbusters. Or Scooby Doo. Or He-Man. They would have forbidden science fiction but my grandfather put his foot down on that one. His granddaughter was going to read Asimov, by the Three Laws, or there'd be hell to pay.

But it was perfectly okay to watch Clint Eastwood and James Bond movies. I never did get a logical explanation for that one.

[Dreamstalker]

My grandmother was the same way, also against Ghostbusters...we see how well that turned out She had a hissyfit on finding out dad had taken me to see GB2 on its release...I think he told her that when she wanted to go to the theater and pay (which never happened) she would get to decide the movie.

[Kristev]

Great counter on your father's part, Dreamstalker.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

We had to deal with that kind of stuff when it came to Dungeons & Dragons and also Harry Potter...my husband was big into D&D and his mother was always raging against it, but that didn't dissuade him. She made my stepson promise her when he was a kid he'd never play it...of course, he did, eventually I think both my parents and hubby's shook their heads over my stepdaughter reading the Harry Potter books, too. Geez.

[Dreamstalker]

Great counter on your father's part, Dreamstalker.

He knew she wouldn't have an answer for that because she preferred the 'this is bad because I say so' school and would never, ever watch a movie herself (mmkay so how do you know it's 'bad' ), so that ultimatum could never be met. She was a fairly rigid person, so always had to follow 'the rules'.

Never try a conviction argument with an MIT engineer and his geekling, you will lose