Scottish Elises

Well this is a new one on me...

Had to pop in to Dundee town centre briefly this afternoon with Calum, my 14yr old son, so for convenience (and cost ) I parked in Lidl at the Marketgait. Did our bit in town, then back to Lidl to buy a bottle of Gluhwein (yuk) for Mrs Bee's traditional Christmas tree erection (and to get my hour's parking for free )

This is where it all started to go Pete Tong. Usual Lidl/Aldi fare of having too few checkouts open, giving unnecessarily long queues. Grrrr.
Then I'm getting served, and the checkout chappie asks if I have I.D. for "the young lad", which I thought was said chap being funny so I replied with a smile "no but I do!" (44yrs old, week-old growth far greyer than I'd prefer)....and then he said "I need his ID"

I realised, after asking if he was joking, that he wasn't, so I pointed out to him that if I'd left Calum in the car, I'd have got served, and also that didn't he think mulled wine would be an odd choice for such a young lad????
Before I left, without my one item, I told him he'd better take my reg number for the car park, "how long have you been in?"

"Just under an hour"

So the outcome of all my ramblings was that Mrs Bee decorated the tree stone cold sober

My questions are - has anyone else suffered a similar scenario?

Is this a Lidl policy?

Please tell me it's not a new law

Same happened a few years ago to my father in law in Dingwall tesco. Except he wasn't even buying alcohol-he was buying BBQ skewers for my sister in law who happened to look underage! Same outcome-no sale!

Wait.... so if I pop in to Lidl for a bottle of wine and I take my 1yr old in with me I won't get served since he's under 18?

That appeared to be their policy.

Had this been ten yrs ago I'd never have dreamt of leaving my then 4yr old in the car, so what was the difference?

I mean, what 14yr old chooses f*cking mulled wine?

I'd have let Callum wait outside and gone back round again to the very same checkout. You don't have to pay they're parking fines anyway.

Can't be policy as I've bought alcohol with both kids with me.

It wasn't really mulled wine was it?
It was 6 tins of hooch and a bottle of MD20:20

BigD wrote:I'd have let Callum wait outside and gone back round again to the very same checkout. You don't have to pay they're parking fines anyway.

Can't be policy as I've bought alcohol with both kids with me.

Did cross my mind Donald, but my thrawin' side didn't think they deserved the business.

Wasn't booze for me anyway

Seems odd, you must've raised some suspicion, you weren't wearing a Jimmy Saville shell suit with a " jm'll fix it " badge on were you?

Stevoraith wrote:It wasn't really mulled wine was it?
It was 6 tins of hooch and a bottle of MD20:20

Spesh broo

If have left all me shopping at the check out and gone off in a huff

I was only in for the hooch!

Was visiting my folks this afternoon, my dear old mum says Asda have the same policy???

What sort of wanky policy is that? Honestly, it's ridiculous! - who the hell buys their Mrs some plonk for tree erection?

Dominic wrote: who the hell buys their Mrs some plonk for erection?

EFA

I set 'em up, you knock 'em in..... oh, wait a minute

Was shopping in Tesco on our way to TB in Peebles with some mates when my mate got id'd at the checkout. He's 32, I was 42 and standing next to him.
He'd no id. I said I'd get it...

"No," says the woman at the checkout, "You can't buy it for him he's underage. That's an offence."

"No it isn't," I replied "he was buying it for me. Now I'll just buy it myself. And he's not underage, he's 32 and he works for me!"

"You'll need to leave the store." As she says this some bag packers start to wander our way, until the 4 of us were surrounded.

"Are you kidding?" we laughed.

"This isn't funny, attempting to buy alcohol for someone under age is an offence."

"Yes. But he's 32. And I'm not buying it for him, I'm buying it for me."

"YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS NEED TO LEAVE THE STORE."

We left, laughing in utter bemusement.