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So, in Ireland, you need to go to a so called Off License to purchase alcohol or ciggies (the latter you can purchase at a newsagent as well). Went to my local grocery shop which had its own Off License to buy some tobacco. New guy working there, apparently from Poland. He asked me for my ID. I gave him my ID from another EU country which is basically the size of a credit card. He would absolutely not believe me that this was my official ID - even though as far as I know, the Polish IDs are the same format. He insisted I'd have to provide him with a drivers license (which I never had in the first place) or to show him my passport (which I didn't own either since you don't need one travelling from one EU country to another). This went back and forth for about ten minutes until I asked to speak to the manager for the first time ever in my life. Manager popped by and I explained what was going on. The manager checked my ID card and told the new guy: 'Of course that's an official ID, you gobshite...'. It made me chuckle and off I went with my tobacco.
my favorite incident like this happened in utah. with mineral water.
Error 404; does not compute. Care to share that bonkers story with us?
i was buying perrier and the cashier at a walmart in utah must've thought it was liquor. probably had never sold alcohol because, y'know, the register tells you to check id. kept demanding to see my identification. I was amused. told her no. went back and forth a bit (including me telling her I wasn't buying anything that needed my ID) until we got her manager, who told her i was buying water and to stop being an idiot.
Jaysus Christ and all his carpenter friends... Would've loved to see the look on her face after the manager got involved. :D
kind of angry at me for embarrassing her at work even though she embarrassed herself but needed someplace other than herself to place the blame?