Well, that wasn’t a very successful trip to the shop

I've been thinking about this for the last half an hour now. What window did you look through to see it hanging down? Was it in the passenger mirror? I didn't think you'd be able to see anything through there. My head hurts.

Also I had the same experience as you and that was Morrisons too. Did my full weekly shop on something like a Wednesday morning about 11am a while ago. Lots of vegetables and other boring adult things plus one pack of paracetamol. Woman wouldn't sell them to me because I 'could be a school child under 16'. I was in my late 30s, with a weekly shop during school time but I could be a school kid. Some right jobsworths about

 

A while ago?
Was in your late thirties?
Can I assume you’re in your early forties now.
Obviously not a lover of Morrison’s then.
Last time I couldn’t get pain killers. Is cos
Parrots et em all.
Al get mi coit.

 

Will reckons it’s ‘cos I asked for a separate bag for the raw meat packs, you know, like all the kids do.

Yes, passenger wing mirror. I actually noticed the cover was open and then saw the cap dangling below that.

 

That's the problem with you young kids, you always want your raw meats in separate bags along with your over the counter drugs.

And on a completely random subject, in case you didn't know, the new multi story is open now for when you're ready to come back to the football (I think you said you weren't coming back just yet). Weekends are free for 3 hours then 50p for every 30 minutes after that. However after 5pm it's completely free till the following morning.
So for an evening kick off arrive after 5pm and it's completely free. For 3pm kick offs if you arrive at 2:01pm or later it's completely free, if you arrive at half 1 it will cost you 50p and 1pm it will cost you £1 payable on exit. No rush to get back to the carpark before your time runs out.

 

Excellent! Thank you for that news. Silly question, is it in the same place?

 

Yes it is. The entrance is in a very SLIGHTLY different place but if you head to where you did before you can't miss it

 

so that's the shoppers stuffed then, car park full of Tarn fans strolling back to their cars

 

Yet another negative to the stupid beevor court closure. It's pushed more and more traffic to the town centre side of the ground which will put more strain on those carparks.

Fortunately there's the multi story and the market gate carpark next to it too which have 650 spaces between them (both using the same parking charges system) and that's without including the other town centre carparks so there's still enough for everybody it's just unnecessary when the problems are caused by poor planning at the club (not by the club though I don't think)

 

Sorry to hear of your bad day pal.
Mine has been somewhat better.
Dundee United 1 Dundee 0
Result and the blue nose lot now firmly anchored at the bottom of the league. Needless to say I’ve had a few celebration drinks.
Happy days

 

Shoulda gone to church first.

 

Aye drop us a txt mate

 

If it's the same rules as alcohol the shop worker could get a personal fine, so they're not just being a jobsworth. I wouldn't risk a fine on minimum wage, not to mention your job being at risk.

 

But yes they are when it's absolutely abundantly clear that the person in question isn't under the stores chosen age. I don't look like I'm under 16 and I've seen Jamdrop and in the nicest possible way she doesn't look like a young child.

If they aren't being a jobsworth then they are simply an idiot with zero common sense who really shouldn't be in charge of making that decision in the first place.

 

the rule isn't do you look 16 but do you look over 25. If not, then they have to challenge.

 

That's a company rule not a law so no employee can be fined for serving a 24 year old with alcohol and especially not with paracetamol. Anyone looking at me and thinking they need to see ID before selling me a 50p pack of paracetamol with my weekly shop is either a jobsworth or incompetent. It's like the same jobsworths who will demand ID off a pensioner and claim it's the challenge 25 policy. ********. It's just a jobsworth being a jobsworth

 

Will showed ID that he is 34 and medicine is different to alcohol in that it isn’t a law, just shop policy. She could have easily just accepted his and if questioned, which she wouldn’t be, then just say that she thought I looked over 25, which I do.

 

Did a 6 mile run including part of the Cote de Blacker Hill. It was my first run since falling and injuring my ribs 2 weeks ago. The Docs diagnosed broken ribs. I'm not so sure about that. I was fine with no pain but I did have a dull ache in my chest. After that I did nothing except watch TV and use the Comp.

 

I'm sure in your job you have to see on the side of caution sometimes. Doesn't make you a jobsworth necessarily.

 

Yesterday.
Left Filey at 9:30 heading for Selby to return the tent we borrowed from my partner Anne's daughter.
Got stuck behind some huge slow moving vehicles on the A19, and arrived there at 12:00 - should only take just over an hour.
Left in nice time to get to Oakwell and indeed arrived at 2pm.
Left Oakwell to drive home to South Derbyshire to find that the M1 was closed between J28 and J29.
Ended up driving via A57, and various other roads through Ollerton and Mansfield before regaining the M1 at J28.
Drove a total of 180 miles in about 8 hours, completely knackered when we got home

 

Ouch!