August 2nd, 2006 by GoldenAppleCorp
Can someone (ahem Netmom?) please point me to any and all laws concerning the sale of beer at a grocery store in OR? Nodbob (6 months shy of 21) and I went to a grocery store to buy beer, and they wouldn’t sell it to me unless he showed them his ID as well. I was carrying and paying, he was just my ride. Are they going to start refusing me beer when I have my kids with me?
I think it’s cuz he has a bitchin’ mohawk.
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Hope the kid never suffers from male pattern baldness. Then he would just have a skimpy looking mullet.
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Love the haircut (daco is just jealous).
The solution to your problem is simple. Leave the minor in the car. Make the purchase solo.
It is amusing to contemplate, however, whether the same reaction would have occurred if you had had a 2 y.o. kid in your arms.
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:55 pm
I think Tennessee allows sale of beer to 2 year olds as long as they
bring their own sippy cups.
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Well, seeing as how I normally buy beer from the same establishment, with a 9 yr old and a 4 yr old in tow (along with the rest of my groceries), I don’t think it would be a problem.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:12 pm
I have to confess that I don’t know the answer. I’ve been carded at Food City when I had my oldest daughter (17) with me, but they didn’t ask for her license. Heck, I was just glad to have a witness!
Then, late last Spring, Tennessee passed a “universal carding” law. I think it went into effect July 1, because just after that, I was in Food City behind a little white-haired grandmother (I would have guessed her to be not less than 75) who was denied her beer purchase because she didn’t have her driver’s license. Trouble is, she took a cab to the store, so she didn’t need her license. IF she even had one.
Joel’s answer works. It’s silly, but that seems to be the way it is.
Not sure if this link works, but try http://198.187.128.12/tennessee/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=fs-main.htm&2.0. You’re looking for section 57-5-301: Sales to minors prohibited. I didn’t see anything about an adult accompanied by a minor, but that may be one of those things left to the discretion of the proprietor.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:15 pm
I think you just had a confused cashier GAC. Your beer, your ID and your money.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:36 pm
“…Then, late last Spring, Tennessee passed a “universal carding†law. “
I found that on a website earlier, but the wording was a little obtuse. It said that every purchaser had to be carded. It didn’t say that anyone in their party had to be carded, too. And checking the link you provided, it said that alcohol couldn’t be purchased by a minor. But the minor wasn’t the one purchasing the beer. Lame.
Joel, Nodbob offered to go out to the car while I made the purchase, and the cashier said no, she would refuse the sale. I’d like to find something specific in my favor, so I could print it out and take it to the store and bitch for a little while at them. I have a bad habit about saying snarky things, and on my way out said loudly that I’d just go to the gas station and pay a dollar extra for the hassle. Makes me glad this Food Shitty is closing down.
I didn’t even get carded at the gas station. They know me in there.
daco, they were doing some hard-core freaking out over Nodbob. There was much whispering and pointing of fingers. It’s been a long time since I’ve been whispered at, even if it is secondary.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:49 pm
So, FC lost a legitimate sale. No motivator like profit — as GAC’s parting shot would indicate.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:41 am
I like having ol’ Nodbob around. I myself, in my formative years, sported a mohawk (tho not nearly as proficiently as he does), and theres somethng enjoyable about how weird people get over something like that.
However, when people are weirded out by hair, they tend to get ugly.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:03 am
“Joel, Nodbob offered to go out to the car while I made the purchase, and the cashier said no, she would refuse the sale.”
Weird. What if he’d offered to go back to your house? What if he boarded a plane for LA? How far away would he have to be to make it ok?
It really is a form of discrimination by association. They had no legal right to refuse to sell to you, just as they would have no legal right to refuse you if you were black. I’d have asked to speak to the manager.
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:07 am
Thats the first thing I said, Joel. We’ve had trouble out of high and mighty cashiers over there before, so it might be an “I run this checkout line” complex.
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:28 am
What if I’d said Nodbob was my husband? We do have the same last name…
AT, I propose we run an experiment. You and Nodbob need to go out and get more beer tonight. Will they sell it to you? Of course, then we have to put up with their atrocious selection…
And I don’t know that asking for a manager would have helped any… There were about 6 employees up front (about 5.5 more than usual) and we were getting the funky eye from all of ‘em.
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:56 am
I’m predicting quite a bit of beer, and quite a bit of social experiments with ol Nodbob this weekend.
August 3rd, 2006 at 8:20 am
” . . . we were getting the funky eye from all of ‘em.”
Are you sure they weren’t just admiring eyes?
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:43 am
Speaking as a reformed freak (purple hair and blue dreads) I know the funky eye when I see it.
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
(”Love the haircut…” Joel, thanks!) I tend to forget/not care when getting the funky eye, indeed sometimes I forget I have the mohawk, but you can’t help to feel weird when people seemingly go out of their ways to not let you get drunk…
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Bastards.
August 5th, 2006 at 8:56 am
The funniest, ironic-est part of all this is that knowing Nodbob as I do, he is just about the most laid back, responsible almost-21 year old I know. His personality is not what one would expect from a mohawk like that, because he’s not loud, and I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen him sneer…