Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers, we have a pervert at check out 6.
You never want to stand behind me when I’m in line at a supermarket checkout line. Today was no exception. I had finished my weekly grocery shopping and bought a few items for around the house as well as a new DVD that was on sale. After I emptied my cart and put everything on the checkout counter, the clerk was busy scanning everything and didn’t say a word to me. When it came time for me to pay the bill, she asked to see my driver’s license.
I asked her what I bought that required me to show a driver’s license because I didn’t buy any alcohol or tobacco products and I was going to pay in cash. She told me I had purchased adult material and she wasn’t going to let me have it unless I showed her my driver’s license.
I thought there must be some mistake going on here and asked her what she was talking about and then she pulled out the DVD I bought from the bag and pointed at it. I told her that she was nuts as this was a old Steve Martin comedy called, The Man With Two Brains. She got on the microphone by the cash register and said “supervisor to checkout six please. We have a customer wishing to buy an R rated movie.
I thought this was so absurdly funny that I just broke out laughing, the people behind me in line groaned, and everybody in the nearby lanes was glued to the developing drama.
The supervisor showed up quickly and the clerk told her that I wouldn’t show my driver’s license and that I was trying to buy an R-rated movie. She told me that you had to be at least 17 to see adult films in North Carolina and would I mind showing my ID. I asked her if I looked 17 (I’m 43) because as much as I would like to think so, I don’t look anywhere near 17. Well she started whining about Wal-Mart not wanting dirty movies to get into the hands of kids and I told her she was being ridiculous also and asked to speak to the store manager.
Well both the clerk and supervisor were well pissed off by the time the manager got there (about 3 min later) as well as everyone else behind me in line but by now there is quite an audience watching the whole debate going on, wondering what is going to happen. After the manager got updated on what the situation was, he told the staff that they were being silly and that obviously I didn’t look like a teenager and to just let me have the movie. Hahaha I got the last laugh but I find it sad how stupid people have become in this culture and how terrified they are of breaking the rules. I think collectively people in this country are setting themselves up for a authoritarian leader, much like what happened back in the turbulent 1930’s in Germany. If that happens here, I won’t be laughing.
This post is rated F: for Fluff
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