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November 30, 2004
Carded!
So I'm at Wegman's in Fayetteville NY (the world's ruling grocery store, better even than Tom Thumb in Fort Worth), and I'm getting a huge cartful of groceries (cuz I'm one of those country ladies who does the family grocery shopping in a once-weekly trip), and I see a rack of fancy schmancy beers and think that the Adored Partner might enjoy one of these (at $3.99 a bottle, it's gotta be good, right?) and put a bottle in the cart. And I'm checking out, and the checker says,
"Do you have an ID?"
and I say,
"Huh?"
and she says,
"Identification? Do you have some identification?"
and I look at her in a particularly bovine manner and say,
"Whut for?"
and she says,
"This beer."
and I say, in an increasingly loud, happy voice,
"Oh, my god, are you CARDING ME?"
and the young women in the line next to me start cracking up.
and the checker says,
"Yes, I'm sorry. We have to check everybody."
She didn't have to apologize. When you're 58 and you get carded, it's a smile.
Posted by senioritis at November 30, 2004 10:04 PM
Comments
I love it! You don't look a day over 30!
Posted by: aerobil at December 1, 2004 12:44 PM