Carded for windshield washer fluid ?

pixie · Feb 22, 2013

I needed some. Went to Tractor Supply because it's smaller than the stupid wallyworld...they wanted to know my date of birth !!!!!

Are you kidding me ??? I'm 60 years old and do not look 18. They won't sell it to anyone under 18 > WTF ??!!

Are they going to do a background check before I can buy an electric fence charger ??

:hammer:

This might be a rant...sorry...wrong board...

mla2ofus · Feb 22, 2013

Just gives you an idea of the intelligence of the clerk and his/ her supervision/ management. Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is in w/w fluid? alcohol/methanol. I've never taken time to read the label.
Mike

Just remembered I have a jug in the garage. Methyl alcohol, is that the shit that'll blind you if ingested?

Danang Sailor · Feb 22, 2013

mla2ofus said:
Just gives you an idea of the intelligence of the clerk and his/ her supervision/ management. Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is in w/w fluid? alcohol/methanol. I've never taken time to read the label.
Mike

Just remembered I have a jug in the garage. Methyl alcohol, is that the shit that'll blind you if ingested?

Yep.

EastTexFrank · Feb 22, 2013

Danang Sailor said:
Yep.

But the idiots just see "alcohol" and chug away.

pixie · Feb 23, 2013

I asked about this on another forum.

Other people have been carded for:

Liquid Wrench >24 years old min.

Power Service Diesel fuel conditioner

Duct tape

Super glue

Maybe I'm callous but if a person is stupid enough to ingest this stuff or use it inappropriately, they deserve what they get.

It just makes me think that banning or controlling an article or substance is totally stupid. Might as well ban/card for laundry soap and hammers.

Might work better to ban stupid people.
What if they had to pass a test to buy a Smartphone ? >> might cause trouble with it.

Hoo boy. Give me a break :hammer:

Melensdad · Feb 23, 2013

pixie said:
. . . if a person is stupid enough to ingest this stuff or use it inappropriately, they deserve what they get.

It just makes me think that banning or controlling an article or substance is totally stupid. Might as well ban/card for laundry soap and hammers.

Might work better to ban stupid people.
What if they had to pass a test to buy a Smartphone ? >> might cause trouble with it.

Hoo boy. Give me a break

Seems to me that we keep protecting the 'stupid people' with silly laws. In nature they would have been culled from the herd at a tender age because hey were to stupid to gather nuts for the winter or run and hide from a predator.

Darwin called it survival of the fittest and it passes along the good traits like intellegence, cunning, speed, etc to the next generation. While the slow and stupid die off naturally and don't pass on their genes.

But here in America we have to put warning signs on rotary lawnmowers telling the dummies not to put their fingers near the spinning blades or to take a toaster into the bathtub :hammer:

mla2ofus · Feb 23, 2013

That's because big bro thinks he can fix stupid.
Mike

pixie · Feb 23, 2013

After thinking about it... I do see that it's a store policy and when it's a nationwide store, the policy is everywhere. It limits their liability.
They don't seem to have given the cashier any power to make a decision...

Or .... maybe I looked suspicious :yum:

ETA
I apologize for the rant.

SShepherd · Feb 23, 2013

they ask me for ID, phone number and personal info all the time-- I simply say NO. Unless it's something required by law to show proof of age their "in store" polocies can kiss my ass.

EastTexFrank · Feb 23, 2013

I may as well throw my gripe in to the collection.

It's 2-4-D.

As most of you know it's a herbicide that's sold on it's own or mixed with other herbicides to make it more effective. Now here's the rub. You can't buy it, or anything containing it, in a size larger than a quart without a Texas State Spraying License because it's considered a restricted chemical. So, without a license, I can't go to Tractor Supply and buy a gallon of the stuff but I CAN buy four, one quart containers without a problem. What's the frickin' sense in that except that it's a darned sight more expensive to buy it in quarts.

Who makes these stupid rules and regulations?

PS. I've also been carded for windscreen washer fluid. I usually tell the clerk to make something up ... and they do!!!!

muleman · Feb 23, 2013

When they pull that dumb shit I make it real clear they either want to sell it or they don't. Lowes does that sometimes and I tell them to get a manager or there is going to be a trouble. Folks need to quit giving in to this dumb shit and it will end. When they want a zip code I just make one up. Same for a phone number. Walmart cards for cold medicine that is out on the shelf. I looked at the girl and told her I am old enough to be your grandpa so put in a happy date and she did. :hammer:

I buy windshield fluid by the case at Sams.

Melensdad · Feb 23, 2013

SShepherd said:
they ask me for ID, phone number and personal info all the time-- I simply say NO. Unless it's something required by law to show proof of age their "in store" polocies can kiss my ass.

I got asked for my drivers license yesterday at the doctor's office.

I asked if it was a "law" that required it?

Nurse didn't know, said she was told to do it.

I asked again.

I then said NO. They never got it.

muleman · Feb 23, 2013

When I go to the big cancer center they will drill your butt with no questions but when the doc lady wants a blood test you have to show ID. They say it is to prevent medicaid fraud. Must be a problem in Rochester that nobody else has since they take some every week at the local cancer center. One time I showed them my carry license since they only want photo ID. :w00t2:

Dargo · Feb 23, 2013

I did have a friend I picked up from rehab to stay with me for a week before he went home and the son of a gun guzzled a bottle of Scope. He was drunk as a monkey on moonshine but had pleasant breath.

Dargo · Feb 23, 2013

Melensdad said:
I got asked for my drivers license yesterday at the doctor's office.

I asked if it was a "law" that required it?

Nurse didn't know, said she was told to do it.

I asked again.

I then said NO. They never got it.

I was given 5 (five) 5mg hydrocodone pills after rotator cuff and labral tear surgery. Said DEA doesn't like them to prescribe narcotics. I told them to just forget it then. That would just be a waste of time, gas and money to pick up enough for maybe one day after surgery. This is getting nuts. That was my 14th joint surgery and they want to operate on 2 herniated discs in my back but I'm holding off on those since they don't bother me much. After the pain I've been in with my shoulder, I can see where legit patients are hitting the streets to try to get something for pain relief. My pee and blood test only tested positive for caffeine on a 20 panel (whatever that is) test.

mla2ofus · Feb 23, 2013

No matter, state or federal, when a beaurecrat make up a law, common sense flies out the window!! Same goes for chain store management.
Mike

Mark.Sibole · Feb 24, 2013

State fed beaurocrat and common sence done belong in the same sentence.
Its like Congress senators representatives judges and common sense.Can you pick up on the odd word there???

RedRocker · Feb 26, 2013

mla2ofus said:
That's because big bro thinks he can fix stupid.
Mike

Big bro is stupid. :whistling:

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