Stupid Stupid People
June 27, 2005
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
At the store recently I noticed that the register required the cashier to answer whether I was over 18 when scanning the bottle of Cascade I’d picked up. It occurred to me then that anyone who would try to huff Cascade has to be a pretty pathetic loser.
Actually, it had never occurred to me that anyone would try to huff the stuff. I guess I’m just hopelessly disconnected from the drug culture. Which is fine by me.
Categories: Random Ramblings
Long time no see.
I had to show my ID to buy electrical tape the other day!
Ok, I’ll bite…
What the heck can you do with electrical tape that requires you to be 18 (or 21) to buy it? What store was this?
This was Albertson’s on 377 just north of Keller. It was 2am and the computer asked the cashier to verify my age before letting us complete the transaction. She was as baffled as I was. I’m sure you could kill yourself with electrical tape if you were really determined. I don’t know that electrical tape has any other properties that would cause any airborne toxicity. A search on Google was inconclusive. Perhaps it was an error on someone’s part or maybe the verification applies to anything in the “glue/automotive” department.
I also checked Google and didn’t see anything of interest, except that some stoners use the tape in creating some sort of homemade bong.
It definitely sounds like a mistake in the system.