This is pretty funny. And sad. And frightening for where we’re headed.
What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of Nyquil?
After selecting a bottle of Nyquil and my Husband’s favorite brand of ice cream, it was time to check-out. I elected to go through the self check-out lane[. …] However, after I scanned my items, the computer started beeping.
“You have selected an age restricted item. Please wait for a cashier,” it said.
“What the Hell?” I mused, “Ice cream and Nyquil is age restricted now?”
A teenager with a lip piercing and bad dye job came rushing over. “Can I see your ID?” she chirped.
“What did I order that needs ID?” I asked.
She looked over my purchases and shrugged. “I guess it’s the Nyquil.”
I sighed deeply and handed her my driver’s license. She glanced at it quickly, typed my birthday into the computer, handed it back, and scurried away. Even though I didn’t show it, I was all kinds of annoyed.
I mean, what kind of nanny state am I living in right now? I can’t even buy cold medicine anymore without the government all up in my shit? Why is my right to privacy being invaded in favor of incompetent police officers who lack the ability to catch drug dealers without spying on the average law abiding citizen?
Then, out of nowhere, I thought, I wonder what would happen if I tried to buy all the Nyquil on the shelf?
Before I knew it, I had a small army of grocery store employees following me around the parking lot. It was fucking surreal. I felt like I was starring in the deleted scenes of one of those Terminator movies.
My theory was that they were waiting until I got into my car so they could write down my license plate number. To me, this was odd, considering the fact that they had my name, address, and phone number written on a slip of paper behind the customer service desk.
I remember hearing on some radio show where they had a former meth dealer call in and said pretty much that, instead of reducing medicine like nyquil down to its ingredients, real drug dealers get their hands on the raw material and we are stuck with half-effective cold medicine and meth production or use doesnt even slow.
Only the idiots in a trailer park would use over the counter crap to make meth, and end up blowing each other up.
At any rate, kinda like how Im sure very few people still drink bathtub moonshine from prohibition, if drugs were legal i doubt many people would still go for trailer park meth. Meth might become safer, or people will decide to go for drugs that are safer with the same or similar effects.
“Get these hairs all out of my face, get these bugs all out of my place, one more hit no time to waste meth ooh meth!”
#27 You were making some good points right up until then, SN.
In 2005 I took a long vacation driving through the west. On an Indian reservation northwest of the Grand Canyon we stopped at what appeared to be the only grocery store for a hundred miles.
At the front of the store they had a locked case containing products that could be used to get high / make drugs etc.
I was astounded by all the different products in that case! In addition to cold medication etc they had silver polish, shoe polish, oven cleaner, glue, spray paint, nail polish remover and my favorite.. lemon juice. What the hell can you do with lemon juice??
How very uninteresting. What a waste of blog, nyquil money, and most importantly, my time. I sincerely hope this right wing freak is not representative of upper middle class women in the States – very depressing – what a hater! She must be very sad. Bless her darkened heart.
#36 Did you read the whole post? It isn’t just Wal-mart, but anyone who is selling sudafed, spray paint, etc. It could be Target, K-mart etc. But seriously, are you a lawyer suing Wal-mart or someone with a suit against them?
If you are going to call my post nonsense, then show me where I am wrong. Quite frankly, name calling like yours is what passes for politics these days, and I for one am sick of the tactic.
27 – As to your question, what right does anyone other than the government have to tell me how much I can buy? Why would you willingly give some business that right?
Comment by SN — 5/29/2007 @ 7:54 pm
I’m not suggesting you give them a right. I am suggesting you can’t take their existing right away. No law compels a business to sell anything at all to you. They can simply say no, and without any previous contract to be in breach of, all you can really do is say “Okay, thanks anyway” and take your business elsewhere.
I can’t imagine why a business would take such a position aside from the liability shield argument, but it is their business and they own the store and the product.
But I’ll say this, as far as I am concerned, the private business owner has every right to sat he/she will or will not do business with me. The government should have absolutely no right of any kind to impose such a restriction. I am better suited to make personal decisions for myself than the government is to make them on my behalf, and that is true 100% of the time.
Surely you don’t want Uncle Sam making decisions for you, and surely you don’t want Uncle Sam dictating policy to private business owners, and surely I would happily sell you cold medicine if you had a cold. I am not a hard hearted animal 🙂
#38 – What the hell can you do with lemon juice??
The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?
I myself refuse to show anyone at any store my receipt upon leaving a store. I wish more people would do the same. It’s my little way of saying f**k you to having to prove to them that I didn’t steal what I am holding in my hand.
OFTLO wrote, “I am not a hard hearted animal :-)”
Hmmm…only when it comes to YouTube videos.
#44 – Bwahahahahaha – Okay… I’m officially declaring you to be “no longer in the YouTube dighouse.”
This is because many recent posts and comments you’ve made indicate that you also read 🙂
I’ve got some great coloring books too!
hhopper- keep posting those crazy (what are they? emoticons?) I am collecting them. I’m sure I could find them on the web somewhere, but then I would have to give them my email address, or first born or something. I’d rather steal em.
Mr. Fusion said:
“But I’ll say this, as far as I am concerned, the private business owner has every right to sat he/she will or will not do business with me. The government should have absolutely no right of any kind to impose such a restriction. I am better suited to make personal decisions for myself than the government is to make them on my behalf, and that is true 100% of the time.”
Is he aware that is the same argument used to try to justify race and gender segregation?
I had a similar experience this past weekend at Walmart. I set off the alarm bells and whistles when I attempted to buy a 12 pack of beer and some BBs. The BBs were for some pesky critters tearing up my garden. I was informed by checkout chick that I could not purchase BEER AND AMMO together. I had to walk the BBs down a few lanes and buy them while my wife got the beer to the car. I guess they thought I was going to go on some mad drunken spree with a BB gun.
#48, Podesta,
Very good point and one I would agree with. In fact I agree 100%.
You might have noticed that OFTLO actually made that comment. You see, I got the looks and he has the brains. Or is it I’m brainy and he’s good looking? Damn, I never get that one right.
#49, Fielding J. Hurst
alarm bells and whistles when I attempted to buy a 12 pack of beer and some BBs.
That would not have been a problem if you had selected those items from the children’s section in Little Rock.
#36: Wal-Mart employees never asked me to leave nor would I refuse an order to leave private property. Wal-Mart threatened to call the cops on me for failing to show ID in accordance with a non-existent law!