I was in line behind a woman at Target last night who got carded for buying rubber cement. Seriously! First - we’re carding for rubber cement now? I mean - I understand that it is something the kids sometimes like to huff and it’s dangerous and deadly and kills brain cells and I get that. But we’re carding now? Really? How old do you have to be - 18? Because in Alabama you have to be 19 to buy cigarettes. So, do you just have to be an adult? And be 18? Or do you have to be old enough to smoke?
Secondly - does the “You get carded if you are younger than 45″ rule apply here like it does for purchasing beer? Because no matter whether or not the age is 18 or 19, the woman was obviously at least 30. How strict are the rules? Will a store get fined the same for selling rubber cement to a minor as they would if they sold cigarettes? AND WHY DOES THIS BOTHER ME SO MUCH? I don’t know. But it does. It really bothers me. Does it bother you too? If it does - please tell me so I can try to feel like my shock and outrage is justified. Because - SERIOUSLY? I have to have my ID on me now to buy rubber cement? BAH!
Maybe I’m just in a pissy mood and would have been just as outraged to find out Target had changed the quality of their bags. (Which they had better not do - dammit - I love their strong bags that can be reused a million times.) Maybe I’m just in the mood to be pissed about something and this fits the bill. Who knows. Either way - - one more time for good measure - - SERIOUSLY?
dude…….. it’s “The Man”
In high school I remember being told you got carded for rubber cement but I managed to buy it shopping at smaller stores.
When I worked at Target we actually had to type in information from a person’s license in order to sell nicorette, so no matter how old a person was they had to be carded in order to buy the stuff.
I got carded for rubber cement by a Target checkout guy who was maybe 21 and very desirable. I took it as a compliment - and might have flirted shamelessly at the time. (that whole flirting thing is a genetic defect- nothing against the hubbs)
This is ridiculous! Why does being a certain age say you’re not going to not use rubber cement for its intended purpose. I’m sure there are somee 45-year olds out there who do whatever it is with rubber cement that makes it carded-worthy.
Seriously, though, my Target did alter tha bags a little. They aren’t nearly as strong as they used to be. They’re getting close to grocery bag flimsy. And that would piss me off too!
Target bags!! The best for smelly diapers. They are so much thicker than regular grocery sacks and therefore that much better at keeping out nasty smells.
OMG! I just stumbled upon your site. FUNNNNNY stuff. I feel the same as you about the ID thing. Maybe no one should be able to buy anything without ID. You know how much damage a 16 year old could do with nails and a hammer?!? What about a power drill? Does the store ID to buy spray paint? Isn’t that the number one huffing agent? RE-DICK-EL-US!
I think I’ve been carded for buying rubber cement as well as spray paint, though last time I bought spray paint (and 6 cans at a time) I wasn’t carded but…
It is getting a little crazy what they card for or restrict. You can only buy so much cold medicine because kids use it to get high.
You get IDed for aerosols and other things with fumes because kids huff them.
But do they ID for whipped cream? Because kids huff that too…
gosh…makes it seem like there is something wrong with all these kids that they resort to weird things to get high…
I’ve never been carded for rubber cement but the thought is strange. We used the stuff in college all the time (art major) and I was only 17. Good thing I didn’t have to find a buyer. Hee. It is totally ridiculous.
I have been carded for buying a can of spray paint. I believe I was in my early 30’s at the time. WTH?
And lastly, this week was the first time I tried to buy sudafed since the whole change over. The amount of info they need to release one box was amazing. I was truly stunned.
Rubber cement? Spray paint? OMFreakin’G.
Zoot. Not being unreasonable….it pissed me off, too.
They card around here for glue sticks. FREKKIN GLUE STICKS!! I MEAN, COME ON!!
I don’t get it. It pisses me off, too. It’s like, Opps! Sorry, johnny but mommy forgot her license. Looks like you can’t get your school supplies today!! Looks like you’ll be getting a B in underwater basketweaving 101. I’m sorry.
Until the glue sticks learn to say F*** or DAMN or anything else… Or learn how to use guns, and start acting racist? Don’t card me for that shit. Please.
I think I would spontaneously combust if Target changed their bags.
They’ll start carding for whipped cream in a can next…
Seriously, our Target HAS downgraded it’s bags. Now they are the cheapies that tiny, tiny stores use that say “Thank you”…that’s right, they don’t even say Target.
Dude, I’m super-pissed about the new Wal-Mart-esque Target bags! WTF?!?! I mean, truly: W. T. F.
Also, a cashier at the Fresh Market carded me (for wine) the other day, in a really mean, suspicious way, too, and then TOTALLY embarrassed me by yelling out my DOB to everyone in the line like she couldn’t believe it. Granted, I was wearing a teenybopper Woody Woodpecker t-shirt and looked kind of bedraggled, but I mean, c’mon! I’ve never seen a teenager with crinkly crow’s feet like these!
In short, sheesh!
I used to be a cashier and I had to card people for children’s cough syrup. Cough syrup that was clearly going to be given to a child, but you have to be 18 to buy it. I just can’t wrap my head around it.
Some convenience stores in Nashville have started carding both the person buying the alcohol and whoever is standing at the register with them! So far I haven’t challenged the clerk (I want my beer!) but can they really card you if you’re not the one buying?? What if you have you underage kid with you while you’re checking out?
I got carded for an energy booster/weight loss/piece of crap that you know doesn’t work. It was for women 40+. When the guy asked me for ID — at Target, natch — I said, “I have to prove I’m over 40?”
Yeah…so now I’m pissed at hearing that they card for rubber cement. Hell, I was pissed last year when we went to Target for cold medicine and had to get it from the pharmacy counter (seriously — what if you’re sick at NIGHT after the pharmacist is in bed???) where we were carded and given a limit on how much we were allowed to purchase at one time, and no, we could not buy more than the limit if we did it in two seperate purchases (each of us paying seperately) because he knew we were together. And while he “understood” that we had a deadline to use the money in our health care spending account and it seemed wise to stock up for the winter…well…some people would do bad things, so screw the honest non-drug abusing majority! (I’m not bitter or anything)
Wow…glad you warned me because if they took me by surprise on that my outrage might have gotten me arrested. That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in a long time.
Yes, things like this bother me BIG TIME.
Things like this are why I’m turning more and more into a hard-core libertarian.
God, I remember in grade school, thinking that the teachers and 6th grade TA’s were, like, the shiz-nit cause they got to use rubber cement. We weren’t allowed to put our grubby hands within a 4 foot radius of that lovely little bottle with the brush that was already INSIDE THE GLASS. Dude, it was so cool.
Now that I haven’t seen yet…