Better Safeway Than Sorry

Last updated on: June 26, 2012 at 7:29 pm by Jeremy Lott

Better Safeway Than Sorry 2012-06-26T19:29:57-07:00 Jeremy Lott

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“Did you show them your beard?”

That’s what Real Clear Science editor Alex Berezow wanted to know after he learned I’d been carded at the Lynden Safeway.

What happened was I went shopping for a few groceries this evening and snagged two beers on the way to checkout. The checkout girl asked to see my ID. I was visibly flabbergasted.

She tried to come up with a reason why the question she’d just posed wasn’t absurd to the nth degree.

“Better safe than sorry,” she cliched.

“I’m just shocked that you would ask me for ID,” I said.

“We have to ask if you look under 30,” she whiffed again.

“I guess,” I said as I gathered the bags and made a concerted effort to avoid rolling my eyes at her.

“You could take it as a compliment!” she called out, as I got out of there.

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