I HATE TEENAGERS *BUT*
. . . it sucks that they can go to war and die for their country at eighteen but they can't legally buy a fucking beer off base.

I have ranted about this before but happen to be thinking of it again because the people at the grocery store have been carding me lately. Since I generally *walk* to the store I rarely think to bring my id with me. You know, I grab some cash and hoof it to the store only to discover that all of the cashiers are new, none of them recognize me . . . so I try to pick out the most mature worldly-wise cashier (aka OLDEST) and she's one of these paranoid freaks with no common sense. I mean, usually I really feel for these people and the predicament they are in -- I mean, why should they risk their jobs, fines, etc. because I am too stupid to carry my identification around with me everywhere? But lately I am becoming less tolerant and understanding. Deep in my growing-older-and-more-anti-government-heart I think . . . what a stupid fucking world. I should not need to carry identification with me everywhere and especially not to buy a fucking drink. I am too old for this nonsense. And this damned cashier kept saying she was afraid of going to jail. What the fuck??? Common sense woman? Even if you imagine I look younger than thirty -- you have to be sniffing glue to think I look younger than 21. She is not going to go to jail for selling alcohol to someone who is indeed clearly older than 21.

I truly think I did a believable job of acting nice, apologetic, understanding, etc. I walked back home and got my fucking drivers license (which is, by the way, suspended now because of some beaureaucratic bullshit designed to punish poor people, at least that's the way my growing-dangerously-militia-minded brain is seeing it these days).

Anyway whatever . . . the other anti-teenager policy I detest is the whole rated R movie bullshit. I would thoroughly support youth protests against the must be whatever age it is . . . 17 or 18 to see a rated R movie. Even though I definitely don't want to share theatre space with teenagers . . . that's not the point. If you are old enough to get a drivers license you better be fucking old enough to see a rated R movie.
posted by Trixie at 5/08/2003 04:45:00 PM -