I stopped into wal-mart tonite on my way home from work to pick up a few things...ended up buying a few cans of primer..hehe....but when i proceeded to checkout I got asked for my I.D...I almost shit lucky I had it though...lucky i'm not a minor either cause man I woulda been pissed...i still am in total disbelief...gosh minors cant even paint their hot rods anymore.... any one got a brown paper bag?
I hear ya. I was at McDonalds today going through the drive through and the girl taking my money looked like she tripped and fell in an open tacklebox! I know dont judge a book by its cover but come on your in a public work place.
when we were in high school my buddy use to ask this kid if a tackle box blew up in his face...must be an ohio thing
Walmart asks your age because all the taggers and sniffers seem to be teenagers and they don't want the liability of getting involved. Not sure if this is a state requirement here in PA or not. The question actually is prompted on the cash register screen when Sam scans in your paint.
I know they check in TX .. was way too easy for the kids to fry there brains before they know how to use it!!
It truly is sad what the world is coming to! My 14 year old nephew has me go to the store to buy spray paint for his model car and bicycle projects because they won't sell spray cans to minors! Seems like only yesterday I'd ride my bike up to 7-11 and buy cigarettes for my mom...at age 12! The guy or gal at the counter KNEW they weren't for me, and would never even ask for the note that mom sent me to the store with! How's a kid to paint his models or BMX bikes??? I can see the cigarette thing...I guess you HAVE to be like 18 now to buy them...but SPRAY PAINT??? This country is just going WAY too far to protect the stupid from themselves! Let natural selection take care of that!!
Have you checked the price of spray-on contact cement lately??? Only thing I can think is that these huffers were onto that as well..
The stores wouldn't have to do that stuff if kids would stop acting like dumbasses and take some responsibility for themselves again. They would know better, and stop thinking they were invincible, but since the ACLU has made it where nobody has to take any responsibility anymore, that's what you get.
I laugh wneh they ask for my ID....Have any of you noticed less Grafitti or less brain damaged teens?
Okay... my turn for a dumb question... What's the reference to the open tackle box? Huffin' paint... got it... but how does that add up to fish hooks in your face...? I had a friend once, and his little brother was huffing paint. Me and Brian and his dad were at their kitchen table and his brother walked in with green paint all over his nose and around his lips. Busted...! Whatta douche... JOE
No spraypaint to minors in my town either and it's funny I still get my id checked and I am 25 years old with full sleve tattoos. I just thank god everyday I wake up that I am old enough to huff paint if I want to.
over 30 years ago...it smelled like lemons and completely dissolved the model car....I was actually very worried at the time, but fortunately if you had your folks with you you could still get the real stuff in the orange tube
I lived right across the street from a well-stocked hobby shop growing up in the 70s, so buying paint was never a problem...nobody ever thought twice about it! It was only 75 cents per can, too...damn, where did THOSE days go?!
those 4 big cans-o-primer that influenced this thread were only 94 cents...yea i know thats the cheap stuff but im cheap cause my wife aint!
Now see here in southern MO you can buy a case of primer and they won't even look twice. However, if you want a package of cold medicine tablets, look out! DNA test, FBI background check, friggin Secret Service shows up and asks you all kinds of questions about meth.........
Re: the cold medications.. went to a local yard a couple of weeks ago. Old guy is now too old to get back in there. I found 3 old vans that had looked to been torched in the past couple of months. idiots are jumping the back fence and "cooking" in his junkyard...
Yea. I heard that... Ohio just banned smoking every fuckin where. But I can drink at any bar i'd like and be obnoxious and drive home as long as I'm under the limit. Rights?? We are losing them one law at a time. I thought those were to protect our rights. Oh .. thats right.. it depends on WHOSE rights we need to protect.. I hate government.
Cigarettes, rolling papers, hell, back in the 'Sixties we used to buy gunpowder at the sporting goods store-- Don't know how we survived our youth, frankly.
I'm feeling my age today i remember the lemon scented model glue too well.Hell i used to get sent to the corner liqour store on occasion when i was a minor and they sold to me,knowing it wasn't for me.Of course i live in the sticks.............
Back in the day -- lol at the age of 16, I could buy a litle cloth bag of "bull durham" tobacco for 25 cents. It was the best ever windshield cleaner. Just ran the bag over the wet windshield and it removed every bit of road grime and grease. Then just hung it on the heater knob in the car to dry for another time. Never even had a thought of smoking it. Oh, it was a 47 Pontiac sdn. Fourdy
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