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American staff wouldn't care if it weren't for the law. I know for cigarettes, at least in NY State, they do sting operations to catch if any sell to any under 18. Too many violations and the store might get shut down.
Well here they just don't care so I was kind of like wtf when asked for id to buy a scratchcard lol.
They do the same here with alcohol, send in people undercover and there is an £80 fine if they catch you selling to an under 18 without checking their ID first
I was just having a conversation about this subject with this chick at this block party I was at earlier today. I said, if 18 years are old enough to go into the military kill/die in combat, they are old enough to smoke, drink, and whatever else is age restricted
Yeah I think I've seen that before how you can be in the army yet not smoke or drink legally in the US! In my opinion once you are 18 you are an adult and should make your own choices
Yeah I think I've seen that before how you can be in the army yet not smoke or drink legally in the US! In my opinion once you are 18 you are an adult and should make your own choices
I never appreciated how lax they were about enforcing age restrictions when I was a teenager, even though it wasn't that long ago. Going to the pub on Friday lunchtimes was pretty much tradition in my last year at school - the pubs must have known a lot of us were underage (since we would all have been in school uniform) but nobody cared, and the school must have realised what was going on but never bothered doing anything about it. As for buying lottery tickets, the only time I've ever bought one was when I was 14 and trying to see if I could pass for 16 (I think 16 is still the age to buy lottery tickets here). Don't know if I would have been allowed to claim any prize if I'd won.
That would suck.. winning and then being too young to claim the prize!
Yep...one of the top darts players (I'm a big darts fan) is nicknamed 'Jackpot' because he won something like $75,000 on a slot machine in Vegas but couldn't claim it because he was 'only' 20 years old at the time and he didn't know you had to be 21
At least the forecast looks decent.. sunny spells and temps in the low 20s. Just hope we don't get the dreaded NW/SE split which seems to rear its ugly head every year (last year it was September).
It's also funny how quickly you acclimatise.. I was getting used to temps in the high 20s, and they felt warm rather than hot to me. Now it feels cold. Hope my tan doesn't disappear.
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Yep...one of the top darts players (I'm a big darts fan) is nicknamed 'Jackpot' because he won something like $75,000 on a slot machine in Vegas but couldn't claim it because he was 'only' 20 years old at the time and he didn't know you had to be 21
Oh dear.. ouch! I used to use the slot machines when I was 16, but then it pays out automatically so it wouldn't have mattered that I was below 18
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