Had to pop in to Dundee town centre briefly this afternoon with Calum, my 14yr old son, so for convenience (and cost
) I parked in Lidl at the Marketgait. Did our bit in town, then back to Lidl to buy a bottle of Gluhwein (yuk) for Mrs Bee's traditional Christmas tree erection (and to get my hour's parking for free )This is where it all started to go Pete Tong. Usual Lidl/Aldi fare of having too few checkouts open, giving unnecessarily long queues. Grrrr.
Then I'm getting served, and the checkout chappie asks if I have I.D. for "the young lad", which I thought was said chap being funny so I replied with a smile "no but I do!" (44yrs old, week-old growth far greyer than I'd prefer)....and then he said "I need his ID"
I realised, after asking if he was joking, that he wasn't, so I pointed out to him that if I'd left Calum in the car, I'd have got served, and also that didn't he think mulled wine would be an odd choice for such a young lad????
Before I left, without my one item, I told him he'd better take my reg number for the car park, "how long have you been in?"
"Just under an hour"
So the outcome of all my ramblings was that Mrs Bee decorated the tree stone cold sober
My questions are - has anyone else suffered a similar scenario?
Is this a Lidl policy?
Please tell me it's not a new law
