"Two pensioners from Essex were left stunned when they were asked to show photo identification to buy a bottle of wine.
Jennifer Rogers went to her local One Stop convenience store with a 70-year-old friend.
But a staff member refused the sale saying she needed photographic identification to prove her age.
A spokesperson for the store said: "We take the sale of alcohol to underage people extremely seriously."
As I said then, those two last lines illustrate so much of what has gone wrong with this Country over the last 12 years of Labour misrule; box-ticking rules and common sense has to take a back seat.
Today I read that:
"Staff at supermarket giant Tesco refused to sell wine to a mother - in case she gave it to her 14-year-old daughter.
Fraud investigator Karen Dumelow, 46, and her daughter Emily were at the check-out when a cashier said she could not serve her in case the wine was given to the youngster.
She had been about to pay for two bottles of white wine at the Portsmouth store while doing her weekly shopping with her daughter.
Mrs Dumelow said she spoke to three senior members of staff who agreed with the cashier who had wanted to see identification for the teenager.
But because Emily was unable to do so Mrs Dumelow was told she could not buy the wine.
She said today: 'The checkout assistant asked Emily for ID and I just told her that obviously she didn't have any because she is only 14 years old.
'I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It was crazy. Do you have to leave your children at home if you want to buy alcohol now?
She was then forced to put aside the wine, pay for the rest of the shopping and then send off her daughter to the car before she could pay for the alcohol separately at the same till."
At least this time the store concerned apologised
"'We work hard to prevent under-age sales, including proxy sales where adults purchase alcohol for under-18s. However in this instance we got it wrong and sincerely apologise.'"
Box ticking, form filling - yes. Common sense - No.
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The country has gone crazy with it's bureaucracy and stupid rules.
I was asked for I.D. to buy Tipp-ex in Kent and have had problems buying deodorant before in Wales.
I was refused razor blades at the age of 16, despite the fact that I clearly had a beard.
I don't understand the thought pattern. Is it more likely that I'm some sort of delinquent, on a rampage with a Mach 3? The next razor blade ripper? Or could I possibly have just wanted to shave before school the next day?
The government has this paranoia about danger. They perceive it everywhere. If a teacher is taking his pupils around the school, and they step off the site, for any reason, the teacher is now obliged to fill in a risk-assessment form.
What the hell? I don't even want to think about it.
It seems that people are losing the ability to think clearly because they're incapable of doing things for themselves and obsessed by rules.
It terrifies me to think how this person has lost all reason and common sense - 'the rules are the rules'.
We'll get to a stage where everyone is simply told what to think by the government or their employer.
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