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From: rumpelstiltskin <rumpelstilts...@x.com>
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Subject: Re: Has this happened to anyone else?
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:23:45 -0400, Emily <Em...@nospam.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:03:58 -0400, Gary <n...@none.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:47:58 -0400, Emily <Em...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Yesterday, at Target, I bought a package of lighters.  The clerk, who
>>>looked very embarrassed, said he had to see my ID.  At first I thought
>>>he was kidding.  He wasn't.  
>>>
>>>No doubt this is just another insanity perpetrated by the current
>>>bunch of idiots in Richmond, but it was a surprise to me.  
>>
>>Lighters ?  Cigarette lighters ?     Cigarettes I could understand.
>>But why would they care who buys lighters ? 
>
>I have no idea.  You can light a cigarette, or a joint, or set
>someone's house on fire with a lighter, but you could also light your
>wood stove or fireplace or a candle. 



   I have relit my gas stove pilot lights with a butane lighter, 
but even while I was doing it, I realized it might not be a 
good idea.  Now I've got religion:  I light a shishkebab 
stick with the butane lighter, then use the stick to relight 
the pilot light.


>
>I would think businesses would object to this since it takes more time
>than it should for someone to check out if they have to dig out their
>ID and the clerk has to take the time to look at it. 
>
>I suppose there's some surveillance device that enables management to
>make sure the cashiers are following the law to the letter.  Otherwise
>he wouldn't have had to ask to see the ID of a 74-year-old who doesn't
>look a day under 70. ;-)  But then again, I don't know what the law
>is; perhaps you have to be 65 to buy lighters these days.