Video Rental
I used to work for a blockbuster store when I was a student. They were very, very efficious in regards to the ID you had with you when you signed up - and you had to follow it to the letter.

I don't know if this still applies, but at the time, if you wanted to sign up to be a member to take videos out, you needed to:

1 - Provide a form of address verification (bill for water or gas or something) that was dated within the last month. The reason? To prove you still live at that address.

2 - Driving licence, passport, credit card, birth certificate even, as your "standard" form of ID.

The amount of grief we had trying to uphold this rule was quite high, as people would stroll down of an evening, choose their film, then come to the counter - if they weren't a member, or their membership had expired (that was the other thing, if you don't use your card for 9 months, you're automatically deleted from the system) then we had to take these details before giving them their film, which they've taken half an hour to choose from the racks!

The guilty secret is, the angrier people got about this requirement, the more I found myself enjoying the refusal to set them up on the system, even though I agreed entirely that it was a rather stupid rule.

As Bill Bailey said; "Passport, right - I can get into any country in the world on this, fly all around the globe. Credit card; I can buy loooooads of stuff with this, all around the globe. And you want to know how much gas I've used in the last fortnight?"

Apologies, length, boring, arse
(Soupy Twist BEST BEFORE:, Fri 13 May 2005, 11:01, Reply)