16 years old, filled with pent up angst and a victim of regular age discrimination?
Struggling to buy fags, because they no longer accept your national insurance card as valid ID?

Simply take the newsagent to the nearest bus stop, get on the next available bus and ask for a child fare.

While the bus driver and newsagent argues the toss, run back to the newsagents and steal all the tobacco's you'll need until you do look old enough.

Probably bindun, but surely worth another outing.

First post since November 2007!
(HairyBaldy, Thu 26 Jul 2012, 18:08, 6 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

You have to be 18 to buy fags.

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 10:22, Reply)

I think that was the point:
too old for a child's bus fare, too young for cigarettes.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 11:15, Reply)

Used to be 16 for both. I don't think they've changed it for buses, but I have not been on a bus nor been a child for quite some years so I wouldn't vouch for it.
(Eukanuba, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 14:13, Reply)

Fortunately there's no age limit on stealing fags
(TheJacksonSixth, Sun 29 Jul 2012, 16:38, Reply)

Good point....
It's been a long time since I was 16. Just assumed nothing had changed.
(HairyBaldy, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 14:59, Reply)

i'm sure as well in my local supermarket
you have to look 21 to buy them as well? And look 25 for booze? Madness.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 12:49, Reply)