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In the UK, you have to show your ID if you want to buy scissors.

• denton-scratch 5y ago
  Nonsense! I bought kitchen scissors from a hardware store in the UK a couple of weeks ago (but I'm 65, with a white beard; perhaps they'd have tried to card me if I might conceivably have been under 18).
• tialaramex 5y ago
  No, for two reasons. One, while some retailers might decide that "scissors" are really knives and so they'd best act as though you're buying a knife that is not the law. So, this is not something you "have to" do, it's a store policy, like if they won't sell you more than six rolls of toilet paper at a time. Two, if you're old (which unfortunately I am) then your apparent age is enough anyway. I do not ordinarily carry ID. Nobody stops me buying alcohol, entering nightclubs, watching movies, or doing other age-restricted activities, because "This person is obviously like, fifty?" is enough.
  • andrewaylett 5y ago
    There are places with a policy of asking everyone for ID -- I know because they're the only places where I've been asked for ID. Of course, for both the knife and the alcohol regulations, the law is around age. ID is merely the mechanism that everyone uses to validate age, as it's settled practice that doing so will prove the ID card holder's age sufficiently for the purpose of the legislation.
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