Daniel, a keen cyclist, who is two months shy of his 18th birthday, needed the kit as a quick fix for a tyre puncture. But a cashier at the counter said he could not buy it as he was underage and the glue stick contained solvents.
Mr Cottrell and his son were stunned as they said they had bought repair kits at bike retailers with no questions asked. Daniel, a student, of Old Copse Road, Havant, said: 'I was a bit disappointed because I really needed it to fix my back tyre.
'My dad was next to me and asked if he could buy it for me and she wouldn't let him pay for it.' Mr Cottrell, 41, said the response of staff at the shop in the Greywell Shopping Centre lacked common sense.
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Surely the cashier felt really dumb and embarrassed for being forced to follow such a ridiculous rule. She couldn't possibly think she was doing the right and reasonable thing, she was just following orders and saving her own butt, right?
Yes, why use any common sence of your own to judge in each individual case if any rule would apply yes or no? - That would be way to much spending of energy and intellectual resources of someone who already is working at intellectual near-system-overload levels in a bike shop...
...or you might get fired.
But surely his 41-year-old father should have been allowed to buy it?
But the father directly said he would buy it for his son. He couldn't do that with alcohol, so why should he be able to do it when it comes to... bicycle tyre repair kits.
This look like a job for.... BICYCLE REPAIR MAN!
Are underage kids not allowed to buy art supplies, either?
It is different from alcohol, surely. I mean, surely a minor can use the glue responsibly under adult supervision (I can't believe this is even a sentence anyone would have to write. Obviously he can use the glue responsibly on his own, but, well, you get what I'm trying to say...).
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