Trolled by jobsworths.

Something odd happened during my holiday in Skye which I can't get my head around.

After our fourth day spent climbing over mountains, to help us relax, me and my three friends decided to nip into Portree's local Co-Op and get ourselves some crap supermarket alcohol for the evening - As we'd done once before earlier in the week. Perfectly normal. 'cept this time we were served by two anal old ladies.

Now, in the UK, there's a bullshit law that was introduced as a half-arsed attempt to combat anti-social behaviour; If you look under 25, you have to show ID to prove that you're over 18. Shop keepers have a right to stop you buying alcohol if you can't show ID, and they can also stop other people buying alcohol for you.

One of my friends wanted to buy some groceries, a small bottle of vodka, and 4 cans of lager - 'cept that while he was allowed to buy the vodka, he was stopped from buying the lager 'cause he didn't have ID on him. The other two of my friends both had ID and offered to buy the lager, but got yelled at and dismissed by the clerks.

Normally this would be understandable according to the law, except that he was allowed to by the vodka, but not the lager. Also, neither me or my friends are under 25, nor do we look so. Three of us have dreadlocks, but we don't look untidy or likely to cause trouble. Portree is a touristy area and many types of people pass through it, so this was the last place we were expecting to be discriminated against for having a certain hairstyle.

Perplexed, my friends paid for the rest of the groceries and left the shop to wait for me, after unsuccessfully trying to persuade the clerks. I was paying for my goods separately and was three places behind them at the back of the queue for the tills - Witnessing what happened from a distance, I sneaked off and grabbed four cans of the same lager, then re-joined the queue.

When it was my turn, one of the clerks glared at me and wouldn't let me buy the four cans of lager and ignored my questions as to why I wasn't allowed to despite me being allowed to buy a bottle of (strong) cider. I offered to show my ID, lied and told them the lager was for myself - Eventually she said it was because she saw me walk next to the other guy who tried to buy lager earlier, and dismissed me too.

Rather than continuing to make a fuss by challenging her irrationality, I gave up, simply paid for the rest of my stuff, and left, but for fucks sake, if you're going to be a jobsworth you should at least stick to the law - Not stop someone from buying one type of alcohol for some bullshit reason while letting them buy another (stronger) type. And how are four people over 25 going to get drunk and paint the town red over four cans of WEAK Carlsberg?? You'd think she and her co-worker had a thing against people with dreadlocks.

We stopped off at an off-licence on the way back to our lodgings without being challenged, so it wasn't a huge inconvenience even though it was unusual enough for me to want to write a boring blog post about it, but what the hell? What's with some people?