4) Teaspoon Turmoil

Liam Whelan, 16 was in Tesco this week buying some teaspoons. Apparently his mum had sent him to buy some as he kept losing them. The story doesn’t go into detail as to why he loses them all the time but it doesn’t matter. All we need to know is that he’s in Tesco buying spoons. He went to the self checkout section and beeped through the spoons.

So far, so normal, but this is where it goes nuts. The machine won’t process the order and a member of staff comes over and asks him his age. He says “16” and proves it with his moped licence. The Tesco employee says “sorry you have to be 18 to buy those spoons” and flat refuses to sell them to him. HA! Brilliant, what’s he going to do with tea spoons? Gouge out squirrels eyes?

Liam was quoted as saying “It was embarrassing enough buying teaspoons, but to get refused was even worse. I wasn’t with anyone but the supermarket was busy and I did know some of the other customers”. I’m sure he’ll get over it in the end. Tesco has, of course, apologised for his ordeal.

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