What the bloody hell?

We’d love to have seen the look on fifteen year old Jaz Bhogals face when standing in his local 99p shop in England. You see, Jaz stopped into the Wisbech shop to get some sweets. Picking up and paying for a packet of wine gums, he started to make his way out of the store. That’s when the shopkeeper called the boy back to the till.

He asked me how old I was and when I said I was 15 he said he couldn’t sell me the sweets.  He said they had wine in them and pointed to the word wine on the packet.

Jaz goes on to explain that he was speechless. Now, to us this is hilarious, it’s a shopkeeper who may not have full command of the English language, or even understand what he sells, but the mans heart is in the right place. Even though Jaz’s mother ‘Sue’ thought it to be ‘ridiculous’ , the boy did end up getting a voucher for a nine item purchase, contingent on the fact that one of the items must be wine gums.  We don’t even think any form of a credit is warranted on this one, but if you’re going to give them something, surely you could do a bit better than a 9 item voucher!