Over-age drinking
From C. J. Chilvers
Sir: I thought you might be interested in this amusing instance of the increasing nannyism of our government. I visited my local supermarket this afternoon to pick up some groceries and also to buy a bottle of whisky and some beer for the weekend, as I am expecting some family to visit. The supermarket registered the groceries, but when they came to the whisky and beer said they were unable to serve me. I asked why — being 93 years old I couldn’t believe they thought me under-age — and was told that a new instruction had come in that if they could smell alcohol on a customer’s breath, they should not supply any!
Maybe at my age I am a little unsteady on my pins, but I’m quite sure that a couple of lunchtime sherries had not put me over the limit.
C. J. Chilvers Heathfield, East Sussex
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