Just came back from Systembolaget (the chain of stores owned by the government, having monopoly on selling alcohol here in Sweden). Where I bought my fave: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale!
apparently they’re running some sort of campaign: In Sweden you have to be over 20 years old to buy alcohol. But, even if you are older than that they much like it if you show your ID upon purchase. So I did. With out the guy behind the teller having to ask for it. (Now normally I don’t do this because I look well over 20 and because they normally don’t ask me – for the reason stated. But, the last two times when I have been to the Systembolaget they have, however, asked me. Leading to me having to produce my wallet again, and the pulling out my ID – such a hassle, I know.) So, because I did this I got a little tin from him. A pink one, which later proved to contain peach/mint pastilles, with a text, on the top, reading: Tack för att du visar leg! (Swedish for: Thanks for showing your ID.)
Now, as I did not know what it was I just received (nor had heard of any such campaign so deduction was out of the question). I asked him. This is the dialog that followed:
Me: What is this?
Him: It’s drugs.
Me: What!?
Him: You should put them in your beer. You should put them in your beer and then bring the beer to a boil.
Me: Ok…
Him: If you do so, for every beer you bring to a boil money will be put in your bank account.
Me: [Now laughing, some what, but not knowing if this is funny or not...]
Him: For every beer you bring to a boil you will get 40 SEK [Swedish Kroner] put into you account.
Me: Is this [the jokes] because its friday [and you have had a lot of customers and now just want to go home and kick it]?
Him: No. It’s April 1:st.
Then I left.
At first I though he was being kind of funny. But having thought about it I just found him disrespectful.
Maybe it was his last day.
Hope so!
(Now, you might ask: Well, why not be an ass to him the next time? Because then he’ll just decline me to buy my beer. Yupp, he has the authority to do that, as assholes often do!
