I didn’t turn 18 until my fourth week on campus. This made going to the local mall interesting, as they had very recently put in place a rule where anyone under 18 had to be accompanied by an adult.
This confused me years later when I got carded buying a ticket to an R-rated movie. Wouldn’t I have been kicked out if I were under 17? (I was 20 and wearing an RPI hoodie at the time, for the record.)
I do believe under 17 is allowed to go straight to the movie theater and nowhere else all by themselves, IIRC. Besides, I was often in the mall going party, which included a certain amount of the guards probably thinking I was someone in the party’s father.
That rule lead to an interesting birthday kidnapping for someone’s 18th birthday.
Local Mall = = Crossgates or Latham Farms?
Crossgates. I didn’t know about Colonie Center *or* Latham Anything until much exploring and Googling later.
What a stupid rule! What state is that. Tell me so I never visit it.
New York. Troy, to be exact, as mentioned in I think the previous strip’s comments? Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is where the author went to school.
There’s an age limit to going to a mall? I’ve been goin’ to malls alone since I was 15! What mad land to you live in?
that is the stupidist thing i’ve ever heard 90% of a malls income comes form teenagers