It's his job to see that customers abide by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission's regulations on alcohol. He herds little children out the door as they come in with their parents, cards the young adults and keeps an eye on their elders, who try to sneak spiked water bottles or soda pop out to the street. The legal age for drinking in Oregon is 21. State law prohibits alcoholic drinks on public streets. Backpacks, shopping bags and bottles of water, which could be used to illegally hold liquor, have to be checked at the door.
People are devious.
They get cranky. Some of those ladies want to whip me. And I catch a bunch of static from people I know. Tourists from England came in one morning and at first refused to check their bags with him, he said. Then an elderly lady tried to spike her Coca-Cola bottle.