Reading in Line
At the credit union drive-thru today, I saw this sign:
To protect our valued members, we may ask you for identification.
So, does that mean, if they ask me for identifcation, that I can figure I'm not a valued member--To protect our valued members, we may ask you, who are clearly not a valued member for identifcation.
Excepting that it would eliminate the tacit insult, how would this lose meaning if it just read:
We may ask you for identification.