The “Blue Law” Blues…
Okay, chalk it up to poor planning on my part, but I am getting a little sick and tired of having to perform logistical acrobatics every time I make last-minute plans to go to a friend’s house to watch a Sunday football game or whatever. The time comes every now and then, when I actually have to buy beer, and I need it when I need it! I don’t understand (playing coy here…) how we got ourselves into this stupidity of having to wait till 1 p.m. on Sundays to buy beer. When you think about it, it really does seem silly. We have all seen the padlocks and chains on the beer coolers at the local grocers, or the “lights out approach” taken by many store owners. What a freakin hassle!
The “self righteous contingent” must believe that I am going to wake up on Sunday morning and say to myself: ‘Hmmm what should I do today? Either I go to church or heck, I’ll just run down to Kroger and buy me a 12-pack and get wasted before noon!’ They don’t realize that I am Catholic and could just as easily have gone to mass on Saturday evening or Sunday at 5 p.m. after I’d brewed a big batch of beer (which I have done before and, yes, I worshiped sober).
Sometimes I think I should organize a Sunday morning protest. All of us beer drinkers can form a human chain around all of the Cracker Barrels, Shoney’s and Bob Evans restaurants, not allowing the post-church going crowds to enter until 1 p.m.. “Get your butts back to church, you belly-slaves!” “No one eats until I get a beer!”
Who’s in?
August 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am
amen !?!
Although, I would gladly wait until 1pm if I could just buy something over 6 % a.b.v.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
ummm… I agree with you, BUT you would be preaching to the choir (so to speak). What makes you think that church-going citizens don’t like beer? we didn’t right the law, afterall.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I too attend church and like you, I enjoy beer; but there are many that would just as soon see my right to drink it go away. Yes, I guess if we formed a human chain around the Bob Evans we would probably be preventing a few beer drinking/church going people from having breakfast,and maybe even a few atheists too. Let’s call it collateral damage.
Hopefully you know that my blog was meant to be humorous while also voicing a little frustration.
The laws were put in place to appease the religious opposition to legalizing alcohol consumption after prohibition. In fact, the entire framework of the state’s laws concerning beer goes back to that time with few changes.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
yes, i knew you were kidding. I was too — somewhat.