I did my lobors of the week, finished my Friday routine. DW and I took her teenage sisters home after buying them some sonic. Finally I can go get my beer and get my Friday night buzz on. Then as I walk into the liquor/convenience store I see the beer cases are empty and all the liquor shelves are closed off. I was made aware by the clerk that no alcohol can be sold today or sunday. God damned good friday and easter, per state law!!! Why the fuck do these fucking blue laws get passed? Why do these damned xtians have to force thier views on the rest of us. My state reps are getting seperate letters from DW and I, fuckers.

Lucky I have some wine. But I wanted a cold beer damn it.



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New Mexico

Don't just write a letter yourself; get a bunch of friends and neighbors to join you.

I remember not being able to buy a car on Sundays, and no alcohol on any Sunday. Blue Laws. When I was about to move they allowed liquor sales on Sundays after noon. The ER was full of people in withdrawal on Sundays, or who drank windex or hairspray in water. Those ICU stays cost NM a lot and the deaths were tragic. I think financial pressure caused the changes.

New Mexico will catch up with the Nation, I think, but some of the weirdest liquor laws must belong to Pennsylvania. We could buy alcoholic Popsicles, beer and wine at specific stores, but not on Sundays and their hours were restricted. Alcoholic Popsicles....pretty bad but we just had to try them.

I hope the amazing sunsets, Sandia mountains and the best food in the country offer consolation for not having a nicer cold beer tonight. I will never understand the bizarre laws, though!

Those things are consolation, especially the food. Fortunately most Sundays are noon and after except when Sunday falls on a religious holiday.

The Pennsylvanian state government dislikes hard liqour* and they sell it out of state-run stores with unlisted phone numbers. Living in Philadelphia, you had to either know somebody to find one or wander around the better areas of town until you stumbled across one....I don't think the Pennsylvania Liqour Control Board even had a website with an address list!** Meanwhile in California most of the supermarkets sell hard liqour, which they keep behind locked glass cases like the cigarettes.

....Yes, I am a "nevermo."

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* I don't know if it was by the proof or by what the distributor called the stuff, but you could buy beer, hard lemonade, and wine coolers from the corner bodega. The "Fine Wine & Good Sprirts" (i.e. state liqour store) not only had vodka but a selection of wines and booze accessories (bottle openers, glasses, etc.) In short, the were like head shops for sauce enthusiasts.

** They do now, and I see that the westernmost store appears to be on 22nd street, on the edge of the ghettoish area east of the University of Pennsylvania.

Never had a problem. I even lived off of 52nd and Market (I think this is the area you're talking about. HORRORS!), and I never had a problem.

22nd St. is not a part of University City -- it's across the Surekill River and east of Penn and Drexel. The western most part of Philly is 69th St and borders Upper Darby (never had a problem there) or is the Overbrook area that borders City Line Avenue (never had a problem there). Have seen many boorish people beat the crap out of strangers in Center City during parades and whatnot.

ETA: The state stores in tony areas like the Main Line and near Swarthmore are open on Sundays also. Just sayin'...



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No insult was intended....I actually rode to the four ends of the Broad Street and Market-Frankford lines in order to get used to the layout of Philadelphia while I was attending a college* in that city. I know about the FW & GS stores because I had these annoying boozehounds as dorm mates and I would buy them liqour to keep them from going out to those frat parties (they would drink themselves into oblivion or have fights with brick walls) but it didn't work. But that is another story...

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* I don't want to name names but it was the one on Broad Street that has its own SEPTA train station.

That is awful. Never heard of such a thing. Does that mean it isn't sold in restaurants too? Weird.

WTH? I just bought some wine and ciders at Wal-mart and Safeway yesterday afternoon on the east side.

I guess it's different with liquor stores, maybe?

Maybe it's a county thing. I was going to hit up Distill earlier but things got busy and I ended up at the Shell in Kirtland. Thier sign said it was State law but they could have been BSing people. Afterall K-town is pretty much mormon owned.

but liquor stores would still be open. That law has been like that in New Mexico for a long time.

Grocery stores and gas stations that sell liquor at least. I didn't try a liquor store. Somehow it's never been an issue for me, either I was already stocked up or I was a TBM and never ventured into a liquor store on Good Friday.

It's still silly, either way. Kinda like Roswell which is dry all day sunday except for in bars and resteraunts.



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Drunks have a hard time planning ahead ...

If someone would have informed me I would have acted ahead of time xMmo can fuck itself.

Best sex I've ever had!

Just sayin'...

Ron

Go to Costco and stock up.

We always keep extra spririts in the second fridge in case friends show up.

haha...Living in Happy Valley made me an excellent planner for the weekends. I would stock up on friday or saturday night and I was good for the weekend.

I grew up in PA, and *all* stores were closed on Sunday when I was a kid. Bizarro. Some of our <strike>commonwealth</strike> state stores just started being open on Sundays. Had I never lived in CA, I wouldn't understand how weird we are here and how limited our booze selection is. We do have 30+ local breweries, though, so that's kind of cool. I think we have Ben Franklin to thank for that.



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If you want a proverbial "license to print money", buy a liquor store in New Jersey just across the bridges from PA. Most people I know go there for their booze. The selection is better, the prices are lower, and they're open every day. Just watch out for the state cops when you head back for the bridge.

I used to spend summers with my grandparents in Ocean City, New Jersey. I was founded as a Baptist summer colony, and is Dry. No bars, and no alcohol of any kind sold. Sundays were a little weird(er). Because of the tourist trade, many stores were open Sunday, but blue laws limited what you could buy. There would be a big sign up in, say, the drug store telling what you could buy (aspirin) and what you couldn't (toys, candy). Thank the Flying Sphagetti Monster that things have changed.

Circles are bad enough. Circles at closing time are disastrous. Oh, and no one gets busted buying booze in MD/DE/NJ unless they're pulled over for something else and the DA uses the liquor laws as an enhancement. But it's still illegal, so, yeah. Total Wine & More in DE is the friggin' Wal*Mart of booze.



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There are few things funnier than an alcoholic jonesing for a drink.
Make your own, ya drunk.

California supermarkets do not keep alcohol locked behind glass cases.

The bottles are out in the open, standing on shelves.
You can buy whatever you want, whenever you want.

dont it??? those rotten people actually have the nerve to drink what Jesus drank!!! gosh.... tie those scurvy dogs to the yardarm!! then...keel haul em!! lousy drunks!! cause ya know that everone who drinks get drunk...and ALL people who drink are alchololics!!! yeah yeah thats the ticket!!

Brother of Jerry drank me under the table! /sarcasm temporarily off

liquor taxes. I frequent a liquor store about ten miles north of the NM state line and I see people from NM stocking up all the time. I'm talking about trunks full of liquor and beer.

I figure either the taxes are very high or my friend at the liquor store has such low prices that people are willing to come north from Espanola and Taos. Either way my bud's making a killing.

Guess what -- it's not much. You can special order certain things (as long as they've been approved by the Board), but then you have to buy a certain amount of that thing and usually pay twice as much as you would in a neighboring state.

You can't buy hard liquor or beer out of state and have it shipped to your home, but you can buy wine that isn't available in PA. *Then* you have to have it shipped to a state store and pay all applicable fees and taxes and sign a friggin' affidavit that you're 21 or older and the wine is for personal consumption.



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Yes, the alcohol taxes are very high here and are probably going to be raised 5 -7 %. Good thing I'm only an hour from the CO state line.



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Times like these I'm happy to live in a state with no last call, no dry days, and no shame. I can order shots of tequila at a titty bar at 4:00am on Christmas morning if I want to. And I have, just for the sake of doing it. Word to the wise, the strippers working the 4am shift on Christmas are NOT women you want to see naked. **shudder**

What state is this?

That would be Nevada. We also have legal whorehouses, gambling, and access to flamethrowers and ak-47s.

Fun. In all fairness NM also has acess to flame throwers, full autos and explosives. Afterall they did pick us as the site to detonatee the first nuke.

Yes, but can you take your flamethrower out at 2am with a freshly purchased bottle of Everclear and blow off some steam after you failed to perform with your paid escort?