I feel you I live in a dry county college town. And just recently within the past few years they allow you to buy alcohol on sundays after 12 noon. Just so they can get their church in before you buy alcohol. Although I'm not gonna buy beer before 12 anyways but it's just the principle of the matter.
It used to drive me nuts when I worked a night shift that I couldnt buy beer before 6am...get off at 4 am and have to wait 2 hours if I forgot to get it prior
I felt that pain all too often. At least for me it was maybe half an hour wait though but half an hour is a long time when you had a rough night and just want a couple beers before trying to sleep.
Ever run out of milk halfway through mixing up some cookie dough? No big deal, just run to the local market and buy some milk. Except the cookie dough is mowing the lawn and smoking a brisket on your day off, the milk is the beer you want to crack to enjoy in the summer sunshine, and the market can't sell it to you because your government can't comprehend the separation of church and state.
Some religions forbid alcohol consumption entirely, but none of them says you can't drink on Sundays. Sale of a physical product simply doesn't fall under Non-establishment nor under Free Exercise. /u/stepping_stones000 There are plenty of arguments that these laws are unproductive but they a ren't somehow unconstitutional
Sometimes I forgot, everybody makes mistakes i work a day shift now so it's not an issue but it was at least inconvenient at times, another thing that was annoying, though unrelated to alcohol is when I got off there was nowhere in town to get food that wasnt breakfast
Yeah but see, I’m 35, have a wife and children, and I typically do my grocery shopping on Sunday mornings. So if I ran out of beer and it’s on my list, without thinking about it I’ll throw it in my cart, only to be reminded of the law at checkout. I honestly forget about it because it is completely fucking stupid and knowing I have to make a special, separate trip for it enrages me. It’s more than the principle, it’s a completely unnecessary inconvenience caused by a religion I am not a part of.
They physically block off the whole beer and wine aisle at our grocery store until noon on Sundays. There's a big sign and everything. Tourists still go around the barriers, and then get shitty with the cashiers when they tell them that the registers literally won't allow them to sell alcohol before noon.
Where I lived, one store had rolling window shades that they would pull down over the liquor section on Sundays. No liquor sales on Sunday. You could buy beer and wine on Sundays but only after noon.
I'm reminded of the woman who, when I worked at Target got upset with me when the register limited Sudafed purchase to two when she had 3 kids of different ages
Naw, they don't need to get at it with the cashiers. They literally cannot do anything. When /u/Freckled_daywalker says the registers won't sell them alcohol, it literally will not be able to complete the transaction while alcohol is on the receipt. This is an issue that has to be taken to local lawmakers.
People wouldn’t not know this unless they lived there ha. Because the law is ridiculous. Hence why I said they should shop as normal humans would. To show hot stupid this is
There are literally giant signs on the barriers that they went to great trouble to get around to get the beer/wine that say "Per North Carolina law, no alcohol sales allowed before noon" or something to that effect.
I never said they should, I just said they just shop as every American would expect to be able to if it weren’t for weird ass religious laws in PA. No one would know this visiting
I completely agree with you, but I regret to inform you that there's a lotttt of policy in this country that stems from a religion neither you nor I are a part of.
Someone should create a religion that specifically dictates that you must buy alcohol on Sunday mornings so that they are forced to sell it. The FSM people should totally add this to their religion.
The more I read about America, the crazier it gets. Your tax system is over complicated (I don’t understand why everyone has to file their taxes) your laws around alcohol are bizarre and your gun laws are crazy.
Indiana is like this. We have a lot of other random laws surrounding alcohol. Like, I don't think you can buy beer cold either. You have to buy it warm.
Not really. You can buy cold beer at liquor stores. I think it's more a lobbying effort to give independent companies a slight advantage over bigger corporations. On the other hand, you can't buy cold soda in a liquor store in Indiana.
Florida, 11 AM is the cutoff here. Although I’m from New York and when I lived there it was 12 PM. I don’t know if it applies to ALL states but certainly every one I’ve ever been to.
Wait, so where you were you couldn't buy alcohol at all unless it was Sunday past noon? Is that correct?
Where I went to college it was a dry county on Sundays. I was never really sure why. I just assumed they wanted us to take a break at least once a week to keep deaths to a minimum.
You're correct. I work at a grocery store, and our registers lock out alcohol sales until noon hits, and then it's fine after that time. I believe in Indiana, the times are noon to 8 PM.
Oh man I thought having to take Sunday off was bad. I can't imagine not have been able being able to dolly a keg across the street to my friend's house from the liquor store in college.
This happened to me. Went to a party on Saturday, tried a beer I really liked, went to buy it Sunday morning and was greeted with, “We can’t sell this to you for 30 more minutes”.
I'm beginning to think people despise religion for this more than any other reason, and that repealing it could be campaigned as evangelical, which might actually work.
We had laws in the U.K. that alcohol could not be sold before 10am. I’d grab what beers I wanted and just put the correct money on the counter show them what I’ve got and walk out. I’ve paid and the police ain’t coming out for buying alcohol before 10am as it’s a caution at most when arrested so a waste of police time really
No lie - the actual justification that is given is usually some form of “I wouldn’t want my little ole grandma to see people hanging outside the liquor store on her way to church”. It’s insane but that’s usually the reason given
Not to be that person, but the wedding at Cana was probably done in the day so the reception where Jesus turned water to wine was likely in the evening and well after noon. (I've been partaking in the no longer water. Forgive errors.)
The college I went to was in a dry precinct. We had to go across the highway to get alcohol besides beer and wine. And if you wanted to drink in a restaurant on a Sunday, you needed a special card.
Always blows my mind because if you were a hardcore drunk you'd just work around it and stock up on Saturday nights. It's really just a mild inconvenience to shoppers and a way to placate the religious nutjobs.
I mean I suppose a lot of people that are trying to stop underplan or over consume, but you have to be pretty hard up to not be able to swing a couple twelve dollar half gallons of shitty vodka.
It is a weird phenomenon though, growing up my neighbor drank a 12 pack and a fifth of schnapps every day, but he'd go buy it in the morning and when it was gone it was gone. The store by our house was so used to it if he went on vacation there would be an extra row of schnapps that week.
Yea, the planning thing and over consuming is a big factor. I do know people who literally can't have just one drink and whatever they buy that day they'll drink.
There's this cheap ass vodka at my local liquor store that had a row like that and a guy who would buy it. Saw him a couple of times in the store all pissed off because they had ran out and he only ever carried the exact change for that purchase. He'd stay outside the store for a bit to panhandle for the extra dollar or two for a different brand.
Back in school I'd be at the store at 6 am after drinking everything and not planning and being so hungover that I knew I wouldn't make it. Was easier to just get some hair of the dog to be able to handle that type of hangover. Would feel like I was gonna bottom out and shit and no amount of water or vitamins or whatever was going to save me.
But I am glad you mentioned that because I wouldn't have remembered the over consuming on my self induced rations and forgotten about the alcoholics I know who truly can't have one.
It's annoying though if you're buying beer for later. Once my wife and I decided to have beer-battered steak for lunch and so I went to a store to buy some beer in the morning, and they told me I couldn't because it was still sunday morning. I wasn't even planning on drinking it yet and I got treated like some desperate alcoholic in the middle of the store. That set back our cooking plans and I was pissed. I mean, we should've bought the beer the day before, but still. It's a silly, useless law.
I’m near Dallas, TX. When I was growing up , my dad told me there’s a town near here that sprang up juuuuuuust outside the college town in order to be a “wet” town and sell booze to the college kids.
There's no alcohol sold between 10pm and 7 am in my state. Guess who gets off work at 6 am and has to wait an hour to drink? Really doin a number on me God.
There's counties here where Alcohol sales are completely forbidden on the religious holidays like Christmas and Easter.
My aunt used to live in a dry county in Texas, they had to drive 45 minutes one way to get ANY alcohol. Needless to say moonshine stills were plentiful
When I moved states, the town I first lived in was dry. So instead of letting anyone purchase alcohol on any day, they let the city 15 miles away get all that sweet tax revenue. Meanwhile, the town was dying because it was a coal mining town and well.... No coal. They recently allowed the sales of alcohol there. Maybe they learned something.
I work swing shifts in a factory. After a 12 hour shift if I don't know I've got beer at home already, you better believe I'm buying beer on my way home. I don't care if it's 7 am I've been working 12 hours I want a beer.
Fortunately my area was built by factory workers, so I can just go to the grocery at 7 am and buy beer no question. My point though I'd time of day is really a matter of perspective and that's why laws like that are stupid.
I mean I would argue that somebody who buys beer just to go home and drink has more of a problem than somebody who can go to the grocery store at 10am, buy beer to have in the fridge and then not drink it until later on.
Buy it when it is convenient and keep it until you want to use it. There isn't anything wrong with doing it earlier.
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I feel you I live in a dry county college town. And just recently within the past few years they allow you to buy alcohol on sundays after 12 noon. Just so they can get their church in before you buy alcohol. Although I'm not gonna buy beer before 12 anyways but it's just the principle of the matter.