anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com wrote:
It's why until just the last few years you couldn't buy alcohol
anywhere in the state on Sundays. Now you can buy it on Sunday but
only in the afternoon.
What in the wide wide world of sports are you babbling about?
Blue laws. You can?t buy alcohol on Sundays in an attempt to force you go
to church instead. They don?t get repealed but they keep getting rolled
back so you can buy alcohol earlier and earlier in the day on Sunday.
I?ve always been amazed at the bizarre assumptions behind these laws. Like drinking or going to church is a binary thing and your only options. And that people who habitually spend Sunday morning, getting drunk are
incapable of buying booze in advance on Saturday.
It does mean the bars close early Saturday night/Sunday morning and you
can?t go to the bar until Sunday afternoon but again seriously your only option is to go to church?
Blue Laws can be even more convoluted than just banning the
purchase of beer or wine on Sunday.
There was an entire list of items that you were not allowed to purchase
on Sundays in my state when i was a teen.
There were *very* few types of stores or businesses that were even
allowed to be open on Sundays (grocery stores, drug stores, and
restaurants. frex). I remember our neighborhood drug store had
to drape sheets over the sections of aisles with forbidden goods
each Sunday, then removed them on Monday.
Forbidden items included *toys* fer crying ot loud! Like a kid would
go to hell if he/she got a jigsaw puzzle on a Sunday. :/
Candy was a-okay though.
Nyssa, whose mind still boggles at the entire concept of Blue Laws
to this day
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