We will finally be able to buy alcohol on Sundays!!! Good Grief that was long over due!
> We will finally be able to buy alcohol on Sundays!!! Good Grief that was long over due!
geeez... and here I thought that was just a Bible Belt thing. Welcome to 1938. 😉
I was living in WA State and traveling around for work years ago...our group flew into Boston one Sunday afternoon and everybody was looking forward to some drinks. We were all very surprised(P.O'd) about the 'No booze on Sundays' law. Needless to say, someone had to make a road trip to the next State.
You don't hear about that on the west coast. We do have some dry reservations, also unfortunately discovered by surprise!
That just happened in PA a few years ago. We still cannot by beer anywhere other than a bar or distributor though. I still always do a double take when I am across the border in WV and see the beer in gas stations and grocery stores. Maybe someday.
CT can be weird. Not to many years ago Women could not sit at a bar-something about they may be prostitutes.
In Texas, you can only buy beer on Sunday after noon till 10 p.m. No liquor on Sundays at all, unless you count the fact that they can sell it Saturday night till 1 a.m. (which is technically Sunday).
When we went to Arkansas a few years ago, in Hot Springs, I tried to get beer in the grocery store and was told I couldn't. I asked about the noon thing and said that's what it was in Texas. The lady replied I wasn't in Texas and I couldn't get beer till Monday.
I went and played Golf and bought it at the pro shop and took it back to the house we were staying in.
Screw Blue Laws!
On May 20, 2012...Happiness comes to Connecticut> Well Joe
It ain't gonna change your life 🙂
As an old time blue law state resident (MA) it became a habit to be prepared for sundays. I hardly noticed when we did away with the sunday restriction.
In MA the local Police Chief has the final say, and the stores can sell from noon to 6pm on sundays, if the chief permits it.
:good:
On May 20, 2012...Happiness comes to Connecticut> Well Joe
Wow Don, that is pretty authoritarian is it not, giving a bureaucrat that authority?
I can live with just about any set of laws. What kills me is this BS of travelling from State to State, or even town to town, and having a completely different set of laws. Really people, it isn't that complicated is it?
Even in liberal Canada, it is the same story.
>What kills me is this BS of travelling from State to State, or even town to town, and having a completely different set of laws. Really people, it isn't that complicated is it?
Subsidiarity rules 😉
Ya, gives a lot of people a chance for power, rule, and authority. That is also why so many law abiding tourists get burned in NYC for caring their concealed firearm and upon entering the 911 memorial, seeing no guns allowed, ask a cop where they can check their gun and being arrested, and doing a mandatory 2-8 years at Rikers.:-@
On May 20, 2012...Happiness comes to Connecticut> Well Joe
yup, I agree... It's show we work our firearm permits, too..
