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Earlier booze on Sundays
By adamg on Sun, 10/26/2014 - 10:52am
Today's the first day Massachusetts liquor stores can open at 10 a.m. on Sundays without even having to ask their local licensing boards.
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Wow , the world's rotation
Wow , the world's rotation changed too ! How did we ever get by before ? Imagine if stores didn't even open on Sunday , or no cell phones , or credit/debit cards. It would be like the dark ages, like the Flintstones.
It's a slippery slope. People
It's a slippery slope. People will think they can dance without a license next.
Now that's just crazy talk
Dancing still requires a public hearing and a permit from the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing.
Great!
Now I can stop getting my Sunday morning fix at church.
That was the only reason..
Some of use went in the first place.
The guys lined up waiting for
The guys lined up waiting for Giant Liquors in Dudley to open are gonna be PSYCHED. EMS is gonna have to adjust their schedule for earlier pick ups of the leg less drunks.
Please, by all means!
Let's pander to alcoholics while people who need marijuana are still sitting around on their thumbs wondering how long until enough cash passes hands in the state before a fucking dispensary opens.
I get your point
But I really doubt anyone was waiting for law changes to smoke weed.
Booze?
Isn't booze now technically classified as
"Granny's Rheumatism medicine?"
Quite a coincidence that
Quite a coincidence that there's an NFL game on at 9:30am today. What timing...
Great News!
For all those drunks sitting around on a Sunday morning who suddenly go into panic mode when they realize they forgot to load up on a Saturday night and had to wait two whole hours before being able to get some.
How did we ever live before this?
So uncivilized.
The good old days
Ah, the good old days, when the liquor stores were "closed" on Sundays.
The 10:45 pm rush at the packies on a Saturday night and the fights that ensued.
The roaming of the rummies on Sunday with the scary thousand yard look on their faces when the realization came to them that it was that hideous day of the week with no booze being sold.
The endless search for a fellow rummy with a bottle of Thunderbird or Three Monks and then the "negotiations" for a long pull to get through the day. Many an ABDW came on a Sunday down lower Broadway in Southie and Dover Street in the South End near the Pine.
Not Just Liquor Stores
This will mostly end the absurdity of going into a market that sells liquor and food at 11am and being told you have to put that sixpack back because it's not noon yet, even though the store is open.
Apparently Whole Foods didn't
Apparently Whole Foods didn't get the memo. All the alcohol was still covered with "no sales before noon on Sundays" signs everywhere when I stopped in around 11:30
Unless this change only applies to liquor stores and not grocery stores that sell alcohol?
The one in Dedham was open
The one in Dedham was open for business at 11:00 when I was there... they even had signs up telling us that 10AM wine and beer were now OK because of "changes to local laws." I wonder if this is affected by municipal las, too?
Perhaps it does come down to
Perhaps it does come down to municipal laws. I was at the Lynnfield one. The signs did say "the Commonwealth of Massachusetts", but who knows.
Not like I wanted to buy any booze anyway.
Karma or irony?
Pretty goddamned ironic, or karmic, that 300 years of tightassed stoopidity, foisted on us by a bunch of killjoy Puritans, was finally revoked by the tight-assed tea-totalling, caffeine swerving Mormon governor, Mitt Romney;
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2004/01/01/massachusetts-end...