Riddle me this Batman...How does one get alcohol to their home in a dry area? Don't over think it...they freakin' DRIVE to the wet area (however far that may be) buy it, and then drive home. "My that cold beer sure looks good sitting on the front seat, maybe I'll just have one on the drive home". Do you see the ironic moronic picture here? There is as much chance of drunk driving occurring in the "dry" area as the "wet" area.
Maybe the "dryers" think that the alcohol sales at their local store would create a hangout for miscreants (look it up)? Maybe they think that empty beer cans and liquor bottles would contaminate their neighborhood? Maybe they think that the evils of alcohol will corrupt the youth of the area? Or just maybe, their neighbors will think less of them if they see them coming of of a store with a case of Bud Light and a bottle of tequila?
News Flash: That's going to happen anyway!!!
Maybe the "wetters" think that there is something wrong with someone who doesn't drink. Maybe they ain't American (or sure as hell not Texan)...or maybe, gulp, homosexual. Maybe they are just practical and want to walk to there nearest liquor store or bar? I for one always hated driving 10 miles round trip just to buy beer, or a bottle of Crown. Why did I have to do this? Because I live on the outside of Dallas city limits in Garland. I can see the city limit sign from my window...but Dallas has a law that you have to be located a certain distance INSIDE the city limits in order to sell alcohol. Stupider shit I have not heard of. Oh yeah, Garland used to be dry so that was insult to injury. Now I drive one block. Better for me...better for the environment, right?
In light of how stupid this debate/argument seems to be, I ran across this article in the local Big D news. How I am embarrassed for my major metropolitan city. Take a peek at this loonie tunes moment:
'We Got Thunderbird' in South Dallas
Wet-dry vote sets off debate … no, really
By BRUCE FELPS
Updated 6:51 PM CDT, Thu, Jun 24, 2010
Last night’s Dallas City Council meeting made it official.
After verifying the identities and voting status behind the signatures collected in an effort to force the referendum, council approved a citywide wet-dry vote for the Nov. 2 ballot. The approved measure didn’t happen without a fair amount of debate and discussion.
Mayor Pro Tem and District 4 Councilman Dwaine Caraway characterized the vote as a faceoff between North Dallas and South Dallas, the perceived affluent vs. the lower income residents of the city.
“Y’all got merlot in North Dallas. We got Thunderbird in South Dallas,” he said brandishing a bottle of the latter.
OK, both merlot and Thunderbird are wine, right? I’m just asking. I’m not much of a wine guy.
Clearly, though, Caraway opposes the election, saying , if passed, it would bring famine and pestilence to South Dallas, as best as I can decipher what he said during the meeting.
“My mother don't want a vote on wet and dry. She wants it dry period.” Caraway, as transcribed by Robert Wilonsky last night on Unfair Park, said during last night’s council meeting, and a son’s gotta back his mother.
But all the debate, all the discussion, all the rhetoric, and even the vote were pointless. Progress Dallas collected the signatures, the city secretary’s office verified them, and, at that point, state law kicked in and required a vote.
Caraway and all the others simply laid the groundwork for their campaigns leading up to Nov. 2.
But Dwaine, if South Dallas is dry, where’s the Thunderbird come from?
Bruce Felps owns and operates East Dallas Times, an online community news outlet serving the White Rock Lake area. After arriving in Reno, Nev., a few years back, he asked a cab driver if it were a wet or dry area. “What,” the cabbie asked, “you mean does it rain a lot
I say since people are going to drink one way or the other...stop making it so fucking diffcult and wasting tax-payer dollars on city council meetings such as the above.
Now I'm going to go have a cold one and mock something...like BP
Sweet dreams.
4 comments:
Earthings are stupid!
Where I'm from (not where I live now) they also have dry and wet counties. They also have counties where alcohol isn't sold on Sunday. So guess what the "bootleggers" do now? That's right, they sell beer! Oh yeah, I'm talking about Kentucky...
When I lived in Ohio growing up I just thought every place sold booze. I remember one time in my early jr high school years a friend of mine and me went into a convenience type store and lifted a bottle of Strawberry Hill. Split it and ran our asses off going home...that was some sweet vomit I tell ya! Maybe I was one of those miscreants LOL.
Doesn't make sense to me either. Ever watch SLC Punk? They drove over an hour to get alcohol cuz they lived in Utah. Wet, Wet, Wet.
In that context, it does seem really stupid...
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