The People's Republic of HEB

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:02 pm

I went to the local HEB supermarket to do some grocery shopping this morning. Among the things I bought were a six pack of chicken, spinach and feta brats and a six-pack of beer to cook the brats with.

When I got up to the checkstand, I was informed that they couldn't sell me the beer until Noon.

With policies like these, HEB should address their customers as "comrade" when they enter the store. Fuckers...

socal · Post by **socal** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:12 pm

It's an April Fool's joke. Just go ahead and take the beer and leave money on the counter. They won't shoot you on a Sunday.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:15 pm

I thought "six pack of chicken" was a pretty good April Fools joke.

Most places that have Sunday blue laws simply lock the cooler doors when they can't sell booze. I'd raise hell with them over that.

Mike the Lab Rat · Post by **Mike the Lab Rat** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:18 pm

Blue Laws are frigging moronic. I'm glad that NY finally killed theirs.

The issue is not folks being so 'desperate' for beer that they can't wait 'til noon on Sunday.

The issue is that idiotic descendents of Carrie Nation have no right to impose their tightass religious crap on us through legislation.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:44 pm

Missouri did away with their blue laws about 20 years ago. Kansas, on the other hand, still has 'em. The only place you can buy booze on a Sunday is a state package liquor store or a club that serves food. Friggin' morons.

Still beats Arkansas, where every county in the north/central part of the state is a dry one. Makes for a thirsty canoe trip if you go unprepared. :brad:

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:02 pm

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:Blue Laws are frigging moronic. I'm glad that NY finally killed theirs.

The issue is not folks being so 'desperate' for beer that they can't wait 'til noon on Sunday.

The issue is that idiotic descendents of Carrie Nation have no right to impose their tightass religious crap on us through legislation.

Why do you hate America?

America was founded by christians and you should just shut up if you don't like living in a christian country.

Sincerely,
Rozy

What's wrong with banning beer sales for religious reasons?

Sincerely,
Taliban

rozy · Post by **rozy** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:11 pm

Don't you have some Blue's Clues episodes to download?

A kiddie diddler tried to smack me. On a sunday no less...

Hmmmph

Husker4ever · Post by **Husker4ever** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:12 am

Mace wrote:Back in the late 70's, my cousin and I made a trip to Charleston, SC to visit my brother who was serving in the Navy. We spent a night in Greenville, NC (I think) on the way down and, after checking in, started looking around the motel for a lounge. Not having any luck, we went to the main desk and asked for directions to the motel lounge only to be informed that we were staying in a "dry county" and that there was no lounge, or anywhere else in town, for us to purchase alcohol. My cousin responded with "I guess there's no reason at all to ask about the call girl situation in this town" and the gal working at the desk grimaced and gave us a look like God was about to strike us down with a bolt of lightning and that she might be standing a little too close for comfort.

It seems to me that the anti-smoking laws are sewn from the same fabric and that some folks think that they just have to tell everyone else what's best for them and how they ought to live their lives. That's why I got married.

Mace

You ever notice the anti-tobacco and beer nazis are most vocal in places overrun by meth and other illicit drug epidemics? It's good to see people fucking with lawful activities whilst crackheads steal our screen doors to sell for scrap aluminum.

Terry in Crapchester · Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:42 am

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:Blue Laws are frigging moronic. I'm glad that NY finally killed theirs.

Even when New York had them, they were tame in comparison to those of other locales. IIRC, New York only prohibited sale of beer before noon on Sunday. Many other places prohibited sales on Sunday altogether. True story: when I served in the Navy, I was stationed in Jacksonville, FL. I had just moved down there, it was a Sunday, the NFL playoffs were on, and I decided to pick up a six-pack. It's between noon and 1 p.m., so I figure I'm in the clear. I go into the store, and there's a big pole over the cooler doors so that you can't open them. I find this a little strange, but relatively easily remedied -- I merely remove the pole from the cooler door handles, open the door and grab a six-pack.

Clerk: What are you doing?
Me: I can buy beer. I'm 22, and it's past noon . . .
Clerk: It doesn't matter. We can't sell beer at all on Sundays.
Me: Sorry, I didn't know . . .

Harvdog · Post by **Harvdog** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:26 pm

This is what happens when you let the Baptists get involved in decision making. All liquor stores in Texas are closed on Sunday. What sucks is if you have a ripper on Saturday, you can't refill until Monday.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:33 pm

big ups to H. E. Butt

War Wagon wrote:Missouri did away with their blue laws about 20 years ago.

Oh really? I remember sitting in the U City Schnucks with a 24 of Busch in my hand and Rams v. Tamps circa '99 about to kick off, yet I couldn't get the beer until 15 minutes into the game. UNWAR.

Likely a local law.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:59 pm

A few years ago, there was a ballot initiative to do away with the liquor control commission. Oddly enough, before November rolled around, the ballot measure disappeared, but the OLCC suddenly rolled back what was left of the stupid laws, and bottle stores were open sundays (and since it's Oregon and somebody threatened the State Run Mafia, I assume the author of the initiative had one of those mysterious "hiking accidents" along the coast that seem to be so prevalent amongst people who try to rock the boat.)

Hobbes · Post by **Hobbes** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:21 pm

Terry in Crapchester wrote:Many other places prohibited sales on Sunday altogether.

Colorado still has this law. I've lived here for nine years and it STILL bites me in the ass when we have Sunday evening plans. The script usually goes like this:

Wife: I'll make a salad to bring to so-and-so's house for dinner tonight. What else should we bring?
Me: Oh, whatever. Let's pick up a dessert too.
Wife: OK, anything else?
Me: We can stop and pick up a 6 pack and a nice bottle of wine.
Wife: It's Sunday. The liquor stores aren't open on Sundays, remember?
Me: @!#$@!# blue laws!

Neely8 · Post by **Neely8** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:33 pm

Rhode Island didn't allow liquor stores to be open on Sunday for years. Now they are open from 12-6 on Sundays. Getting that allowed was like pulling teeth.

I think Pennsylvania has one of the strangest systems. You can buy beer at bars but outside of that you have to go to a beer distributor.

South Carolina bars are required to use nips as opposed to big bottles. So if you order a jack and coke they pour a full nip in each drink.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:01 pm

The weirdest state that I've seen is Minnesota. They have what are known as 3.2 bars there, that only serve beer with 3.2% alcohol, instead of the usual 4.5-5.0. If you're a 3.2 bar, you can only serve 3.2 beer (and pay lower taxes as a result), but the bonus is that all regular bars have to close on Sundays and 3.2 bars can be open all day.

The reason the HEB thing irked me a bit is that I don't believe we have blue laws in my county in Tejas. Then again, I don't drink or buy alcohol anymore, 'cept to cook with and to drink while cooking, so I can't say that I've ever tried to buy on a Sunday before. Oh well...live and learn...and tell HEB to FUCK OFF!

Headhunter · Post by **Headhunter** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:25 pm

Alcohol laws in Texas are state wide. TABC out front should have told ya!

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:32 pm

There was one dry town left in Oregon until a couple of years ago. Monmouth...which is pretty silly, since Monmouth is on one side of 99W, and Independence is on the other...and the grocery/convenience/liquor stores across the street flourished. So they finally repealed the law. To celebrate, the mayor threw a large kegger at his house...classic.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:34 pm

Probably the stupidest thing about Blue Laws is that the state is taking tax money out of their own coffers. Dumb some?

Oh, and it's not surprising that I have no idea what I'm talking about, HH. I'm used to it.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:46 pm

OCmike wrote:Probably the stupidest thing about Blue Laws is that the state is taking tax money out of their own coffers. Dumb some?

That depends...

If bars are still open on sundays, then not only are you taxing the sale of the booze, but they're now taxing the bars for the income from it, as well, not to mention the payroll taxes on the employees serving the booze...although I'm sure different laws and tax structures in different states affect this.

KC Scott · Post by **KC Scott** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:33 pm

Mace wrote:Back in the late 70's, my cousin and I made a trip to Charleston, SC to visit my brother who was serving in the Navy. We spent a night in Greenville, NC (I think) on the way down and, after checking in, started looking around the motel for a lounge. Not having any luck, we went to the main desk and asked for directions to the motel lounge only to be informed that we were staying in a "dry county" and that there was no lounge, or anywhere else in town, for us to purchase alcohol. My cousin responded with "I guess there's no reason at all to ask about the call girl situation in this town" and the gal working at the desk grimaced and gave us a look like God was about to strike us down with a bolt of lightning and that she might be standing a little too close for comfort.

It seems to me that the anti-smoking laws are sewn from the same fabric and that some folks think that they just have to tell everyone else what's best for them and how they ought to live their lives. That's why I got married.

Mace

I'm in Greenville, SC at least once a quarter on business, and they do sell booze there, now.
What's funny though, is if you order liquor they only have the little single shot bottles like they have on a plane.
No 5ths - no free pour, it's all in those little bitty one shot bottles.

I ordered a Johnny Walker Black and water at the marriott last time - $8.50 and was thinking the price was fucked for nowhere, SC but then figured the added cost was due to having to buy and stock all those little bottles. It was Hilariously stupid.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:35 pm

Husker4ever wrote:You ever notice the anti-tobacco and beer nazis are most vocal in places overrun by meth and other illicit drug epidemics?

'Sup Seattle?

Once you run the gauntlet of junkies laying on the streets begging for your change to get where you're going...you best not dare light up a cigarette once you get there...that's 25-to-life.

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:45 am

Only 25-to-life?

Pussies.

Sin,

California

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:55 pm

in Cal you cant buy alcohol from 2 am til 6 am I think

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:20 pm

SoCalTrjn wrote:in Cal you cant buy alcohol from 2 am til 6 am I think

like mostly everywhere else, dipshit.

get back to your pileon and take your beating like a man.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:44 pm

CT has the most horrific alcohol blue laws, evah. And it don't have jack shit to do with christians. This state is as secular as they come, but, the liquor store owner mafia has deep ties that don't die easy. In CT, you may buy booze until 9 PM and not at all on sunday. That's right 9 fukking PM and zilch on sunday. Not even 3.2 watered down piss. And, you can't get it at a store with gas pumps, which pretty much takes all the convenience stores out of the game. You can get beer at grocery stores, but, wine and hard stuff only at packies. That's CT for liquor store, btw. I used that term on a buddy of mine from dcali while I was in the navy and he looked at me like I had 3 heads.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:45 pm

most places I have been in the south dont sell alcohol at all on sundays and some counties only sell beer mon-sat, some counties dont sell any booze at all.

they can pile on all they want, the opinions that matter to me are the ones that belong to the parents of the kids on the team I coach. Just as if I was just a parent and not a coach, the coach of my kids team did what me and the other parents wished.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:50 pm

Defending yourself across multiple threads?

Nahhhh, you don't have a guilty conscience or anything.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:09 pm

Id invite any of you to come out to our practices or games before passing judgement

Douchebag · Post by **Douchebag** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:11 pm

SoCalTrjn wrote:Id invite any of you to come out to our practices or games before passing judgement

post the address

do it

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:20 pm

Del Obispo Park tomorrow night

TenTallBen · Post by **TenTallBen** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:00 am

SoCalTrjn wrote:most places I have been in the south dont sell alcohol at all on sundays.

You can get liquor from a drive thru here every day. Not surprising that there's nothing but drunks on the road (sup, old me?).

When I moved to North Alabama to go to college all the dudes were in to doing Robitussin. I'm like "WTF?" I guess when you can't get beer you gotta be resourceful to get your buzz on.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:21 am

SoCalTrjn wrote:Id invite any of you to come out to our practices or games before passing judgement

Huh?

Dude, you outted yourself from the start as being a clueless moron who still doesn't get it.

Damn right I'll pass judgement on any douchebag (sorry, douchebag) that teaches his kids that being a douchebag is cool.

The worst part is that you try to deflect being a douchebag by alluding to the parents. Hello? Who's the leader and who's the follower here? Ya' gots no business coaching kids, chump.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:36 am

In close to 100 games my sons USSSA team played in last year, they had a post game hand shake in myabe 6 of them. Its not T Ball

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:39 am

SoCalTrjn wrote:In close to 100 games my sons USSSA team played in last year, they had a post game hand shake in myabe 6 of them. Its not T Ball

What a bunch of shit. You went to MY university?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:46 am

SoCalTrjn wrote:In close to 100 games my sons USSSA team played in last year, they had a post game hand shake in myabe 6 of them. Its not T Ball

So what led to this awesome display of sportsmanship in these maybe 6 games out of 100?

Did you shake a magic 8-ball and it came up "Don't Be a Douchebag Just For Today"?

No?

Yeah, odds are it would come up more often than that. It musta' been more along the lines of... "if Billy's mom brings that cowbell, and nobody throws buttered popcorn on her, we shake hands today".

Close?

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:51 am

SoCalTrjn wrote:In close to 100 games my sons USSSA team played in last year, they had a post game hand shake in myabe 6 of them. Its not T Ball

Yep, we get how you feel about it. It's just that...it's silly. You're silly. The whole thing is silly. Not only is it incredibly silly that you're so vehemently against the handshake (in a fucking pony leauge baseball game) but that you actually go out of your way not to do it. You're a self-important clown, my friend, envisioning yourself as some kind of hard-nosed Bobby Cox-like figure on a youth league baseball team. Pathetic.

Like Ken said, you're truly a "that guy." You're "that coach" that's just taking this shit waaaaay more seriously than you need to.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:29 am

War Wagon wrote:
SoCalTrjn wrote:In close to 100 games my sons USSSA team played in last year, they had a post game hand shake in myabe 6 of them. Its not T Ball
So what led to this awesome display of sportsmanship in these maybe 6 games out of 100?

Generally the handshakes were after Tournament Title games, some tournaments shuttle the kids off to give them medals as soon as the game is over though

I just dont see shaking the opponents hand after the game as that important of a thing, thats all there is to it.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:53 am

SoCalTrjn wrote: Generally the handshakes were after Tournament Title games, some tournaments shuttle the kids off to give them medals as soon as the game is over though.

Who the fuck do you think you're fooling here, you posing, arrogant imbecile? They give medals on the field. They don't "shuttle the kids off" to hand out awards at some undisclosed location "as soon as the game is over".

Christ. This IS a troll job. It has to be. Congrats for reeling me in.

I just dont see shaking the opponents hand after the game as that important of a thing, thats all there is to it.

That's because you're a moron that's full of shit and would be better off trying to match bullshit for bullshit with Dins in the golf forum.

Cross Traffic · Post by **Cross Traffic** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:59 am

Back to the original subject, we can buy beer/wine at the local grocery store, but anything with over 20 proof must be bought at the state store and they are not open Sunday, most are open 10-7 or 10-9.

Also, no alcohol sales allowed on Xmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, or any national or state election day.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:02 am

Depends on the tourney, some of the tourneys have another game scheduled to start immediately after the last one ends so they hand the medals out to the team in a different are of the park where they have cameras and stuff set up. Try staying on the field after a game at a tourney at one of the Fields of Dreams facilities.
I wish they were all like the Elite WS was, the Disney facility was super nice and nothing was rushed.