I rarely check the neigborhood online message board where I live because every time I go there (months apart), the same conversations are going on. Mostly "people are driving too fast" and "where can I find a..." babysitter, drywaller, painter, patio builder, etc. Although I didn't comment, everyone was complaining about price gouging at our only neighborhood liquor store (since the other nearest--and much cheaper--one burned to the ground recently).
When we first moved to Maryland, I went to the grocery store and couldn't find the wine section. When I asked, I first got a blank stare. Then I explained that I had just moved here and was having some trouble locating the alcohol in the grocery store. "Well," the nice man explained, "they don't sell that in grocery stores here." What kind of backwards state is this? (And I grew up a proper Southern Baptist in a backwoods dry county in North Carolina...)
In Maryland, the liquor stores have a monopoly (though you can get cheap beer and Boone's Farm at some convenience stores, if that's your thing). I agree that the neighborhood liquor store charges way too much -- at least a dollar or two more than the store 5 miles away, on everything I have bought there so far (which isn't much at those prices). It's funny that while everyone applauded the idea of boycotting the liquor store, no one even suggested just giving up beer altogether. Perhaps this isn't such a backward state after all...
Tonight, with our weekly pizzas, we enjoyed one of my favorites, Blue Moon Belgian White (bought 5 miles up the road!).
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