What are your pet peeves?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Is it illegal to sell wine in liquor stores in MA?

Liquor stores can sell wine, grocery stores can't. The new law is trying to make it legal for big grocery stores to do it. The small liquor stores are saying that they will be shut down if this happens. The big stores are saying that they will create a competitive market (so to speak) re: wine prices. I can see both sides of this issue. We'll see what happens.

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, I noticed that there's no small liquor stores here in California, where all supermarkets have a huge liquor department.


Not.



Um, do they still burn witches in Massachusetts, or are they able to get news of other places from faraway, many days travel by horseback, that have been practicing the things proposed by the commonwealth legislature?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Um, do they still burn witches in Massachusetts, or are they able to get news of other places from faraway, many days travel by horseback, that have been practicing the things proposed by the commonwealth legislature?

Tell me about it. They also have something called Blue Laws where stores are not allowed to be open on Thanksgiving and Christmas. One store disobeyed the rule and stayed open last Christmas and was fined. They really need to get rid of that rule. If people wanna work, let 'em work. I think there's nothing wrong with a half day on both days. They could make a lot of money from last minute types like myself.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Tell me about it. They also have something called Blue Laws where stores are not allowed to be open on Thanksgiving and Christmas. One store disobeyed the rule and stayed open last Christmas and was fined. They really need to get rid of that rule. If people wanna work, let 'em work. I think there's nothing wrong with a half day on both days. They could make a lot of money from last minute types like myself.

Obviously they have never seen a grocery store on Thanksgiving or Christmas.

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

They also have something called Blue Laws where stores are not allowed to be open on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Wow! I thought those were strictly a bible belt phenomenon. Here they've mostly been struck down. When I was a child, stores could not open on Sunday, with only a few exceptions, grocery stores being one exception.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

People who call vegetables "rabbit food."

Oh, so you want Munchkin to starve? I see how it is.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

A true haiku also must mention a season.

I knew there was a rule I was forgetting! Thanks!

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

Wow! I thought those were strictly a bible belt phenomenon. Here they've mostly been struck down. When I was a child, stores could not open on Sunday, with only a few exceptions, grocery stores being one exception.

I'm sure it's some sort of Puritan thing that no one reversed. I think it should be changed.
I bet it's still written somewhere that if women show their ankles in public they could be flogged.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Oh, so you want Munchkin to starve? I see how it is.

I make exceptions for people who actually own rabbits. I've only heard, "I don't eat salad, that's rabbit food," from a handful of people in my life, but I swear to god the next person that says it is getting a Scaeagles style sphincter enlargement via my sesame ginger salad dresing bottle.

[Matterhorn Fan]

Waiters who cheerfully say "yes" when you ask if the vegetable soup is vegetarian, and then cheerfully say "yes" when you ask if there's meat broth in this so-called vegetarian vegetable soup.