The Prodigal Blogger Returns

Wow. So it’s been a while, eh? My apologies to the four faithful MM4PP’ers out there, but I’ve been busy-ish. Taking some vacations, doing some actual work, and other such things. And recently in the time that I would have otherwise spent blogging, I’ve been reading. I just finished up “Killer Angels” which is a historical fiction book about the Battle of Gettysburg. You don’t need to know about history or war to enjoy this book, and it’s written more like a novel than a history lesson. It’s awesome and I highly recommend it. But I digress. Ok, it’s either all those aforementioned reasons… or I was really lazy and didn’t get around to writing. I realized that while I like writing, it’s kinda like skipping class – once you’ve skipped it a few times, you know you’re way behind, and it just seems to make more sense to not go today either. What’s that? You never skipped class because you were a productive student who cared about your education? Um…yeah…me too.

So anywho, this morning while perusing the interwebs, I stumbled across a little snippet about how the University of Central Florida will no longer allow fans to commence getting liquored up on campus at 7 a.m. on game days. The university has prohibited campus tailgating until the intolerably late hour of 8 a.m. for games that kick off before 6 p.m., and until noon for games that kick off at 6 or later. Now, while I feel like the one hour change is a bit unnecessary – change for the sense of change – I don’t think the new rule is really excessive. After all, I’ve done my fair share of morning drinking before college football games, and even I think 8 a.m. is reasonable (which may have something to do with the fact that I was probably up til 3 drinking the night before that and the thought of sunlight makes my brain hurt…). Apparently, however, the UCF alumni and fan base are outraged and some are threatening to cancel their season passes. I guess the school not wanting their fan base to drink themselves into oblivion is a bit of a crime.

This got me thinking – what different areas of society would bother us the most if they changed their drinking rules?

· Bars not opening until noon. – Could you imagine the intoxicated barely understandable outrage from all the toothless unemployed of the world? I mean, I personally can’t see any reason to be at the bar before noon (other than maybe a bloody mary), but I feel like people would absolutely throw a fit if there was nowhere that they could go and nurse a beer with strangers before noon.

· The beach not allowing alcohol – at all. Ok, so I know this one is an actual rule at some beaches. I can see the logic in the beach not wanting you dehydrating yourself in the sweltering heat and getting irresponsibly drunk in front of lots of young children. But after this weekend at Bethany Beach in Delaware, I think this rule would disappoint a large portion of my friends. Or at very least, Mike Petite.

· No more beer or liquor in the super market. – I demand Jameson with my cheerios, and I want to travel to no more than one store to accomplish this! Since I’m from PA, it always surprises me when I see booze in the aisle right next to the baby formula. Personally, I think it’s a good idea to sell it all in a different store. Kids think differently than adults, and putting the liquor in the food store with flashy advertisements makes it seem like it’s on the same level as coke and pepsi. But ignoring this fact, while it may be inconvenient at times, we here in PA get our drunk on just fine while having to go to multiple different stores. You’d do fine too.
Well that’s the best I’ve got for today. 700 words isn’t too bad after nearly a month lay-off. Any other ideas are always encouraged in the comment section, but otherwise….

Get back to work, crazy.