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Why are liquor stores called package stores in Mass? The first time I heard "package store" I thought we were going to UPS!
Heh. I think for the subtlety -- you got your booze in a brown paper package? But I don't actually know.
Also, I had a friend in high school whose boyfriend was nicknamed "Packy" like the liquor store, and no one thought there was a problem with that!
I still can't believe you can buy liquor on Sundays there now! And get tattoos! Crazy.
Mass. is crazy. Even in my youth, package stores there were open until 10 pm, not 8 pm, as in the ever-more-civilized Conn.
Huh:
It was not until 1994 that businesses in Massachusetts were allowed to open before noon on Sundays.
We just started to e able to buy wine and liquor on Sundays here in NY, too, I think. I don't know if you still can't buy beer before noon on a Sunday, though.
NY did some thing where a liquor store can't be open 7 days, but they can pick which, right?
It was only a couple of years ago that any Sunday Shopping was allowed in Nova Scotia. There was a real fight against it. But bars were allowed to be open.
91. Having to manually unlock a car door.
My car is fully manual. No power locks, no power windows, no power steering, and even a manual transmission. Kids know all about having to actually use the keys to get in.
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
I don't think so. Maybe once E-books are economical enough to really take off.
NY did some thing where a liquor store can't be open 7 days, but they can pick which, right?
Yeah - you have to be closed 1 day a week, but it doesn't have to be Sunday.
Except I'm pretty sure the liquor store I normally go to (across the street from Dylan's old daycare) is open 7 days, so maybe they repealed that one too?
I drive a standard. Have taught someone how to drive a standard. And when I was growing up in Miami, all the stores were open on Sundays, so it wasn't until I went to college that I experienced stores being closed on Sundays and not being able to buy liquor on Sundays.
It was not until 1994 that businesses in Massachusetts were allowed to open before noon on Sundays.
That may have been true in Conn as well.
NY did some thing where a liquor store can't be open 7 days, but they can pick which, right?
France has(had?) a law whereby stores have to close one day a week. Stores usually choose Sunday, or sometimes Monday. There was a decent fine if you break the law. For the longest time, the Virgin Megastore was one of the only things open on Sunday and they made so much money by being open that they just paid the fine every week.