Boozin’ Blog

I live in Missouri and I’ve only been to Colorado once – I attended the Great American Beer Festival in Denver one year. So I was surprised to hear on the news yesterday that they, for the first time since Prohibition, were able to sell alcoholic beverages on a Sunday. There is some really great beer brewed in that state so I’d just assumed that crazy-ass blue laws like this had long ago been done away with.

Anyway, the report featured a store owner who was praising the new law allowing Sunday liquor sales. He pointed out that in other states where similar laws had passed the stores typically reported an increase in profits. It makes a lot of sense. Give customers another day to buy liquor – a day of leisure for many of them – and chances are they’ll buy more alcohol.

So this morning I logged on to Google news to read up a bit more on it. The first article I came to was this one: Sunday liquor sales start in Colorado. It opens with a store owner whining that Sunday used to be her only day off. What? She goes on to say that if she’d be given a choice she would have voted against the law.

OK, first, don’t own a business if you don’t want to work. Second, the law doesn’t require you to be open; it allows you to be open. If you want Sunday off DON’T OPEN YOUR DOOR! Third, what do you have against profits? If your goal is to work as little as possible then this extra weekend day of sales might make you enough money to hire some workers and allow you to go home and put your feet up.

And she’s not alone. The article goes on to quote other whiners. So I decided to check with another newspaper and found the same thing in the Colorado Springs Gazette. In Sunday liquor sales begin one store owner even calls this law a “hardship.” I would refer him to the previous paragraph.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

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