tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374269644093476975.post5264758911328842442..comments2023-10-26T15:34:56.807+01:00Comments on Pond Parleys: Bottoms up!Pond Parleyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03127142379706540812noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374269644093476975.post-66258091772262526682009-06-23T22:16:25.164+01:002009-06-23T22:16:25.164+01:00The benefit of early closings and great public tra...The benefit of early closings and great public transportation? Fewer drunk drivers. I'm all for it.smitten by britainhttp://www.smittenbybritain.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374269644093476975.post-18244522216909170162009-06-23T20:38:20.427+01:002009-06-23T20:38:20.427+01:00Ah yes, the "dry" spots. One could write...Ah yes, the "dry" spots. One could write a whole nuther post on that. It's also difficult travelling round the States because the laws change from one state to the next. In North Carolina, for example, you can't order wine or beer with your lunch on a Sunday; in Arkansas you can only buy Arkansas wine (?) in the supermarket etc.<br />The one thing I have noticed is that Americans will quite often have a beer or two and then stop, whereas Brits will just keep on drinking until the party or the evening is over. Not that they get paralytic necessarily, but they do keep on drinking. Must be something in that.Expat mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798190669591053390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374269644093476975.post-38183213190684743342009-06-23T20:33:45.979+01:002009-06-23T20:33:45.979+01:00We were two thirsty Brits doing a driving holiday ...We were two thirsty Brits doing a driving holiday in the Four Corners area (Arizona,Colorado,Utah and New Mexico) plus parts of California, and at times had trouble getting a drink at all! The Utah situation we expected and had come prepared, but the fact that a drink was hard to find elsewhere was most unexpected. One motel owner in New Mexico saw us unloading a bottle of wine from our car and told us drinking 'hard liquor' was forbidden in his establishment, many restaurants didnt sell 'hard liquor' at all, and consumption of more than 2 glasses of wine each was actual cause for comment in more than one place. We met our Australian cousins in Scottsdale Arizona, where our modest(in our opinion)consumption was greeted by raised eyebrows and "gee, you guys sure are thirsty". It was quite a relief to get back to the village pub!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374269644093476975.post-90815534031016031232009-06-22T10:38:33.688+01:002009-06-22T10:38:33.688+01:00The pubs here in my village all stay open until at...The pubs here in my village all stay open until at least 1am. I however live in an extremely Americanized area (due to the military bases). Back in the states I did notice that drink driving is a much bigger problem. My husband and I are one drop no drive people ( too much of a risk), and since we moved to England it has been much easier because cabs are so much more accessible than in the states.Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16973125452842612070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374269644093476975.post-80466142997598513672009-06-22T00:49:58.463+01:002009-06-22T00:49:58.463+01:00Interesting. My husband has just taken the theory ...Interesting. My husband has just taken the theory part of th New York State driving test, and half the questions were about drink-driving; this is clearly why.<br /><br />As for the theory about early closing hours leading to drunkenness: this is widely held, and is one reason the British government sought to extend licensing hours recently. Unfortunateley, I think the British attitude to drinking is so ingrained - get as much down your neck as you can, as soon as possible - that even changing the hours won't change it in this generation, and possibly not even in the next.nappy valley girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788949037047084412noreply@blogger.com