Kid Caught Drinking Bad Beer at the Trop
You can die for your country and vote at the age of 18, but no beer for you! Don’t get me wrong, 10 years old might be a little young but, according to an article by St. Pete Times writer, Tom Jones, somebody snapped a cellphone pic of a minor (the kid looks like he is around 10) drinking a beer during a Ray’s game this past week. The real crime should be the Father allowing his son to drink crappy beer, not to mention the cost of the crappy beer inside the park. There are a lot of other countries who allow what the United States considers “Underage Drinkers” to consume alcoholic beverages. What makes us stray so far away from that idea? I mean it’s not as complex as a switch over to the metric system, right?
I know what your thinking…”It’s those damn Pilgrims and their buckle hats, if it wasn’t for them and their pure ways. The Religious Right has a strangle hold on this country!” NOPE. The Pilgrims actually stopped at Plymouth Rock because they ran out of beer and didn’t want to risk a long winter without some good old Ale on hand. So when the hell did WE decide that the legal drinking age should be 21?
Perhaps we should care a little more about things that really matter and less about pointless crap. There is a recession going on, a crazy oil spill in the Gulf, the possibility of no tigers in 50 years, and to top it all off the looming fear of another hops storage. Together we can make this world a better place. It doesn’t have to be a big change, we can take baby steps. Let’s start with that crappy beer selection and $9 a cup prices at the game. Let’s do some good!
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