Liquor stores will be closed this year on a day that is traditionally one of their busiest - New Year's Eve - because the holiday falls on a Sunday.
Indiana prohibits all take out liquor sales on Sundays. This year both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall on Sundays, and liquor stores must also be closed for the Monday holidays of Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
This means people not smart enough to plan ahead a little will have to do without liquor from the Sunday before New Year's until the Tuesday after. Everybody panic!
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I'm not looking to create a brouhaha (or am I?), but it seems to me the professional drinkers, aka alcoholics, will be the ones who plan ahead and stock up no later than Saturday. In fact, they will load up the supply to last until at least Tuesday, just in case they have miscalculated their consumption capacity.
Only the amateurs, who are mostly normal drinkers -- which means they drink two or three, start to feel it, and say - "Ooh! I have to stop! I'm starting to feel it!" -- will be inconvenienced on New Year's Eve because an inevitable percentage of party hosts will run short of holiday cheer and won't be able to avoid their embarrassment by running down to the corner and replenishing the supply before anybody notices the bar has run dry.
New Year's Eve is on thin ice as a holiday as it is, given that one of its few raisons d'etre seems to be to drink to excess. When the holiday has the dismal luck (in Indiana) to occur on Sunday, it seems to me Hoosiers ought to at least make an exception -- for the sake of the majority, whose partying is nominal, and in sync with the rest of the nation.
Sweet Jesus Steve...did you just say "in sync with the rest of the nation"? That'll get ya strung up in Indiana....
Ah! The joys of living in a Christian theocracy.
I don't see the reasoning for alot of things in Indiana like not being able to buy a car or liquor on Sunday.
It's Christmas Day and I just ran over to one of the few open stores, CVS on E. State, to pick up bread, milk and some snacks.
I was only in the store for maybe 10 minutes, and I heard a steady stream of people shopping for liquor and being told by the checker that she couldn't sell alcohol on Christmas.
I was impressed by the amount of lost business this store is clearly having all day long today. Seems like yesterday (Sunday) was enough of a holiday inconvenience, without having to be turned away at the few open stores on a Christmas Monday too. I think that prohibition is out of date. And exactly the same will be true next week of the Monday New Year's Day.