So Katie and I were kickin’ back at Fletcher’s Cove yesterday, getting ready to grill up some food with a few compatriots, when the inevitable summer-BBQ question came up: where can we get beer? After a long period of planning and deliberation, we came to the conclusion that it was Sunday. In the District, this means that the area’s impressive selection of sketchy imbiberites were all closed.
This was upsetting. Being from Iowa, Katie and I are used to better treatment from our alcohol vendors. Back in the heartland, the liquor stores are open until 2am, every day, as God and the Founding Fathers intended. None of this 10pm, closed Sunday business we have to deal with here.
As we watched the sun set over the Potomac and contemplated our next move, we decided that grocery stores do, in fact, sell beer on Sundays, despite the non-openness of their liquor-hawking counterparts. Sup with THAT, we though, confounded. Katie, being level-headed as always*, deduced that the sales restriction was probably just for liquor, and that it’s cool for stores to sell beer on Sunday. Liquor stores can’t realistically do this, but it’s all good for grocery and convenience stores that don’t sell the strong stuff in the first place.
So is this true? Did Katie solve the mystery of the D.C. liquor laws? Please let us know! Because I really don’t want to take the time to look it up myself.
*This is obviously a joke.
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