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FAIR: Get rid of the beer

| September 5, 2010 12:03 PM

No beer in the fair for the young and old. A friend of mine, her daughter and granddaughter attended the fair on Wednesday night. After walking around for a while the granddaughter said, "I'm getting, real, really thirsty." Grandmother told the granddaughter, "Wait ‘til we get over by a food booth pretty soon and I will get you something to drink, OK?" The granddaughter said, "But I'm thirsty."

There was a young man (mind you he was 6 feet 3 1/2 inches and 250 pounds) that was near them with a beer in his hand and he heard the granddaughter ask for something to drink so he handed her his glass of beer and the grandma said, "No, she can't drink that beer." As they were walking away from the young man Grandma asked him how old he was. He answered and said, "Fifteen, but I will be 16." He pleaded with the grandma, "Don't tell the cops, please."

So she told him "I don't like young or old people drinking around me. Because some people get sloppy, drink and fall over other people spilling beer all over a person who is stone sober and it looks like he is the one who was drinking, not the drunk."

If the police were to stop he would smell the beer on me and ask me was I drinking; I answered no. The cop asked me not to lie because he could smell it on me. But arrested me for lying to him. He never did give me a lie detector test but did put me in jail. Someone told the police the strongest drink I had was a Pepsi Cola and I was released.

If I would have seen a police officer, I would have turned that young man in. So I say no beer on the fairgrounds and police better be more aware of who has a beer at the fair. I agree with my friend.

But I did add one more thing. I don't think there should be beer on the fairgrounds at all. My folks used to have a strictly beer tavern and I grew up watching the drunks. Some were fine but some crazy drunks and would kill behind a wheel of a car and the one who didn't drink was the victim and ends up dead.

Good luck in getting the beer off the fairgrounds. Have a soda instead and stay alive and be happy you're still living.

MARG DUNKLE

Post Falls