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[ArcticChicken]

"Beer stores". You must be in Pennsylvania.

I was standing in a Wawa once and a woman came up to me, totally freaking out because it didn't sell beer. It took me a few moments to remember that convenience stores in other states carry beer. Always weirds me out when I'm in another state and I notice they carry beer, I've even been in a few that carry liquor, and I always have to take a moment to process that.

The funny thing is I didn't even grow up in PA, though I have been here since before I was legal to drink.

They've done taste tests here and our city tap water always comes out on top. I find that highly suspicious.

I was visiting Baltimore recently, and let me tell you, their tap water is fabulous. It's probably the second best water I've ever had. (Best is direct from a spring, cold as melt-water and absolutely delicious.)

Personally, I hate most bottled water. With a few exceptions, I'll choose tap water over bottled or filtered any time. If I'm forced to buy something to drink I'll buy soda or juice before I'll buy any but one brand of bottled water, even if what I'm really craving is water.

[Argabarga]

I used to get my share of SCs from out-of-state who were CONVINCED it was all a joke, and for me to tell them where I was "hiding" the booze back when I worked retail grocery.

Telling them that it was against the LAW therefore we didn't do it only made them MADDER

They got even madder still when I couldn't direct them to the nearest beer store, because I don't drink, so I have no clue where they are.

Usually, they'd leave so pissed off and upset, I'd frankly be a bit worried about how they'd behave when they got some alcohol in them

[EricKei]

What about River (tm) and Stream (tm) brand water.

I quite enjoyed Garden Hose (tm) myself.

Yeah . . . the only brand we had growing up was TAP.

Ahh yes, good ol' Château Municipál ^_^ I grew up on it, we even had the special version: hard water, straight from the Muddy Mississip'!

And yes, I am fairly certain we knew exactly what was in it that shouldn't be there...made us tougher.

[blas]

We say "beer store" in WisCANsin....except, it's used to describe both gas stations, and actual liquor stores.

[BrenDAnn]

Good lord, I wish we didn't sell beer. As it is, they're putting a liquor cabinet in at the end of the month for us to sell liquor. Joy of joys. Of course, in the town C-Store that I work at is in, if we didn't sell alcohol...well...we wouldn't have a whole lot of customers, let's just put it that way. Draper Mel, I enjoyed Garden Hose as well! Small world! Haha!

[dragon_wings]

I was visiting Baltimore recently, and let me tell you, their tap water is fabulous. It's probably the second best water I've ever had. (Best is direct from a spring, cold as melt-water and absolutely delicious.)

Huh? I spent 2 years in Baltimore and refused to drink the tap water the whole time. And when roomie moved from Wisconsin she freaked out it tasted so awful.
Maybe is was the house we were living in but I never drank the tap water when I was living with my ex or my sister. (Pur filter on the kitchen facet at my ex's house, bottled water at my sister's house and Brita filter pitcher and water bottle at the house we rented a room.)

[ADeMartino]

Anyone else old enough to remember when water didn't have brands?

Remember, kids.....'Evian' spelled backwards is 'Naive'.

Watch Penn & Teller's Bullshit episode about bottled water sometime (I saw it on youtube....) for some yucks - and a serious reality check.

[sms001]

What about River (tm) and Stream (tm) brand water. We had those growing up as well, back when we were all too young and stupid to worry about germs and such

And the ever popular Hose Water™!

[morgana]

Ah, but you haven't lived until you've had Well Water (tm).

Used to have a house (log cabin, I kid you not) in a part of Nebraska called the Saline Valley, just outside Lincoln. We could tell when it was time to change the filter(s) in the whole-house water filtration system that had been installed when the house was built. If you turned on the shower and smelled sulphur, it was time to change the filters. And even WITH the whole-house filtration system, we used a Britta filter for the drinking water.

Don't miss that place at all.

[XCashier]

No Mr. I-think-it's-a-good-idea-to-pay-with-a-100-at-a-gas-station. You can't get gas until I can get you 80 dollars because you only want 20 on a pump.

I did end up teaching one guy a lesson the hard way though. He handed me a 50 for a 5 dollar purchase. I handed him 15 ones along with a bunch of fives. He seemed rather put out.

No, you didn't teach him a lesson, giving him all those ones when you obviously have millions of dollars in twenties and tens in your Till Of Infinite Holding that every store has. He just thinks you're a big meanyhead.

SC: YOU DON'T HAVE DASANI.
Me: ...*looks at the cooler door* We have the--
SC: AAAAAH AAAH AAAH (that noise rude people make when they want you to shut up) NO. THE ONES ON SAAAAALE. GO LOOK IN THE BACK.
Me: ...................................... *walks into the back of the coolers and stands there for about a minute. It feels nice because it's cold. I come back out."
SC: IS THERE ANY?!
Me: ....no. *walks away*

When she went up to the counter she said to my CW. "I GUESS I'LL JUST HAAAAVE TO GET THIS WATER SINCE THERE ISN'T ANY DASANI."

Good gracious, bossing the Proles around didn't work! Oh, heavens to Betsy, you just haaaave to suffer with the Inferior Peasant Water since they don't have your Blessed Holy Dasani left in stock!

Jeez, you got some jerks today. Hope you have a nice relaxing day off soon!

[PepperElf]

Why is it so hard for people to realize that no convenience stores in this state have alcohol in them?

Not to mention... isn't it priced higher in the convenience store? For me... sometimes I might get a soda for the trip but, beer? That's for later obviously. Which means I have time to find it cheaper. Or at least a better brand, since I refuse to drink 12oz-crap-in-a-can. *bleh*

And NY is similar with beer vs liquor stores. You can get beer and some mixed drinks in the grocery stores. But if you want harder beverages you had to go to a special store. Not sure about wines... they may have been changing the laws on that one. Oh and the liquor stores had to be privately owned - no chains. I was quickly corrected on my thinking when I went to one giant wine store in buffalo, thinking it was a chain; the employee explained that each location was privately owned & that they just teamed together (like a co-op, only they're all related/family) to get better prices.

but a later bromide issue pretty much scuppered the whole endeavor,

I drank that exclusively on my first ship. Showered in it too. Yeah our water was bromide-filtered.

You could always tell which women bleached their hair to be blond... the bromide in the water would start turning their hair green.

[dalesys]

The blowback on HoseWasser(tm) was your BestestFriend(c) or DearRelation(c) cranking the tap full on once you started sipping from the nozzle... I never realized I had so many orifices water could shoot out of!

[Pizzacommando]

I remember a brand of bottled water whose plant was in the town i went to middle school in. The region is very geologically active and the tap water came out milk white and reaking of sulfur. I cracked up every time i saw that brand of bottled water

[AccountingDrone]

Our well is limestone filtered from 175 feet underground. It is a steady 45 degrees fahrenheit year round, and crystal clear with no flavor. Well, once a year when we dump a gallon of bleach in it has a bleachy taste for the first couple hundred gallons out of it or so. I am so spoiled by our water, it is a shock drinking other water with impurities in it, though I did grow up with the water at our summer house having quite a sulphur/iron content. I happily drink Gerrolsteiner bottled water

[Merriweather]

My grandparents had a natural spring between their house and the house next door. When I was really young, all water was brought up from the spring. They got running water soon after, which though it came from the spring, just didn't taste the same. They still kept buckets brought up from the spring, kept on the shady back screened porch, with long handled metal dippers for drinking water. That was the best tasting water I've ever had in my life.
Eventually, they had to modernize the whole thing, a cover was put over the spring, you couldn't actually get water straight from it anymore, and even though the water in the house came from the same place, it just was never the same. sigh.