Washington is such a civilized state. Like in Quebec, you can buy beer at the grocery or convenience store! And it’s super cheap, too, as low as a dollar a beer for some brands! I went out to get some fresh seafood for dinner tonight and was lured into the ‘beer cave’ (which appears to be Washington parlance).<\/p>\n
Mesmerized by the selection and low prices, I barely took notice of someone entering the beer cave hot on my heels. It was a store employee.<\/p>\n
“Miss! You need to be 21 to be in here!”<\/p>\n
“I’m well over 21!” (I’ll be 32 next month!)<\/p>\n
“Let me see some ID, please.” I pulled out my driver’s license and she squinted at it. “This won’t work; I need government issued ID.”<\/p>\n
“It’s my Yukon, um Canadian, driver’s license.” (No one here seems to know what the Yukon is. I’ve been describing it as ‘between BC and Alaska’ (‘There’s something between BC and Alaska?’).)<\/p>\n
“That’s a driver’s license?!” The Yukon license is a piece of cardboard with your information typewritten on it and a Polaroid of you glued to it, with the whole thing laminated. I could understand the reaction.<\/p>\n
“Yes. That’s what five bucks a year will get you!”<\/p>\n
Must have been a good answer since she just shook her head and left me to choose my beer in peace. I ended up going with a locally brewed pale ale.<\/p>\n
Must have made quite an impression since I wasn’t carded a second time at the cash.<\/p>\n
BTW, you can buy a salmon fillet and five prawns for $4 in Washington. I won’t even get into the price of produce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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