Alcohol

[lsanderson]

If you're under 21 in MN and married, you can drink alcohol if your spouse or guardian is present. Obviously everybody know you gotta be able to drink ifn you're married.
via TREO
Larry

Comments

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

That is only partially true. It only works for women. It was from the era where your husband claimed responsibility for you instead of your parents. I had friends who had he opposite arrangement and it didn't work for them.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I dunno. Having been 1) underage (even when the drinking age was 19, as it was when I was 18) and 2) married with my marriage certificate in hand, *I* could not get served regularly in bars or restaurants.

K. [speaking from the enormous statistical universe of one example]

If I'm reading the MSNBC thing right...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

It says it's legal to consume it, not buy it. The parent/Guardian/spouse over 21 would hafta buy it. Apparently if you've had formally approved sex, it must be a necessity or something.

Re: If I'm reading the MSNBC thing right...

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Oh, my husband, of legal age, was sitting right there at the time, orderin' mai drinx.

K.

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

I also could not get served when the situation applied to me. It seems bartenders don't want to risk problems on our say so. Huh, funny that.

Re: If I'm reading the MSNBC thing right...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Well, ya shoulda sent 'em to the MSNBC clickey thing... ;-)

[mplsvala.livejournal.com]

It worked for me when I was underaged and married. Of course, I think it was mentioned like maybe twice. I was never carded when I was too young to be there. Personally, I have been carded more frequently since my kids became old enough to drink than ever before. But I think that' a joy thing. When I get really happy, so happy that I radiate joy, strangers seem to read me as young and beautiful in spite of my appearance. When they actually manage to read my birthdate off the license, they are dismayed or mortified. Which is the kids' cue to laugh uproarously. Although when Corwin took me to play poker for the first time and I was giddy with excitement and the guard made the standard misread, he was so upset by his error that Corwin ended up consoling him lest he burst into tears. My poor kids seemed to have ended up with childhoods sprinkled with truly unusual events/occurances directly related to how strange their parents have always been. (That's not a bug, that's a feature!) So, I'm not surprised that my experience is different from everyone else's, but it's odd that it worked the way it is "supposed" to for me. Ususally I'm the one sitting there with results which are technically impossible, yet somehow seem to have arrived anyway.