You have nothing better to do!

[ironcheffan]

In West Virginia, there is a law preventing the sale of alcohol before 1 pm on Sundays.

When I worked at the local grocery store on Sunday mornings, we would frequently have to inform customers of this when they would bring up their cases of Budweiser at 9 am, having conveniently ignored the multiple signs notifying them of the rule (there were a lot of beer returns on Sunday mornings). Most were cool about it, and if it was close to 1, they would hang out in order to make the purchase.

One such Sunday, a woman came through my line with a bottle[s] of wine, and I had to invoke the law. Well this was totally ridiculous to her, and she ended up concluding that "you have nothing better to do" and stalked out of the store.

I guess she thought we had something against her, and didn't realize that the store didn't make the law, the legislature did, and it was probably made several decades, if not a couple of centuries ago.

I'm sorry, but if you're that paranoid about alcohol, you should probably think about AA, or just wait til it's legal to buy it, or petition the government to change the law, because there's nothing we can do it.

[SonOfSpam]

So she thought you had nothing better to do than ensure the safety of dozens of pedestrians from all the asshats who could be potentially driving around drunk at 9:30 in the morning? What a moron! Who drinks wine at that time of the morning anyways?

[JuniorMintz]

Sounds like someone who should seriously consider stockpiling the stuff...

[singem1]

She may have been purchasing the wine for something going on later in the day, but to conclude that you had "nothing better to do" was a bit ridiculous. Yup, you have nothing better to do than following the law so you don't lose your job, huh?

[Banrion]

Quoth SonOfSpam

Who drinks wine at that time of the morning anyways?

Any religion that practices communion!

[Barefootgirl]

Quoth SonOfSpam

Who drinks wine at that time of the morning anyways?

Someone who's going to lunch with friends and has quite a drive to get there? I must have missed the bit where the OP said she was trying to drink it there and then. Do you buy all your food moments before you eat it, or do you ever buy things to store for later preparation?

The lady was unnecessarily rude, sure, but to imply she must be an alcoholic because she was trying to buy a bottle of wine at lunchtime on a Sunday is a little extreme.

[habitofbeingright]

Quoth Banrion

Any religion that practices communion!

I hate to be dufficult (no wait i do rather enjoy it) but really only Christianity follows communion. Several demonations within it drink grape juice. Such as the Southern Baptist Convention. I grew up in the Bible Belt (My county had 72 Southern Baptist Churches and only 4 Catholic) One of my Catholic friends was able to take communion with wine at age 9. randomness i know
God Bless Yall

[kerrisan]

You cannnot override the machine. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY to ring up alcohol before 12 on Sunday (in Texas).

Funny story though . . . I had a guy come up at 11:55 one Sunday with a bottle of wine and the makings for spaghetti and garlic toast . . . he was so cool about it:

Customer: *checks REGISTER'S time (instead of his own watch . . . yay!)* Aww, man, 5 minutes!
Me: I'll ring your stuff up slowly . . .
C: *chuckles* Okay. *watches clock the whole time . . . watches me finish before 12* Oh no, I don't mean to hold everybody up . . .
M: Yeah, I'm sorry, I wish I could manually do it . . .

Pretty soon my whole line (4 people in great moods, I might add ) was watching the register's clock for noon. It was just so amusing and a funny way to start my shift!

[Ryu]

almost all Christian Churches use grape juice instead of wine

[kerrisan]

I was so surprised when the Lutheran Church I now go to used *gasp* wine, and nothing but wine! The Baptist and Catholic Churches used grape juice, and the Presbyterian Church did both.

Can you tell I wandered/looked for the right church home for a while?

But I'd think that if somebody was buying wine for Communion they would do it AT LEAST the Saturday before the service instead of an hour before . . . I dunno, waiting until the last minute is kind of like asking for trouble.