on 11/6/01 11:26 PM, Julia Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, I certainly think that 19-year-olds trying to buy at Chuy's should
> get busted, yessiree....
>
> For those of you who haven't been following the news about our president's
> children, they got busted at a certain Tex-Mex establishment in Austin,
> one for trying to use a fake ID, one for being a minor in possession of
> alcohol. For some reason, Jenna is more easily recognized than Barbara
> around here, so Barbara got served while the server refused to serve
> Jenna, but this was Barbara's first alcohol-related offense in Austin.
> Apparently Jenna ended up crying in front of the police about not being
> able to go out and do stuff that normal college students do. (Everything
> I've read about this was in the Austin American-Statesman.)
>
> Personally, I had more sense at 19 than to try to get served in a
> restaurant -- with one exception, the few times I drank illegally, someone
> over 21 bought the stuff and it was taken to some location where I was not
> likely to get busted, and the one exception was about 3 cups of Shiner
> [particular Texas beer] poured out of pitchers purchased by a prof at a
> restaurant/bar near campus. The salsa there wasn't bad, either. :)
The legal age for buying alcohol in Scotland is 18, and due to our
educational system a good proportion of students arrive at university while
still 17 (or even 16). I think I first got served in a bar when I was 15 or
16. It is only in the last few years that there has been a serious attempt
to clamp down on underage drinking. Voluntary ID cards have been introduced
so that people who look young for their age can prove they are old enough to
drink.
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William T Goodall
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http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
