Reply #45: I am getting annoyed.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

I am getting as annoyed at people who bring up alcohol as I am at the nosy Christians who are so very worried about what church I go to. I really don't think I should have to explain myself. It's not anybody else's business. And I'm not going to lie and tell people I'm an alcoholic or some such BS like that. My father, who I admire very much for stopping drinking, would be thoroughly ashamed of me if I said that.

Churches are everywhere here. People are usually some flavor of Christian and they wear big honking cross earrings and necklaces and bracelets. I wonder "Do they have a vampire problem?"

However, this county only voted wet a couple of years ago. You can buy beer and wine at the convenience stores. I do not know if the county seat has an actual off-premises consumption liquor store or not. In Texas, they only sell distilled spirits at a free-standing privately owned liquor store.

I don't know of any bars in the county, and there are probably three or four restaurants that sell mixed drinks in the county seat.

Because of people bringing up alcohol, and the fact that there are very few outlets to buy beer and wine, and possibly no hard liquor outlets, this tells me that there are probably a lot of heavy drinkers out there. It's on their minds but not on my mind. Even if they have to drive 25 miles to the next county.

Is this a reasonable presumption?