Stop in for a cup of coffee
Drinking age here has always been 21 since I can remember...
But back in the old days, you could buy beer in Wisconsin at 18.... So, lots of 18 - 20 year olds from here would go across the border into Wisconsin to buy beer and smuggle it back here...
One time we went on vacation to waaayyyy up in Wisconsin with our best friends that we hung out with in Jr high and high school... (So far up there in Wisconsin, it was only 30 minutes from the upper peninsula Michigan border...) An easy 8 hour drive from here.... Their family would go there every summer before school started to fish and water ski and during Christmas break to snow mobile for a couple of weeks.... Somehow we had to drive our truck up there also and finaggled our way into getting to leave before the parents when summer vacation was over... Just us 16 - 18 year olds in our 79 Warlock II standard cab pick up... With about 1 or two cases of beer stashed behind the driver's seat....
Jim was on his turn driving and anxious to get home and we passed a cop going the opposite direction on the divided highway, who then cranked a 180 turn through the grass median to pull us over for doing 80 MPH... Since we were from Illinois, the cop made us drive to a local grocery store and buy a money order on the spot to pay the ticket.... We still had a couple cases of beer behind the front seat and didn't want to cause any trouble to make the cop search our truck and catch us with the beer, so we paid the ticket and got the f*ck outta there as fast as possible....
So we were back on the road and made it home at least 4 hours before their parents did, with a case of beer behind the front seats...
Drinking age here has always been 21 since I can remember...
But back in the old days, you could buy beer in Wisconsin at 18.... So, lots of 18 - 20 year olds from here would go across the border into Wisconsin to buy beer and smuggle it back here...
One time we went on vacation to waaayyyy up in Wisconsin with our best friends that we hung out with in Jr high and high school... (So far up there in Wisconsin, it was only 30 minutes from the upper peninsula Michigan border...) An easy 8 hour drive from here.... Their family would go there every summer before school started to fish and water ski and during Christmas break to snow mobile for a couple of weeks.... Somehow we had to drive our truck up there also and finaggled our way into getting to leave before the parents when summer vacation was over... Just us 16 - 18 year olds in our 79 Warlock II standard cab pick up... With about 1 or two cases of beer stashed behind the driver's seat....
Jim was on his turn driving and anxious to get home and we passed a cop going the opposite direction on the divided highway, who then cranked a 180 turn through the grass median to pull us over for doing 80 MPH... Since we were from Illinois, the cop made us drive to a local grocery store and buy a money order on the spot to pay the ticket.... We still had a couple cases of beer behind the front seat and didn't want to cause any trouble to make the cop search our truck and catch us with the beer, so we paid the ticket and got the f*ck outta there as fast as possible....
So we were back on the road and made it home at least 4 hours before their parents did, with a case of beer behind the front seats...
