Drinking Age
One person who is loving the fact that Parliament is shut down to celebrate the extended National Democracy Month is Redpencil, owner of the Third-Floor Pub. Without having Parliament to nap in, our parliamentarians are spending a lot more time in his pub drinking.
The downside is that Redpencil has gotten quite used to the additional revenue and is dreading the negative impact that the reopening of Parliament will have on his business. Fortunately, he’s come up with a great idea to compensate for the loss.
While Members of Parliament are in his pub, which, with Parliament shut down, is most of the time, Redpencil has been lobbying them to lower the drinking age from 13, as it is now, down to two. This will allow Redpencil to expand his market by serving a younger crowd.
Redpencil had been thinking of agitating to eliminate the minimum legal drinking age entirely so he could start selling nipple-topped beer bottles for customers tßo give their infants, but he thought this might be going a bit too far, even for him.
Good luck, Redpencil. I’m glad to see that somebody is finally trying to do something for our young people.
This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for Redpencil to lobby the members of the Parliament. Regarding the lowering of the drinking age, is Redpencil confident that the under 13 crowd will have adequate disposable income to be regularly purchasing his beverages?
@David: Our children steal money abundantly from their parents’ wallets and purses when they are not looking. Don’t children everywhere do that?