So love of my life and I go to buy beer at like...11pm. In our great state of Texas, alcohol can’t be sold after 12 midnight. So we dilly dally in the store, make a selection, head to the checkout around 11:50. There is a guy in front of is with a six pack. The checker is moving about as slowly as a reluctant lobster scanning items, but she scans his beer, he pays, leaves. She gets to us. Scans every single other item with great deliberation. Finally scans our beer. Looks at the register. Says “Oh. It just clicked over to midnight, I can’t sell you this. Sorry.”
A couple things. I’m not blaming her for not selling it. I know it’s state law, that’s not her fault. What IS her fault is moving at the speed of paint drying to deliberately (???) avoid checking IDs and selling us the alcohol.
So, my thinking is....if we had dropped the case of beer in a fit of rage, would we have still had to pay for it? After all it’s obviously after midnight and you can’t sell us alcohol, APPARENTLY.