I wonder if people just used to be more accustomed to alcohol at times that we now think it’s inappropriate, so the sort of people who are always happy to add a little alcohol to a situation have always been around but we notice it more these days. We were at one of my kids soccer games and my mother-in-law quipped that back in the day when my wife was playing in the same youth soccer league, they used to sell beer at the games. She joked that you couldn’t get half the parents to show up for a game if there wouldn’t be booze! I think she was trying to say she’s glad they don’t sell beer at kids soccer games anymore, but either way the very idea shocked me.
I wonder if people just used to be more accustomed to alcohol at times that we now think it’s inappropriate, so the sort of people who are always happy to add a little alcohol to a situation have always been around but we notice it more these days. We were at one of my kids soccer games and my mother-in-law quipped that back in the day when my wife was playing in the same youth soccer league, they used to sell beer at the games. She joked that you couldn’t get half the parents to show up for a game if there wouldn’t be booze! I think she was trying to say she’s glad they don’t sell beer at kids soccer games anymore, but either way the very idea shocked me.