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Sticky Notes Warn Kids About Drinking Underage

wine warningThe health officials in Utah are distributing post-it notes to parents. These sticky notes have messages on them about the hazards of underage drinking and the parents are supposed to be putting them on bottles of alcohol that they have around the house.

This is supposed to stop kids from drinking underage?

That wouldn't have stopped me. It would have only encouraged me to steal. In fact, I would love to get my hands on some of these stick notes right now. I would love to sneak into all my friends liquor cabinets and stick a note on their vodka that said At your age drinking is dangerous. They would be particularly hilarious at each of my friends 40th birthday parties. You know what else would be a riot? Putting them on my parents wine bottles. I'm going to call my friends in Utah and see if I can get my hands on some of these. I suppose I could make some on my computer.

But I digress. This crap isn't going to work. It is just a waste of paper. It might make things worse, like how those annoying Truth commercials always make me want a cigarette. Nice try Utah, but I don't think this is going to help anything.


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Comments

 

viciousrumours said:

Ahh...but what you fail to understand is that this fabulous idea is being brought to you by a state that owns all of the liquor stores and where said liquor stores close at seven pm every night and are closed on Sundays. This is also a state where the alcohol content of beer is lower than just about any place else in the country...pretty close to water as far as I understand it, so yeah, not really all that surprising.  

April 11, 2007 4:57 PM
 

Karen Murphy said:

Wait, you're almost talking about Pennsylvania, the state I'm living in. Except they began opening a few "select" stores [after church hours] on Sundays, so nyah Utah! But you do have to buy your beer by the case here (no six-packs unless you go into some crappy dive "tavern" to get it), so WTF with that??

April 11, 2007 9:08 PM
 

Grammy said:

My friends and I went to Utah to ski once.  I don't ski so one of the girls and I decided to go down town Salt Lake and get a little soused.  Did you know that is almost impossible on their beer?  We had to add a shot of whiskey to every half glass of beer.  We actually got thrown out of Chili's by a "religious" manager.  She didn't like the way we drank.  Where can I get some of those post-its?  I have a few friends to adorn with them.

April 11, 2007 11:55 PM
 

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April 12, 2007 9:06 AM
 

erinbean said:

I live in Utah and I love this shit because it scares outsiders away from my kick-ass mountains and hip city.

April 12, 2007 8:51 PM
 

Strollerderby said:

Bear with me -- or is it bare? I can't never remember -- but I am two "choking hazards" into Strollerderby's

April 14, 2007 11:22 AM
 

Holmes said:

These people obviously never met the brand of stoner kids who cherish their ironically hip D.A.R.E. t-shirts.

April 14, 2007 1:33 PM
 

Eleanor the Great said:

Utah's not the only state that owns all the liquor stores. Washington does, too, with the same sort of schedule. It's really not that hard to make the time to go to the liquor store when it's open. I"m a big girl, I know what clocks are for, and how to plan my time.

And since their state-run, everyone there checks ID's really carefully. And they all know how to make any drink there is. *shrug* Can't say I have any real problems with that idea.

April 14, 2007 3:30 PM
 

Eleanor the Great said:

What I failed to say in my post was that it was a response to viciousrumours's post, and that I think the sticky-notes are silly, and where can I get some to give to my friend? ;) She just had a big b-day party when I was out of town, and she would think these were hilarious!

April 14, 2007 3:33 PM

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