BAH humbug.

It took me way longer than legally allowed it should have, but I finally traded in my MD license for a NY one. Last friday I went to the DMV and made the switch, only to find that they don't issue you your legit license on the spot, but rather give you a temporary paper license and mail you your new one. This, I imagine they imagine, is not a big deal. For those of us who imbibe on the reg, however, it throws a major kink in one's lifestyle.

So far everywhere has been pretty cool. Either they know me/think I look old enough and don't card me, or at the bars when I whip out my paper ID and they look iffy, they're cool when I start pulling out company credit cards, old college IDs with my birthday on it, and health insurance cards. I'm pretty much packin' 50 different ways to identify myself.

I have a Christmas party to attend tomorrow night, so I decided to hit up the liquor store and grocery store on the way home. In NY, or at least, where I am, they sell wine and liquor in the liquor stores, and beer in grocery stores. It's the same in Virginia (mostly-they have wine in grocery stores there too). Apparently it's only in Maryland that the liquor store is all-encompassing. Anyway. So I roll into the liquor store searching for a bottle of wine to give our hostess as a gift. I get offered wine tasting (OMG so good-I would've bought the wine I had if they had had it in stock. Some kind of mix of three wines? I'm in), get help from the cute stock boy in picking out the wine (I know nothing about them, I go for the labels), and check out easy peasy, no getting carded. 

Then I hop over to the grocery store, grab a 12 pack of Yuengling (I was going to share at the party, promises), some Swiffer Wet Jet pads, and a wine gift bag. Get to the register, and the girl won't accept my temporary paper license. Even though I have the cavalry ready. BOO.

So now I need to ask someone to buy me beer. So uncool. I have graduated college, I have a big kid job, live in my own apartment, pay bills, and I have to ask someone to buy me beer.

So unfunny.

I did go to Wal-Greens and use a $10 off certificate to buy pink and green lights to hang around my window though. So there's an upper.