YEESH, my fellow statespeople once again embarrass me.
The legislature passed HB 81, allowing grown adults to take their beer and martinis with them to the restrooms. Odd? And you ask why? It’s so nobody can put a drug into the drink when you’re not there.
This is an idiotic bill: our legislators are making laws interfering with, usurping, and extinguishing our common sense. Soon we will all turn into anxious know-nothings, disabled from thinking correctly and having to check in with the current laws to see if what we desire to do, think, or say is legal.
There is no reason whatsoever for this bill to do such damage. Surely, people are aware that others are apt to do anything they want to you and around you. And since time immemorial, we have taken those risks by using common sense.
What if another woman in the ladies’ room spills the drink onto the floor and the glass breaks, and they both get injured somehow, or subsequent women or even children do? Who is responsible, the poor businessman? The other woman (if you can find out her address)? Perhaps the careless child. Should there now have to be signs posted, “We Are Not Responsible For Any Damage to Person or Property From Drinks Taken Into Restrooms”?
Legislators have become stupid. Reactionary. They seem to only rarely have the ability or the desire to think things through. People who believe laws should “empower people to protect themselves from unwanted assaults” and people who believe the present law “micromanages” how people manage their drinks are even more stupid – aka woke.
(1)The woman could as easily have had her drink tampered with by getting up to turn around to greet people she knew, or reaching to the floor for her purse. Never mind that the man can follow her into the restroom and drug the drink there, unseen by anyone.
(2) A law disallowing drinks in bathrooms, hallways and other public places is not “micromanaging” anything, it is keeping those public places clean and safe. Who wants to gather up dozens of empty or part-empty drinks from a bathroom or hallway all night long? More work for the business owner. Then there is the obvious point about minors hiding in bathrooms waiting to swill down drinks from adults funneling them there. Someone could begin a fairly lucrative business, even.
Again, who is now to be liable for any sad results that should follow from this unforesightful imprimatur? Well, we could leave this part to the towns’ new powers under HB 467 to regulate drinking in designated “social districts”. Or would that be stupid?
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