Found a loophole in my town's weird Sunday shopping ban

My town in Alabama still has a law from the 1950s that says you can't buy any clothes on Sunday before noon. I needed new work pants last Sunday and figured out that buying them at a gas station convenience store counts as 'emergency goods' and the clerk didn't bat an eye. Anyone else got a weird local law like this that you found a workaround for?

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max_hernandez2715d ago

That "emergency goods" workaround is pretty clever, I gotta hand it to you. Back in my hometown they had a dumb law that you couldn't sell alcohol on Sundays at all, no exceptions. But we figured out that if you bought a sandwich at this one deli that also sold beer, it came as a "meal deal" so technically the alcohol was part of a food purchase. The clerk never questioned it once and it saved our bacon on more than a few Sundays. These old laws are just begging to be bent a little, you know?

sethfoster15d ago

Woah, hold up. You're telling me that deli was selling a "meal deal" with beer included and nobody ever had a problem with that? That's wild. I mean, technically it makes sense if you stretch the definition of a meal, but I'm shocked the health department or whatever didn't show up at some point. Around here they would've shut that down faster than you can say "loophole." Still, you gotta respect the hustle for a Sunday six-pack.

xena_bailey1815d ago

Wait, that deli guy was selling beer with a sandwich as a "meal deal" and nobody caught on? That's honestly genius levels of loophole abuse.