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fezo · 02-04-2009, 04:28 PM

Funny thing on drinking age. I think I was 20 when it went down to 18 in Jersey before it went back up to 21. Of course different rules, if not actual different laws, apply in colleges. Here I am in a dorm technically owned by the state with kegs around on Saturday with no supervision. It was awful beer which helped keep some of us away...

One thing that I'm sure made an impression on me happened my senior year of high school. NJ had a drinking age of 21 and NY had 18. There were clubs just over the line in New York State for just such things. The big one was a place called Mother's in Warwick, NY. anyway, one of my classmates went up one weekend (well, he went most weekends and sometimes in the week) and was coming home by the usual way which is a twisty road in the hills running next to a big reservoir. He missed a curve and plowed into a tree. That was the end of him.

Well, looks like I'll be through your area sometime later than the early March I first thought I'd be doing, but at one point have to get up there for the duck pins.

02-04-2009, 04:28 PM	#15
fezo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Manahawkin, NJ, 08050 Posts: 806	Re: Duckpin Bowling Funny thing on drinking age. I think I was 20 when it went down to 18 in Jersey before it went back up to 21. Of course different rules, if not actual different laws, apply in colleges. Here I am in a dorm technically owned by the state with kegs around on Saturday with no supervision. It was awful beer which helped keep some of us away... One thing that I'm sure made an impression on me happened my senior year of high school. NJ had a drinking age of 21 and NY had 18. There were clubs just over the line in New York State for just such things. The big one was a place called Mother's in Warwick, NY. anyway, one of my classmates went up one weekend (well, he went most weekends and sometimes in the week) and was coming home by the usual way which is a twisty road in the hills running next to a big reservoir. He missed a curve and plowed into a tree. That was the end of him. Well, looks like I'll be through your area sometime later than the early March I first thought I'd be doing, but at one point have to get up there for the duck pins.