18-Aug-2003, 05:23 PM
Going back to the alcohol thing...it's fuelled by the fact that one can buy it almost anywhere, now.When I was growing up, you could just buy booze from an off-license, or the little 'Out Sales' hatch of a pub . There was one shop on Towngate with a severe-but-kindly elderly lady behind the counter, you'd get away with nothing!I was proud to tell her ' Eighteen today!' when she asked me on my birthday, buying beer to take back to school and open on the Physics Lab drawer handles!

