I'm an outlaw...

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Oh yes... Do you know that one in your flist is an outlaw: here I am. And for what: a tremendous crime, I sell books at 11.00 p.m.

I have a coffe-bookstore and three day per week I close at 12.00 p.m. Tonight, at 11.00 the police is arrive in my coffe-bookstore to make a control and I was OK for everything except that I haven't a notice to say to my customer that after 10.00 I can't sell books. I can sell alcohol and cigarettes, but not books.

I'm shocked: I really don't know that this law exist, and, sincerely, I think it is a stupid law (in general the laws says I can't sell retail after 10.00 p.m., and books is retail)... so I'm an outlaw and also a dissenting!!!

Comments

[samcdermott65.livejournal.com]

That really sucks. Can't sell retail after 10:00 pm? We have no such law in the states. So what happened? Did they give you a fine? I would have put up a hand written notice right then and there.

[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

That's bizzare, I have never understood laws restricting commerce like that.

Of course I grew up in Texas where they had "Blue" Laws. You coudn't sell anything but absolute neccessities on Sunday. I can remember walking into the Grocery store on Sunday Morning and entire isles were covered by tarps and my mom having to fill out a "need" declaration so she could by hose to go to church in.

[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[samcdermott65.livejournal.com]

We still have "blue laws" in Connecticut, but it pertains to the selling of alcohol. No selling in stores but ok for bars/restuarants to serve alcoholic beverages.

[samcdermott65.livejournal.com]

That's just so fucked up. I'm angry for Elisa who's being made to feel like a criminal because she didn't have a sign but was nonetheless following the law by not selling her books after 10:00. Crazy assed laws.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I have to have a penal process. The police says that most of the time it ends in nothing cause the time is so long and the crime goes over. In the worst case, I have to pay about 100 euros of fee. But what is unbelevable for me is that I can sell alcohol to an underage till 1.00 a.m. but I can't sell to thes ame underage a book!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Is not so simple. I can't know. I must have it already hung up when they came in. When they ask me if I have a lawyer (cause the penal process) I reply that I never have needed one: they reply to me, "There is always a first time!"

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Is the first time also for me. I hav travelled a lot in my life and in every counry I was, I always see shop open by night. I decided to open my coffebookstore cause I saw one similar in Lisbona... and I sae it in the night and he sold books at that time!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Is like that also for me: I can serve them until 1.00 a.m. but not sell them after 10.00 p.m.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

What an idiotic law! Can you let people read the books after 10 pm, then pick them up and pay for them the next morning?

I've heard of being "drunk on words," but the notion that any town would actually pass a law against it... that makes my local ordinance against grocery stores selling alcohol look pretty minor. (Tho that is silly, too--it simply means that customers have to drive five blocks up the street, outside the 'blue law' zone.)

Three Cheers for the Pirate Bookseller!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> Can you let people read the books after 10 pm, then pick them up and pay for them the next morning?

this is exactly what I say to my partner: fot those poor bookaholic who wants absolutely buy books after 10.00 p.m. we can give their the books and then make the bill the day after

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Gah. That sucks.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[l-prieto.livejournal.com]

WTF?

How're you doing? That's a dumb law, but I hope you're not in trouble.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I will continue to be a dissenting and I will send book after 10.00 p.m. but the customers will pay me the day after... fortunately only few people buys books at that hour and many of them I know well. ciao, elisa