It’s difficult to comment on what’s going on in the rest of the country, but this town is absolutely awash in booze and outlets for the same. The stuff is sold in every mom & pop corner store grocery outlet. And yet I can’t remember the last time I saw a glass **** or liquor bottle lying around anywhere in the town. Speaking of glass containers, has anyone noticed that it is next to impossible to find condiments sold in glass jars or bottles. The shift has been quiet but relentless. Ketchup, Mayonnaise, mustard, relish, they’re all in plastic. It turns out that there are people here collecting all glass bottles and recycling them at special yards. I don’t know what they earn on them, but you see the pickup trucks crammed with them crawling between the innumerable bars in the dawn hours of the mornings.