Saturday, March 14, 2009

Who burried the beer?

This morning I awoke to the enlightening sounds of a trash compactor and beer cans being opened.

I looked out the window to make sense of it all. Blurry eyed and pissed, I saw a large dump truck with two guys in mr. Rubbish. Shirts hauling dirt, fiberglass and beer cases into the compactor.

About 5 feet away was the neighborhood baglady shotgunning beercans.

Except for one minor detail. She was not drinking them. She was emptying then into the street.

Cases and cases of beer surrounded her. She would take one can pierce a hole in it and empty the contents on our sidewalk and throw them in her shopping cart. The cans were covered in dirt and not distinguishable from my distance.

I had to get a closer look. I got dressed and went down there.

The beers were apparently unearthed under our appartment during construction today ...possibly dating back to 1991.

They are TsingChuen , a beer that underwent a hefty legal battle agsinst tsingtao in the early 90s. Due to copyright infringement.

At any rate I don't think they survived.

During brunch my friends coworker asked if they had a born on date?

No. Possibly 1991.

"the year of the rat". He said. "no good."

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