Hairdressers will have to get a licence to serve alcohol if they want to offer their customers a small glass of mulled wine in the spirit of the Christmas season, otherwise, they risk being fined £20,000 or facing 6 months in jail.
Very sensible really, of course. After all, offering a small tipple to one's customers is right up there with robbery, violence, murder... Could anything be worse?
I am reminded of the constant comment of tennis player, John McEnroe in his heyday:
"You cannot be serious, man!!!"
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Almost as stupid as the insistence that Victorian shopkeepers at the Beamish Museum trade in decimal money.
I always find a sneaky blast of the hairspray up the nostrils gets a much more desirable intoxicating effect than mulled wine, is entirely legal and adds style and volume to those oft neglected nose hairs
Very true, YP.
Arthur, do tell me which haridresser you patronise!!
Well, I guess they're bound by the existing licencing laws and they must uphold them. It does seem daft though.
If it's a gift I'd have thought it would be exempt!
That's a good point, Jay.
Madness!
And Jay's point, I would be interested in the legalities of that, sounds a good point to me too.
Madness indeed, Gemmak!
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