When I turned 18 Texas changed the legal age to 18 and when I turned 21 they changed it back. Hope I wasn’t the cause.
Before Texas raised the age to 21, they raised it to 19 just one month before I turned 20.
When I turned 21, Texas lowered it to 18. I’m still peeved about it.
Ah yes, I remember the Great Drinking Age Changes of the 80s:
I tuned 18 (in NY), in February and I became legal to drink. Later that year, NY changed the drinking age to 19, beginning on Dec. 1, with no grandfathering. That made me illegal from Dec. 1 to Feb. 24. Then, magically, on Feb. 24, I was legal again, presumably because I was now mature enough. Again. Two years later, NY complied with the federal extortion and changed the age to 21. And so I was illegal again from Dec. 1 until Feb. 24 when I again magically became mature enough to have a beer.
The drinking age should be 18, or they should just go ahead and officially delay adulthood until 21 and be done with it. As usual, though, they want it both ways.
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