Mustn't forget the bottle-tops

Tweet

We are going to a music festival near Pinjarra, Western Australia next weekend. The link gives more information about it. We have been going for some years now and it is always fun. We will be camping there for four nights. However among all the things we mustn't forget the most important will be the bottle-tops. You're not supposed to take alcohol into the festival grounds at all. There are a couple of licensed venues on the grounds and there are security guards at the entrances to these venues. We always have a little chat to these guys. You'll find out why soon. Our laws state that you can't take away any alcohol from those areas, not even half-drunk bottles of wine. This means that if you want to leave the licensed area to see a different group elsewhere, you have to abandon your bottle or finish the contents, which makes a mockery of responsible drinking. Who is going to leave behind a half-drunk, quite expensive bottle of wine? To make it difficult for people to take their wine with them, the bar-tenders remove the bottle-top (all our wine bottles are now screw-tops) and put it in the bin. If you do try to take the wine out with you, the bottle is going to spill everywhere. So old, clever, experienced people like our group now take a couple of caps with us. We put the bottle in our backpack, smile cheerily at the security guy on the gate and go on our merry way. Sometimes, the law makes rogues out of normally honest people. The photo is of our name-plate at our front gate which I promised I'd put up.