Thursday, February 23, 2006

Colorblind merchant inadvertently opens "green dot" liquor store

"Your kidding me, right?" asks storeowner. "That's green? Shit."

B&P News - Swansea

In what may be a South Carolina first, local colorblind businessman Steve Enfinger recently opened a "green dot" liquor store on Highway 321.

"I don't know how it happened," Enfinger said Tuesday. "When the Sheriff pointed it out, I was like 'You're kidding me, right?'"

South Carolina law requires a red dot to be displayed on the outside of buildings that distribute spirits. The red dot traces its origin to circular Coca-Cola signs, which were subsequently painted full crimson to indicate alcohol sales.

Sheriff Moot Flair was sympathetic to Enfinger, but asked him to repaint the dots by week's end. "That poor bastard," stated Flair. "You should have seen the look on his face. He said, 'That's green? Shit.' I laughed my ass off. "

This was Enfinger's second setback due to color-blindness, or Daltonism, this year. In May, the businessman inadvertently baked his wife a green velvet cake for her birthday.

(10/18/05)

2 comments:

Laurin Manning said...

This was one of my favorite posts ever!!!

Anonymous said...

And they lose the battle of Swansea every year...
Gervais are the rumors true about the uncanny resemblance of
Glenn McConnell and Stephen Colbert(The Colbert Report comedy central) both from Charleston?

Is Colbert really a clone?

What is his mission?

Please we must know!