The hard part about being a stagehand in New England is not the long commutes through rural areas. It isn't the cold, though we often have to deal with winter weather. It isn't the people we see every day; it isn't the small stages we have to work with. It isn't even the remarkable lack of theater in many places around here.

No, the hardest part about being a technician is the liquor laws.

This past weekend, I was home in VT to visit and got an electrics call with my local union, starting at 10pm. Awesome! What I forgot to take into account is that the bars stop serving around 1am on weekends in the VT/NH area...and any convenience/gas stations open at that time can't sell past 11pm (or often earlier). How silly is that! All we wanted was a beer.

Lesson learned: buy in advance.