I spent a good bit of yesterday feeling sorry for poor parents who were dragged to the Hannah Montana concert at the Greensboro Coliseum. Now I don’t feel so bad, knowing now that parents could calm their nerves with a cold adult beverage.
While I’m sure many parents breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the taps behind the concession stand, others weren’t too happy about it:
“There were many people who were upset about the alcohol,” said Beth Johnson, 55, of Jamestown . “That is just unacceptable to be selling alcohol at a kids’ event.”
Johnson, a professional nanny, said she and her daughter went to the show with three grandchildren — two 10-year-olds and an 8-year-old . The whole family was having a great time, Johnson said, until they began smelling beer…..
“This was something that was supposed to be wholesome, a performance by this young woman these girls look up to,” Johnson said. “You change that when you start serving alcohol. I would ask the adults who feel they have to drink at an event like this, can’t you go two hours without drinking? Do you have to expose all the kids to that?”
I admit I was surprised to see that beer was being served while attending a recent Chuck E. Cheese function, considering the fact that there’s absolutely no reason for an adult to be in that place without a kid in tow. Even after seeing other parents navigating the crazy knee-high crowd with beer in hand, I was still prepared to go a couple of hours without drinking. That is until another parent handed me a cold cup of Miller Lite draft.
Cheers.
