After attending my friends wedding in San Jose, CA a few years ago, a bunch of us went out to a club for some drinking. After a while, I was feeling pretty good and being I had never been to CA, I decided I wanted to do some exploring of Central San Jose. So I got back out on the street and start walking around. Now, I am originally from Connecticut, where #1 the entire population of the state, is approximately the combined population of the three cities San Jose, San Fransico, and Oakland, and #2 you can not buy alcohol after 8 pm, or on Sundays, or on holidays, so this is another world for me. Well, its somewhere around 2 am and I'm just wandering around, and I am amazed at what is open so early in the morning. Well, I was feeling like another beer, so I found a deli type store that was open. Out in front of the deli was a guy looking in the garbage can for cans and bottles to return. I walked up to him and said "hey, isn't this amazing? There are places open to get beer this late at night." The guy looked at me like I had three heads, but was polite about it. We started talking and I immediately took a liking to him, so I said, "hey come on inside with me, and I'll buy you a beer." He says, "I'd rather have something to eat instead." So, I brought him inside, bought us both each a sub and a beer to wash it down with.
Anthony