No Booze? Blame It On the Calendar Reform

So it turns out it wasn't just a coincidence when you schlepped all the way to C'est Bon Convenience only to find that someone else had gotten to your 30s before you. And when Doma failed you that same night. Yeah, that's right. The calendar reform caught the two primary liquor providers in the Square off guard.

Guess they weren't ready for summer vacation to end either. Doma employee Subash Khadka estimates they order roughly double the amount of alcohol during the school year. Imagine their surprise when a slew of students in search of alcohol turned up before Labor Day. You don't have to graph any supply and demand curves to figure out we were hit by an temporary liquor shortage.

Christopher J. Taylor '12 of Adams noted that the "drunks" have been "particularly cranky." To be fair, Flyby doesn't think it's just the "drunks" whose thirst has not been slaked by cheap beers. But Taylor is right in saying there hasn't been a lot of booze to go around these days.

Never fear, though. C'est Bon and Doma are both placing large shipments of alcohol for the weekend ahead.

In the meantime, we hear through the grapevine that Blanchard's in Allston still boasts a pretty solid stash.