Over the weekend, some friends and I made a day-trip up to Gastonia, North Carolina, which is about thirty minutes south-ish from Charlotte. It’s sort of an annual trip that we make so we can go to Mary Jo’s Cloth Store, typically to get fabrics and materials needed for Dragon*Con costumes. Despite the fact that I don’t really need any substantial fabrics for what I plan on doing this year, I still committed to being driver. Regardless, while on the way up I-85, a particular billboard had caught my eye.
LEGAL MOONSHINE AVAILABLE EXIT 19B
Moonshine? As in the nuclear race fuel that farmers and rednecks made on their fuel that was usual like 200 proof and could get a human being drunk as easily as it could strip the paint off of an automobile? And it was being sold legally? Oh man, this I had to check out, and since I had the almighty power of being driver, everyone else was at my mercy to indulge in this crazy notion that I needed to acquire said legal moonshine for myself.