Life is good. It looks like Jiffy Lube, located in Bristow, Virginia, will be back to drinking and drugging again this coming summer. The ban on tailgating has been lifted. It will be great to know that pedestrians will have to slide through buckets of puke to get from one place to the next during a Buffet concert.
According to the News and Messenger:
Jiffy Lube Live has reversed its short-lived ban on tailgating.
Concert-goers will once again be allowed to party in the parking lot for this summer’s coming concerts. Grills and lawn chairs will be allowed. Tents, canopies and alcohol, though, are not.
Wait! Stop!! Flag on the play. NO ALCOHOL. It looks like I spoke too soon. Tailgating will be allowed but alcohol, tents and canopies are still verboten. I feel certain no tailgaters will violate any of the rules. Just to make sure, Jiffy Lube parking lot ambassadors will be patrolling the parking lot to keep law and order.
Here is a link to the NEW RULES AT JIFFY LUBE Pavillion.
Patrons put up a hue and cry after the tailgating ban went in to effect. They took their case to Facebook. Apparently the consumers were heard. Perhaps Jiffy Lube felt it couldn’t afford the loss of revenue.
[Please note, some of the above is tongue in cheek.]
Can someone resolve my confusion. 308 covers drunk in public. But, JLL is private property. I r confus-ed.
Private property open to the public I guess. Commericail privately owned property as opposed to your house?
I’m so tired of these commercial names for public venues. When I read the title, I thought this had something to do with Jiffy Lube Oil Change and trucks…and wondered…”what did I miss?”
I hate that name also. @Cargo. It used to be called Nissan Pavillion which I could stomach. Jiffy Lube? Not so much. It just lacks class.
We happened to be overnight in Indianapolis on our way to Bloomington when the Indie 500 or one of those big races was coming up. We stayed at a very nice hotel…until I saw the Penzoil flags draped all over the lobby. All of a sudden a nice hotel became a flop house.
Lot’s of people thought the new name was a joke when it was first announced, and were very surprised later to find out it was real.
The proprietors are again showing blatant hypocrisy. Their web site claims that they are banning alcohol from tailgating and protecting the public. Nonetheless, you can still buy all the alcohol you want at the venue. This move is solely to boost their alcohol sales rather than protect the public. Who doubts that the official vendors will be much more lax in their enforcement of preventing excessive drinking of alcohol purchased from Jiffy Lube than will be the parking lot Nazis looking for anyone who might have brought in their own six-pack?
Mrs. NTK and I had been considering attending an event or two at Jiffy Lube, but will probably continue to stay away. However, we will continue to pack our own snacks to pull out when the lights go down at the movie theater to avoid the overpriced concessions there.
Costs alone cuts back on alcohol abuse. A 12 oz. beet costing $7 or $8 bucks is a big deterrant. The wine is also expensive. Serious drinkers aren’t going to that watering hole. It would cost you a hundred bucks to even get a good buzz on and keep it.
No hard liquor is sold.
@Moon-howler
“A 12 oz. beet costing $7 or $8 bucks” That’s an expensive beet! Did you order it from D’Artagnan’s?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
@NTK,, grrrr, I meant beer.
@Moon-howler
I know; as I said, I couldn’t resist that one.
I looked at your numbers again also. At $8 bucks $100 would buy 12.5 12 oz. beers (over two six-packs). I’d be under the table after drinking that much let alone just a good buzz. My concern is that the committed drinker wouldn’t think twice about laying out that much cash to have a good time at the concert. I still consider Jiffy Lube just a bunch of hypocrits banning beer among the tailgaters not to promote public safety, but just their bottom line.
If you were buying for 2 people and had to wait in line I bet you wouldn’t get a good buzz on. Back in the day, that wouldn’t even rattle me. Now…probably make me fall asleep in my seat. But that was then and this is now.