Around here, you won't often see children in the liquor store. The stores are owned by the province and only sell alcohol. Private stores can't sell. I think that could be changing though. It's different in other provinces. Some of those whiskey bottles on the bottom shelf are not hard for a child to open. Go to a retail store and everything is childproof. So yeah, it's weird to have kids in there, and not really watch them.
And I'm sure the beer was good, but that's a lot of years ago, and sometimes I get old imports that could probably taste a bit better.
Yeah that's a bit unusual in most of Europe, I think some of Scandinavia has the same laws in place.
Maybe she was watching them until she had something else to moan about - those sorts can really test patience.
Freelance dictators.