I have stayed off this blog because of the bandwagoneers of bad mouthers that never seem to learn that sometimes they just need to shut up. I fully expect that here today so all of you just hop on the watermelon truck and bring it on.

I haven't eaten in a restarant in this town in well over a year. Being as local as you can get without being born here this act should say alot about more than just JP's Place. I do however go out with my friends in my downtime. I love going and watching Monday night football and meeting the large varity of people both local and tourist that come out at night. I work in a place where I am frequently asked where someone can get a great meal or go have a drink and still do not bat an eye in suggesting a locally owned business. Never a chain or a place I know is not owned by someone that has lived here long enough to cross over from transplant to local (That would be someone that IS giving someone good back to this town). Dick Stewart should know what I'm talking about on this note. I will never see him as a local (love what you did to Ribualt Squares signs BTY.... TACKY AND GENERIC!!!) because his developement is turning Beaufort into a bad version of Hilton Head. But I am not here to bash one person so I'll get to my point.
I am a smoker. I do not smoke in my house. I do not smoke in a place where people are eating. I even go a step farther. If I am sitting next to someone in the bar that is not smoking I will ask if the smoke would bother them and if they say yes I will either wait or get up and move to smoke. But ya know it is a BAR! The ban is restarants is a given. I agree with it 100%. But for a bar patron to have to go outside to smoke is a little stupid. It runs with the joke, "I wasn't drunk in public. I was drunk in the bar I was thrown in public!" People that are bothered by cigerette smoke don't go to bars for a reason. They go and see Mark at the Chaser Shop or Bill's on the island and hide in their homes. (Ya'lls business' will be booming soon.)
It really makes me wonder who's pocket was being thought about one this one. Hey Dick don't you own a few buildings with a bar or two in them?
Are you, the council, going to give the already taxed Sherrif's Dept. more money to inforce this?? No-one says alot about the officers smoking in the squad cars or right in front of the Department building itself. One has to walk through a cloud of smoke to get in the Courthouse when Court is being held.
Now just where do ya think all the smoking patrons downtown are gonna go to smoke? You morons may want to step it up a little bit with the waterfront park because there will soon be alot of cigerette butts out there to add to the beauty of it all.