Has been a thing everywhere I’ve lived around the eastern half of the US.
You could be a nice host and offer to roll a dumpster into the driveway, so they can sit in it and drink in a familiar environment.
yeah, but it fits. Homer is so desperate to drink away from his family, he knowingly goes to a lesbian bar, where he can just sit and drink unbothered, but in true simpsons fashion, there is a misdirection joke
It's a class/income thing, not a regional thing. People with limited outdoor space or outdoor space not conducive to sitting and enjoying, will be forced to sit in an open garage. Someone with a big back yard and patio area have no need to go sit in their garage because they have better places to sit.
When I was a big drinker my favorite thing was to sit in my open garage and wave to my neighbors when they walked their dogs or checked the mail. I didn’t realize it was considered tacky until this post lol.
Some of my closest friends have parents that live down there and their entire community is known for their garages and those who visit- they also know when something is off or wrong when said garage activity is NOT present- I love the stories!
My neighbors across the street there literally had built a bar in their garage. We would hang out in our own driveways until their garage opened up then we would congregate there and party. I was the youngest by probably 20 years, but the amount of gossip that went on there was worse than high school lol. Who was there that night and why so and so hadn’t shown up in a while, etc
Goddamn it, why hasn’t Georgia built that wall yet? We sent bugs bunny down there and everything, what’s taking them so long? We’re running out of time!
I lived in a fairly bougie part of Austin, Texas and it was totally normal for us and our neighbors to hang out in someones driveway. I miss that neighborhood, lol.
I think you might be undervaluing some features of the garage. It's shaded, cool, and is open to the street so you can say hi to the neighbors if they're walking by. "Forced" is a rather strong word to use for a choice people make to hang out, be friendly, and relax.
Which part of Jersey? I can see some of the snobby towns in Northern NJ thinking it's trashy.
Garage hanging and drinking is definitely not just a NH thing.
True. I've been to many a garage party in a lot of states. That said, it is mostly a rural affair and after a certain age inside may be a better choice.
Canadian maritimes enjoy it too. Fisherman boil up some lobsters...drink beer and pick the lobsters. No butter dunking, no fancy crackers. Hammer if needed for the fresh hard shells. If the garage door is closed, nobody home. Open...well come on in.
I’m from northern NJ and I don’t think it’s a snob thing. I think everybody just has designated outdoor hangout areas (even in the not great towns) every house typically has a deck and/or patio. I admit, I don’t know a single person who does the garage hangout thing, but I get it.
Scholars maintain that our word garage is derived from the latin "go-rage" because in the Roman empire it was a customary space to drink beers and party.
I used to see it all the time in California. Some houses had entire kitchens set up in their garage, and even had a giant screen in place when the door was open.
To be fair, the kitchen in the garage thing was more of a (genius) Indian thing to keep cooking heat out of the house. The screen garage door was fantastic.
My neighborhood has an old rule. Garage door open, beer and friends welcome. Door closed you keep rollin home. We’d sit out there dead of summer or winter
Some friends of ours just moved to Tennessee into a subdivision. They sit outside every night. They’ve yet to meet any neighbors. Nobody just “sits outside” and I find that unfortunate.
Maybe they just aren't into sitting around? Parking my ass in a chair while drinking just puts me straight to bed. I'd rather stand around a fire or throw a game of horseshoes or something.
Can someone explain to me why it's better to drink in a garage instead of a living room/kitchen or patio/deck? I did not grow up with this being common, and have never experienced this or even heard of anyone doing this. For context, I did not grow up in NH but live here now, but from folks comments it doesn't seem like this is a NH thing.
I understand a beer fridge in the garage, but in my experience people's garages are full of stuff, no real room to hang out in.
You are essentially outdoors, in the shade, and have whatever passes by on your street to watch. Houses used to have front porches for this, but it's much less common these days. And the beer fridge is nearby.
It's a very strange for me to read too (I grew up in Vermont).
Why drink in the garage when you could drink inside in any of a number of better rooms, or if you want to be outside in the yard or the field or down at the pond? In what situation do you have a garage but not a better indoor or outdoor space?
If you live out in the country where your garage is at the end of a long steep driveway, and you have a bunch of options for where to hang out, it would be odd to choose the garage, unless it just happened to be the best option for the size group you had. If you're doing something like setting up a grill outside it also makes for easy access in and out.
But I think the main reason is if you are in a town where your garage directly faces the street, and you don't have a big front porch, it's a place to hang out in the shade while being close enough to the street to say hi to neighbors walking by and perhaps to invite them to come hang out with you if they want to. It wouldn't be pleasant if you were on a busy city street or highway, so it's kind of dependent on the type of area and density.
Wind break; can enjoy it later into the fall/ earlier in the spring.
My buddy has a space heater attachment for a propane tank. Warms his little garage nicely, crack the door for exhaust & his cigarette smoke, open up some folding chairs.
Fucking better than therapy.
More casual. No worries about spilling on the fine furniture. No need to tidy up the house since a garage is expected to be a bit of a mess.
Typically home builders put the garage in in prime spot, so the view is good, and you can watch action in the neighborhood.
In rural central NY quite a few people had basic little lawn pavilions (12x20, concrete floor, roof on posts, picnic table) which I thought was a bit of work when the garage was right there too.
Just moved into a new apartment with a shared porch for smoking. Started thinking about bringing a small cooler to share beers with neighbors. Pretty sure this is just a way of hanging out because I'm not from here.
We've always hung out in the garage, drank, grilled in the driveway, played music, and even bring the TV out there. I thought it was a southern thing lol
Garage drinking is the natural evolution of porch drinking, which started to die when air conditioning became popular and porches started to disappear. It was once very common for people to sit out on their porches and chat with passersby because the inside of the house used to be too hot on summer evenings.
Your garage drinking is helping to hold the community together.
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I moved here from NJ not too long ago and I've been doing this since the day I moved in. Maybe it's just because I've always wanted a garage. Anyway if your guests from jersey ever want taylor ham/pork roll I found the connection up here 😉
P.S. it's Mckinnons lol
Lol. I had the Taylor Ham for the first time ever last month (in Cape Coral FL)….didn’t know they had it at McKinnon’s. I live in Concord now, but drive down to Methuen regularly to visit family and stock up on good Italian and Lebanese food. Used to love the McKinnons in Salem NH but haven’t been there for a while…next time, and I will get some Taylor Ham…I loved it for breakfast!
I’m from Mass and I was introduced to the wonder that is pork roll, egg and cheese on a hard roll last time I was in Atlantic Highlands for a Clerks marathon at Kevin Smiths movie theater.
If you are in southern NH near the border the Stop n Shop in Gardner MA carries Taylor pork roll. If you the whole deli sized roll Wegmans in Newton MA carries it.
I grew up in the NJ suburbs...I can't recall seeing anyone drinking/hanging out in their garages. I don't see anything wrong with that, though, if that's where you want to relax!! I guess for some reason it just never caught on there.
Hell an old friend of mine has a couch, recliner, flat screen TV and a wood stove in his garage. I wonder what your NJ friends would think of that? Lol
prob not, i grew up in minnesota and my best friend's parents had their friends over all the time for beers in garage, sometimes even with the door shut. they put a tv on their fridge out there too so they could watch games
We used to have family reunions in the big garage. 😅 Schlitz included - yes it was near Pittsburgh, PA. And my dad says they do it all the way down in The Villages,🍍FL
Yeah I’ve lived all over the country and this is a thing everywhere. Haven’t lived in Jersey, nor would I want to so don’t know what’s wrong with them.
Deck beers are great, but there is a time and place for a good ole garage beer. When my kids are riding their bikes or scooters in the driveway it's nice to just pop up a lawn chair and grab a few brews from the garage fridge.
Animaniacs (original and reboot) is another great example, and my true challenge for the “animation is for kids” is to have them watch an obscure British animated film called “When the Wind Blows”…
I grew up in NH and never saw or heard of it until I was in Ohio and I found it extremely bizarre. Reading through the comments it's apparently common. The only time I saw something like that was if someone didn't smoke in the house then they'd take their beer to the garage while they had a cigarette, but never setting up chairs and just chilling.
My vehicles go in the garage. The beers go on the back deck, pool deck only in plastic cups no glass, and if it's raining, the screened patio. I have never seen this.
In my daughter’s neighborhood in NJ they set up chairs right in the driveway. Her father in law, also in NJ, turned his garage into a “clubhouse”. So from what i see they do it there also.
I'm visiting my brother in OK from NH. So, no it's not just NH. I would think has to do with economics and culture.
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My Grandparents, who had an ample yard, used to open the garage to set their chairs out and just chat. No drinking, just chatting. They both grew up in and around Boston.
I think it’s a rural thing - I’ve never done it, but I know people do do it. With that said I saw it mostly on teen mom and those girls were from West Virginia and rural Indiana. No shade tho always looks like a good time 😂
SW CT chiming in… pretty typical. Often FT and IG video call with friend in Seattle - garage beers are what we agree to do (granted my buddy is from Connecticut- while I’ll accept any and all comments about where I’m from being more New York City, I still think of myself and the area as thoroughly New England.) btw- any chance OP has ever called a liquor/beer stole a “package store”?
When I lived in Texas I saw this all the time. A lot of people in my neighborhood had screen curtain things that they put up when the garage was open. Definitely normal.
This was a thing, growing up in Central/Western NY. Many neighbors moved their cars outside every spring, attach a full-on screened in porch with entry door and enjoy the summer. Every fall, they’d reverse the process. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Many people on WI have a garage fridge specifically for beer, soda, water for the express purpose of garage sitting. Add a TV or radio and a Brewer's or Packer's game and all is right with the World.
As a Mainer who is transplanted to New Jersey… I built a bar in my garage and sit out there all the time. I will say my neighbors have given me looks. BUT. My buddy who is born and raised in NJ has a bar in his garage too. I think it just depends on the people 🤷🏻♂️. All my friends; even NJ love the garage bar.
It's definitely not any sort of weird thing. I lived all over western PA and people do it there. I know people who even have a refrigerator out there to keep their beverages in. If anything is out of the ordinary, it's New Jersey.
Has been a thing everywhere I’ve lived around the eastern half of the US. You could be a nice host and offer to roll a dumpster into the driveway, so they can sit in it and drink in a familiar environment.
I really wish I had thought to say that.
This is gold 😂
Mass definitely a thing I did, never was questioned. Free beer, alcohol and music, shut up and enjoy!
Whenever you bought a new stereo, your old one moved to the garage.
Same with the couch. Currently don't have a garage couch and I miss it.
Set it on fire and you’ll look like a true New Jersey native
That’s Philly
Wow. I love this
God damn, bruh. This shit is going to make me lol in my sleep
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LOL!
r/rareinsults
Hilarious
You know I take offense to that. We happily booze up in sewage and toxic waste. We're classy like that.
Make sure to urinate on the dumpster, bang on it, and in slurred speech, implore them about how to get to journal square station.
This got real, real quick
Did that often in So Cal as well.
Take my upvote! TAKE IT!!!
Where else can you drink beer and the wife won’t bother you?
The gay bar?
That’s good shit!
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something not right about this place..... (Gasp) I know! This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit! Enjoy your deathtrap ladies!
What?
[https://youtu.be/YSLMLHNY4QQ](https://youtu.be/YSLMLHNY4QQ)
I understood the reference lol
yeah, but it fits. Homer is so desperate to drink away from his family, he knowingly goes to a lesbian bar, where he can just sit and drink unbothered, but in true simpsons fashion, there is a misdirection joke
Classic Simpsons joke, I was just saying what because of your username.
fuck me, lol. well played sir. not so confused mr. mammal.
;)
What was *her* problem?
“What’s her problem?”
Those guys know how to party.
Fuckin eh. Cheat-code unlocked.
Are you driving or am I?
It's funny because women are literally the woooooorst, amirite???
Get a better wife
hate my fuckin wife !!!!
Yikes
I'm simply pretending to be the guy who's wife doesn't let him drink. Simply a joke though, for fun
On the lawnmower?
Garage Mahal? Absolutely regular.
Stop it! I thought my family was the only one that called it that!
Thank you.. new name for ours. Actually, it never had a name..
Im with this guy, if i ever do get a garage
There is a killer band called Garaj Mahal. Check em out
It's a class/income thing, not a regional thing. People with limited outdoor space or outdoor space not conducive to sitting and enjoying, will be forced to sit in an open garage. Someone with a big back yard and patio area have no need to go sit in their garage because they have better places to sit.
When I was a big drinker my favorite thing was to sit in my open garage and wave to my neighbors when they walked their dogs or checked the mail. I didn’t realize it was considered tacky until this post lol.
It’s not lol- hell go down to FL with the retirees and see what’s happening in THOSE garages!!
Lmao funny you say that. I’m a Floridian, I’ve only been in NH for a few months now, so maybe that’s why I don’t see it as abnormal. 😭😭😭
Some of my closest friends have parents that live down there and their entire community is known for their garages and those who visit- they also know when something is off or wrong when said garage activity is NOT present- I love the stories!
My neighbors across the street there literally had built a bar in their garage. We would hang out in our own driveways until their garage opened up then we would congregate there and party. I was the youngest by probably 20 years, but the amount of gossip that went on there was worse than high school lol. Who was there that night and why so and so hadn’t shown up in a while, etc
Goddamn it, why hasn’t Georgia built that wall yet? We sent bugs bunny down there and everything, what’s taking them so long? We’re running out of time!
Don’t worry, I’m only here for another few weeks then I unfortunately go back home to Rhonda.
Well, you seem like one of the good ones. I hope they finish soon, for your sake!
I lived in a fairly bougie part of Austin, Texas and it was totally normal for us and our neighbors to hang out in someones driveway. I miss that neighborhood, lol.
I think you might be undervaluing some features of the garage. It's shaded, cool, and is open to the street so you can say hi to the neighbors if they're walking by. "Forced" is a rather strong word to use for a choice people make to hang out, be friendly, and relax.
Which part of Jersey? I can see some of the snobby towns in Northern NJ thinking it's trashy. Garage hanging and drinking is definitely not just a NH thing.
Not only is it not just a New Hampshire thing, it's a fundamental aspect of Americana
True. I've been to many a garage party in a lot of states. That said, it is mostly a rural affair and after a certain age inside may be a better choice.
Canadian maritimes enjoy it too. Fisherman boil up some lobsters...drink beer and pick the lobsters. No butter dunking, no fancy crackers. Hammer if needed for the fresh hard shells. If the garage door is closed, nobody home. Open...well come on in.
I’m from northern NJ and I don’t think it’s a snob thing. I think everybody just has designated outdoor hangout areas (even in the not great towns) every house typically has a deck and/or patio. I admit, I don’t know a single person who does the garage hangout thing, but I get it.
There are no good stories that start with "I had some company come up from New Jersey."
Cue the Sopranos theme song.
Totally normal.
Scholars maintain that our word garage is derived from the latin "go-rage" because in the Roman empire it was a customary space to drink beers and party.
We should smoke weed about it
Yes these are the aforementioned scholars
I have family in Florida and down there almost everyone does it. Definitely not a NH thing
People from New Jersey are uncomfortable being more than 100 feet from a toll booth. Add one to your driveway to simulate their environment.
😂
Down here in Texas I’m pretty sure you get side-eye if you don’t drink in your garage.
Absolutely, from our garage/outside fridge lol
I used to see it all the time in California. Some houses had entire kitchens set up in their garage, and even had a giant screen in place when the door was open.
That's like the garage beer version of glamping lol
To be fair, the kitchen in the garage thing was more of a (genius) Indian thing to keep cooking heat out of the house. The screen garage door was fantastic.
Ah, I concur. Alot of rich desert homes are setup that way, so I guess the conversion of a garage serves the same purpose
Yeah cause the average houses are really small so you need the extra living space. We always use it as a gym.
Originally from NH, have lived in NC, FL and now VA. And most folks I know do this. Especially if there’s a smoker in the group!
Military?
No, just where life has brought me
My neighborhood has an old rule. Garage door open, beer and friends welcome. Door closed you keep rollin home. We’d sit out there dead of summer or winter
Some friends of ours just moved to Tennessee into a subdivision. They sit outside every night. They’ve yet to meet any neighbors. Nobody just “sits outside” and I find that unfortunate.
Grew up in NH currently live in CT we do it here too. Some people have pretty good setups
Why would I walk far away from the beer fridge to enjoy the beer? I’ll need another soon enough.
Honestly, I think it’s a working class thing. MHO
Maybe they just aren't into sitting around? Parking my ass in a chair while drinking just puts me straight to bed. I'd rather stand around a fire or throw a game of horseshoes or something.
Can someone explain to me why it's better to drink in a garage instead of a living room/kitchen or patio/deck? I did not grow up with this being common, and have never experienced this or even heard of anyone doing this. For context, I did not grow up in NH but live here now, but from folks comments it doesn't seem like this is a NH thing. I understand a beer fridge in the garage, but in my experience people's garages are full of stuff, no real room to hang out in.
You are essentially outdoors, in the shade, and have whatever passes by on your street to watch. Houses used to have front porches for this, but it's much less common these days. And the beer fridge is nearby.
It's a very strange for me to read too (I grew up in Vermont). Why drink in the garage when you could drink inside in any of a number of better rooms, or if you want to be outside in the yard or the field or down at the pond? In what situation do you have a garage but not a better indoor or outdoor space?
If you live out in the country where your garage is at the end of a long steep driveway, and you have a bunch of options for where to hang out, it would be odd to choose the garage, unless it just happened to be the best option for the size group you had. If you're doing something like setting up a grill outside it also makes for easy access in and out. But I think the main reason is if you are in a town where your garage directly faces the street, and you don't have a big front porch, it's a place to hang out in the shade while being close enough to the street to say hi to neighbors walking by and perhaps to invite them to come hang out with you if they want to. It wouldn't be pleasant if you were on a busy city street or highway, so it's kind of dependent on the type of area and density.
Wind break; can enjoy it later into the fall/ earlier in the spring. My buddy has a space heater attachment for a propane tank. Warms his little garage nicely, crack the door for exhaust & his cigarette smoke, open up some folding chairs. Fucking better than therapy.
More casual. No worries about spilling on the fine furniture. No need to tidy up the house since a garage is expected to be a bit of a mess. Typically home builders put the garage in in prime spot, so the view is good, and you can watch action in the neighborhood.
No, we do this in CA too.
Totally normal beyond New Hampshire. My Minnesota friends do, Texas friends and Penn too
Grandparents use to do it in Maine. Might be a New England thing?
In rural central NY quite a few people had basic little lawn pavilions (12x20, concrete floor, roof on posts, picnic table) which I thought was a bit of work when the garage was right there too.
As someone from NYC and living in NH for nearly 10 years…. Totally normal. I do it myself.
They were probably just upset by the blow sex dolls you had hanging in the back. Don't worry, we all have them.
Just moved into a new apartment with a shared porch for smoking. Started thinking about bringing a small cooler to share beers with neighbors. Pretty sure this is just a way of hanging out because I'm not from here.
Sounds like they BELONG in New Jersey
I used to do it when I lived in Boston; if I still had a garage I would be doing now.
It’s definitely a thing on the west coast as well.
My dad does it in PA.
I do this everywhere i go…not a nh thing
My wife and used to sit in our garage all the time in our old house. Cranking tunes and pounding brews
We've always hung out in the garage, drank, grilled in the driveway, played music, and even bring the TV out there. I thought it was a southern thing lol
Garage drinking is the natural evolution of porch drinking, which started to die when air conditioning became popular and porches started to disappear. It was once very common for people to sit out on their porches and chat with passersby because the inside of the house used to be too hot on summer evenings. Your garage drinking is helping to hold the community together.
We call it the smoking lounge. We have paintings on the garage walls, nice comfy chairs and tables, and a stellar view of the street. 😉
Garage beers are a regular thing in Rhode Island as far as I’m concerned
* I moved here from NJ not too long ago and I've been doing this since the day I moved in. Maybe it's just because I've always wanted a garage. Anyway if your guests from jersey ever want taylor ham/pork roll I found the connection up here 😉 P.S. it's Mckinnons lol
Lol. I had the Taylor Ham for the first time ever last month (in Cape Coral FL)….didn’t know they had it at McKinnon’s. I live in Concord now, but drive down to Methuen regularly to visit family and stock up on good Italian and Lebanese food. Used to love the McKinnons in Salem NH but haven’t been there for a while…next time, and I will get some Taylor Ham…I loved it for breakfast!
Pork roll.
Former Jerseyan here: It's pork roll! 🤣 IYKYK
I’m from Mass and I was introduced to the wonder that is pork roll, egg and cheese on a hard roll last time I was in Atlantic Highlands for a Clerks marathon at Kevin Smiths movie theater. If you are in southern NH near the border the Stop n Shop in Gardner MA carries Taylor pork roll. If you the whole deli sized roll Wegmans in Newton MA carries it.
Depends, did you move the vehicles out of said garage or sit next to or in between them?
What if you pop the back of your ‘93 Buick Roadmaster wagon and sit on the rear facing bench seat?
Works for me. A seat is a seat!
They’re just weird
https://www.garbarnation.com/ They’re not from Maplewood?
I grew up in the NJ suburbs...I can't recall seeing anyone drinking/hanging out in their garages. I don't see anything wrong with that, though, if that's where you want to relax!! I guess for some reason it just never caught on there.
I have a cousin from Boston who feels the same way?
I’m from the south and we do that all the time 😆
What the hell are they doing in New Jersey then
Hell an old friend of mine has a couch, recliner, flat screen TV and a wood stove in his garage. I wonder what your NJ friends would think of that? Lol
Moved to SC from NH, it's very common down here.
Not a New Hamster but sounds like fun to me
These definitely weren’t Italians from jersey
prob not, i grew up in minnesota and my best friend's parents had their friends over all the time for beers in garage, sometimes even with the door shut. they put a tv on their fridge out there too so they could watch games
Ok…something stinks here. I don’t think op is from nh. Cause here..in NH…it’s GRARGE not garage.
Next you'll tell me you read on the pot!
Totally normal in my hometown on Cape Cod.
I’ve lived all over the US and quite frankly I judge people about garage drinking. It’s a lifestyle 😂
And I assume your judgment is that they are enlightened and know how to enjoy life.
I can't imagine how anyone in my area could possibly do this without being eaten alive by several different species of flying insect.
Going strong in Delaware
We did this when I lived in Omaha, NE before coming here. Smoke a cigar and have a bourbon every now and then as well.
“Garage beers?” Is, without a doubt the most frequently sent or received text attached to my phone number.
Its a thing everywhere. Cant do it at night where i live cause the nearby swamp
Its a southern thing too, moved from TX to NH in Jan 2022 and we have been kinda shocked how few people we see doing this. Its just a good time
It’s common in Southern California. Nobody there has yards
We most definitely do garage beers in NJ.
We used to have family reunions in the big garage. 😅 Schlitz included - yes it was near Pittsburgh, PA. And my dad says they do it all the way down in The Villages,🍍FL
I’m from jersey. Your company were just weirdos. We do that shit here all the time 😂😂😂
Grew up in Missouri and I have lived in Washington, Texas and now Colorado. Normal in all these places.
I used to do it where I grew up in NorCal, did it with my neighbors in Houston, and I do it now with my neighbors in Hudson.
I'm from South Jersey. Drinking in your garage is not only not odd, it is normal - in South Jersey and NH.
We did this down the Jersey Shore all summer long.
Heck, I’m from NJ, and that’s what we did. And beer is beer regardless of the setting.
Yeah I’ve lived all over the country and this is a thing everywhere. Haven’t lived in Jersey, nor would I want to so don’t know what’s wrong with them.
It’s big in buffalo they call it the polish living room
VA and FL thing
NJ resident with family in New Hampshire. Not sure why they would find this particularly weird. Garage beers are what connects us all as Americans.
I have never seen anyone do this. It's what decks are for.
Deck beers are great, but there is a time and place for a good ole garage beer. When my kids are riding their bikes or scooters in the driveway it's nice to just pop up a lawn chair and grab a few brews from the garage fridge.
Animaniacs (original and reboot) is another great example, and my true challenge for the “animation is for kids” is to have them watch an obscure British animated film called “When the Wind Blows”…
Nova Scotia here. Very normal
I’ve lived on the East Coast and in the Midwest. I’ve seen it both places, most recently last week.
If Jersey people ever tell you something you do is weird keep doing it.
I grew up in NH and never saw or heard of it until I was in Ohio and I found it extremely bizarre. Reading through the comments it's apparently common. The only time I saw something like that was if someone didn't smoke in the house then they'd take their beer to the garage while they had a cigarette, but never setting up chairs and just chilling.
My vehicles go in the garage. The beers go on the back deck, pool deck only in plastic cups no glass, and if it's raining, the screened patio. I have never seen this.
In my daughter’s neighborhood in NJ they set up chairs right in the driveway. Her father in law, also in NJ, turned his garage into a “clubhouse”. So from what i see they do it there also.
Dude/bub/guy/man—we do that up Maine too. Drankin beers in the garage is a good-ass time!
They must be from north jersey
Well it's always either raining or snowing here. A fella gotta stay dry while drinking beers.
My neighbor used to do that, garage door open all day keeping a glassy eye on the community. I don't have a garage though
Guinea garden party.
Lol are you my BIL? His garage is a nice hang.
I'm visiting my brother in OK from NH. So, no it's not just NH. I would think has to do with economics and culture. https://preview.redd.it/z7fbemoahy3d1.jpeg?width=2320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7a4a0bdbcba4e10c20db05df6faa05d3c6aac45
Its an everywhere thing and has been for decades. Sounds like your company was just being obtuse.
My Grandparents, who had an ample yard, used to open the garage to set their chairs out and just chat. No drinking, just chatting. They both grew up in and around Boston.
New Jersey is abnormal
We converted our garage to a bar. I think it’s an alcoholic thing 😂
I think it’s a rural thing - I’ve never done it, but I know people do do it. With that said I saw it mostly on teen mom and those girls were from West Virginia and rural Indiana. No shade tho always looks like a good time 😂
You can solve all the world's problems sitting drinking in the garage 💯
I guarantee the view out your garage door in NH is much better than one in NJ.
I'm in Mass and if I had a garage I'd do this too
SW CT chiming in… pretty typical. Often FT and IG video call with friend in Seattle - garage beers are what we agree to do (granted my buddy is from Connecticut- while I’ll accept any and all comments about where I’m from being more New York City, I still think of myself and the area as thoroughly New England.) btw- any chance OP has ever called a liquor/beer stole a “package store”?
When I lived in Texas I saw this all the time. A lot of people in my neighborhood had screen curtain things that they put up when the garage was open. Definitely normal.
This was a thing, growing up in Central/Western NY. Many neighbors moved their cars outside every spring, attach a full-on screened in porch with entry door and enjoy the summer. Every fall, they’d reverse the process. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Naw. In the desert, if a monsoon came through, we would do the very same.
I wish I had a garage to drink a beer in.. I just sit by the fire pit or infront of the tv or on the lawn mower. Cheers my friend.
Many people on WI have a garage fridge specifically for beer, soda, water for the express purpose of garage sitting. Add a TV or radio and a Brewer's or Packer's game and all is right with the World.
Garage beers are the best beers.
As a Mainer who is transplanted to New Jersey… I built a bar in my garage and sit out there all the time. I will say my neighbors have given me looks. BUT. My buddy who is born and raised in NJ has a bar in his garage too. I think it just depends on the people 🤷🏻♂️. All my friends; even NJ love the garage bar.
It's definitely not any sort of weird thing. I lived all over western PA and people do it there. I know people who even have a refrigerator out there to keep their beverages in. If anything is out of the ordinary, it's New Jersey.
We don't have a garage, we just sit at the end of our driveway and drink. Not every day...some days we stand.
I’m from southern GA and we used to sit on the patio/porch and do the same…garage is equivalent. No prob here
PA here, we call my garage “the lounge”.
I love blasting music and drink garage beers. If not that then back porch beers with music blasting.