This past weekend, I was in Santa Cruz with my family for my in-law’s 40th anniversary. While we were sitting in traffic, I saw the passenger of a car get out (traffic was stopped), goto the trunk, open it, open a cooler and pull out what must have been a beer and then got back in the car. That was the first time I’d ever seen anything like that, but it didn’t stop there. A few minutes later, the passenger of the car in front of the cooler car, got out, went to the trunk of the cooler car, got something out of the cooler and walked back to his car.
My wife said “only in Santa Cruz”. I’ve only been to Santa Cruz once before, so I don’t know if other people do this. It seemed quite strange and depending on if the beverage in question was the alcohol variety and was opened, it could have been illegal.