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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Sat Apr 12, 2014, 06:49 AM Apr 2014

The Drunken Groat

In Scotland, a person who had become uncommonly drunk would owe his people a "drunken groat" the next morning. If they frankly confessed to owing this debt, it was reduced by half to a two-pence fine.

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The Drunken Groat (Original Post) My Good Babushka Apr 2014 OP

If I had to do that when I was in my 20s Tobin S. Apr 2014 #1

Ahhh, as with most rules there is an 'out' for this SkatmanRoth Apr 2014 #2

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)

1. If I had to do that when I was in my 20s

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sat Apr 12, 2014, 07:09 AM

Apr 2014

I would have been in debtor's prison.

SkatmanRoth

(843 posts)

2. Ahhh, as with most rules there is an 'out' for this

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sat Apr 12, 2014, 08:04 AM

Apr 2014

The quick eye of a shyster lawyer would note:

a person who had

become

uncommonly drunk ...

"You see My Lord, my client did not become drunk on the night of April 12, he was (and still is) drunk from a bender he tied on starting in November of 2003..."
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