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Tim58
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Hi,
I’ve come on here in sackcloth and ashes to take my punishment! First though a case for the defence…
We live in england. The law and attitude to alcohol is vastly more relaxed than in the US. The age limit is 18. You can drink at 16 as long as you are having a meal. Trying to find a 16 year old who hasn’t sampled alcohol let alone a 17 year old would be difficult. Girls are officialy drinking more than boys. Tony Blair is proposing 24 hour (we never close) licensing laws. I saw a school ball in a local hotel where you could buy alcohol as long as you only ordered one drink at a time!
England is vastly more liberal than the US. No capital punishment, corporal punishment and smoking pot is legal (though not the supply). Oh, and to cap it all, new laws are being introduced to legalise casinos in every town. By the way, every town already has numerous betting shops where you can pop in for a bet - sometimes even after Saturday evening mass. ( Saturday mass fulfills your day of obligation in case you are too busy watching football on a Sunday).
Don’t assume from the rare BBC reports you get that england is like the mid west!
Anyway, above all I was caught completely unprepared. No excuse I know. The party was only unsupervised for a short time and no one was sleeping over. I expected a short trip and quick drive back for dinner. I suppose I also worried about my daughter’s friendship with the girl.
Anyway, I told my wife who phoned the mum, who is a teacher and a friend of hers, this morning and we went round to her house. The mum said that she would only ground the girl for one month and all of half term week. Her daughter has some very important school work and basically she doesnt want to demolarise her. She wanted a short sharp shock.
My wife suggested 2,000 lines which both ladies agreed a 17 year old girl was capable of writing. However they settled on 1,000 because that’s what the mum had warned the girl would get. The ladies though played around with various words on a pad of paper until they had a constructed a highly relevant sentence that was two lines long.
The girl was called in and her mum spelt out her punishment. She put on a brave face until her mum mentioned the lines. She started to complain about the length of the sentence and the fact it was really 2,000 lines but her mum cut her off. She gave her a large pad of A4 paper and mentioned pretty forcibly that the lines better be written neatly. My wife couldn’t stop chuckling - the girl’s face was a picture as she stomped off to her room.
Phew!
BTW, I’ve only been to the States once but what a great country, even though I only saw a bit of it.
Tim
I’ve come on here in sackcloth and ashes to take my punishment! First though a case for the defence…
We live in england. The law and attitude to alcohol is vastly more relaxed than in the US. The age limit is 18. You can drink at 16 as long as you are having a meal. Trying to find a 16 year old who hasn’t sampled alcohol let alone a 17 year old would be difficult. Girls are officialy drinking more than boys. Tony Blair is proposing 24 hour (we never close) licensing laws. I saw a school ball in a local hotel where you could buy alcohol as long as you only ordered one drink at a time!
England is vastly more liberal than the US. No capital punishment, corporal punishment and smoking pot is legal (though not the supply). Oh, and to cap it all, new laws are being introduced to legalise casinos in every town. By the way, every town already has numerous betting shops where you can pop in for a bet - sometimes even after Saturday evening mass. ( Saturday mass fulfills your day of obligation in case you are too busy watching football on a Sunday).
Don’t assume from the rare BBC reports you get that england is like the mid west!
Anyway, above all I was caught completely unprepared. No excuse I know. The party was only unsupervised for a short time and no one was sleeping over. I expected a short trip and quick drive back for dinner. I suppose I also worried about my daughter’s friendship with the girl.
Anyway, I told my wife who phoned the mum, who is a teacher and a friend of hers, this morning and we went round to her house. The mum said that she would only ground the girl for one month and all of half term week. Her daughter has some very important school work and basically she doesnt want to demolarise her. She wanted a short sharp shock.
My wife suggested 2,000 lines which both ladies agreed a 17 year old girl was capable of writing. However they settled on 1,000 because that’s what the mum had warned the girl would get. The ladies though played around with various words on a pad of paper until they had a constructed a highly relevant sentence that was two lines long.
The girl was called in and her mum spelt out her punishment. She put on a brave face until her mum mentioned the lines. She started to complain about the length of the sentence and the fact it was really 2,000 lines but her mum cut her off. She gave her a large pad of A4 paper and mentioned pretty forcibly that the lines better be written neatly. My wife couldn’t stop chuckling - the girl’s face was a picture as she stomped off to her room.
Phew!
BTW, I’ve only been to the States once but what a great country, even though I only saw a bit of it.
Tim