# An Alcoholic Quandry **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 24, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-alcoholic-quandry/345866 "2006-02-24T00:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ayalabmaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@ayalabmaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ayalabmaj)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-alcoholic-quandry/345866/61 "2006-02-27T12:04:45Z")
I’d refuse the invitation, or should by some mechanism I be tricked into meeting Elizabeth, I would tell the freeloading bitch where to shove her beverage, and then where she can shove the rest of her monarchy. ---
**Author:** ![Burton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Burton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burton)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-alcoholic-quandry/345866/62 "2006-02-27T14:30:22Z")
The premise of the original post is silly as has been pointed out would not happen but as an alcoholic I would defer. There is no wrong way to acheive _sobriety_ but the only one that worked for me was AA. Abstinence is a must for a bonafide alcoholic. I find it amusing when people take issue with this and can only assume they are rationalising their own drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-alcoholic-quandry/345866/63 "2006-02-27T22:43:51Z")
> [@T\_SQUARE](#): > > OK, just to clear this up, is it implied that the guy in the story went on the have many, many more drinks over the next few days and ended up in a coma, or did the one glass do him in because it was a shock to his system from being clean for a few months? Sorry if that wasn’t clear: the ambulance picked him up that evening, he said, by which I inferred that the one drink led to many, many more drinks throughout the day, resulting in alcohol poisoning. He was telling the story as it was told to him by his mother: he has no memory of that day at all. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-alcoholic-quandry/345866/64 "2006-02-27T22:51:48Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Yes, the Palace staff brief anyone who is actually going to meet the Queen on the ceremony and what is expected of them. So you sort out the alcohol problem then. > > (As you’d expect, he Queen is given a brief description of people she is due to meet, so she can make conversation.) Yep, there’s no way any such situation could happen in any official situation. Back in my student days I earned beer money through work with catering agencies, and one job was for a visit by old Liz, to the local fire brigade HQ. Her and Philip were there for lunch…three weeks in advance, it had been specified that while everyone else would be drinking wine, the Queen would be provided with a gin & tonic (_not_ large), and the Prince with a can of Boddingtons (chilled, opened, unpoured but with a pint glass). Nothing escapes them. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-alcoholic-quandry/345866/65 "2006-02-27T23:21:22Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Yep, there’s no way any such situation could happen in any official situation. Yep - my dad was in charge of the organziation of the Queen’s visit here when it happened and I happened to peruse her itinerary. Everything down to her pee breaks is scheduled and accounted for. There’s no way that someone could just stumble in without having been briefed, extensively, before hand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-alcoholic-quandry/345866.md?page=3)