I used to mis - hear that as
'Play the f*cking music wide boy'.
Oh yeah, I have heard stories of nurses serving Guinness and other tipples to patients.
Not now though, unfortunately.
My story about the whisky is true as I was in the old Western in Glasgow getting a kidney removed. The old boy Mr MacDonald got drunk every night In a pub in Partick. He lived in the top floor of a tenement and could not get up the stairs on his own so he waited till a regular police patrol came along and waved his stick to get their attention and they helped up to his flat. We reckoned it was in fact part of their routine patrol to check on him every night.
It was the time of a royal wedding and it was good to know it was a holiday and they were not going to wheel you away and do very nasty things to you by way of testing various bits.
There was a rumour that we were all going to get a dram on that day but that never happened.