Drunk History

AKA things I learned yesterday but three ciders have put my brain on the spin cycle (I’m sorry. If people buy you drinks and give you tips about your trip you say thank you)

WARNING SOME GREUSOME STUFF WITHIN!!

MAGGIE DICKSON

Maggie Dickson’s is a bar in Edinburgh (I ate lunch there yesterday it was good).

Maggie Dickson was also a person. She wrked in an inn and the inn keeper’s son knocked her up. She hid the pregnancy from her employers as this was the 1700s and falling pregnant from your employers offspring was frowned upon…I suppose it still is.

ANYWAY she has the baby in secret and it dies shortly after birth. She planned to throw the baby in the river but she couldn’t so she left it near the shore. The baby was found and Maggie was found and Maggie was convicted of killing the baby and sentenced to death by hanging

Upon the occassion of her hanging Maggie was taken to be buried. Turns out? Hashtag NOT DEAD!!!! (where my Sherlockians at?) <<side not I’m pretty sure some seagulls are eating a cat outside.>> So she’s in her coffine and wakes up and people were shocked. They didn’t know what to do but according to Edinburgh law she’d fulfilled her sentence and the next day she walked home to live out the rest of her life.

GREYFRIARS BOBBY

Greyfriars Bobby was the goodest of all the good boys. He was a Skye Terrier and lived a sad but extraordinary life. Bobby was a dog and like many dogs he had a person. A very special person named John. John had a job but that job varies based on the story you hear. John was either a night watchman or a farmer. One day, when Bobby was about two, John died. When that happened Bobby followed him to his grave. He stood vigil over his person for fourteen years. The Greyfriars fed him an cared for him and allowed him to stay (not that he was really going anywhere). When Bobby finally passed away a restaurant and some movies and dozens of books and a monument were created in his honor. If you go to Edinburgh find his statue and rub his nose and Scotland’s very best boy will bring you luck.

I think that should be all for now. I’m quite tired. yes I intend to use the word tired. night night.

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