[rowdyclassmate]

Thanks for the replies guys! I was too wasted to really think of making a safety shot, so I just scratched. I thought, for bar games, that it was ball in hand behind the "mark." Not ball in hand for the entire table. In that case, yes, I can see how silly it is to purposely scratch if s/he has just the 8-ball left.

And yes, it was in the Midwest. =)