A racist drink driver offered the chance to explain why he shouldn't go to jail replied: "I don't know what to say."
Zak Vincent was caught drunk behind the wheel of a car for the fourth time - while serving a suspended prison sentence .
The 37-year-old was previously handed three months in jail, suspended for two years, after calling a taxi driver a "p*** c***".
He avoided prison again earlier this year when he first breached that order by breaking a girlfriend's bathroom door.
But today his luck ran out when he failed to convince Liverpool's top judge not to lock him up for his second breach.
Liverpool Crown Court heard a black Ford Focus pulled into a petrol station on Hoylake Road, Moreton , Wirral at around 2.20am on June 21 this year.
Philip Hall, prosecuting, said police carried out a routine check on the car and an officer found the front seat passenger was drunk.
He then spoke to the driver Vincent, who confessed he too had been drinking, failed a roadside breath test and was arrested.
Vincent had 51 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.
Officers then discovered Vincent, of Pasture Road, Moreton, only had a provisional licence and was uninsured.
Vincent admitted drink driving, driving without a licence, driving without insurance and breaching a suspended sentence.
His 15 previous convictions for 29 offences include assaults and multiple breaches of court orders.
He has received community sentences, jail time and road bans for drink driving in 2003, 2004 and in 2008.
Vincent was given the three-month suspended sentence last July for racially aggravated harassment.
Mr Hall said: "That related to racist abuse and aggressive language and threatening language used towards a taxi driver."
Magistrates fined him £150 in February when he breached that order by committing criminal damage during a "domestic incident".
Vincent represented himself at court this afternoon because he said he "couldn't afford" a lawyer or secure legal aid.
He said he tried to get a solicitor but because he was working and on a "high wage", it would have cost him £1,200.
Vincent told a probation officer that he had "a few drinks" before getting a call from his girlfriend to go and visit her.
Judge Andrew Menary, QC, said he claimed he went to see her, but "now in hindsight recognises probably should have taken a taxi".
Vincent said he was on his way home when stopped by police, adding that he lived with his parents and was a groundworker.
The court heard he had also missed probation appointments since last summer.
Judge Menary said he was required to activate the suspended sentence unless it would be unjust.
He asked Vincent if there was anything he wanted to say, to which he replied: "I'm stupid for doing what I've done.
"I'm working and stuff, I just don't want to lose my job, I know I shouldn't have done it. I don't know what I can say."
Judge Menary said the "difficulty" was Vincent had driven while drunk before, but he answered: "About 10 years ago."
He accepted he had been in trouble since but explained he had been working for Vivio Developments for 14 months.
Judge Menary said: "Is there anything else you want to say to me at all today? This is your opportunity."
Vincent replied: "I don't know what to say."
Judge Menary said the racist abuse in November 2017 was during a suspended sentence for threatening behaviour.
He told Vincent: "You have a quite appalling record of past convictions for a variety of offending."
The judge said any offence of drink driving was serious because of the danger it created for others.
He said if he didn't activate the suspended sentence then it would be of "little or no effect".
Judge Menary jailed Vincent for six months and banned him from driving for three years and three months.
