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Subject: pure trivia,sorry! From: Morticia Date: 21 Nov 00 - 06:53 PM I apologise in advance to all those people who think we get more than enough BS on here but, truth to tell, I'm fed up, I have toothache and I can't sleep......so....on Paltalk the other night we were having a really giggly time,talking about the strangest places we'd ever fallen asleep ......usually whilst under the influence. Mine was the night, at a party, where I carefully and precisely removed all the logs from the fireplace, stacked them up neatly to one side and then proceeded to curl up in there ( I should add that I'm only 5'1") and sleep soundly until morning. Anyone else willing to admit to past foolishness? |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: SINSULL Date: 21 Nov 00 - 07:00 PM Not I. It is only recently that I can sleep anywhere but a bed. But my younger brother once crawled into the eaves to hide and fell asleep. That's where the police found him when my hysterical mother called them to report a kidnapping. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Nov 00 - 07:01 PM Well............I got a few Mort. I WILL admit to falling asleep on the john a couple of times. Does that count? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Nov 00 - 07:02 PM Considering some of the things people do to fireplaces without even looking at them you may have had a lucky escape.
When I was a kid, on a crosschannel ferry, I fell asleep sitting in a seat on the deck...and woke up sitting in a seat on the deck. On the other side of the ship. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: mousethief Date: 21 Nov 00 - 07:03 PM I've fallen asleep singing in choir at church. I am told I went on singing the whole time (it was a song I knew really well!). When I jerked awake, however, I was a little disoriented and may have dropped a word or two. Weirdest damned thing I've ever experienced. Alex. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Troll Date: 21 Nov 00 - 07:35 PM I went to sleep in a bathtub. It was empty, I was fully clothed.The result of too much cheap($3.50/gal.)wine. I STILL don't know what became of the young lady I was with. troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Jon Freeman Date: 21 Nov 00 - 07:43 PM I mentioned this one in the Paltalk conversation here is the tale: I was living in Kent and my parents had just sold up and moved to North Wales. I went to a party and got pretty drunk and when I passed my parents old house, I decided I was too tired to go on any further and that as the house was empty, I would break in and sleep there. Anyway, I did this, and wrapped myself up in a carpet to keep warm. I woke up to some noise the following morning and saw people. I got up and opened the door - faceto face with the new owners! - They were OK about it fortunalely, they thought it was quite funny. Another one I mentioned was sharing a bed with a disabled bulldog. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: MMario Date: 21 Nov 00 - 08:23 PM the bathtub, while full; while floating on my back in a lake; in a bus seat - ending upside down with my head in the aisle - and I don't even have drinking to blame. those were all sober. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Wavestar Date: 21 Nov 00 - 08:42 PM I once fell asleep in one man's lap and woke up in another's. Not drunk, any of us... and all entirely innocent. Bloody confusing, though. Then there was the time when I was fifteen that I fell asleep on the floor of a frat house a bunch of my friends were visiting (shockingly enough, again no drink involved. We were there to play the card game Magic. If you don't know, don't ask.) I wasn't playing, and it was three in the morning... but they forgot I was with them, and left me sleeping, jailbait, on the fraternity floor. Fortunately one of them remembered, came back, and woke me up, a move for which I will forgive him many things. I've since joined the fraternity just next door to that one, and they're harmless enough, but it didn't seem that way at fifteen, and I doubt the cops would have understood either. Lots more, but why share all my embarrasing secrets? -J |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: sophocleese Date: 21 Nov 00 - 09:08 PM When I was 12 my family spent a year travelling and camping around Europe. It took me years afterwards to get used to sleeping in the same bed for more than a month at a time, I would take my blanket and pillow and go to another room and sleep on the couch or floor. I liked sleeping in cold rooms but my dad got angry (with reason) if I opened my window in January (I mean, we are talking Ontario, Canada) so I moved my bed into the basement and left the outside door open a crack. Mom would wake me up by stamping on the kitchen floor and then I'd remove the blanket of outdoor cats I'd acquired overnight. One November night at University I decided to find out if fallen leaves would be a warm enough bed for the night. I slept reasonably soundly (except when woken up by a drunken friend attempting to scare me) but when I went into the dining hall for breakfast people asked me if I'd seen the poor homeless guy sleeping in the leaves. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Helen Date: 21 Nov 00 - 11:24 PM This is embarrassing, not because of falling alseep in an embarrassing place, but because of my very loud snoring. When I was 23 I started a (very short lived) high school teaching job in Sydney (Oz) which is 100 miles south of beautiful Newcastle. I didn't want to be a teacher and had been searching for another job from a few months before but no luck so far, so I decided to still live in Newcastle and travel down there by train each Monday morning and home again on Friday afternoons. I used to catch the 4am train on Mondays but I could never get to sleep the night before because I hated going to Sydney and hated the job, so I used to pick a seat where I could sleep in peace, alone in one of those quaint old 6-8 seat compartments. We had to change trains halfway and then the commuters would get on and the other sleepers like me had to sit up in a carriage with lots of seats. I would do my best to stay awake, but inevitably I would fall asleep again. I will always carry the visual memory of getting off the train with every eye on me, and everyone watching me would have a very strange look on their face. I had obviously regaled the whole carriage *again* with my very loud snoring. The worst thing was that I could do nothing about it, at all, but at least there was one compensation: I would never ever get to talk to any of these people or get to know them. Big city folk don't make a point of getting to know each other. So I was basically an anonymous person. Helen PS: Still no cure for the snoring. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: GUEST,Indigo Date: 22 Nov 00 - 12:00 AM Driving. I had somehow gone about 7 miles before regaining consciousness again. I was still on the road home and driving just under the speed limit of 65mph. I do not drink or use drugs, I was just exhausted and it was about 3am. Oh, by the way, I do believe in angels. <(:o) Indigo |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: rangeroger Date: 22 Nov 00 - 12:21 AM After graduating from high school I got a job at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino. I lived on the hospital grounds in a building officially known as the Barracks, but we named it the Boar's nest. Each end of the building consisted of ten rooms on a common hallway,hotel style.At the end was a toilet and shower room.All the hot water was supplied by a central steam plant on the grounds. One day after a night of debauchery, I went in to take a shower.It felt so good I covered the floor with towels,turned all the nozzles on hot and laid down and went to sleep.About four hours later, several of the other residents came in and woke me up.Seems the entire hallway was filled with steam and no one could find their rooms. They thought a water line had broken. to this day I still love long,hot showers.I just need to find that unlimited supply of hot water again. rr |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Callie Date: 22 Nov 00 - 01:41 AM After a particularly boozy post-work gathering, we decided to see the French film "Breathless". I fell asleep about 5 minutes into it and woke up as the credits were rolling up. I allegedly said "wow, that was a great film!" Callie |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: roopoo Date: 22 Nov 00 - 02:00 AM I didn't go as far as to properly crash, but I dozed off at a Blur concert in the Sheffield Arena about 6 years ago. We were on the upstairs seats. It was hot. It was uncomfortable. I was bored. So I sat down... Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Amos Date: 22 Nov 00 - 02:56 AM It's told of Albert Einstein that he would work all night frequently, with his Princeton colleagues; and one morning, called up to breakfastby his patient wife, he fell sound asleep over a plate of bacon and eggs. His friends conspired to trick him, and whisked his plate away and replaced it with an empty one with a few crumbs on it. When he woke up shortly thereafter, the story goes, he belched quietly, wiped his mouth, and said, "Well, gentlemen, shall we get back to work?". |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Long Firm Freddie (at work) Date: 22 Nov 00 - 03:44 AM In the middle of a Simply Red concert.
I'm rather proud of that one, actually! LFF |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 22 Nov 00 - 05:38 AM Under a bush in the quad of Queen's University in Belfast after consuming copious amounts of whiskey. I got up again after an hour or so. And on the floor of a Fugazi concert in the Student's Union at Queen's when the (crap) support band were playing. And in a nightclub, while listening to banging techno - but I'd been working all day and drinking all the night before and I was a bit knackered. Five years on I'm much more |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Grab Date: 22 Nov 00 - 07:56 AM On a sailing holiday in the Med, I'd sleep on deck (less roasting than down below). Got drunk one night, and went to sleep on deck as usual - or so I thought. In fact I'd curled up on top of a storage locker, jammed into a corner against the combing. At uni, I came back one night and found I'd left my keys in my room, and everyone else in the house was asleep. Luckily I'd put some washing out to dry, so I took that off the line, wrapped it round myself and slept in the porch. I woke up the next morning when one of my housemates went to his first lecture and nearly stepped on me coming out the door. Grab. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: JulieF Date: 22 Nov 00 - 08:10 AM We used to go to quite a few festivals when Cat was little . Consequently she has slept through a lot of bands, battlefield band, Fairport etc Now if she discovers a band of a certain era we tell her we've seen them and she's slept through it. ( she doesn't belive us ). I too went to a Blur concert at Sheffiel Arena ( it can't have been 6 years ago maybe 4 ). I enjoyed the concert but the arena is not the best place for getting involved with a band playing live. Julie |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Kim C Date: 22 Nov 00 - 01:05 PM I fell asleep on the tattoo table. The artist had done all the outline work, which took awhile, and he went to take a break. He said I could get up and stretch if I wanted, and I said, no, I'll just stay right here. I went to sleep for a few minutes, or that state that seems like sleep when you're halfway between. I guess it was the result of the mass amounts of endorphins - them tattoos hurt, you know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Naemanson Date: 22 Nov 00 - 01:11 PM I once spent the night on the table of a schooner in North Haven Thoroughfare. Not a comfortable night at all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: DonMeixner Date: 22 Nov 00 - 01:32 PM On the back of Tom Beardsley's Hondo 450 coming back to Auburn, NY from Cafe Lena in Saratoga Springs , NY. We had spent the night listening to Logan English and Bruce Phillips. A very great evening. Since its hard to chat on a bike, especially with no fairing (sp?) I leaned into the sissy bar and nodded off. Tom later said it was as if I wasn't even there. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Steve Latimer Date: 22 Nov 00 - 02:12 PM One of the young guys in our warehouse woke up in the Kiosk of a bank about five miles away from the party he was at. He went in to use the cash dispenser and woke up the next morning. His friends contacted the bank to try to buy the surveillance tape, but the bank wouldn't discuss it with them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: GUEST Date: 22 Nov 00 - 02:33 PM A long time ago when the Isle of Wight festivals were on my mate and I went to sleep on the benches by the castlated section of sea wall at southsea while we waited, after closing time, for the first morning ferry. We woke up at about 03.30 to find the full tide lapping at our overhanging clothing and about 18 inches of foamy sea water on the prom! So we satyed put until it went out again. Cheers. Eric-back online a bit! |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: mkebenn Date: 22 Nov 00 - 02:35 PM Back when I was even stupider than I am now I took my Celica around a corner WAY too fast. Spun out and ended up sidewys in a rural ditch with NONE of my wheels touching anything but air. As it was 3:00am I simply went to sleep. I awoke at 7:30 and thru my windscreen I saw a little boy staring at me... what a headache!! MB. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Bert Date: 22 Nov 00 - 02:42 PM Thread drift warning!!!!! I don't know if it's just me, but I get very concerned when I read stories like Steve's "...His friends contacted the bank to try to buy the surveillance tape, but the bank wouldn't discuss it with them...". What's with these guys? Are they from another planet or something? What kind of lives do they lead if they are completely devoid of humour? Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Ely Date: 22 Nov 00 - 03:10 PM I'm really bad about dozing off in class, which isn't terribly weird. What's weird is that, on a couple of occasions, I've awakened to find I've taken notes on what I was dreaming. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Morticia Date: 22 Nov 00 - 03:15 PM I once fell asleep on the law lecturer's arm......she sat still and talked more quietly until I woke up........what a sweetie! |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Steve Latimer Date: 22 Nov 00 - 03:23 PM Bert, What kind of lives do they lead if they're bankers? I think being devoid of a sense of humour is a pre-requisite to getting a job with a bank. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Bert Date: 22 Nov 00 - 03:43 PM You might be right there Steve. Scary isn't it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: wildlone Date: 22 Nov 00 - 03:48 PM I once woke up feeling very cold and wet and I could not understand why when I put my hand down to lift myself up it did not find any support,it was then I found out I had fallen asleep in a stream in the middle of a field I was walking home across. I had had A little bit to drink ie, a bottle of Woods navy rum 100% proof and a few pints of Newcastle brown ale. Ah sweet youth and the bloody stupid things they do and I inhaled, still do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Bernard Date: 22 Nov 00 - 04:05 PM I was bass player in a ceilidh band for over 20 years, and regularly fell asleep whilst playing. And no-one used to notice!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: GUEST Date: 23 Nov 00 - 05:57 AM ............during a fear of flying seminar. The psychologist was teaching relaxation and self hypnosis...I lost an hour and he found it amusing....told me never to get involved in cabaret hypnosis as I am a sucker for it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 23 Nov 00 - 07:12 AM Morty, is that leaving aside the Barton carefully getting between the carpet and underlay and going to sleep at a party or the infamous "you know who" falling asleep on a 7 inch wide mantlepiece 4 feet off the ground?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Mooh Date: 23 Nov 00 - 08:01 AM I sometimes nod off while I'm playing guitar, if it's very late. The Toronto Maple Leafs used to put me to sleep, but they've been very exciting of late. Once fell asleep, nearly naked, face down, near the johns at a provincial campground. The Conservation Officers found me and delivered me to whence I came, which wasn't particularly nearby. Never did retreive all my clothes I think. God only knows what happened to me that night. I've slept quite soundly in a canoe while fishing. Best place to sleep, so long as the wind doesn't pick up. Peace. Mooh |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Morticia Date: 23 Nov 00 - 12:51 PM That would be the same Barton that I found on Boxing Day morning asleep in the garden on a deckchair with nought but a blanket of snow between him and the elements?Being only eight I couldn't understand what made him do it at the time........I have a better understanding of the process involved these days, unfortunately. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 24 Nov 00 - 07:26 AM Yeah the same guy, and the one that stole a sign from an Army base to fix to the inside of his toilet door so that as you sat you read " Helicopters operating, Beware of Rotors" and who once carefully removed his Seaboots(wellies) and was then sick into both... |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Giac Date: 24 Nov 00 - 07:57 AM Funny thread, with some all-too-familiar tales.
A few years back I was floating happily on my back at a mountain lake. My dog was tied by the shore so she could play in the water. My head was brushed by some overhanging limbs and I was startled to hear the dog barking, but very far away. Fearing she had come loose and was in some peril, I pulled upright in the water, only to realize I had fallen asleep and had floated all the way across the lake. The dog was just a speck across the water, but was barking furiously, thinking, I'm sure, that if I had the audacity to drown she would be left alone without food. |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Wavestar Date: 24 Nov 00 - 11:54 AM Indigo and Giac, count yourselves very blessed - I fell asleep while driving for no more than 30 seconds, and had to say goodbye to my beloved little car, which was soundly eaten by a tree. Fortunately, I was not eaten - the only part of the car that wasn't crushed and crumpled was the driver's seat, with me in it. Angels? Sure... sounds good. I just wish they hadn't put the road so there was a tree in it. (Yes, IN it. Not off the road, solidly a third of this very large tree is IN the road.) Helen, I know how you feel about the snoring. I suprised friends the other night because I fell asleep in thier living room the other night, snored once, and then woke up and apologised. I hadn't fallen so soundly asleep that I couldn't hear myself snore... Along similar lines, my best friend once tried sleepng in a bathtub, because she said sleeping next to me was impossible - I snored too badly. The bathtub was apparently worse, though - cold, and the snores echoed. Nothing I can do, though... -J |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Diva Date: 24 Nov 00 - 02:33 PM In the Riverside Glasgow (for those who don't know its a folk venue)after a busy weekend of general partying and gargling. I nodded off during Danny Kyle's set and opened my eyes to find him serenading me with a song about falling asleep. I used to nod off regularly when I was younger. My most embarassing experience was after a Burns Supper for the local scouts. It was a dry affair so my chums and I took a half bottle each just for the toasts you understand. It finished quite early so we went for a wee refreshment,the men went home leaving my friend and I still partying. Somehow we managed to loose one another,so I decided I'd walk home. Did I mention it was the beginging of February and about -2C. It's about a mile,not far,so off I meandered. "Feeling fu' an' unco happy". 300 yards from home is a bus shelter with funny wee pull down seats and I needed a rest so I sat down and promptly fell asleep. Luckily a nice kind policeman came along woke me up and gave me a lift home. I was lucky I didn't spend a night in the cells. Didn't feel too well the next day ! ! ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Pixie Date: 24 Nov 00 - 05:23 PM ....in a wheelbarrow that I'd just mucked out the sheep shit with....that was many years ago, and you know how sleepy you get about 2 p.m. when its warm.....best sleep I had. Throw a bit of hay in, hang your legs and feet out on the handles, find a nice quiet corner in the barn with the pigeons cooing and drift....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Troll Date: 25 Nov 00 - 01:12 AM I spent the night in a 'phone booth in Nebraska. I was on a bike and didn't have a rain suit. Another time in a port-o-let (portable toilet). There was a storm and my tent blew apart. I have a picture of my son -now 17- asleep at 21/2 in my Wifes guitar case at an outside party. I laid my coat in it and he went right to sleep. He can still sleep anywhere. troll Oh, on the floor of the mens in a national park. Dry AND warm. The rangers were not amused. troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: Lyrical Lady Date: 25 Nov 00 - 02:31 AM I used to be a deck-hand on a fish boat. After a very long day of catching and dressing many fish, it was my turn to do freezer duty. Which meant going into a - 15 degree freezer and icing the fish. Each fish had to be dipped into water to create several layers of ice. I had to wait a few minutes between each dippng. I sat down on a tub and nodded off. Fortunately, we hit a rough patch of water and the freezer door slammed shut, setting off an alarm which woke up the crew. Very scary. The crew accused me of having a 'cold heart' for refusing to do freezer duty ...EVER again! |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: roopoo Date: 25 Nov 00 - 03:32 AM My then 6 year old son curled up and went to sleep at the foot of a fruit machine in a pub. Of course, now he's 21 and at university, I shudder to think where and how he falls asleep! Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: mkebenn Date: 25 Nov 00 - 08:26 AM I fell asleep at my brother's batchlor's party during the dancer's act, and she woke me up by slapping me up both sides of my head with her "instruments"..had the whole party laughin' their asses of at me. MB |
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Subject: RE: BS: pure trivia,sorry! From: P05139 Date: 25 Nov 00 - 12:44 PM I slept through the Albion Band when I was 6! I also dozed off in Geography in Year 9. We had to watch this really boring video on Japanese economy and if I'm sitting at a table to watch a video I put my head down on the desk, using my arms as a pillow. Anyway, I was perching, watching this video when my eyes must have drifted shut. I could still hear the video so I didn't think I was asleep. Eventually I sat up to find the video had finished and everyone was loking at me. Naturally very puzzled, I asked them what was wrong. It turned out I'd been asleep for half an hour, and even worse, I'd been snoring gently!! Luckily, I had a cool teacher, Mr Garbutt, who is also a bit of a folkie, and he was laughing too! |