Where's the strangest place you've ever slept?

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I've kipped on beaches before now, of course. Also in the ladies' toilets at Sydney railway station.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

inside a BT phonebox on a random road in Sutton, london. miles away from my home and/or anybody i know.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

i've slept in the ladies toilets too.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

On a table in the front row of CBGB's. Drugs may have had something to do with it.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

The "movies" room at Ministry of Sound.

I'm sure I can do "stranger"...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Half in- half out of a kitchen cupboard. On the bass speakers in a club.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

sidewalk, corner of sunset & vine in hollywood, don't know if slept is the right word, but eyes were closed for a little while-- still don't know how long.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

I fell asleep on a long-haul aeroplane flight once - not strange in itself of course, but I woke up to discover I had my head in a stranger's lap (and he hadn't woken me to complain, bless him).

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

In front of the mixing desk during a Frank Black and the Catholics gig.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.madonnainn.com/tour/130.asp

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Toilets, too many times after spinning out. A bath once.

none of them public toilets though.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

The waiting room of a train station in Northern Italy
On top of mountains in a tent surrounded by bewildered cattle in same territory
Glastonbury
Balanced on a couple of chairs at a friend's dining table
333 Club

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

i slept on the pavement in milton keynes, but it was after the ozfest and it wasn't really strange at the time seeing as there were dozens of other grebs doing the same.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Under a table (deliberately).
Toilet in university halls (accidentally).

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

In a rave, on a round table which was about half my length in diameter, so I had to lie in a foetal position not to fall off.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Underneath a tarpaulin with a concrete mixer on a building site in the middle of Leeds. In the rain, on a cold February night. Happy days.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

"half my height"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Also, in my high school final exam.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

In a kitchen in a student house in Manchester
On the floor of Jo'burg International Airport departure lounge
In a treehouse

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Should we draw a distinction between sleeping sleep and passing out after too much beer/drugs sleep?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

There's a difference? ;-)

(there's not when you're on tour, really.)

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

on the job.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

oh and on the dancefloor in some club (plastic people??), standing up.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

xpost that's terrible. Unless she fell asleep also...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

i know, maybe i should've logged out.

too late now, but i'm not the only one in the world it's happened to.

am i?

she (girlfriend at time)didn't fall asleep.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's better than throwing up on the job.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

you didn't?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

At work. I was writing labels for some sandwiches I'd made and when I came to, I realised I'd written 'Egg May' and the tail of the Y trailed right down off the edge of the sticker. I'd been out on the razz the night before.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

the suitcase room of a backpackers near euston station in london.

also numerous pub/club toilets. though yes that was of the passed out rather than tired sleeping variety.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

I've fallen asleep during sex before - I thought it was so common it didn't rate a "strange place." Then again, there was one time when I fell asleep/passed out in a groupie's bed and woke up with my hair on fire because he'd lit all these candles for a "romantic atmosphere". Heh.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Under a Renault 4
On sacks of cabbages in the back of a truck

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

i've drunkenly passed out during sex before. i don't see that as the same as falling asleep though.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

In train station waiting rooms on numerous occasions. Never fallen asleep whilst making with the love, although I've been close a couple of times. I mean, sex usually equals night-time, and night is for sleeping. My body gets confused when I ask it to exert itself at night.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Also in an Italian railway station (Naples?) – to be awoken at 4am by a drunk local. I was terrified. Also toilets, in university tutorials, nowhere really interesting.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

At work, at my desk woken by my head falling backwards.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

The Outer Hebrides

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Front row of Biology class at school and at work a few times. Nothing more interesting than that. Oh, in a club too.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

it's hard not to pass out/fall asleep during sex.. i mean after 4 hours it's just too exhausting

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

oh ken, you are a kidder.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Front row of Biology class at school

woah, me too. was it something about biology? the sun used to stream in through the windows and ... zzzzzzz.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Next to a railway line somewhere in Kent. I woke up with a train going at terrifying speed past my head.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

oh and on the dancefloor in some club (plastic people??), standing up.
-- ken
This has jogged my memory: I fell asleep standing up whilst watcing Spiritulized at Glastonbury in 1998.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Was that because you'd sunk into the mud thigh-deep, thus holding you upright?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

I fell asleep under my desk at work, George Costanza style.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Once I woke up and I heard birds singing, it was strange, I then realised it was morning and I was at the bus terminus near the beach, after falling asleep on the way home, and the bus driver had dumped me on the grass and driven away.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

I went to a rave and got home at 5 am, then had to get to a meeting at 8 -- with a Board of Directors for some charity that happened to be chock-full of nuns and priests. I dozed off right in the middle of it, sitting up in my chair.

I may be going to hell.

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Nested comfortably in a dumpster full of shredded paper following a Ramones show in Greensboro, N.C.

― brianiac (briania), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

- propped up against the mesh of a speaker at a Seefeel gig.
- propped up against the mesh of a speaker at a Sonic Youth gig.

(both of these were during the bands' performances)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

I know of people who have died of boredom during a Thurston Moore guitar solo, so count yourself lucky.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

under a conference table
at my friend's gig (slept during the opening band)
under a pool table

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 29 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Don't forget to add, "and when they fell on the floor, they poked me in the eyes." That would help explain the redness & teariness.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

In a warehouse closet with forklifts going on the other side.
On the floor of a van on a dead end road in the winter.
On the counter in the back room of a porn shop.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Being completely incapable of remaining awake during sex is one of the most heartbreakingly frustrating things.
Almost as bad as waking up when you're having sex in your dreams.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I'd say waking up during a particularly lubricious dream is worse.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

On the ground, behind some discarded concrete, in the desert outside of San Diego.
On the ground in a train station parking lot.
In an ice cave: ice for a floor, ice for a ceiling.

― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

My sister is cursed by recurring erotic dreams where, just when things are heating up, the guy's penis falls off.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

That was off-topic. Sorry.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

In my car, while driving. I was trying to get to Flint, MI. I slept through something crucial in Lansing and awoke to find myself not on I-69, but in farm country. Eventually, I figured out which way was east and got where I needed to be, but not without panic (which kept me awake).

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Yikes! I've read about sleep-cycle studies where they hook all-night truckers up with electrodes and discover that they always fall asleep around 3 in the morning.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

At this restaurant I worked at in 1997, I routinely snuck naps in the pantry, especially on mornings after the truck dropped off some primary things, most importantly among them, a number of 50 lb. sacks of potatoes that no one besides myself was willing to put away, which the truck guy always stacked right outside the pantry door. I would climb over them and sorta nose-dive into the pantry, where I would sleep on bags of flour.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

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"Nickalicious"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

In what was possible THE worst drunkening of my life, a creek. In November.

xpost hahaha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

i feel like sneaking a nap in, right now!! but where?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

The womb.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

* in a corridor of a ferry crossing the Baltic sea. (sleep continuously disturbed by very very very very very very very very drunk Fins and Swedes).

* In one of those big yellow salt bins you don't see anymore, near the front at Scarborough.

* on a bench in a waiting room at Birmingham New Street station, in the middle of winter: they turn the heating off but keep the blinding strip lights on. Which is nice. And the noise! Two bobbies woke me up at about 5ish thinking I might be a dosser. I wasn't, I missed the last train after a Kingmaker/Radiohead gig.

* In someone's car on a campsite in the south of France when I was about 11y/o. I couldn't find our tent - passed a car weith the back window completely open: hey presto.

* slumped against my friends toilet after being sick into it at a party. I vaguely recall people banging on the door and me slurring "m'alright!". Eventually they stopped and left me in peace.

* On a bench in a shopping precinct on Xmas Eve.

* On the toilet on a ferry crossing the Baltic (return journey, more peaceful).

― Pvt. Dave Goes To Far (scarlet), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

o christ, where have I not fallen asleep? I'm always doing it. Notables:

On the bass amp stack at a friend's gig. In a puddle on top of a bike shed. In a sleeping bag on a gravel driveway, in the rain. Behind the pumps in a milking shed. On top of one of those piles of massive black bags of cut grass you see in fields. In the toilets on the Waverley. The changing rooms at a pool. On top of a chest freezer in a co-op.

My favourite though was at our old offices, a proper old-school newspaper building. There were deserted floors that used to be full of inkies and hotmetal setters, laid off when computers came in. So when bored at work I'd take tiny clanking lifts to these deserted rooms and cut some zzzzs, cosy on a metal bench, or wooden captain's chair..

I was only disturbed once, sleeping on the stairs that led to the roof, when a photographer trotted up with grimly fiendish in tow. The resulting pictures of GF "flying" off the roof have to be seen to be believed.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Strangest place I fell asleep. Hmmmmm. That would have to be in 1993 or so, in San Francisco, literally in the middle of a loud, raging party held by the Brian Jonestown Massacre. On a couch in the living room. I had driven up from LA that day with not much sleep. Fall down, go boom, oblivious.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

What's a dosser? Like, homeless?

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

In my own bathtub at my parents house so they would think I had gone to class. Pillow and blanket went into the tub when my alarm went off, I'd hit snooze for 10 minutes then get up and slam the front door and take my blanket and pillow into the bathroom hop into the tub and sleep til about 11 then sneak out to do whatever...

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

under a pool table

me too.... in a FRAT at Carnegie Melon or some other engineering school....

― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

whoa i just fell asleep while reading this thread

― President Busch (dr g), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

Aged 8 or so, in the back of the car on the way back from Christmas Panto. There's more. My parents forgot I was there (!) and locked the car in the garage (!!) and I was trapped (!!!)

I got soooo much mileage out of that incident.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Bump. More stories please.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 June 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Snooze Cafe - best idea ever!

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Friday, 9 June 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Leaning against the wall of the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles while B.G.K., Solucion Mortal, and one other band was playing. I was waiting for Dead Kennedys (who didn't start until 2am or so)

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Two friends and I slept in the trunk of my station wagon after a graduation party once, because we were too drunk to drive home.

Under my desk at work.

In the hallway of my college between classes.

When I was in high school I used to get into the nurse's office and sleep through classes.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

A rooftop
A bus shelter
A parking garage
Bushes (this one entailed alcohol and the unintentional loss of consciousness)

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

The front seat of a Lincoln Continental which was parked in a barnyard.
Jail.

― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

My old posts on this thread make it seem like I sleep a lot.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

a waiting room at yokota (usaf) air base west of tokyo

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I routinely will lay down the back seats of my station wagon and sleep there when camping and/or too-drunk-to-call-a-cab. I've even started keeping pillows & blankets back there, just in case.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Behind a pile of busted concrete, out in the open, head on a sweatshirt, in Boulevard, California. Tough night.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

1. On the metal steps of a warehouse across from the Toronto bus terminal.

2. In a ditch. Alcohol was involved, as was the firm belief I could walk the 14 kilometres home. In an hour.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

glad to hear you're back from the shit, jergins

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I ditched yoga camp to sleep on concrete, Mandee! both were so dumb, in retrospect.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i've ever slept anywhere really strange. i slept in a tent on the runway of a decommissioned air force base in Maine, but so did 60,000 other phish fans. there was the time i fell asleep on the shoulder of a girl on a train returning from visiting law school and it turned the girl was a law student, but apart from the coincidence who hasn't done that? maybe sleeping outdoors in NYC, albeit on a college campus lawn with other college students.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

this place freaked me out as a kid because I decided the fireplaces looked like Darth Vader's helmet in the dark

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I slept under a pool table at a CWRU frat.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait, the strangest place i've slept was the two weeks I spent in random house share on anonymous alley off 16th St NW, just above Scott Circle, on a mattress in a small upstairs room lit only by a make-you-want-to-kill-yourself-flickering-fluorescent-light. the other occupants of the house were politico dudes. the one at the White House came home, if ever, sometime between 2 and 5 AM. I think I saw the Gephardt dude on Saturday only. not sure if I ever saw the third dude. I had to pick up the key off a piece of cardboard on the grill on the back porch. Except sometimes it wasn't there and I had to wait until 2:30 AM for White House dude to come home. At which point I went and banged on the door of gorgeous Barnard girl in gorgeous old red-brick-bay-window rowhouse nearby. She was thrilled, of course.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Like Ronan also on the bus but the busdriver was so kind to leave me on it. We arrived at the last stop, I woke up, realized I was in bumfucknowheresville and had to remain on the bus until he began his tour of Ghent (and suburbs) again. So we arrived back at the Culture Club and I got off. Not that strange a place to sleep. At least I had had some sleep. Usually I'd go straight to work without any sleep. Oh those were the days. Forevah gone. ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Why do I have so many? (and i know, it's an -est question, but I keep thinking of more)

In front of Grand Central station
in bushes (not drunk)
on the side of the interstate in a broken-down vw van. the passing cars made the van sway. safe!
outside at glastonbury, no tent. that sucked.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

during one of the sonic youth shows at shepherds bush in 2002. i'd had only a few hours sleep the night before, we were in the seated upstairs balcony, and they were playing one of their wanky extended jam sets. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

1) Bleachers at a Buffalo Bills game
2) Under an upturned rowboat on the beach outside Valencia.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, this is similar to the sleeping in cars thread. . . Again I'd have to say just outside downtown Detroit, parked in an empty parking lot.

cars are kind of common though. I can't think of any show I've fallen asleep at though surely I have. How about at my desk in front of my class?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

i fell aleep while walking along the street at around 6am when i was in miami. walking into a shopfront was the thing that woke me up.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

A few years ago me and my friends decided to get train tickets to Turku, a town which is about 200 kilometres from here. We just went there to booze up and party, and didn't much think about where we'd spend the night. It was summer, so when the pubs closed, we decided to sleep in a park. We found this children's traffic park, a place where kids learn traffic regulations, and thought the middle of the traffic circle would be a good enough place to sleep. It wasn't the warmthest of summer nights though, so we huddled together for warmth. Next morning we woke up around 8AM to the awful sound of peacocks screaming (there was a bird park right next to the traffic park). It was Monday, and there were a lot of people going to work right past the us. In retrospect we must've looked like a bunch of dirty hippies: two girls and three guys sleeping in a pile in the middle of a children's traffic park on a Monday morning.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I might have told this same story upthread. Senile, and can't be bothered to read the whole thing. Some college friends and I had hitchhiked to Newport for the jazz festival. My brother lived there and was going to put us up, but he was waiting on tables until late late. My best friend and I were exhausted so we found an unlocked car in a parking lot and took a nap in it. When we woke up I found a toy gun in the car so I stole it.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

It was a weird nine month stay at the Uterus Suites Hotel & Conference Center....

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― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

beth, you crazy.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

I fell asleep inside my computer once. (Well, the rack.)

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Saturday, 10 June 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

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