Waking up in other people's homes

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I used to find it exciting, then I decided I was old enough to just want to wake up in my own bed and now I find it a thrill again. Perhaps I am trying to recapture my youth or imagine myself as some kind of itinerant free spirit.

Best of all is when it takes a few seconds to work out where I am.

Do you like it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, except for when I'm violently disoriented from presuming I'm my own bed. Argh! My room has gone mad!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't really like it anymore. If it's a trade-off between the fun continuing and getting home I'll often take the fun but not being able to slob around in my own bed is a neccessary evil.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Well if it's cos you are shagging the other person then it's grebt. But if it's cos you were partying hard till the early hours and passed out on their sofa it is appallingly dud.

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Started out as dud (scared of dark, homesick); became classic for a while (young, crazy, busy sex life); now dud again (old, boring, set in ways).

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

It depends where it is. I stay so ofetn on the sofa I did last night that the house occupants are thinking of getting me a key cut. Last night was a blessed relief. I had walked with friends from Oxford Circus to Highbury due to tube strike. My friends, being boys, had on trainers. I was wearing heeled boots. I went to theirs for a cup of tea and some food and then found my feet had swollen too much to get my boots back on. The sofa felt like a warm oasis from transport madness.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i would like to wake up in a lighthouse. or, failing that, a wooden caravan in a copse.

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

that disorienting first few moments = always classic. the much longer feeling of griminess if you are sofa-bound, unprepared (and usually overhung) = always dud.

it is even funnier if the disorientation leads you to lurching out of bed/sofa in the wrong direction hitting head, falling down several feet, or causing general calamity

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

what gareth said.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

what emma said.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

'partyinghard' is such a dud phrase though, don't you think?

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

agreed; but the point still stands.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

sofa = depressing
bed = delicious thrill, especially if someone else is in it. But if it's an empty bed in someone's room who's away, you can lie there half in their mindset, driniking in their personal space without having a clue who they are.

― jon (jon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it, except if I'm staying in the front room I think I have to wake up really early cos otherwise I think I'm blocking up the whole house.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I was merely quoting Andrew WK who is my hero.

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK's new song is really good! It's called "We Want Fun". Bless him.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

What I love about those first few moments is the thought that this must be something like what amnesia feels like.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

they played "party hard" at the monster wrestling last night. and the monsters did indeed party hard.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugh I hate it, because it's never fucking waking up with me, it's like looking up after about 5 hours of talking to mentalists and dancing to whatever records whoever is DJing is playing and drinking beer and sniffing poppers and whatever the hell else is there and then you think WHY DIDN'T I GO HOME, and your brain is all fucked.

I really hate the waking up part, of course getting there is fantastic, "this is going to be the best party ever!" "yeah I know, look at the place!" "yeah it's got a couch!" "mad!".

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK isn't really my hero. I cannot stand that song. Sorry if this disappoints anyone.

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I try to do this as often as possible, for the sole reason that my flat is a completely uninhabitable shithole

― dave q, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh well sharing a music taste with Emma was nice for the hour or so it lasted.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

sniffing poppers

mentalist, no good ever comes of this...

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth is right. Tom you know I don't like that stupid song. Bah. Why don't you share my taste in clothes next and see how that goes? ha ha.

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

A couch - wow some people are easily pleased.

Last time I had poppers I woke up with my head in the fireplace - they're a real dud.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I know Gareth! I always fucking use them anyway though. They can be pretty amazing in conjunction with other stuff.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with ronan

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

eh? you mean with pills, right? NOOOOOOO! no good comes of it that way either, that way lies badness

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend of mine woke up after a very heavy night alone on a sofa in a dark dark room. He had no idea how he got there. He had no idea whose house it was. He snuck out of the house before anyone woke up to avoid the awkward.

I suppose it was lucky he could find the front door

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

hmmm in moderation that way can be pretty classic, if you've got a few people passing them, it's funny watching it take about 15 seconds before everyone goes totally gaga and then watching them regain their senses again.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

never done this.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I HAD to enjoy it... or else I would have spent another several hundred bucks on motel lodging, when i went on my big road trip...

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

poppers cause cancer!!! they're terrible for you

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

party poppers, like the ones that go *bang* and all that multicoloured string comes out? I like them!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i now have a mental image of ronan with little strings of paper coming out of his nose like multicoloured snot and saying "feel the voibe".

poppers are a small step above sniffing glue, but by the same token quite amusing once in a while...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

oh sorry, waking up in other people's houses. haven't done it for a while, but as long as what you're sleeping on isn't too uncomfortable and the hangover's bearable, bit of classic to my mind...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

is "poppers" some mentalist british slang for . . .?

& classic - at the start of the year I found an abandoned house (no power/water, but a bed w/mattress) to stay in. the first morning, sun on my face & sprawled on this bed, was sheer gorgeousness.
& the where-the-hell-AM-I?!? panics & general sneakiness needed for scouting a strange house is also grebt.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

is "poppers" some mentalist british slang for . . .?

amyl nitrate

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 26 September 2002 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic by definition, as Damian and Rainy will appreciate. :-)

Andrew WK's new song is really good!

Mere hieroglyphs, these words.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 September 2002 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like the comfort of my own bed. A lot. I have slept on enough sofas, and usually at the worst moments of my life.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 27 September 2002 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Setting aside waking up in bed with someone else, which isn't what you're asking about, there is a big range: waking up somewhere tolerably comfy feeling reasonably rested and knowing the fun is to continue (i.e. you don't have to rush home in time to shower and put a suit on for work) is very classic. On the other hand, waking up in (what springs to mind from years ago) a freezing cold corridor after hardly any sleep with aching neck and back and facing only a lengthy, cold, lonely journey home is very dud.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 27 September 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

It's almost inevitably accompanied by a hangover, stubble, breath like your arse and a journey to get to home/school/work which has you working out what you can hock to take a cab.

It's only classic if a) somehow you were sober (also helps with almost inevitable guilt/embarrassment induced by overdoing the booze) or b), as Emma said, if you wake up next to someone you really like. Or if they have a Playstation 2.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I always feel slightly panicked, as if everyone else has been up hours before me and are (im)patiently waiting for me to drag my lazy arse out of bed, and when I do, they stare at their clocks and look quite pointedly at me. I feel rather small.

Egotistical, too, it seems - like anyone's waiting around for me to get up?

― luna.c (luna.c), Friday, 27 September 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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