How do you sleep through a party?

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The people in my flat are having a party tonight, and if the rehearsals the last two nights are anything to go by, this will involve screaming along to the music parts of The Most Forgettable of Pop House, Vol 4.

Anyway, I really desperately need to sleep tonight. What to do?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

sleep at someone else's house. If this isn't an option, buy some earplugs. Chemists sell them. They blocked out the sound of Roman traffic, so I'm sure they'll block out yr flatmates' party.

Oh and lock yr door if it has a lock in case any of them go a-wanderin.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Mogadon (Nitrazepam)! Available at street corners country wide.

― L, Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

You might like to leave your door *ajar* in case any of them decide to go a-wanderin...

― L, Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no! i had this last year when they had a party at chatterton road and i didn't want one. i couldn't go anywhere else because i was too worried about my things, and i couldn't get drunk because i wanted to make sure nothing bad happened.

it didn't go that badly, apart from when some random people tried to kick the front door in (i mean, the house was absolutely rammed, god knows who all those people were)

in the end i decided to do an E. this seemed like the best compromise, it would be easier for me to relax, but i'd also be awake till everyone had gone. i'm not suggesting you do this, but i am someone who doesn't like parties in their own house. i like going out to go out, i don't really like bringing going out back home with me...

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

man, parties are so crap. do people really enjoy them?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I dunno, no parties in my house ever.

Best advice I can give: Afternoon nap.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Sleep now, party later. Play Andrew WK loud for when they arrive. They will party so hard that they will all go by 10.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

but if he napped in the afternoon he would be wide awake at "party time" and would have no chance of sleepy-sleepy. surely?

also, isn't playing andrew WK a sure way of ensuring a party is over before it starts?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I have little chance of being wide-awake in the next 70 years.

I have to go home and pick up a parcel anyway, so I'll sleep now I guess.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Earplugs and desperation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I slept a couple of hours this afternoon, but I was awoken by the sound of that fucking Air Guitar album. And just when Lisa was doing a runner, I did too. I was going to go to the cinema but the bus driver refused a ten pound (not cos he didn't have change, but, not being funny or nuffink, he were given a duff one once weren't he), so I'm here hiding in teh 24 hour computer room with the creepynutfreaks, and have no idea when it will be safe to return home.

Weirdly, around 8 o'clock they warned me the party was tonight, then phoned for a taxi and buggered off somewhere. HEIN???

I so hope I remembered to lock my room.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Drugs are the solution: either to make you sleep despite mayhem OR to keep you going through the party and whatever you need to do tomorrow. The latter would have been my preferred option when I was 19: speed through a day or three.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

When will it be safe to go home?

(though as it involves walking the mean streets of Salford in the middle of the night, so safe is purely relative. Safe to get home, maybe.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

It's 2:20am, I'M STILL HERE, and I've got to back in for half nine tomorrow ulp.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

3am, I'm going home. Eep.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I can only sleep if I'm actually at the party: for some reason that's a lot easier.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 October 2002 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Good luck, Graham. (Probably too late though.) And foam earplugs rock, but I worry myself because lately I haven't been able to sleep until I put them in even if there's not that much noise. Hrm.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates parties, it certainly felt like I was as a teenager. Actually I hate them less now, but the thought of actually holding one myself terrifies me and having one in my house would make me uneasy.

― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 4 October 2002 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

one time I slept while some people had a party in my room. Apparently they all jumped on my bed and ate crisps and played songs to me on an acoustic guitar, but I stayed asleep. I'm a good sleeper, I never worry about parties.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 4 October 2002 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Nipper to thread..

― Mandee, Friday, 4 October 2002 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Go and sleep at a brothel.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 October 2002 04:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I got home at 4:20 am and collapsed in a heap. There was no one about, the kitchen florr was FILTHY, and I bumped into a random semi-dressed blonde on the way to the shower this morning. I heart uni etc.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, that air guitar album is GRATE I haf just bought it myself, Spacestation Pongo and I are grebt fans.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Not when they;re playing it so loud and the walls are so flimsy (and have no plaster), and the doors to badly fitted that they have inch wide gaps around them, that it sounds like it's coming from INSIDE YOUR HEAD. And you're trying to sleep obv.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Oasis' Cast No Shadow and RHCP's Californation are right now battling for flat supremacy in the adjacent rooms. AAARGH

I just want to hear my Britney.

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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