Strangest place you've ever slept?

well…um…this one time, uh, slept on the couch!!!

I once fell asleep on Space Mountain (it was a very short nap. :slight_smile: )

I’ve also slept under a variety of tables at a number of gaming conventions.

I have a friend who pulled over to the side of the road and went to sleep in his car. A cop pulled over behind him and tapped on the window, and the conversation went something like this.

PD: What are you doing?
Friend: I’m sleeping it off.
PD: ::Long pause:: Oh.

And he left. I mean, at least the friend wasn’t driving, right?

I fell asleep in a club’s bathroom stall once, but they kicked me out soon after. I fell asleep on a bench outside of the club waiting for my friends to come out. Then I fell asleep in the car on the way back. Then I passed out in the hallway of the dorms while calling someone. All in the same night. :wink:

Other than that, not drunk, but the countless times I fell asleep in cattle cars in basic training were somewhat surreal.

Two strangest places I’ve fallen asleep.

  1. On a C-130 on our way to the DZ, I really needed the air on the way out (down!), I was way too tired from the night of partying before.

  2. Two days later, tied up to a tree so I wouldn’t drown in the marsh, don’t ask what it was like, it was pure hell. Swamp water crawling up my legs and seeping through everything below the belt for a whole night, freezing cold, thank heavens I don’t have to do that again.

…and the next place I’m about to find out what it’s like to sleep up on the face of a cliff, anchored in by carobiners, and rope. Should be a blast. A two day rock climbing adventure… woo hoo!

  1. In the bar on a ferryboat a few times, but perhaps that’s not really that strange.

I did once sneak aboard a ferry just to sleep (at the pier, not at sea, obviously). I asked if I could sleep aboard since we were getting the ferry back the next morning, but they said no. So I walked down the gangway, and jumped from the pier onto the boat, and slept there anyway…hmm…sounds bad like that, but the guy who said no was just being a jerk, cos usually I’d have expected them to say “no problem”.

  1. In the middle of the road. Drunk. Got run over and spent 12 weeks in hospital.

I recommend you try the ferry instead :slight_smile:

  1. In the middle of the road. Drunk. Got run over and spent 12 weeks in hospital.

—Was that YOU, Dylan? You owe me for a new bumper and two tires!

I hitch-hiked to Key West. Slept on the nets of a shrimpboat in a thunderstorm. Kinda smelley, but it kept me dry off the deck with a poncho over my sleeping bag.

Riding back from Daytona bike week, got caught in a thunderstorm and the wife and I pulled into an old Dairy Queen about midnite and slept on the picknick tables under the awning. A symphony of tree frogs (thousands!) was interesting, but they kept jumping on us too! A little difficult to sleep thru.

later, Tom

In the trunk of a 1967 Chevy.

To explain, my family took a trip from Tennessee to Oregon that summer. My dad was, well, cheap. So he rigged up the car so that we could sleep in it, staying at campgrounds instead of motels. My brother had the front (bench) seats. Not bad, unless he sat up suddenly and hit the steering wheel. Mom and dad got the back seat. Actually, the back seat had been removed. The luggage was on the floor, topped by a foam rubber mattress, so that was very comfortable. I was the youngest and smallest, so I got the trunk.

It worked out very well. Cars had real trunks then, so there was plenty of space (unless I sat up too quickly). I had a couple of cushions to sleep on, so it was comfortable. I had a flashlight, but best of all, I had the cooler in there with me. Midnight snacks!!! They had to let me out in the mornings when I started banging on the lid. Only one bad night, on the way back we stopped in Oklahoma. I don’t think it got much below 90, and there wasn’t a lot of air circulating. Overall a great experience.

At my desk at work.

On the balcony of a hotel in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

In a friends bathroom.

On the floor of the bar of a London hotel. I was with a college ballroom dance group who had been travelling around England and Wales. The tour planner couldn’t find a reasonably priced place for the group to stay on our last night, so instead he planned a party that went until 3am, and cut a deal with a hotel to let us sleep on the floor of their bar from 3am to 6am. Then we all got up and took a bus to Heathrow to hang around for hours until our flights left.

Pretty sure I dozed off once standing up - if that’s possible. Standing on a bus, leaning against the overhead luggage rack while coming out of the Egyptian desert. Only for a minute or so, certainly thought I had.

A couple of teenage misunderstandings with the authorities (that fortunately came to nothing, I hasten to add) resulted in much communal singing and, eventually, sleep in the cells. Also slept lashed to the roof of a bus wending its way through Nepali valleys. Very cold, tight turns, need faith in your knots.

Ahh, well you owe me for my leather jacket and pair of glasses! :slight_smile:

Actually, I knew the guy who did it…he worked at the same place as me. He bundled me into his car, and drove me up to the hospital, which then got a helicopter out to take me to a ‘proper’ hospital.

I missed that bit (no memory of it); not sure whether that’s fortunate or unfortunate…

i feel asleep at the top of maunakea in the middle of the road, i had just hiked up part of it was tired due to lack of sleep and lack of oxygen and the asphalt felt really warm so i crashed there.

Yup, it is. I did the same thing once at work, leaning against a display - woke up to the assistant manager waving a $10 bill in my face and saying, “I’ve never seen anyone do that before!”

Slept a few times in the front seat of my Suzuki Sierra (jeep-like thing) after my tent shredded itself. The stick shift made it impossible to stretch my legs out, so I basically sat curled into one bucket seat all night… not too comfortable.

Most unusual for me, must be my night in a quincy, or back in the day when I used to sleep between the back to back seats on the band’s Greyhound.

I’ve also been known to fall asleep in restaurants and tanning beds.