Can confirm. Been there, done that.
I 'm trying to imagine how wasted I’d have to be to think “Oh, look! Hard, cold surface, wake up with back problems and a cramp in one leg! Let’s try that!”
Maybe it’s just me, but even after a night of edibles, Jack ‘n’ shrooms, my innate love of comfort would win out… “Honey, I just found your friend digs passed out on the kitchen floor. He was really trippin’, but he still managed to find six comforters and all our feather pillows…”
When you fully expect to wake up in a pool of your own vomit a bathtub might make sense.
It must do wonders for their tourist trade - despite the weekly murders.
But from the top of the wheel you get such a great view of the beautiful, stately, historic city! Sure, the rest of the city has to look at the wheel, but from the wheel you don’t even notice it.
I used to work at a historic site that had an industrial-level (huge!) wall-mounted urinal in the men’s can.
The morning after a wild Fourth of July party, I walked in to pee and found a colleague fast asleep in the urinal. I didn’t have the heart to rouse him, so I peed while taking a shower.
True story!
When the hero (or occasionally the villain) misses his train, he is readily able to procure a ‘special’, and there is always a locomotive in the engine shed with steam up, and the signals are all in his favour.
It’s been my observation that the “hot wife, fat husband” trope occurs far less in real life than it does in entertainment.
I feel like in movies an average chase is about a thousand percent more likely to end up in a carnival Hall of Mirrors than your average chase in real life.
Ran over debris from an accident and blew out a tire once. Did not lose control of the car. Was doing about 45 on a country road, in a 61 Ford without the best front end in the world, either, and cheap tires.
A 21st century car with modern tires is unlikely to skid out.
What you DO have to fear is some idiot driving with a bad tie-rod end, or ball joint, whose wheel comes off in traffic. I actually had that happen to me as well, although fortunately the wheel did not come all the way off, and the transaxle had limited slip. More fortunately, there was no traffic around, because I came to an abrupt stop, just like I’d hit a wall. Got a REALLY nasty case of whiplash, which is seriously no joke. Also, it wasn’t my fault, because I had NOT ignored advice to have it worked on-- I’d just had work done, and someone screwed it up.
I feel like in movies a carnival Hall of Mirrors is about a thousand percent more likely to exist than in your average real life carnival.
(I wonder if they aren’t as easily transported as a haunted house…)
I’ve spent over half a century going to a lot of State Fairs and local fêtes with midways, and I’ve only seen a Hall of Mirrors in b-movies or on cop shows.
I was riding down the highway with MrsSteve_MB driving when a tire blew out about ten years ago. We spun around and crashed into the median barrier – neither of us was injured, but the car was a total loss.
Hang out with a bunch of really rich 55 to 70 year old men and their wives You’ll see some of that.
OK; I actually worked in a shop for about a year after the military (I was a power generator mechanic in the military), and I saw a lot of cars and light trucks that had blown a tire-- literally blown one, not just been riding on a flat-- and while in some cases the wheel was too damaged to be usable, and in a few cases, there was some damage to the front end parts, like the tie-rod end, and while I also grant that we didn’t see the more severely damaged cars, we saw enough for me to say that a lot of cars do survive blowing a tire.
A lot of it may depend on things like how big what you hit is-- I can see a scenario where something big got stuck in the tire, and prevented the wheel from turning, and that caused the car to skid, especially if it were a drive wheel, and the car did not have a limited slip differential, so the opposite wheel spun like wild when the one got stuck.
I have never encountered a car that had a tire shot out, but I don’t think it would make you skid off the road. It would slow you down, though. Which is why it’s a really dumb thing to do to a car you are pursuing, something I have seen on TV, but doubt ever happens in real life.
I think it was also more common in the past even among non-rich people. When women’s career prospects were more restricted, a man with a steady job had a better chance to land a pretty wife, regardless of his looks. Women doctors and lawyers can afford to be more picky. Also, having a spare tire was often considered a sign of prosperity for a man (at least until baby boomers got interested in fitness ca. 1970).
You still see more of it on TV shows because it fulfills a nostalgic male fantasy.
I’ve seen them in about half of State Fair style occasions I’ve been to a fair, but a lot of those were in the same location so it could be the same travelling company that happened to have one to bring to the same location each year while a lot of the other ones don’t. I may have only seen them in two discrete locations.
Oddly enough the only time I’ve been in one, it was small, just the beginning stage of one of those “haunted house” mobile walk-throughs.
I see it a lot in Hawaii, mostly Filipinas married to old white men. The mail order bride business is big money worldwide for numerous different nationalities worldwide. Obviously these aren’t successful women. They’re just trying to make a better life for themselves and often their families.
How about when a character has a nightmare and wakes up from it by suddenly sitting up in the bed gasping for breath. I’ve had a lot of nightmares and while I’ve often woken up with my heart pounding and breathing hard, I don’t believe I (or anyone else for that matter) ever woke up from one by suddenly sitting upright.
I didn’t even wake like that when lightning struck a tree 15 feet outside my bedroom window.
My very first apartment had an enormous, claw-foot tub probably left over from the 19th Century that actually was so long that short little me could, in fact, comfortably lay down in it. If it was summer the coolness felt good. I can’t recall ever actually sleeping in it myself, but I could have.
But you sure as heck couldn’t do that with any tub made in the last 100 years, probably.