What was the strangest place you ever slept? When I was young, the grandkids slept on the flat roof

[debm55]

of my grandparents' garage. We had no AC , so it was nice until the early morning and the cool early morning breeze came.Then we left the lawn chairs up there and climbed down the ladder. So, where was your strangest place that you slept-inside or outside?
Edited to add--last year I was taking meds to help me sleep, I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom.Husband came in to go to the bathroom and found me asleep on the toilet.

[Phoenix61]

1. In line waiting to buy concert tickets.nt

[debm55]

2. That's a good one.

[Phoenix61]

5. I did it one time on a lawn chair with my Husky tied to it.

She made it to the front page of the local newspaper.😂

[debm55]

7. That's funny--were you in the picture?

[Phoenix61]

13. Nope, just her.

The second part of the story is I met a guy there who wanted to find me so he put a personal add in the local paper where I told him I worked. So,,, I get to work that night and there’s a message to call the day shift computer operator. He walks me through all these computer screens until I get to the add. Long story short I called the guy and agreed to a date. He showed up to take me out on a motorcycle without a spare helmet. One and done.

[WheelWalker]

3. Fucked up or straight?

[debm55]

4. Either or, I'll let the choice be yours

[deRien]

6. In a field

with a large rock formation not very far away that had a small boulder perched on top of it... it was very windy and I hardly slept at all because I was sure that small boulder was going to come crashing down on us...

[debm55]

8. Yep, could be dangerous.

[underpants]

9. Under a TOW missile launcher on a Bradley fighting vehicle

I was brand new out of basic. There were a lot of Scouts on that trip (it wasn’t even my platoon) so they told me to find a place to sleep. If they’d needed to move be the vehicle they would have lowered the launcher and it would have crushed me.

[debm55]

12. Oh my, underpants you were really lucky.

[notemason]

10. Laundromat

Played high school sports but lived 13 miles from the school and had to hitchhike home after practices and games. Sometimes we would get back from road trips so late I knew I would never get a ride so I would sleep in a laundromat on a folding table. It was always warm!

[debm55]

16. notemason, you are lucky you found the laundromat to sleep in. And the table too.

[WheelWalker]

11. Had to be on the fire line in a paper sleeping bag...

Strangest maybe on top of my Engine 26 on rolls of fire hose? Ah, those fire line romances, sigh.

[debm55]

17. WheelWalker, wasn't sleeping on the rolls of fire hose hard on your back?

[WheelWalker]

32. You gotta be an animal. A strong back... a weak mind.

No one tripping over/stepping on me up there.

[JenniferJuniper]

14. Under a tree in London's Regent's Park. Long story.

[debm55]

18. JenniferJuniper--that sounds very nice.

[JenniferJuniper]

38. It was raining heavily unfortunately.

[ret5hd]

15. Under a picnic bench, in the rain,...

at a rural rest area somewhere in the Appalachians. A ride had offered me a place for the night but I was too scared.

In a seasonally deserted refreshment stand on Galveston Island while old drunks were having a get-together outside, unaware I was holed-up inside.

In the middle of those “islands” of land formed by cloverleafs/exit-ramps on highways (multiple locations)

In farmers fields just off highways.

All sometime in the late ‘70s, about 16 -18 yrs old, hitchhiking around.

[debm55]

20. ret5hd, you have been all over. I used to hitchhike around in the med 70's to get to my job. Did you

have a sleeping bag or just sleep on the ground?

[ret5hd]

21. Sleeping bag in a duffel bag.

I wasn’t smart enough to ditch the duffel bag for a backpack.

[tblue37]

19. Six kids in our family. Coming home to Florida from visiting grandparents in Pennsylvania,

our station wagon was overpacked. Though not the youngest, at age ten I was the thinnest and most flexible, so I was chosen to ride in the backseat, which had a bunch of stuff we were bringing back from PA.

On the top of the pile were things like shoes, and also a turntable with no lid. I traveled the whole way on top of that darned record player, twisted around the platter spindle. Sometimes, I slept.

[debm55]

22. Ouch, that must have hurt, tblue.

[ret5hd]

23. Yeah, but that spindle kept him stable while he slept.

[debm55]

24. You stinker

[tblue37]

44. I'm a woman.

[ret5hd]

46. Well, sorry.

[wcmagumba]

25. At a friend's family monument company display...

After a bit of drinking on break from college we took sleeping bags and slept with the stone monuments on the main street of our little town (I don't think his parents knew)...

[debm55]

27. That's different and kind of funny.

[wcmagumba]

52. It was fun and didn't get caught, woke up and one guy at next door gas station jumping on the bell..

[MuseRider]

26. I am a narcoleptic

so I cannot even begin to remember but most likely driving my car in the early days. It began when I was 16. Try getting those kinds of meds as a teenager in the late 60's and early 70's. I slept wherever and whenever. I finally got meds in 1983. I have slept everywhere, even on stage!

[debm55]

28. MuseRider, is your condition under control now? I really hope so.

[MuseRider]

36. It has been for years!

I was a night RN in the ICU doing whatever I needed to do to stay awake. One night there was a Doctor there for a patient in the middle of the night. I sat down to chart and promptly fell asleep. He tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I would come to his office after my shift. I realized who he was, a well know neurologist in our hospital. He asked me if anyone had ever asked me if I had narcolepsy and I said no but a lot of people have told me I was just looking for drugs. I went and he ran some tests along with a fairly lengthy brain scan and an interview and I went home with a prescription. Since then I have been just fine, in fact my Doc just this morning did my yearly and put me down for another "how long as I live" prescription.

[debm55]

37. How wonderful!

[Midnight Writer]

29. Spent two weeks sleeping under a bridge. Lost my job and locked out of my rental.

A good friend "rescued" me. Let me stay at his place, loaned me money. I was 19.

[debm55]

31. Midnight Writer, I am so sorry that happened to you and glad that you had such a good friend to take

you in.

[Sky Jewels]

30. On a park bench in Paris.

1981. My family had just arrived there after a red eye from California. Our hotel room wasn't ready. My mom, sister, and I were sooooo tired and fell asleep in the Tuileries Garden, with beau coup tourists passing by staring at the weirdo Americans. And it was very evident that we were Americans, because we were wearing big white sneakers, which no European at that time would have been caught dead in.

[debm55]

34. Sky, it is a shame that you had to sleep outside and not in the lobby or other spare room. Happy

things worked out for you and your family.

[WestMichRad]

33. In a cemetery

I was on a bicycle trip when I got abandoned by the person accompanying me. Night was rapidly approaching and I lacked lights for riding at night, and there was no hope of finding a
place to camp… so I crept into the cemetery just after dark and pitched my tent near the back, behind some trees. Creeped me out, but I really had no other option.

Fled the scene asap in the morning.

[debm55]

35. WestMichRad--that would have freaked me out, too. Glad you were okay.

[rsdsharp]

39. No place really odd, although I once woke up a about 3AM in the backseat of a car.

I was in college, and four of us were driving to Colorado for Spring break. We were in the middle of Nebraska on I80 in 1974 in the midst of the oil crisis. So it was straight as a string and zero traffic. I looked around and the other three guys were asleep, too.

[debm55]

58. Haven't we all??

[rsdsharp]

63. Yeah, but I shrugged and went back to sleep.

[MiHale]

40. Choir loft in an unknown church...

Lost weekend while I was in the Army. 3 of us went on a hike some in Alabama with our friend Jack. Needed a place to sleep we found out the church didn’t lock its doors (early 70’s) so we spent the night. About all I remember.

[debm55]

57. Good idea to use a church. Bet it was relaxing.

[kairos12]

41. In a Bergschrund on

Denali while avalanches poured overhead.

[debm55]

59. I would be very afraid.

[recovering_democrat]

42. Sleeping sites

As a kid my cousins and I slept in their cow pasture cause it was convenient to the outdoor bathroom. In college, I loved sleeping on the beach!

[debm55]

60. Yes, the beach is wonderful

[applegrove]

43. I slept on the front lawn of the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise one time.

I also had jet lag in London and slept for a bit in St James Park in front of Buckingham Palace during an afternoon. I had a summer job at a tea house in Lake Louise way up a mountain trail. I slept in a cabin. I showered in a waterfall every day. It was heaven.

[debm55]

61. Oh applegrove, sleeping in the mountains and takeing a shower in a waterfall sounds wounderful.

[applegrove]

73. It was.

[Ocelot II]

45. In a tent in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (northern MN, along the Canadian border),

in January. It was below zero at night. I never wanted to do winter camping again after that. You stay warm enough in a sleeping bag in the tent, but if you have to go to the bathroom during the night...

[WestMichRad]

54. I had a similar experience with winter camping.

In Michigan’s UP, we hiked out and enjoyed a beautiful but cold sunny day. Made camp, got some sleep… and crawled out of the tent the next morning into a howling blizzard, with -40° wind chills. The (snowshoe) hike back was pure torture! I was lucky not to lose any toes to frostbite.

That was the first and last time I ever went winter camping. I love cross-country skiing and playing outdoors in the winter, but no way will I go winter camping ever again.

[debm55]

62. We used to go tent camping and I agree with going to the bathroom in the ice cold morning air.

[yellowdogintexas]

47. In Mammoth Cave, while on a survey trip

with 2 other people.

We all got really tired, stopped for a rest break and some food then racked out on the trail. It was not in the tourist area, but the pathway was smooth. When you are that tired, a nap is welcome regardless.

[debm55]

65. I agree and a nap can lead to falling asleep sp easily. But your body tells you when to rest. The

thing with me --my naps turn into 2 hours.

[highplainsdem]

48. The L of an L-shaped couch at my grandfather's house,

when I was very young and the adults thought three kids should be able to fit.

[debm55]

66. We had a couch like that. No matter the age, after sleeping like a pretzel all night, you feel like

crap in the morning.

[LuckyCharms]

49. In a barber's chair while getting my haircut, a day after working close to

60 hours straight without going home in order to meet a deadline.

Could not stay awake in the chair. Nodded off several times. Felt like I was drugged.

Worked 60 hours, went home, slept for about 14 hours in bed, then went for a haircut.

[debm55]

55. I was having a CAT scan for a brain tumor.(which I didn't have) They gave me the IV and but in the

low machine. It kept flashing and making noise. Somehow, I fell asleep during the procedure. Had to wake me up to get me out of the machine. Radiologist said he never saw anyone fall asleep in one.

[KPN]

50. In a VW "Combi" camouflaged about 30' or so in the woods five

Kilometers from the Kazangula border crossing ferry in Zambia in 1978. Arriving at about 3pm, the crossing was closed. We were almost out of petrol having decided to refuel in Kazangula, Botswana, where petrol was much cheaper. A police officer pulled up in an open Land-rover and told us to go back to Victoria, it was too dangerous here. There had been fighting between Freedom Fighters and the Rhodesian Army at the border crossing just a couple hours before. We asked him to help us with gas, he said, no, please go back to Victoria. We drove back to the T in the road where we’d seen a patrol of armed freedom fighters stationed. There were about 25 or 30 of them. We asked them for petrol as well. They also said no, but you can stay here with us, we will protect you. After a quick discussion, we told them no thanks, we think we have enough petrol and will drive the 35 kilometers or so back to Victoria (falls). We didn’t. We drove east about a half mile around a bend in the road till we were out of sight and found a place we could pull off into the woods. It was around 5pm by then. We gathered up as many branches from trees we could to cover up the glass, headlights, chrome and otherwise camouflage the van. Military vehicles with turrets and machine guns patrolled the road all night. It was a long night, but in the morning, the ferry was operating and we made our way across the Chobe and got petrol in Botswana to continue our journey south.

[debm55]

56. Oh wow, what a post. Thank you for sharing. Your writing style kept me on the end of my seat. Glad

you made it out.

[KPN]

64. Thanks. Hadn't thought about that experience in years.

It was neat having my recall triggered by that great and unusual question you posed.

ps — that second one you shared was hilarious.

[thatcrowwoman]

51. On a chaise lounge in my driveway after watching a meteor shower.

When we first moved to Florida, our place was way out in the middle of nowhere and the stargazing was excellent. During the Leonid and Perseid showers I’d drag a chaise lounge to the driveway, in a clearing with no light pollution in sight.

I’d lie back and soak it all in. So many meteors!!! And no cricks in my neck.
Sometimes I’d listen to the overnight jazz programs on the local public radio station. I may have had a bottle of wine with me. And a straw. Once upon a meteor shower, I woke up about 5:00 in the morning, as usual. But I was not in bed, I was on the lounge in the driveway. There may have been a bottle of wine, empty but for a straw, under the lounge ready to pack back to the rubbish bin.
🕊💫🤩🌌🌙🐄🕊thatcrowwoman

[debm55]

74. Beautiful way to fall asleep outside, on a lounge, wine and watching a meteor shower,

[BluesRunTheGame]

53. Next to the top of a waterfall by an abandoned power plant at 10000 ft in the Colorado Rockies.

[debm55]

67. How beautiful! I have this machine that plays sounds like rain and waterfalls. Very relaxing.

[LudwigPastorius]

68. On an assembly line...(not a moving one)

I was working 39 hours a week erasing and testing eproms for blood gas analyzers, while going to school part time, and playing gigs at night. Something had to give.

Surprisingly, I wasn't fired because it was only one or two minutes at a time, and while standing up.

The other odd one would be under a nine foot Steinway in the orchestra pit between the matinee and evening show.

[debm55]

70. I'm glad you added that Ludwig. I did the same, college full time. job full time. In one of the

college buildings they had a cot in the ladies restroom. Since I did my work study for the maintenance department, I had the keys for the restroom and would take naps on the cot.

[NNadir]

69. When I was a young man, probably in the beds of some of my long ago girlfriends.

Some of those situations were genuinely strange, at least looking back on them.

I came of age in profligate times.

I'm glad I'm done with that; marriage is a wonderful thing, or at least has been for me.

[debm55]

71. Oh my, did you honestly get any rest????

[jrandom421]

72. How about this?

In the belly of a M-113 APC ,in December, on the plains of Ft. Greeley,Ak .with -70 degree chill with 40 knot winds blowing in.

[Niagara]

75. Behind the wheel of a vehicle.

It was 28 years ago and I wasn't under any alcohol, drug, or medication influence. It was just an extremely grueling road trip.

[debm55]

76. Wow, Niagara, I am so glad nothing happened to you.

[Niagara]

77. Thank you, Debbie!

[blue neen]

78. On a golf course up in Erie, PA.

We were all awakened very abruptly at dawn when the sprinkler system came on!

[debm55]

79. Hahahahah--funny. I live outside of Pittsburgh. Which golfcourse?