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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Worst Place You've Ever Spent the Night? [View all]jpak
(41,757 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 23, 2019, 12:13 PM - Edit history (1)
A bunch of us from our dorm at U Maine drove up to Quebec for their (Mardi Gras) Winter carnival.
We all had sleeping bags and pads and were prepared to spend the night in the car if we had to (everything is booked up months in advance there).
After a long night of partying, we discovered the driver of the car had taken off with another friend of ours to spend a romantic evening at the very swank Le Château Frontenac.
She locked us out of the car where our sleeping gear was.
It was -20o F and windy.
We had nowhere to go.
We eventually found an underground parking garage that had a bathroom - but there had to be 50 people sleeping on the floor there - including several people that were wrapped around the back of the toilets - that were still "in use".
The only place we could lay down was on the wet stairs leading down to the bathroom - which had a "toaster oven" type heating element above it.
It was OK until some drunk opened the outside door and would not shut it even after several passionate renditions of "Ferme la Porte Goddammit!!!!!!111" were hurled at him.
We survived and spent the next night at the home of the "only woman judge in Canada".
A Tale that was even more memorable - lol