Falling asleep on public transport

mikemac1

I'm always at it
Finish work in Dubin city centre, hop on the luas at Connolly and by the time we hit Jervis I'm fast asleep. I'll probably get pick-pocketed one of these days

The odd time I've woken up in Tallaght, my stop is long before there

The worst was Bus Éireann to Tipperary and I woke up in Limerick city. Had to go all the way back :mad:

Or finish work Sunday night, hop on the JJ Kavanaghs to Galway and I'm fast asleep within minutes

I'm not that annoying person who falls asleep on your shoulder though, I get the inside seat

Ever fall miss your stop and wake up miles and miles from your stop? Or get stranded as that was the last bus home?

I've never gotten Dublin Bus Nitelink, did anyone wake up in North Dublin somewhere? Or even in a bus depot?

col.in.Cr

Yes I woke in Cunningham Road depot after a mad one,the cleaners got a bit of a fright to say the least.

MagicMarker

After the first time you missed your stop would ya not consider staying awake?

Regularly miss my stop on the way home after work due to sleep.

Have woken up in Kildare a couple of times on the nitelink home, that's rarely fun.

BraziliaNZ

Has anyone ever noticed that Chinese people ALWAYS sleep on public transport?

Dudess

Once - but my stop, Cork, was the last one anyway. Bus driver gave out sh1t to me. Few weeks later when I was at work in the Virgin Megastore, he came up to the till I was at with a pile of porn and he recognised me and went scarrrrl! :pac:

MagicMarker

Dudess wrote: »

Once - but my stop, Cork, was the last one anyway. Bus driver gave out sh1t to me. Few weeks later when I was at work in the Virgin Megastore, he came up to the till I was at with a pile of porn and he recognised me and went scarrrrl! :pac:

They sold porn at Virgin?

How ironic. :pac:

Dudess

MagicMarker wrote: »

Dudess wrote: »

Once - but my stop, Cork, was the last one anyway. Bus driver gave out sh1t to me. Few weeks later when I was at work in the Virgin Megastore, he came up to the till I was at with a pile of porn and he recognised me and went scarrrrl! :pac:

They sold porn at Virgin?

How ironic. :pac:

Mile-high club on Virgin Airways too...

Kevin Duffy

This is how I learned my way around London, I'd fall asleep on buses and have to find my way back. I kinda liked it.

My best though was only recent; I got the Dundalk train home, going north, with my stop halfway-ish. I fell asleep instantly and woke up at my station, on the way back south. Not a peep outta me from Dublin to Dundalk and halfway back :pac:

I've also done the common trick of falling asleep on the Nitelink, but with added waking up back in town....twice in one night

DEFTLEFTHAND

Came off a ferry at 6am after a night of heavy boozing across the Irish Sea. Managed to get a taxi at the port down to Busarus and catch the first n.o 12 down to Roscrea.

Next thing I remember I was been awoken by the bus driver at Limerick station. I was in some state and had no money or bank cards, the driver was understanding and didn't raise the issue of me travelling 45 miles further than I should of. Next I had to raise the aul fella out of the bed to come down and collect me, that wasn't the most pleasant phonecall as you could imagine.

GLaDOS

I have enough trouble getting to sleep at night in bed, not a worry on cramped public transport

mikom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfectchNtQM

RickRoll

Fell asleep on a train once, ended up in Pokipsy.

LighterGuy

I remember one job I had that I was always not giving myself enough sleep for ... so i'd often nod off on the bus. only to wake up suddenly at some point and jerk/shake as i woke up.

people must of thought i was mad or something, lol.

Saint_Mel

I used to commute from Athlone to Dublin on the train for work and always slept. 1 morning Ifell into a deep deep sleep approx 10 seconds after getting on the train. Dreamt I had done a full days work and woke in Cellbridge thinking I was on the way home. Got into a panic when I realised the train was going in what I thought was the wrong direction and was all flustered till I saw my 2 mates conked out aswell and realised it was only 8am

smallBiscuit

Yup many's the times I've fallen asleep on pt.

A fair few years ago, I was on the bus to Maynooth, fell asleep, when I woke up I'd already been to Maynooth and was half way back to Leixlip. Jumped up and got the driver to stop and let me off. He drove off, then I realised I'd been disoriented, had made it to Maynooth yet

Another time, last year, I fell asleep on the train to Leixlip, The Driver woke me up in Maynooth. But I was so fast asleep when he did it, I screamed with fright when woken

bijapos

Went on an all nighter when I lived in Hannover, and took the tram home at 6.30 am on a Sunday morning.

I woke up 4 stops further, my face hurt, my leg had cramps, it was 10.30 a.m. I had slept for 4 hours, going up and down the same tram line.

I figured the driver might have tried to wake me once but probably just decided to leave me be.

amacachi

Thankfully during the two years of commuting to college I was getting a bus at its starting point and getting off and its last stop. Probably 7 or 8 times out of 10 a week I'd sleep a bit.

Laika1986

Fell asleep on a train from Long Beach to Manhattan and woke up on the train back to Manhattan surrounded by commuters and was thrown off, rough day.

ICANN

I've never fallen asleep properly- I only ever rest my eyes on public transport.

My uncle fell asleep in a taxi once though and the driver just kept driving around and around and the fare was 40 euro (would have been less than a tenner if he hadn't fallen asleep).

Eroticfishcake

I never really fall asleep on public transport.

Was on the train in Munich a while ago and there were a group of Irish lads in the same carriage. One of the lads was asleep, the rest all got off the train at their stop and as the train was pulling off, they knocked on the window to wake your man up. Poor lad was nearly crying trying to get off the train.

Victor Meldrew

In my youth I fell asleep on the tallaght nghtlink (booze was a factor....)

Pleaded with driver to drop me anywhere between killinarden and Donnybrook station that was not Killarden...

Occasionally kip on Luas into work in morning (green line). used to doze on 145 bus as well.

always thought there is a market for a phone app linking GPS to your alarm. kip on bus, phone wakes you when you are on st stephen's green.

Sweet

Sunnyisland

Years ago got the 18 from sandymount home from work and fell asleep, woke up at the terminus in Palmerstown, to embarrassed to stay on and do the return journey back to my stop as I hadent got the money, so i walked backed home :-(

Alessandra

Yep fall asleep often on the night bus from London. Last stop is 40mins after mine. You would think I'd learn.

IvySlayer

I'm paranoid about sleeping around strangers so I never do it.

rickyjb

I like to mix things up by falling asleep on public transport in foreign countries. I once fell asleep full length on the new york subway while my friends fell asleep sitting upright in their seats. They had their passports and wallets stolen while I was left alone (presumably) because I was lying on my wallet and it wasn't worth the hassle. My friends ran after the guy when they realised so I was left asleep. Woke up in Queens about 3 hours later (was woken up by a kindly chinese lady) at the other end of the line having gone up and down a couple of times. Eventually got home about 9.30am to find my friends still up, they'd been to the police station and back while I slept on the subway.

Also while a group of us were visiting a friend in Strasbourg I got separated and ended up walking around with one guy trying to find our way back to our friend's house. Our host had sat on a glass table at a party and made bits of it meaning we had to leave hastily. Neither of us had taken the address and we couldn't get through to him by phone (he'd managed to inadvertantly blag a lift home in what turned out to be a stolen car. Was driven, terrified, at high speed around Strasbourg for about a half an hour).

So we hopped on a random tram (they're identical in design to the luas) and I promptly fell asleep. At the time I didn't know there were underground stops and the first thing I remembered when I woke up was that there'd been talk of getting a train to Germany earlier in the night. This led me to freak out a bit when a guy woke me by shouting at me in German and poking me with a brush. Luckily enough I was actually in the train station in Strasbourg, probably the only place I knew in the city.

My friend meanwhile had gotten off at some stage and slept in a doorway for awhile (it was about -10 out) then went looking for the right tram home again but knew he'd found the wrong one when he opened the door and found me, stretched out full length, fast asleep.

Still found my way back before him that night...:cool:

saa

Yes after a festival in Cork on the bus back to dublin, it was warm and quiet and I had relaxing songs on and most importantly a friend beside me to wake me up and to lean against and annoy them/give them the wrong idea.

Otherwise I can rest my eyes but just can't let myself go, except for that one time being extremely drunk on a 77 and not being able to lift my head to see where I was, but I think I was passing out opposed to going to sleep.

I still physically couldn't lift my head and as hard as I tried I couldn't see where I was when I really tried only street lights but one moment I had my chin resting on my chest and without looking out the window I hopped up pressed the button and walked off at my stop.

I think my ma drifted off once, I have distinct memories of walking home from Lexislip to the Spa Hotel end of Lucan at night, I was about 7 and I was terrified going past that abandoned factory in Lexslip as I had just watched A Scare at Bedtime with Podge and Rodge, the one where yer man gets his hand stuck in the minced meat machine.

Nodster

With an hours train commute eachway, I nod off most days and rarely miss my stop...then again they don't call me nodster for now't

Eroticfishcake

IvySlayer wrote: »

I'm paranoid about sleeping around strangers so I never do it.

Mammy told you not to sleep around? Don't think this is what she meant

Karona

I fell asleep on the bus coming back from working in Dublin. I had taken Piritin for an allergy I had, but I had a reaction to them and they made me very very drowsy. The Bus driver woke me in balbriggan. I think he thought I was drunk. I could not keep my eyes open.

FueledByAisling

It's understandable about people accidently falling asleep on public transport on the way home from work so I never think much of it. Whenever someone falls asleep beside me on the bus I always feel as if I should wake them and ask when's their stop and I'll wake them just in case although I never do in the end in fear of them thinking I'm an absolute creep.

Mushy

On the Luas I always make myself stay awake, normally by standing.

Buses, however, if its a 5 minute journey or 5 hours, I'm either just about asleep or fully passed out. I love my bus sleeps. The school bus was fun, all the people would be talking loudly (as teenagers do) and I'd be asleep in the middle of them. Twice in two nights in a row in Sydney I fell asleep, missed my stop/subarb, woke up at last stop. Was same driver twice, he allowed me stay on to go back. Was just mocking me second time.

Martyn1989

My gfs brother always nods off on public transport, he had an alarm set to ring a minute before he got to his station, then a minute before he had to get off his bus. He claimed all those extra 40mins approx got him through college.

CricketDude

I always fall asleep on the bus.
There was a while that I stopped being able to sleep because of people yapping on the phone in the mornings. But I got a mobile phone jammer (I highly recommend these for the public transport sleeper). It silences every phone on the whole bus. Now I snooze happily all the way into work.
And I have a GPS alarm on my phone so get woken up when I reach my stop.

mikemac1

CricketDude wrote: »

But I got a mobile phone jammer (I highly recommend these for the public transport sleeper). It silences every phone on the whole bus.

Tell us more

I need one of these for my trips to the cinema :mad:

sunflower27

Just set the alarm on your phone to go off about 5-10 mins before you would reach your destination.

Mr.Crinklewood

Good few apps out here for smart phones that will Set off an Alarm when you are near your destination.

Storminateacup

I sometimes get the train to work and it pisses me off seeing people sprawled across two seats wrapped up fast asleep when it's a rush hour train.

I'll make a point of waking them to take the seat they hadn't paid for. So selfish.

AgileMyth

I've only fallen asleep on public transport once.

You don't make that mistake twice, as a bus driver.

GreenWolfe

mikemac1 wrote: »

Tell us more

I need one of these for my trips to the cinema :mad:

CricketDude wrote: »

I always fall asleep on the bus.
There was a while that I stopped being able to sleep because of people yapping on the phone in the mornings. But I got a mobile phone jammer (I highly recommend these for the public transport sleeper). It silences every phone on the whole bus. Now I snooze happily all the way into work.
And I have a GPS alarm on my phone so get woken up when I reach my stop.

Don't forget that mobile phone jammers are illegal, it's section 12 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1926.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1926/en/act/pub/0045/sec0012.html#sec12

CricketDude

mikemac1 wrote: »

Tell us more

I need one of these for my trips to the cinema :mad:

cinema is by second use for them.
google mobile phone jammer. you can get them for about €40.
the is a lot of satisfaction to be got from silencing a bus so you can have some peace

Its like this one but with pointier antennae. And only €40.

http://www.phonejammer.com/product.php?productid=16138&cat=0&bestseller=Y

More about these peacemakers here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer

CricketDude

EarthlyPangaea wrote: »

Don't forget that mobile phone jammers are illegal, it's section 12 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1926.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1926/en/act/pub/0045/sec0012.html#sec12

things are only illegal if you get caught.
i can see it now. everybody empty your pockets - this is a mobile jammer raid.
yeah right.

ICANN

CricketDude wrote: »

I got a mobile phone jammer

Sure you did.

I often have a doze on the bus, but I never miss my stop. Always wake up just before we get there, or a bit more than "just"
I can only sleep pretty lightly on it though, and it's always in the back of my mind that I'll need to get up in half an hour or an hour or whatever, so I wake up

DjFlin

CricketDude wrote: »

But I got a mobile phone jammer

If you stop jamming my 3G signal on the bus, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Adyx

I'll sleep anywhere, anytime. (I've dozed off in work - a nightclub and while getting my hair cut). Regardless of the time of day, if I'm on a train or bus journey of decent length, I'll fall asleep. I've never missed a stop though. I even fell asleep on my way into work one evening in a taxi.

Immaculate Pasta

The worst I've ever done is fell asleep on a train, missed my stop and got off at the next one. Nothing too horrific.

When I was at Middlesbrough once following Man United away. One lad I know was getting the train back down to York to change back to Manchester while the rest of us were getting the coach. He fell asleep all pissed up as soon as he left Middlesbrough and woke up just as the train was pulling in Kings Cross Station in London! He'd miss the stop completely and travelled over 200 miles in the opposite direction. He certainly got some stick for that! :pac:

I always fall asleep on the DART in the mornings, but I always wake up when I reach town, I think at this stage I subconsciously count the stops or something.

One memory sticks though, when I was 17 and fell asleep on a Malahide DART with the intention of changing trains halfway to get to Howth. Got woken by an inspector in Malahide and had to travel backwards to change trains to travel forwards again. Just barely managed to get the last train to Howth, but the inspector was convinced I was drunk - I was just tired!

As for jamming signals on the bus, that's pretty nasty. At least in the cinema people aren't supposed to have their phones on, but someone could be on the bus travelling to see a loved one in hospital or trying to get to an important work meeting - not cool to leave them stranded because you want your 40 winks.

BunShopVoyeur

I've gotten the nightlink at Westmoreland Street at 3am and magically woken up back at Westmoreland Street at 4am.


I think I might be a time traveller.

BunShopVoyeur

ICANN wrote: »

Sure you did.

http://www.phonejammer.com/home.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw1XJbV2HK0

Sierra 117

A couple of years ago I fell asleep on the bus and missed my stop in Loughrea. Woke up in Kilrickle though so it wasn't too bad.