Ever Slept Rough?

Sir Osis of Liver.

Ever been forced to sleep in the open air.

Ive slept in a bus shelter in Paris and an eircom phonebox in Tramore.

Sir Arthur Daley

I often sleep in the bath after a night on the sauce.

spiralism

Handful of times, in a marquee in Roscommon after one severely messy night, once in Athlone on paddys day and twice in Amsterdam, one in Vondelpark and one in Schipol airport the day before moving back. Each time wasn't exactly my definition of fun.

wazky

Often slept in a Phonebox after a night out.

Davarus Walrus

Slept behind a skip down near Spencer Dock a few years ago after a very rough night on the batter. Had terrible difficulty finding my apartment and was unencumbered with such trivialities as a wallet, phone, keys and sense of direction.

Got a couple of hours kip.

Stavros Murphy

I'd a rough nights sleep there yesterday. Twas very windy - the roof was rattling.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

Sadly yes, been there, done that.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Airports a few times.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Slept on the pavement outside a train station in Spain. Got woken up by the police nailing me in the head with their car door. Don't sleep too close to the road if your sleeping on the path.

Mint Aero

Nope, I'm of a higher cast.

geckovision

On the concrete ground beside a park bench.

shruikan2553

I havent but a friend has, woke up with wallet and phone gone and scratches on his face. Considering he was drunk enough to sleep in a box Im not sure if these happened before or after he went to sleep.

rawn

Connolly station in Dublin after I missed the last bus home to Wexford one time. (Got kicked out of Busarus) Horrible experience, time passes so slowly, felt so unsafe but at least I was indoors. Breaks my heart thinking of those poor souls with nowhere to go at night.

PizzamanIRL

No and I hope I never will have to. I feel terrible for anyone who doesn't have a home to go to.

The_Valeyard

Slept in St. Stephens Greens one night. Student days, missed last bus home.

RiverOfLove

I wasn't forced to sleep rough but I queued two weeks ago for about 14 hours for Garth Brooks tickets. It was a tough night with the cold and rain but fun also with happy drunks pouring out from the pub with some of them walking by singing some Garth Brooks songs. Other people stopped and asked what we were queuing for. Another drunk put a riverdance display for a few hours. There was no badness from the public and I went queuing expecting people to shout 'redneck' or something at the queue. It was a good night. In the morning when I got my tickets at about 5 past 9, I skipped out from the shop and almost skipped into a moving van.

Davarus Walrus

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Slept in St. Stephens Greens one night. Student days, missed last bus home.

Must have been an early night considering it closes at 8PM.

rawn

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Must have been an early night considering it closes at 8PM.

Very easy to hop a fence though. You can hop a fence at any time of the day or night, even more so when you're bladdered.

I am pie

Locked myself out on my day off once with no wallet. Went and slept in the park, had no shoes on. Classy.

The_Valeyard

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Must have been an early night considering it closes at 8PM.

Hoped over large gate. Far side by Leeson street. Easy to do actually.

Tokyo

In my backpacking days, plenty of times. Beaches, abandoned outbuildings, bus stations, an old train carriage, an abandoned Soviet army base to name a few...

I am pie

Is stuck in town I'd always start walking in the direction of home on automatic, even if just to get out of town towards somewhere a bit quieter. Sure, you'd be safer kipping in a suburban front garden than in stephen's green.

harry Bailey esq

Myself and two mates locked ourselves out of our holiday apt one night and just slept in the garden of the complex,it was gran canaria though so it was warm,and we were fairly jarred too so it wasn't to bad looking back.Never had to sleep rough in Ireland thank god but I've suffered some horrendous nights sleeping in cars

The Backwards Man

Slept in trucks and vans a lot when I was younger, fell asleep on trains a few times, but never slept outdoors. Yet.

ian87

Mint Aero wrote: »

Nope, I'm of a higher cast.

It's caste. Mustn't be that high if you can't spell it.

Sleeping in the car on a freezing night was the worst I had to do, thankfully!

Senna

Slept in the back garden of our student house at college once, the other fella in the house had left the key in the door and I couldn't unlock it with the key on the inside, couldn't wake him up either.
Slept in cars loads of times.

OldBean

Missed the last bus after a poorly made, booze influenced decision with a woman one rather warm Summer night. Slept outside Busaras. There was two backpackers waiting for the same bus at 8 the next morning, so we took it in shifts to make sure we didn't get robbed/pissed upon/kicked. Never felt so rough getting home.

Slicemeister

Slept in an abandoned old house as a result of serious gambling issues having alienated and abused everyone I knew at the time. Never again.

BraziliaNZ

Once in St Tropez, France, and once in Camberwell, South London, what a f**king difference in places!

GenieOz

Slept on a really bad mattress once..

Mech1

Myself and the missus left Dublin one night in about 95 / 96 in a old type mini at 10.00pm To head for Glenamoy in Mayo.

The trip was at zero notice as a phone call told us the granny was on her death bed and get there if we could.

I'm from Belfast and at the time was used to 24hr petrol stations all over the north so thought nothing of heading out of town with a full tank of fuel and fill up again anywhere I needed.

We started out at warp speed in the mini (1350cc tuned up) but by the midlands I was starting to worry about fuel consumption as we where at half tank and I had not even seen a open shop since somewhere on the Naas road.

I had about a half gallon extra in a can that was in the boot, but that wasnt enough.

We ended up sleeping in Ballina bus station carpark while waiting for the fuel station across the road to open up.

Got woken twice during the night by the Gardai asking us why we where there.

Got there in the end, and all turned out ok, but a rough nights sleep in a leaking, cramped, non reclining Mini.

zcorpian88

Slept in my father's toolshed after a night on the lash,

Forgot my key and left my phone at home because it was new and I had no case for it. Tried knocking but gave up after a half hour.

Slept on a mouldy semi-damp couch that was in there, considerably more comfortable than everyone else's rough night.

Lux23

Someone close to me was homeless for a year and he slept in a little hut he made in the grounds of Hume House.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Mate of mine arrived home pissed one christmas only to find himself locked out.
Decided to head for the coal shed only to find his father also pissed fast asleep curled-up in a load of coal bags.
He snuggled up beside him.:D

Lumbo

Was outside the pub the other night and a homeless lad was trying to get some money or smokes off me. He was waiting to see if he'd get a place in the hostel and seemed happy enough that it wasn't so cold out. He told me some random person had kicked him in the face when he was sleeping rough a few nights earlier. It's bad enough having to deal with the elements without people being **** as well.

Gatling

Spent 6 weeks sleeping rough in wales despite having a full time job ,
Slept mostly on benches on the local sea front ,
Have to say not my proudest moment in life,

Duff

Slept in a park in the middle of Downtown Chicago after the first night of Lollapalooza 2012. Flew in from NY that day so had no idea of the layout of Chicago or how to get to the hostel we'd booked. Being pie-eyed drunk didn't help. Lost all my mates I went with at the festival and couldn't remember which subway line I'd to take so just kipped on a bench with a few pigeons for company. Wasn't too bad as it was warm. Hate to have to do it here though.

beano345

A park bench in Toronto one night....and lived in a car for a few weeks before it was stolen on me,then I truely new the meaning of the word homeless!

Mongfinder General

Slicemeister wrote: »

Slept in an abandoned old house as a result of serious gambling issues having alienated and abused everyone I knew at the time. Never again.

Gambling or sleeping in an abandoned house?

Lou.m

I had to sleep on with a pea under a hundred mattresses once, some dude insisted on it after my asking could i take shelter on a stormy night.
I had a pea shaped bruise on my skin.
The next morning i complained and he wanted to marry me.
I said 'ah no you're grand.'

He was puzzled he had never before met an IRISH princess.

kumate_champ07

Gatling wrote: »

Spent 6 weeks sleeping rough in wales despite having a full time job ,
Slept mostly on benches on the local sea front ,
Have to say not my proudest moment in life,

why not? you're a survivor, some people wouldn't have made it thru that

Canyon86

spiralism wrote: »

Handful of times, in a marquee in Roscommon after one severely messy night, once in Athlone on paddys day and twice in Amsterdam, one in Vondelpark and one in Schipol airport the day before moving back. Each time wasn't exactly my definition of fun.

What's vondelpark like at night ? Is it dodge ?

I stayed in the stayokay in January nice place

kumate_champ07

slept on a doorway across from San Francisco Bay, found some cardboard boxes and flattened them out. it was end of summer and chilly during the night. I had missed the last bus to LA and didnt have enough train fare, the next bus was too late to catch my fight at LAX. that was an epic adventure

Miami is a great place to sleep rough, as long as you can keep hydrated

Stained Class

Drove down to Courtown with a few pals back in the '90s.

Went to the big nightclub there & of course we all got locked.

We all slept in the van that night.

Next morning, we drove round the town & we saw loads of people sleeping outside on green areas.

They looked like the 'battlefield dead'.

FudgeBrownie

Slept on the floor of some random hostel after being soaked in the rain and used my wet shoe as a pillow. That count?

The Diabolical Monocle

Canyon86 wrote: »

What's vondelpark like at night ? Is it dodge ?

I stayed in the stayokay in January nice place

Ja it is German yes. It is the park where you are going to fondle the jung boys.

The Diabolical Monocle

FudgeBrownie wrote: »

Slept on the floor of some random hostel after being soaked in the rain and used my wet shoe as a pillow. That count?

hahahaha.

that deserves a blues song.

got them wet shoe pilla blues.

MadYaker

I passed out in my friends back garden after an extensive night on the tatter. Was during the warm weather last summer though so it was grand.

orangesoda

Coach stations in england, the security guard people kept asking to see my bus ticket, i obviously look like a homeless fellow

rannerap

Had to sleep rough in Belfast one night when me and a friend were stranded with no money. It sucked. I genuinely feel for those that have to do it all the time.

riaganach

I'd blocked this out of my mind for 20 odd years.

July 1993.
Interrailing and stopped off in Pamplona.

Spent the night drinking.
Thought it was a fierce rough kinda place. Lots of locals seemed to have blood injuries. (Turns out they were gored).

Kipped rough in the local park with mates for about 2 hours.

Woken up to a large lady riding a very thin young fella about 20 feet away. He may not have been alive.

Then ran with the bulls at 8am.

Surprising how quickly ya can run after a night on the tear, when ya need to.