Falling asleep on public transport

Mushy · 15-01-2012 12:28AM

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 · 15-01-2012 12:30AM

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 · 15-01-2012 12:44AM

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 · 15-01-2012 12:57AM

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 · 15-01-2012 01:06AM

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

Mr.Crinklewood · 15-01-2012 01:09AM

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

Storminateacup · 15-01-2012 01:12AM

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 · 15-01-2012 01:16AM

I've only fallen asleep on public transport once.

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

GreenWolfe · 15-01-2012 01:19AM

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 · 15-01-2012 10:47AM

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 · 15-01-2012 10:49AM

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 · 15-01-2012 11:08AM

CricketDude wrote: »

I got a mobile phone jammer

Sure you did.

15-01-2012 11:18AM

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 · 15-01-2012 11:27AM

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 · 15-01-2012 11:34AM

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 · 15-01-2012 11:40AM

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:

15-01-2012 11:44AM

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 · 15-01-2012 11:51AM

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 · 15-01-2012 12:01PM

ICANN wrote: »

Sure you did.

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

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

Sierra 117 · 15-01-2012 12:04PM

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.

stovelid · 15-01-2012 12:04PM

Years ago I fell asleep and woke up as the bus driver was leaving the bus into the bus station. Don't think I was even drunk, just tired.

The driver gave me a lift back into town in his own car!

OneArt · 15-01-2012 12:29PM

At least you're in a small country, so there's no danger of going too far.

Now if I were to fall asleep on a German train there's always the possibility I might wake up in Holland

Annasopra · 15-01-2012 12:47PM

stovelid wrote: »

Years ago I fell asleep and woke up as the bus driver was leaving the bus into the bus station. Don't think I was even drunk, just tired.

The driver gave me a lift back into town in his own car!

Years ago I fell asleep on the bus and then the bus driver dropped me straight home

stovelid · 15-01-2012 12:52PM

mango salsa wrote: »

Years ago I fell asleep on the bus and then the bus driver dropped me straight home

You're hotter than me.

Rub it in.

RichT · 15-01-2012 01:08PM

Once, on the tube in london. Was supposed to get off at Stockwell and was awoken from my slumber by a woman at Tooting Broadway (6 stops past.) I dived of the train just before the doors closed. It was then my drunken befuddled brain finally worked out what the woman was saying to me when she woke me..... "You've been to Morden and back"

I was on my way back to Stockwell!!!

....... and yes it was the last train. :mad:

Ded_Zebra · 15-01-2012 01:56PM

Whenever I fall asleep on PT I wake up in a panic at each stop. Don't know what the people next to me think when i jerk awake each time:p

razorblunt · 15-01-2012 02:13PM

The Tube in London is a bit strange in seeing that amount of people asleep at the same time.
Fell asleep on the Dublin to Cork train one morning, jerked and kicked the girl across the way from me in the ankle.
Awkward but a good conversation starter all the same!

Rockn · 15-01-2012 02:46PM

I use to love my bus sleeps when I had to travel into the city centre every day. Getting up at 6:30, dress, eat and shuffle to the bus stop like a zombie knowing I could get another hours kip before starting the day properly. I always woke up before my stop though.

I fell asleep on the nitelink once when very drunk and the driver kicked me off on the way back into town. It took me a while to figure out where I was and the 2 mile walk home took nearly 2 hours.

Killer Wench · 15-01-2012 02:52PM

DjFlin wrote: »

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.

I'm all hella confused. I thought it was 4G now?

I've never slept on a city bus. I'm too interested in watching the drunkards and crackheads make an ass out of themselves. Never know when something might pop off and you need to bounce. Had that happen once on a bus in Seattle. Two dudes got into it over a camera. I know of another time when a larger woman asked to sit down next to a slim woman and the slim woman said no because she didn't want the fat woman's grease to rub off on her. So, of course that ended in a hair pulling brawl. Then, there is the occasional gun... yeah, no sleep for me.

Killer Wench · 15-01-2012 02:59PM

And let me offer you some words of advice since I am feeling charitable this morning.

If you are ever on a city bus in Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, Memphis, Detroit, or just about any large city, and there are a group of thugs at the back of the bus, and you start hearing "What? What?" screamed by those dudes, GET THE **** off the bus because ****'s about to explode.

Falling asleep on public transport

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