Falling asleep on public transport

CricketDude · 15-01-2012 05:32PM

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.

Ah Liam. You'll just have to kill everybody on the bus then, because its so small you wouldnt even find it unless you strip searched them all.

If people would only speak quietly on the phone on the bus or train there would be no need for mobile phone jammers at all. All my workmates have them now. Swear by them.

15-01-2012 05:33PM

Back when cameras were first being added to phones, I remember falling asleep on a bus and waking up to two cameras more or less shoved in my face. Was rather odd.

BraziliaNZ · 17-01-2012 10:57AM

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:

So you fell asleep and then got off at the right stop anyway?! I don't get this? Why did he give out to you?

Nothingbetter2d · 17-01-2012 11:11AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

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?

one of my friends go on the train at belfast and fell asleeps in the toilet.... he woke up in belfast 3 hrs later lol

Rabies · 17-01-2012 11:28AM

I went out on the booze after work Sat night.
Started at 5am, finished at 2:30pm.

My cab home normally costs about $30-$35.

Jumped in, cabbie asked me if I have enough. I remember telling him its all good I have loads of cash.

Woke up at one point in the CBD to find us on a longer route home, directed him back to the motorway.
Woke up again when we drove past my house and were at the end of the road heading for the ferry terminal

Back we went.
$55 later I was home.

Bah!!

vader65 · 17-01-2012 11:31AM

I've never been fully asleep, but rather a kind of snooze and I always wake up around more or less the same spot 5 mins before my stop which is useful enough.

smash · 17-01-2012 11:33AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

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

I can't tell if you're serous or just joking about their small eyes.

irelandrover · 17-01-2012 11:38AM

Live in Holland. Got the last train home one night and woke up in Germany. Had quite the experience trying to get back into Holland without my passport. Of course they didn't wake me to check my passport on leaving the country.

Lanaier · 17-01-2012 11:40AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

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

http://www.sleepingchinese.com/

seamus · 17-01-2012 11:45AM

Can't sleep anywhere but in a bed or at a push on a couch. Even completely wasted on the nitelink and trying to sleep, I've never been able to.

I'm sometimes envious of people who can just close their eyes and drop off, but not when you see what they look like on public transport :pac:

At best, I can phase out and sort of meditate with my eyes closed, but not sleep.

Plazaman · 17-01-2012 11:54AM

razorblunt wrote: »

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!

If I doze off and wake up with a start, I always tend to make a strange "mu-ah-hah" noise which can range from soft to screaming. I can never sleep when I'm on the move (trains, planes, automobiles) BUT....

An unfortunate incident years ago when I was on the Sligo Dublin train, for some reason I did doze off with not a sinner sitting around me. Coming into Mullingar the train braked hard for some reason and woke me with a resounding "mu-ah-hah". Of course people had taken the seat across from me and beside me and a young chap of about 8 sitting opposite me took a mad fright, screamed, dropped his can of coke which exploded over all at the table including me. His mother gave me a "Jesus Fúckin Christ, what's wrong with you" and I got dagger eyes from all around.

Got off at Mullingar in shame and waited for the next train. Never slept on public transport since.

BraziliaNZ · 17-01-2012 11:57AM

smash wrote: »

I can't tell if you're serous or just joking about their small eyes.

I'm serious. I remember being in Melbourne where there are tonnes of Asians. Sometimes I'd get on a tram and be the only white person, every Asian on the thing would be sleeping. It's the same on the tube in London. I don't know why they do it but I've seen it all over.

Apanachi · 17-01-2012 12:05PM

irelandrover wrote: »

Had quite the experience trying to get back into Holland without my passport.

They checked your passport going back into Holland????

That was a (second) stroke of bad luck, all the times I have traveled from Germany to Holland, not once was I asked for my passport

GavRedKing · 17-01-2012 12:11PM

After a heavy session on a college night out I got an early bus back from a mates place in the City (cork) and ended up having what I thought was a 2 minute nap, turned out I had missed my stop and carried on for another 3.

One of the lads I know was getting a morning train back home to Mallow from Cork after a night out, and woke up approaching Heuston station.

irelandrover · 17-01-2012 12:29PM

Apanachi wrote: »

They checked your passport going back into Holland????

That was a (second) stroke of bad luck, all the times I have traveled from Germany to Holland, not once was I asked for my passport

Yeah, that was the only time I have ever been asked. Must have been something suspicious looking about me

charlietheminxx · 17-01-2012 01:42PM

I find it so hard to stay fully awake on the Nitelink.... but I have a handy habit of waking up when I'm about 5 minutes from home!

Lady Chuckles · 19-01-2012 09:21AM

When I went to college I used to take the bus so often that I became friendly with the drivers. Once when I was complaining about being tired the gentleman who drove the bus told me I should have a nap and that he'd wake me up once we'd reach my stop

Another time I fell asleep in the bus on the way home, the busdriver (who I didn't know) had seen me snoozing along and used the microphone and said something along the lines of: "It's time to wake up now, lady. We're soon at the central station."

The other people in the bus had a good chuckle at me

irelandspurs · 19-01-2012 09:36AM

I once fell asleep on the bus.Woke up with a sore arse.

TheTwiz · 19-01-2012 09:44AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

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?

I got a nitelink in North Dublin - I woke up in Howth instead of Sutton!! OP did you think venturing to the northside with on a night link wound be rough? You're on the red line FFS

mikemac1 · 19-01-2012 09:49AM

TheTwiz wrote: »

I got a nitelink in North Dublin - I woke up in Howth instead of Sutton!! OP did you think venturing to the northside with on a night link wound be rough? You're on the red line FFS

Very defensive there TheTwiz, you misread my post
I'm not blasting Dublin's northside as some rough area. And Dublin is bigger then the city,

I was more wondering did anyone get a bus and end up in Rush or Lusk, up around there with no way home. Would be a funny story :P

Not sure if buses serve go that far though,

This seems to be a sore subject for you TheTwiz, you're seeing slurs on the northside where none exist.
Relax

charlietheminxx · 19-01-2012 10:10AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

I was more wondering did anyone get a bus and end up in Rush or Lusk, up around there with no way home. Would be a funny story :P

Not sure if buses serve go that far though,

They do of course, the 33N! That's my Nitelink :P

Crazy Horse 6 · 19-01-2012 10:22AM

Worked in New York as a bartender for many years and one night was taking the 6 train home to 77th street. Was fairly wasted and it was around 6am in the morning. Fell asleep and woke up at the pelham bay stop in the Bronx with my shoes robbed off my feet. Don't drink shots kids.

Falling asleep on public transport

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