Ever Slept Rough?

Sir Osis of Liver. · 20-02-2014 08:14PM #1

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 · 20-02-2014 08:15PM

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

spiralism · 20-02-2014 08:17PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:18PM

Often slept in a Phonebox after a night out.

Davarus Walrus · 20-02-2014 08:18PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:18PM

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

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 20-02-2014 08:19PM

Sadly yes, been there, done that.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 20-02-2014 08:19PM

Airports a few times.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 20-02-2014 08:20PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:20PM

Nope, I'm of a higher cast.

geckovision · 20-02-2014 08:21PM

On the concrete ground beside a park bench.

shruikan2553 · 20-02-2014 08:21PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:21PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:22PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:23PM

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

RiverOfLove · 20-02-2014 08:26PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:29PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:37PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:42PM

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

The_Valeyard · 20-02-2014 08:44PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:44PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:48PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:50PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:52PM

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

ian87 · 20-02-2014 08:52PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:55PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:56PM

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 · 20-02-2014 08:57PM

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 · 20-02-2014 09:12PM

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

GenieOz · 20-02-2014 09:28PM

Slept on a really bad mattress once..

Mech1 · 20-02-2014 09:36PM

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.

Ever Slept Rough?

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