Ever Slept Rough?

Oz, 1999 went to Blue Mountains for a night and we booked into a hostel. I missed the curfew nd was locked out. So I spoke slept in the ditch across the road. Woken up the next morning by a passing fire truck.

On way back from Oz stayed in Hawaii for 3 nights, low on money so spent 2 nights oín the beach and 1 in the airport.

Oh, the happy year of travelling after college...

I have never slept anywhere outside the chamber

barely related but a few weeks ago i was so drunk after a night out i went to an internet cafe and the next thing i remember is being woken up by the guy working there at half five in the morning with my head on the keyboard... not going back there in a hurry anyway

Got ridiculously drunk in New York last summer, got separated from my mates and ended up wandering where the streets have no name...woke up on a bench beside Hudson river (I think) and was delighted that nobody had taken my wallet/phone only to discover my shoes had been stolen! I have never worn odd socks again since that day!

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Wow. Crazy sthuff altogether, I feel so boring now.
You really went from a stairwell to well off ?? Fair play.

Yep, hadn't a pot to P!ss in-literally....... people like me go through crap like that, so hopefully people like you will see us and won't have to go through that, lol.

I am comfortable now, don't have a high paying job, but made money my last few years in the States and was lucky with my decisions....so when I say I've been in some States-I mean it haha-
Had a lot of fun along the way though......one story springs to mind-I got on a bus in Atlantic city with some girl, ended up going back to her town-reneckville somewhere-to this day still don't know the name of the town or State I was in, but after partying for a few days, went back to the bus station and she bought me a ticket back to New York, so never even found out (or cared) about where I was

nbar12 wrote: »

only to discover my shoes had been stolen! I have never worn odd socks again since that day!

Listed from my post in this thread Have you ever tried to stop a wedding...

Hitching through rural Germany we find a field to sleep in. Being a bit cold the only wood we can find is wooden barriers around an excavation hole about six feet deep - we bust those up and light a fire. We go to sleep only to be woken by four Germans who fall on top us and they are totally pissed and find us hysterically funny. One of them is carrying a pumpkin and keeps showing it to us. They eventually leave, and we try to sleep. We hear them shouting in the distance. We wake up in the morning and make our way back to the road, past the excavation trench. There is a pumpkin in the bottom of it.

Finally arriving in Amsterdam we hit a coffee shop and my mate falls backwards off a barstool and smack his head off the floor. He blacks out, the waitress tries to drag him out, he starts vomiting and nearly slides off the steps about 8 feet high.

I spend 30 mins trying to figure out if he is concussed or stoned, whilst I'm really stoned. I eventually find a police station and explain that my friend is probably concussed and where is the nearest hospital. The cop asks "where did the accident happen" I (stupidly) reply "In a coffee shop" - the cop pulls out a tourist map and writes a ring on the map and an address. Go here he says. We do. It's a hostel not a hospital. And closed.

We end up sleeping ouside the railway station. Probably 40-50 people here as the hostels are full. I thoughtfully take off my shoes inside my sleeping bag and fall asleep. I am awoken by my mate screaming Fuck! My shoes! Someone has stolen his (only) shoes, and we end up looking for a shoe shop at 6am....

I have so much sympathy for those that do this every day. My wife's boss actually spent 5 months sleeping in her car...

Munster Hurling Final in Cork City 2011. Waterford just got hammered by 7 goals to Tipperary, and me and my friend got hammered on beer & vodka. Tried to get on the bus back to Waterford but didn't have enough money, went to the ATM, but then change of plan as we managed to get a lift off my friend's girlfriend living in Cork.

Just out of the city and she was looking for money, something like €50, I don't really remember much but I disagreed and asked to be brought back and dropped off at the Silver Springs Hotel (which would've worked out a lot dearer than the €50!) but reception took one look at us and I knew it was obvious we weren't getting a room. Walked for hours looking for a hostel until around 4am we eventually just slept on the ground in between two houses with rubbish bags for pillows. Don't think I even fell asleep, horrible experience at the time but just have to laugh looking back at it.

ballyharpat wrote: »

Slept under a car in Tralee after a night at the Rose of Tralee-not my brightest move, slept on Train tracks-definitely close to being one of my worst moves-woke up to cops chasing me-for my own safety. Slept In the Subway in New York numerous times. Slept on Park benches, slept in stairwells, slept in Atlantic City underneath an overturned boat. Slept on a strangers porch in Pennsylvania. Slept in many bus stations all over the East Coast of the USA and all over North and South of Ireland......
Thanks be to God those days are long, long, behind me, now I currently have a choice of 3 properties to sleep in, all paid for since I gave up the wretched drink and drugs, Grateful to even have food in the fridge and bedclothes-not to mind clean bedclothes

I often think, you can't get to where I am from where I was

Dude, write a book!
I'd be willing to read that story.

During the boom a lot of people bought shoe boxes to sleep in