Have you ever had to sleep rough?

James__10

Never have done myself! So anyone on here have to sleep outdoors and why?

WoollyRedHat

Slept in a lift and slept on a bench. The lift was worse though, the damn thing kept on automatically moving during the night :mad:

Cill Dara Abu

Slept in a horse stable once after a lot of alcohol, no idea how I ended up there.

Where To

i'm always rough

msg11

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Slept in a lift and slept on a bench. The lift was worse though, the damn thing kept on automatically moving during the night :mad:

Emergency stop button ?

pudzey101

Ya got so drunk over on holidays, and has to sleep on the fire exit as i coudnt find my room, and fell asleep in a carpark on my way home from a night out(decided id had a quick sleep to sober up) haha

Biggins

A few times work related.
Other times when younger, backpacking in warm countries.

WoollyRedHat

msg11 wrote: »

Emergency stop button ?

Didn't think of that at the time, would of been handy though.

benki11

Backyard couse of alcohol,Wife never opened door

dave3004

What?

I sleep rough every few months.

Slept rough a few weeks ago.

Hooked up with a chick in Sydney CBD. Jumped in a taxi to Bondi, went for a p!ss down a lane after we got out. Came back and she had bolted. :mad:

I'd no cash after paying for half the taxi and had lost my credit card AND was only in Sydney for long weekend.

Slept in a laneway.

whirlpool

Does Oxegen count?

Certainly felt rough.

I have fallen asleep in a doorway for a couple of hours after a night out more than once. Woops!

Other than that.... nope, thankfully.

BraziliaNZ

dave3004 wrote: »

What?

I sleep rough every few months.

Slept rough a few weeks ago.

Hooked up with a chick in Sydney CBD. Jumped in a taxi to Bondi, went for a p!ss down a lane after we got out. Came back and she had bolted. :mad:

I'd no cash after paying for half the taxi and had lost my credit card AND was only in Sydney for long weekend.

Slept in a laneway.

What did you say or do to her in that taxi?!

I slept outside in St Tropez once, as I couldn't find anywhere to stay. Bugs crawling on me etc, it was horrible!

psychward

Once I slept in an airport for 2 days waiting for a rescheduled flight out of there.

Canis Lupus

Currently cycling Africa. Sleeping in a tent is my way of life atm. (admitedly I type this from the luxury of a hotel room...)

dave3004

Does toilet hugging count as rough ?

Pompey Magnus

dave3004 wrote: »

Hooked up with a chick in Sydney CBD. Jumped in a taxi to Bondi, went for a p!ss down a lane after we got out. Came back and she had bolted. :mad:

I'd no cash after paying for half the taxi and had lost my credit card AND was only in Sydney for long weekend.

Slept in a laneway.

Hopefully the same laneway you went for a piss in, after all it was technically your territory at that stage.

Da Shins Kelly

Yep, was in Madrid, staying in the outskirts of the city. Got extremely drunk with some Americans and missed the last bus home, we lost each other and I ended up sleeping on the street with some homeless guy who was actually a very nice man.

Oranage2

Few times -

kicked out of a hotel in laois so had to sleep on a park bench.

Me and my mate were running out of cash on a euro trip so we'd put our bags in a train station locker, get hammered then find a park bench.

Slept in a car in cork for a few days.

And the odd beach too.

dave3004

Many years ago, one night my friend threw me on the bus home from city centre coz I was too drunk and taxis weren't daring stop for me. It was 11pm. luckily my house is at the last bus-stop.

I wake up the next morning with a hangover that could kill a zombie.

Stumble downstairs and my mam looks at me in pure anger...Pointing a butter knife at me as she speaks....." If you ever, EVER knock on the door like you did this morning at 6am you will never sleep in this house again"......

I rang my mate to confirm the 11pm bus ride.

6am?????

WTF happened for 7 hours I do not know.....but if there is a god.....Thats the first question I am asking him !

dave3004

Slept on a wall before. I was on my 6th year holiday in Santa Ponza (cliché much) and was scoring some bird on the beach.

Happy with the foreplay going on but unhappy with the lack of finishing.

Was like Arsenal. All great stuff in and around the box but hadn't put together that glorious finish.
This continued for far too long…..Hours passed. Eventually the night had finished. Must have been about 3 or 4am.
She decided to head home. I couldn't walk. The worst case of blue balls a man has ever had.

Across the road from McDonalds, I had to sleep on the wall that lines the beach and let the hours pass, my balls deflate and my skin blister from the morning sun.
Trundled home about 9am and blasted one out…..Which is what I should have done several hours previous to prevent the problem !

Napper Hawkins

My tale of sleeping rough is indeed, a harsh one.

One time in my formative years, I awoke in my king size bed to the sound of my dear mother knocking gently upon my bedroom door.

"Breakfast in bed, Napper?" said she.

"Oh, how wonderful" I exclaimed.

But upon my first tentative sip of my large mug of hot chocolate, I realised it was far too hot and ever so slightly burnt my tongue.

Needless to say, I was disgusted and banished her from my presence, the callous witch.

mackg

Beach once or twice

Tent got destroyed the first night of the bennicassim festival but that was Spain so twas grand

Drunk in the boot of a ford fiesta arched over a spare tyre

Behind a bush near my house in cork cause was too drunk/lazy to walk the rest of the way home

LighterGuy

dave3004 wrote: »

What?

I sleep rough every few months.

Slept rough a few weeks ago.

Hooked up with a chick in Sydney CBD. Jumped in a taxi to Bondi, went for a p!ss down a lane after we got out. Came back and she had bolted. :mad:

I'd no cash after paying for half the taxi and had lost my credit card AND was only in Sydney for long weekend.

Slept in a laneway.

Sounds like you got used for taxi fare my good man.
Terrible alright. Just a total user.

x_Ellie_x

I fell asleep in someone's back garden once. I was at a house party and I went out to the garden because I needed some fresh air. I'd had a bit too much to drink and was feeling sick. I ended up falling asleep on a bench they had out there and didn't wake up until around 6am the next morning. The worst thing was that they had locked the door and I was stuck out there. I was bloody freezing! I had to wait a few hours until someone woke up and let me out. I think I scared the bejesus out of the guy's mother when I knocked on the kitchen window. I didn't really know that guy or his family that well (I'd gone to the party with a friend of the guy's) so it was a bit awkward.

x_Ellie_x

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

What did you say or do to her in that taxi?!

I slept outside in St Tropez once, as I couldn't find anywhere to stay. Bugs crawling on me etc, it was horrible!

Maybe she bolted because she stole his credit card

pappyodaniel

More than once. The first time was years ago when I was about 19 and couldn't getta taxi back from Limerick to Shannon so off I set walking the 12 or so miles home. I made it about 8 miles and was wrecked so I sat down under a flyover for a break and then fell asleep. About an hour later I was awoke by a concerned motorist who on his way to work spotted what he thought was a dead body. He was relieved to see I was alive and I was more relieved and grateful for the offer of a lift home the rest of the way.

I've slept on a bench in Eyre Square in Galway, and once outside Euston Station in Dublin also which was probably the scariest night of my life.

vampire of kilmainham

i often slept rough travelling around europe when i was younger

jive

slept in a park in Dublin near Trinity Hall (i think the accom is called) because the warden wouldn't let me and a friend stay in a friends room cause we weren't signed in, lol. Mate had 2 sleeping bags so we borrowed those and slept in the park. Actually had a good sleep and when my friend tried to wake me I wanted a few more minutes just like in the leaba. Felt like such a bum and I'd say people walking passed were wondering why us two knobheads were in sleeping bags

im invisible

Once in Gran Canaria, after a few too many beers i woke up on a bench at the side of the road, dont know what time it was, but the sun was up, not a clue where i was, went for a bit of a wander, found a road i knew and kept walking for maybe 20 minutes till i found the beach,
i knew my way back to the hotel from the beach, so i set off, walked back the same road i had come down, got back to the bench i had slept on, and a few minutes the far side of it was the hotel, had a nice three quarters of an hour walk in the early morning air anyway,

Another time was at Creamfields in punchestown, one of the dj's played about 15 minutes over time, so when i got back to the bus, it was gone. Was living in Tralee at the time, so found a bus that was going to Limerick, got a lift, and wandered the streets/ slept outside the bus station untill half 7, when the first bus was going.

mikemac

Work night out in Templebar and I head home to Artane, about six km north if you know it

For some reason I decided to walk it?? Don't know why

Must have been walking for hours, last I remember I was on North Circular Rd and dog tired, I could barely walk

There was wasteground beside some office builiding and I climed in there and slept on the grass, nice and quiet, nobody could see me

Woke up the next day and nearly killed myself trying to get over that gate and razor wire.

I don't know how I made it over the fence without impaling myself


Slept in many airports but I don't think that counts. Roma have the most uncomfortable window sills and seats. Wood and grated metal, would wreck your back to lie on them

SuperS54

On a bender in Taipei some years ago, headed to a nightclub at sometime around 2am, not feeling the best so took a walk around the block to sober up a bit, feeling somewhat fatigued sat down on one of the many scooters parked at the side of the road, woke up sometime around 7am to 30 odd degrees, a very sore head and a f**king gazillion mossie bites...

minidazzler

pappyodaniel wrote: »

More than once. The first time was years ago when I was about 19 and couldn't getta taxi back from Limerick to Shannon so off I set walking the 12 or so miles home. I made it about 8 miles and was wrecked so I sat down under a flyover for a break and then fell asleep. About an hour later I was awoke by a concerned motorist who on his way to work spotted what he thought was a dead body. He was relieved to see I was alive and I was more relieved and grateful for the offer of a lift home the rest of the way.

I've slept on a bench in Eyre Square in Galway, and once outside Euston Station in Dublin also which was probably the scariest night of my life.

I reaally can't understand why you didn't stick your thumb out? Unless you did and limerick people are just pricks, if you have to walk that distance you may as well thumb a lift, someone will stop and if they don't then you are simply at sqaure one of walking.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I slept in central railway station in Munich for nearly a week, i was homeless and penniless. I didnt eat for nearly 3 days and was weak with hunger. I eventually got money i was owed from a job i had left and stuffed myself stupid in BK. While in BK i spotted a charitable soup kitchen at the end of the platform in the station...i was so annoyed that i had gone so long without food or drink and there was a soup kitchen less than 200m from the locker room i slept in each night. I continued to sleep in the station for another 4 or 5 days as my money would only strecth so far and eating was more important than accomodation. It was a fairly enlightening experience!

Temptamperu

I slept rough once when I was in amsterdam, I dont remember leaving the pub i was in but I woke up and have never felt as cold in my life.

ScumLord

Slept on a footpath the night before La tomatina, the people I was with were at it before and picked a spot right in the middle of the action. I woke up surrounded by people, stood up and got a blast of freezing water in the face off a massive hose on top of a truck.

BlimpyBoy

Me and a mate slept on benches in Maynooth one night (probably rag week). Couldn't get a taxi anywhere. There were loads of crows in the trees that my mate was convinced were bats.

After it started to get bright in the morning we went to the 24 hour Tesco to get some ham, crisps and Club orange and walked down the canal to Leixlip for some reason. By the time we got there the morning buses were running.

Weird night.

petethebrick

Woke up in a multistory building under construction having even made a little bed of styrofoam to sleep on. I had been on an all day bender the day before, I didn't have a clue where I was. I wandered outside, up a hill to a main road. I had been out drinking in Dublin city center the day before so got a fair shock when I saw a signpost that said 'Dublin 25km' or something like that. I was in Wicklow somewhere :o:o:o:o
I had also lost my wallet so had to get a taxi home and get my mate to pay for it. Still don't know what happened - just thankful it wasn't a monday morning I woke up there surrounded by builders

Roar

slept outside the train station in rome after missing the last train to the airport and all the taxis were on strike.

it was horrible, i'd get a few minutes sleep and wake up paranoid that i was about to be robbed. some extremely dodgy characters around.

jester77

Myself and a mate slept on the ground of the train station in Amsterdam, my mate was rudely awakened by a boot to the midriff by a security guard, thankfully my mates roar was enough to wake me and spare me from bruised ribs!

df1985

Slept on the floor of barcelona airport after missing a connecting flight home.

Hammered and woke up in hedges on a roundabout in tenerife....

Fishooks12

Slept in a kennel out side a local co-op after a heavy night out in my home town

RichieC

Bout eleven years ago I missed the last dart and bus out of Bray so I creeped into the station, pulled a dart door open and kipped on the seat.. I gotta tell you it was pretty awkward when I woke up to the dart moving up onto a packed platform

bonzodog2

I slept on a bench at Fishguard ferry terminal after walking 18 miles overnight from Cardigan, getting there too late for the ferry, so I had to wait 12 hours for the next one.

AnonoBoy

No. I don't think I have.

Not much of a contribution to the thread I agree but still one must be honest in these situations.

blorg

First time was in my school days, I had gone to a party and had nowhere to stay so I slept in a park. What I didn't figure on was the cold; got hardly any sleep.

In college after a hard night one summer I woke up at 6am lying in the middle of a cricket pitch in Trinity. Had to go to work that morning, and being conscientious, I didn't think to call in sick. Worst day of my life but I think I got away with it. Summer though so I actually slept.

Slept in the desert in Syria but was woken up by a big scarab beetle biting my arm so I put up my tent. Apart from that plenty of camping across the Middle East and Tibetan Plateau but always in a tent.

Have slept in an unoccupied Turkish army post in Kurdistan, a store room, a corridor, a cupboard and a mosque in Iran. Once slept on a roof in India under a tree full of monkeys but for some reason it seemed to be their night off. Every other night they were stealing food and rummaging around bags and bins.

The main problem with sleeping rough though I think is the cold; if you are too cold you just won't be able to sleep, I think your body keeps itself awake to stop you getting hypothermia. It must be very hard living on the streets in Ireland, I really feel for anyone I see in that position.

Batsy

In 1998, when I was in the Royal Navy my ship, HMS Exeter, spent several months in refit.

When it came out of refit we celebrated by each inviting a family member or friend onboard as we sailed from Portsmouth to Cherbourg for a few days' holiday (except those people who had to stay on duty onboard).

I invited my brother. We sailed over to Cherbourg on the northern coast of France. Me and my brother booked a hotel with a nice view and a fridge with plenty of little bottles of various alcoholic spirits in them.

We spent the first night getting nice and merry on all the alcohol. The next day we noticed that Bayeux isn't too far away - it's about ten miles away, I think - so we decided to get on a train there and see the Bayeux Tapestry.

When we got to Bayeux we decided to see what time the last train back to Cherbourg is. It was at 11pm. We then went to the museum and had a look at the Bayeux Tapestry. I think we also went to a few bars and had a few drinks.

When 11pm neared we went back to Bayeux train station to get the train back to Cherbourg. The station was empty and the building was closed and locked. But we stood on the deserted platform waiting for the train in the cold. 11pm came and there was still no sign of the train. 11.15pm came and there was still no sign of it. So we started to get worried.

We then walked to the main building of the window and peeked throught the windows. Screens with the trains times on were still switched on inside it. We then realised to our horror that the times were in 24 hour clock and that the 11 o'clock train back to Cherbourg was 11 o'clock in the morning. So we missed the last train back.

We therefore decided to find a hotel to stay in. We spent ages wondering around Bayeux trying to find a hotel. Everyone we saw seemed to be closed.

Eventually we found one that was open and we thought out luck was in. So we went in only to be told it was fully booked for a group of German and American tourists but that we could return in the morning for breakfast.

we eventually saw another hotel - which was closed - and we just decided to sleep outside it. We sat down with our backs against the wall and tried to sleep. But we couldn't because it was freezing cold. After about an hour we got up and spent the rest of the night just wondering the deserted streets of the town.

When morning came we went back to that hotel with the American and German tourists and had croissants for breakfast, then we finally caught the train back to Cherbourg.

u_c_thesecond

when i was 16 i went to cashel co tipperary with friends on the promise we could stay overnight in one of the lads houses. Of course his mother knew nothing of this and by the time we found out we had nowhere to kip it was 9pm and we had no way home.

So went uptown and there was a closed down pub, managed to get in a back window and sleep in there. Actually had a great nights sleep

Dr conrad murray

one night i slept in a phonebox

Celly Smunt

slept rough in Soho for a week after spending my money on coke and hoes.(this time for real)

uch

Had to sleep in a bus shelter in the Netherlands for a few weeks in the early 90's, went over for a job and the fuker I was meant to meet for the job had scooted off to Berlin for his holliers and forgot about me, prick!

Celly Smunt

uch wrote: »

Had to sleep in a bus shelter in the Netherlands for a few weeks in the early 90's, went over for a job and the fuker I was meant to meet for the job had scooted off to Berlin for his holliers and forgot about me, prick!

did you get the job when he came back?