You ever been so tired.......

That you've done something colossally dumb, or forgotten how to do something routine? My stories-

I once was at the ER with the wife until approx 5am. I have to get up for work at 6am to make it there on time. I refuse to call in sick, so I went to work on 24+ hours awake. Everything was ok until the end of the day, when I hit a wall. I knew this, when I sat down in my desk chair........and tried to put my seat belt on. I was confused when it wasn't on the wall, and I actually looked for it, before realizing I was in fact at my desk, and not in my car.

The other one, actually happened this morning. Wife works overnights a few nights a week, and we have an infant. Who likes to get up and play at about.......3am. This doesn't do so well for me. Safe to say, I'm rather out of it for the first part of the AM until the caffeine kicks in. Anyhow, got to work, realized I had a mound of paperwork to wade through, much of it stapled together. Look at one packet, and........completely forgot how to turn the page. Fumbled at the edges for a good minute or so, until I realized I was being dumb and finally got it figured out.

Figured i'd share, because why not.

You know.... i just watched the Top Gear episode last night where Hamster gets hypnotised, and is told that he doesn't know how to drive a car. Hilarity ensues.

Flew to London in a big, last minute rush for a 10am presentation from a gig in AZ on Friday. Came in to home (PA) on the red-eye late Sat night, got delayed and ended up getting home Sun AM. Threw a suit in a bag... drove from PA to Newark for an evening flight... touched down in Heathrow at 6am, cab to hotel to wash up and get dressed... Took the Tube to the client, did the presentation and went out for a pint afterward with them... went for the Tube to go to my hotel... and fell asleep on the bench. In a tunnel under a strange city... wearing a suit and carrying a laptop. For 4 freakin' hours!

Oddly, I wasn't raped or even robbed. Nobody even bothered me as far as I know.

wow. just wow.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: You know.... i just watched the Top Gear episode last night where Hamster gets hypnotised, and is told that he doesn't know how to drive a car. Hilarity ensues.

I watched that one myself. I almost wonder if that wasn't part of it.

ultraclyde wrote: wow. just wow.

BTW, this was 3yrs ago, not this past weekend.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

ultraclyde wrote: wow. just wow.

BTW, this was 3yrs ago, not this past weekend.

I will second the WOW.

Get a nap before you drive!

I thought I was the only one who'd tried to put my seat belt on while sitting in my office chair.

Work all day Sunday, fly to new york red eye, work on plane, up all Monday, biz meetings till 1am with other country that night , no hotel so ended up walking the park a few times, back to work ~7am ( 4am my time). and crashed out at 4:00pm.

Did not wake up for ~13 hours.

So ~8:00am on a Sunday west coast to ~4pm on a Tuesday East coast, working with equipment that will honestly kill or maim if not treated with respect. Then got a on a plane on Wednesday night and back to the west coast and work on Thursday.

I was belligerent when they lost my baggage on the way home, like crazy guy on the street dancing for money mumbling about the radio's in my teeth.

Oh, and my PERSONAL favorite, I have a habit of attempting to unlock (and subequently waiting for the locks to "click" open) my interior garage door from my apt building to underground parking, with my Mazda key fob. I do that probably once a month. I figure all the doors are locked and need to be opened, and my car opens with my key fob, so why not. I also get REALLY confused when the Taurus doesn't unlock with the Mazda fob.... and I don't generally lock the Taurus.

I worked all kinds of crazy hours towing. One night about 12:30 I got a call for a Land Rover that had to go to a dealer in VA, about 7 hours from Long Island. I picked it up and was supposed to take the customer and his truck to VA right away. We headed out and somehow I was fine the whole way. I unloaded the truck, climbed in to back it into a space at the dealer and passed out, somehow locking the doors so I couldn't be disturbed. I woke up about two hours later to a very angry customer who was stuck there until I could give him his house keys. .

I've been so tired before that I slammed my thumb in the car door.

Twice.

Second time the door was locked.

I have fallen asleep in the back of a fire truck.......

......on the way to a confirmed structure fire.

My son was at the track one night doing laps. He's around 6 years old at this time. Track closed at 10 and it's about 9:59. I had flagged him to come in earlier but he was getting ready for a race and kept wanting to do "one more lap, dad".

When he finally came in, he raised his hand to help pull him out of the kart (which was unusual for him to want help). As I pulled him out of the seat, he went limp. Literally fell asleep getting out. Went and laid him in the car, suit, glove, chest protector still on while I packed up the kart.

He didn't remember anything past seeing the checkered flag the next morning.

-Rob

I've fallen asleep while doing recce for a rally at over 100km/h... And I was writing notes!

Driver was like wtf?! I also nodded off once on stage for a few seconds, then managed to stay awake for the rest of it :)

I've had some I'm not proud of while driving. Locked up the brakes with a car full of sleeping people because I thought I saw a deer jump into the road...then did it again a few minutes later, and I'm pretty sure I did it a few times after that. I've also seen huge trees laying across the road. I don't pull that driving sleepy E36 M3 anymore. More dangerous than driving with a buzz if you ask me.

many yrs ago ( when I regularly consumed far more adult beverages each night than I should ) I got up one morning realizing I was running late for some thing/place I had do/get to.... running around getting ready ( getting later and later as I hurried more and more... could not find my glasses ANYWHERE ... looking franticly, getting more and more upset ( I hate being late anywhere )

walking back down the hall towards the bedroom to look once more and as I pasted the full length mirror on the bathroom door, I glanced that direction ..... there they were hooked on my ears and sitting on my nose, with my eyes looking straight out through them

Our third son is 4 months old tomorrow. He hasn't been that bad, probably mostly because we're old hands at this baby thing by now. Our middle son, we thought we were going to die- colic until 6 months old. NO sleep of any quantity for me or my wife, both of whom were working outside the home at the time.

Funniest story for me, though, is from when our oldest was about 3 months old. It was raining that morning, so when I went to work I just hung my raincoat up on the cube and got to work. About 10:30 I got up to use the restroom, then discovered as I was washing my hands that I had been sitting in my office all morning with my polo shirt on inside out. Either nobody noticed or nobody had the heart to tell me.

Yes. College+Coffee+14 hours of Math will do that to you. Can't think of any examples right off the top of my head though.

Drove 11 hours solo from NC to Pa w/ only coffee/ pee stops. Dropped the bags and straight to bed. Woke up several times grabbing for a steering wheel w/ the 'Oh E36 M3 feeling'.

Strangely, i didn't have these issues on my 25 hour grind from Indy, IN to Oceanside, CA to Grand Junction, CO without sleep.

My worst was my first year at college. I was living at home, driving 52 miles each way, and working the overnights on Fri, Sat, Sun to pay for it. I was a music major so the weekend before classes started we had "band camp" for the marching band to leanr new drills. Friday morning I arrived at campus at 8am, was tehre all day until 6pm, drove the hour home, ate, changed clothes, went to work that night. Got off work at 6am, ran home, showered, and drove the hour to campus, spent all day Sat rehearsing and learning new drills until 6pm, went out to dinner with friends, drove home, changed, went to work Sat night. Sunday, got out of work, slept 2 hours, showered, drove the hour to campus for pictures, then 3 hours of rehearsals, then back home for a one hour nap before work, got off Monday morning, ran home, showered, changed and headed for my 8am class. I made it through all my classes that day, and at 5pm I followed a friend to her apartment, fell asleep on the couch at 5:20 and woke up the next morning at 8am.

In that time I forgot how to plug in a vacuum cleaner (boss literally found me pushing the vacuum with cord rolled up!), Did not know where I parked the car, while I am standing in front of it and consumed more caffiene in a 72 hour period than any human should ever injest. (2 nights of Jolt Cola and Vivarin).

After a week of back to back 16 hour shifts at a very demanding job, I came down with flu like symptoms half way through my last day on that shift. I forced myself through the rest my workday on pure willpower. I remember getting into my red Bronco and leaving the plant drive way, feeling like I must have a very high fever. The next thing I remember is waking up in my bed a day and a half later. I swear my bronco drove me home.

I have been so tired I did something stupid. I don't remember what it was, but I'm sure I did something.