Falling asleep on the bus...

[Roadkill]

It happens to most of us at some point. You've had a wee bit to drink, you get on a bus and sleep hits you. Come on, confess your shame: where's the worst place you've woken up?

:D


Last night after a work do I hopped on a 180 from Greenwich to Charlton, a journey of all of three miles: at some point I fell asleep and woke up in ... Belvedere bus station. :o :o :o

[gaijingirl]

Nothing too bad - once woke up in Crystal Palace and once almost got hosed down as they washed out the bus in Downham... :(

But an ex-boyfriend used to regularly take the train back to Orpington, fall asleep and end up in Dover... :eek:

[Bazza]

Not the bus, however, the amount of times I have woken up in Morden (Mordor) is infuriating. If you want to travel beyond Kennington on the Southbound Northern Line, the train will always terminate at Kennington. If however, I am drunk and just want to get to Waterloo, you can guarantee it's a Morden service and I'll be asleep before Waterloo (12 stops to Morden).

[marty21]

used to do this loads -

wimbledon station - (should have got off at southfields)
Earls Court (same night, missed southfields again:D )

Morden (missed south wimbledon)

edgware - should have got off at golders green

i've woken up in chingford more than once - should get off at clapton
,and walthamstow

on buses i seem to be ok, i miss a couple of stops, worst was waking up in finsbury park, when i had got the bus from there, i'd been all the way to whitechapel and back:D

dread to think how much the taxis have cost me over the years, missing my stop often happens on the last train:(

[Rollem]

i have never done it <puffs out chest with pride>

[Paulie Tandoori]

I feel asleep, pissed as a wheel, on a 149 going home late one night recently from London Bridge, meaning to get off in Stokie. Woke up with a start outside the cop shop in Edmonton Green.

Rang and woke my g/f with me moaning, 'i don't know where i am, what shall i do?' and she gently talked me through the process of crossing the road and looking for the next bus stop (what a clever girl). On the journey back, i had to ring her repeatedly as i could feel myself starting to drift off again every few minutes, so i needed to be kept concious to avoid missing my stop. She took the fact that i was keeping her awake quite well i thought.

By the time we hit Stokie again, i was so wide awake, i phoned her one last time to say i was back ITA, safe and sound, but was nipping into the Cricketers for a couple of pints....to say she wasn't best pleased is an understatement. :D

[detective-boy]

Cambridge Heath Bus Garage - fell asleep at the front of the top of a No 11 from hammersmith to Chelsea and they never checked properly before parking it up. On waking, in the confused / semi-drunk state you are, my eyes began to focus with the little light there was ... and I thought I'd died and gone to a bus garage! :D

Also used to regularly fall aseep on the Piccadilly line from Hammersmith to Osterley. Not such a problem when you got woken up at Heathrow ... but then they put the fucking loop in! :mad: NEVER go to Cockfosters at about midnight!

[Mitre10]

Going to Loughton (Zone 6 on the East-end of the Central line), fell asleep and no-one woke me at Epping so went all the way back through Central London and ended up in West Ruislip (other end of the central line).

Was the last train too so ended up in a £90 cab ride round the M25 :mad:

Lucky I woke up still in possession of my wallet, phone etc though I suppose :D

[Roadkill]

dread to think how much the taxis have cost me over the years, missing my stop often happens on the last train:(

£12 for a minicab home last night, since I missed the last bus back. Somehow I lost an hour or two, 'cos I'm sure I only left the pub at closing time and it was well after midnight by the time I woke up.

The security guard at Belvedere bus station is a saint, though: he even gave me a cup of tea whilst I waited for the cab! :cool:

[marty21]

By the time we hit Stokie again, i was so wide awake, i phoned her one last time to say i was back ITA, safe and sound, but was nipping into the Cricketers for a couple of pints....to say she wasn't best pleased is an understatement. :D

:eek: blimey mate, i'd never have done that


i'd have nipped in, then rang saying the bus had broken down:cool:

[Paulie Tandoori]

:eek: blimey mate, i'd never have done that


i'd have nipped in, then rang saying the bus had broken down:cool:

i'll call you for advice next time instead then :D

[SubZeroCat]

When I lived in Streatham I'd go out in Brixton and take the bus home. I've ended up in Tooting and even Croydon due to being drunk & sleepy :rolleyes:

Now I live in Herne Hill and walk home - no chance of falling asleep and ending up somewhere weird!

[beeboo]

All the time on bus, tube and train :o

My nightbus stop used to be the end of the route so I used to fall asleep without too much worry and only once ended up waking up enroute to the depot when the driver hadn't checked.

On the tube, the strangest one was when me and my boyfriend got on the tube from Oxford Circus to Victoria after a night out. After getting on the tube, the next thing I remember was being woken up - flat out on the platform at Brixton Station :eek: ...no boyfriend in sight. He was later 'recovered' from Walthamstow!!! How we arrived at opposite ends of the Victoria line I've no idea. :confused:

Fortunately most of my last trains terminate in Croydon which at least is only a cab ride. I have once ended up spending the night in Brighton though!

[hektik]

when i lived in nw london, i used to get the 139 night bus and fall asleep all the time.

mind you, that was alright, seeing as the last stop was my stop.

i've fallen asleep on a train before and ended up in maidstone. thankfully, there was still time to get a train back to whence i came.

[ohmyliver]

Yeah when I was living in the cultural desert that is west kensington, and had been out in shoreditch... fell asleep on the N11, woke up at the terminus in acton, and realised that the 25p in my pocket wasn't enough for another ticket, ended up having a long chat about films, and film making with the driver who had just got a camera, and editing software and was making a film out of his childs recent birthday party... he forgot to ask me for a ticket... I 'forgot' to point out his error...

[marty21]

i once woke up in south wimbledon which was not far from our flat in southfields, I though i'd been travelling with my flat mate and was pissed off that he had let me sleep on, and he'd got off, turned out i had not been travelling him, we both got slaughtered at the old red lion in angel, he had fallen asleep in the toilet and woken up at 4 in the morning:D

[corporate whore]

Used to do this all the time. :o

Past Forest Hill a lot on the 176 to wake up in Penge. :(

Also on the train past FH - woken up in Carshalton Beeches and Purley Oaks.

Woken up in Morden on both a 250 bus and the Tube.

Best one, though, was back when I had a night shift job - we used to go boozing round the early pubs at Spitalfields/Smithfields/Columbia Road, finish off about midday.

I got on the Northern Line at Old Street, going south, only to wake up heading north at Leicester Square. Train was packed. Think I'd been snoring. :o

[Bazza]

I also woke up in Andover once....turned out I fell asleep on the wrong train.

I got off the train and headed home (I thought I was 40 miles away in Farnborough) thinking "these houses are new". Five minutes later, I got to a roundabout saying "Welcome to Andover". My first thought was 'how long will this take me to walk then?'.

[beeboo]

I got on the Northern Line at Old Street, going south, only to wake up heading north at Leicester Square. Train was packed. Think I'd been snoring. :o

My other half once did something very similar. He'd pulled an all nighter finishing a job, and then went to the pub to celebrate. Headed home on the northern line in the early afternoon, he dozed off but then was pleased to wake up just before his stop.

It was only when leaving the station and finding it was dark that he realised that a number of hours had elapsed and he'd made at least one full-length trip up and down the line :D

[Oula]

A friend of mine has got on the N37 at Putney bound for peckham at 3am and fallen asleep, then woken up in Putney again at 5am trying to work out how many times he has been back and forth.

Not the same thing but on sunday I missed the last tube home by 1minute then managed to spend 2 hours and 5 buses getting from Camden to Herne Hill. I didn't fall asleep - just was drunk and stupid and made bad bus choices.

[Mr_Nice]

I have fallen asleep on a train from waterloo, should have got off at Farnborough (Hants) but was asleep so I missed my stop and the train went to Southampton. The train was the turned around and went back to Waterloo and arrived back in some sidings in London Clapham I think at around 3:30am, then decided that I would sleep on the platform but kept getting moved on by the OB, In the end I went to my offices in the city and slept on the soa in reception :rolleyes:

[STFC]

I don't tend to use night buses much, the last time I fell asleep on one was after I'd been to my one and only Offline. No idea which bus it was, but I got kicked off it directly across the river from Battersea power station.

Trains are another matter. I've woken up at loads of stations on the various lines out of London Bridge. I think when I'm in that sort of state I just get on the first train I see and hope it'll get me to Sydenham.

I hadn't done it for a while, but a couple of weeks back I had a proper City lunch which finished about 10.30pm. Next thing I remember was being at Norwood Junction and talking to my girlfriend on the phone. Then I remember getting kicked out of Victoria as the station was closing, queueing for ages for a cab only to get knocked back repeatedly as they didn't want to go all the way to SE26, so I walked to London Bridge and got a cab from there. Finally got home about 3.30am.

[ivebeenhigh]

bromley bus garage.

a train story.

i once fell asleep on a train back to clapham junction from three bridges. woke up at the last stop, damn I thought, I am in Victorian. will have to get the tube back to clapham. turns out I wasnt in victoria. i had gone to victoria, but had stay on the train and had gone all the way back down to brighton. it was the last train. so I had to wait around in the cold for the first train in the morning.

so having left three bridges at 9pm hoping to be home by 10, I actually got home at 8am.

beat that.

[ScallyWag II]

Often ended up at Morden when I lived in Tooting

Worst one though was going to stay at an ex's in Colchester. I'd been out drinking round Waterloo with her and her mates from Eurostar, got on the last Intercity train at Liverpool Street, we both fell asleep and woke up just as the train was leaving Diss :D Next stop Norwich :D

She wasn't best pleased, especially as the taxi she called charged her over £100 to take us back to Colchester! :eek:

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not bus, train, but :mad: Fucking Basingstoke (http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=189206&highlight=one+night+in+basingstoke)

[STFC]

Another good one was after a Friday night out in Camden, got to Waterloo and had about an hour to wait for the first train out to Twickenham (where I was staying at the time). Eventually it came, so I got on it and promptly fell asleep, only to wake up again as the train pulled back into Waterloo. No idea where I'd been. Got the bext one, fell asleep again, and woke up at Windsor. Eventually got home about 5 hours after I left Waterloo.

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Christmas party 2004 woke up in fucking Windsor. Last train home had already gone. 8 mile walk home.

I think I'm gonna have to give up going to office Christmas parties.

[gaijingirl]

other fuckwittery - fell asleep on the Yamanote line in Tokyo, which is like the circle line but actually does go round and round in a circle. Slept for a good two hours and woke up to see the book I'd been pretending to read on the floor at one end of a packed carriage and countless Japanese commuters staring at me on a packed train - although they'd left a circle of emptiness around me. :o

Gaijinboy and I also accidentally got on a train going to Scotland instead of a train going to London once from Preston... :o :o

[ScallyWag II]

Gaijinboy and I also accidentally got on a train going to Scotland instead of a train going to London once from Preston... :o :o

:D Class!

[DRINK?]

Used to reguarly catch the bus from Battersea to Liverpool street....wake up hours later in some bus garage in Battersea ( still not figured out where it is ) after doing the loop between the two for ages...

Also woken up in Brighton after intending to get to Clapham and many times god awful place in Essex which am unsure of where they were though by cab about £50 back to intended destination.....

all of the above booze related....

[DRINK?]

the worst now I think about it...after a heavy night...raw as you like, first train of the day out.... from Liverpool St, fall asleep somewhere in Essex...catch train back to my stop though fall asleep again...highly annoying, frustrating feeling like poop. Catch train back out though do it again....this time only 2 stops past my destination ....catch cab back home...


annoying in itself....though most annoying thing first time I caught the train caught it with my housemate who thought it would be hilarious to leave me asleep whilst he got off at our stop.....not amused:)

[PacificOcean]

I was so drunk once that I got the first nightbus that came in Trafalgar Square.

Ended up in Uxbridge despite living in Manor House at the time.

Least the bus driver woke me up.

Once I went backwards and forwards between London and Waltham Cross on the N279 several times.

The bus drivers must see you, bastards!

[Paulie Tandoori]

I saw quite a funny, if not a bit cruel, stunt on a communter train crawling thru on all stops to Reading. I'd never been on one of these before and there were a few of the suits dozing, with pieces of paper on their chest, stating a destination.

Can't remember which station it was but we come crawling into the stated destination for this pin-stripe on the opposite table. I go to lean forward and the guy next to me goes 'shhhhhh' and shakes his head. Fair enough i think, maybe he knows something i don't.

As the doors are slamming and guard whistles, the guy leans over, taps commuter man on the arm and says 'crikey mate, i think you've missed your stop'. Cue explosion of brief case and paper and brolly as the poor old mug scrambles for the doors.

Well, we all laughed :D (me somewhat guiltily :( )

[DrRingDing]

Hackney Wick is the worst place iirc. :(

[PacificOcean]

Hackney Wick is the worst place iirc. :(

What? Just in general? :D

[marty21]

Hackney Wick is the worst place iirc. :(

i've woken up there as well:( but i can walk home from there in about 30 minutes so it's not too big a disaster

I was once woken up as the tube pulled into Earls Court, the bloke told me we were in earls court in case i needed to change trains...i did, needed to get the district line, i could have ended up in heathrow:D

still fell asleep on the district line and had to walk back from wimbledon to southfields though :rolleyes:

[braindancer]

The N55 goes a long way past Clapton - as I discovered fairly recently after an evening on the sauce in town...

I awoke to find myself alone at a bus stop in fucking Woodford or somewhere with a man sat next to me with his hand on my thigh who was grinning rather simply at me. He did have the decency of 'fucking right off' when I told him to.

As luck would have it this was the last of the night buses so I then had to wait through the gap until the daybuses began.

Joy to the world.

The last central line train east is not a good tube to snatch some kip on either. I've done that on a number of time after work drinks in Ealing.

"Oh shit I would appear to be in Debden, or Epping, or Hainault via Newbury Park".

[hipipol]

have woken up in Upminster at 12.15, got home, Peckham as the sun rose.
Chalfont and Latimer while aiming at Islington, got last train back to Baker Street! releif.
St Albans while aiming at Camden. Woken up in station waiting room by guy saying are you ok? "Where amI"say I , St Ablans - Christ then I really am not alright!
Three Bridges near Gatwick, aiming for Brixton
Camberwell bus garage, wake up at 3 am in back of !76. Aiming for Forrest Hill. depot manager says he thinks I broke in to have a kip. Idiot.
Maddest was wake in Edgware, back on train, wake up in Morden, then wake up in Barnet, then back in Morden. By this time there are no more trains. Take 4 hrs to get home. Not happy

[detective-boy]

I have fallen asleep on a train from waterloo, should have got off at Farnborough (Hants) but was asleep so I missed my stop and the train went to Southampton.
Mate of mine did that on one of the mainline trains - he'd just moved to some one horse town in Surrey and fell asleeps and ended up at Eastbourne or Hastings or somewhere. IT was about 10.50pm and there were no trains back so in something of a panic about what to tell the (new) missus he went into the Railway Hotel for a pint to settle his nerves. On looking around he saw another group of suited and booted business-types and sidled up to them. Turned out it was the "End of the Line" club - members falling asleep post-last train back gathered there until last train came in (about 11.45pm - licensee used to do them a bit of a mini lock-in), then they'd work out the minimum number of mini-cabs to share the journey back! My mate became a leading member! :D

[zenie]

I did it last year going from Tooting back to Kennington at 7 in the morning after I'd been up all sunday night caning it :rolleyes:

The bus terminated in Streatham and I'd fallen asleep at the back of the bus :o

It wasn't that I ended up miles away it was the embarassment of the bus driver ocming up and waking me up :D

I looked a right fuckin mess too...

Although thinking about it coming back from Helter Skelter on my 18th birthday I got a train out of Waterloo to go and see my family, my mate was gonna pick me up from Weybridge, next thing I knew I woke up in G'Ford. :D

I set my phone alarm when on buses or the tube now just in case!!

[davesgcr]

There are lots of good anecdotes - the most impressive is an old boy who got on a football special at Motherwell intending to see his son off from the platform and got dragged into a drinking session. He only had slippers on by the way.


About 12 hours later he woke up in the carriage sidings at Willesden and took him another 12 hours or so to get home with a "please convey to Glasgow" note on BR headed paper from a friendly SM at Euston,His son and mates had abandoned him and gone off to Wembley.

A good mate of mine woke up in a parked 16 bus in a stack at Cricklewood bus garage after a good session - he got out evenutally - and was picked up by the Met Police as a suspicous character. Fair play they gave him a lift home after a rambling and incoherent narrative.


Plus the guy who did 14 round trips from Helensburgh to Airdrie on a Glasgow suburban train.

[malcolm eggs]

fucking cunting romford.

[butterfly child]

When I lived in the Bristol 'burbs, I often fell asleep and ended up in Portishead. Thankfully the bus used to have to go back into Central London, and would often take me back into the village where I lived.

The only other time I fell asleep and ended up in some God forsaken place was when I lived in WsM.. fell asleep and woke up in Taunton. They allowed me to sleep on the platform :) and get a train back the next morning. Which was great, until 4am and I needed a piss.. had to coopie down and pee on the platform :o :D

[marty21]

I set my phone alarm when on buses or the tube now just in case!!

great idea:cool:

will try and remember to do that tomorrow night, i will be in prime falling asleep on the bus condition - stag day/night, all day drinking :eek:

[queeze]

Not actually properly feel asleep, but kept dropping off in the early hours of the morning on the way back from a party, wouldn't dare fall asleep, I would get pick pocketed and all sorts lol

[Irenick]

When I was 16, I caught a bus; I’m now 50, and still can’t remember which stop I’m supposed to get off…

[memespring]

Last saturday I got on abus at Angel at 6ish in the morning. fell asleep, woke up in Mile End. walked for an age. got on a bus. fell asleep. woke up at the Tower. walked over the bridge and on to Borough. got on a bus and fell asleep, only to wake up just in time for Brixton and a slightly miffed nipsla.

[marty21]

When I lived in the Bristol 'burbs, I often fell asleep and ended up in Portishead. Thankfully the bus used to have to go back into Central London, and would often take me back into the village where I lived.



that's some bus trip, must take hours:D

[Monkeynuts]

* Woodford Wells on the N8, and Stratford many a time. Took a shortcut through a graveyard, fell off the wall and broke my foot on one trip back from Stratford.
* Morden on the Northern Line, like everyone else!
* Havant on the train
* Rowlands Castle on the train - got off expecting there to be a kebab shop, minicab office. In fact it is a Hampshire hamlet of about 20 houses and I had to feel my way out of the station as they had turned the lights off.
* Got on the Thameslink at East Croydon after a party, dressed as the Queen. Woke up in St Albans. Got back on a Thameslink back towards London. Woke up in East Croydon again. Gave up and got a taxi back to Forest Hill.

I think I win.

[Orang Utan]

I used to live in Woolwich and would often wake up in Dartford or Gravesend - I was't drunk on any of those occasions - I was getting the last train just after midnight after a shift washing dishes in a hotel in Piccadilly, so I was just knackered. Also, I wasn't used to travelling on trains, and the rocking motion invariably sent me to sleep like I was a big baby.
I tell you, it's not fun trying to get back from Gravesend at about 1.30am, with no money.

[red rose]

I think the worst for me was being woken up by a strange chinese man at the bus depot out side the millenium dome when the last thing I remembered was being at a party in Elephant and Castle :o I later remembered leaving the party and getting on a bus to greenwich but at the time it was pretty awful.

I then had to get off the next bus I was on to throw up, whilst the bus-full of old ladies tutted at me :rolleyes: :o :D

[Citizen66]

Working in Kent and trying to get to London bridge to get home and woke up in Hastings :rolleyes:


























Twice!! :D

[fogbat]

Epping tube, right at the end of the Central Line.

On the last tube.

On a freezing cold night, otherwise I'd just have kipped outside the station.

Fifty bloody quid to get home that time :mad:

[ska invita]

A rare happy ending story:
My closest friend was new to london and fell asleep on the 176 and ended up in Penge - had no idea where she was or how to get home (forest hill) - the bus driver very kindly drove her back practically to her doorstep before takling the bus back to the depot.

[fogbat]

A rare happy ending story:
My closest friend was new to london and fell asleep on the 176 and ended up in Penge - had no idea where she was or how to get home (forest hill) - the bus driver very kindly drove her back practically to her doorstep before takling the bus back to the depot.

That's beautiful :) :)

Although, on the downside, it was just setting her up for future disappointment :p