Falling asleep on the bus...

[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 (me somewhat guiltily )

 

[DrRingDing]

Hackney Wick is the worst place iirc.

 

[PacificOcean]

Hackney Wick is the worst place iirc.

What? Just in general?

 

[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

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

 

[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]

I used to do this a lot

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!

 

[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

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

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

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.

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.

 

[el-ahrairah]

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

 

[marty21]

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

great idea

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

 

[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…

 

[netbob]

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

 

[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 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

 

[Citizen66]

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


























Twice!!

 

[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

 

[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