Well..
While still living with my parents, I used to earn my living as a baker, getting up at 3am, working till 1pm and then still trying to have a social life in the evening. This of course meant that I was surviving on 4 hours sleep a night - which caught up slowly over a period of several months. I would simply fall asleep whenever I stopped moving - Buses, trains, supermarket aisles (sitting on a cardboard biscuit display case), on the loo, in restaurants, etc. Usually I would feel the sleep wave arriving and would simply lie down on the floor wherever I was and sleep.

I finished work one afternoon and ran myself a nice bath (after warming up the bathroom with the hairdryer - top tip #46), got undressed and realised the water was too hot. Then the wave arrived. I lay on the bathroom floor and was asleep in less than 30 seconds.

I was awoken by the distressed shouts of my mother, having come home from work and finding her bollock-naked 20 year old son lying 'dead' on the bathroom floor, still clutching a hairdryer.

I tried to go to bed at sensible times after that.

My mother apologises for length.
( Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 29 Dec 2006, 14:29, Reply)