Sleeping on the sofa...
Sleeping on the sofa...
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cronk-flakes

Original Poster:

3,480 posts

284 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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So, I messed up...

Decided to sleep elsewhere tonight. (probably will regret this tomorrow). I'm kipping in the spare room of our house and so far, I'm enjoying it!

What's all the fuss about? Depends on your layout, but I'm closer to the bath room and the fridge. Took a few beers to bed, Win/Win if you ask me.

So my question is, what's the worst you've done to end up sleeping on the sofa/spare room/balcony? (pissing in the kettle is obligatory!)

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Tow Vehicle Rqrd

1,217 posts

214 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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I've slept on many friends' sofas after a wee tipple or two, but have never actually been sent to sleep on one due to disgraceful behaviour on my part when in a relationship. Have never sent an OH to sleep on one either - if they're in the st, they're sleeping in the garden / their car / road / canal towpath etc; as long as it isn't under my roof!

TotalControl

8,307 posts

229 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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Asked for a divorce. Was on that damn sofa for 2 years...

I have a bed now. With a fridge 4 feet away and bathroom 9 feet away. biggrin

Poledriver

29,619 posts

225 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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cronk-flakes said:
So, I messed up...

Decided to sleep elsewhere tonight. (probably will regret this tomorrow). I'm kipping in the spare room of our house and so far, I'm enjoying it!

What's all the fuss about? Depends on your layout, but I'm closer to the bath room and the fridge. Took a few beers to bed, Win/Win if you ask me.

So my question is, what's the worst you've done to end up sleeping on the sofa/spare room/balcony? (pissing in the kettle is obligatory!)

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Just after I got married I got back one night from a very, very heavy drinking session. Went to bed.
After a while I felt a little 'queasy'. I got up, ran across the bedroom, along the hallway, down the stairs, through the dining room, through the living room, through the kitchen and into the loo. I threw up my ringpiece.
A little later I felt another, more violent, reaction. I got up, ran across the bedroom, along the hallway, into the bathroom and threw up some more into the sink!
After about another hour I felt yet another, even more violent, reaction. I leant out of the bed and threw up all over the two-week old, white, deep-pile carpet.
I spent thre nights sleeping on the sofa until the OH decided she was getting cold and lonely at night! hurl

TotalControl

8,307 posts

229 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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Tow Vehicle Rqrd said:
Some militant stuff
Poledriver said:
Some stuff about being sick everywhere
Are you two tag teaming the forums or something? wink

King Herald

23,501 posts

247 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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This is a joke right? This is a figure of speech? 'Sleeping on the sofa' just means you are not in the good books, rather than you've actually been kicked out of the bedroom?

Nobody here actually allows their wife to order them out of the family bed onto the sofa? eek Surely??????

Tell me I'm not reading this wrong.

Poledriver

29,619 posts

225 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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TotalControl said:
Tow Vehicle Rqrd said:
Some militant stuff
Poledriver said:
Some stuff about being sick everywhere
Are you two tag teaming the forums or something? wink
We make a good team! smile

TotalControl

8,307 posts

229 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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King Herald said:
This is a joke right? This is a figure of speech? 'Sleeping on the sofa' just means you are not in the good books, rather than you've actually been kicked out of the bedroom?

Nobody here actually allows their wife to order them out of the family bed onto the sofa? eek Surely??????

Tell me I'm not reading this wrong.
You're not. This world is fked up dude.

cronk-flakes

Original Poster:

3,480 posts

284 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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Poledriver said:
cronk-flakes said:
So, I messed up...

Decided to sleep elsewhere tonight. (probably will regret this tomorrow). I'm kipping in the spare room of our house and so far, I'm enjoying it!

What's all the fuss about? Depends on your layout, but I'm closer to the bath room and the fridge. Took a few beers to bed, Win/Win if you ask me.

So my question is, what's the worst you've done to end up sleeping on the sofa/spare room/balcony? (pissing in the kettle is obligatory!)

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Just after I got married I got back one night from a very, very heavy drinking session. Went to bed.
After a while I felt a little 'queasy'. I got up, ran across the bedroom, along the hallway, down the stairs, through the dining room, through the living room, through the kitchen and into the loo. I threw up my ringpiece.
A little later I felt another, more violent, reaction. I got up, ran across the bedroom, along the hallway, into the bathroom and threw up some more into the sink!
After about another hour I felt yet another, even more violent, reaction. I leant out of the bed and threw up all over the two-week old, white, deep-pile carpet.
I spent thre nights sleeping on the sofa until the OH decided she was getting cold and lonely at night! hurl
rofl Genius... My dreams, aspire...

Poledriver

29,619 posts

225 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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King Herald said:
This is a joke right? This is a figure of speech? 'Sleeping on the sofa' just means you are not in the good books, rather than you've actually been kicked out of the bedroom?

Nobody here actually allows their wife to order them out of the family bed onto the sofa? eek Surely??????

Tell me I'm not reading this wrong.
I was young and naive! getmecoat

cronk-flakes

Original Poster:

3,480 posts

284 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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King Herald said:
This is a joke right? This is a figure of speech? 'Sleeping on the sofa' just means you are not in the good books, rather than you've actually been kicked out of the bedroom?

Nobody here actually allows their wife to order them out of the family bed onto the sofa? eek Surely??????

Tell me I'm not reading this wrong.
I thought the day would never come... But tonight, apparently I've 'chosen' to sleep in the spare room.

To be honest, I was really looking forward to it. I want to test the bed that I have fecking paid for!!!!

gilla

19,746 posts

221 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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The only time i've slept on the sofa is because that's where i passed out or because i was at a mates house. I've been told many times after disagreements to go sleep on the sofa (normally i'm asked to do much worse to myself tbh). I think the learned response goes something like this:

"Darling i know you're angry right now and are a hormonal dumping ground infested with insanity... But i ain't going nowhere love... I like this bed but right now i don't like you... I'm staying right here... now it's up to you whether you put out or get out!"

No wonder i'm single :-)

Sheets Tabuer

21,528 posts

246 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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I sleep on the sofa a lot, I have the big TV, I am next to the downstairs loo, I am next to the fridge and I don't have anyone snoring in my face.

I get far more sleep on the sofa than I do in bed, sofa sleeping is awesome.

16v_paddy

368 posts

223 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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My Dad's car got stolen while I was sleeping on a picnic table right next to it.

My parents ran a social club which I happened to be locked out of because they put the latch on the door & my key wouldn't open it.
I'd been out on the piss & got home around 6am. I was to be picked up to go to work at 8am, so instead of banging about & making lots of noise waking everyone up, I just slept in the beer garden.
When I got home from work my dad asked me when I'd seen his car last, so I told him it was that morning around 6 & that I'd slept on the picnic table right next to it.

Pints

18,451 posts

225 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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Many years ago, and before we were even married, I woke the morning after an epic company Christmas party to find myself on the sofa.
I'd not been kicked out, I apparently had never found my way to the bed.
The wonder remains how the hell I even found my way across London, got my keys into the right door and over the threshold in the first place.

There have been a couple of instances during married life when Mrs Pints has deemed my actions stupid enough to warrant it being sensible for me to make myself comfy in the spare room. As she put it, she couldn't be certain she wouldn't kill me while I slept. I didn't doubt her for a second.
To her credit, I've not made the same "mistakes" again. biggrin

RupertTheFridge

899 posts

222 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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Not sure if this qualifies, but here we go anyway.

Woke up once after a good party (having fell out with the girlfriend) believing I was asleep on the sofa, but was actually asleep in the hedge outside the front of the house.

Strangely was quite comfortable, so much I had actually made it down to my boxers & T-shirt.

thinfourth2

32,414 posts

235 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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TotalControl said:
Asked for a divorce. Was on that damn sofa for 2 years...

I have a bed now. With a fridge 4 feet away and bathroom 9 feet away. biggrin
You mean she has the house and you are now living in a caravan


tamore

10,107 posts

315 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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Pints said:
The wonder remains how the hell I even found my way across London, got my keys into the right door and over the threshold in the first place.
ahhhh..... the magical beer scooter at work. many a time have i woken up in my own place with no recollection of how i got home. this includes a night out in oxford, and i live in south east london.

Wheelrepairit

3,050 posts

235 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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I did the sofa thing a few yrs back, when I broke my foot so unable to climb stairs.

After 3 weeks I was able to do stairs, bugger that, sofa was so comfortable I hung on for 4 months before she twigged.

Never slept so well as those nights.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

261 months

Sunday 12th September 2010
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tamore said:
Pints said:
The wonder remains how the hell I even found my way across London, got my keys into the right door and over the threshold in the first place.
ahhhh..... the magical beer scooter at work. many a time have i woken up in my own place with no recollection of how i got home. this includes a night out in oxford, and i live in south east london.
Not just me with the drunken homing-beacon then? I have a long-standing reputation for getting to a certain point in the night, or after a certain amount of beers, then just getting up and going home, usually without saying a word to anyone.

No matter where I am, or how far home is away (or even if it's not my home I'm staying at), I always wake up where I should be (although often with inexplicable grazes, grass stains or the ramains of a kebab on the bedside table).