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Sleep swimmingWhy on earth would anyone be swimming in their pyjamas?
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Raheem
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Have you never woken up somewhere and wondered how you got there?Why on earth would anyone be swimming in their pyjamas?
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Why on earth would anyone be swimming in their pyjamas?
Never heard of a wet dream?
Like the middle of the sea? Whilst wearing pyjamas?
Raheem
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It's not an everyday scenario for everyone, granted.
not a trot
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The wardrobe once. In my defence, I had gone to bed pissed.
Raheem
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Well, obviously not.
I'm not a wearer of pyjamas but if I was it'd be the brushed cotton type. Which aren't really inflatable.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
I’m moored on a commercial canal, it’s very deep about 10 feet. I wear a self inflating lifejacket when we’re on the move, or if I need to do anything outside on ‘that’ side of the boat. I never wear wellies. One summer when we were on the Thames I practised getting out of the river onto my boat by standing on the bottom plate (there are bits that stick out, at the edge, under the water) and using the rear fender and tiller arm to pull myself out. It’s hard! El jugs always carries a penknife incase he has to cut his bootlaces off.
I fell in once only, was cleaning the solar panels, forget where the drainage gap was in the handrail and grabbed nothing. Fell backwards. Lost my specs (thankfully they were on a floating strap but I had to hunt). It was the Oxford Canal, in a heatwave on turnaround day near a hire base. I was stood in the canal holding a roll of sodden kitchen roll whilst a procession of new hirers came past me. Couldn’t see a thing, Could hear the sniggering.
I fell in once only, was cleaning the solar panels, forget where the drainage gap was in the handrail and grabbed nothing. Fell backwards. Lost my specs (thankfully they were on a floating strap but I had to hunt). It was the Oxford Canal, in a heatwave on turnaround day near a hire base. I was stood in the canal holding a roll of sodden kitchen roll whilst a procession of new hirers came past me. Couldn’t see a thing, Could hear the sniggering.
There'll have been some kind of emergency release which would probably have been easier.
Raheem
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That's probably very good advice, but also very late.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
And there was the time I slipped off the roof at lower clapton but grabbed the handrail, was holding a bag of kebabs at the time, saved me, saved the kebabs. #winning. El jugs goes in far more often than I do. I remember the time we were moored at the canal museum in Kings X, you can pay to stop one night so we did to break the journey through town. This wanker came out of the permanent moorings and mansplained to us about how to be a proper continuous cruiser (we weren’t at the time), like we were noobs. Went inside, was working in the back at my desk, stood up to get something from the shelf behind me, heard a splash. El Jugs was putting the hose pipe away and I’d rocked the boat and tipped him in. Yeah, we looked like experts. 
Another time he was wiping the toilet cassette down outside on the front deck and the lid went in and he went in head first to grab it. Goalkeeper save.
Another time he was wiping the toilet cassette down outside on the front deck and the lid went in and he went in head first to grab it. Goalkeeper save.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
hmm
buses usually get cleaned and washed when they get back to the depot - either they cleaned round you, or they were very slack that day.
the old school approach to a sleeping drunk arriving back at the depot was open the window nearest them and put the bus through the bus-wash...
Raheem
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This was in the north of England.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
And there was the time I slipped off the roof at lower clapton but grabbed the handrail, was holding a bag of kebabs at the time, saved me, saved the kebabs. #winning. El jugs goes in far more often than I do. I remember the time we were moored at the canal museum in Kings X, you can pay to stop one night so we did to break the journey through town. This wanker came out of the permanent moorings and mansplained to us about how to be a proper continuous cruiser (we weren’t at the time), like we were noobs. Went inside, was working in the back at my desk, stood up to get something from the shelf behind me, heard a splash. El Jugs was putting the hose pipe away and I’d rocked the boat and tipped him in. Yeah, we looked like experts.
Another time he was wiping the toilet cassette down outside on the front deck and the lid went in and he went in head first to grab it. Goalkeeper save.
I feel like we need a 'near misses in water' thread now. I nearly drowned my younger brother twice, both times were hilarious for me, less so for my parents.
Louis MacNeice
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Not my experience as a driver for Stagecoach, especially when bringing buses back late evening and early morning.
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I woke up in a Brussels Metro depot once, like you I was still sitting on the thing. The doors themselves were open so I didn’t have that obstacle at least.
That was genuinely interesting. Thank you.Given the recent discussion always worth posting this article
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.slate.com
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Similar thing happened to me in a lake in the French alps when I was 18. It was fucking horrible. Never been swimming since, and I'm in my early 60s now.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
The Titanic sank at gone 2am.
Raheem
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Although, tbf, all the passengers were still up and doing nude paintings of each other.
Raheem
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My granddad got on a train in France to ask someone the time and it set off. He managed to jump out, but it was going pretty fast. Nowadays it would be automatic doors and he'd have ended up 50 miles away.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Raheem
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The Edwardian class system for you.
After hitting an iceberg. I doubt pyjamas would have been any help, inflated or not.
Might have been side pits to fall into and other hazards you weren't licensed for.
sparkybird
ask the bird...
It's ok, I didn't actually mean it....
Honestly, I don't often receive apologies so no need to pretend it wasn't heartfelt.
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