funny/oddest/saddest place to spend a homeless night

[splange]

Hi there

I wanted to know if anybody has been forced - through choice or circumstance - to spend a night without conventional shelter - where they slept/how they survived?

[metagirl]

on the beach underneath an old blanket

[andy hughes]

I have spent the night in my car a few times (when I was young and single I hasten to add!) and I slept fine because I can sleep literally anywhere.

[rsd2525]

back in the 60's -- no digs--- spent the nite in a phone box-- honest

[country_boy]

Slept rough in a hedge at Frankley Services on the M5 with lots of small animals scuttling around all night - was hitching to Wales from Cornwall, thought I could do it in a day!!

[rsd2525]

i think the following nite was spent on a loo somewherer

[Artemis]

My 21st birthday. I woke up the next morning underneath my Morris 1000. Haven't a clue how I got there.

[Chessman]

In Germany, in winter, dig a hole in the snow, put a groundsheet in it, got into the sleeping bag, pulled the rest of the groundsheet over me, and the snow, snug as a bug in a rug.

Also, in Denmark, same winter, shared a barn with some cows, warm as toast.

[bernardo]

On the pavement outside Clarence House in the early hours of 4th August on numerous occasions from 1995 to 2001 inclusive.

[Susan123]

A friend and I were hitch-hiking to Greece many years ago and we got a lift from a truckdriver going through Yugoslavia (as it was then). He said we could travel with him the following morning but we were on our own that night. We were young (both 19) girls at the time and ended up in the back of a truck - we didn't sleep as we were just outside the abbatoir and could hear everything, plus a group of young lads decided to start drinking just beside the truck we were in which was open backed so we had to lie down and not make a sound as we were so scared! Luckily it was a warm night! Another time I had to sleep in my mother's car, not very comfortable.

[brachiopod]

Under the flyover in Newport, South Wales in February.

[Sado]

In about 1975, I had been out drinking, having arranged beforehand to sleep at a mates house, as I lived miles out of town. When I eventualy arrived at his house, the only door unlocked was the outside toilet. It was the middle of winter and absolutely freezing!

[BadGirl05]

In my car, in a bus station, the train station.... several strange beds and Skegness Beach

I have also been known to fall asleep or passout thru to much alcohol and wake up by some portaloos at a rock concert.

the Skegness beach was a good idea at the time we were bored at 3am and went for a drive and thats where it took us........ Not a good idea off your head and trying to drive..... it lead to a court apperence for failing to produce doc after i breaked on a roundabout in Lincoln

[WendyS]

In a derelict hostel for Aeroflot cabin crew in the Ukraine where the floor was heaving with cockroaches, there were rats running across the floor and the toilet had been wrenched off the wall. (In the days of the old Soviet regime when Intourist were responsible for your travelling arrangements !!)

[waimarie]

I was in Borneo for ten years and during this time was a keen 'Hasher' ((For the uninitiated this is a sort of paper chase in tropical jungle).

It was not unusual for people to get left in for short periods of time but on one occasion myself and one other (thank goodness) were left in the jungle overnight with tropical rain, strange noises and rustling movements.

We eventually found our way out by following the sound of the dawn call to prayer from a distant mosque.

Not recommended.