[News] The 'history in the making' you've slept through

[Stat Brother]

Last night I was pleased Trumpelstilskin's historic second impeachment vote was at a reasonable time.

I settled down to watch at 9pm.
I got to about 100 yay's.
I had a long blink.
& boom
The weather forecast was on.

I'm sure there must be a fair few others.

 

[marlowe]

I slept through the Great Storm of 1987 totally oblivious to it. I stepped out the following morning completely bewildered by all the devastation surrounding me.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

There’s been loads, mainly people dying unexpectedly, like Lennon and Diana PoW.

 

[knocky1]

Fell asleep with 2 minutes of extra time to go on Sunday.
Slept through Steele’s 4 saves and a giant killing victory for the boys.

 

[zefarelly]

I'm predicting the future

nodding off and missing a home win.

 

[Official Old Man]

October 1984, Grand Hotel Bombing. With thoughts to those who lost loved ones.
Working as a DJ in Rain Restaurant (now Buddies) and living on Kings Road about half a mile from the hotel, I was working until 2 am. The reporter who also missed the story was in that night, one of many who had 'a few too many'.
Anyway, woke up at about 8 and put on the TV only to see lots of fire, police & ambulance attending a scene. Put on kettle with one eye on the TV unsure where the scene was but in those IRA days it was normal. Took a few minutes before I realised it was in Brighton at which point I pulled back the curtains to see emergency vehicle after emergency vehicle parked up outside my flat.
Flashing lights, sirens et al and I slept through it.

 

[GT49er]

I slept through the Great Storm of 1987 totally oblivious to it. I stepped out the following morning completely bewildered by all the devastation surrounding me.

I missed that one too - still hadn't come round from the anesthetic from a six hour operation the previous day!

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I very rarely lie in, but for some reason I stayed in bed reading a book until 2pm on the day Diana died. Quite a shock when I turned the TV on

 

[BBassic]

My mum woke me up in tears the morning after Diana had died to tell me the news. She was a bit taken aback by my "who the hell cares?" response. I was 12, I had zero interest in anything outside my PlayStation.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Last night I was pleased Trumpelstilskin's historic second impeachment vote was at a reasonable time.

I settled down to watch at 9pm.
I got to about 100 yay's.
I had a long blink.
& boom
The weather forecast was on.

I'm sure there must be a fair few others.

You mispelt "Trumplethinskin".

 

[Is it PotG?]

I missed most of our 2003 World Cup win v Aus, waking and sleeping on and off with the mother of hangovers and a certain amount of nausea.

Half a pint too many the night before.

 

[happypig]

Storm of 87 I slept through it. I had been to a pal's stag do in the Brewery Tap (in the days when a stag do was a few pints in the local rather than a fortnight yak bothering in Nepal) and had had more than a few shandies.

One that I didn't sleep through was Elvis' death; I'd had an ingrown toe removed and couldn't sleep so was listening to Radio Luxembourg.

 

[Motogull]

My mum woke me up in tears the morning after Diana had died to tell me the news. She was a bit taken aback by my "who the hell cares?" response.

Well, the answer we now know to be women and the Daily Express.

It would have been better if you had predicted the Albion 'who?'. And quicker to say.

 

[AmexRuislip]

9/11
Was sleeping off nights, when those terrible events unfolded.
Only told by my wife, when she returned late from her work

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I slept through the Great Storm of 1987 totally oblivious to it. I stepped out the following morning completely bewildered by all the devastation surrounding me.

Me too. Normally the sound of someone nearby raising an eyebrow is sufficient to wake me, too. Very odd.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I didn't sleep through it, but...

Our boys were quite little (7 and 6) when we took them on their first skiing holiday. We had Christmas at home, and then got the train to Gatwick the next day, from where we flew to Bulgaria, and a week in Borovets.

It was a brilliant week.

On the plane back from Sofia, the captain announced that the stewards would be coming through the plane, collecting money to help those involved in the tsunami on Boxing Day. It was January 2nd, and we had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.

Getting home, and seeing what had happened was a serious shock to the system.

 

[The Fifth Column]

I missed most of our 2003 World Cup win v Aus, waking and sleeping on and off with the mother of hangovers and a certain amount of nausea.

Half a pint too many the night before.

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I missed all of it, was coming off a night shift but more relevant was I have no interest in Rugby so couldn't care less anyway.

 

[jakarta]

Me too. Normally the sound of someone nearby raising an eyebrow is sufficient to wake me, too. Very odd.

Being a Northern Monkey at the time completely slept through it, the only damage in Northwich was removal of my Bin Lid. Seeing as I hadn't met Mrs Jakarta at the time and knew nowt about Sussex I just shrugged my shoulders and thought get on with it you soft southern barstewards when I woke up & turned on the News...

Sorry and all that!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Storm of 87 I slept through it. I had been to a pal's stag do in the Brewery Tap (in the days when a stag do was a few pints in the local rather than a fortnight yak bothering in Nepal) and had had more than a few shandies.

One that I didn't sleep through was Elvis' death; I'd had an ingrown toe removed and couldn't sleep so was listening to Radio Luxembourg.

I slept through the 87 storm and I definitely hadn’t been drinking, I wish I could sleep as well now.

 

[BrianWade4]

I'm predicting the future

nodding off and missing a home win.

We had 1 of those in the whole of 2020, so that would’ve been a lot of kip