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Sleeping Rough


Youri McAnespie

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You've not lived until you've dossed down on some pallets in a garage behind a block of flats - spooning a mate for warmth.

Me and another lad had to sleep rough at Lime Street aged 14 and 15 after missing the train after a gig, I rang home and and said I was back in Bolton but had bumped into a mate and we were Kipping at his, soft lad rang home and told all, thinking his dad would mooch to Liverpool at midnight in his Land Rover. His dad just told him not  to go asleep or he'd be bummed. There were loads of prossies and this lad tried to blag taxi fare to Bolton off them, I can still hear them laughing.

We dossed down on a parked train. I washed my hands in the bog as the sink wasn't working.

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I've been stranded many a time. Always had the money to find somewhere to kip though.

Slept on the floor of Charles De Gaul Airport as I ran out of cash for the early flight when i was 18.

Not very nice and not in a hurry to repeat it. I'm from Smithills, we don't sleep outside unless it's under a very expensive canvas.

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I fell asleep in a shop doorway in Paris if that counts 

Went watching Supergrass with a mate on a Friday night, plane back at 9 so airport for 7 so figured no point in getting a hotel 

Couldn't find anywhere open after 2am 

So just wondered round pissed 

Then it started absolutely pissing it down and the metro didnt open for another 3 or so hours 

That was shite as well

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Slept outside the Apollo in Ardwick with mates to be at the front of the queue for Quo tickets. I went hunting for grub early doors... found a Kwiksave around the corner and gestured through the window to the shelf stacker I wanted food by pointing at my open mouth , he was locked in and pushed a packet of ginger nuts under the door one by one... if you're still out there, cheers pal

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1 hour ago, Not in Crawley said:

I've been stranded many a time. Always had the money to find somewhere to kip though.

Slept on the floor of Charles De Gaul Airport as I ran out of cash for the early flight when i was 18.

Not very nice and not in a hurry to repeat it. I'm from Smithills, we don't sleep outside unless it's under a very expensive canvas.

I kipped on the bench of a Spanish airport because I had only few pesetas left to get the last bus, and my flight was at sparrow fart except it was delayed for three hours, I was also 18, I didn't even have enough for a bottle of water, and to add insult to injury some Spanish lads were playing awful Spanish music all night. My parents said I looked like a Somme veteran when I got home 18 hours later with my fiver in sterling I'd kept.

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I was chopping some wood earlier, and the rain came. I took shelter in the wood store whilst the elements did their thing. Lay back and shut my eyes for a while end just listened. Was brilliant, except for some chunks poking into me. Reckon I might put a hammock in there- a fresh air nod opportunity in between periods of intense physical activity.

 

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1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I was chopping some wood earlier, and the rain came. I took shelter in the wood store whilst the elements did their thing. Lay back and shut my eyes for a while end just listened. Was brilliant, except for some chunks poking into me. Reckon I might put a hammock in there- a fresh air nod opportunity in between periods of intense physical activity.

 

I have a small river at the bottom of the garden where I've built a small jetty... sleep down there in summer sometimes

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13 minutes ago, Dimron said:

I have a small river at the bottom of the garden where I've built a small jetty... sleep down there in summer sometimes

Yeah proper rough that pal. 😂I'd take that over most nights in my own bed! 🤣 🤣 🤣 

"I sleep on my private jetty overlooking the river at the edge of my garden"

It's not camping under Eagley bridge with the rats aged 14 in a 20 quid tent but it's close!

 

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5 hours ago, Zico said:

I fell asleep in a shop doorway in Paris if that counts 

Went watching Supergrass with a mate on a Friday night, plane back at 9 so airport for 7 so figured no point in getting a hotel 

Couldn't find anywhere open after 2am 

So just wondered round pissed 

Then it started absolutely pissing it down and the metro didnt open for another 3 or so hours 

That was shite as well

Casinos and roulette - just bet red or black. I woke up in a squat once, I had no idea where I was it was total darkness - although it was morning, I stumbled to the door and realised it was near Salford Crescent. I think I'd been to The Music Box, then a haze, didn't get bummed to my knowledge.

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16 hours ago, stevieb said:

Yeah proper rough that pal. 😂I'd take that over most nights in my own bed! 🤣 🤣 🤣 

"I sleep on my private jetty overlooking the river at the edge of my garden"

It's not camping under Eagley bridge with the rats aged 14 in a 20 quid tent but it's close!

 

Sounds grand but here it is... not really a jetty, I got a load of timber from a local yard and spent a week making it up as I went along, the water is lower in summer so i didn't get too wet. Its survived for a good few years now so I must have done something right.

Wife reckons its the best thing I've ever done, not bad for some gash decking and carcassing... wait til she sees the tree house I've got in mind...

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17 hours ago, Dimron said:

I have a small river at the bottom of the garden where I've built a small jetty... sleep down there in summer sometimes

If I built a small jetty it would quickly back up with all manner of floating shite.

Only yesterday, a large aerosol of expanding foam came down- some lazy cunt had wazzed it in.

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19 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

If I built a small jetty it would quickly back up with all manner of floating shite.

Only yesterday, a large aerosol of expanding foam came down- some lazy cunt had wazzed it in.

I had a bastard farmer up stream capsize a trailer of bagged fertiliser into the river, the Environmental Agency had to divert the river into fields and pump it away but we lost a lot of fish... took a couple of years to recover... so its not all perfect here.

It was his second offence so hopefully they'll chuck the book at him

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20 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

If I built a small jetty it would quickly back up with all manner of floating shite.

Only yesterday, a large aerosol of expanding foam came down- some lazy cunt had wazzed it in.

Dumping some broken plastic kids' toys is one thing - but it is an extremely cuntish trick to chuck binbags of domestic rubbish, including food, nappies etc. What kind of cunt thinks it's acceptable?

 

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1 hour ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Dumping some broken plastic kids' toys is one thing - but it is an extremely cuntish trick to chuck binbags of domestic rubbish, including food, nappies etc. What kind of cunt thinks it's acceptable?

 

Chucking anything is unacceptable. 

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