A Confused Mansbridge

Member 6635

Level 26.61

May 2006

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Oct 6, 2007, 06:35 AM
Local time: Oct 6, 2007, 08:05 AM
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The longest time that I have ever been asleep has got to be like almost 36 hours when I was 16 years old.
What had happened is that when I was 16 years old I worked my first summer job. It consisted of working in a minus 40 below refrigerated freezer to a minus 20 below factory freezer trawler at a fish plant in my local community.
I had started work on a saturday morning at 9:00 am and finished work at 7:00 pm that evening. I had eventually went home and took a shower and grabbed something to eat when I got a phone call saying if I wanted to work another ten hour shift from 9:00 pm to 7:00 am sunday morning. So of course I wanted to. The job actually paid fairly well, 20.00/hour and after 12:00 in the night, it went up to $30.00/hour and for a 16 year old summer student that was incredibly good money because they couldn't get anybody to give up their weekend to work especially during the summer.
I managed to survive that night at work, because at the end of it, I was getting pretty tired. I literally had been up for almost 24 hours straight, and worked 20 of those hours in freezing conditions. I had gotten home around 8:00 am and took a quick hot shower and went straight to bed. I had woken up and looked out the window and seen it was night out. I looked at my clock and it said 9:00 pm, so I assumed it was 9:00 pm sunday, but when I went down to the kitchen my parents said it was about time I woke up, because they thought I would never wake up. They told me it was actually monday night. I slept right through sunday and most of monday.
I have no idea what might of caused me to sleep that long, it must of been a mixture of being overtired and being in that -40 freezer for almost 20 hours that literally caused my body to slowly shut down and I'm guessing the hot shower after I finished work never really helped things.
In terms of the longest time I've been awake, it has got to be about 26 hours straight when I stayed with my sister when I was 17, the majority of those hours spent playing Super Marion RPG, I had it for a two day rental and desperately tried to finish it before I had to bring it back.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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