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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
WOW!! Do you have any trouble with falling asleep while you are driving a car?
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Not if I'm really tired. Which is why I pull over before I get that way, and just fall asleep sitting there in the driver's seat. Many a time I have been awoken by the hammering of a highway patrolman's fist on the window, told to get out of the car for a sobriety test (which I always pass because I am not drunk, just sleepy), and then I get back in the car and go back to sleep.
If I wake up enough on the first go round, I generally ask them to radio to their fellow officers that I am not (1) drunk or (2) dead, and that I would love it if they would leave me the hell alone so I can sleep until I am not sleepy anymore.
That is what I do ever since I fell asleep at the wheel and ran off the road and into a field at which point the car rolled to a stop and I woke up in the morning surrounded by cattle. It only takes one time to make me understand the importance of not making that mistake again.