I’ve got, you know, a really strange one, when,
when um, I guess at the beginning of University I
was a salesman, you know I sold books, door to door,
you know up in the North East. Um, and it was at some
pint in the summer that we were moving from one city
to another city. Um because we had pretty much worked
out one city so we were going on to another city,
and every time you went to a new city you had to find
somewhere to stay, um and we didn’t have much
money, so what we were doing is we were sleeping out
in the country for a couple of nights. Now this is
up in Maine with lots of area outdoors and not too
many cities so there was, you know it was easy for
us to find a place just down a little road to sleep
for a couple of nights. Um, the first night we were
there, though, I had a sleeping bag, you know, so
I was just sleeping on the ground, didn’t have
a tent or anything like that, and my friend who owned
the car was sleeping in the car, right. So, this one
night I went to bed and there’s lots of mosquitoes
at night so I pulled the slee0ping bag over my head,
you know just so the mosquitoes, you know, wouldn’t
bite me constantly. Um, about, as I remember, about
one in the morning I woke up cause I could hear, I
could hear, the um I could hear the car. Um, and I
looked out, you know form under my sleeping bag I
pulled the blanket back and looked and the car was
backing up down this narrow dirt road, right. So I,
I just, I jumped up right away, and started running
down this little narrow road after the car. Now it’s
a very narrow road and there’s lot’s of
bushes and things on the side of the road. So I’m
running, I finally caught up to the car, I’m
running next to the car banging on the hood, on the
bonnet you know, and he kept slowly backing up, well
I don’t know what’s going on, right. So
I, this went on and on, maybe, you know a hundred
meters. And I’m banging on the window, and I’m
screaming at him, making as much noise as I can and
he just kept slowly backing the car down this road.
Finally, the car stopped. You now and I ripped the
door open, said "what he hell, what’s going
on"? And he put his head down on the steering
wheel, he just put his head down on the steering wheel,
and looked up, you know looked at me and said, "What
Am I doing"? And I said, "you idiot",
I said you’re driving the car. You know, hey,
it scared, you know it scared me to death, I mean
I was really worried, you know cause I couldn’t
just figure, you know what’s going on, and it’s
one of these situations again, where, I’m not
really awake, you know and um, he was sleep driving.
You know lots of people have slept walked, but this
was, I didn’t think this was possible, he was
driving his car in his sleep. So I drove the car back,
took the keys from him and put them under my blanket
so there was no way that he was going to drive that
car again like that. Yeah, yeah it’s really
crazy.
[He could have driven over you. I mean, like he’s
not really looking where he’s driving he’s
just driving.]
Well you know I, what, you know what I think probably
would have happened, it’s like sleep walking,
people don’t do dangerous things right. They
sleep walk, but at some point in time they wake up,
right. Now, my guess is he would have driven, he would
have backed down this road until he got to the bigger
road. He would have driven somewhere, but if he had
waken up, there is no way he ever would have found
me again, cause of all those little roads and I think
that, you know, that was the cool part, always gonna,
I wonder what it woulda happened, because he probably
would have woken up at some point in time. Where am
I? In his car.
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