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Title: Sleepdriving
Speaker: Keven

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Accent : USA
Length : 3'52"
Speed : 190 words per minute
Key to speed of speech (words per minute)
100 - 150
SLOW
150 - 200
AVERAGE
200 - 250
FAST

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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