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Longest you ever went without sleep?

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Somewhere around 60 - 72, the week my ex-wife and I separated in 1996. I waited up all night one night for her to come home, she never did. Went to work, went home, received a disconcerting phonecall from a friend telling me where she'd been. I then spent all night that night packing and moving into a buddies apartment before she got a chance to clean out our place first. Went to work the next day too.

I worked sales and was on my feet 9 hours a day at work, for 3 days straight without sleep, meanwhile spending those nights packing and moving. :(

The story has a happy ending though. I divorced the cheatin' bitch. :biggrin:
 
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Buck Nasty said:
Good News was I did get to have sex with a sheep.:wink2:
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Wow, that is really good news. That's a lot more exciting than saving a bunch of money on your car insurance by switching to Geico.

What frat? Lambda Pi?

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62 hours. When I was in the Keesler AFB drum and bugle corps in early 1976, I had to pass "boot inspection" to get my "rope" (the armulet we wore on our uniforms...you could wear it during performances but had to remove it unless you had passed the inspection). The inspection was were several of the higher level "ropes" would come in and inspect your room and everything--and I do mean everything--in it. Boots and shoes had to polished to a mirror-gloss from top to bottom, in a process where the material of the boot/shoe was sanded down as smooth as possible, and then shoe polished was literally burned into the material. Once that was done, the boot/shoe was shined witha new can of polished until remaining micro-pits were filled in. Lastly, you'd set the surface of the shoe polish in the can on fire for about 10-15 seconds and then extinguish it, to draw up the oils in the polish, and these oils were applied last to give the "clearcoat" finish. My combat boots were so shiny that you could literally use it as a mirror to shave with. That procees took about 36 hours to complete. Then you had to scrub down your room so that there was no dust/dirt anywhere (floor, top of windows sills, door jam, closet shelves, etc.). They actually did a white-glove inspection and if there was any dirt at all anywhere, you failed. Lastly, you bed had to be perfectly made, and well as your bunk mate's. A quarter had to bounce at least an inch when dropped on the middle of the mattress. There also could be absolutely no wrinkles whatsoever on the blanket.

This process started immediately after my return from school Friday afternoon (we had to be out of bed for regular inspection at 0400 every morning, so that's when I awoke that Friday morning). You were not allowed to sleep until you were inspected, and I was inspected at about 1500 (3:00 pm for you civies) on Sunday. I passed (barely), but was so wired I didn't go to bed until just after 1800 (6:00 pm). So, I was awake from 4:00 am Friday morning until 6:00 pm Sunday evening.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
62 hours. When I was in the Keesler AFB drum and bugle corps in early 1976, I had to pass "boot inspection" to get my "rope" (the armulet we wore on our uniforms...you could wear it during performances but had to remove it unless you had passed the inspection). The inspection was were several of the higher level "ropes" would come in and inspect your room and everything--and I do mean everything--in it. Boots and shoes had to polished to a mirror-gloss from top to bottom, in a process where the material of the boot/shoe was sanded down as smooth as possible, and then shoe polished was literally burned into the material. Once that was done, the boot/shoe was shined witha new can of polished until remaining micro-pits were filled in. Lastly, you'd set the surface of the shoe polish in the can on fire for about 10-15 seconds and then extinguish it, to draw up the oils in the polish, and these oils were applied last to give the "clearcoat" finish. My combat boots were so shiny that you could literally use it as a mirror to shave with. That procees took about 36 hours to complete. Then you had to scrub down your room so that there was no dust/dirt anywhere (floor, top of windows sills, door jam, closet shelves, etc.). They actually did a white-glove inspection and if there was any dirt at all anywhere, you failed. Lastly, you bed had to be perfectly made, and well as your bunk mate's. A quarter had to bounce at least an inch when dropped on the middle of the mattress. There also could be absolutely no wrinkles whatsoever on the blanket.

This process started immediately after my return from school Friday afternoon (we had to be out of bed for regular inspection at 0400 every morning, so that's when I awoke that Friday morning). You were not allowed to sleep until you were inspected, and I was inspected at about 1500 (3:00 pm for you civies) on Sunday. I passed (barely), but was so wired I didn't go to bed until just after 1800 (6:00 pm). So, I was awake from 4:00 am Friday morning until 6:00 pm Sunday evening.
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So, was this Band Camp? :wink2:
 
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