Little Sleep

Correction: I'm a good driver, just not a good defensive driver. In the words of my mom.

 

If there is a reason that you are getting little to no school (School, work, volunteering, etc) then I understand, but if you are like that all the time then you should try to stay away from driving unless you need to. If you DO need to then you should adjust your sleep schedule. How you feel doesn't say a thing about how much attention you are CAPABLE of giving to the road. It may seem like "you got this" because you are giving 100% of your energy to the road, but if your capacity is low then 100% is quite low. 100% effort with a full night's sleep is more than 100% effort on less sleep.

I get it man, you don't want to feel like you made/are making a mistake because it doesn't feel good. However if you acknowledge your mistakes and actively try to fix them then you WILL become a good driver/person but until then you are really messing up on this. I've said this once before but I'll say it again, this is by no means personal to you. If anyone was doing this (family, girlfriend, best friend(s), etc) I would be saying the same thing because if anyone knows how much car safety matters its me, and to be honest when I see people turn a blind eye to it....that really makes me shake my head.



Gonna lay down some serious shit to the folks at khv. I've only really told my best friend who used to live in the same town as me, and Sabby this but my accident wasn't due to some mechanical failure like I originally said it was (granted the car wasn't exactly new so that is always a factor, in fact it looked awful and didn't run that well either) but anyhow my accident was due to some jackass driving without really caring about the road or respecting the car he was driving. I wouldn't have seizures, brain damage, etc and need to take medication every day of my life while getting pain treatment every three months if that guy just decided to be safer rather than rolling the dice. My life WILL NEVER be the same thanks to that, so it breaks my heart to see people not care enough about this sort of thing. I say "care enough" because I do believe somewhere deep down you care about the safety of others but you just need to fix your priorities man. Take care of yourself so you don't hurt other people and if you are incapable of doing that, then get off the road until you can.

I'm not entirely comfortable sharing this but if it gets you to be safe then it was worth it. *shrugs*

 

I'm not like that all the time, though. See the quoted post of mine at the very end here. :)

It's fine. I'm sure you'd tell me if you had a personal issue with me.

I'll also apologize, though, if I'm coming across as a smart ass. I'm not trying to.

Lack of sleep, I assume?

But, anyway, to everyone in general, I have a project thread in the Premium Members forum I started back in late February, and I'm going to copy and paste it here. Each week also has an average, with the exception of the current week, so just have a look through them.

I don't really have a bedtime that I set for myself, but I usually go to bed anywhere between 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM, and if you a look at the averages, you'll see a lot of the weeks are within that range. In addition, with the exception of today (which is good), in every single case, I went to bed no later than 15 or 30 minutes after my last activity.

On cases where I go to bed after 1:00 AM, I'll usually, depending on how long after 1:00 AM it is, fix it by:

• Going to bed at the normal time frame, usually, but not always, more toward 11:00 PM. This is the common one.
• Going to bed a lot earlier than I usually would, such as around 9:00 PM. This is in rare cases where I actually physically feel tired at an earlier time.

And sometimes I don't fix it until a couple or few days later when the late (or early) nights catch up with me. For example:

• 1:53 AM
• 12:35 AM
• 1:44 AM
• 10:22 PM

Anyway, here's the post:

 

wow

 

whoa

 

I'll probably be crashing around 10:00 PM tonight or sooner. I am TIRED.

 

didn't realize your mom spoke the word of god

 

She's the one that's with me all the time when I'm not by myself, so I think she has a say, especially considering she used to be like me when I was still a kid (not a defensive driver).

One day someone in front of her was pulling into a parking lot and she started getting back up to speed, but then that person suddenly stopped for no reason and she had to swerve and brake to keep from hitting them. Ever since then, she's changed her ways and has become a great defensive driver. Ironically, the same exact situation happened to me, last year I think it was.

 

Oh, and by the way, if you guys should be getting after anyone, it should be @Nala. He only gets about an hour of sleep on a daily basis due to college and work and still drives.

 

trying to push someone else under the bus won't work. you're still just as bad.

 

I'm just as bad because nine times out of ten I get sufficient sleep? 'Kay.

 

you're just as bad because regardless of how many times you do it, you're putting other peoples lives at risk because you're too stupid to get it through your thick ****ing skull that you shouldn't be driving with little sleep. do it once or do it a hundred times, you're a danger. ignore me as much as you want, it's a poor decision on your part, regardless of what mummy says.

 

Because I've been trying to figure out how to put it into words and Nate does it brilliantly.

 

So let me get this straight: I'm just as bad as Nights because on RARE occasions I drive with little sleep, the lowest being three hours. However, Nights drives on about an hour of sleep on a DAILY BASIS, and those one-hour sleeps will eventually catch up with him, and they could be in the form of him falling asleep behind the wheel and causing a wreck. My lack of sleep catches up with me, too, but it's always at night when it's not a problem.

You make no logical sense whatsoever.

Also, I think if I ever had to choose who I'd listen to, it'd be my mom and not you.

 

you're actually just impossible to talk to. at least TRY to understand what i'm saying. YOU. ARE. A. DANGER. TO. OTHERS. WHEN. YOU. DRIVE. WITH. LITTLE. SLEEP. REGARDLESS. OF. HOW. OFTEN. YOU. DO. IT. No generalization here. You as in Amaury. Yourself. Whoever the **** you are, you're a danger. a hazard. unsafe. let me crack out a thesaurus here. menace. risk. threat. do you get it yet? are you understanding now? liability. are any of these words meaning ANYTHING to you? don't talk to me about what anyone else does because right now, this is a thread YOU made about YOU and YOUR sleeping habits.

 

I talked to my mom, and she agreed with what you said. However, she also said that three hours is okay if you're just going short distances, but she wouldn't advise going on a long trip on three hours of sleep.

In my case, I take her to work in the mornings and then go back home, which is about 10 minutes total, sometimes a little longer if we stop for a hot chocolate or something. I'm not counting the other trips (lunch, etc.) because on days where I'm running on little sleep, I'm wide awake for all those. It's just the mornings.

 

As antagonistic as I've been to Amaury in the past, in this instance I feel like people may be coming down a little too hard. You can't always control how much sleep you get, and though it's not safe, sometimes driving with little sleep is unavoidable. I know this wasn't the case in this situation since he was up late doing nothing, but I think he's fine as long as he knows not to make a habit of it and that should he have had little sleep to drive extremely carefully.

Also I get that you and your mom are close, but maybe learn to make an argument without starting every sentence with "my mom said."