You might be a night shifter if...

Published

You sit through 3 red lights before you realize the car in front of you is broken down, and not just stopped at the light. oops.

But, for musicians, Spinal Tap is the Holy Grail. It's the best. Setting up and breaking down. Carrying your gear up and down the stairs. Making sure your Peavey and Marshall speakers are working. Making sure your sound man is sober. "Check, check, check. One two three." One of the funniest scenes in ST was when the band was listed, on the marquee, below someone's wedding at a motel.

Ex-musician here too. I'm fond of them getting lost backstage. That's one of the places that I'm rolling on the floor and my husband looks at me like I'm insane.

I think Parker Posey is in all the Christopher Guest stuff. As a musician, you must see A Mighty Wind. It's not Spinal Tap, but it's good!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Getting lost backstage. Now I really have to rent this movie and watch it start to finish. I will roll on the floor laughing. You're an ex-musician. Is there any such thing? You're a musician.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

You must be a Skilled Nursing Facility nurse. I have that happen to me several times.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing.

...You are driving home on Monday at 7:15 am passing all the tired, coffee-drinking drivers heading off to work, with the radio DJ's bemoaning Monday morning... knowing that you will be in bed in a few minutes while these poor people's day is just getting started!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

When you wake up on your night off at 3 or 4 am because you're ready to eat some lunch.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Medical Oncology, Alzheimer/dementia.

In the summer, you want to strangle the neighbor who thinks it's cool to crank up the lawn mower at 0800, 0900, 1000...

You write noc instead of night all the time...when your're not at work

Around 0500 you're dog tired and need a nap so bad you're ready to cry, you're dreaming how you can't wait to get home and go straight to bed. But then you get home and you can't sleep.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing.

You go through multiple bottles of melatonin and Vitamin D each year!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

...if it's 345 in the morning and you're posting on this thread....

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Pediatric Hem/Onc.

This thread is full of win!

...when you've been on a staycation for the past two weeks and still eat dinner around 0200 and consider going to bed at 0500 going to bed early.

...seeing bright daylight makes your sleep center panic. I met my aunt for lunch a few days ago and I kept saying "I'm not hungry, my body is telling me to go back to bed!"

.....0430-0530 is the longest hour ever, yet at 0600 you start zooming through your charting, clearing pumps, mentally counting down the minutes!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in hospice.
....when you have to hear yet another person say "wow, graveyard shift in a hospital must be so BORING; do you watch tv or something to pass the time?"

argh.

Seriously, that might be a death penalty offense. I swear to God, my patients in the hospital did anything BUT sleep, and the ones who did sleep, we constantly woke up for vitals or blood sugar checks. I can't even imagine the nightmare of having to deal with meals on top what I already do (I'm a CNA) and have no desire to ever switch and find out.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in hospice.

And now for my own contribution:

When you hear the evening drive guy on the radio saying, "TGIF! Welcome to the weekend!" on your way to work. And realize you have never once in your life ever held a job where Friday means ANYTHING! ;-)

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Telemetry.

You occasionally don your sunglasses in the building because the interior lights are too bright and screwing with your sleep/wake pattern.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion