Long Trips in Old Audis

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on Thu Jan 17 04:51:02 2002 Michael L. Riebs @ quattro-admin at audifans.com
Thu Jan 17 04:51:02 2002 wrote:
 
> When it happened to me, I was my '94 Saturn SL2, which has
> reclining front seats.  I wouldn't quite say they recline to a "flat"
> position, but they can go back and touch the rear seats.  I'm sure
> the seat wasn't fully upright like when I drive, but it may not have
> been fully reclined.
> 
> On one trip I had a set of wheels and tires in the car with the back
> seats folded down, and for many trips I had luggage in the back
> seat due to a large speaker box in the trunk.  This incident might
> have been on one of those occasions.  I recall one where I had
> three leaking air valves on a set of 40 series tires.  This may be the
> same time when I woke up startled, it was definitely the same rest
> stop.
> 
> Keep in mind that I normally make this trip straight through without
> napping (about 6 hours), so when I did nap this time, it was
> because I left without sleeping first or something similar.  The point
> behind I was quite fatigued, where my eyeballs would start
> involuntarily looking all around instead of where I was trying to point
> them while driving.
> 
> Maybe you are right, and it is not possible to have the reaction I
> had.  Maybe I was sleeping in the driver's seat and dreamt that I
> had the reaction. :-)
> 
> Maybe I was less than 1/2 awake when it happened.  I don't recall
> the actual ratio of awakeness to sleepingness.  If I had to guess,
> and it would only be a guess, I would say that I was about 3/8th's
> awake.  Yeah.
> 
> Or maybe I'm just big freakin' wierdo that gets all tripped out over
> normal stuff.  Have you ever been just about drifting off into sleep,
> and all of a sudden for no reason you just "jump", like WTF?!?!?
> It's like your whole body convulses, as if you were falling in a
> dream and just hit the bottom?  Only without the conscious buildup
> fo the fall, just "bam!"?  This is without a steering with and
> dashboard to wake up to!  I hate when that happens!
> 
> It's ironic that I put "YMMV" at the end of that particular email.  I
> don't often do that.  "Your mileage may vary", meaning what
> happens to me might not happen to you.
> 
> As for who the recommendation is from, I may have came up with it
> myself after having that experience.  I was just hiding behind the
> "they say" thing so you all wouldn't know how I trip out over nothing
> at all, or dream about doing so.
> 
> If you detect sarcasm, it's because I'm trying to illustrate that I'm
> not trying to argue a point or impose my reality upon anyone else.
> I just passed along something that could be thought about by
> others.
> 
> I like the occasional "boxing match" as you describe it, but I just
> can't get into trying to convince someone that I got startled when I
> woke from a nap behind the wheel.

You're sure not a man of few words.  Do you wanna really talk about all
that?  To your friendly mental health specialist? ;-)

>  I'll be sending another post that

Oh, no!
 
> "Peace"

Peace to you, too.  I wonder how peaceful the list members, who pay by the
bit feel ...