Decision Time: Spend Spring Break at the beach or... WalMart!?!

[innerSpaceman]

Sorry. I didn't read the link. I had supposed to the stunt was to stow away without detection. If the stunt was simply to stay awake, why was Wal*Mart a necessary part of the equation?

[€uroMeinke]

Eh - not impressed at all

While I was in college I squatted with a friend in an MIT student lounge for a week.

Also, in a seperate experiement I stayed awake for 111 hours - for me hallucinations didn't begin until day 3.

Kids today - no imagination and wreckless disregard for their well-being

[Alex]

Yeah, I stayed awaked for around 78 hours at Boy's State when I was in high school. Once I realized most high school kids didn't understand the house edge in blackjack I was more than happy to deal without pause.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Also, in a seperate experiement I stayed awake for 111 hours - for me hallucinations didn't begin until day 3.

Why did you stay awake for 111 hours?

I'm with CP, if he had done it without getting caught, I'd be impressed.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Why did you stay awake for 111 hours?

It was finals - so I had a couple consecutive all nighters to get my papers done - then I just wanted to see if I could make it to the weekend and a particular party.

I did it - but had several bizar hallucinations along the way - including going to class - sitting in front to keep awake, and then watch as my professor split in two, with the professor on the right growing facial hair and then making and wearing a paper hat. The professor on the left continued to lecture as if nothing was going on. I however, was rivited in amazement at this feat.

The dark fuzzies on the outside of my peripheral vison also seemed to grow bigger and more menacing as the days wore on.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Sorry. I didn't read the link. I had supposed to the stunt was to stow away without detection. If the stunt was simply to stay awake, why was Wal*Mart a necessary part of the equation?

No sweat, I'll give you the high points

Bartels, 20, an aspiring writer and Drake University sophomore, thought he'd spend a week in a Wal-Mart as a test of endurance, using it as the premise for a magazine article. His college adviser liked the idea.

"I just intuitively thought, 'This is brilliant!"' said Carol Spaulding-Kruse, an associate professor of English. "I wasn't quite sure why, but it just sounded like a really good idea."
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He bought meals at the in-store Subway sandwich shop, but was able to catch only brief naps in a restroom stall or on lawn chairs in the garden department.

Other shoppers and employees didn't pay much attention until the end of his stay, he said, when it appeared some store greeters began to take notice -- pointing at him and whispering.

A shift manager approached him and asked him if he was finding everything he needed.

"He said, 'Didn't I see you over by the magazines, like, five hours ago?' I told him, 'Maybe,"' Bartels said.

Tiring to the point of hallucinating, Bartels said he decided to go home before he was thrown out.

I'm still wondering why anyone thought this was a good idea.