1. The sleeping piss
Sleeping in dorms is always an adventure, no matter where you go, no matter how many people are you sleeping in with. Sharing a room with strangers can go wrong but becomes routine when you’re traveling solo, on a budget. And somehow one gets used to it. However, as an experienced dorm user, I wasn’t expecting nor mentally prepared for the following episode:
Nha Trang, Vietnam, 03-03-2017
After a tiring day at the beach and a delightful Vietnamese vegetarian dinner, I went to my bunk bed, stuffed in a 8-mixed-dorm room. There was just me and two girls there when I fell asleep. I slept peacefully until I wake up to the sound of someone stumbling to get inside.
It was a drunk-middle-aged-Russian guy. He was mumbling detached words in Russian, tripping over his own feet trying to reach his bed, which, by the way, was placed 1 meter away from the door.
“Ok fine, he’s just going to lay down and fall asleep quickly” - I though. Wrong!! I woke up again a few minutes after with him trying to get out off bed, dead-walking towards the door. In his drunken mind he had reached the toilet, except he had not! He was standing in one of the corners of the room.
So this guy pulls his pants down, grabs his junk and takes a piss right there. A loooong piss. The result: one pool of piss. He stuffs his junk inside again but forgets the pants, so as he walks away from his imaginary toilet he trips on himself and falls on his head right on top of his freshly-squeezed pool. He doesn’t try to get up because he falls asleep instantly (on top of his own piss!, did I mention that already?!). He snores for the next half an hour or so, only to wake up again for another excursion to the “toilet”, this time - the other corner of the room. The result: two pools of piss.
PISS FLOOD!
(It’s important to mention here that during the whole time I only opened my eyes twice: when he came in and when I heard the piss dripping. Most of this episode was built based on what my ears were picking up at the time. I decided not to take any action because well, he was a big-strong guy, Russian, drunk, alone with 3 young girls in the dorm, in the middle of the freaking night! I hope you understand my inertia)
Anyway: second excursion to the “toilet”. One of the girls says something: “Hey, are you alright?”, I join the ride and go for a different approach, Angela’s style: “Are you aware of what you just did?” - no answer, I go on - “You just piss the whole room and slept on top of it!”.The guy must have had a slightly pinch on embarrassment because he went back to his bed without saying a word.
Afterwards, the two girls and I had to make a bridge with our bath towels to get to the door safe and sound (and dry!), we reached the reception, explained the episode, moved to another room. Never saw the guy again.
End of story
