Narcolepsomnia
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
Gender: Male
 |  |  | An experience of mine, advice please
< on 3/8/2008 2:12 AM >
|  | | | So the other day I was hanging out after school with time to kill, and, being the intrepid explorer that I am, i decided to go draining. I had already gone earlier that day (actually my friend and I had just finished), but the area near the school is riddled with pipes, some of which go a substantial distance but the long ones are also small, and only the short ones are large enough to stand up in. On my earlier trip with my friend, we went under the school in some hands-and-knees crawling height pipes. It was fine, I'd done it twice before, and he was new, but did fine as well. We had fun listening to people's conversations and prying pennies off of the cement walls, but eventually we headed back, and I decided to try out a different section just across the street. I was feeling a bit of pain in the knees, as one will when crawling on cement  , but it wasn't too bad, so off I went. It was fine at first, but after a bit I was getting strangely exhausted, and decided to head back after the next gutter, manhole, or whatever. Once I got there, I rested a bit, but on the way back, my legs just gave out. It didn't happen suddenly, and I don't think it was because of some bad air, seeing as the pipes were large enough to do a kind of shuffling, bent-over half-walk and there were openings every 100 ft to 50 yds, so there was plenty of air circulation. I ended up crawling on my knees when I gathered the strength, but mainly just dragging myself out, and the only thing keeping me going was the promise of the outside world and my little speeches to myself about the human drive for survival (pathetic, I know, but it kept me from collapsing into a quivering mess, trapped below ground). I finally made it out, and now it is a few days after, and besides some bruises of the knees and elbows, everything is in working order except for a slight, almost negligible weakness of the legs.
So I ask you:
1. Has this sort of thing ever happened to anyone else, and in what ways?
2. What would you do in such a situation?
and 3. How did pennies (and two house keys  ) get stuck into the wall anyways?
Thanks for listening to my rambling, happy exploring! 
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