Bev wrote: <I heard another one - this from my MIL who told me she was so tired she could sleep on a clothesline :p>
This is supposed to go back to the 19th century when poor people could buy a night's lodging sitting upright on a bench next to others, with their arms hooked over a rope that was stretched in fromt of them to stop them falling forward.
Don't know if this is an urban legend, but FIL said that in WW2 in muddy trenches where is was just too muddy to lie down to sleep, but they were just too tired to stand, they would string a couple of short parallel ropes and hang over them to sleep. They'd be more likely to stay put across two ropes than one, and if the ropes were too long they touched and acted as one any way. Sometimes their mates would tie their arms to their bodies one they had the rope under their armpits, so they couldn't fall off.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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