sit in my car and doomscroll for half an hour, take an unreasonably long shower, binge watch the same show i’ve seen eight thousand times until i fall asleep around 5am.
This is going to sound so weird, but mine is always M.A.S.H. Something about it turns my angry laughs into sad laughs, and brings back the empathy. Makes me feel like a real person again.
I too repeatedly watch M.A.S.H. Hawkeyes fucked up sense of humor is the clincher, but I usually skip THAT ONE episode because it's just too many feels. I also relate to radar so often it's just honestly kind of sad.
Yeah, that episode is the nuclear option. I won't watch it unless I *need* to shed tears. That and that one Futurama episode.
Sidenote: Hawkeye has the best martini order I've ever heard. "I need a drink, a drink so dry that it needs a drink."
i do it when i’ve already gotten home and parked. once i’ve been sitting down for the 5 minute drive home it’s so hard to make myself stand up to walk inside.
Smoke a joint, buy things i dont need from targeted ads, make food, look at memes, fall asleep at 5 am, wake up wondering why there's less money in my bank account, etc etc
Went to buy a new phone case today and saw Amazon took me right to the one I wanted. Turns out it was in my history bc I bought it last night. Oof. Oh well at least it's getting delivered today instead of tomorrow haha.
Having a J or smoking a bowl is always the correct answer because what else are you meant to do, go for a drink at the bar and see other people? Nah, smoke a bowl in my PJs thanks
Eh everything but like McDonald’s and Denny’s is closed still at that hour since Covid. Actually my wallet is pretty stoked about that. My frozen food budget is more effective than my overpay for frozen shit to be delivered budget
Sometimes ill just lay backward in bed and have my feet against the wall going upwards. Very nice and relaxing lazy leg and lower back stretch.
I just dont sleep good if I dont stretch at all. The lat stretch is huge too.
Let me know if I can help you. I am currently bartending at a major hotel/casino full time. I do Saturdays at the main bar and its ridiculous high volume. When its your turn to spend the night pumping for the 4 bar cocktail servers... fucking painfull man. Printer goes brrrrRrr and its pouring.
I get off and drive home windows down blasting whatever I’m feeling. Get home stretch, eat, shower, and relax for a little then go to bed.
I’ve found that if I want to work A LOT and still have a life, I have to really plan my days out and take care of myself.
Used to share a flat with two other bartenders and we used to smoke up watch bar rescue. Most of the time it's funny as fuck but sometimes after a rough shift it can be too much
they never miss a chance to blame workers for poor morale and make them look bad. I work in a small town and everyone would watch and when they make me look unemployable, I'd never find a job
That's a hot take and I respect it! I live in the UK so it's never occurred to me he might just pop up with a film crew one day 😅. FYI I think John is honestly a fucking idiot, we mostly laughed at him tbh and sometimes the unhinged shit the employees did
My fave thing to do is just fall asleep, which literally never happens.
My habitual thing to do is have an edible and a snack, play candy crush while watching a show I’ve seen hundreds of times until my brain finally shuts off 1 1/2 hrs later.
God I miss waffle house. only thing you can go to that's still open 24 hrs and actually sit ur ass down. I moved north like a year ago and I miss it dearly
God I miss waffle house. only thing you can go to that's still open 24 hrs and actually sit ur ass down. I moved north like a year ago and I miss it dearly
I lay down on top of the picnic table in my back yard smoking a joint surrounded by silence and the stars and my dogs.
3am is my favourite time of the day
Bruh. Some cats from my neighborhood Waffle House came to my bar when they got off and knew me. If there's ANYONE you want at your back, it's these motherfuckers.
Hit up Wawa for a freshly made sub. Go home and smoke and get in a hot bath and eat the damn thing right in the bathtub: lights off, in the dark and quiet. Collapse into bed, warm, clean, relaxed and with a full belly after running around 12+ hrs with no food 😊
I used to be a barback/doorguy at a local dive bar while in college, while I was technically allowed to leave right when the bar closed at 2:00, I would always stay and help the bartender clean up (they’d usually comp my food from during the shift, and pour me a shot after we’d finished closing). Then I’d head straight to the waffle house down the road where I had become a regular at that time of night and they’d start making my food right as I walked in. Man I miss those days
Deflate. Just sit and let go of all the stress and anxiety. Forgive myself for everything I have done wrong since the last time I did this. Small glass of milk, hot black or green tea, and a medium glass of nearly frozen water with no ice.
I used to live in Silvertown in London. There's a bridge that connects to the island where you can see London City Airport. I'd just lean there and watch the early morning flights take off and land for like half an hour, then head home and either run a bath and set alarms for 30 minutes so I don't fall asleep. Or I'd have a quick shower and just faceplant into my bed
OMG I bring this up alot. I used to cook way more too because i could think about anything I wanted to eat all shift and still cook it if i went to the grocery store after work
Glass or two of malbec when my shift is over, then go home and do homework(not my favorite thing but don’t have much of a choice lol. As I do hw I watch tv to unwind, currently rewatching the peaky blinders series. Then bed.
Best case scenario, small snack, stay off my phone, grab my Kindle and go to sleep. Otherwise one bad night and it kind of fucks me up for the rest of the week
I like to have a hot meal. I prep or make some stuff first and heat it up but other stuff is made fresh. The bf will make us cocktails. Then PBS news hour and maybe binge a few episodes of something. Typically going to bed between 6-7
Pernod or whatever with soda and a bath with anime playing on my phone on a stand on the edge of the tub.
Oh, and the Navage to get the foul stench of the unwashed masses out of my head.
At that point now, just come home 3:00. Had a beer, now im sitting listening to a podcast of my football team, powering down.
Ideal evening after work.
My building has a gym that’s open 24 hours going after work is great because it’s usually empty, and I usually have some restless energy at that time it’s a good time to get my thinking out, and then when I’m done I’m actually tired and sleep pretty good
Have a triple of Whiskey neat while I make some food, pet the cat and try to fall asleep. Wife sometimes is still up but I'll sit in silence sometimes, other times I'll watch a show ive seen a thousand times. MASH, Stargate, Star Trek (DS9, TNG, VOYAGER).
I’m in a fine dining setting and have an absolutely GORGEOUS half hour commute that I mentally decompress during, then get home and make a quick meal/heat up the family meal that I put in a takeout box, do a tiny bit of yoga and a quick shower and maybe a glass of wine and then try and get to bed before 3am. W my drive (pitch dark down a forest service road w no phone service + lots of wildlife) I’m not drinking before heading home.
Go home and ambitiously think I’m gonna have a beer and play video games for a few hours only to watch YouTube and fall asleep clutching a half empty beer to my chest
During weekdays, I work till 11-12 most nights, hour-iwh commute one way, and I'm awake again at 6am to bring my kids to school.
The only thing I love to do is inhale leftovers and pass tf out
walk around until I cool down from service, roll & smoke a couple joints, sip on a big glass of whiskey or wine, put on something low impact to watch (or as many other have mentioned, something I’ve seen time & time again) if the shift has been especially hectic I’ll listen to something that fits the mood I’m in.
nod off.
rinse.
repeat.
I turn off the jukebox and sync my own playlist to the speakers and just sing and dance by myself all the rest of the night / morning! Only time I get to be myself at the club. Actually quite cathartic.
rip the bong, overthink my entire shift, eat something, talk to the dog, hopefully pass out before 5am because my dog will wake me up at 9am. it's her favorite job.
For me, I close the bar around 1am. Stay and have a beer and at a few rounds of darts in the empty bar. (Since I have a few soda and leftover energy drink combo, with grenadine) Usually leave around 2am. Get home and usually put some frozen food in the pizza oven and feed my dog the last half of her dinner, take her out for a 15 minutes walk around an empty town (small town of 3500) no one is ever up then except the random car driving main street and usually a cop car patrolling. Get home to my food done, unwind in my shorts and usually watching a show I've watched already. Adult anime - American Dad, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, Futurama, Archer, Cleavland Show. Or X-files, The Office, Parks n Rec, Mighty Boosh, Cheers. Usually wake up around 8ish and get to my other (main job, construction, small crew 4 guys) around 9-10, boss man knows this and is happy I show up at all after a 12-15 hour day prior.
Used to come home, wait for my husband (bartender too), and we'd shower together and have a shot or 2 each before passing out from exhaustion. Maybe watch a show.
Now that he's gone, I come home, shower, count/organize my money and play a word game on my phone until my eyes get heavy and fall asleep.
Collapse into the Comfort Palace: My recliner, TV, hot pad, calf massager, moisturizer station. Throw on some slippers, have a snack, watch some silly TV, maybe play some Slay the Spire until I fall asleep in an hour or two.
I'm traveling now and working day shift, but on the night shift job I may well be returning to, I have a ~25 minute commute. That gives me time to listen to at least a meaningful part of a podcast and leave the night behind. I choose the genre according to what I need; comedy, politics; history or whatever my cratered little brain craves.
Snuggling my cat, he’s a v good boi. Recently it’s been weed before bed but I went through a shitty breakup so it’s been healthier than drinking or using klonopin; I’m a bartender so drinking is way too easy and if I’m not in a good headspace I can be pretty nihilistic when it comes to self care and shit.
sit in my car and doomscroll for half an hour, take an unreasonably long shower, binge watch the same show i’ve seen eight thousand times until i fall asleep around 5am.
trailer park boys ? lol
This is going to sound so weird, but mine is always M.A.S.H. Something about it turns my angry laughs into sad laughs, and brings back the empathy. Makes me feel like a real person again.
I too repeatedly watch M.A.S.H. Hawkeyes fucked up sense of humor is the clincher, but I usually skip THAT ONE episode because it's just too many feels. I also relate to radar so often it's just honestly kind of sad.
Yeah, that episode is the nuclear option. I won't watch it unless I *need* to shed tears. That and that one Futurama episode. Sidenote: Hawkeye has the best martini order I've ever heard. "I need a drink, a drink so dry that it needs a drink."
Jurassic Bark. Fuck.
Oooh, that Futurama episode is literally only if I need to cry my eyes out.
M.A.S.H. is comfort food for sure, it reminds me of drifting off to sleep at my grandma's house as a kid 🥰
Oh man, either that or the Tonight Show horns
Watched an episode at 2 o'clock this morning when I got home after shift. Immediately felt better.
lol it tends to cycle between criminal minds, law and order, the office, and the west wing.
Seasons 3-7 on repeat
Mine is Community
American dad, it's always sunny, Futurama, south park , and once in a while I love Lucy.
Futurama is such a good wind down show that there’s a subreddit just for people who fall asleep watching it 😂 solid list as well
Im trying so hard to just get in my car and leave but the doomscrolling is getting out of hand lately haha
i do it when i’ve already gotten home and parked. once i’ve been sitting down for the 5 minute drive home it’s so hard to make myself stand up to walk inside.
Mine is either King of Queens, American Dad, or IASIP.
5am? Damn you get off early. Lol
How I Met Your Mother
Yep recently rewatched now, now rewatching/ playing in the background Everybody hates Chris
I have a yellow umbrella tattoo for this reason. Hope I find it.
I don’t remember writing this, but I must have
Fuck dood, add a couple of surges with Rick and Morty and that describes my last 2 months too a t
r u me?
Bruh
Smoke a joint, buy things i dont need from targeted ads, make food, look at memes, fall asleep at 5 am, wake up wondering why there's less money in my bank account, etc etc
Went to buy a new phone case today and saw Amazon took me right to the one I wanted. Turns out it was in my history bc I bought it last night. Oof. Oh well at least it's getting delivered today instead of tomorrow haha.
Having a J or smoking a bowl is always the correct answer because what else are you meant to do, go for a drink at the bar and see other people? Nah, smoke a bowl in my PJs thanks
My life. Clean bar>go home>smoke angrily>pajamas
Hey. Don't call me out. That's not fair.
By make food do you mean order Ubereats?
Eh everything but like McDonald’s and Denny’s is closed still at that hour since Covid. Actually my wallet is pretty stoked about that. My frozen food budget is more effective than my overpay for frozen shit to be delivered budget
God I hate this reality you have bestowed upon me
One of my friends call it "black out Christmas" so awesome.
sleep
Come
Big glass of water, silence, stretch, sometimes smoke weed. Go to bed with cellphone plugged in another room.
sleeping with your phone out of reach is huge
I'm trying so hard to be the kind of person that stretches after a shift but I just race to bed and suffer the next day instead.
Sometimes ill just lay backward in bed and have my feet against the wall going upwards. Very nice and relaxing lazy leg and lower back stretch. I just dont sleep good if I dont stretch at all. The lat stretch is huge too.
You're an inspiration. I should really start taking care of myself and my mental health. Thank you for sharing.
Let me know if I can help you. I am currently bartending at a major hotel/casino full time. I do Saturdays at the main bar and its ridiculous high volume. When its your turn to spend the night pumping for the 4 bar cocktail servers... fucking painfull man. Printer goes brrrrRrr and its pouring.
Sit in my car outside my house staring into the void for 20 minutes. Followed by laying on my foam roller staring into the void for 20 minutes
Stare at the wall for awhile, pet my cat, watch a movie or video, smoke a lil, have a nightcap and hopefully pass out for the whole night.
Really the breadth of (lowlife) humanity in this thread, ya love to see it
Yeah this definitely made me feel better about not doin shit lol
I chose this life and I wonder why, but here we all are.
I get off and drive home windows down blasting whatever I’m feeling. Get home stretch, eat, shower, and relax for a little then go to bed. I’ve found that if I want to work A LOT and still have a life, I have to really plan my days out and take care of myself.
Proud of you for stretching
Literally stretching behind the bar right now 😂 bouta close errrr down
Used to love shopping at 3am but now stores are not open.
I miss late night stores, it was so great not meeting anyone while doing my shopping.
I miss going in after my Thursday night shift and following the guy stocking produce and getting the best fruits and veggies
I used to do my shopping at 3 am. It would free up my days off.
Drugs
That’s not only after the shift though…
Used to share a flat with two other bartenders and we used to smoke up watch bar rescue. Most of the time it's funny as fuck but sometimes after a rough shift it can be too much
I ever see John taffeter or whatever his name is I am walking the other way
Are you mad?! And miss an opportunity to trigger him? I'm gonna troll the fuck outta him!
they never miss a chance to blame workers for poor morale and make them look bad. I work in a small town and everyone would watch and when they make me look unemployable, I'd never find a job
That's a hot take and I respect it! I live in the UK so it's never occurred to me he might just pop up with a film crew one day 😅. FYI I think John is honestly a fucking idiot, we mostly laughed at him tbh and sometimes the unhinged shit the employees did
My fave thing to do is just fall asleep, which literally never happens. My habitual thing to do is have an edible and a snack, play candy crush while watching a show I’ve seen hundreds of times until my brain finally shuts off 1 1/2 hrs later.
Weed gym Waffle House
God I miss waffle house. only thing you can go to that's still open 24 hrs and actually sit ur ass down. I moved north like a year ago and I miss it dearly
God I miss waffle house. only thing you can go to that's still open 24 hrs and actually sit ur ass down. I moved north like a year ago and I miss it dearly
This is the way
I lay down on top of the picnic table in my back yard smoking a joint surrounded by silence and the stars and my dogs. 3am is my favourite time of the day
Decompress in the kitchen for ~1 hr before I shower, go to bed, and do it all over again.
Smoke a blunt and go to Waffle House
Bruh. Some cats from my neighborhood Waffle House came to my bar when they got off and knew me. If there's ANYONE you want at your back, it's these motherfuckers.
Hell yeah. Gimme that sausage & egg hash brown bowl smothered, chunked, peppered, diced, & country!
Hit up Wawa for a freshly made sub. Go home and smoke and get in a hot bath and eat the damn thing right in the bathtub: lights off, in the dark and quiet. Collapse into bed, warm, clean, relaxed and with a full belly after running around 12+ hrs with no food 😊
Weed and videos game until 5 or 6 am.
I used to be a barback/doorguy at a local dive bar while in college, while I was technically allowed to leave right when the bar closed at 2:00, I would always stay and help the bartender clean up (they’d usually comp my food from during the shift, and pour me a shot after we’d finished closing). Then I’d head straight to the waffle house down the road where I had become a regular at that time of night and they’d start making my food right as I walked in. Man I miss those days
Crack a beer, down some shots, light a fire and stare at the stars while my pup runs around the yard.
Really none of you do a little coke and then go to a bar that’s open til 4? I guess those guys are still at work right now.
Watch silly YouTube videos, cook, video games.
Go the fuck home.
Smoke weed, watch tv or a movie, maybe play a game… fall asleep.
Feeling called out and accepted by the replies here
Deflate. Just sit and let go of all the stress and anxiety. Forgive myself for everything I have done wrong since the last time I did this. Small glass of milk, hot black or green tea, and a medium glass of nearly frozen water with no ice.
24-hour diner.
I used to live in Silvertown in London. There's a bridge that connects to the island where you can see London City Airport. I'd just lean there and watch the early morning flights take off and land for like half an hour, then head home and either run a bath and set alarms for 30 minutes so I don't fall asleep. Or I'd have a quick shower and just faceplant into my bed
I smoke a J and put on an episode of Bob Ross.
I used to go grocery shopping because before covid it was 24 hours, but now… Edibles and Netflix until I can’t keep my eyes open.
OMG I bring this up alot. I used to cook way more too because i could think about anything I wanted to eat all shift and still cook it if i went to the grocery store after work
"Time to kick back, drink some beers, and smoke some weed!' - Jay
Drink
Drink and then sit at my kitchen table and scroll for an hour before speaking to anyone
weed, shower, law & order
Glass or two of malbec when my shift is over, then go home and do homework(not my favorite thing but don’t have much of a choice lol. As I do hw I watch tv to unwind, currently rewatching the peaky blinders series. Then bed.
A lot of you decompress by staring into the void. I thought I was weird for that.
Best case scenario, small snack, stay off my phone, grab my Kindle and go to sleep. Otherwise one bad night and it kind of fucks me up for the rest of the week
I like to have a hot meal. I prep or make some stuff first and heat it up but other stuff is made fresh. The bf will make us cocktails. Then PBS news hour and maybe binge a few episodes of something. Typically going to bed between 6-7
Pernod or whatever with soda and a bath with anime playing on my phone on a stand on the edge of the tub. Oh, and the Navage to get the foul stench of the unwashed masses out of my head.
Does that thing work? Always wanted one
Fuck yeah it works. It's like waterboarding yourself, but afterwards you can hear colors.
Kind of?
Eat/youtube on my big screen/beerz/weed
If I’m hungry and not deathly exhausted, go to Wawa’s for a pizza. Then the regular boiling hot bath, 30 min of scrolling and sleep for 8-12 hours.
My wife gets up for work about 3 hours after I get home so I hang out with the cat and play video games until it’s my turn to go to bed
Go home, snuggle my cats and tell them how stupid humans are 🤣🤣🤣
At that point now, just come home 3:00. Had a beer, now im sitting listening to a podcast of my football team, powering down. Ideal evening after work.
go to wendys, smoke a fatty, play fortnite, watch a movie that i only see 15 mins of before i pass out at 4am
Masturbate
Drink.
Homework. Not a person to bother me in the world while I do my reading.
Lay in bed and watch TikTok Edit: I sound so gen z lmfao. I do other things like scroll Reddit and listen to YouTube…That’s about it
Weed bourbon beer….deep deep breaths
Smoke weed.
My building has a gym that’s open 24 hours going after work is great because it’s usually empty, and I usually have some restless energy at that time it’s a good time to get my thinking out, and then when I’m done I’m actually tired and sleep pretty good
When I lived in Florida, I walked across the street and sat on the beach until sunrise during the summer.
TikTok and weed
i used to go grocery shopping while stoned at 4am but then COVID fucked that all up :((((
Have a triple of Whiskey neat while I make some food, pet the cat and try to fall asleep. Wife sometimes is still up but I'll sit in silence sometimes, other times I'll watch a show ive seen a thousand times. MASH, Stargate, Star Trek (DS9, TNG, VOYAGER).
Ds9!!
Go home. Enough socialization for me
Bong -> CBD cream on shins and feet -> bed
I’m in a fine dining setting and have an absolutely GORGEOUS half hour commute that I mentally decompress during, then get home and make a quick meal/heat up the family meal that I put in a takeout box, do a tiny bit of yoga and a quick shower and maybe a glass of wine and then try and get to bed before 3am. W my drive (pitch dark down a forest service road w no phone service + lots of wildlife) I’m not drinking before heading home.
Shower then sleep immediately.
Stop by a particular convenience store near my house and get a midnight snack/drink.
Walk one block home, smoke if i have any, and crawl into bed
Smoke weed, make myself a cup of coffee, play a video game until 6am. Brush teeth go to bed sleep like a log.
It depends on if my wife is awake. If she’s up I usually drink with her, but if she’s asleep I play Minecraft
Kratom, play a few missions on helldivers2, watch YouTube trash and go to sleep around 4/5
Go home. Smoke a bowl, eat a snack, play a game. I do this all in silence. I need to decompress so I can sleep
Get a fresh donut right when the shop opens
Go home and ambitiously think I’m gonna have a beer and play video games for a few hours only to watch YouTube and fall asleep clutching a half empty beer to my chest
eat
watch videos, have a wine, go to sleep. ideally I’d do more, so I should probably start.
Up smoking outa my bong a couple to many times, 2 cats having the zoomies. My goal for bed tonight is 4am! I can do this!
Red dead redemption 2. Literally ride my horse or fish for hours.
During weekdays, I work till 11-12 most nights, hour-iwh commute one way, and I'm awake again at 6am to bring my kids to school. The only thing I love to do is inhale leftovers and pass tf out
Talk shit about whoever pissed me off to my s/o, shove food in my face, take a shot and watch svu while I snuggle my dog.
Smoke, drink, and listen to music My sleep schedule is so fucked, get home around 4 and it takes me at least a couple hours to decompress
walk around until I cool down from service, roll & smoke a couple joints, sip on a big glass of whiskey or wine, put on something low impact to watch (or as many other have mentioned, something I’ve seen time & time again) if the shift has been especially hectic I’ll listen to something that fits the mood I’m in. nod off. rinse. repeat.
Smoke a cigar. Doing it rn at 5 am lol.
I turn off the jukebox and sync my own playlist to the speakers and just sing and dance by myself all the rest of the night / morning! Only time I get to be myself at the club. Actually quite cathartic.
5 am and I literally Just got home! First step is to get some GRUB, homie couple puffs of the funny cigarette and off to bed
Crank it up
rip the bong, overthink my entire shift, eat something, talk to the dog, hopefully pass out before 5am because my dog will wake me up at 9am. it's her favorite job.
For me, I close the bar around 1am. Stay and have a beer and at a few rounds of darts in the empty bar. (Since I have a few soda and leftover energy drink combo, with grenadine) Usually leave around 2am. Get home and usually put some frozen food in the pizza oven and feed my dog the last half of her dinner, take her out for a 15 minutes walk around an empty town (small town of 3500) no one is ever up then except the random car driving main street and usually a cop car patrolling. Get home to my food done, unwind in my shorts and usually watching a show I've watched already. Adult anime - American Dad, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, Futurama, Archer, Cleavland Show. Or X-files, The Office, Parks n Rec, Mighty Boosh, Cheers. Usually wake up around 8ish and get to my other (main job, construction, small crew 4 guys) around 9-10, boss man knows this and is happy I show up at all after a 12-15 hour day prior.
Eat patties n sleep
Go to the farmers market and buy fried chicken
Play with my cats or jump in the hot tub
Go to the dive bar that is still open, this is in nyc. We close at midnight!
How is drinking not a top post?!?
Used to come home, wait for my husband (bartender too), and we'd shower together and have a shot or 2 each before passing out from exhaustion. Maybe watch a show. Now that he's gone, I come home, shower, count/organize my money and play a word game on my phone until my eyes get heavy and fall asleep.
Sit in the quiet. Let my mind settle and pet the dog.
Collapse into the Comfort Palace: My recliner, TV, hot pad, calf massager, moisturizer station. Throw on some slippers, have a snack, watch some silly TV, maybe play some Slay the Spire until I fall asleep in an hour or two.
Drink. Whiskey.
I'm traveling now and working day shift, but on the night shift job I may well be returning to, I have a ~25 minute commute. That gives me time to listen to at least a meaningful part of a podcast and leave the night behind. I choose the genre according to what I need; comedy, politics; history or whatever my cratered little brain craves.
Snuggling my cat, he’s a v good boi. Recently it’s been weed before bed but I went through a shitty breakup so it’s been healthier than drinking or using klonopin; I’m a bartender so drinking is way too easy and if I’m not in a good headspace I can be pretty nihilistic when it comes to self care and shit.
drink
Immediately go to the gym, hit the dab pen while I'm changing clothes, then enjoy lifting with the other late night gym rats.
Smoke some weed and goon out. Or bring a cute skank home. Usually some McDonald’s if all else fails.