and if so, how long before you were noticed?

I was just thinkin about this. I doubt I would be found for several weeks maybe months :(

Best be careful then!

We would all know the next day Spyro, as you wouldnt be on ere and we would all get worried :thumbsup:

and if so, how long before you were noticed?

I was just thinkin about this. I doubt I would be found for several weeks maybe months :(

I hate threads where people are obsessed with self pity:hihi:

ppl wouldnt notice?
do you not work?
go collage/university?
people would realize you wasnt on, half the night.
need i say more?????????????????????

I hate threads where people are obsessed with self pity:hihi:

Anyway the PGCE blokes would be round to find out where you were:)

Only if I fell in their way I expect. If I was in my room it'd be atleast a few days I reckon

People at uni may realise, but if it was in the holidays then no.
People at work would just think im skiving as usual :hihi:

what about the people on the forum? the people you talk to on msn? (the crack head, you still havent gave his drugs?) the bracket one was a joke, so dont drown in self pity, as shoeshine would say.

People at uni may realise, but if it was in the holidays then no.
People at work would just think im skiving as usual :hihi:

Sort out the problem then, give them advanced notice:)

Well im sure Topman and Shoeshine would call the police if they didnt hear from me for half a day :clap:

Well im sure Topman and Shoeshine would call the police if they didnt hear from me for half a day :clap:

I would have to think about that. Don't know if I'd bother:D

I would have to think about that. Don't know if I'd bother:D

awww come on pal, i though me and you had something special :(

:rolleyes:

ah you should be happy that we would call, but should you really be happy, cus you be online so much, is that not a bad thing, there is a world out there which doesnt consist of 0 and 1.

awww come on pal, i though me and you had something special :(

:rolleyes:

Not another one. I had TopMan posting nice remarks to me the other night. Just because I thought he had fell down a hole somewhere last weekend:D

That is an interesting thought spyro. Me too. I live on my own too, although I am not always at home. If I didn't turn up to work, even though I have worked there for 15 years they don't have a contact number for anyone who has a key for my house.
My brother and 3 of my close friends all have a key to my house, but my boss wouldn't have a clue how to get in touch with them, although he has a record of my address, I guess he would go and see if my car was still there after a couple of days and maybe ring the police.

I sometimes drink port in the bath I could easily drown! And I am always falling down the stairs or doing beer assisted DIY! [ horrors ]

there is a world out there which doesnt consist of 0 and 1.

I dont believe you.

That is an interesting thought spyro. Me too. I live on my own too, although I am not always at home. If I didn't turn up to work, even though I have worked there for 15 years they don't have a contact number for anyone who has a key for my house.
My brother and 3 of my close friends all have a key to my house, but my boss wouldn't have a clue how to get in touch with them, although he has a record of my address, I guess he would go and see if my car was still there after a couple of days and maybe ring the police.

I sometimes drink port in the bath I could easily drown! And I am always falling down the stairs or doing beer assisted DIY! [ horrors ]

The key to your problem is POUR the Port into the bath, rather than drink it.
Then when you have dried off, drink the bathwater in one go....you will not die of dehydration, I promise you. You may succumb to other infections however.:D

The key to your problem is POUR the Port into the bath, rather than drink it.
Then when you have dried off, drink the bathwater in one go....you will not die of dehydration, I promise you. You may succumb to other infections however.:D
He He,
good idea,

This thread with a bit of imagination, could start to sound like the wonderful Alan Bennet radio play featuring Thora Hurd where the old lady breaks her hip at home where she lives alone and cannot raise any help because she is wedged on the floor [ or something ] and she has to eat some biscuits which were under the settee to survive for a couple of days.

and if so, how long before you were noticed?

I was just thinkin about this. I doubt I would be found for several weeks maybe months :(
Spyro does pose a serious question here. With such a large percentage of people living alone these days, who would notice soon enough to be able to help? Who would notice at all? Would it be down to debt collectors to come a knocking before you were discovered? What a sad indictment on today's society. We are all so wrapped up in our own little lives, that others, less fortunate than us, seldom count. Family life has become fragmented, friendships are sometimes in name only. If you have ever watched ' A Life of Grime' you will have witnessed some very harrowing, real life tales of people dying alone and uncared for. Sometimes, it has taken years for anyone to realise something was wrong. It really does pull on the heart strings and makes you realise that it could just be you. The moral of the story? Be a true friend and take the time to visit and really care about them. Go and see a neighbour whom you know lives alone and say hello. Mankind is our business so let's look after him/her.

I have pleany of friends, and they would surely worry about me, but it might be a while before they did anything about it. If they kicked my door in everytime I wasn't where I was supposed to be it would be very expensive.

He He,
good idea,

This thread with a bit of imagination, could start to sound like the wonderful Alan Bennet radio play featuring Thora Hurd where the old lady breaks her hip at home where she lives alone and cannot raise any help because she is wedged on the floor [ or something ] and she has to eat some biscuits which were under the settee to survive for a couple of days.

muddycoffee, I know I was being flippant on what is a serious thread, in its own way. I fully understand your concerns, living on your own. I won't go into my own medical history but I absolutely dread the thought of living on my own.
At present I have a wife and 2 of my kids living locally, and I know they would check on me everyday if something was to happen with my wife, healthwise, and God forbid leaving me as the survivor of the marriage.

It must be a very worrying situation if you are feeling the way you do.

Hope I have not made too flippant a remark, to which you have responded in good humour, that upset you. I too fear the loneliness that life may bring under your circumstances. Best wishes

Spyro does pose a serious question here. With such a large percentage of people living alone these days, who would notice soon enough to be able to help?
Well If I'm already dead I wouldn't be bothered at all, but if I had an accident where I needed help it is another matter,

around 6 years ago I was without a vehicle for a month and had an accident in the house where I put a chisel right through my left hand. I needed to stem the blood and get to hospital for some stitches, as the gash was too large for just a plaster.
A couple of my closest friends are married to nurses and I rang them first. But I couldn't get an answer. All the time I was feeling a bit sick due to the shock of what I had done to myself. I tried a few other people and everyone was out.
Fortunately after about 5 minutes I was able to get my friend and his wife around who is a nurse and she patched me up and he took me to get my stitches.
I am thankful that I know so many people and that I live in my home city for things like that, but an event like that makes you realise how scared and vulnerable some people are or could be.

muddycoffee, I know I was being flippant on what is a serious thread, in its own way. I fully understand your concerns, living on your own. I won't go into my own medical history but I absolutely dread the thought of living on my own..

It must be a very worrying situation if you are feeling the way you do.

Hope I have not made too flippant a remark, to which you have responded in good humour, that upset you. I too fear the loneliness that life may bring under your circumstances. Best wishes

Shoeshine,
I was also being a little flippant and being quite youngish and healthy it isn't something I worry about. I enjoy having a whole house to myself and feel enormously privilaged to live like this. Living with a houseful of people isn't something which appeals to me at all.

A few years back I'd have said it would be weeks before anyone noticed - esp. w/ the neighbours I had at the time, I doubt they'd have questioned a funny smell coming from my flat. My friends are used to me hibernating every so often and they know better than to call round without making arrangements first. Work might notice I wasn't there but there wouldn't have been much they could do as to establishing my whereabouts. I've never been one to call home everyday and I rarely hear from my family.

Now my line manager has my moby number and she's really caring and motherly so she'd probably try and contact me and might well be the first to worry. She also lives just down the road from me so she could pop round. My own mother wouldn't notice for months! Maybe when Christmas came round and I didn't reply to her txt as to when I was coming over...

It is a sad state of affairs but that's kind of the way I've chosen to live. Wasn't there something in Bridget Jones where she imagines herself dying alone and someone finding her weeks later half eaten by Alsatians? I better get one...

Shoeshine,
I was also being a little flippant and being quite youngish and healthy it isn't something I worry about. I enjoy having a whole house to myself and feel enormously privilaged to live like this. Living with a houseful of people isn't something which appeals to me at all.

I hate the thought that it is possible I may end up living alone. I suppose if that time comes, I will try to adjust to it, but I would miss my wife after all these years together, and frankly I don't think I would want to last long without her presence in my life. Equally, I don't want her to be lonely either, if the situation is reversed.
Fortunately we are blessed with 3 mature children who I know would fill the gap for either of us:)

It depends, if I was in my room my flatmates might think I was just sleeping all day, but I think they'd notice after a little while. If I was in another part of the flat they'd notice right away...that's a reassuring thought :D

I'd probably lie there for a couple of hours - unnoticed - until the family got tired of stepping over me, then they'd phone the ambulance to get me shifted. :(

I suppose my dogs would notice. I just hope they don't eat my face -- I've read those kinds of grisly stories in the newspaper.

Actually, my co-workers get concerned whenever someone doesn't show up to work. Many years ago, our managing editor was uncharacteristically late; a colleague went to his house and discovered that he, his wife and their son had been bludgeoned to death in the night. Ever since, anyone who's an hour late gets a phone call from the newsroom secretary.

At the moment I'm still living with someone but after April I'll be back on mi tod so unless I'm in a shared house I probably wouldn't be found for about a week or so. Well done Spyro for putting forward such a morbid subject. It's not even Monday mate! :lol:

Yes unfortunatly it would be noticed and an amount of prodding and poking to try and raise me would follow immediatly by any of the 4 other people who live with me. No rest for me I'm afraid.

i was thinking about this the other day.. not because im bothered about if anyone would find me though, cause if i dropped down dead one morning.. no one would notice except jayden and i more worry about her being alone for the day...hmmm.. X

and if so, how long before you were noticed?

I was just thinkin about this. I doubt I would be found for several weeks maybe months :(


depressing topic bit I reckon about a month which is slightly worrying

I'm sure my (very greedy) cat would raise the alarm the moment she realised her food bowl was empty and that I was in no fit state to refill it :P

With that in mind, I'm pretty confident someone would know within about 20 mins :D :P

I'm sure my (very greedy) cat would raise the alarm the moment she realised her food bowl was empty and that I was in no fit state to refill it :P

With that in mind, I'm pretty confident someone would know within about 20 mins :D :P

Are you sure she wouldn't just eat you???

I can just imagine in 30 years time we'll all still be on the sheffield forum and all connected to it's alert system, which automatically alerts each other if we fall over and raise the ambulance and police to crash through our respective front doors to do emergency resuscitation.
By then we'll all be wearing our computer terminals within our garments and have a huge screen on a wall in every room which comes on as we pass into that room, so there will be no need for any bulky monitors. The heart rate monitor and accelerometers built into our clothes will keep a constant check on our hearts and measure how many steps we have taken during the day, measure the fat ratio of our bodies and suggest the perfect food / drink / excersise to maintain perfect health when to go to bed / when to go to the gym.

The sheffield forum will cease to be a forum for those with too much time on their hands and will have progressed to be an all encompassing incorporated computer giant, which sells everything from electronic toothbrushes to Sheffield Forum Relish ( formerly known as hendos )
I will reminisce over the old days when I used to type in computer games by hand on my commodore vic 20 and after 3 hours of work, and 20 minutes of entertainment, would switch off the thing and loose all the data before going to bed. [ it took me 6 months to save up for a tape deck ] because I was scared of it overheating while I was asleep and burning the house down.

I doubt my lot would even notice.. infact they would probably be poking me with sticks and asking where tea is. Grr

Are you sure she wouldn't just eat you???

Nahhh...far too much effort. She's used to food that comes out of pouches :P

A couple of years ago one of my work colleagues didn't turn up for work. He wasn't answering his phone either. But he wasn't the most reliable person so we thought he was probably skiving.

The next day he didn't come back, so me and my manager went round to his house (we knew he lived alone). Obviously we wanted to know why he wasn't at work but we were also concerned about him. We didn't know much about his family except that his mother lived abroad.

There was no answer after much knocking at his door. We called the police but they said there wasn't anything they could do. We then saw one of his neighbours who told us he'd moved out at the weekend and gone to live in Spain. Would have been nice if he'd told us! :huh:

I'm sure someone would notice if I wasn't around, although how they'd get into my home to help is another matter. Hmmmmmm. :confused:

Unfortunately there are too many people making demands on my time, so they would notice pretty quickly.

I'd be missed as soon as I didn't turn up in the pub at the usual time.

It wouldn't be long until someone noticed a crumpled Caprice cluttering the house up lol!
I'm a bit random and don't always go home every night, so if I was missing it wouldn't be noticed as easily than if I had a routine, so to speak. I'm sure my drinking buddies would miss me after one night, surely! :P :hihi:

they'd notice, they wouldnt care.

and if so, how long before you were noticed?

I was just thinkin about this. I doubt I would be found for several weeks maybe months :(


I'm cautiously optomistic that I might notice.