Psycho tries to beat up my car

[Seanette]

State Home for the Bewildered?

Happydale, capably staffed by nice young men in clean white coats.

[Ironclad Alibi]

And then there is the musical tribute to Parkview.

[Bloodsoul]

Well how else is he going to practice his shoryuken?

[notalwaysright]

Slightly off topic: Whether I'm coherent or not depends almost entirely on if it was light or dark when I woke up. So at 4 AM I will be groggy, since I think even in the summer it doesn't get light until maybe 5 AM. During the winter I use a special sunrise simulator lamp in order to wake up. I don't wake up well in hotels, either, because they almost all use blackout curtains.

[Captain Trips]

or nuthouse, looney bin, or my favorite: cracker factory

To be honest, all of which are considered offensive to those that have needed their services, like my wife. We prefer the term "mental health facility."

[Lace Neil Singer]

I've suffered from mental illness, and I don't find those terms offensive; I find them funny. But then, I am English. XD

As for the incident; that sounds scary as hell. O_o For that reason, I refuse to work later than ten pm, cuz later on all the pissheads come out and play in the town and I don't want to encounter them, thanks very much.

[Kit-Ginevra]

I might not feel like human life until about 10am,but I let people know-grrr!it's 6am and I'm only half awake. They have been warned then if they want to try and continue to interact with me.
There's a reason my fridge has a magnet on it saying 'I am not a morning person'...

[BroSCFischer]

Not only is my wife awake at 4am, she is alert, coherent, and, CHEERFUL.

As a (former) night shifter, I can guarantee that I have this ability as well.

It is only the true Night Owls that are able to achieve this level.

SC

[Sapphire Silk]

When I delivered pizza ('way back when), it was fairly common for people too try the back doors of my car while I was waiting for a light or in a parking lot, particularly the passenger side. <snip>

Why so extreme a response? It wasn't really a 'ride' they were after. It was the prelude to a robbery.

Don't blame you. I used to carry a MagLite in my car when I delivered pizza for the same reason. Never had to use it though. I continued to carry it when I worked for hospice and went into bad neighborhoods, even though I never was in a place I felt uncomfortable.

[Chromatix]

The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants & Kings.

[Shieldbreaker]

4 am I am wide awake I've worked nights for so long that like 7 pm to me. If there was more psychiatric hospitals, you might not have as many people with mental disorders in hospitals or jails. I currently work in a county detention center, small county maybe 30k people in the entire county. Probably 16k down near my end of it. We get more then our share of people off their meds. Currently out of the 130 ish inmates I would say around 10 are people who just need the meds to be stable and not do the stupid stuff that got them there.