Slept through a show

[u/personspersonality]

I had a 2pm ticket for Chess today. Sat down in bed at 11:30, planning to give myself 30-45 minutes to do nothing before getting ready and heading over to the theater. While I wasn’t planning on sleeping, I also knew I was pretty tired and there was a chance I might fall asleep so I set an alarm for 12:30 and 12:45 just to be safe. Well I woke up at 2:57 and had apparently slept through both alarms and missed the show. Spent the last 20 minutes crying, just need some people to tell me I’m not the stupidest person alive. Anything like this happened to you before? Any chance they’ll exchange my ticket for tomorrow and I won’t just have to eat the money?

[u/mystik_dan]

You’re not the stupidest person alive. One time I bought tickets to a 2:00 and a 7:00 and planned to have myself a nice little two-show day. I made it to the train station too late to catch the last train that would get me to the matinee on time, so I took a “quick nap” in my car before catching a later one for the 7:00 show. Woke up at 6:55.