People who sit yawning loudly but not going to bed...what's with that?

[TheHouseOnTheLane]

God bless my MIL but she's been sat in the room adjacent to the one I'm in for the past hour and a half, yawning constantly...it's nighttime here...and she needs to go to bloody bed!

She always does it and it drives me mad! I'm thinking JUST GO TO BED!!

The yawns are litereally every few seconds....and she voices them....so it's not just a silent yawn but it's got an "Oh" in it iyswim.

I sit and yawn for about half an hour before I go to bed. It's because I don't want to admit defeat - I want that adult time, dammit.

oh god that doesn't sound how it meant. I meant "adult time" as in watching telly with wine and without kids. Honest.

This is a pet hate of mine. DH does it a bit, but worse is when he starts softly snoring on the sofa, he usually gets a cushion lobbed at him because I can't bear the thought that he'll take the edge off his tiredness and then not be able to sleep in bed (not likely, but I'm projecting, which is probably why this irks me)!

My parents are the worst - when they come here, they are jetlagged at first (Oz UK time difference, so quite bad jetlag) and they try and combat this by staying up late (which doesn't really work in my experience, it will either get you in the end or it won't). So they sit on the sofa snoozing intermittently from about 3pm till 11pm for the first, oh, week or so of their visit. Every morning they get up and say "I did well yesterday, I stayed up till 11pm! Though I still woke in the middle of the night!" as if somehow they did everything right and the jetlag just swooped in and ruined everything

Does my head in because I put stuff I think they might like on the TV then miss the trash I might otherwise watch. I should just put Celeb Big Brother on or some such crap, but then I'd get BLAMED for them falling asleep.

OMG he's doing it now! Shall I film myself doing the cushion lob? That might out me. And the cat is on him, its not her fault he's a narcoleptic knob.

I love a good yawn. So comforting and relaxing. I sometimes make myself yawn deliberately by thinking about yawning. I've done it now. Mouth wide open, dramatic baying noise, arms aloft and fists clenched. Lovely. I'm not going to bed yet.

Yawning is fine....it's just when people milk it for attention! It's quite possible to stifle a yawn (keep mouth closed)/burp/hiccup etc

There's no fun in stifling yawns. I only hold them in at funerals and school productions.

I also have a frequent-yawning problem; it happens even when I'm not tired, and I worry a lot that people thing I'm bored or rude. But I can't help it. I try to do it silently or unobtrusively, but I know you can still tell - I just can't stifle some of them, and they are almost gasps for air at times. It can be dozens of times in a short space of time. So embarrasing. I think it is to do with breathing pattern.

it doesn't mean I need to go to bed though, as that won't necessarily help.

Admittedly it's no fun stifling yawns but better than peeps thinking you're bored/rude/tired etc