Sleep in a bed for heavens sake

[chemenger]

Just finished Christmas lunch, went to the loo and Mac me back into the living room to find MIL has made herself a nice bed on the sofa and gone to sleep. Her actual bed is about 10 steps away. AIBU to put Led Zeppelin on the hifi rather than tiptoeing round? I can almost forgive falling asleep on the sofa accidentally, although it irritates me and I would never do it, but deliberately settling down for a nap is just entitled. There are six other people in the house who can’t now socialise normally in the living room.

Autocorrect is insane Mac= came.

It’s my house, by the way, not hers, to avoid drip feeding.

YABU for using the word ‘hifi’.

Can you not gently wake her and encourage her into her bed?

What's wrong with hifi?!

My partner is one for doing this (falling asleep) and I always just tell everybody to act as if she's not there. Make noise, watch TV etc. If she wakes up she wakes up and usually she doesn't.

Just socialise normally! She'll either move to somewhere quiet, wake up and join in or snooze through you. I doubt she meant you all to switch to mute.

@MaidenMotherCrone

You beat me to it 😂

It is hifi, Mission speakers, AR EB101 turntable and Marantz amp. I’m not insulting it by calling it a record player, it’s got feelings. Snoring now, I can hardly hear Genesis. I’ve tried telling her to go to bed before but she prefers sleeping on the sofa apparently.

YABU for using the word ‘hifi’.

You’re being a bit wanky.

I don't think the word hifi has been in regular circulation since about 1989!

YABU for using the word ‘hifi’

😂😂 Joined the thread to say the same thing.

What should I call it if it isn’t hifi?

What a weird thing to get cross about, there's probably thousands of people asleep on the sofa across the country right now. Just go about your business around her.

@Cough not wanky, a tad twatty maybe but not wanky or wankish.

The record deck is pre 1989 so maybe it’s allowed.

I thought it was fairly normal. My grandparents did it, and now my parents & pil do it.

What is the modern term for separate parts of a sound system combined to play music then?

‘ AIBU to play Led Zepplin’ would suffice I think.

Sound System?

As in just call it a sound system if you need to address it by name.

So no one can sit on the settee then, as she's sprawled out for a kip on it? Yes, wake her gently. 'Get to your bed if you're tired, we don't want to wake you with our noise.'

To get back on track... YANBU, Sleeping is ok but taking up 50% of the sitting space is unacceptable. Eat all the nice quality street while she is asleep, at least.

So lots of people have rearranged all the cushions on a sofa and stretched out along its full length for a planned sleep? If this is normal I’m going to have to figure out how I can fit in a few more sofas for next year so we can all do it. Everyone else will probably nod off in a chair at some point but this is different.