After my first night in Cagli, however, it seemed like a reasonable thing to do.
My dad sold life insurance door to door until he went to night law school after leaving my mom and marrying someone with a university degree.
In my early 20s, I spent night after night questioning whether the person I was dating truly cared for me.
Later that night, after my mother had gone to sleep, my father came into my room without knocking, stood over my bed, then leaned down either to say something to me or to see if I was asleep.
"It'll be a success in my mind if all everyone is talking about after Thursday night is how great the speech was, " Kirshner says by phone from the Colorado convention site.
After getting in touch with my family later that night, they assured me that everything was fine at home, far from New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania.
And my over-riding memory from that time is how, night after night, we would stand in the press gallery at 10pm watching to see how Eurosceptic Tory MPs would try to defeat their government again.
"I feel like my skin is a damp cheesecloth, " moans Bontecou after a night in the spartan wood-and-stucco house where the guests stay.
He normally isn't one to show emotion, he said, but, "I fell on my knees and started bawling" after he saw the damage Friday night.
But after watching his interview with Oprah last night, my takeaway may be very different from most others and also a potential lesson for marketing leaders.
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"I want to put to rest the speculation and unfounded rumors of my imminent retirement, " Rehnquist said in a statement issued Thursday night, hours after he left a hospital where he was being treated for a fever.
My working-stiff friends and I would slouch over our beers after another late night in the office, bragging about who had more time racked up.
The latest is the TV timeout saga that erupted after the Titans and Jaguars played on Monday Night Football on ESPN and my colleague Monte Burke has covered.
Balanced Mom Reaction: I would have been eager to be at home after my full day of work the day before, looking forward to date night Saturday night and had all the energy in the world for my kids in between.
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Sobering up after a Saturday night of reporting (that, of course, I invited my buddies to join and blew my whole fee for the piece in one night at the tables) I went to a landfill-turned golf course in a town (I forget which one) that was also being considered for a casino.
After an hour of rigging they bid me good night and retreat somewhere to monitor my eye and leg movements, brain waves and breathing.
The night of my dinner, the sighing neighbors were locals celebrating a birthday, which meant that after dinner they had to hit that road.
My mother died when I was two, so he raised me and my two sisters on his own, paid the bills as a night watchman at the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie after years of playing jazz in New York City.
For two long months I looked but never touched, but then one night, after yet another long day at the office, I couldn't ignore my craving any longer.
After using it for a little while one night, and then letting it just sit on my lap, I had to move it to the floor five minutes later because it weighed so much.
Last night a full 48 hours after the VMAs were finished a friend on my Facebook posted this video.
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And when I go to bed at night I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to forgive me my sins, and look after my family and the American people, and make me an instrument of His will.
My only personal question to the people in the Eurogroup such as Schauble and Dijsselbloem, is how can you sleep at night, after your decisions have destroyed overnight the name and hard work that was built by my parents, their co-workers and so many other Cypriot entrepreneurs.
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