yep. Done it. At least once. You tag a cougar hard enough and they stay groggy for hours. But those days are behind me now.

So, would you say that if the person in question was not completely hammer-drunk and "tagged," as you say, it would be logistically more difficult or even impossible to do?

Depends. I'm a pretty heavy sleeper. My girlfriend gets up, feeds the cats (one of whom is fed in the room) turns on lights, gets dressed, and goes to work without me ever noticing some mornings.

Kris -

See, that I can understand. It's part of the routine. You know she's there, and you know the deal. I would think that having a stranger rummage around your place would be slightly more alarming.

-Andrea

oh how I love to quibble.

Andrea

I will confirm a portion of your hypothesis. For the coyote creep to work at all, your partner's guard must be down. Either through alcohol, physical exhaustion, or the comfort of familiarity.

But it dows work.

And, really, if you're in bed with this person without any judgment-altering external factors, what are the odds you're going to *want* to sneak out, anyway?

It may happen, but the only way to know for sure is if you have had it done to you, not if you think you've done it to someone else. Because, how would you know? No one has done it to me, but they may think they did.

Brian -

There is another way to know. You start getting phone calls from friends because your mark has started a game of "Six Degrees-of-Who-Pulled-a-Nail-n-Bail?" to find you.

Andrea-

Getting dressed silently in the dark is all about how you got undressed. Put everything in a neat pile and tuck the socks and underwear in a pocket before you throw down. Pants-leg-shoe, pants-leg-shoe, pull on your shirt and you're gone.

Chad- A good point, though that could also happen because of other motivations. But as you stated, the other person would have to be pretty out of it. And if you are tucking your socks and underwear into your pocket ahead of time as an exit strategy? That level of premeditation suggests something other than a drunken hookup. I don't think the post was intended to address that particular scenario.

"And if you are tucking your socks and underwear into your pocket ahead of time as an exit strategy? That level of premeditation suggests something other than a drunken hookup."

Laughing out loud, hard. Comment o' the day.

Hmmm. You know, I don't have enough experience in this particular subject.

Let me "bone up" on it this weekend.

for sure u know when they r sneaking away. means that they woke up realized FUCK! this person is UGLY?? OR WHATEVER AND SO GOTS TO SNEAK OUT BYE BYE

Maybe I spoke too soon about that whole comment o' the day thing ... James is quite eloquent.

Wow, James. You sound just like my friend Mark when he is pretending to be a lolcat.

I've never snuck out while the other person was asleep, but I have managed to get dressed, gather my shiz, and sneak out in under a minute while a guy was in the shower, though. It SEEMED pretty damn stealth at the time...

Rachel? Is that you? I thought we had something....

Yes ma'am. I've done it, but only once to a guy. I've never had it done to me, but it could definitely be done. I'm a wicked heavy sleeper.