6 Times It’s Ok to Fall Asleep at 8pm [LIST]

You don't have to defend your bedtime... but if you want to have an excuse for falling asleep before the sun goes down, I have six for you.

Last night I fell asleep at 8:15. Here's what happened. I went to go get coffee at around 3 yesterday afternoon. I ordered something new, it was delicious, but I have a suspicious feeling it had little to no caffeine at all.

Oops.

You see, I have an incredible caffeine addiction. It's pretty treacherous. On most days I need to have three "doses" of caffeine. Sometimes four. Yesterday I only had two. Plus it was Monday. Hence the falling asleep.

I contemplated staying up purely so when my roommate came home she didn't think I was a loser who went to bed at 8, but then I remembered she doesn't care what time I go to sleep and also that she knows I can stay up until 5am on the weekend, so I hit the pillow.

I decided to come up with six times it's ok to fall asleep at 8pm in case I need to defend myself to someone.

1. When you were up until 3am the night before and then woke up at 6:30 to go to work.
2. When you ate an entire pizza for dinner. Pizza = sleep.
3. When there is nothing on TV at all and it's raining.
4. When you thought you drank caffeine at 3pm but you didn't.
5. When wine was part of happy hour.
6. If you're a parent... it's ok to fall asleep at 8pm whenever you get the chance!