Craziest place you've ever had to take a DOT mandated break

I was driving along the 189 in northeastern AZ through the Navajo Nation. It was time to shut down and the only place I could find was one of those rest-area-ish/pull-out areas alongside a canyon. Nice views, no one to knock on the doors, and I was sold.
Of course it was nearing the end of the ten and I was about to walk around outside and enjoy the view for a bit. The minute I throw clothes on and pull back my curtains, I'm surrounded by cars and some flea-market/swap meet style displays. Apparently, the local Navajo craftspeople set up shop all around my parked truck and went about their wares selling!!
I told them I had to move in a little bit and even bought some sort of necklace off of one of the vendors for their troubles. I must've been sleeping pretty deep to not hear any commotion outside of the truck beforehand.
But at the same time, it was cool that they didn't knock.

On another note, I often wonder if "knocking" will be some sort of "triggered" thing for truckers long after they've left the truck.

 

Knock on my #### truck when the curtains are drawn and don't have a badge. I used to get the same way when people rang the doorbell. I haven't really taken a break at a weird (to me) place, but i have woken up going "where the hell am i?"

 

Not so much as crazy, just the situation that comes your way.

First was a regular sleep spot wake up surrounded by a carnival being built. They did leave me a path to get out. Second was a truckstop off 80 taken over by the military to accomodate a divisional infantry march. We were told to beat it. Our lot now. So they cleared us all out. They wanted the room.

The craziest was a intersection in a ice storm waiting for the hours next day and loading in Miss. I was the only one moving mostly that day.

 

Okay, I'm gonna call you out on your crap now. Military does NOT just "take over" a private business. There may have been a large number of trucks there, but they need to fuel, too. I'll even go so far as to assume you may have gotten lip from a private or two. But, their official stance from command would NOT be "beat it"....

 

Literally right at the state line of AZ / UT on the US89. Lost a lot of time due to WX issues and being pretty dang heavy. If I had like 30min I could have made the scale house just over the line in AZ

 

Craziest spot for me was the tn coop just over the alamama boarder..officer put me oos because I was otta hours after he did a level 1. (shrugs)