Most uncomfortable place you have ever sat?

[DionneB]

I would say in primary before we got to the year 6 they used to make us sit on the floor and it was very hard and uncomfortable and I think it was also because year 6s got to sit on benches.

A Thomas Cook flight.

Or when dd had an MRI and I was practically in the machine with her for nearly an hour because the noise was scaring her.

Any seat,
Any chair
Anywhere

Since my spinal surgery I just can’t sit comfortably at all. If I have to, in a restaurant, I take lots of orthopaedic cushions and grit my teeth, but at home, I have an electric bed in the living room and never sit at all

Entire day sat in the magistrates court when I was observing a barrister for studies. I didn't know your butt cheeks could feel pain like it

The metal benches at Reading train station. Uncomfortable metal but the main problem is that they are freezing cold for 10 months of the year so are impossible to sit on for more than 10 seconds.

Chapel pews made for tiny Victorian bottoms. After an hour I had to leave as I honestly thought I was going to pass out.

Digbeth bus station for 7 hours overnight when I had to wait to wait for a National Express coach home after a gig. Ditto Manchester Piccadilly station, Liverpool Lime Street, Victoria coach station amd more. The joys of travelling to faraway gigs 😁.

My 16yo sofa that sags horribly.

Any car with my late FIL in the front passenger seat. He would push the seat so far back that he was practically sitting in the boot and then recline it. Anyone behind him had no leg room or personal space. He totally ignored any request to move his seat because he was "comfortable now". The rest of the back seat was cluttered with his heavy work bag that he had to take every where because he was paranoid that his woodworking tools would be nicked.

I am a town councillor and the chairs in our council chamber are just awful. Thankfully they are changing all of it soon

Where do I begin... I'm only averagely short but seem to really struggle with so many seats.

Tram stop when pregnant (SPD) the little perchy things were slopey and too high so it took a lot of effort to remain perched on them. Totally useless to people with a need to sit.

The "comfy" seats in the shopping centre. Silly low benches with no back support. Stupid sofas designed for people of a thigh depth of a metre. Both useless for people who really need a rest.

A train journey with really odd seats that were actually too low even for me with a really awkward "lumbar support" around my shoulder blades.

A lot of headrests can be in the wrong place and throw my neck forwards because my head is in the wrong place. A friend had "sports seats" in his car; they ended up crumpling my shoulders in on me because my chest wasn't wide enough to fill the curvature of the seat.

The spectator seats at swimming. Mounted on concrete tiers that cause dangly legs, exacerbated by an overly moulded shape that puts a lot of pressure on the thighs. I avoid and go for the bare concrete for comfort. I was accompanied by a fellow short mum this week!

Most sofas are just way too voluminous and cause uncomfortably dangly legs and awful slumping. Bonus points to the ones with the loose cushions at the back that gradually eat you.

A birthing ball when I was 20-odd hours into a 33 hour labour. DID NOT HELP. I then felt bad about unwrapping it as it would need resanitised for the next person.

The back of a camel in Tunisia. They made no effort to put us on properly so my thighs were aching with the effort of not falling off.

Air France economy flight to Cuba. I cried. And I'm not even tall - it was the curvature of the back of the seat was just in all the wrong places.

A Golf GTI I used to have in my young free and single days.
Went like a rocket and had a blue light up dash that matched the trim on my seats. Absolutely loved it but after a journey longer than an hour I could hardly get out of it as my back hurt so much - and this was before I got old and 2 kids destroyed my joints!

Watching Hamlet at the Globe in London. Either you stand for hours or opt for seats and borrow a cushion. They were so hard and cramped that I was just wishing the play would end by about half way through which is a real shame as was very good.

Rotherham Civic Theatre, I'm average height, have to sit with legs open, because sat with legs together because of the curve of the seat in front, makes it impossible.

On the back of a racehorse doing a bucking bronco exhibition up the gallops.

Done it a few times actually - I never seem to learn!

On a 17 hour trip to Australia.

My bum kept going numb and it was impossible to move.
I was sat next to a stranger who was attempting to hog the arm rest continuously by having his elbows overhanging into my seat area.

I dreaded the return journey for our entire stay..... to find out DP had paid for business class return as a surprise for my birthday 😊