Would anyone like to indulge in a 'Worst Week' competition?

[ValentineValentini]

Go on, beat this

• skelped the car off a pothole you could lose a bus in (was hidden by a puddle), 2 new tyres
• dropped my phone in the bath
• boiler broke
• sat on my glasses

And the icing on the cake- nits. I have nits.

Some cosmic being is really taking the piss.

I cant win this week but I did the same with a pothole and 2 tyres. Everyone asked how I hadn't seen it! Well because it was hidden in a puddle and if I could have swerved to avoid it I would have!!! I was devastated. I have spent far too much money on tyres in my life and I'm only 34. I had to replace 5 tyres one month then 4 the next when some delight decided to slash the tyres on all the cars on the street. Police think they were trying to hide the true target.

So you can imagine how I felt dropping into the crater of a pothole at the end of the same year

Based in this week you're due good things for the future!

Ooh I'll take that challenge! This is only 5 days worth, not a whole week, so there's still time for it to get worse better:

-2yo and 5yo with flu
-2yo knocked himself out on a windowsill necessitating a trip to A&E

• I caught flu (on top of the end of glandular fever I've been getting over, which has kept me off work since January, now on half pay and even that ends next month) developed a chest infection and ended up spending my 30th birthday in hospital because I couldn't breathe (I work in said hospital and while in A&E cried at several colleagues because I felt so ill. They also now know my exact (too heavy) weight and that I really need to buy some new bras).

-While I was in hospital DH and still-unwell DC got woken at 4am by a cat fight, on our landing (evil neighbourhood bully cat had come in to attack ours, DH lacerated in process of untangling them, cat hair (and poo) everywhere and our cat traumatised and bleeding requiring vets trip -The roof has started leaking -The clutch on DH's car gave out -DS1 is over the flu but still refusing to eat anything at all because food tasted wrong while he was ill and he's autistic -DH had to go back to work today, I'm still too ill to get out of bed so my DM and FIL are both here looking after the kids (which should be a good thing but they really don't get on so that's awkward), and my mother is taking the opportunity to rearrange my kitchen cupboards without my interference and I'm never going to be able to find anything ever again

I do not have nits though

(Oh but I do have toothache - forgot that part)

Made the appointment to have ddog pts @ cost of £250! Dh's car broke down and he admitted he had no recovery cover.
Big mahoosive bill landed x2..
Ds broke his TV..
Down to last £2 in the bank.

Commiserations all. Poor doggy pts and cats at the vet. And children at A&E.

It can only get better. What song is that again?

D Ream...

Oh god poor all of you! Nuts are horrible.

Last week

Saturday dad was fine. Posted his birthday present.
Sunday day got ill
Monday agreed not to have him resuscitated
Tuesday told his legs had to be amputated due to sepsis
Tuesday told he wasn't expected to survive the night
Wednesday he died
Thursday job interview

This week, paperwork and funeral

missingmydad - sorry to hear your sad news

We find out we are being inspected at work next week

Dd and bf of 4 yrs split up

Collegue at work announces having heart op next week

Friend at work get diagnosed with breast cancer.

Ruthw that's a stressful week, hope the inspection goes well

missingyourdad I'm so very sorry

Thanks. It was for the best though.

Missing I'm very sorry.

Everyone else who's having shit weeks they truly are the shit weeks that could all win an award.

Hope everyone gets the best week ever next week as you deserve it

Ivf failed
Everything else shit paled into insignificance
I'm sorry to all those having shit weeks, especially losing loved ones

Oh god, my week pales into insignificance compared to some of these. missing and park

£1500 bill for the car to be fixed, dh able to mend the broken dishwasher and leaking water softener but the washing machine is kaput and I’ve still got school uniform to wash for Monday.

Also found out yesterday that a friend lost her son last week. He’d been ill but was expected to recover. Complications set in and they couldn’t save him. He was only 24. Can’t imagine what they’re going through.

Mine is pathetic by comparison, but have nobody to vent to.

Ended up in A&E 2 weeks ago with acute thyroiditis & been so unwell since then.
Son lost uni place.
Son lost p/t job
One dog had seizures & diagnosed epileptic.
Same dog suspected hip dysplasia.
My birthday today & had 1 FB message & a couple of texts - that's it.
MH really bad & steroids for thyroid maybe making things worse - really don't want to be here.

park adorabelle queen your shit weeks are truly shit, we all have our stuff to deal with and it's irrelevant how shit a time somebody else is having, when we're dealing with shit it's....well...shit!

Coping with ivf failure, coping with mh difficulties and money problems is hard. An elderly person dying at the end of a good life is a different ball game altogether. A 24 year old dying from complications is a tragedy, an 85 year old is not, at least not in my book.

to you all.

and for you all. I've also been through the IVF failure but a few years ago
My dad started chemo which I was very anxious about but thankfully today he seems to be ok so I'm a bit calmer.
Sorry that so many of you had a rubbish week, hope next week is better

I think we all deserve a fucking big cake each.

I bought 2 slices of cake for my birthday - they're huge - I'll split them. 🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰

Happy birthday @QueenOfOversharing

Thank you @Parkandride 😉

Redannie118 you can have a whole cake to yourself.