Things you hate that everyone else looks forward to!

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I'll start. Simply because it's Sunday and I'm bored...

Group holidays - you couldn't drag me on one of these!! Hell

Festivals - the crowds, the hay fever, the sweat, overpriced everything, the constant queue for a rancid pop up toilet

Valentines Day - tacky, commercialised crap

Work Christmas Dos - I don't even bother going anymore. Too old to pretend I'm social

I like tea and coffee, but going out "for a coffee" with other people? No thanks

Dancing, loud music, no seats.
Also hairdresser and spas.

Christmas. I have no idea why it has to happen every year. I do the absolute bare minimum, which gets less and less each year.

Am I the first to slap Mother’s Day on the table?

My mum is still around so it’s not that. It’s just a disappointment I don’t need thanks.

Musicals. Literally all musicals. Make my ears bleed.

All of the above +Jubilee street parties in the rain/any weather really. My dog got a nice long walk to keep us away from that one.

Summer
watching and participating in any sports

New Years
Christmas
Hair cuts
Valentines
Eurovision

Festivals, gigs etc. Cost a fortune, you're either so far back you're just watching on a TV screen or you're so close you're squashed and you can't see the whole set.
Takes forever and a day to get a drink from a bar / get any food. The toilets are beyond disgusting and the music is always a little bit shit even when you love the band. Happy to let my friends go to those whilst I sit it out!

I love coffee out, brunch, lunch, dinner, etc etc. But bottomless brunches with terrible prosecco leave me cold. Why do I want to drink multiple glasses of cheap crap that I'm act paying quite a lot for early in the day so I feel fuzzy for the rest of it... And we all know it's not actually bottomless. I'd much rather drink one or two glasses or decent wine at a wine bar in the later afternoon.

Summer
Spa days
Facials
Hair cuts/ dyes
The Olympics

Summer, I get terrible hayfever so spend most days feeling like I have flu, and people constantly telling me how I need to cheer up as the sun is out.

Clubbing, too tired to stay up late even when a teenager.

Anything where it’s a forced celebration - valentines, halloween, anniversaries, jubilees, new years (I do however love my little family christmas and easter - hate big gatherings)

Hen do's
Hairdressers
Spa days
Pamper sessions
BBQs (unless it's at my own house)
Buffets
Pictures of newborns in buckets

Hair cuts
Birthdays in general my birthday in particular
NYE
in my friends going to a concert- I’m just as happy listening to a recording as live music
sincd Covid the cinema. Used to go regularly, haven’t been at all. Actually lost interest in films

Haircuts
Any type of festival, just urgh
Very hot weather
Firepits

New Year's Eve - what's the point. It is just another day.
Nightclubs - always awful music, lots of drugged out people, it was so boring 😴
Standing only gigs - I want to sit down, I'm on the shorter side so standing gigs mean I see little

This is so me... I like my colleagues, some a lot but why would I want to spend more time with the whole workplace ?? I want to be with family and friends when not working, doing things I enjoy. The amount of tea's out, Xmas do's, hen parties etc that I turn down is vast.

Beach and sky holidays, camping, New Years parties, work dos.

Re the corporate days out, I used to work abroad in an organisation which had a mixture of British and local staff.

We used to have loads of corporate bonding events, think team games with tasks and races.

The local staff absolutely loved this kind of thing, really got into it, were massively competitive, clearly got loads out it whereas the British staff were all WTF and then buggered off to the pub as soon as the leader's back was turned.

I think it’s just because you already work so much of your life. I resent having to spend a rare day when I’m not supposed to be working doing ‘fun’ mandatory activities.

Christmas.

They make me physically nauseous.
Completely with you.

Pantomimes

Pudding.

I was thinking the same! Great to hear it is not me! 😂

Rocket leaves, they get stuck in my throat, ugh.