Which activities make your heart sink?

[TootTootPeanutbutter]

Each to their own but which activities that your friends and family love are just not for you?

I’m genuinely pleased that others love it but I’m really not a fan of going for a walk unless there’s some other purpose e.g Exploring a city. I find it boring and difficult and often painful(Due to disabilities)

Also anything involving clubs or alcohol. I don’t drink and I have sensory issues so they’re too loud for me.

There are others but I want to hear what activities you dread.

TIA

Any type of card game.

Swimming another I enjoyed it as a kid - in 20s realised normal pools are bit boring and then learnt going with kids never fun - and few times with kids usually youngest clinging to me at water center - I remember I hate slides at top have struggle with waves and clinging child.

I have wondered if some sort of swim fitness group might suit me or at least when I get older and more in others age range for ones I've seen - but maybe that's not fun either.

I did enjoy theme park in 20s few time went but since then I often found I was left with child too young or who didn't want on or with all the coats and I think that's just completely put me off even now it really shouldn't happen.

Spa day, massage, manicure - never been and never will. Fancy dress. Stand up comedy. Weddings especially as a plus one. Staying in hotels or anywhere else that’s not my own bed. Hen-dos or any other forced women only thing. Magic Mike type shit.

Fucking wreath making. Seems to be an ever popular way for large groups of women to spend too much money to “have a night off from the kids” and make some monstrosity to hang on your front door, with a glass of warm Prosecco! Fun! No. Gross.

Ice breakers at away days. The amount I've attended over the years.

Any type of enforced fun. One time it was bloody games at an away day. I'm competitive but shit so that went well.

Going to see a football match. I went once and I was bored.

Hiking or just walking with no purpose other than getting the other end. I can however, walk for miles sightseeing or shopping.

Agree with walking (of the rambling or countryside variety).
Karaoke.
Anything involving fancy dress.
Games where you're expected to join in because "it's fun" (it isn't).
Shopping as a leisure activity (No - it needs to be kept to the absolute bare minimum).
All-female group activities (including, but not limited to, hen parties).
Anything to do with Christmas, except carol services.
Theme parks.
Funfairs.
Spa days/weekends.

I am spectacularly intolerant 🤣

Golf.

Swimming. DH is obsessed with us going swimming as a family.

As an activity it give me the absolute rage- maybe I’d like it a bit more if I could actually swim but I can’t so I just arse about with the kids in the pool, I hate the whole nasty damp changing rooms, the fact that the pool we use needs you to use a swipe card for each person at two different parts of the building to get to the fucking pool.

what enrages me the most is when we are just taking the kids to their swimming lessons and the only way to enter the pool area is through a narrow strip with showerheads on both walls facing each other, the showers are angled pretty much to the middle and you have no choice but to walk through and get blasted with water as you walk through fully clothed.

Networking events - fine if structured in some way (did a wine tasting one once, which was great), but thirty minutes of standing awkwardly in a crowded room with strangers bellowing at each other to make themselves heard in between the professional updates I actually want to hear? Where I’m usually pretending to be absorbed with my phone / the coffee machine because I’m socially inept only to find out that there is still 28 minutes to go? Absolute hell.

Parties with people I don’t know (similar to the above)

Clothes and shoe shopping

Too-noisy pubs and bars - love going out with friends but I can’t make myself heard over the noise

Things I do like that others seem to detest: pub quizzes, drinks with colleagues (I’d hate to have to work with people I couldn’t enjoy a drink with), a walk in the park. And I would LOVE to do pints and pots!

Group/Family pictures
Hanging out at the beach
Team building activities
Walking unless it's sightseeing
Group chats/texting

work
I agree with ice breakers
forced interactive workshops/away days

friends / family
long ‘relaxed‘ boozy lunches
games nights
Spa days with afternoon tea

Watching any kind of sport, at all. It honestly makes me want to cry.

Anywhere loud
Phone calls especially video calls
Ice skating
Swimming in indoor pools
Events that involve small talk
Hairdressers

Sunbathing.

Building a snowman. (I like snow but just want to stay in the warm and watch it).

Guided walks and tours - especially ghost walks which end up being really boring.

Leaving the house for any reason after about 6pm.

Musicals = cringe
Baby showers = ick
Sports = tedium

Light heartedly: brunch. I do not see the point in combining two meals hahaha

Board games
Karaoke
Dancing on a night out - I don't mind drinking or eating or standing about chatting but I hate hate hate dancing in a pub or club. I like dancing along to the radio in the kitchen or doing a little sit-down boogie whilst driving but I hate nights out that involve dancing.

Paintballing. Oh the pain.
”Going for a run”
What my children call ‘fun swimming’ which is cold and stressful and distinctly un-fun.

Ann Summers parties - so twee - pretending to be shocked and giggling over “naughty things” that stopped being shocking, funny or naughty at the age of 16. Plus, the host of the AS is only really interested in you buying some stuff so they get their % commission, so is clearly annoyed when you don’t wanna buy anything. Same goes for any other ‘party’ like this.

2nd on the list - christenings/baby showers.

Amateur dramatic productions.

Any team sport
Any board game
Any sport at all, actually
Team games in a work environment.

Bongo Bingo.

JFC it was horrendous.

Cinema. Too used to watching films with subtitles and that I can pause/rewind bits of. I Left halfway through the last time I went.

parents evening

christenings, where the parents aren’t religious and it’s just for the gifts/party. Double hate if they’ve had a baby shower before too.

Any kind of group dancing at parties/ weddings - barn dance, line dancing type things.

Professional awards dinners. So full of smoke blowing shite.

Also going to a book reading by an obscure author nobody has heard of , or any similar ostentatious display of "metropolitan cultural capital".