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 sales pitch dressed up as a party (Body Shop, Tropic, Jewellery etc). There is never any 'pressure to buy', yeah right! You end up buying the cheapest thing you can get away with just so you you can escape the hell.

Massive stadium gigs

Live music in smaller venues, totally yes, well up for that. But if you're the type of band that plays in Arenas, in downloading you.

Fancy dress.

Bowling - I’m so terrible at it and cannot figure out why.

Camping - I’ll sleep in a yurt in the garden on a foam mattress with the dc but that is my limit.

Lots have already been mentioned.

Mini golf
Ice skating
Children's parties
High ropes courses
Trampolining
Soft play
Bouldering
Pottery decorating
Swimming with children
Splash parks
Theme parks
Farm parks
The "park"
Playgrounds
Feeding the ducks/geese/swans/moorhens/coots
Zoos
Most museums

I really dislike any activities that get in the way of just having a nice chat with friends. Board games, card games, any of the things on offer in novelty bars like darts, crazy golf, bowling… socialising is fun because conversation with people you care about, or have just met, is interesting and funny and life-affirming. If it isn’t, you’ve got the wrong people. Adding in distractions that break up proper conversations is just really irritating.

I also dislike dancing 90% of the time, because I’m very bad at it and very self conscious about that. And gambling, because it’s just the least fun thing to do with money. I’d rather spend it on something nice I can enjoy and/or keep, or do something responsible with it that removes a problem, or save it and have the satisfaction of having more money. Any of those is fine. But giving it to someone else because I made a wrong guess just annoys me and is not fun.

Clubbing
Fancy dress
Any kind of team-building bullshit
Parties where the music is too loud. I want to have a drink and chat to people so I also hate stupid games and quizzes and other such bollocks. I remember once at university some woman had made her own music quiz on a tape (yeah, I'm that old) and it went on for hours. I didn't know what any of the songs were so I faked being asleep for an hour and a half until the shite was over.
Any kind of enforced jollity.

Agree entirely LoobyDop. I suppose where these activities come into their own is with groups who don’t know each other well or necessarily get on - big family gatherings, hen dos, work outings etc.

I bloody love dancing though.

Fancy dress! Paint balling

Formal socialising. I have to do it for work etc and I despise it. I'm so so shy inside. Takes me ages to 'regenerate' after having to do it!

Shopping, I don’t mind with DH because we are focussed shoppers but browsing bores the ever living shit out of me.

Any game that requires immediate creativity, I had to play a murder mystery game with a bunch of extroverts and it was awful. I’m an introvert and I hate being out on the spot.

Also don’t like posh formal meals, can’t relax

Childrens anything - love my DD so I go along but oh how I hate it, can’t wait till she’s too cool to do half this stuff

Kids parties, definitely kid’s parties.

Ah yes the vitamin d leg stretching walk around a place you've walked repeatedly for the sake of making the most of ok weather.

I'll happily aggravate my plantar for something interesting and new that may involve a glass of wine though.

It never clears my mind either. It just provides more space for my brain to go into overdrive.

Wasn't "mindfulness" a thing? You rarely hear it said these days. Because it's a load of bollocks. If it worked for you, you didn't overthink in the first place.

Nightclubs.

Sports. Of ANY kind.

Competitive drinking. Which is difficult as I think my family are actually half fish.

They'd hate the things I like just as much: nice country walks, meals out, reading, board games, box sets.

I sometimes think the Fae took my mother's actual child away, I'm SO different from my family.

crazy golf - I don’t know what it is about but god I hate it!

Parties
party games
pubs
anything in a city.
let’s be honest, leaving the house. 😂
I do like beach trips and forest walks. I like to go to gift shops too!

Oh my God I hate walking! And I don't have a disability I just plain hate it! It's stupid. Like you say it has to have a purpose. At the least I'd have to be following some sort of route that has some sort of sightseeing on it, like a cave/waterfall etc...

Crazy golf is the best one wtf!

Agree

Omg, I'm a bit like that too with the social activities. I suppose they are great as icebreakers but not if you already know the ppl and actually have stuff to say, it's SUPER annoying.

Pantomimes. See also circuses and travelling funfairs.

Bowling - I’ll do it if I have to, but I’m rubbish
Anything outdoorsy like Go Ape - I just wouldn’t do it
Anything sporty in a team like rounders - this comes from being rubbish at school.

See I don’t think activities are only ice-breakers - they’re an integral part of socialising for me. I want to do something, with people I like, while enjoying a bit of banter/conversation as we go. I don’t want to chat to people, I find it deathly dull.

Fortunately I solicit friends who have similar attitudes and also like to connect through doing things. I’ve gradually moved away from friends who wanted to “catch up” in favour of those who want to do fun things with me.

Each to their own. Nobody should be forced to socialised with people, or in ways, that don’t suit them.

Refreshing to see a bunch of people on here who despise walking 😂

I love loads of these activities but I agree on clubbing or anywhere too loud to her myself speak. Urgh.

Dishoom. Loads of my friends love it and constantly suggest it but my experience is of ridiculously long queues, often in the rain, and curry no better than anywhere I could pre-book. I avoid going.

Swimming. I hate swimming, I get too cold. Even at Centre Parcs.