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To think 2020 can just fuck off already?!

27 replies

VelveteenBunni · 26/09/2020 21:28

I know I'm not the only one struggling but..

In the space of 1 month my DP has been made redundant and we have been served notice to leave. Then tonight I innocently switched a lamp on and the bulb fully EXPLODED in my face. Glass showered over my face and all over my living room (thankfully no injuries)

But for fuck sake. What else wants to go wrong.

Any anecdotes would surely cheer me up. Hope everyone staying safe.

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cardibach · 26/09/2020 21:32

I have no fun anecdotes. I’m very low at the moment dude to local lockdowns (Wales) preventing me from seeing any of my close family. Today I went for a coffee with a friend to try to feel better. Was nice. Sea front. Sun. Sausage sarnie. Got back to the car and my tyre was almost flat. Only expensive chain tyre places open. Wasted my day sorting it.

2020 is an utter bastard.

cardibach · 26/09/2020 21:33

Dude? Due

pandafunfactory · 26/09/2020 21:41

I work in a hospital. We are using a sort of poly tunnel thing for swabbing. Yesterday it blew away. Seriously how many more things can go wrong?

TheMurk · 26/09/2020 21:44

I looked back at posts I made around new year about how shit 2019 was (for me) and here’s to an amazing 2020...

Jinxed it. Clearly.

Crunchymum · 26/09/2020 21:45

My mum dropped dead on Monday.

And 2020 wasn't going well before that.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 26/09/2020 21:50

We have a saying that bad things come in threes. So... Yay? Done?

CyberNan · 26/09/2020 21:52

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1Morewineplease · 26/09/2020 21:53

@Crunchymum

My mum dropped dead on Monday.

And 2020 wasn't going well before that.

I'm so very sorry .
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VelveteenBunni · 26/09/2020 21:53

@crunchymum oh my goodness I am so sorry for your loss.

@schrodingersimmigrant I know this is what I'm thinking. In fact I was actually wondering yesterday what the 3rd thing was going to be!

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Miloarmadillo2 · 26/09/2020 21:55

crunchymum I'm so sorry. Makes mine pale into insignificance really - this was my one weekend off after 6 months of having everyone home that I was going on a yoga mini retreat then to spend the night with my best friend. My daughter brought home a winter vomiting bug from school and we have all spent the weekend puking violently. My husband actually passed out in a pile of vomit in the bathroom and I had to break the lock to get to him.

Crunchymum · 26/09/2020 21:58

I'm an emetophobe @Miloarmadillo2 so your post is pretty up there for me.

Thanks for the kind words (and sorry to be so blunt!!)

Furbs · 26/09/2020 22:06

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 26/09/2020 22:07

I try to tell my self things will get better because they have to. We surely can’t carry like this forever. However at the moment
I just can’t see a light at the end of the Tunnel but I don’t think it’s so much the Covid that’s the problem. It’s the Government reaction to it.
Things can’t stay closed/partly locked down forever. With or without Covid life has got to go on at some point. Look at state the NHS people waiting for cancer treatments and diagnosis ect. People being made redundant and businesses going bust These are scary times in fact not to scare anyone further but an an anagram of Boris Johnson= Is no jobs or NHS.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 26/09/2020 22:10

Oh Crunchy, I’m so sorry. Flowers

Crunchymum · 26/09/2020 22:10

I am guessing the deleted comment was about my mum dying? Appreciate whoever reported it, but looks like it was quoted.

To be fair my mum had the darkest sense of humour so would have probably appreciated the comment Shock

Furbs · 26/09/2020 22:17

Sorry crunchy I didn't even think when I quoted it.

I'm so sorry about your Mum Flowers I hope cybernan is banned from MN.

Dartsplayer · 26/09/2020 22:21

I feel like I've been saying "surely it can't get any worse'" after every bad thing that has happened for the best part of the last 2 years and inevitably then something else comes along to bloody top it. Stop the world I want to get off!!

PurplePansy05 · 26/09/2020 22:28

I had two miscarriages in lockdown, all scans on my own and a surgery after the second one on my own, DH couldn't come in to the hospital. My family is in a different country and we are stuck unable to see each other. House sale has fallen through twice, for reasons partly linked to covid too.

I had a shit 2019, had high hopes for 2020, but it's been rather shit too. I'm kind of used to it now. No hope for 2021, in fact I think we'll be living in this shit until 2022 tbh.

There are still some things that we all can be grateful for, different for everyone I guess.

MushMonster · 26/09/2020 22:30

Yeap, I agree, can we take the bomfire night fireworks as the end of the damn year?

Mentounasc · 26/09/2020 22:36

I've heard from HR that 2020 has once more failed its performance review and is now on its final written warning. But they've warned me it's going to be real hell to get shot of it before 1Jan.

Sorry for your loss, Crunchymum

Eskarina1 · 26/09/2020 22:40

Crunchymum, I'm so sorry for your loss. This is a terrible time to be dealing with grief as well. I hope your mum's dark sense of humour helps you a little. My dad was the same and there were times when I could just feel a joke we'd have made.

I was dreading 2020 for lots of reasons. My mother in law was just reaching the stage where she wasn't sure who I was and visits (especially with young dc) were just painful. I haven't seen her for 6 months. I don't know whether to be grateful or sorry.

And I have to retake my theory test because my practical was cancelled and my theory expires before I can get another one.

WorksTheDinerAllDay · 26/09/2020 22:45

Some awfully sad stories on here. Everyone is struggling in so many different ways.

I read something yesterday that gave me a little hope and I hope it does for you.

Right now, walking around on this planet, are people who who have been given the vaccine that is going to end this shit. There is a light at the end of tunnel, it's just currently a very fleeting one.

TrickorTreacle · 26/09/2020 22:49

A few here also said how bad 2019 was as well. I'm in that club too.

We can all wish good riddance to 2020 but covid will still be around after 2020.

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VelveteenBunni · 27/09/2020 12:07

After reading some of the heartbreaking stories on here, all I can say is i am truly sorry to all who are struggling, and I will stop complaining!!

Hope you all get to a good place soon.

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bearlyactive · 27/09/2020 12:14

Weirdly, impossibly, 2020 has actually been better than 2019 for me. That's how utterly, completely, mind-blowingly shit 2019 was for me. I don't even want to go into it.

So sorry for your loss, crunchy Flowers