What is your idea of hell on earth?

[Aubreylights]

So nothing biblical.

For me today it was ASDA, 1pm on a Sunday, event going on nearby so huge amount of traffic to get in, even longer queues inside, screaming kids, adults barging by you, having to queue for customer service.

Anything else would include cave diving, pot holing or being on a submarine.

Conservative Party Conference

Crowded public transport
Anywhere that has snakes, big spiders & nasty stingy insects
Overnight flights in economy
People telling me about their dreams
Smelly public toilets
Shopping centres

slow Music
shops closed or closed earlier bc some bank holiday
people walking slowly in front of me

Eagerly ordering a new book then,when it arrives, discovering I had read it a few years ago.

Talking of ASDA, their car parks give me the rage before I've even driven in.

I remember that. We were shopping at Morrisons Kirkstall Bridge which is six miles away, and could hear the concert very clearly

What is it with ASDA car parks?

Our nearest one is “L” shaped and people go mad trying to park as close to the entrance of the store as they can and circle round and round trying to get a good spot as soon as someone leaves it (I’m not talking about disabled or parent parking). One part of the car park is just-about full and the other almost empty.

I always seem to see either a minor shunt or a rage incident every time I go. I park in the near empty bit then walk past the craziness.

Maybe I go to the same branch as you @wildwestpioneer!

My current job - too many chiefs and just me getting micro managed.
Also the recruitment process, which is putting me off leaving.

Also - Disneyland and weekend shopping/parking on the run up to Xmas.

Also Also - Family restaurants when they don’t clean up properly between covers UGHH.

Benidorm,... definitely hell on earth.36 degrees crap hotel, food poisoning, then they turned the water off as there was a drought.We couldn't flush the toilet !!
The view from the window was a car park a building site, and a night club.We finally got to sleep at 4am and the street cleaners and bin men came round at 5.
Never ever again !!
Hen does.
Christmas.

Benidorm. No thanks.

Supermarkets near Christmas

Anywhere that is crowded

Other people's kids

Other people's dogs

Micromanaging bosses

Just editing to add school gate Queen Bee mums

Nightclubs
Being stuck next to boring people at dinner parties and having to make conversation
The school gate (thank God my kids are now older so don't have to do it anymore)
Being patronised by posh, ignorant but self-important men with no escape (recent experience)
Dead end retail jobs (been there, done that)

I used to love them but now see them as just a glorified/expensive day in a swimming pool. There is nothing much at a spa except the pool/jacuzzi/sauna and sitting around all day. And the treatments are very expensive, in addition to the cost of the spa itself.

@yearofthebuttercup totally agree re nightclubs Loved them in my hey-day but never want to step inside one every again.

Never even been to a spa but j know they would be hell on earth

Team work days especially with forced fun activities

being out with friends who are looking for potential partners

I have blocked out the memories of soft play

Leicester Square on NYE

Some kind of electrical beep or buzz that I can’t identify and can’t switch off

Repetitive bouncing ball

Too hot or too cold and can’t adjust clothing

Crying newborn and can’t get them to stop

Being woken up repeatedly in the night, just after you got back to sleep (see also: crying newborn)

Sandfly bites and no piriton

It used to be the old Primark in Birmingham, before the revamp. It was tall and thin with eleventy million people squashed in it.

Caravan sites over the school holidays. The on-site pubs have usually got drunk loud, sweary parents and kids running riot. The caravans have a weird smell and whether the bedding has been changed is always a bit questionable

One of DD’s friends went to an indoor trampoline park recently. A couple of birthday parties were taking place and DD’s friend saw one of the guests, a boy of about 12, suffer a horrible compound fracture to his leg (think visible bone and lots of blood). This incident didn’t make the local paper, so who knows how often this happens?

I agree about IKEA.

I can’t find what I came for.
I can’t go back to an item I passed earlier and now want to buy.
I can’t get out.

Shopping on Oxford Street.
A holiday in Blackpool.
Vegan restaurant.
Mushrooms.

Compulsory, organized jollity. FUN! YOU MUST HAVE FUN!

Fuck off.

Anything hermetically welded to the concept of 'tradition'. Identikit. Boring. Predictable. And usually carrying with it the weight of expectation and pressure into conformity.

Ugh. 💤