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.

Glastonbury

Tesco on Christmas Eve

Maggots

Agreed. I found a small slug in my cauliflower last week, when cutting it up. Just washed it, cooked it and ate it. 😋 (The cauliflower, not the slug).

I only live an hour from Glastonbury and I often think that I ought to experience the festival at least once. The trouble is - I just don’t want to!

Being stuck at a children’s party where all the parents are half your age and you’ve got absolutely nothing in common… been there so many times.
I don’t miss THAT part of my DDs childhood.

😂 can I add St Albans

Team building

Parties where you have to make conversation with random strangers who absolutely all turn out to have had their every opinion formed by reading the grauniad. Grim.

Being hungover in an indoor trampoline Park.This happened on Saturday as ds was invited to a party.Noisy as hell with awful lighting.

Mil and sil visiting at the same time.
Too loud and too annoying

Having children.

Camping ⛺️

Being anywhere where children are screaming (playfully).

Crowded areas.

Public toilets.

Overnight guests and being one.

Over privileged clients with first world problems.

one of my friends loves people staying over at hers, even when we all live within 15 minutes of each other and the cost of an uber/cab home is minimal. I like my own bed and to wake up in my own house, amongst my own things without having to jump out of the bed asap to get dressed and be downstairs.

Camping, nightclubs, parties and huge social events. Forced jollity over Christmas etc.

Oh, and school PE when I used to have to do it. It would have been the only lesson I would have bunked off if forced to continue past the age of 13 at school.

Motorway service stations. Soul destroying, rip off shysters that exist to bleed the joy of all poor travelling souls.

Hen parties.

Any situation where people expect me to coo over their children, whether the children are known to me or not.

Work conferences and all that go with them
Anywhere you can't see the exit
Crowded smelly trains
My neighbour's non verbal autistic child who assaults her mother and howls and shrieks and has meltdowns - I am moving.

On a school trip at two o’clock in the morning on board an adapted fishing boat in the English Channel. A thick mist descended, we could hear horns of other ships and I was heaving over the side. I wanted to die.

Oh yes - and the high pitched screaming with nt children-What is that about?

Other people's little kids or darling dogs.

@TheCompactPussycat- yes, nothing beats it for letting the kids go feral! We went on all sorts of holidays with the kids when they were little, including a cruise and a big trip to the US/Canada, but the camping holidays are the ones they remember most fondly. They didn’t need any toys, gadgets or organised activities- just the space and their imaginations. Magical stuff. (And yes, plenty of boozing and heart-to-hearts for the grown-ups).

@ToWhitToWhoo - that’s completely understandable. Camping holidays won’t suit everyone and might sadly not be very accessible for people with disabilities or serious health conditions.

Gaza

Soft Play, sounds like hell to me so my children mostly missed out, unless some one else took them. Also baby showers, I’m almost 50 and have managed to avoid so far.

Disney, cruises or all inclusive type destinations full of Brits abroad. Over here, would be a close tie between Butlins or one of those dreadful adults only breaks.

Anywhere where I don't have easy access to a toilet.

Disneyland/Disney world. Hated the idea of them even when I was a kid. My mum's friend's son was obsessed and had a video with all the songs from the park and would watch it all the time. I used to feel horribly embarrassed when I watched it.

Butlins. No way!

Camping. Just no! (See above.) There are some places that'll charge a fortune for you to stay in a fancy hut but won't provide you with an en suite. Fuck that!

Enforced fun of any kind.

I did that once with “I used to be a heroin addict” 🤣