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.

I once put a shoe on to nip outside without a sock and squashed a slug that was inside. Haunts me to this day.

OP, I'm with you on cave diving, pot holing or submarines.

Or Disneyland - all that ghastly over-commercialised rubbish and appalling food.

Or Love Island, I'm a celebrity, TOWIE etc Just cringingly awful.

Package holidays.

I was on a 3 hour coach journey and someone let their child watch a kids film at full volume on a tablet.

Family swimming (particularly with a baby and toddler).

Wedding
Kids party
Big night out in group
Public speaking
A cruise

The last train out of Leeds on a Saturday night.

Ditto the person who said school disco too!

Absolutely this too! Why do people go there?!

Anywhere without enough proper fresh airflow and natural light.

Bonus hell points if it has fluorescent lights and/or smells of stale condiments.

Being made to sit through a musical.
Having house guests who don’t know when to leave.
Going to the Puy du Fou.
Eating with strangers and having to make conversation.

Also I'd hate to work as a fishmonger.

I have friends who are emigrating to the Costa del Sol. I truly cannot imagine many things that I would hate more. The heat would be horrible, and I really don't think that the expat community holds much appeal for me.

Being in a confined space with a bird or birds.

Birkenhead. If you know, you know.

These are all perfectly rational fears IMO

Because even though you’ve booked the exact same holiday you can’t find anything in common with any of the other people who did the same thing?
Social skills is something we really need to work in in state education.

Bollocks to that. I choose to keep myself to myself, it’s nothing to do with lacking in social skills.

A sprawling new build estate in the summer - with concrete everywhere radiating heat + every out door sound bouncing / echoing off 400 identical houses.

Bonus points if you’re far enough out of town to have to get in to your car to do anything.

A Christmas market when you're on a mobility scooter! Can’t get anywhere near ANY of the stalls.

In fact, going anywhere busy on a mobility scooter is hell as people don't even see you! People push in when you're in a queue (as they assume you're waiting for a 'carer' apparently?!?!) you get tutted at for existing and if you say excuse me well, you get the evils! You've got NO CHANCE of looking at the ingredients on a product in a supermarket as the second you try, you get "Scuse me love!"

Awful

Lol. I LOVED the Puy de Fou!

Being forced to socialise, leave me alone

And in true Mumsnet style, I hated school drop off and pick up and I’m really not keen on weddings, beyond the service.

Seaworld.
University of the 3rd age recorder group rehearsing for 2 hours straight 3 metres from my desk with the door open.
Glastonbury festival.
Any other music festival.
Cooking with other people in the kitchen.

Going on a cruise.

But also cave diving, pot holing or being on a submarine

A ghastly run down hospital ward with mean nurses, in pain but being denied medication even though it's prescribed, kept awake by light and noise all night, stuck to an IV attached to the bed, without a working call button.

Oh God yes. Been to Florida and Paris. Hated.every.minute.

Oh I second this. DHs parents live in a popular tropical cruise ship destination - sometimes there are 4 of the huge ones in the harbour. All with people queuing endlessly to get on and off and into the Hard Rock Cafe / margaritaville on the waterfront that look just like the bar on their cruise ship.

People are going to people - but being stuck on a floating portaloo with 5000 fellow cruisers choosing between shots at señor frogs or country Karaoke every night? Not for me thank you maam, I will take my chances in actual hell / Mordor / the depths of the underworld.

Belgium.