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What is your idea of hell on earth?

609 replies

Aubreylights · 08/10/2023 23:33

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.

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Thomasina79 · 09/10/2023 04:15

Camping in the rain, especially if like my DH with a tummy bug. I wasn’t there there I stayed in Airbnb

GFgd · 09/10/2023 04:18

A very cheap holiday, saving as much money as possible to the point it’s not at all enjoyable. My in-laws go the cheapest places possible and boast about how little they paid but there are literally mice in the drawers of their room in places they go or there was a bat flying round the room in one 😩😩 I have to sit there like ‘oh yeah, great deal!’ 😳

momager1 · 09/10/2023 04:19

11 years ago..plus the three years prior to that! We lived in st thomas ontario in a gorgeous century home . It was lovely. except for 4 days every year. Right beside our house was an old railway line that was extended to a lakeside area about half hour away. It used to be used to run shipments from the port to an area in st thomas for distribution. It had been defunct for years but still there. THEN ..hell. Day out with Thomas. Thomas the tank engine ran back and forward charging parents a fortune but the kids still loved it. peep peep peep all FUCKING DAY. thank god it only was 4 days a year but at one point i yelled FUCK YOU THOMAS. (windows were closed, no children heard me.)

Sadie43 · 09/10/2023 04:37

“Tell us something interesting about yourself.”

A dinner party with snobbish twats, like on this thread…

ItsGreyNotBlack · 09/10/2023 04:37

Mmhmmn · 08/10/2023 23:45

All things Conferences. Ice breakers. Break out groups. Networking.

Omg….so much this. Introduce yourselves forced intros on camera
And damned Teams cameras. Scourge of life

Tighginn · 09/10/2023 04:43

School shows, omfg, the novelty of them passes, quite quickly after child one's first nativity...

Vand · 09/10/2023 04:46

a child with a fucking recorder

LunaNorth · 09/10/2023 04:49

A hen weekend. Especially in Blackpool or Magaluf.

A skiing ‘holiday’.

HuckleberryBlackcurrant · 09/10/2023 04:50

Caring for a newborn and other children while ill. Currently living this one.

MamaToABeautifulBoy · 09/10/2023 04:53

MehtotheChristmasrunup · 09/10/2023 00:25

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.

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I’d say you really need to work on your sense of humour 🙄

Hankiewair · 09/10/2023 04:53

Recovering from open heart surgery.

I’m losing loads os sleep, and just life in general really.

I’m sooooo bored.

DinnaeFashYersel · 09/10/2023 04:55

Baby showers

Edwardandtubbs · 09/10/2023 05:05

Lakeside on bank holiday Monday. Decathlon specifically - so it’s the awful, tiny, one way car park that takes 40 mins to get out of.

Made all the more hellish by the fact that I’d refused to go there (knowing it would be hell) and DH pulled the ‘you always say no’ card so I caved.

The devilish icing on the hell-cake? He didn’t even buy anything.

ImaginingDragonz · 09/10/2023 05:12

There park in Florida in 36 degree heat.
Ikea canteen in a Saturday
Teams meetings with multiple participants
Butlins
Camping in busy campsites in either heat or rain with loads of noisy nightmare families
Any supermarket at busy times
The wider Coventry area

MamaToABeautifulBoy · 09/10/2023 05:13

A hen weekend in Dubai

An Ed Sheeran concert

Work conference

A room with a big spider in any part of said room

East London

Mikimoto · 09/10/2023 05:24

Living in a terraced house in Sheffield or Leeds.

RoseMarigoldViolet · 09/10/2023 05:26

Legoland on the hottest day of the year

FastFood · 09/10/2023 05:29

Diversity & Inclusion training at work
The bus before boarding a plane
Being stuck on the road behind a stag / hen party on a pedibus

RichardArmitagesWife · 09/10/2023 05:38

School uniform shopping with three or more children.

CeeChynaa · 09/10/2023 05:40

Tesco on Christmas Eve. I don’t even celebrate Christmas but every year I forget something in the weekly shop that I know I’ll need the next day when the store is closed!

It’s genuinely hell

Burnamer · 09/10/2023 05:43

Just other people in general.

I’m currently at an airport departure gate.

Rabbitsco · 09/10/2023 05:43

Spending a weekend with a bunch of women from Surrey with dyed blond hair.
Disneyland
Dubai

OTM1982 · 09/10/2023 05:46

Organised fun, ie: hen dos, 'girls nights out', 'date nights', family fun days - you get my drift.

The top one of these being surprise parties. I'm 40 soon and if I walked into a surprise party I would immediately leave as soon as 'surprise' was shouted.

Weedoormatnomore · 09/10/2023 05:49

My current job been awake since 4am! Thankfully working my notice but going to be hell for next several weeks.

Aposterhasnoname · 09/10/2023 05:56

Camping, bonus points for being at a festival.