Things that are supposed to be enjoyable but aren't in reality

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Here's my list:

Holidays with the family (kids under the age of 6.) Too expensive, the kids are always tired/vomiting/over-stimulated. Travelling is a fucking nightmare. There's at least two arguments with your partner. And you (being the woman) end up doing all the prep for about three weeks beforehand. When you come back it takes at least a week for you to get through all the washing. And you're exhausted.

Being on the beach. It's actually a bit shit all round. Sand everywhere. People get too hot and uncomfortable. Sand in the food. Warm drinks that have been left out in the sun. The kids end up with sand in their eyes and so do you. It's always really windy and the sea is miles out which means you have to walk for ages to get there. Someone gets bitten/cut by a rock/sunburnt/swallows loads of sea water and you give up and leave after about 2 hours of drama.

Eating out. Too expensive, better quality of cooking at home with fresh ingredients.

Paris. Dirty, smelly, you're followed everywhere by sleazy men trying to sell you stuff or pickpocket you. Everyone's really fucking rude as well

Having sex. It's a bit touch and go, most of the time it's slightly boring, the bloke normally orgasms before you and the people you really fancy - when you end up shagging it turns out to be rubbish after all that build up. Or they ooze sex appeal and charisma but they do something to give you the serious ick and your vagina slams shut.

Hen do's - end of.

I don’t know how parents of babies/young toddlers can cope with flying. As need to have your DC on your lap as too young to have a seat if under 2. Seen them on budget airlines - not much room without a baby.

Water parks. I know lots of people love them (including my husband and children) but I don't see the attraction or fun of them at all. Much prefer a normal pool or the sea.

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I've got a good one: TV. All of it. A bazillion channels and all of it garbage - either violent gore/gratuitous female nudity or reality wallpaper for the easily entertained. Haven't had a TV set since well before covid and would totally dump anyone who expected me to sit there for fricking hours and watch mind-numbing quiz shows or whatever with them.

Ha, I was going to say beach before I’d read your actual post!

Germy? Who have you been having sex with? 😂🤣

I’m with you on the beach and sex, but I bloody love Paris!

Not if you have a jacuzzi bathtub, they're not boring. We had one installed when redoing our bathroom and it's been fab, especially if accompanied by a lovely Prosecco or whatever and candles.

"Going to see Father Christmas. It’s not magical just toe curling, and the ‘better’ the big guy is the more cringey the experience. I actually prefer it to be very obviously the caretaker in a fake beard and we can all have a good laugh than the ones with an over acting elf and a twinkly old bearded bloke."

If you're over 7 it's not really aimed at you.

It’s always bloody me on the tap end!!! And he pokes me with his toenails and I can’t turn around and he complains about the water being too hot while I’m freezing. No thanks.

I'm with @TwoLeggedGrooveMachine on Christmas markets. On the other hand we were in Krakow for the Easter market and it was lovely. Not as crowded, weather cool but sunny, and also not full of people getting drunk in the snow.

We have had some lovely family holidays including abroad and even skiing with younger DCs. Prefer to go on the train than to fly though.

Pre Christmas things like Santa visits, work dos, drinks with friends, putting up the tree in November, some I have tried and CBA and some we have just avoided. I prefer to just have a calm December and then do outings and shows in the school holidays (e.g. skating and panto or theatre).

Absolutely and we do, but there is all of the crap around that goes with it. You can’t shope or move about normally in public for at least weeks before because so many people are out there behaving as if the shops are about to close for months! We can have a nice meal and time off with our family members of choice any time without all of that.

I only like spa days on my own. I just like being warm.

Oh I love this and completely agree.

Most hairdressers will understand if you don't want to talk. If they don't try reading during it.

Oh yes! Horrible weather, shops full of crap playing awful xmas music, supermarkets flogging horrible mince pies, xmas cake and xmas puddings, all disgusting. Everyone banging on about cooking turkey, Yorkshire puddings, all disgusting things i never eat. And having to try to buy presents for people that i can't really afford and they don't really need. All utterly pointless. What is in any if this for atheists and non meat eaters who don't like traditional xmas food at all? Could really really live without it.

Have to agree. I've been with several partners and I just don't like it. Never been able to come from it.

Weddings. Totally dull and too much hanging around. Doubly excruciating if you’re sat next to someone you don’t know and have to make small talk…am always desperate to get home and get into my comfies.

Yes, this! But mostly just with the guys who are really into it and want to be down there for hours, yuck. What's good though is the 69 because then you can focus on the fun of giving and distract yourself from the weird sensation of receiving. But 69s are like Paris, I've had very little experience of both and I might just have been lucky!

Oh yes. I lived abroad for a while and was shocked to see all the dressed up adults when I went back to the UK.

I adore holidays and travelling but holidays with kids are appalling (my youngest is still 5 so I’m within your remit). Also mine have severe allergies so I have to endless packed lunches, we can’t eat out. We don’t go abroad much either because of the stress of flying with allergies. I miss proper travel so so much. “Family holidays” are the opposite of an actual holiday. It’s harder work than a regular day - x100!

Agree with so many of these ! Especially
skiing
paris
flying anywhere
spa days
hot tubs (gross)
massages - never relaxing for me
manicures (polish lasts about 5 minutes with me )
theatre - cramped , small , bad views, one toilet , person next to you with sticky wine breath yuk.
picnics (wasps, like warm drink, lugging food back and forth )

I quite enjoy a picnic but prefer a sandwich and a flask of tea/coffee or juice
Hate Barbeques and that's before I stopped eating meat, even worse now - nothing to eat burnt or otherwise
Never experienced hot tub, spa day, sharing a shower or a bath. Never been skiing. Obviously lived a very quiet life😂
Enjoyed taking kids on holidays always UK until they were late teens.
Agree with the loud music at weddings etc. The music really doesn't need to be that loud
I have a lovely hairdresser and we talk non stop, he's a very interesting person
I loved a bath in the day and could read for hours emptying and refilling. Sadly I can't get in and out any more
Sex is certainly not the be all and end all a lot of people make it out to be.

Camping. Heat, bugs, discomfort, cooking over a fire. Bleah.

Eating out sometimes. I don't like having to dress, drive there, go wait for a menu, wait to place an order, wait for the food-especially if it something I can make myself-and just the time it takes. I'd just as soon make it at home, clean up and plunk myself on the couch after.

Beaches must be different in the UK than we have here. Almost all of our beaches have toilets and also outdoor showers for rinsing off after. Teens come out with skim boards, smaller children dig int he sand. I don't care for it myself, as our sand here is so soft, it is hard for me as I get older to trudge through it. I live near a lovely beach, Indian Rocks Beach, and one of my friends is visiting next week from another state, which means the obligatory visit to the beach.

Nobody 😂🤢 I don't believe everyone has a full body wash before sex everytime. It's just an ick overall to me.

Music festivals.

Ive just accepted at my age now I won’t enjoy anything where I can’t access clean, readily available plumbing.

I got one recently that was just extremely painful. I hurt for two days after. Not sure what the benefit is, but my bf gets it done regularly.