Worst thing that ever happened to you

JohnCleary · 27-08-2009 10:56AM

Broke my spine when I was 17.

Being told I might be sh1tting into nappies and never getting laid again at 17 was a bit :eek: By the grace of, er, something, I made a decent'ish recovery though, happy days

Raiser · 27-08-2009 01:39PM

boogle wrote: »

Worst thing that ever happened to me was when I was 19. Went out to a nightclub with friends, had 4 bottles of bud by then so was not in any way drunk. Then I can't remember anything else. I woke up next day with my mum by my bed. I'd never been a drinker and never came home drunk or anythingt before. She told me that she was woken at around 4am by some neighbours who had recognised me when they were driving home from town. I was staggering along the road in the middle of the countryside. My mum was so upset, she stayed with me all night because she sais I was raving and talking gibberish. I can only assume that my drink was spiked because my friends said I only ordered one drink in the club, and disappeared shortly after. I still don't know what happened to me as I can't remember. Not knowing is terrible

You were fantastic.

pikachucheeks · 27-08-2009 01:57PM

Silverfish wrote: »

Okay, I'm going to try post this without thinking about it.

When I was younger, I was walking along a wall with some friends. On one side of the wall, was a thick patch of nettles.

For some reason, I became unbalanced and fell off the wall into the patch of nettles. That not being bad enough in itself, the nettles contained one dead sheep, that had been dead in summer for a number of days, and was bloated. I fell right onto the sheep, which then burst, covering me in dead sheep juices and maggots.

So I stood up stung, stinking, soaking, and covered in maggots.

I will never, ever forget that smell as long as I live.

I read this last night, before I went to sleep. I lay awake with the most disgusting mental image in my head for ages

Worst thing that ever happened to me?

Probably my experience in A&E in Tallaght hospital. I had a stomach infection, couldn't hold down liquids, so they left me dehydrated for over twelve hours.

They tried to take a sample of my blood, but couldn't find any veins. At one point, I had two doctors, both grabbing one of my arms, punching them! Oww.

When they finally took me in, they hooked me up to a drip containing antibiotics. Within seconds, I had a massive allergic reaction to it, followed by an Asthma attack

Professey Chin · 27-08-2009 02:37PM

Raiser wrote: »

You were fantastic.

Why am I in your sig

Nothing really happened to me I could class as the worst.Some bad things but nothing really stands out.Maybe crashing while mountain biking alone.Middle of forest alone and unable to breathe or move much for about 30 seconds after the crash.That wasnt exactly pleasant.Recovered anyway.Got home and then discovered a little bit later id torn a small hole in my leg.Yay

Beetlebum · 27-08-2009 02:50PM

When I was about 24 I was in Cologne with my sister. It was a baking hot day so we decided to grab a few beers and head to the beach.

We got to this big railway crossing with about 8 different racks for the trains. This guy told us that if you ran across the tracks you'd be at the beacj but if you walked around it would take about an hour. We were so hot and really wanted to be messing around in the sea drinking beers so we decided to risk it.
The guy warned us that a train could come at any moment on any track and that German trains are fast as lightning. Being young and indestructible we bravely took our position at the edge of the tracks, took a deep breath an dran as fast as our legs would carry us.

Next minute I hear somebody yell 'TRAIN!!!!' and I froze midway to see a train coming right for us. My sister legged it and made it to the other side. I froze.
I remeber just closing my eyes and thinking this is it. I'm dead.

Next thing the train flys by me and the momentum of it lifts me off the ground and throws me back a few feet. Once it had passed I lept up and ran to the other side.

We both burst into tears and were shaking like leaves. It's the closest I've ever come to death.

The true stupid part of this story is that after going to teh beach and getting hammered, we took the same route home...goddamn lazy Irish drunks!!

BraziliaNZ · 27-08-2009 02:59PM

marrying a canadian when i was very young

flanzer · 27-08-2009 02:59PM

Silverfish wrote: »

Okay, I'm going to try post this without thinking about it.

When I was younger, I was walking along a wall with some friends. On one side of the wall, was a thick patch of nettles.

For some reason, I became unbalanced and fell off the wall into the patch of nettles. That not being bad enough in itself, the nettles contained one dead sheep, that had been dead in summer for a number of days, and was bloated. I fell right onto the sheep, which then burst, covering me in dead sheep juices and maggots.

So I stood up stung, stinking, soaking, and covered in maggots.

I will never, ever forget that smell as long as I live.

As a matter of interest, do you eat lamb?

My uncle tells a story of him as a kid wandering and getting locked into a butchers fridge at christmas full of hanging turkeys. 50 years later, he can't sit down for dinner with anyone who eats any sort of foul without wretching

FutureTaoiseach · 27-08-2009 03:14PM

Travellers smashing up €1609 worth of glass in my apartment because I wouldn't give them my motorbike. Doesn't include damage to my motorbike including smashed break lights/rear-view mirrors over a 2 yr period. They live on a neighbouring housing estate. When I asked the Gardai to look at the CCTV that the management company were suppose to have installed on the estate, it turned out the sign was wrong - there was no CCTV. It eventually stopped because my neighbours were keeping a lookout one night and caught one of those leaving the scene, reporting him to Gardai. He wasn't charged but he appears to have got the message.

d1975 · 27-08-2009 03:21PM

I remember I was at the IFTAs and I was in the media room and free wine was pouring, so I helped myself to a glass or two, my mate and I were drinking so much of the stuff we got thrown out after 10.30ish after dropping the red wine and being loud etc.. that's not the end we walked around to front of RDS I had fallen then I just about remembered going to hospital, then I walked out and get a taxi remeber it cost me nearly €50

the funny thing is when I got kicked out I had swiched my recorder on so recorded the whole thing, and I lost my glasses brused my arm

don't remember much even listing back to it lol

irish_bob · 27-08-2009 04:33PM

either this thread is wrongly titled or you people have had too happy of lives , theese stories fall under most embarrassing thing that happened to me

Gary ITR · 27-08-2009 04:39PM

Silverfish wrote: »

Okay, I'm going to try post this without thinking about it.

When I was younger, I was walking along a wall with some friends. On one side of the wall, was a thick patch of nettles.

For some reason, I became unbalanced and fell off the wall into the patch of nettles. That not being bad enough in itself, the nettles contained one dead sheep, that had been dead in summer for a number of days, and was bloated. I fell right onto the sheep, which then burst, covering me in dead sheep juices and maggots.

So I stood up stung, stinking, soaking, and covered in maggots.

I will never, ever forget that smell as long as I live.

Don't ever tell that story to a potential boyfriend. If I was getting down and dirty with you all that'd be going through my head would be your body covered in maggots

IvyTheTerrible · 27-08-2009 04:43PM

My little brother killing himself.

Irishcrx · 27-08-2009 04:48PM

Had a drinking competition with a french guy who said the Irish couldn't out drink the French and it being my birthday said feck that lets have ya, so not being contempt with just out drinking him in shots I had to start drinking pints aswell, night wears on and both of us are twisted hardly able to speak when finally he passes out and goes asleep, i;m hailed as the winner friends cheer etc...fast forward 5 mins i'm upstairs in the toilet projectile vomiting toilet gets blocked, i'm starting to hear and see people who aren't there, sick all over the floor which am crawling in, on my clothes, pulled the toilet seat off somehow and fell asleep in my own puke, had a hangover for the next two days...that toilet never got fixed luckily we had a spare.

Things I do for my country.

AlphaRob · 27-08-2009 04:53PM

I got kicked around in london by about 12 black dudes that decided it would be fun to slice my back up with a blade.F*cked me right up it did not to mention the broken jaw and fractures all over i was in a state.......

Ah but what ye gonna do:D

m3llowship · 27-08-2009 05:18PM

Getting an email from The Department of Homeland Security with my picture, Soc Sec number on it saying. "This has been sent to the FBI since your Visa expired. You must leave the United States within the next 24 hours or you will be deported and receive a lifetime ban from the USA and a possible prison sentence."

Turns out my Visa hadnt expired but there was an admin error. I was an illegal immigrant for about two weeks.

My honduran girlfriend laughed her ass off at me but I was bricking it. She said, "Eh, that **** happens all the time to hispanic people" in her best Rosie Perez accent.

fizzynicenice · 27-08-2009 05:22PM

Christmas eve eve (24th), 2006.
Me and two of my most trusted advisors get phucked up on fosters and rum in the bayside inn, proceed to a field around the corner afterwards for a couple of joints.
I go to take a slash in the bushes, nettle bushes. Locked, weiner out and pissing with my hands in my pockets, I loose my balance and stumble forwards, falling cock first into the nettles...still pissing.

Now every Dec 24th is called 'Nettle dick night', inventive, huh?

fullstop · 27-08-2009 05:27PM

fizzynicenice wrote: »

Christmas eve eve (24th), 2006.
Me and two of my most trusted advisors get phucked up on fosters and rum in the bayside inn, proceed to a field around the corner afterwards for a couple of joints.
I go to take a slash in the bushes, nettle bushes. Locked, weiner out and pissing with my hands in my pockets, I loose my balance and stumble forwards, falling cock first into the nettles...still pissing.

Now every Dec 24th is called 'Nettle dick night', inventive, huh?

Christmas Day is on the 25th last time I checked

stovelid · 27-08-2009 06:07PM

I got an acoustic guitar for Christmas and thought it meant I was a protest singer.

I can smile about it now, but it was bloody terrible at the time.

narwog81 · 27-08-2009 06:51PM

getting brought outside a nightclub in rural russia by 3 members of the local mafia because my spending at the bar was getting too much attention from the local ladies.

not nice at all, especially when my ability to defend myself had been substantially reduced by the large quantity of champagne and vodka already consumed....

fizzynicenice · 27-08-2009 06:54PM

fullstop wrote: »

Christmas Day is on the 25th last time I checked

congratulations

krudler · 27-08-2009 07:01PM

Took someone home on a one night stand, woke up the next morning and she was in a mad rush to get out of there, awkwardness ensued until she left, thinking she wanted to get out of there as she found me unattractive or regretted what she did, it wasnt until I pulled back the bedsheets and the side she slept on was covered in blood, she'd had her period during the night and just scarpered, was a crap shag too, havent had a one night stand since

Crann na Beatha · 27-08-2009 07:15PM

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brummytom · 27-08-2009 07:23PM

Do these have to be funny?
Worst thing that ever happened to me was my nan dying, nearly 2 years ago now (will be two years next friday).

She had a bad bleed 17th July (dad's birthday).
Found out she was dying during a day-trip thing to the seaside, 27th July.. I'll never forget the date.
She came out of hospital and I stayed with her for a few days.. one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.
She got worse during August, went into hospital again on 31st August (my brother's birthday). Had a stroke on 2nd September, died on the 4th.

And my birthday's on the 3rd.. so we had great birthdays that year

TPD · 27-08-2009 07:27PM

stovelid wrote: »

I got an acoustic guitar for Christmas and thought it meant I was a protest singer.

I can smile about it now, but it was bloody terrible at the time.

You wouldn't have a brother called William would you?

Silverfish · 27-08-2009 07:28PM

flanzer wrote: »

As a matter of interest, do you eat lamb?

My uncle tells a story of him as a kid wandering and getting locked into a butchers fridge at christmas full of hanging turkeys. 50 years later, he can't sit down for dinner with anyone who eats any sort of foul without wretching

I eat lamb the odd time, wouldn't be mad into it - it tastes too.... sheepy.

Onkle wrote: »

Don't ever tell that story to a potential boyfriend. If I was getting down and dirty with you all that'd be going through my head would be your body covered in maggots

I told him, but when I mentioned it again when I posted it, he appeared to have forgotten. How convenient.

irish_bob · 27-08-2009 10:35PM

FutureTaoiseach wrote: »

Travellers smashing up €1609 worth of glass in my apartment because I wouldn't give them my motorbike. Doesn't include damage to my motorbike including smashed break lights/rear-view mirrors over a 2 yr period. They live on a neighbouring housing estate. When I asked the Gardai to look at the CCTV that the management company were suppose to have installed on the estate, it turned out the sign was wrong - there was no CCTV. It eventually stopped because my neighbours were keeping a lookout one night and caught one of those leaving the scene, reporting him to Gardai. He wasn't charged but he appears to have got the message.

tinkers once poisioned my beloved st bernard god but that still isnt the worst thing that has ever happened to me

The Big Red Button · 27-08-2009 11:56PM

I can't pick any worst thing that has happened to me because, to be honest, I have lived quite a charmed life (and believe me I am very grateful for it!)

However I can tell you the worst feeling of my life thus far.

I was babysitting a few years ago. Around the time of the whole Madeleine McCann media frenzy, incidentally. I'd been to this house a few times already. Arrived there, the six month old baby was already asleep. I'm very conscientious about checking on kids when I'm in charge of them, however I didn't go straight up to check as soon as the parents had left (obviously.) Anyways, fifteen minutes later, I heard a bit of movement on the baby monitor. The baby moving around, I presumed, so when it stopped I went to check on him.

I went into the parents bedroom. As I knew from being there before, they had an unusual Moses bed contraption with curtains around it. I went over and opened the curtains - the blankets were pulled down, and no baby there. About the same time I noticed that the bedroom window (opening onto a low flat roof) was wide open.

I checked every other bedroom upstairs - no baby. I can tell you, that feeling for approximately one minute between when I came upstairs and when I phoned the child's mother was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life!

Anyway, called her:
Me: "Hi there, look I'm really sorry to be ringing you like this ... but I can't exactly find *baby's name*"
Her: "Oh sorry, I forgot to tell you, we've moved him to the spare room downstairs til we paint his bedroom!"
Me: (There's a spare bedroom downstairs?!) "Great, thanks, chat ya later!"

It's nothing big, and all's well that ends well, but I can tell you it was a horrible horrible feeling!

Anna Molly · 28-08-2009 12:16AM

I went out the other night, and my rather comfortable shoes were chaving like a bitch.
I wake up in the middle of the night last night almost in tears with the burning pain on the ball of my foot.
Had a bath in the morning, had to CUT all the dead skin off.
I cannot walk properly, the pain is KILLER!
I'm walking like I just had it up the arse, a few times.

Idjit · 28-08-2009 12:20AM

The worst thing that ever happened to me occured over a period of weeks in a new house i had just moved into with my parents. i was eight and had just moved county so i guess it was stress that caused it.

Each night of the first few weeks in the new house i had night terrors(not nightmares).My parents say i slept-walked alot too. I hallucinated certain horrifying things. One that i remember quite vividly was a giant mosquito-type insect in the room i shared with my little brother at the time. i remember tryin to lock it in the room while i went to get help, but feelin horrified because it might get my brother. i still remember how tired i was for those few weeks because of my nighttime antics. i woke up some mornings in the bath tub or sleeping on the living room floor because i couldnt stand to be in the bedroom where i kept seeing things. My mam got so sick of having to bring me back to bed after i ran to her night after night claiming wild things that she moved me into a different bedroom. I dont know what caused me to think the first bedroom had all those things in it but ten years on i can still recall my own terror!

The Big Red Button · 28-08-2009 12:27AM

Jade182 wrote: »

The worst thing that ever happened to me occured over a period of weeks in a new house i had just moved into with my parents. i was eight and had just moved county so i guess it was stress that caused it.

Each night of the first few weeks in the new house i had night terrors(not nightmares).My parents say i slept-walked alot too. I hallucinated certain horrifying things. One that i remember quite vividly was a giant mosquito-type insect in the room i shared with my little brother at the time. i remember tryin to lock it in the room while i went to get help, but feelin horrified because it might get my brother. i still remember how tired i was for those few weeks because of my nighttime antics. i woke up some mornings in the bath tub or sleeping on the living room floor because i couldnt stand to be in the bedroom where i kept seeing things. My mam got so sick of having to bring me back to bed after i ran to her night after night claiming wild things that she moved me into a different bedroom. I dont know what caused me to think the first bedroom had all those things in it but ten years on i can still recall my own terror!

I remember when I was doing my Junior Cert, my seven year old sister who I shared a room with went through a phase like that with "kidnapper" nightmares, after watching some James Bond film. It was horrible, neither of us got any sleep at all for a few weeks. She'd wake up traumatised every night, I'd have to read/sing to her for aaages, then she'd go to sleep for about half an hour before she was up bawling crying again. I remember being like a zombie in school at the time!

Worst thing that ever happened to you

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