What is the very worst place you have been stuck waiting?
By Amy
@artemis432 (7474)
Abernathy, Texas
7 responses
@disvachic (10117)
• United States
13 Oct 07
Hey there artemis.I was broke down on the interstate.I was waiting for my friend to come to the rescue.I mean huge trucks going past with that loud wind my car shaking and what not.I was very irritated.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
13 Oct 07
Sounds irritating. Great that your friend came to your rescue - cell phone I'm guessing?
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@jan135 (535)
• Australia
13 Oct 07
It was at Gatwick airport in England.
My friend and I had booked to fly over to Australia, and the flight was on Boxing day. We travelled to the airport the day before Xmas day and had to wait at the airport all Xmas day, there was nothing open, we had no food or drink and had to sleep on the airport lounges. This is one of my worst waiting experiences.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
13 Oct 07
That sounds horrible. But wait - is boxing day the day before Christmas - so your flight was delayed - or did you travel the day before because you didn't think you could get to the airport on boxing day?
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@AmbiePam (93922)
• United States
13 Oct 07
The worst place I've had to wait was outside the operating room. I'm flat on my back, with the hall lights glaring in my eyes and an IV in my arm, and they put me to the side saying they need to do something. I waited 45 minutes before they came back to wheel me in to surgery. That was annoying, LOL.
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
13 Oct 07
Oh that's a good one - in light of this - it would be the hospital I had my son at. First, I was admitted friday and didn't have him until sunday evening - I was on Pitocin to induce labour - which makes labour very excruciating - and extra long - then, since my midwife hadn't believed me when I said my water broke - and didn't try to break until the NEXT DAY - and finally found I was telling the truth - they had to keep my son in for three days while they ran tests to make sure there was no infection. I had to wait to take him home - and he couldn't be in the room with me - but was in NICU - although perfectly healthy as it turned out - hooked up to an IV - which they had to put in his head - because, like mine, all his veins would burst -and on oxygen. I guess that was my longest wait - to bring him into the world and then to finally bring him home, where I could hold him in my arms rather then in my tummy.
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@BayleighGray (4334)
• United States
21 Oct 07
Well Art, I was about 15 and I was at a carnival in the town I grew up in and I was on a ride that got stopped. It was something along the lines of a bullet, two arms, each end had a basket and they went in a circular motion round and around only our basket got stopped halfway through a round facing the ground. It was like that for about 45 mins, and I had bruises across my stomach from lying on the bars for so long.
That has to be the absolute WORST place I have ever had to wait. Following that I would say the Dr's office, in line at the grocery store or on a train that is stopped on the tracks. We have trains and sometimes they dont always move they just sit there for long periods of time.
Bay xx
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@ailema4ever (2668)
• Finland
22 Oct 07
Outside Helsinki airport, waiting for a taxi when the temperature was around 5'C. It was windy and cold. I had to queue for a taxi so I had to stand there in the cold wind for about 15-20 minutes. Brrrrrrrrrrr...
@wotfpatty (2065)
• United States
21 Oct 07
I think the longest and worst wait was when my mother had her operations for brain aneurysms. The first was long but she came out of it OK. The second was worse. She went in doing great and the second aneurysm hadn't burst so we thought she would have an easier time. We waited for hours and hours with no word.
Finally they said she wasn't waking up and may have had a stroke.
Later they said she was in a coma. She was in one for weeks and was never the same again.
Waiting for the doctor to come tell us everything was OK (which it wasn't) and waiting for her to wake up and to see if she would know us was torture.
Another wait I hated was once I was in a huge crowd (I hate crowds) lost and couldn't find my husband. Cells didn't work there so I was kind of pushing my way through people and getting more anxious and lost and not having any idea where he was, where the car was, or even where I was. I finally sat down and just waited. Eventually, he found me but it was a couple of hours. I hated that. I really hated that.
I don't like to wait as it is and waiting and being anxious are terrible together.
