What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?

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This is the thread where we catalog the horrors.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

For a split-second I thought your email address said 'castration'.

I now cannot think of anything that bad.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Discovering ILE. It made me into the mentalist I am today.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I was waiting to see who would be the first person to post ILX! I thought it would be Strongo, though.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm 21. True horror has yet to afflict me. I mean, except the Tweenies.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I am West Ham supporter

― Davey, Monday, 4 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

All in all I've got off pretty lightly I think.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I once nearly drowned in a hole filled with pigswill on an uncle's farm. And then having to strip naked and have a bath in front of about three generations of my family immediately afterwards was almost as traumatic for my 11 year old self.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I had to clear up somebody's sick on saturday (not my own)

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

:-(

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought you'd be a bournemouth supporter for some reason

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

having my soulmate, "THE ONE" tell me they didn't ever want to speak to me again sucked the big high hard one.

― ohhowiwishicouldturnbacktheclock, Monday, 4 August 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have to pick my godson dying before he was 3. That was about as low as I've been.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

serious answer: nearly dying in a house fire when i was 4

non-serious answer: being evicted first in Trig Brother last saturday

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 4 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I think when my wife kicked me out. I was quite glad to go, but it marked a colossal failure, all the same.

― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

An enormous woman named Tanqueray stole my breakfast in jail.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

On second thought, that may have been one of the best things that's ever happened to me.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess not being able to find a steady job. But that's happening.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

My surgery last year, I guess, except a) it ended a good deal of pain, and b) when very bad things almost happened, they didn't. So that can't be right, and it seems whiny to count as "worst" something mostly defined by not actually happening.

My cat dying, then, my last summer of high school. I was at the lake with a friend of mine for a week, and Morph was run over by a car, but my mother didn't tell me until I was home, so it wouldn't spoil my vacation. Poor Morph :/

Ah geez, that made me sad just thinking about it.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought your email address said 'castration'. -Nick Southall

*snip*
*runs away*

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 4 August 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The serious answer is losing my grandparents before I turned 18, a major loss of stability in my life after turning 13, one of my brothers becoming a major wretched arsehole and the 3 years I spent at Manchester uni. Oh, and oops and I have the same thing in common.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

My fiancee dumping me. Via email. From another country. That was a particularly un-nice time of my life, I must say.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't really have an answer to this question. getting my amp nicked is up there i guess. becoming a cold, unemotional bastard with each minor disappointment is probably a more honest answer

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

'sif thats what you're like, Jim!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

getting cancer that one time i guess is the worst thing for me

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"that one time"?!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Combination - getting arrested for a, uh, youthful indiscretion and then getting sick a couple of months after (and generally staying that way, I haven't been 'healthy' in two years). I've never really gotten back on track since then.

Which has had some good benefits, like finding a general direction for my life. But it also sucks that I feel like I've been in stasis.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't answer this question seriously b/c too many bad things have happened? How can I pick just one? No wait, I can. . .being born.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam, I for one am grateful that you were born. Don't wish it away, girl!

I'm fairly sure pretty much all of you know what the worst thing that's happened to me is. Ergo, this question doesn't need to be answered.

*sneaks away*

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam, I'm gonna knock some sense into you if you go round saying things like that--what would Charlie's Angels be without you? Damn.

I am not writing about the worst thing that ever happened to me on this board. I learned my lesson a while ago. Note to everyone: people are less likely to be cruel to you if you're dopey all the time.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't found this to be the case.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

There are always specific people who will hate you for being cute/funny/dopey/ie not them, but there is less to be cruel about. TS someone blasting you over the worst thing that ever happened to you that you happened to slip up and share with a former friend vs. someone just bitching you out--it's all about degrees.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have to agree with you there. That is one of the many reasons I almost never talk about anything personal on ilx.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The end of my marriage, two years back. I'm very good at not remembering bad dates, but I know that I'm about two weeks short of the second anniversary of what happened, and it won't be any fun at all.

Some of this thread breaks my heart. In particular Sam, you know I wish there were something I could do.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

While vacationing in Puerto Rico 12 yrs ago, our rental vehicle had a blow - out on our way back to our hotel. It was around 2:30 in the morning on a pitch black two lane road. A pick-up truck with 3 men stopped to see if we needed assistance. My husband was trying to lower the spare from the underside of the vehicle and said no. They started getting out of the truck anyway when my husband said that assistance was on it's way already. One of the men cane around to the back of our vehicle and shined his flashlight on my husband under the back bumper and I became petrified when the light shined on my husbands trouser hem and stopped, I knew the guy had realized what he saw and started laughing and calling his friends. My husbands pant leg hem was half way up his calf and the light from the flashlight was glissening off his nylons, (my husband is a crossdresser in private but a wonderful, heterosexual and strong man). When Don got out from under the car he was immediately hit in the back of the neck and knocked out cold. Within minutes Don and I were on opposite sides of the vehicle with our heads inside the car with the windows rolled tight to our necks. We were both repeatedly raped by these three drunken men. The sight of my husband bent over wearing panties, garter and hose being animalistically raped and the tears and sweat rushing down his face and the look on his face was too much to bear. I tried to make my movements as pleasurable as possible to hopefully exhaust their stamina but I was petrified. They were slapping our bottoms and screaming obscenities as they continued to pound us. I was then analy raped like my husband and to add to the horror they started loudly comparing how our bodies responded to the rape, bragging how their prowess made even my husband ejaculate in the panties he was wearing. It was close to daybreak before they left us. Fortunately we were able to free ourselves, put our clothes on and drive to the beach and clean ourselves up before returning to the hotel. We never reported this to the authorities for the obvious reasons. Although I have completely recovered physically and mentally, my husband and father of our 4 children has never been the same. I can see the humiliation in his eyes. No matter how I try to comfort him and reassure him that he is a man, my man, and that what happened was a normal physical reaction to what was happening to his body, he feels like it was all his fault for being a crossdresser.
M.D.

― Marianna Domingos, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

revive. some fucking horrible stuff on here.

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

jesus fucking christ

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

i mean everyone's stuff sucks, but that last one, jesus.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know if the last one is real. It's a bit... descriptive.

I think there's a very good reason no one has revived this thread.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

mod req to delete/lock in five. noobs.

― SOME LOW END BRO (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

That last one ... GOOD ... FUCKING ... GOD!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

"bragging how their prowess made even my husband ejaculate in the panties he was wearing"

HOT

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

They were slapping our bottoms and screaming obscenities as they continued to pound us

that last one was a twisted penthouse letter. who says "pound us" about their own rape...

― PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (PappaWh, Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also this: "I tried to make my movements as pleasurable as possible to hopefully exhaust their stamina but I was petrified."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

HOT

You said it.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

my best friend in high school was killed in a car accident.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Getting married.

― I'm down for runnin' up on them crackers in the city hall... (papa november), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

this probably isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to me, and it kind of doesn't fit with the thread title because it was something i totally brought upon myself with sheer drunk stupidity, and the only reason i'm typing it out is because it happened last week, so it's fresh on my mind (and also because, incidentally, i'm drunk).

yeah, so last week, i take the bus out to hollywood to try and buy some gr4ss in front of hollywood high school where this dumbass 17-year-old kid says there are dealers working. but that's bullshit, no one's there, and i'm starting to feel a little sketched out, so i walk down to santa monica and over to a cruise bar in west hollywood that has cheap drinks, thinking i'll get a beer or two w/ my 40 bucks before i head back. the place is empty, and i'm really just bored and lonely and i don't wanna go back to my place and do homework, so one drink turns into five, and i'm in the front window/patio smoking and these two older (mid-30s?) dudes come out and start cruising me. and i'm plastered, so of course, i'm flirting like crazy, and the one dude mentions rolling a j back at his place, so i end up following him to another bar and i have another drink and i'm fucking retarded and all over him. and we walk back to his place, which is some awful den plastered w/ 'psychedelic' posters and stickers or whatever, he lights up a j, i smoke 3/4 of it, and we start making out. he gets, like, rough, like he's on coke or meth or something, and i start to get the spins, and he's getting ready to fuck me, and i'm like, "can i use your bathroom?" and i end up hugging his throne for 45 minutes until i'm puking up the morning before's grape nuts while he sits on his couch watching E!. lame and unearned, but scenes from trainspotting flash through my mind. and i keep coming back and sitting down and apologizing and then running back to the toilet while he keeps making a point that he's pretty pissed off i'm not having sex with him, blowing his a.c. into the bathroom ("is it getting cold in here? i think it's getting pretty fucking cold in here!"), grunting, yelling "are you finished yet," etc. and i'm stoned, so i'm paranoid and freaked out and feel terrible about it. but, like, i made it out alive, nothing was stolen, guy wasn't too pissed, etc. and i understand being annoyed that some kid you don't know is puking in yr toilet, especially when i sent skanktronic signals before this, but damn, what a jerk. anyway, COUNTRY MOUSE MOVES TO BIG CITY, LEARNS LESSON, THE END.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

you should probably find another w33d contact

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

that last one was a twisted penthouse letter. who says "pound us" about their own rape...

xactly.

HOT

You said it.

-- Andrew (n...) (webmail), October 18th, 2006 11:15 PM. (enneff) (later) (link)

Ok, I guess I was was wrong. I guess this thread was never revived not because it's horrifying in its very concept, but because it was under-exposed. My bad.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

i have two that immediately come to mind...

i have had cancer twice

and

my girlfriend of 18 months cheating on me and leaving me for someone i considered to be a best friend.

strangely, the second one is much, much more painful.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

ouch.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

you should probably find another w33d contact

-- gear (speed.to.roa...), October 19th, 2006.

heh, no shit. is your e-mail real? (and ur l.a.-based, right?)

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

no homo

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

i knew this one dealer, but then he moved to the catskills. but trust me, if you go to the c0ach and h0rses on sunset and ask a scraggly-looking guy named billy who is always in there where to get some weed, he'll hook you up.

you can't miss him, he looks like a short chris robinson.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

hehe, awesome, thx man. MAYBE NO MORE SUCKING DICK FOR GRASS???!?!?

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

those days are over now, son. but last time i saw this dude in there some friend wanted to get some stuff from him and somehow we ended up in some house in the hills above hollywood watching fatteys do blow ; (

so don't go to any parties with him.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

drugs are bad for you, don't do them.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

note to self. tho TS: watching library science fatteys watch project runway finale (earlier this evening) vs. watching hollywood hills fatteys do blow?

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

DONT BLAME THE DRUGS.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 19 October 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

word of the week: SKANKTRONIC

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 19 October 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

my answer: reading this thread

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Boy, you're headed for hard times when you'll read some other threads.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus, Marianna Domingos, that righteously S-U-C-K-S. I hope those wankers burn in hell.

― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Between 8-13 years old I had several kidney surgeries, initially resulting in a month in the hospital and including several more stays for further operations and tests. To this day I have to take medication for high blood pressure as a result of all this.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

Three things come to mind: screwing up my senior-year essay, an HIV scare, and 9/11.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 22 October 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

"bragging how their prowess made even my husband ejaculate in the panties he was wearing"

i obtain much ejaculate

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 22 October 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

probaby my dad dying

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

followed by getting beaten outside a club while drunk and waking up in the emergency room with no memory of what happened, leaving said emergency room with no shirt, and wandering san francisco covered in blood with a concussion for a few hours

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

who sucks dick for MARIJUANA? Sheesh.

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

"He discharged like a bull"

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Sunday, 22 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

how could this happen to me?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 22 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

the people who honestly answer this question, and are able to share this information on the internet without a great level of difficulty, should be very happy with their lives.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Sunday, 22 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

getting fired from a high profile/pressure job that I actually liked
while already having a nervous breakdown due to:
a)wife = pregnant
b)just bought exp apt
c)dad diagnosed w/cancer
d)still mourning mom
e)emotionally involved w/colleague not a)
f)self-medication

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger: sometimes cliches are true

― steve's canyon (lovebug starski), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

the people who honestly answer this question, and are able to share this information on the internet without a great level of difficulty, should be very happy with their lives.

Didn't you do that, though? I thought you weren't happy with your life.

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

uh, no, I never shared the worst thing that's ever happened to me on a public forum. maybe the second or third worst.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger: sometimes cliches are true

-- steve's canyon (writeco...) (webmail), October 22nd, 2006. (lovebug starski)

only if you consider "jaded" or "dead inside" as synonyms for "stronger"

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

why bother posting the second or third worst thing that has happened to you on this thread?

personally, i find it theraputic to air it out, even if it is to thousands of strangers on the internet. maybe it is just another way for me to move past the bad event?

at any rate, it is quite interesting to see what people list and i am sure that it will be interesting for me personally to read my responses in the future and think back on how i perceived certain events in my life. that entire notion would be null and void if i didnt truthfully list the "worst thing."

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 23 October 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

cats needing expensive blood transfusions/nearly dying while unemployed with unwanted pregnancy, simultaneous enormous family drama, car stolen a couple days later

no, it was the same day as the cats, actually

only if you consider "jaded" or "dead inside" as synonyms for "stronger"

Way to make people who've really had some hard times and dealt with them feel like shit, dude.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 October 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

It makes me feel bad for that guy, not me.

yeah i figured he was describing himself

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 23 October 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

Fair point ver kids.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 October 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

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