Most miserable time period in your life so far?

[cestpaspossible]

Poll question: Most miserable time period in your life so far?

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Right now

I'm 47, if that makes any difference.

--p!

[BlueIris]

9. Poor 'widgeon.

I love your handle.

[Dogmudgeon]

18. Why, thank you!

I used to be BareKnuckledLiberal but I felt a change was needed. "Pigwidgeon" is an archaism meaning "a person of no consequence", like "John Q. Public". I had intended to use it as a professional pseudonym until it turned up in a Harry Potter book a couple of years later, to my dismay. (This 500-year-old word is now a piece of property, alas.)

The reason why my life is unpleasant right now involves a lot of little stories, but none of them are individually too horrible. Prison, divorce, cancer and/or insanity are not involved. To paraphrase Shakespeare, "There is a tide in the affairs of pigwidgeons, and the latest one brought in a slew of garbage."

The chimp is from a website of primate gestures, and the doctoral candidate has long since moved on.

--p!

[tk2kewl]

2. funny. the best and worst times were 25-35

[Shoeempress]

3. High school and all of the idiots in it sucked. Brushed the dust of that

soul sucking experience off and never looked back

[BlueIris]

10. Same here with the not-looking-back-thing.

Ack. High school. Still not as bad as my present misery, but it wasn't pleasant either.

[ET Awful]

4. It kind of overlapped . . . 29-31 or so. n/t

[BlueIris]

5. 20s. Can't wait until I'm 30.

Assuming the world has not been fried in a firey nuclear holocaust by then, * or his vile replacement will have been out of office a whole five months, and President Kerry will be smiling brightly on my C-SPAN everyday. And I might have even manged to make my degrees financially worthwhile for me at that point. Perhaps, I will have even cultivated a relationship with an adult who is not a goddamn infantile asshole with no sense of personal responsbility. Aw, who am I kidding? Kerry getting elected in '08 is more realistic than me dating anyone worthwhile again.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Ages 12 to 15 were sheer hell

I had all the usual adolescent woes, plus parents who were too strict, plus emotional bullying from classmates, and worst of all, no life experience that would let me put it all in perspective.

I refuse to believe in reincarnation, because I don't want to be ages 12-15 again.

[Wcross]

7. High School.

I took all the B.S. clique shit way too seriously. I didn't fit in too well with others and didn't understand that it didn't mean shit.

Right after highschool I joined the Marine Corps, saw the world and had some fun. Came back home a few times and saw some of the "popular" dorks from school. They were still trying to live in the "glory days" of highscool. Just had a 25th reunion a couple of years ago. I didn't attend but saw the pictures on a web site. It was the same people, trying to soak up the glory days but they were fatter and balder.

[swag]

8. Junior High School was shit

(fuck you, Mr. Gilbert. You fucking asshole.)

But everything else has been pretty good so far.

[MissMillie]

11. 1999-2004

things have gotten remarkably better for me since I had my surgery last September.

[tjwash]

12. Mid Twenties, I was homeless, broke...

...and would warm my hands on running dryer vents when it was cold outside. The scounging food thing sucked also.

[Debbi801]

13. I wasted away all of my 20's on my ex-husband...

He was physically and emotionally abusive. Luckily, I smartened up early in my 30's so I didn't allow him to ruin another decade. :-)

Debbi

[UdoKier]

14. None of them.

There has always been something to take pleasure in. Jr. High was kinda tough, but I wouldn't say it was overall "miserable".

I guess I could say I've enjoyed the good times and the bad.

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. Probably 11-15.

And a few isolated pockets at 26, 27, and 29 really sucked ass.

But I'm more than making up for it now. :)

[BiggJawn]

16. 39 to 42

That was a HORRIBLE coupla years!
Seemed like it was a whole decade, but no, I checked. Only from '96 to '99...

[sinkingfeeling]

17. The years 2000-2005....my fifties!