No two people share exactly the same interests.
With this in mind, every now and again we might find ourselves needing to attend something that a friend or family member is extremely excited about, but we find excruciatingly boring.
Be it opera, watching golf on TV, or birdwatching, there are numerous things that some people would literally rather watch paint dry than partake in.
In some cases, people can find a way to keep themselves at least partially entertained when forced into those experiences.
In some extreme cases, however, no one can prepare for the improbable boredom they will experience.
Redditor Silver012345673 was eager to learn about the most boring experiences people have ever been through in their lives, leading them to ask:
"What is the most boring thing you have ever experienced?"
When You Would Rather Be Doing Push-Ups...
"Sometimes in the army we would go to the woods and pretend we were in a war and had to be tactically sound."
"But there was no one out there."
"It was just us. And sometimes I would be woken up in the middle of the night so I could stand in a hole and stare out into oblivion, watching for an enemy I knew did not exist."
"We would do this for weeks at a time, multiple times per year."- Useful-Professor-149
Wedding.Marriage.Repeat
"A wedding where they conducted the whole thing in English, then did the whole thing over back to back in Korean."
"Including the long sermon about patience being bitter but its fruit being sweet."
"Torture."- Jahn
Let The Visuals Speak For Themselves...
"Bro, sat through a 3-hour meeting where some dude read every slide word-for-word."
"I swear my soul tried to eject itself halfway through."- Consistent-Sun5188
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Go Big Or Go Home... Eventually
"Took a casino bus to Atlantic City and blew my bankroll in about 1/2 hour, and the bus home wasn’t for 5 1/2 hours."
"I learned a lot about seagulls."- Whitealroker1
"What A Way To Make A Living..."
"8 hour work days receiving inbound calls."
"You might take 3 or 4 calls that last less than 2 minutes."
"It was for Wells Fargo."
"We could not surf the net, we could not have pen or pencil."
"0 digital devices were allowed."
"You brought books, LEGO, and fidget toys, and could chat on Teams with coworkers."
"Every single day felt like forever."- Internal-Mortgage635
Oh, Those Errand Days...
"Three hours of curtain shopping as a ten-year-old kid."
"I found what my mother was looking for within ten minutes, but she wanted to 'see what the store had'."
"Had I known she was going to take so long, I'd have brought my Gameboy."
" Parents, man."- Lonecoon
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...Enough Said...
"Jail."- Street-Manager-3765
"I did something stupid in my late teens that put me in jail, but only the holding cell."
"It was one of the most boring 20 hours of my life."
"Zero tv, radio, magazines."
"A Bible that was in sections was the only option other than talking to other people who made poor choices."
"You meet some interesting characters and that was the day that I realized I never want to end up there again."- TACOlogy
Hope It Wasn't A True Emergency
"12 hours in the ER waiting room."- akerasi
Amen...
"Going to church as a kid."
"And Sunday school."
"And confirmation."
"Week after week after week."- Hopper13
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Note How They Have The Option To Compare...
"The jails I've been to that didn't have books."
"You just lay on your rack and stare at the ceiling for hours and hours and hours."- DrgnFckr
Enough Is Enough
"Going with my wife to my out-of-state in-laws for the weekend."
"I have nothing in common with any of them, and I generally disagree with the manner(s) in which they live and interact."
"I'm rarely talked to, which is actually fine with me."
"I now flat-out refuse to go."- virgilreality
Hopefully The Movie Selection Is Good...
"Sitting in a plane on the tarmac during an hour-long delay."- lotus_ink
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There's Nothing Some People Love More Than The Sound Of Their Own Voice
"A church service in which someone was called to witness (talk about how they became a Christian) for 'a few minutes'."
"He rambled on for almost 3 hours and basically just kept repeating himself over and over."
"Even the most hardy of English Anglicans were starting to grumble towards the end."
"I mean, good for him, he was in and out of prison and then found a different path but good lord, it could have been an e-mail."-zerbey
Wow
"Sitting in a dark room for a week, not being able to watch tv, play a game, have a conversation or eat."
"I had a bacterial infection in my nose and cheek."
"Face swole up like crazy in a day's time."
"Felt like a ball of lava pulsating my heartbeat in my nose and behind/under my eyes."
"The infection caused a constant fever that I couldn't suppress enough with the painkillers that I could use beside the prescribed antibiotics."
"The antibiotics where so heavy that eating wasn't allowed a couple hours before and after taking them, for 5 times a day."
"Also; after taking them I'd feel sick and couldn't lay down because it would make me vomit."
"Because of the constant fever and the throbbing of the infection, I couldn't focus on anything or bear much light or sound."
"Couldn't handle our toddler being in the same room either."
"So I sat in bed, straight up, lights off, doors closed, window shutters down, silent, for about 21-22 hours a day."
"Couldn't sleep because of the pain, but for about 2 hours a day, I would finally shut down cause of exhaustion, before the pain woke me up again."
"That week sucked f*cking donkeyballs."- libulatimmeh
Which Way To The End?
"Waiting to get paid off from a job rather than quit."
"6 months of turning up with nothing to do."- blackiegray
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We've all had to endure things that simply don't interest us.
For the lucky ones, these were one-and-done situations, while for others, this is their daily routine.
Making the idea of Monday morning all the more horrifying...
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