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So, I'm waiting at a Mcdonalds stuck while waiting for a 40k tournament(Stupid rain). This happens to me quite a bit because I don"t have a license.
So Dakka, What are some stories of places you got stuck at for quite a while of time that where less than desirable?

I was stuck waiting for a bus next to an elderly woman who's perfume was giving me a large headache and making me feel sick.

EDIT: She was wearing so much of it it drifted quite far away, so the options were: stay under the shelter and deal with it, or stand very far away, and get soaked.

I had this one dream where I was being strangled by a serpent in this pagoda at the top of a mountain. It felt like days before I woke up.

I used to go mud bogging/trailing some years ago. And once I was out with my brother and his friend. I went over a steep hill, my brakes gave out, and I slid into a tree, knocking it over and getting stuck on its roots. Worst part was, where I got stuck on the hill, my brother friend couldnt get his truck around me to pull me off, and I was too wedged to be pulled back up the hill. SO I had to wait a good hour for him to drive around the park looking for the end of the trail Not fun

 The Bringer wrote:
I had this one dream where I was being strangled by a serpent in this pagoda at the top of a mountain. It felt like days before I woke up.

Sounds like my first marriage!

I got shanghai'd into a Vampire LARP game once. After two hours of excruciating boredom I decided enough was enough and caught the bus home.

Since then, I don't ride anywhere with my friends who LARP.

We had a big snow storm here this week and my relief at work got snowed in and couple make it, so I got stuck at work for an extra 8 hour shift, and I hadn't brought a extra lunch or anything, and I normally go to bed right after I get off work, so I ended up super tired and hungry by the time someone eventually let me go home.

When I was 21, I found myself waiting at the greyhound bus depot in Oakland for a few hours in the middle of the night.

For a sheltered white kid from a small town in Canada, it was quite an eye opening experience.

spent 4 hours sitting on a plane on the runway because something broke and they had to kill the power, they couldnt tell us what happened, or let us off the plane, so about 80 people with no A/C in a smal metal tube on Miami tarmac.... my nose commited sucide about half way through the adventure.


EDIT: spelling

Got stuck in my immediate neighbourhood back in 2007 when the storm hit (the one that washed the Pasha Bulker up on the beach) - we're the high point of the local geography. For a few days.

The surrounding areas were flooded in at least knee deep water.
Couldn't go anywhere because of this.

We don't get snow here, and storms like that don't happen very often (every few decades?)

Got snowed in for a few days in like '98

Also got stuck on the tarmac in O'Hare for a couple hours.... ugh.

I got stuck in a valley for 10 hours in a thunderstorm we couldn't go anywhere. It sucked.......

I was travelling down to London from Inverness 6 or 7 years ago and I was told to get a connecting train at Doncaster by the guy in the ticket office. Unfortunately this train didn't exist and the next train wasn't until 0600 the next morning. I had to spend the night sleeping on a bench outside the bus station in January, periodically getting hassled by the denziens of the locality. Its just as well I had all my miltary kit with me or I would have frozen.

I got stuck in a cattle grid once.
Most disagreeable.

Edited.

 purplefood wrote:
I got stuck in a cattle grid once.
Most disagreeable.

What part of you and how?

Actually, just the 'how' part should suffice.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
I got stuck in a cattle grid once.
Most disagreeable.

What part of you and how?

Actually, just the 'how' part should suffice.

I was having a swordfight on it and I fell through and got my leg, up to my knee, trapped.

 purplefood wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
I got stuck in a cattle grid once.
Most disagreeable.

What part of you and how?

Actually, just the 'how' part should suffice.

I was having a swordfight on it and I fell through and got my leg, up to my knee, trapped.

That sounds painful but a predictable outcome, was there alcohol involved?

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
I got stuck in a cattle grid once.
Most disagreeable.

What part of you and how?

Actually, just the 'how' part should suffice.

I was having a swordfight on it and I fell through and got my leg, up to my knee, trapped.

That sounds painful but a predictable outcome, was there alcohol involved?

Not that I am aware...
I was about 9 but considering the nature of my family it's entirely possible...

Bad news: flew to Germany in 2010 just after the vulcano fun, remaining issues delayed my flight and after running through the Amsterdam airport I got to my final flight in time to watch it push away from the gate. My next flight would not leave for 8 hours. So I was stuck in Amsterdam for 8 hours.

Good News: I was stuck in Amsterdam for 8 hours. Why spend time at the airport when you can take a train to downtown Amsterdam!

Last year, had to drive from NY to Idaho for work between Christmas and New Years. Weather was great, then I hit the Wyoming/Nebraska area. Massive wind storms cropped up, and I got stuck at a rest stop and then a Super 8 for hours on end. Not fun.

I don't get stuck. I roll in tune with the vibrations of the universe.

I once got stuck in the city late at night after the trains stopped. So i had to walk 13kms home at like 3am. Not really a big deal but yeah....

When I was still living at home, my friends and I went out to Chicago to get drunk and carouse. The Metra (commuter train) stops running a little after midnight, and we of course missed the last train. The choice was between a 40-50 USD cab ride and a ~10 USD cab ride to another bar that closed at 4 a.m. The obvious choice made, we had to wait in several 24 hours diners until the train started running again at ~8.

When I was at university I took the coach instead of the train back to Liverpool because I couldn't afford the train. Actually the coach was to Chester and I planned to go on by local train from there.

The coach got stuck in traffic on the motorway, and didn't arrive at Chester Station until the last train had gone. Being almost penniless, I had to spend the night on a bench in the waiting room.

I've been stuck at a little Kiosk in the middle of a park in the middle of the areas first and only ever flood, with 4-6ft deep water raring past down to the beach.

I've been stuck in a town in the middle of a raging bushfire.

3 times.

During the bus driver strike during the early 90's, I was going from Texas to Maine on Greyhound. The drivers they had filling in had to pull over and ask people on the sidewalks the way to the station or drive around different streetblocks several times looking for the road to the interstate.
At the New York terminal, I had to walk around a pool of blood from a dude that was tits up with a hole in him in the middle of the main building.
When I got to the place where my bus was going to be, a couple with a 13 year old that looked like a modern version of Pinhocheo asked if I was going to Maine. When they found out I was, they asked if I would make sure the kid would make it safely to Portland, Maine and I said sure.
Because of the inexperienced drivers, we made it into Boston at close to midnight and had to wait several hours for the next bus.
I noticed a pizza joint down the block from the station, so I took Pinhocheo with me and ordered a pizza to take back to the station.
As we sat there eating in the middle of the floor, a drugged out native of Boston joined us in the feast, followed shortly by another guy that was about 6'7 and around 275 pounds.
After the pizza was finished we sat around trying to figure how to spend the next hours before tje next bus came in.
I suggested a tour of the combat zone so off we went. Along the way, I told Pinhocheo that we'd be seeing a lot of hookers that I'd point out to him since he didn't know what a hooker was.
We traipsed around seeing the sights for a few hours, the around dawn, went back to the station where we gave our goodbyes and I proceeded north to deliver Pinocheo safely to his waiting family.
All in all, for being stuck, it turned into a fun adventure.

Before I got my License I would sometimes have to wait for 30ish minutes outside the gamestore after it closed for my mom to come pick me up after game night had ended. It wasn't the best neighborhood to be in after dark. One time I had to wait for an hour because my Mom forgot to pick me up. That wasn't a fun experience.

Airports, even if I'm not stuck and am completely on time; waiting around at one bugs the heck out of me.

Started reading star wars at the bus stop. Next thing you know....3 buses later....

hm, time for the long walk home. That was irritating.