# Share your description of a little pocket of Hell **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694 "2006-06-07T02:36:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/1 "2006-06-07T02:36:28Z")
Here’s an example… You’ve got a couple of headphones permanently bonded to your head and the only thing that plays is the refrain from those Fanta commercials… “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” “Wan-na Fanta… Wanna Fanta.” for infinity… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/2 "2006-06-07T03:00:35Z")
Being locked in a room with Ann Coulter and Gilbert Gottfried for all eternity. Hey, can I borrow those “Fanta” headphones? ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/3 "2006-06-07T14:10:02Z")
My fellow damned and I are in a room with many lab tables, scattered with equipment. From the front of the room Satan announces, “At each table, you will find the lab description and all the experimental aparatus you will need . . .” Performing the experiment, I know, will not take long. But the data analysis and writeup will take (dum DUM DUM!!!) ALL ETERNITY. (I still have flashbacks to Intermediate Lab. _sigh_) ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/4 "2006-06-07T14:13:22Z")
The enormous parking lot known as “the connector” (I75/85 in Atlanta). ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/5 "2006-06-07T14:13:50Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > My fellow damned and I are in a room with many lab tables, scattered with equipment. From the front of the room Satan announces, “At each table, you will find the lab description and all the experimental aparatus you will need . . .” > > Performing the experiment, I know, will not take long. > > But the data analysis and writeup will take (dum DUM DUM!!!) ALL ETERNITY. > > (I still have flashbacks to Intermediate Lab. _sigh_) Wait a minute – you specialize in the evolution of galaxies, right? No wonder your labs take so long! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![theunfounddoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@theunfounddoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theunfounddoor)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/6 "2006-06-07T14:45:20Z")
This may sound silly, but here goes. My little pocket of hell would be: Me in a room filled with mosquitoes, thousands of them. The bites would never stop. But the main torture for me would be the incessant buzz/whine of there horrible little wings. They drive me absolutely insane. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/7 "2006-06-07T14:46:11Z")
Playing in an endless graduation processional. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/8 "2006-06-07T14:55:21Z")
Wiring up a plug, then realizing that I needed to slip a collar over the wire first. Over and over again. Oh wait, that’s what happens to me every time anyway. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/9 "2006-06-07T15:09:03Z")
Not sure what the room would be like, but the sound would be the high-pitched whine of gas-powered weedeaters. I am convinced that is the noise people hear in their heads before they take a rifle up into a tower and start shooting. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/10 "2006-06-07T15:11:01Z")
“Attention, faculty. The State has changed the curricular guidelines again, so we will have to rewrite everything. Again. Please meet by department. The Adminsitrators will help provide guidance in this project.” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/11 "2006-06-07T15:11:06Z")
Getting a court order to a) stop my antidepressant medication and go to work for **msmith537** or b) do hard time. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/12 "2006-06-07T15:57:01Z")
A family feast of some sort, where every relative is in his most obnoxious behavior and of course I get seated at a table where the 2nd youngest person is at least 27 years older than myself. Yeah, that describes the last 3 weddings I went to, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/13 "2006-06-07T15:58:48Z")
I am absolutely certain that hell is a place where every bug I ever killed is waiting for me, and they’re _pissed_. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/14 "2006-06-07T16:03:46Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Wait a minute – you specialize in the evolution of galaxies, right? No wonder your labs take so long! 😃 Nope, I’m a planets person. Maybe you’re thinking of **Angua**? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/15 "2006-06-07T16:08:17Z")
Stuck in my cubicle taking phone call after phone call from people with impossibly complex computer issues who don’t know where their ‘any’ key is. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/16 "2006-06-07T16:14:53Z")
> [@jali](#): > > The enormous parking lot known as “the connector” (I75/85 in Atlanta). Philadelphia’s schuylkill (aka sure kill) expressway. From: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuylkill\_Expressway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuylkill_Expressway) > [@](#): > > t is locally known as the “Sure-Kill Expressway” or the “Sure-Kill Distressway” due to the notorious amount of traffic congestion that has clogged its lanes since its completion. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/17 "2006-06-07T16:40:40Z")
In a small room with a desk and a moulded plastic chair, forced to measure things and rule straight lines for all eternity. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/18 "2006-06-07T16:42:29Z")
> [@SnakesCatLady](#): > > the noise people hear in their heads before they take a rifle up into a tower and start shooting. I think it’s gasoline leaf blowers. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/19 "2006-06-07T16:58:27Z")
[ul] [li]grading final exams one after another, one after another, one after another, … AAAAAAAEEEEEIIIIIIIII!!![/li][li]listening to a boring monotone interminable lecture in a hot stuffy room[/li][li]sitting in the middle seat on a flight between two calorically challenged passengers and in front of a kid who has a leg spasm that causes him to kick every 20 seconds[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694/20 "2006-06-07T18:21:07Z")
Waiting in line. Hell is a long line that moves slightly every 20 minutes or so, making you feel like there is progress but you never actually get anywhere. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-description-of-a-little-pocket-of-hell/359694.md?page=2)