# What is the worst place to be in **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713 "2017-08-03T20:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/21 "2017-08-03T23:01:25Z")
To me the worst place to be in is the grave. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/22 "2017-08-03T23:02:52Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > To me the worst place to be in is the grave. ☹ Well, especially if you’re not dead yet. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/23 "2017-08-03T23:08:19Z")
Behind the podium at a White House press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/24 "2017-08-03T23:08:29Z")
I, too, would like to know how a bus full of pregnant women could be a bad situation. (Unless multiple women are in the throes of delivery.) Pregnant women are beautiful and sexy. ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/25 "2017-08-03T23:16:02Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Well, especially if you’re not dead yet. Well I meant death but yeah, that would be worst. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/26 "2017-08-03T23:30:06Z")
I was going to say Cairo Egypt. Worst place I’ve ever been. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/27 "2017-08-03T23:31:56Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > I, too, would like to know how a bus full of pregnant women could be a bad situation. (Unless multiple women are in the throes of delivery.) Pregnant women are beautiful and sexy. Ew ew ew. ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/28 "2017-08-03T23:38:16Z")
I used to be at a breakfast club Bible study at my church and each week the guy heading it would ask a random ice breaker. The thread title was 1 of the questions asked. Someone mentioned about being on a bus full of pregnant women that was stuck in traffic on a bridge. For this thread, I added the mother-in-law part. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/29 "2017-08-03T23:56:24Z")
[Del]Tarzana.[/del] > [@Kadmos1](#): > > You have to give me credit for not making this thread geared towards my copyright rants. I got this question and response, in part, from an icebreaker question at a Bible study I used to attend at my church. Ummm, Philadelphia. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/30 "2017-08-04T00:34:58Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > I, too, would like to know how a bus full of pregnant women could be a bad situation. (Unless multiple women are in the throes of delivery.) Pregnant women are beautiful and sexy. So now we know the worst place to be for a pregnant woman. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/31 "2017-08-04T01:13:16Z")
How much worse could anywhere be than Syria? ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/32 "2017-08-04T13:41:56Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Ew ew ew. > [@Riemann](#): > > So now we know the worst place to be for a pregnant woman. Both of these responses are out of line, and show a shocking lack of knowledge about how the world works. Riemann: I would like a clarification: it sure sounds as though you were trying to insult me without technically breaking the rules. Was that your intention? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/33 "2017-08-04T13:50:37Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > and show a shocking lack of knowledge about how the world works. Says the anti-science UFO and chemtrail believing creationist. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/34 "2017-08-04T16:44:45Z")
Trapped inside a house surrounded by zombies. They’re not going to leave so you’re choices are kill yourself, starve to death, or go outside and get eaten. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/35 "2017-08-04T16:54:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Trapped inside a house surrounded by zombies. They’re not going to leave so you’re choices are kill yourself, starve to death, or go outside and get eaten. I think i would prefer that to listening to Gilbert Gottfried singing “Ave Maria”. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/36 "2017-08-04T16:56:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Trapped inside a house surrounded by zombies. They’re not going to leave so you’re choices are kill yourself, starve to death, or go outside and get eaten. And your mother-in-law is also there. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/37 "2017-08-04T17:07:38Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think i would prefer that to listening to Gilbert Gottfried singing “Ave Maria”. While you have a migraine. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/38 "2017-08-04T17:08:46Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And your mother-in-law is also there. And she’s pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/39 "2017-08-04T17:16:34Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > And she’s pregnant. And she holds copyright on Tarzan. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/40 "2017-08-04T18:38:42Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > And she’s pregnant. And you’re the father. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713.md?page=3)