# 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:** 3
**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, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/41 "2017-08-04T18:44:25Z")
All these adding ons suddenly reminded me of the classic “_but_–he’s day” [news blooper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoh2XRcB6xA). ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/42 "2017-08-04T18:49:27Z")
The surface of the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/43 "2017-08-04T19:37:54Z")
And there’s a nervous chihuahua running around yapping and growling and lunging at everyone. ---
**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, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/44 "2017-08-04T19:55:24Z")
And the chihuahua has ebola. ---
**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, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/45 "2017-08-04T20:37:46Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And your mother-in-law is also there. If you must kill yourself, starve or get eaten alive, having your mother-in-law present to share the experience would make it all worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/46 "2017-08-04T20:48:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > The bus is filled with pregnant women about to deliver, your mother-in-law is on-board, the bus is trapped in rising floodwaters in coastal Florida, several floating clumps of fire ants have began to take shelter on your bus, there are at least 3 alligators is sight, and it looks like a funnel cloud is forming on the horizon. [![](http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1025896/bill2.gif) ](http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1025896/bill2.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/47 "2017-08-04T21:17:20Z")
The cancer hospital. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/48 "2017-08-04T21:36:26Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > 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? To me it seemed like they were saying it would suck to be about to deliver, with someone (anyone, not you specifically) leering at you at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/49 "2017-08-04T21:37:06Z")
Real-life answer: A very crowded elevator in an old building, where the elevator is making odd groaning and creaking noises and stops at a floor where EVEN MORE people get in! (I got the hell out, and took the stairs!). Hypothetical answer (I have a thing about elevators): Being in an express elevator that runs between dozens of floors without stopping. And then it stops. Between those dozens of floors. And nothing there but a solid concrete elevator shaft with no openings anywhere within hundreds of feet up or down. And then the power fails and the lights go out. If this were a horror story I could get creative at this point. ---
**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 5, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/50 "2017-08-05T00:21:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think i would prefer that to listening to Gilbert Gottfried singing “Ave Maria”. No, being able to throw him out to the zombies would brighten my mood for a few minutes. ---
**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 5, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/51 "2017-08-05T00:54:06Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > …If this were a horror story I could get creative at this point. Add a sexy pregnant zombie mother-in-law? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/52 "2017-08-05T02:54:58Z")
Yet another day at the office, with a distant second by a [foot entrapment](http://swiftwaterrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/IMG_4163.jpg) [(source page)](http://swiftwaterrescue.com/swiftwater-rescue/foot-entrapment-learning-the-ropes/). Ok, zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/53 "2017-08-05T04:23:27Z")
[Scientist hell](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d5/ae/4b/d5ae4b06f5570db5392c18c969cac40d.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/54 "2017-08-05T10:02:07Z")
You’re running down the street as fast as you can. Behind you and quickly gaining is Seal Team 6, completely kitted out with automatic weapons, bulletproof vests and all their gear. You can hear them getting closer and closer. When you risk a glance behind you realize they’re all frantically looking back over their shoulders… ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/55 "2017-08-06T07:18:18Z")
What is the worst place to be in? Kimchi, deep kimchi. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/56 "2017-08-06T18:44:38Z")
> [@Kadmos1](#): > > I got this question and response, in part, from an icebreaker question I once heard. If the bus is packed with pregnant women. What’s so bad about that? If the bus is packed with pregnant women about to deliver and your mother-in-law is also there. If my M\_i\_L was there she’d at least been present for at least one birth. She might have a clue if one goes into labor. worst place for me? Funeral directors office making arrangements for one of my children. ---
**Author:** ![CoastalMaineiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/57 "2017-08-06T22:54:01Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > A clogged single-person bathroom > > At work > > With a line outside the door Having diarrhea And realizing there is no toilet paper left only _ **after** _ you’ve set down and let it “flow,” so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/58 "2017-08-06T23:09:08Z")
\*\*What is the worst place to be in \*\* Too easy. Gary, Indiana Final answer. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/59 "2017-08-08T16:10:43Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > \*\*What is the worst place to be in \*\* > > Too easy. > > Gary, Indiana > > Final answer. Taco Bell dumpster in Gary, Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713/60 "2017-08-08T16:32:31Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Taco Bell dumpster in Gary, Indiana. Fighting over the contents of a Taco Bell dumpster in Gary Indiana with a tick-infested opossum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-place-to-be-in/792713.md?page=4)