Where is the worst place you have been stuck for a long time?
Buffalo, Wyoming. A week and a half trying to find a rental car in a hick town with more churches than people.
On my way back from kansas city, at a truck stop 30 miles from anywhere, with no gas, and my paycheck that always came through at midnight that randomly decided not to go through until 9 am, leaving my stranded at a truck stop for 5 hours.
A trucker tried to kidnap me, but a cop came and scared him off
When I was kid, a friend invited me to play at his house. His mom picked us up after school, but instead of going straight to his house, we stopped at a nail salon because his mom had an appointment to get her nails done. My friend and I had to stay inside the salon the entire time. His mom was a single parent and was very protective of her son. (Once she called her boyfriend, the neighbors, and almost the police because he and I walked a little bit further down the neighborhood than where we were supposed to. She thought we had been kidnapped or something.)
So we couldn't leave the salon and the fumes from the place were intense. I remember having a bottle of Root Beer and trying to breathe in the Root Beer smell instead of the nail salon fumes because it was getting unbearable. Well I got a massive headache while we were there and had to be taken home. I haven't been in a nail salon since then.
In a 20 year emotionally, and occasionally physically abusive marriage to an alcoholic. But I got out.
Groton, CT in January. Room had no heat and frost built up on the inside of the window. Was sometimes warmer outside.
Whenever the proposition of getting married came up, this was the first question that entered my mind. Next was trying to find a job that I felt secure in and could expect to enjoy and be challenged by.
The other fact was that I was never good at being 'told' what to do or else.' That was an Irish threat which was imposed on me at an early age and one which I never forgot.
Having spent two Years in the US Army during the Viet Nam Crisis opened my eyes to the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I was stuck in China for 3 weeks because a taxi driver drove off with my rucksack and passport it took ages for the U.K embassy to fly me out, by degrees, I was a college lecturer at teh time and relaly scared that I wouldn t get back in time for the Autumn term - Hairy scary and really mad being taken the long way back home - Pakistan was the real pits or me as they hated the english so much then . Kept having three day stop-overs everywhere nd being treated like something the cat brought in .
I also don't want to answer this question on the grounds that it may incriminate me