FabSwingers.com forum: So my boiler situation...

By *ruceyy OP Man
over a year ago

London

Meant for 4 days I had to bathe in shallow cold water topped up with a few kettles worth of boiled water to wash. I'm talking a naked man in cold, puddle depth water, having to splash like a toddler to soak all the areas and wash.

Which brings me to my question, what's the most 'how the fuck did I get here - this is BLEAK' experience you've had in adulthood?

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

Sorry Brucey you win this one I've got nothing to beat that. Hope you get your boiler sorted soon tho!

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

Being stranded 120 miles from home with £1.52, no phone, a split lip and a black eye because my then boyfriend drove off from the services with all my stuff in the car after punching me in the face twice.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was in the marines.. nuff said

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By *amie HantsWoman
over a year ago

Atlantis

My head gasket blew on a very busy slip road off the m27 during rush hour when I was on my way to work. Got beeped at a lot. Sat in my car and ate my lunch at 8am waiting to be towed. I was so late I missed a meeting I needed to be in. The next day I got two trains and a taxi to get to the office to make the meeting I missed the day before. It was a meeting making me redundant.

I left the office after that meeting and headed back to the train station, called my guy- who broke it off with me. That was a pretty bleak train ride home

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By *affron40Woman
over a year ago

manchester

Maybe the day my ex husband stole my 60k share of the home we bought. That was pretty bleak.

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By *aucasian GhandiMan
over a year ago

from my dad's left nut (Warwick)

Sat in a crack house for 20 years, that kinda got a bit bleak at times........

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By *hunky ChefMan
over a year ago

Norwich

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I moved into a house in one January that had no heating in the rooms. I spent the first 4 nights sleeping in the airing cupboard.

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By *hunky ChefMan
over a year ago

Norwich

"Meant for 4 days I had to bathe in shallow cold water topped up with a few kettles worth of boiled water to wash. I'm talking a naked man in cold, puddle depth water, having to splash like a toddler to soak all the areas and wash.

Which brings me to my question, what's the most 'how the fuck did I get here - this is BLEAK' experience you've had in adulthood?"

I've done that before work for 10 days, when my shower broke.

Thankfully I could have a proper shower at work at the end of my shift.

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By *ostindreamsMan
over a year ago

London

Removed asbestos in my ceiling and asked someone to install new ceilings. My bed and cot were all moved to a corner to protect them. Then the guy fails to show up for 2 weeks.

Ended up sleeping on sofa under an open ceiling with insulation from eaves hanging all over.

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By *ruceyy OP Man
over a year ago

London

"Sorry Brucey you win this one I've got nothing to beat that. Hope you get your boiler sorted soon tho!"

It's sorted! I'm showering ALL THE AREAS once again!

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Deciding which size Tena Lady to buy replaces which size sanitary towel to buy.

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By *aulboy1Man
over a year ago

newport

"Being stranded 120 miles from home with £1.52, no phone, a split lip and a black eye because my then boyfriend drove off from the services with all my stuff in the car after punching me in the face twice."

Yep unfortunately I think you win this thread, I hope your recovered now

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By *uri00620Woman
over a year ago

Croydon

I was chucked out of my hotel room naked in a hotel in Bulgaria. I had to go down to reception with not even a leaf to hide my modesty to get a spare key to the room passing several people, who looked almost as embarrassed as me.

It's pretty funny now when I think about it but not so much at the time.

Lesson learnt: never go on holiday with an alcoholic bf where spirts are dirt cheap

Worst still no boiler for 7 weeks from last November to just before Christmas with 4 month old. Bloody freezing!

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

"Maybe the day my ex husband stole my 60k share of the home we bought. That was pretty bleak. "

Jesus, how did he do that?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I could be here till christmas telling my horror stories well it is almost halloween.

Damp

Wet

Body fluid stains

Rooms

Full of flies

Broken bed

Water leaks

Dodgy electrics

No hot water aa tenants switched it off upstairs

Green slugs

Black mouldy walls...

My renting experience..

Having raw sewage come up the shower plug hole.. Topped it

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By *untimes wantedMan
over a year ago

Huddersfield

When my boiler packed up i paid to use shower at local sports centre.

One of bleakest times was after motorbike crash getting told i may not walk again.

Long hard battle with dark times .Lot of set backs ,tears and frustration but i won in the end.

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By *ambertMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham

I was once having to heat a single room with a tealight inside a terracotta pot, while eating stale crackers

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

A five hour flight home from Morocco followed by a two hour drive......

With a extremely bad case of a rare strain of salmonella.

I still have no idea how I managed the journey with explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting.

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

Fuck me that's a tough one. I got quite a few. I think there's one that hit the hardest though

The girls and her mum: looking at me for some kind of hope. When the ICU doctor wanted my permission to switch off life support. I'd played all our songs to her, anything to try and wake her up. And they waited patiently for me to realise she was gone.

Part of me died that day. Them working through the list of organs individually asking for my consent for each one. Like she was a piece of meat. Just sat there with a stranger asking for permission to carve your wife into pieces. A tick box exercise.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

I have to travel to Bradford every now and again, that’s fucking bleak.

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I could be here till christmas telling my horror stories well it is almost halloween.

Damp

Wet

Body fluid stains

Rooms

Full of flies

Broken bed

Water leaks

Dodgy electrics

No hot water aa tenants switched it off upstairs

Green slugs

Black mouldy walls...

My renting experience..

Having raw sewage come up the shower plug hole.. Topped it"

Sounds exactly like bedsits/flats I lived in late teens/early 20s, then again early 40s. Private landlords usually, take the absolute proverbial

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spent a summer sleeping on a shop floor in the week while doing shop fitting

No shower mon-fri. We’d drive home Friday night for the weekend

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By *929Man
over a year ago

bedlington

Haha can’t you just shower at the gym I’m sure you’ve mentioned that you go before?

Doesn't count as I chose to live like that rather than being forced but Probably last winter when I refused to use the heating it was also my first Christmas not spent as a family in 15 years and I wasn’t getting my daughter till day after Boxing Day so refused to acknowledge Christmas Day also I remember there sitting alone freezing cold looking around at the sitting room thinking how it used to be all those years before thinking fuck this life haha

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

"Haha can’t you just shower at the gym I’m sure you’ve mentioned that you go before?

It does sound a little grim but obviously youre obviously in a better place now so well done you.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Omg!

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

Out boiler was out of action for about two weeks a couple of years ago! Brrrrr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd book a day room hotel so I could have a bath/shower. Sink washing is hideous after a while.

Too many disasters to mention over the grown up years.

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By *ruceyy OP Man
over a year ago

London

"I'd book a day room hotel so I could have a bath/shower. Sink washing is hideous after a while.

Too many disasters to mention over the grown up years. "

Oh should I now? Curious to know the room number and location?!

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

"I'd book a day room hotel so I could have a bath/shower. Sink washing is hideous after a while.

Too many disasters to mention over the grown up years.

Oh should I now? Curious to know the room number and location?!

There's a website lol

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By *ore4fundevonCouple
over a year ago

West Devon

Which brings me to my question, what's the most 'how the fuck did I get here - this is BLEAK' experience you've had in adulthood?"

I had a van break down. No big deal got it recovered and got the wife to collect me. Turns out it was terminal so bought an emergency replacement. Not a week later that one broke down (not terminal fortunately.) But sat at the side of the road on a cold dark December night waiting for collection (again) was a probably the closest I've ever come to feeling like life beat me and the closest I've come to crying like a baby when it wasn't a death of a loved one or one of my kids being born.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'd book a day room hotel so I could have a bath/shower. Sink washing is hideous after a while.

Too many disasters to mention over the grown up years.

Oh should I now? Curious to know the room number and location?!

No, you book it and then you're bound to do a thread revealing where you are. See who turns up ha ha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's horrific the assault....

Something similar happened to me but no assault....I actually had to hitch hike home....it involved 3 lifts....nerve wracking it was tbh....

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By *ruceyy OP Man
over a year ago

London

"I'd book a day room hotel so I could have a bath/shower. Sink washing is hideous after a while.

Too many disasters to mention over the grown up years.

Oh should I now? Curious to know the room number and location?!

No, you book it and then you're bound to do a thread revealing where you are. See who turns up ha ha "

Haha 'aren't the facilities at xxx and room number xxxx RIGHT NOW shitty'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Broken boiler? You were lucky.

We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank. We used to have to get up every morning at 6 o’clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Drove 180 miles for a football match...15 minutes after leaving home, mate called and said match had been postponed. No way of passing message on as this was pre-mobile phones. Stopped for fuel at the end of journey and broke down. Sat in the garage for 4 hours while part sourced and fitted. Not a good day.

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By *ruceyy OP Man
over a year ago

London

"Drove 180 miles for a football match...15 minutes after leaving home, mate called and said match had been postponed. No way of passing message on as this was pre-mobile phones. Stopped for fuel at the end of journey and broke down. Sat in the garage for 4 hours while part sourced and fitted. Not a good day."

This reminds me slightly of a work job where I had to drive someone to London from Birmingham...only to realize I had someone else's car keys who was finishing soon so had to drive all the way back to Birmingham again.

Got home late that night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our boiler broke a few years ago when we had really bad snow. I genuinely thought we were going to freeze to death

Probably not my bleakest moment but it was rough

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By *ruceyy OP Man
over a year ago

London

"Our boiler broke a few years ago when we had really bad snow. I genuinely thought we were going to freeze to death

Probably not my bleakest moment but it was rough

Just makes me so grouchy being cold. Unless a hot woman is also cold and in the mood to snuggle. Then it's miraculously alot better

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By *moothshaftMan
over a year ago

Coventry

"Broken boiler? You were lucky.

...... you beat me to it!!

You were lucky........ we used to get up half an hour before we went to bed, then mam n dad would beat us to death.........

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By *moothshaftMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Seriously though, at the age of 43, newly divorced, my much younger gf came into the bedroom from a sleepless night in the living room, and presented me with a crying 5 day old boy. I'd just got into bed from a night shift.

It was then that the bleakness of what I'd got myself into dawned on me.

But 22 years on, he's one of the best things to happen to me!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Seriously though, at the age of 43, newly divorced, my much younger gf came into the bedroom from a sleepless night in the living room, and presented me with a crying 5 day old boy. I'd just got into bed from a night shift.

It was then that the bleakness of what I'd got myself into dawned on me.

But 22 years on, he's one of the best things to happen to me!"
Ah nice

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