The saddest day in history in your life time

[Phoenix]

Basically in our lives whether they be long or short there is always going to be events that shock and upset us all like the death of princess Diana or the events that unfolded in new york on 9/11.
So we want to here your stories so what was that sad day you remember where were you when you heard the news how did you feel............

 

[TheSlash]

One Friday night {payday} i went into the Pelham Arms, North End, Portsmouth and asked for a pint of Fosters. The barman said they had run out.
It still disturbs me now :cry:

 

[Muttley]

Losing 20p down the back of my mates sofa. Seeing as it was just 2 days old he didn`t want me slicing it open to retrieve said item.

 

[Gizmogle]

My Sky won't work. That's pretty tragic considering how much the subscription is!

 

[Max]

The worst day of my life was when my Dad died. Happened 3 1/2 years ago, it was absolutely devastating, and still upsets me to this day.

 

[Pumbaa]

Being on a mountain end of 2005 in Scotland, having just walked out of Crianlarich station. Up to 800m, one of my party fell and hit their head on a rock on the way down.

2 of us tried CPR. I felt his heart stop beating as I did it the third time round. Official post-mortem he died of a brain blood clot brought on by the fall (starving it of oxygen).


Haunts me frequently. But, there was nothing more we could do. In the circumstances, we did our best, and that's that.

 

[Bayum]

The day I was told I HAD to have my transplant, no two ways about it... And then finding out the day after my Birthday, I would be starting on the Chemotherapy...

 

[Gizmogle]

To be honest, I don't think I really have anything worth putting here. Nothing majorly sad has ever happened to me. I'm lucky really.

My Gran died last Christmas, but I didn't really know her all that well. Was sad to see her deteriorating in health though.

 

[BJMorley]

My Uncle John was one of the saddest days of my life. He had (which it looked like) a stroke, probably on the last day we saw him at his house. My dad had tried ringing him over the weekend, but we had dismissed it as him sleeping. But, on the Sunday evening, we found out from a friend who was meeting him that he hadn't answered the door. Dad and the friend went down and had found him on the floor, where he had feel over the chair and may have had a stroke. He went to hospital, where he was improving, but on the Monday, the doctors told us that he was talking to someone about poetry next to him, and had went into a stroke and passed away. This was around September, when I had joined Rail Forums. He was 86, only a few days from his birthday.

 

[Techniquest]

My grandfather passing away in 2005 was a very sad occasion for me.

In terms of stuff passing into railway history, the top of the list features the very last day of 43002 with her Valenta and Marston cooler group. A cracking day but it was horrible to see her go ECS to Landore that morning...:cry:

43006 and 43008 being MTU'd was sad for me, two very good East Coast machines being Germanised...:cry:

Mind, that applies to every power car getting Germanised.

The Rhymney loco haulage farewell was another sad day, not being to get a 37 regularly and easily. To this date I've not been back to Rhymney.

Plenty of other occasions no doubt but I can't think of anything right now.

 

[mrcheek]

Probably getting up early one morning in July of this year, getting ready for work, and then suddenly being bombarded with text messages telling me that my place of work (WEston-super-Mares Grand Pier) was on fire. and then hurriedly heading to the scene to find out that there was pretty much nothing of the main building left.

 

[Coxster]

One Friday night {payday} i went into the Pelham Arms, North End, Portsmouth and asked for a pint of Fosters. The barman said they had run out.
It still disturbs me now :cry:

Was that the same day that you got rejected by the local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting after they felt you were way too far beyond helping?

 

[TheSlash]

No, you are thinking of the day they caught me shaking the last drops out of the cans at the recycling centre, i still remember like it was yesterday :cry:

 

[mbonwick]

Has to be when my Uncle Peter died. He was 49, only 2 years older than my dad. They've no idea why he did, all they know is that for some reason his body just shut down.
We reckon it was quite possibly to do with a drugs trial he'd done when he was younger, for acne.


I have to say, when my Grandma died, I was more relieved than anything. I know that sounds bad, but honestly, it was soul destroying to watch her life towards the end, particularly after her second stroke.

 

[Coxster]

What a nice thread this is.

 

[Phoenix]

What a nice thread this is.

Well I thought that sometimes people need to remember the bad as well as the good I find it reminds people how strong they are.


Well my saddest and hardest day of my life was quite a few years ago.
Basically my brother was on holiday in America and my parents were in london so stayed with my brothers girlfriends family.
Your average day vicky (brothers girlfriend) picked me up after school went over had dinner with her family (who i was pretty close to and best mates with her brother)and all watched TV.
then Vicky left to go out with her friends up in birmingham and well the sad part was two hours later she was killed in a car crash apprently she slid on black ice and crashed into a lamp-post.
Anyway we at the home didn't know this so there was a bang at the door and the police were there and gave her parents the news she had passed away just an hour ago.

If you ever here the cries from parents who just their little girl then you will never get the sound out your head.
Had to lie on the phone to my brother for 2 weeks till he came home and my dad had to tell him at the airport,he broke down in the middle of the customs office as they let my dad tell him their as it needed to be private.

Honestly I find it hard to deal with now but at the age of 17 ringing your mum and crying down the phone telling her you need her to hold you and tell you everything will be ok put's life into perspective.........

 

[Mr Alex]

I know but all this is making me think of depressing things, I know its better saying it out and getting it off your chest but this seems to be opening up wounds i'd rather not share
Crikey

 

[AlexS]

Day I went to collect my grandads belongings after he died.

I still have a few bits of his in my room, nothing hugely significant but with a memory for each like the mobile phone I completely failed to teach the bugger to use over the course of 4 years

 

[Guinness]

Been rejected from Tesco, I was never the same since.

 

[Ascot]

Loosing to Southend 3-1. :cry: