KK85

Worst: the final months of my mother-in-law's long illness and, finally, her death.

Best: graduating from university and surprising myself with some great results and achievements; finally completing the immigration process and moving to the US to be with my husband.

Extra best: discovered beer-battered French fries - God bless America (and how dare you).

MsElui

worst: my employer closing the office i worked in and deciding for me to double my commute from 21 miles to 42 miles. And then not considering my request to work at a different NEW office 10 miles from my home. But other people with decent managers getting approval to try other locations.

Best: being so pissed off about the above that i looked for another job (thinking i would have no luck), only to find a great role about 10 mins from my home, with a hefty payrise that i breezed right through the interviews and got. and the bonus - the new company has been fantastic and seem to adore me and my skills.

scrubbedexpat097

Lion in Winter

Years later, I ran into this Olympic stadium and jogged around the track because I was in Mexico City and the gates were open. I went and stood for a minute in the middle of the field before some nice men came and asked me politely to leave

History.

Leslie

Vive la resistance!

tom169

Best: Getting my green card.
Worst: killing 130 frogs turning a pool from a swamp to an oasis.

SultanOfSwing

I feel like there's a story behind those frogs that we should be let in on.

Lion in Winter

I hope he ate them at least.

SultanOfSwing

That's where having a pet alligator might come in handy.

Maste

I agree, especially as he cited the exact number of frogs...

SultanOfSwing

We're being conveniently ignored here.

tom169

Prior to purchasing my house it was in a foreclosure dragged out over many years.

The 30k gallon inground pool was literally a brown/green swamp. I had a garbage pump on hire and hooked it up pumping out into the yard over the course of a long weekend. Luckily my neighbors didn't seem to care about the flowing water going under the fence and into their property...

Well, as it was going down I noticed quite a few frogs swimming around (as the water cleared up slightly). I knew there were some frogs, but didn't think anywhere near the number it ended up at. At night being bullfrogs they were so loud it sounded like a farm. Perhaps the neighbors didn't mind the shit water flowing around as they knew the mosquito paradise was finally being resolved.

I won't go into detail on quite how I killed all the frogs, but having scooped them out of the water and into trash bags I counted them as I went along.

SultanOfSwing

That sounds quite unpleasant.

Steerpike

Best - sold our money-pit of a house after 22 years of ownership. In preparation for the tax issues of sale, I calculated that we spent $227,000 on repairs/maintenance during the time of ownership!

Worst - sold our unique and gorgeous home of 22 years. Despite all the issues we had with it, it was a unique home in a great location and we'll never find anything like it again.