Not long ago, The New York Times asked readers for their nominations for the ultimate New York City Reverse Bucket List: experiences they hoped never to have here, or never again, anyway.

We figured a few would spring to mind. But we were unprepared for the breadth, depth and sheer depressingness of the responses. Nearly 600 of them landed on our doorstep via various media.

A large number, strangely enough, involved the subway.

Above ground or below, though, the responses conjured a formidable encyclopedia of miseries. Thank you for reminding us, yet again, that this town — newly crowned the unhappiest city in America — has more ways to break your heart and crush your spirit than it has sidewalk cracks or Times Square Elmos.

A good chunk of the bucket-list items seemed to have been drawn from bitter experience.

“Disinfecting a phone that’s fallen into a sewer grate puddle,” Francesca Fiore wrote on Twitter. A reader named Ronnie K suggested in a comment on our City Room blog, “Finding a few black specks on your pillow case and a couple of bites on your arms.” Jennifer Fragale offered on Twitter: “Having to move furniture down from a 4th Fl walk up, around the block, and up a 5th Fl walk up.”