A more descriptive version of a sticky situation. "Between a rock and a hard place" doesn't really cut it when a situation is not only difficult, but upsetting and/or infuriating.
"I really don't know what to do. My girlfriend thinks I can't commit, and wants me to go meet her mother. If I don't go, she's going to break up with me. But if I do go to the meeting, her mother will likely remember that one night stand I had with her a year ago--and that's really going to be trouble. I'm really between a turd and a wet place here."
Carrying out several tasks at the same time, none of which are easy but none of which are impossible, whilst in circumstances which are not particularly favourable to completing the task.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)