I stormed off ineffectively

DM (now RIP) flounced out after I finally defended my DF in my mid-40s (her still blaming me for being like DF - they had been divorced 30 years after DMs divorce - I'd got over it decades before). It was about midnight and I lived in the middle of nowhere and she faced a 5+hour drive home.

She came back in after 30mins (of sitting in her car) - I said "so you came back then - would you like some tea?"

She never flounced or said anything similar again - so effective really I s'pose.

I’m crying at “I didn’t want the shoes anyway” waahhhhh

I flounced out of a house party furiously following a minor disagreement, but without putting my shoes on. I didn't want to ruin the flounce/was too embarrassed to go back for them after immediately calming down.

I called a taxi and waited for it in bouncing down rain in my socks and then complained to the taxi driver all the way home, who agreed that I was right, about the non issue.

Host sent me a message asking if I was ok as I had gone without my shoes. I casually replied explaining that I didn't want the shoes anyway and to please put them in the bin (I did want them)

My aunt (as a teenager) allegedly slammed the front door so hard, the glass fell out. She glanced back and saw her mother's furious eyes glaring at her from where the glass used to be!

@JovialNickname She failed to "go and fetch her hat and coat" before leaving the building for ever!

I once made not a flounce, but a memorable exit. I rarely dawdle: I tend to move everywhere briskly, with a sense of purpose. Once when I was leaving a client's house, a decorative part of the door handle got caught in my ring. The pain was excruciating, and the ring very deformed! However I managed to remove it from my finger so it could be repaired.

One of my college friends (we were 17 at the time) got sacked -justifiably- from her job in a fast food restaurant. She burst into tears, loudly, and wailed all the way down the two flights of stairs to the exit, where the door slammed behind her. There was then another bang and the sound of ever-mounting howling gradually increased as she came back up the two flights of stairs to retrieve her coat, then retreated into the distance as she stropped back down and out again

Aww I love this thread.. I have yet to do this but I was fortunate enough to witness an epic one..

At a house party in the early hours of the morning and we were all bickering among ourselves about something trivial.. one of the group stood up and made a very loud speech about how we were all a disgrace and should be ashamed of ourselves and while still ranting about how he wouldn't stay at the shit party if we paid him he gathered up all his stuff (3 or 4 bags of crap) and strapped his guitar to his back and flounced out rather dramatically. Literally less than 5 minutes later he flounced back in and began a new rant about how if he had anywhere else to go he would leave right this second but seeing as he didn't he was going to sit in the other room.. this was years ago and still makes me laugh!!!

Aww I love this thread.. I have yet to do this but I was fortunate enough to witness an epic one..

At a house party in the early hours of the morning and we were all bickering among ourselves about something trivial.. one of the group stood up and made a very loud speech about how we were all a disgrace and should be ashamed of ourselves and while still ranting about how he wouldn't stay at the shit party if we paid him he gathered up all his stuff (3 or 4 bags of crap) and strapped his guitar to his back and flounced out rather dramatically. Literally less than 5 minutes later he flounced back in and began a new rant about how if he had anywhere else to go he would leave right this second but seeing as he didn't he was going to sit in the other room.. this was years ago and still makes me laugh!!!

Aww I love this thread.. I have yet to do this but I was fortunate enough to witness an epic one..

At a house party in the early hours of the morning and we were all bickering among ourselves about something trivial.. one of the group stood up and made a very loud speech about how we were all a disgrace and should be ashamed of ourselves and while still ranting about how he wouldn't stay at the shit party if we paid him he gathered up all his stuff (3 or 4 bags of crap) and strapped his guitar to his back and flounced out rather dramatically. Literally less than 5 minutes later he flounced back in and began a new rant about how if he had anywhere else to go he would leave right this second but seeing as he didn't he was going to sit in the other room.. this was years ago and still makes me laugh!!!

Aww I love this thread.. I have yet to do this but I was fortunate enough to witness an epic one..

At a house party in the early hours of the morning and we were all bickering among ourselves about something trivial.. one of the group stood up and made a very loud speech about how we were all a disgrace and should be ashamed of ourselves and while still ranting about how he wouldn't stay at the shit party if we paid him he gathered up all his stuff (3 or 4 bags of crap) and strapped his guitar to his back and flounced out rather dramatically. Literally less than 5 minutes later he flounced back in and began a new rant about how if he had anywhere else to go he would leave right this second but seeing as he didn't he was going to sit in the other room.. this was years ago and still makes me laugh!!!

Twat Bloke 2 sending a message, via a mutual friend, to Twat Bloke 1 (can't remember what they were clashing antlers about, something completely trivial). (It's funnier if you bear in mind that Twat Bloke 2 has a strong Glaswegian accent.)
"Well, you tell him, right, you tell him, that I'll see him on Monday, right, outside the [xxx], and we'll settle it. We'll fucking settle it, OK? But tell him not to be late, because there's something on BBC that I want to watch at 9.00."

I love these too much. DM is an epic flounce fail, many a time having to return to close the door she’d Tried to slam but instead it gently wafted closed behind her

She once tried to throw a pack of basil at the kitchen wall and it gracefully floated to the floor. She did it with the force you’d throw a glass 😭

When you have argument with DH but newborn is finally asleep so you storm out of the room- on tiptoe- and then swing the door in a slam like motion -but actually catch it and close it really really quietly

My SIL had an argument with her (now ex) childminder. After numerous incidents where SIL was unhappy with how poorly her children were being supervised and looked after, she had it out with the CM.

Words were exchanged and SIL stormed out, only to get to her car and realise she’d have to go back in because she’d forgotten her kids.

A friend’s daughter once slammed her bedroom door so hard that a mirror fell off the neighbour’s bathroom wall. She was an epic door-slammer....

Not me! But I had to meet with twatty ExH to discuss stuff relating to DD. We decided on a coffee shop to keep things neautral (and because I knew he wouldn’t get as nasty in public) it got a little heated and he stood up and stormed out and then stormed back in as he decided he wasn’t finished yet. Five minutes later he decided he actually was finished, snapped ‘you’ll be hearing from my solicitor!’ And fell straight over a rogue high chair.
This is one of my happier memories of him!

I do this when I'm pissed all the time.. don't worry about it 😂😂😂

Two of my class decided to pay me back for having the temerity to restrain their youthful high spirits, by sneaking back behind my back into the classroom as I sent the class out for lunch. There was a large cupboard just inside the door, where they planned to lurk until they could wreak their revenge.
I genuinely didn't spot them.
I locked the door (with the only key to the room, as our beloved Head had lost the other one.....) and went off to fit in a lunchtime supermarket trip, timing my return for 10 minutes before afternoon registration. Apparently the rest of the staff were (almost) sympathetic to the two stricken little faces peering through the glass panel. No real harm done, except that, by the time I got back for afternoon lessons, lunch had been cleared away. Not quite a flounce, I know, but the intention to make an impression was there.

MrHoolies that is hilarious, I would have loved to have seen that 😂

I stormed out of the office last week. There was nobody else there but it made me feel better.

I tried to flounce in a pub, I pushed my seat back and it caught on the carpet and I ended up going backwards, still in it.
To add insult to injury I had a pint of cider and black in my hand and ended up drenched.

The best flounce I ever saw was at a baby and toddler group. There was a dad who attended regularly who told everyone who would listen that he was an ‘experimental musician’ (which seems to involve playing notes in the wrong order) and would sing the songs at the end in a really menacing manor.
One day, the woman who ran the group took him to one side and tactfully asked him to sing a bit more quietly as it was frightening some of the children (and the other parents).
He told her that she was singling him out because he was the only male there and was going to make a complaint about sex discrimination and then proceeded to storm off only to sheepishly return 10 minutes later as he’d forgotten to take his baby.

I’m crying 😂😂😂

RitaMoreno I did similar! Packed my little red case too (I put in dental floss and a cuddly snake) and announced that I was leaving home. Sat on the bench at the end of the road for some time before deciding that it was rather boring and that I was hungry. My parents later told me that they kept popping out to check me and when I sheepishly slipped back home they pretended that they hadn’t noticed!

Haven't read the full thread but "I always knew I was a dickhead but I didn't realise I was that stupid. Now I know"

One of the best Posts I've ever read.

Some people actually go through life not realizing that we are all dickheads in our own way, and they never reconcile their own lives with their own dickheadedness - only believing that everyone else is a dickhead.

It's a rite of passage in personal growth - realizing our own demonstrable capacity for dickheadedness.

You go OP.