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I stormed off ineffectively

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Justask · 27/08/2018 14:10

I am totally BU.

On holiday and so drunk last night I tried to storm off but I couldn't work out how to leave the pool area of the hotel and just walked around the pool repeatedly, getting more cross with every circuit.

I am a total knob, please tell me IABU 😁

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amusedbush · 27/08/2018 15:59

Last week DH really annoyed me and after a short row I flounced out of the living room, huffing and puffing about how he was being an arse. I came sloping back in less than a minute later because there was a massive spider in the bathroom and I needed him to deal with it

Missingstreetlife · 27/08/2018 15:56

Stormed out of room full of people, turned around, twisted my ankle, landed flat on my arse. Laughter and applause. They bought me a pint though

NorthernKnickers · 27/08/2018 15:54

I flounced once in London (major busy shopping street) after a having a bit of a strop on with my ex...I did a smart 180 turn and marched straight into a concrete bollard, knocking myself unconscious! 😳 Ex had 'ex-ited' stage left, and I was flat on my back in that there London!! Not my finest flounce 😢🙄

DollyWilde · 27/08/2018 15:54

This thread is killing me 😂😭

TornFromTheInside · 27/08/2018 15:51

A camping flounce is when you skip off into the distance instead of walk!

MrsJayy · 27/08/2018 15:46

Camping flounce 😁

LakieLady · 27/08/2018 15:45

I once tried to storm off while camping. It was most unsatisfactory.

You can't really "storm" through a door with a fiddly zip, and you can't slam it, either.

MrsJayy · 27/08/2018 15:39

Late Mil was a challange we had a disagreement about dh not visiting her everytime she phoned anyway i got up flounced out the door of my own house 😂

HomerDancing · 27/08/2018 15:36

This thread is hilarious!

Lweji · 27/08/2018 15:35

I once stormed off MIL's home (because of exH..., not MIL) but then the outside gate was closed.

Although, I didn't get to the phase, as I was only annoyed and would have waited until someone came out or jump the fence. ExH showed up shortly after.

Still...

Tupperwarelid · 27/08/2018 15:35

I stormed off once after an argument with DH. Remembered the car keys but forgot my bag, phone, purse etc. Started to drive off but the petrol warning light came on so I had to park up round the corner from our house and then drive home sheepishly not long after.

Beaverhausen · 27/08/2018 15:31

Oh lawd that is so funny lol

adaline · 27/08/2018 15:31

My ex once stormed off and then realised he'd forgotten his keys and wallet and had to ring me to ask me to let him in. It was pouring outside.

Unfortunately I was suddenly taken with the urge to have a long hot soak in the bath 😂

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 27/08/2018 15:24

Somanymistakes your advice is brilliant! Please tell us what else you've learned from your 'many mistakes'

I'm loving this thread!

TooTrueToBeGood · 27/08/2018 15:24

Funniest for me was when our then teenage son stropped off in a huff at a shopping centre and promptly got himself stuck in the revolving doors. He was so angsted up he couldn't figure out that pushing them just made them jam for longer. The sight of us rolling on the floor laughing just wound him up even more.

ThatchersCold · 27/08/2018 15:20

I remember when I was about 11 at school a girl stormed off and tried to slam the door behind her, but it was one of those heavy doors on a big hinge that close themselves slowly, so she was tugging away at it to no effect. Was amusing to watch.

Somanymistakes · 27/08/2018 15:16

Oh dear. I've done that before. Stormed off in the wrong direction.

You have two options.
Brazen it out
"Fuck off! I just want to sit here staring at this wall"

Or walk past them in the right direction and use the opportunity to hurl more expletives.

"Yeah? And you can fuck off some more actually"

Both are dignified and help to mend the hurt feelings and wrong doings and make you look cooler.
Honestly

Isawthelight · 27/08/2018 15:14

BF just slowly casually pedalled along next to me nonchalently smoking a cigarette and occasaionally saying "are you ready to get back in yet"

Haha that's brilliant.

Huggybear16 · 27/08/2018 15:14

He'd even seen himself coming and turned sideways to avoid himself

That is too funny

FuckMyUterus · 27/08/2018 15:12

When me and my partner moved to a new home in his home town (20 odd miles from where I had lived all of my life), we had a blazing row and I stormed off, completely forgetting that I had no idea where I was going. I walked over a mile away and then had to ring him because it was dark, I had no Internet signal and had no idea where I was or how to get home.

Bastard was so smug when he got to me 😭

Blobbyweeble · 27/08/2018 15:08

Reminds me of the quote from Diary of a Nobody
'I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat'

ReanimatedSGB · 27/08/2018 15:07

DS' dad, with whom I had a long history before we became parents: we were once having a row about something (probably modern art or media) on the night bus. He got off the bus in a strop, but the traffic was so bad that he got back on again about 10 minutes later - though he wouldn't come and sit with me.

FabulousTomatoes · 27/08/2018 15:03

Mawkish

That’s reminded me of another one: the other week I got home with the teen dds in the car, they’d been rude so when I parked up I gave them a stern lecture, grabbed my handbag and attempted to make an impactful exit from the car. Unfortunately my handbag strap got caught on the gearstick so I kind of rebounded back into my seat. Of course they found it hilarious and everything i’d just said was promptly forgotten.

Ratonastick · 27/08/2018 15:01

My nose, my nose! Not my hose!

Justgivemesomepeace · 27/08/2018 15:01

I stormed off once, from an exboyfriend who was a pub relief manager. I was unfamiliar with the bedroom and stormed right into a big oak wardrobe.

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