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Please tell me about times you have massively overreacted so I don't feel like such an idiot!

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Lalalalalalalalaland · 27/02/2020 15:30

DD aged 5 is home from school today as it i shut.

DD and I were in the living room while I was doing the hoovering when suddenly I had this overwhelming feeling someone was stood behind me, i turned round to see the back of a man dressed in black slipping in to my kitchen.

Absolutely crapped myself, left hoover running, ran to DD whilst motioning for her to be quiet, the terror in my face mesnt she actually complied for once. Grabbed the only threatening item I could see around me which was a bloody plastic shoehorn! My head went a million miles an hour but figured if we went out the back patio doors from the living room i could put DD over the fence to next door and then climb over (its only 4ft).

So I'm backing up to the patio door so as not to turn my back on the murderer in the kitchen, clutching a terrified DD and a shoehorn when the man steps out of the kitchen.

Its fucking DSS! I had forgotten he was here (though he has been here a week) he had just woken and come down for a drink, he just stood there looking at us all confused, shrugged and then trotted back up upstairs.

Now feeling like a right twat! Has anyone else massively overreacted like this!

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CorianderLord · 27/02/2020 16:04

Nope, not quite like that 😂 I did once panic on a train after a loud bang and a rush of people and sometimes when I panic my blood pressure drops... so I blacked out. That wasn't fun.

QueenofallIsee · 27/02/2020 16:37

I called my ex cos there was a man on the patio looking in at us - it was the umbrella that had blown to a weird angle

cobwebfew · 27/02/2020 17:07

My Sister had a psychotic, unhinged ex who lived a 5 minute walk from my house and his behaviour had made us all weary and cautious of him. One day I was hovering and was looking out the window and saw a man dressed completely in black pass my living room window who was around the same height, build as said ex. Switched the Hoover off and next thing I heard the lock on my back gate being unbolted, and could clearly see someone moving around my garden through the frosted glass. Picked up the phone and had started to dial 999 while screaming at the back door that I'm calling the police. Realised it was a delivery driver, hadn't heard him knock over the hoovering and he'd taken the parcel to my safe place which was the garden shed 🤦‍♀️ mortified!

cobwebfew · 27/02/2020 17:08

Hoovering not hovering 🤦‍♀️😂

PanicAndRun · 27/02/2020 17:40

The moral of the story is stop hoovering.Grin At least for lalalalala and cobweb.

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Lalalalalalalalaland · 27/02/2020 17:44

Good idea, i should stop hoovering... tis bad for me obviously! I told DP about it who found it hilarious!

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CassidyStone · 27/02/2020 17:49

I once spend a good half an hour convinced a bush in next door's garden was a man, standing there and staring in my window. It was dark and we'd not lived there long, in my defence. The DC were asleep in bed, DH was working nights and I was all ready to call the police - then Mr NDN came driving home and his security lights came on, revealing no scary staring man, just a forlorn looking bit of topiary.

Bezalelle · 27/02/2020 18:09

I was on a sleeper train in India. I woke with a jolt, with someone's hand on my shoulder. I began to scream, before realising it was my own hand that had gone dead from my lying on it... Quite the kerfuffle!

PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 27/02/2020 18:57

My sister was in America with my five year old nephew, in a mall.
She had put a fizzy drink in his any way up cup and it blew the lid off with an almighty bang. She thought it was a gunshot and threw herself and nephew to the floor screaming while everyone just gaped at them.

ShirleyPhallus · 27/02/2020 19:00

A friend of mine saw a guy advancing towards her brandishing a knife so yelled HE HAS A KNIFE and ran away

Turns out he had very shiny flyers and was leafleting the local area and the sun had shone directly on the one he was trying to give her Grin

Elephantonascooter · 27/02/2020 19:06

I was once home alone as a teen. Df worked from home but was on a train to big city. I was in my room and heard someone come in down stairs. So I grabbed my weapon of choice as a 15 year old girl... My straighteners! And crept down the stairs. Walked into the kitchen to find DF stood there with a bacon butty. He asked me if I intended on asking the burglar to wait while I plugged in my straighteners and waited for them to heat up before scolding him for breaking in!

Clevererthanyou · 27/02/2020 19:07

Aww op 😁 I feel for you! Unfortunately I embarrass myself like a tool in an almost daily basis. I have a rather severe panic disorder and even slight startles scare me quite badly, so when my husbands friend decided to sneak up on me and poke me in both sides whilst shouting ‘Boo!’ I screamed and screamed ... and screamed. Sad It was in public and in full view of many people so I was (eventually) mortified. I don’t go anywhere now so it only happens if I drop something/somebody knocks like a bailiff.

SmileyClare · 27/02/2020 19:10

Sorry but a plastic shoe horn? Grin

My heart was pounding when I came downstairs and saw a man standing in the kitchen. It was Dh's suit hanging on the back of the door.

GiggleMcdimples21 · 27/02/2020 19:15

This made me snort laugh and almost choke on my pizza! Love the way you have written it, you have a future as a dramedy writer OP Grin

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Lalalalalalalalaland · 27/02/2020 19:20

The only items i could see to grab were the shoehorn or a plastic olaf and figured the rather long shoehorn could inflict more pain incase the murderer decided to pounce.

Looking back my henry hoover pipe would have been a much more deadly weapon...

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user1463178569 · 27/02/2020 19:21

I walked through my living room in darkness, on my phone whilst I sorted something out. Totally misjudged where I was in the room & screamed as thought there was a figure in the room! I'd walked into the coat rack, which is the same height as my husband 6ft :-O
My husband came running down, I told him what I'd done, he burst out laughing, said I needed to go to bed & walked away from me!

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Lalalalalalalalaland · 27/02/2020 19:21

Think DSS is taking the piss as keeps creeping down the stairs and then standing in the hallway staring at me before laughing and walking off.

Little fucker

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danadas · 27/02/2020 19:22

I took a 'terribly injured' cat to the vet. It was lying in the middle of the road as we drove towards it looking dead. So I jumped out and it starting dragging itself away. Deciding it had some horrible pelvis injury, I scooped it up in a jumper and rushed it to the vet. The receptionist took it straight through and then the vet came out to tell me it was a three legged cat and that is why it walks with a limp. I genuinely don't know how I missed the leg. Luckily it was chipped so he phoned the owner to come and collect their healthy, happy three legged cat.

In my defence, it was properly sprawled in the road. It knew what it was doing...

danadas · 27/02/2020 19:23

OP, I am intrigued as to what the plan for the plastic shoe horn was Grin

mbhgfcbyyrrx · 27/02/2020 19:23

I once called the police because, as I went to close my bedroom window, I thought someone's arm was coming through it to break in (it was a low, deep window in a cottage so it was hard to reach and see the other side).

I freaked out, called the police and told them I'm alone and someone tried to break in through my window and pulled back when they saw me!!! I locked all the doors!

Then I took some deep breaths and realised that it was more likely to be my neighbours (cream so quite close to skin coloured) cat stretching in through the window. The bloody thing always sneaked in through my window. I often found him asleep on my bed.

BlushBlush I called the police back and explained!! They said they were 'scrambling a car to me now' I apologised and said I was very embarrassed and they asked me if something else was going on... obviously as it sounded sooo ludicrous! They believed me and didn't send anyone round... bet they had a laugh at the station! Grin

StCharlotte · 27/02/2020 19:25

Eatly teens: I watched a horror film at my best friend's house, about 250 yards from my house. The film involved a character with a dog killing people in a theatre. Believe it or not there was a small theatre between our two houses. As I ran for my already terrified life to get home, a figure and a dog stepped from the shadows of the theatre...

I screamed the place down and woke most of the neighbourhood Blush It was my dad! He'd seen the film at home and came to meet me (with our dog) as he thought I'd be scared. He wasn't wrong!

PaperDreamsHoney · 27/02/2020 19:37

A couple of weeks ago I went to open my wardrobe (in the dark, at night) and saw a hand coming towards me. Screamed and jumped backwards before realising it was in fact the reflection of my own hand on the shiny wardrobe door. Scared the crap out of me!

Leah2005 · 27/02/2020 19:45

DH and I in bed. Something woke us and we were convinced we heard something downstairs. We stood on the landing listening over the banister when someone started to slowly open the spare bedroom door. DH spun round, grabbed the handle and held it shut whilst telling me to ring the police. They came within minutes as we had an intruder in the house - I ran downstairs to let them in and they charged upstairs with batons at the ready. They burst into the spare bedroom which was empty. DH shouted "they must be in the wardrobe." They weren't - it was an empty room with the draft from the open window pulling the door open. The noise downstairs was the cat. I don't know who was more mortified, my DH or me. I had run downstairs with just his t shirt on and opened the door with my fantazmarooni in clear view. My DH retired to the bathroom in shame whilst I had to talk to the police semi naked. Awful awful awful.

Teddy2541 · 27/02/2020 19:46

I once when my son was about a year old tucked him in bed asleep went down stairs started watching a film and fell asleep on sofa. I woke up and it was total darkness so I collected my coffee cup and bits up went to put them in kitchen and make my way up to bed as I made my way into kitchen I came to a hault in fright as there was, (mind my French) a fucking hand and arm in my windown kitchen faced the front of the house. I freaked out i grabbed the massive frying pan I had handy on top of the cooker bent down and creeped round so I was not seen by the person that had his arm in my windown in my kitchen as I had left it open. I was totally freaking out single parent no-one to turn to as I slammed this frying pan down on this person arm only to find out its a fucking flyer the police had put in my window to explain how dangerous it is to leave your windows open down stairs at night and stuff. I felt like a right stupid idiot it looked so realistic. Me and my friends and family hand a right laugh when I told them i kept it to show people but at the time I scared the crap out of me. How did I not tell it was a piece of paper. Lmfao

caffeinefix · 27/02/2020 19:47

I was on a sleeper train in India. I woke with a jolt, with someone's hand on my shoulder. I began to scream, before realising it was my own hand that had gone dead from my lying on it... Quite the kerfuffle!

😂😂😂