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Original poster

to have thrown a bottle of ketchup all over the kitchen

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pompncircumstance · 24/09/2010 07:39

at 6am this morning in rage because OH was giving me the silent treatment because I didnt take the bin out yesterday!

And now I have to clear the whole lot up. It doesnt look pretty!

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ohemgee · 24/09/2010 08:57

I am ready to throw something right now but he has left for work already. Up all night with DD2, he rocks up from the pub at 1. Mother in law is coming today. Had to run out with the bin at 7.30 as he had forgotten AGAIN (why do bins result in so much vitriol?!) then realised was wearing a very worn out see through pyjama top hence odd looks from binmen and neighbour in suit.

But the thing that has really pushed me over the edge is walking upstairs to find sodding sopping wet towel on the bed. If he had been here things would be flying in his direction. Rant over, sorry for hijack.

larry5 · 24/09/2010 09:08

My mother very rarely lost her temper but when I was a child we had one coronation plate (shows my age) and every meal there would be an argument as to which child should have it. (At the time I was one of three). In the end my mother got so fed up that she threw the plate on the floor saying 'I can't stand it any longer so none of you can have it'.

There was absolute silence.

trumpton · 24/09/2010 11:25

Oh yes ! I remember that silence that followed the breaking of the camel's back after the last straw.

QuiteFickleDobby · 24/09/2010 11:31

Oh! I would love to throw stuff like ketchup and puddings and macaroni cheese around in fury but I am just too bloody sensible Sad

I actually DO think "that would be messy afterwards" and refrain from chucking stuff. How crap.

DastardlyandSmugly · 24/09/2010 11:34

I once whacked DH round the face with a wooden spoon.

IMoveTheStars · 24/09/2010 11:38

I once got in a strop with DP and launched the bottle of BBQ sauce I was holding at his head. Sadly it sailed straight past him, bounced off the patio and exploded all over the dog.

Poor bastard looked extremely surprised.. he did clean it up though at least (the dog, not DP)

Lauriefairycake · 24/09/2010 11:40

I have been outside and beat up a pile of wood before

I've also screamed 'you fucking cunt' at a mop in the manner of Basil Fawlty - told it that it was going to get what was coming to it Grin

I don't believe in hoarding unexpressed anger

parkj83 · 24/09/2010 11:52

Have just sprayed tea over the laptop @ riven's jumping up and down! :o

I used to be terrible as a teenager - punched a hole in my dad's attic wall for some bizarre reason I deign not to remember! Blush

I once threw a pencil @ DH in a fit of temper. He ducked, but needn't have bothered, as it twirled past him about a foot off target in t'other direction - I'm useless!

Have never thrown food, but only as I hate wasting it!

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pompncircumstance · 24/09/2010 12:04

Hickjack all you want ohemgee, I am finding these stories quite funny!

.....I really have to go out and get some stuff now though.

"I've also screamed 'you fucking cunt' at a mop in the manner of Basil Fawlty - told it that it was going to get what was coming to it " That sounds so much like my brothers!

Now the kitchen stinks of ketchup and I HATE KETCHUP

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anonymousbird · 24/09/2010 12:13

OhGod pomp so you didn't even throw the ketchup (not necessarily the bottle, just the ketchup) AT him???

YABVU in that case! Silly!

At least if you had coated him, there would have been a point. This way, no point.

NineTails20 · 24/09/2010 12:22

My aunt was a 'thrower' when my cousins really annoyed her. She once threw an iron at one of her boys, another time she threw the sweeping brush.

We soon learned not to piss her off...... Grin

Hedgeblunder · 24/09/2010 12:28

Lol! I've only flipped once like that- do was moaning about how much I spent on beauty things on a drive home from the shops (it was my own money) so I started lobbing the lot out of the window!! His face was priceless!

Quenelle · 24/09/2010 12:33

YABVU Only ever throw things that won't make a mess and/or belong to your DH.

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pompncircumstance · 24/09/2010 14:38

lol I wish I had thrown it over him now! It was a plastic bottle and I must have thrown it pretty hard because there was a big hole in the bottom of it when I went to pick it up.
Have spent the morning pretty much cleaning up the kitchen.

I really do feel like a moron but it was the first thing I grabbed!

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midori1999 · 24/09/2010 16:55

I did actually laugh out loud at Riven's pudding... or rather, the stamping on it... Grin

I once decided to make turkey soup after christmas. I had just had a baby two weeks before and my Grandparents came prior to the birth and it felt like they had just stayed and stayed, they were driving me nuts, commenting on me drinking black coffee and keeping 'a number of items in the cupboard that should be kept in the fridge'... Hmm

I asked my then DH to taste the soup and he paused slightly before commenting, so I tipped the whole lot (it had been cokking for flipping hours!) down the sink, burst into tears and and stormed upstairs.

Two minutes later my Grandfather went into the kitchen and said 'ooh, the soup smells nice, when will it be ready?!'

magnolia74 · 24/09/2010 17:12

The kids have vived memories of titanic film.....Thats what they were watching when i picked up the tv and threw it at dh Blush Grin

ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts · 24/09/2010 17:33

Throwing things is dangerous!

I was once having a playfight with someone and they threw a tablespoon. i subsequently dived in the wrong direction and it hit me in the lip and split my whole bottom lip. I had to have stitches and couldnt laugh for 6 weeks and had to brush my teeth with a towel over my bottom lip.

I laugh about it now!!

DD threw a bottle of ketchup in harry ramsdens the other day! FWIW, it wasn't nice in there anyway!

RandyRussian · 24/09/2010 17:39

Threw a teacup at DH once. He caught it put it very carefully on the table looked straight at me and quietly told me if I ever threw anything at him again he would throw it straight back but harder.

Don't know if he really would cos never plucked up the courage to find out. Blush

ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts · 24/09/2010 17:40

Oh and i threw a pot of coleslaw at DH the other month.

I can't for the life of me remember why! He wasn't amused!

Don't know how i forgot about that!

Chandon · 24/09/2010 17:43

Its usually a build up though, isnt it? You would not throw anything as a reaction to one stupid thing.

When I had DS2 I had post natal depression, was living abroad in tiny flat with baby and toddler and DH would be on business trips half the time. It was hard. I had had a really tough day with grizzling kids, got them off to bed, cooked supper. DH comes back from work, we eat, he flops on sofa to watch telly whilst I wash up.

As the water was running I was suddenly overwhelmed by the walking stereotype we`d become, husband watching sport and wifey cleaning up. I asked him to help. he mumbled: "later".

I threw the entire pile of washing up on the floor, and smashed the plates I had just washed up against the wall.

Then locked myself into the spare room.

I am still not sorry.

massivemammaries · 24/09/2010 17:45

YABVVU you should have thrown it AT DH

kidsncatsnwine · 24/09/2010 17:57

I once threw a totally sodden nappy at DH ..it hit the wall and all that gel exploded everywhere.. took ages to clean up!

Then there was the time DS1, aged 15 and VILE pushed me just that bit too far and I frizbee'd an Ikea
wooden plate (heavy, substantial ) at his head from about 20 feet away. LUCKILY it missed as it would probably have decapitated him Grin

However I now only have 5 and we are a family of 6 so it annoys me every time I lay the table for sunday dinner......

undercovamutha · 24/09/2010 18:07

OP I sympathise!

I have done a few things akin to Riven's squashed pudding. I think I get it from my mum! She once crumbled a cake all over my DSis after DSis uttered one too many times 'ugh what is this - it looks disgusting!'

I have 'kicked' DH out of the car before during an argument. He is so stubborn, he just got out and walked home, whilst I worried myself silly about where he was. I really don't think these things through!

iLikeDots · 24/09/2010 18:14

These stories make me feel better !

I remeber years ago having a arguement with DP when we lived in a student house, can't rember what about now. He was going on and on about how right he was and how wrong I was and I grabbed hold of a bottle of vinager and lobbed it at him. It flew past his head a striaght through the closed window in the front room, smashing the window to bits. That was an expensive lesson as I had to pay for the window to be replaced and had no money.

When we were young, my mother sometimes used to get 'at the end of her teher' with me , my sis and bro, as when we were little my dad worked long hours and had three kids under 5 on her own all day and the majoritiy of the night.

My mother is the woman who : Burst all of mine and my sisters 4th birthday ballons in front of us , one by one, as we had been aruging and fighting with each other all day, poured a drink over my head when i was about 5 because I had gone on and on about it and then not drunk it and and thrown our tea out for the birds when we were all aruging and wouldn't sit at the table!

That sounds quite harsh reading that back, but most the time she was fine!

QuiteFickleDobby · 24/09/2010 18:18

LOL at Midori's soup - bloody typical isnt it?