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To have walloped my other half?!

39 replies

babybearsmummy · 28/08/2013 09:52

What with all the woo threads and the 'scary things your l.o has said' etc I've been going round the house with my head rotating 360 these last few days!

Last night I put the bathroom light on to go down and make my l.g a bottle and left the bathroom door open slightly. When I came back up, it was quite chilly as we'd left the bathroom window open, so I went in (half asleep) to shut it and my other half was sat on the loo... Our floor is so creaky upstairs so I have no idea how I didn't hear him... Cue me jumping about 10ft in the air and landing a belter across his cheek.

I've never been so scared in all my life! WIBU not to apologise, especially seeing as he knows about all the scary threads!

OP posts:
CoteDAzur · 28/08/2013 09:54

You slapped your husband/partner while he was sitting on the loo? Shock

Of course YABU. Stop reading woo threads if you are actually going to believe them.

LtEveDallas · 28/08/2013 09:54

Yes, you should apologise. In fact you should have apologised, profusely, as soon as it happened.

PoppadomPreach · 28/08/2013 09:57

Sort yourself out, OP - of course you need to apologise.

livinginwonderland · 28/08/2013 09:58

YABVU. Apologise, for God's sake!

phantomhairpuller · 28/08/2013 09:59

Sorry OP, this has really made me laugh!! Your poor DH, sitting there all unsuspecting and then THWACK Grin

But you should definitely apologise!

gamerchick · 28/08/2013 10:00

Poor bugger your husband. Stop reading things that spook you out if it's making you jumpy. Of course you should apologise.

Elsiequadrille · 28/08/2013 10:00

You thought you saw a ghost sitting on the loo Confused

Marcheline · 28/08/2013 10:00

Is slapping really your first reaction? DH scared me the other day by poking his head in through our livid room window. I screamed and leapt, quicker than I've ever moved, behind the sofa.

Hitting is never ok. Apologise.

CoteDAzur · 28/08/2013 10:01

If he were a ghost, what exactly would slapping him achieve? Confused

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 28/08/2013 10:01

Sorry I did laugh a little.

In all honesty though and I don't mean this nastily, if you have extreme reactions to horror stories/films etc please don't read or watch them. I think you need to recognise when enough is enough.

Marcheline · 28/08/2013 10:01

Livid room? That does sound woo. Living room.

Hegsy · 28/08/2013 10:02

YABU....what if it had been the other way around? Your poor DH!

UriGeller · 28/08/2013 10:04

Wrong!

NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 28/08/2013 10:05

I am like OP and once booted my friend full in the stomach when she DROPPED off the top of a wardrobe as a way to frighten me!

I walked into the room in the half dark and she dropped like a cat from the top of the single wardrobe and landed in front of me....I kicked out and ran...luckily she wasn't hurt but she never did such a thing again!

I know the DH didn't mean to scare the OP but you can't help your reactions.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 28/08/2013 10:06

Umm YABU. Of course you should apologise! Hmm

candycoatedwaterdrops · 28/08/2013 10:07

No, you can't help your reactions but it's seriously shitty to not apologise. Also, ghosts don't normally sit on the bog!

Elsiequadrille · 28/08/2013 10:09

Did you hit him because you thought he was a ghost, or because you were cross he'd frightened you?

jumpingpillows · 28/08/2013 10:09

Yanbu so long as you dont mind him belting you round the face either

VanitasVanitatum · 28/08/2013 10:09

OP may not be able to help her reaction but of course she should apologise!! It's not like he hid and jumped out to frighten you on purpose, he just went to the loo! How on earth was he meant to know you would walk in and be scared?! Poor guy..

livinginwonderland · 28/08/2013 10:09

No, you can't help your reactions, but you can apologise!

thornrose · 28/08/2013 10:12

Why would you not apologise, I'm genuinely confused?

Dobbiesmum · 28/08/2013 10:14

You do need to apologise.
Ine time many years ago I was round at a friends house watching a horror movie. I had to nip to the loo so went to open the living room door just as her brothers friend walked through it from the other side. I screamed and slammed the door in his face busting his nose.. Blush I was, and still am bloody mortified and couldn't stop saying sorry. Thankfully he was a really nice bloke and understood so nice we ended up dating for a while, all because of a bust nose
Really, I understand the reaction but if he did that to you would you want him to say sorry?

pianodoodle · 28/08/2013 10:15

Imagining the scene and chuckling... But yes do say sorry!

attheendoftheday · 28/08/2013 10:22
Hmm

YABU obviously.

GhostsInSnow · 28/08/2013 10:27

Oh gosh OP you are like me, if I'm scared my first reaction is to lash out. Years ago I was coming out of the warehouse at work when one of my (male) colleagues jumped out on me. I worked nights, only female on crew and it could leave you jumpy.
I'm ashamed to say I gave him a black eye. It was my first reaction to fight (which is odd because Im a short, peaceable person for the most part). Fortunately he saw the funny side because I was mortified. None of the night crew ever made me jump again though Blush