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Crying at Macaroni Cheese No-Show

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Moonbear10 · 12/02/2017 22:56

I sound like a loon, I know, but I was meant to be having macaroni cheese for dinner tonight and it didn't happen. I got unreasonably emotional and had to go upstairs to cry about it.
Please make me feel better with your stories of inexplicable grief at ridiculous things!

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piefacerecords · 13/02/2017 12:41

catinbooots I like to think I look more like Cameron Diaz in The Holiday Grin

It's weird though - it's one of those things I never think about until I read a thread like this, and then I think how good it must feel to just have a good runny sob Sad

Flanderspigeonmurderer · 13/02/2017 12:47

I am heavily pregnant and was desperately searching for pastrami in Lidl today. I thought I might throw a toddler style tantrum and hurl myself on the floor screaming, but thankfully I found it!

Teacupinastorm · 13/02/2017 12:59

I'd bought my MIL a lovely hand decorated bauble from a school fair, wasn't expensive but I knew she would love it and I was excited to give it to her. I'd wrapped it in tissue and put it in a gift bag. Before I'd even taken two steps in the door their shit of an untrained giant dog ripped the tissue out of the bag and sent the bauble flying into the air where it promptly fell back down onto the wood floor and smashed everywhere. I actually stormed upstairs to the bathroom and cried and DP had to tempt me out with a nice cold glass of wine.
A major over reaction over a cheap bauble but their dog is an absolute shit and destroys or steals everything but they just brush it off because 'he's just being a puppy' Hmm and I was absolutely fed up of it!

YellowCrocus · 13/02/2017 13:05

I once cried when DH went to the chippy and brought me home chips with curry sauce instead of gravy.

Blackbirdonawire · 13/02/2017 13:11

I cried once in Italy, I went to a village BBQ which I had to pay for and it turned out to only be shellfish which I can't eat. After looking mystified by me refusing their shellfish they agreed to cook some chicken from their freezer. It turned out to be a chicken neck. It was fucking rank and had no meat on it. I was poor and hungry and cried a lot.

I also asked a flat mate to move out of my flat when they ate my snickers from the fridge and said they didn't think it was that big a deal. Yes. It fucking was.

MrsKoala · 13/02/2017 13:13

Anticippointment is horrible op. The other day dh got ds1 haircut. it was meant to look like a Paul Weller mod cut but looked like Christian Slater in the name of the rose. i got in the shower and cried like a twat. i even sent a picture with dh. the conversation went:
'Did you even show them the picture?'
'yes'
'Did YOU even look at the picture'
'yes'
'Do you think THAT looks anything like the picture?'
'no'

Teacup - i hate my parents dog for the same reason. I know it's my parents fault but i keep shouting 'SHE'S 2! SHE IS NOT A PUPPY'.

blueskyinmarch · 13/02/2017 13:18

When pregnant with DD1 i sat on the back step crying big snotty tears over a pan of burnt cauliflower. I was wailing that i couldn’t possibly look after a baby if i couldn’t even remember to put water in the cauliflower. Readers - she is now aged 24 so i managed just fine!

SootSprite · 13/02/2017 13:21

Twatfink at the local cricket match ate my toblerone.
Twenty years on and I still get the rage thinking about it.
Arsehole.

Haudyerwheesht · 13/02/2017 13:21

When I was a student I was having a tin Blush of macaroni cheese for dinner and had no more cash at all. I dropped it on the floor. I cried alot.

SeparatedByMotorways · 13/02/2017 13:28

On a holiday to Paris as a student with, I once cried in the food to go section of carrefour because 'everything has fucking ham in it!'.

I'm sure that wasn't even true.

DefinitelyOdd · 13/02/2017 13:29

I once cried massive snotty tears over the fact that i wasn't tired and that he (my OH) was just saying that to get me out of the lounge and to force me to bed so he could watch shitty tv.

The reality was that i had just finished a triple shift including sleep in and had been asleep on the sofa. I still get tormented about it now. Even the cats were confused.

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 13/02/2017 13:37

I did snivel once after losing a Walnut Whip. In my defence it was during my A levels so quite stressful. I had so looked forward to it but either I lost it on my way to school or it mysteriously vanished from my bag.
Oh and not actual tears but was pretty foot stompy after a not-so-secretly stashed box of Jaffa cakes was taken to DCs' school instead of the biscuits I had put by, "Teacher ever so pleased".

Underparmummy · 13/02/2017 13:38

I WAS early doors pregnant but I did once weep into (literally) the mashed potato because it was taking longer than normal to get the lumps out.

TheLivingAsheth · 13/02/2017 13:38

Goodness this made me wonder if my nine year old is registered on Mumsnet. We also were supposed to have mac cheese last night and didn't, to his vast disappointment. We are having it tonight!

HotelRedFace · 13/02/2017 13:41

Sometimes it is the smallest things that can push us over the edge. A missing, much-anticipated macaroni cheese would probably make me sob too!

A couple of years ago I had several weeks off work following a hysterectomy. On my first day back I went into the kitchen mid-morning to make a round of tea for everyone (amid much lighthearted and friendly banter about how I hadn't taken my turn at making the drinks for ages) and managed to put sugar in my own tea. I have never taken sugar in my life.

Reader, I sobbed. I am not just talking a small leak shed from slightly watery eyes but a full-on, loud and snotty waterfall of tears.

My male manager was in the kitchen with me at the time and looked slightly confused for a few seconds but then immediately grasped the gravity of the situation, tipped my cuppa away and started to re-make it.

And still I couldn't stop the tears.

So he gave up on re-making the tea and just hugged me instead. This made me cry more. I covered his suit jacket in makeup and snot and he didn't even flinch.

Eventually he lead me outside, put me (still sobbing) into his car and drove me home. En-route he pulled in to get petrol and came out of the service station with a large cup of Costa tea (no sugar!) and a huge bar of dairy milk for me. The tears which were just beginning to dry up started all over again. With vigour.

I successfully went back to work the next day and we never spoke of it again. However, our working relationship did become immeasurably stronger from that moment forward.

PidgeyfinderGeneral · 13/02/2017 13:45

I cried when I dropped my boiled eggs on the floor and they smashed.

I had just got over a stomach bug and couldn't face food (not that there was any in the house) but there were two eggs left and at that moment, I had an overwhelming need for lovely soft boiled eggs with a bit of dry toast. Went to pick up the plate, my hand wobbled and the cups slid off.

Upset was not the word. I phoned DH and cried hysterically that my lovely eggs had broken. Grin

Bless him, he came home and made me some more.

LittleL232 · 13/02/2017 13:45

I did this when pregnant and still working. I got really fixated on having an all brown dinner consisting of chips, nuggets and beans. I told DH that's what I wanted and evidently didn't believe me. When i got home he'd made me a 3 bean salad instead. I cried for ages and I'm still kind of annoyed about it now a year later. f'ing bean salad!!!

NerrSnerr · 13/02/2017 13:47

I'm pregnant and the co-op didn't have the biscuits I like in. I called my husband to ask him to find me some- I don't know what brand they are or what they're called- they're just the ones I like. There were tears. He came home with about 8 packets from Tesco- anything that vaguely looked like what I described. Luckily he hit the jackpot!

ButterChicken · 13/02/2017 13:48

Pregnant with dc1. Hair was very greasy. Cried at the fact that I was too tired to wash my hair. Sobbed, actually. ConfusedGrin

kitXi · 13/02/2017 13:49

DH came home from work once, and said he was going to get started on dinner straight away. I was pregnant and very tired and sick so I went to bed for a nap, feeling sure it would be ready when I woke up. It wasn't, he had barely even started. I sobbed.

I also cried when pregnant with my youngest because I ate an apple and it wasn't as big or as nice tasting as the ones I'd had the previous week.

0nline · 13/02/2017 13:58

I cried over a grape no show. Buckets of tears. Proper sobbing.

But it wasn't actually the grapes, it was what lay behind the grape no show.

DH didn't buy them because there were no pre packaged ones with a price tag on, and they had recently introduced the "new fangled" bag it and weigh it yourself system.

He had never done it before and declined to make the effort to learn without me there to supervise and instruct for the sake of the grapes I wanted.

I didn't actually want the grapes all that much, but I was at a low ebb and felt VERY UNLOVED that he wouldn't even try to do something new (product of his very very odd upbringing) for my sake. Especially given that I spend my life in an alien environment, speaking another language, for the sake of us being together.

That was in 1997. He has never declined to learn (relatively simple) things all by himself, for my sake since.

Possibly due to the volume of tears incurred during GrapeGate.

Cos there were lots of them. I was feeling overwhelmed by the years of accumulated stresses and strains being Jonny Foreigner and it all came out in one big whoosh. The dam broke. He got wet. Saltily. Grin

It was an over reaction, but it served us both well. He at least had it rammed home how relatively cushy it is to be the one who is at home compared to being the one who is always abroad. And that small gestures (or the lack thereof) of caring about somebody go a long way in a relationship.

And I felt much better after a good cry.

Plus he went back out and got me grapes.

Which I ate while sniffing and hiccuping.

BlueFolly · 13/02/2017 14:08

Drove home after working away when pregnant, took 6 hours. My (now ex!) DH said he would cook for me but when I got home at 11pm he suggested we go out for curry because 'I thought you'd like that'!!!!!!!!!

NO I WOULD NOT FUCKING LIKE THAT YOU COCK!!!!!!!

bertiesgal · 13/02/2017 14:13

In a chippy in New Zealand the lady behind the counter told me that they didn't "do vinegar".

DH says he has never seen me so livid. My voice was shaking and my eyes were filling up.

Must have looked like a loon but for me, vinegar is the whole point of getting chips from the takeaway.

I wasn't even pregnant! Blush

queenc81 · 13/02/2017 14:17

I once bit my husband over a snickers. I was 8 months pregnant, suffering HG and it was the only thing I fancied. He took it off me mid bite stupid idiot.

Teacupinastorm · 13/02/2017 14:21

@queenc81 if my DP did that to me I would bite him pregnant or not

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