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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!

OP posts:
Newyearnewbrain · 13/02/2017 14:27

Hotel your boss story has me all emo! What a good bloke.

LittleGoose000 · 13/02/2017 14:29

I was an idiot and got a Winnie The Pooh tattoo when I was younger HmmBlush

QuimReaper · 13/02/2017 14:30

I lived in the bush for about 30 minutes

Grin

This thread is gold!

QuimReaper · 13/02/2017 14:32

Little Shock You HAVE to tell us now! What? Where?

wonderingsoul · 13/02/2017 14:37

When i was 16 i once cried into my pillow because id run out of cigerattes and didnt want to leave the bed before having a fag..... i was also nursing a hang over and had come on.

I also sobbed my heart out when heavily pregnant because my draw wouldnt shut properly.

heron98 · 13/02/2017 14:44

I too have had many "hangry" moments.

Once DP and I were cycling to his mum's, 90 miles away.

I was tired and asked if we could stop in the next town. He agreed. I was imagining going to a tea shop and getting served a big mug of tea and a giant plate of food.

When we got to the town, he suggested we get a Greggs and sit on a bench.

I.lost.my.shit.

Crying, screaming, tears - the works. As soon as I'd had a bun I apologised.

Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 13/02/2017 14:46

Years ago, I came downstairs on January 2nd sobbing because I was 12 weeks pregnant and knackered but could not get to sleep until I'd had a cheese sandwich.

Bemused dh, who did not have to go to work, watched me sobbingly make a sandwich with the tiny amount of cheese we had and carry it upstairs, still sobbing, to eat.

There must be something about cheese and hormones!

angelnix · 13/02/2017 14:48

Whilst heavily pregnant with our first dd, I dropped a mug. The nicest bone China, makes everything good in the world mug! I rang my dh at work, who came out of a meeting because I was hysterically crying down the phone and then had to go back in and explain that baby and I were fine, but I needed a new mug!

rainbowrd · 13/02/2017 14:49

I've never cried as much as I did on those temporary menopause injections you have for endometriosis. My boyfriend at the time snoozed the alarm by 5 minutes (which was set earlier than necessary for this purpose anyway) and I sobbed so much my mum didn't let me go to sixth form at all that day. I spent months crying pretty much constantly.

queenc81 · 13/02/2017 14:49

@teacupinastorm that makes me feel better. I won't mention the scar he's got from burning my Camembert and then binning it Shock

S1lentAllTheseYears · 13/02/2017 14:57

HotelRedFace I have just fallen in love with your manager!

Times I have cried, or wanted to cry, or had a bit of a tantrum over food...

Pfb newborn. My mum was staying with us and had made dinner - lovely. Sat down to eat and baby ctarted crying for a feed. Still getting the hang of bf so couldn't feed and eat mine at the same time. Fine, I'll feed baby and warm mine up after. OK until my mum and DH plonked themselves either side of me with their meals on trays and started chomping away. I have misophonia and was starving and sat there with eating noises either side of me and the baby slurping away on my boob. Big fat hormonal tears!

Pfb a few weeks old - that stage where you can never finish anything because the baby always needs something. I was grilling fish fingers (about all I could manage!) and, right on cue, baby starts wailing so I asked DH to take over while I saw to baby. Came back into kitchen a few minutes later to find DH faffing around aimlessly while the fish fingers burnt to a crisp. Tears of frustration from me and DH got all hurt and huffy!

On holiday in caravan a few years down the line. Ordered pizzas. Started eating a slice. Turned round to sort out dcs. Finished slice of pizza and went for another only to find DH taking a bite out of the last piece of the nicest pizza, having wolfed about five slices already (he eats like someone is coming to take his plate off him after 30 seconds) No tears but boy was I furious with him!

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CatherineHMumsnet · 13/02/2017 14:57
AVY1 · 13/02/2017 14:58

While at uni we went to a pub that I thought was exclusively vegetarian for Sunday lunch. Ordered a mushroom and ale pie. The chef had added steak. They couldn't make me another one as they all had the extra ingredient. I was devastated. They tried to pretend there wasn't any meat in it. I sat there, beef on fork wailing at the waiter about how I didn't understand.

Bettercallsaul1 · 13/02/2017 14:59

HotelRedFace Grin Grin Definitely not a storm in a teacup!

ElizabethS89 · 13/02/2017 14:59

Wish I could have macaroni cheese since being diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes, pasta has been a no no for me Sad

zukiecat · 13/02/2017 15:05

I felt like crying when DD2 and me went for a pub lunch last year, we very rarely go out anywhere as we can't afford it and this was to be a real treat, much anticipated

They had run out if the Steak Pie I adore! It's all I ever have when I go out because I love it so much, and I had been dreaming of it

So while I hate Macaroni Cheese with a passion (won't tell you what I think I

zukiecat · 13/02/2017 15:07

Stupid phone posted too soon!

Meant to say I won't tell you what I think it looks like

But if you like it and were looking forward to it, you are very definitely not being unreasonsble!

JonSnowsWhore · 13/02/2017 15:08

I'm famous for this sort of stuff. When me & my OH hadn't been together very long we went to Nando's, I looove their chocolot cake with the cream you pour over it. When hey brought it out there was no cream, but a scoop of strawberry ice cream with it. Cue rants about how they can't just change things without telling you, & in what bloody world does strawberry ice cream go with chocolate cake anyway! I sat there arms folded & didn't touch a single bite of any of it.

Another time we were driving from London to Weymouth, I'd been up early, got kids ready for the holiday etc so much have been tired. We stopped at services but I just needed a McDonald's chicken nugget meal. It said you had to go over the bridge to the services on the other side of the motor way for McDonald's, but we took the wrong exit out of the services & ended up back on the motorway. Oh my god my OH had never seen anything like it, the tears, the complete mental breakdown, the shouting that we'd never come across another McDonald's on the way there! I settled for Burger King at the next services & then went past a poxy McDonald's after that!

Frouby · 13/02/2017 15:15

I cried when I was pregnant over no anchovies on a takeaway pizza. Dp had promised me he knew the most amazing pizza place. They didn't do fucking anchovies.

Told him he was a lying bastard and I was leaving him. In between snot bubbles and wrenching sobs. Embarrassingly we were still in the pizza place at the time.

Good job I thought their pizzas were rubbish as we have never dared go back.

MistressMolecules · 13/02/2017 15:16

I cried loads when my husband brought back a rustler burger instead of dairylea dunkers with the jumbo tubes...on what planet is a rustler burger even closely similar (apparently they didn't have dunkers in that particular shop)??? He's lucky I didn't LTB (I was pregnant and hormonal and craving dairylea dunkers with jumbo tubes - not the ritz cracker ones he brought back on his second attempt which resulted in even more tears).

HotelRedFace · 13/02/2017 15:31

My manager is an awesome man!

@rainbowrd I had those injections for three months before my hysterectomy and they had the same effect on me. Every little thing made me feel tearful and I spent a lot of time sitting at my desk trying not to burst into full-on sobs. In the end everyone in the office got so used to it that they just used to walk past, hand me a tissue and say nothing because they knew that asking if I was ok would make it worse.

Zaphodsotherhead · 13/02/2017 15:35

Lost track of the number of times I ended up hiding away and crying when we'd been out somewhere all day (ExDH and I) and I had it in my head that we'd have a nice takeaway when we got back.

We'd get home and ExDH would wander off to sit on his computer and I'd have to cook because 'takeaways are expensive'.

So those tears were entirely justified, I think.

rainbowrd · 13/02/2017 15:44

@hotelredface it was genuinely unbelievable. I couldn't believe how much they changed my personality. Didn't help I wasn't sleeping much with the hot flushes. And it was hardly common ground I could bitch about with my fellow 17 year olds Hmm your colleagues sound so lovely and understanding, good for you!

Gardenbirdy · 13/02/2017 15:44

I'm pregnant - before Christmas DH came back from shopping and told me he'd bought sausage plait, beans and chips for tea. Reader, I was so happy I cried.
Bit of context: prior to that we'd be on a healthy eating kick and had tried some pretty rank dishes. Think I was both hormonal and relieved!

baublegirl454 · 13/02/2017 16:01

I was heavily pregnant with my 3rd child (others were only 2 & 4) and had been at work all day in London. I only worked part time then, and so this was unusual as I was normally working from home.The trains were delayed on the way home & it was freezing. I got home at 7pm, dreaming of a lovely hot dinner & feeling exhausted. DH had been home a while already. I went up to say hi to the eldest who was in the bath and DH popped his head round the door and asked me what was for dinner Shock
I lost the plot and sobbed and sobbed until he came back with a ready meal. Wasn't what I wanted but at least I hadn't had to cook it. Selfish sod