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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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Lartma2 · 14/02/2017 21:25

Aaw love these posts. Shame about the macaroni - hope you get some soon! We're all entitled to a good greet now and again. My top blubs are :

  1. Failed pancake making session . How hard could it be? Husband found me distraught at the kitchen table covered in pancake batter and surrounded by inedible pancakes
  1. DS moving from cot to big boy bed - howled for hours.
  2. Formula one driver stalling on the grid. Don't even like formula one! ( I was pregnant tho)!
dnwig · 14/02/2017 21:37

I had just started my first proper job and cried when one of my bosses asked me to do something but wouldn't explain how to do it (don't think he knew himself tbh). In mitigation I was probably quite sleep deprived (100 hour weeks at that point) but it was still very embarrassing.

Boss left the room quietly and returned with a packet of doughnuts.

Even more embarrassing!

TwinMama6 · 14/02/2017 21:52

I was making an omelette whilst pregnant with twins, and as I cracked the first egg, two egg yolks came out. I cried so much that my kids thought something bad had happened! I explained that "the chicken was going to have twins like me!!!" and then I said "I'm a killer". My husband then took over promptly after trying to tell me "you are just hormonal!!"

SpaceDinosaur · 14/02/2017 22:23

I cried last night because DH made me dinner before going to work (cauli, Mac & cheese- a Jamie Oliver recipe) and left it in the oven for me. Real comfort food and I really like the recipe.

Beeper went off as I was hanging out the laundry with DD (6 1/2weeks) was screaming her head off.

Finally finished laundry, rescued food, rescued baby from the horror that was her bouncer. Got myself sat down with food and baby on a pillow to nurse. Put a mouthful of food in and it tasted crap. DH is a great cook normally. But the caulli was past it's best, he'd used penne rather than macaroni which had become overcooked textureless mess, he'd subbed ingredients all over the place and made Frankenstein food.

And because the baby was on and I was so so hungry I ate it whilst sobbing big snotty disappointed tears onto the baby.

Dagnabit · 14/02/2017 22:48

When I was pregnant with my youngest, nearly full term, I batch cooked a load of meals and put them in the freezer. I decided to turn off the freezer to defrost the iced up top drawer. And yes, I did forget to turn the damn thing back on. I stood sobbing in the kitchen, dh gave me a big hug then 2yo dd gave me a big hug...never mind, mummy, she said. I was gutted.

I feel traumatised again, think I have a touch of ptsd!

Strygil · 14/02/2017 22:49

For Christ's sake. If ever I heard of a first world problem this is it. When eventually you get your macaroni cheese and eat it, be sure to belch into a starving child's face, won't you.

QuestionableMouse · 14/02/2017 22:57

Oh fuck off Strygil. Just because there's bad shit in the world does not mean people can't share (and laugh about) the smaller things that have upset them. Seems you're rather missing the point of this thread. Its because these things are so trivial that people are laughing about them.

mogloveseggs · 14/02/2017 23:15

Pregnant with ds at the time. Sent dh out for lemon cheesecake and double cream. He returned with lemon drizzle cake and soured cream. I cried for hours.

RevealTheHiddenBeach · 14/02/2017 23:53

I was tired and hungry. 2 for Tuesdaya. Ordered dh a standard pizza, I like a half and half create your own masterpiece.

When the arrived, turns out I had forgotten to click save, so I had a plain tomato base. I cried into it.

SquirrelSquad · 15/02/2017 00:08

I had a rare Saturday night off work, and had been looking forward to it all week. The plan was to go round to a friend's house, order takeaway and binge-watch Netflix.

Unfortunately, I decided on a "power nap" before going out. I woke up 5 hours later, to the sound of Match of the Day blaring out on the telly, and about 7 missed calls from my friend. I was gutted Sad

S1lentAllTheseYears · 15/02/2017 00:29

Going back about 25 years, not long left home and a few of us had arranged to meet up at one girl's flat for a takeaway. Takeaways were a much rarer treat in those days - I'd grown up having one chinese a year when we were on holiday - so I was really looking forward to it (as well as the whole grown up aspect of choosing and ordering without parents breathing down our necks!) Got there and the girl whose house it was proudly announced that actually she'd cooked Shock She'd made some horrible chicken tonight type thing - the sort of meal I could have had from my mum's kitchen any night of the week. I was polite and appreciative but gutted doesn't begin to describe!!

duchess22 · 15/02/2017 04:25

This is so relatable I love it! I get totally over emotional about SO many things and when I was pregnant this was magnified 10 fold!!! My DP once came home to find me on the utility floor, openly sobbing down the phone to my best friend about the fact I didn't have the right kind of cheese in the house for my pasta!! Grin

UKrider · 15/02/2017 09:12

I'm posting just to say proper Winnie The Pooh is immense.

I cannot bear (excuse the pun) the horrific bastardised Disney effort that is inaccurate in every interpretation.

Everyone knows the only acceptable Winnie The Pooh adaptation is the audio book with Fry, Dench, Palmer, Horrocks etc.

Ps I've loved every single post and although I can't think of a food related emotional outpouring, I'm 19 weeks pregnant and I've told my DH about this thread (as I was chuckling away and he asked what I was reading). So he's forewarned!

Netcurtainrummager · 15/02/2017 09:19

Pregnant with my first, I needed chunky slices of melon to bite into to alleviate morning sickness. Eternally kind, ex chef husband cut it into beautifully even bite size pieces. From the last piece of melon we had. I nearly fucking killed him.

Netcurtainrummager · 15/02/2017 09:22

.... then of course I sobbed for 20 mins while he hit in the kitchen...

DefinitelyOdd · 15/02/2017 12:03

I am terrible at crying at adverts. The worst one was an old RSPCA advert about this cat who was now homeless after her owner had died. I grabbed both cats (not easy as they don't like each other) cried on them and then called my OH at work to make him promise that he would always look after my cats. He dutifully agreed but i could hear his office mates laughing at me and this made me cry more.

Then there was the time in B&Q when i wept over this very helpful man because he couldn't help me find what i wanted to buy OH as a surprise present (because i didn't know what it was called or what it did.....).

Hormones are a bloody nightmare.

Putthatonyourneedles · 15/02/2017 12:42

12 weeks pregnant with dd3 and burnt the last of the oven chips. I sat and bawled on the kitchen floor.

Totally understand about the feeling of not getting the food you want after a long shift. My OH text me at 9am to say he was going to cook Bean hotpot (baked beans,onions sausages,sweetcorn and chorizo topped with sliced potatoes and cheese) I think I spent all shift drooling as this was my favourite meal when I was pregnant. I got home and he had cooked fish and chips. Gutted didn't describe the feeling.

FredAstairesUnderwear · 15/02/2017 15:12

I cried last week because I was hungover and really wanted a baked Camembert but I'm dieting for a holiday in 6 weeks. I couldn't bring myself to do it! I felt like such an idiot after I'd calmed down.

NewPuppyMum · 15/02/2017 18:42

Strygil who pissed on your crunchy chips? Hmm.

Garofbalaxy · 15/02/2017 19:30

When I first got together with my DP and did the whole 'getting to know each other' thing, he told me he loved tinned tomato soup when he was poorly and I told him that I had to have packet/powdered chicken noodle soup. First time he gets ill, I go round with tins of soup and some tiger bread etc. First time I get ill? Tinned chicken noodle soup 😭😭 I was very grateful to his face, but cried when he left because i was full of the cold and needed Knorr to cure me. Not my finest moment.

Julju · 15/02/2017 19:45

I burst into tears in Tescos because I walked past the iced coffee they keep above the milk and couldn't have any because I was pregnant. OH pointed out that I was 8.5 months and one would be fine but there was no reasoning with the hormones

AsColdAsIce · 15/02/2017 21:20

When I was at infants school, so about 5 or 6 years old, I was always so jealous of the kids in my class who brought snacks in for play time. Some had fruit, others had crisps, sweets or chocolate - showing my age now as this was when this was allowed.

My mother was not the maternal type at all and my parents didn't have much spare cash when I was small, so I never got to take a snack in.

One day, we had to go to the shop early before school, for milk, cigarettes and bread. At the till there was the usual display of confectionary and my mother picked up a Milky Way and bought it. She then gave it to me and said it was for play time!! She wrote my name on the wrapper which was what had to be done as all snacks went into a box on the teachers desk, labelled to show who they belonged to.

I was so unbelievably happy that I literally skipped into school. I clearly skipped too much as I suddenly realised that the Milky Way was no longer in my pocket. I ran frantically around the playground looking for it, before spotting a big boy putting the last bite in his mouth before throwing the wrapper on the floor. Which had my name on.

I cried all day, cried myself to sleep that night and cried the next day too. I still can't eat them to this day Sad

RachelRosie · 15/02/2017 21:59

Oh this thread has had me chuckling...
Currently 7 months pregnant... my finest moment, me and DH ordered pizza. I ordered a small, husband a large. When the delivery driver arrived he announced that he that they had run out of small bases so they gave me another large free of charge.
Cue the tears, it was too much pizza, I was never going to eat that much! I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of pizza.
Poor husband just sat watching me dumbfounded! He took the "offensive" left over pizza for his packed lunch like a trooper :D
I would totally cry over lack of macaroni cheese, especially if you've been looking forward to it all day!

wonderingsoul · 16/02/2017 08:21

Ascold... thats really sad .... i felt your heartbreak at that. Cake

RamsayBoltonsConscience · 16/02/2017 09:06

Came home after having ds (emergency cs and had been in for 5 days). The house was spotless, my meal was cooked for me and I cried because Armageddon was on the TV and I was too tired to stay up and watch it. Grin We had a BBQ the next day, my dh and best friend did everything, I didn't lift a finger and I cried because dsd (who lived with us and was 14) invited her bf and I thought he was a dickhead (he was) and I didn't want him inn my house. Confused