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In a fit of pique...

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PookieDo · 14/05/2019 19:15

What is your most irrational moment? Or are you cool and collected?

I have just came home from work and shopping and DC were doing nothing. I have bad period pains and a backache and DD16 had left school her school shoes slap bang in the middle of the kitchen floor. They are black and the floor is black and I had shopping bags and tripped on them Angry

I threw them into the middle of the lawn in my fit of pique Blush

It is not that I am OCD tidy but middle of the kitchen floor?!

I did pick them up so she never knew Blush

In a fit of pique...
OP posts:
Mumminmum · 14/05/2019 19:44

I know the feeling

OldUnit · 14/05/2019 19:53

I once threw a whole corned beef hash into the outside bin, Pyrex bowl and everything.

Never had corned beef hash since. It was years ago.

Mamalicious16 · 14/05/2019 19:56

Old unit - why?

DontCallMeShitley · 14/05/2019 19:57

I have thrown the patio table and chairs across the lawn a couple of times because I am sick of putting the chairs out of the way so I can walk past. Then I put them in a heap and left them.

Would have left the shoes there for her to pick up though.

Papergirl1968 · 14/05/2019 19:58

Dd had some new megabucks Adidas trainers a few months ago. Walked in dog mess the other day, trailed it through the house, and was being very rude and defiant so I threw them in the dustbin.
I meant to tell her to get them out and clean them last night but forgot.
The binmen came today...
A fit of pique that will cost me dear...Sad

OldAndWornOut · 14/05/2019 20:00

I put a full bowl of spaghetti bolognese over my daughters head. Blush

policeandthieves · 14/05/2019 20:00

Pregnant and with 2 small children - just to set the scene
PIL coming for Sunday lunch and DH bought the worlds tiniest chicken, it would have served one person on a good day. I threw it into the conservatory and when he thought I wasn't looking he picked it up dusted it off and put it in the oven.

Glittertwins · 14/05/2019 20:02

I launched DD's kindle across the room in a fit of exasperation on Saturday. I broke it. That was quite expensive

Laiste · 14/05/2019 20:03

I was cross with the kitchen bin and kicked it hard enough to crack it. It was meant to go out through the open back door but rebounded and cut my foot open.

Princessphoebe75 · 14/05/2019 20:04

I would have left shoes on the lawn.... in fact OP you have given me a fantastic idea with what to do with SC belongings, because EVERYTHING ends up in a heap in the middle of the floor. We (DH and I) are so fed up of asking him to pick his things up. We came home the other week, and struggled to open front door as he had just dumped bag, coat, pe bag BEHIND the door, I mean come on !!!!! So from now on he can root around the house looking for his stuff where I have just thrown it ha ha !!! (Only joking !!! )

MollysMummy2010 · 14/05/2019 20:06

Many things go out the window here when dd has thrown them at me. She may get them back if I am feeling kind. Hoping she will learn or grow out of it, or perhaps I will grow up.

MulberryPeony · 14/05/2019 20:07

Threw my phone down the stairs when I was being hounded by a call centre who were ringing me hourly when I had a very small baby (so hormones and sleep deprivation may have been a contributing factor). This was after threatening to report them to TPS, quoting OFCOM regs to them (they refused to give me their phone number or call centre name) and threatening to report them to the police for harassment! I finally gave them the swearyest rant, lobbed the phone, and collapsed in a sobbing heap (where DH finally found me when he returned from work). Still angry with them to this day 5 years later but now have a fantastic call blocker.

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 14/05/2019 20:10

I broke a laptop at work, when the software (that the company had written!) just would not behave.

Had the windows opened, it would have sailed out of it.

Bastard software.

Warpdrive · 14/05/2019 20:13

I know someone who threw a laptop across a room because Caps Lock was on and he couldn't cope Grin

CheshireChat · 14/05/2019 20:14

Papergirl1968 I hope you don't plan on replacing them with another expensive pair!

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 14/05/2019 20:18

One of the funniest things I ever saw was in sixth form. IndieHipster lad got a cob on with my mate and flung his rucksack at him. My mate caught it and launched it out of the open window. It landed in the middle of a group of first years and they started playing football with it. Watching IndieHipster run after them, trench coat flapping, will stay with me forever...

mbosnz · 14/05/2019 20:20

I threw the fruitbowl out the kitchen, through the laundry, out into the back garden, where it smashed into very satisfying smithereens. Unfortunately it turned out that husband had NOT quite left for work. . . still. He wasn't concussed!

ContessaIsOnADietDammit · 14/05/2019 20:24

I have thrown various squishy toy abominations in the bin when they were being flung around my living room after repeated requests to fucking not.

I live in awe of my ex-fiancee's mum, who once a) tipped a glass of water over his head in bed after the 7th request for her to bring him something and b) cut the plug off the TV multiple times because her kids kept putting it on after she'd told them to turn it off. She may be my parenting role model Grin

ControversialFerret · 14/05/2019 20:24

Carrying all the shopping up the stairs in our old place when one of the bags split and the contents rolled off to the bottom of the steps. I was in a grumpy mood anyway but I started crying and when I'd picked it all up and lugged it back to our door, I was so cross that I picked up a red pepper and threw it really hard against the wall. And then cried even harder when I needed to clean the mess off!

Echobelly · 14/05/2019 20:26

I ripped half the buttons of a shirt in a fit of anger about I can't even remember what Blush That showed whatever it was, I can tell you!!!

DramaRamaLlama · 14/05/2019 20:29

Years ago I told my stroppy 5 year old that if he carried on I'd throw his lolly away.

He carried on and I grabbed his ice lolly and smashed it on the floor. We both just stared at it.

Almost a decade later he's a pretty good kid and the lolly incident is still brought up by the DC in a "remember the time..." if they're disbelieving about my threats Grin

Myworstnightmare123 · 14/05/2019 20:30

IndieHipster lad

Grin
Gingervitis · 14/05/2019 20:32

I can't think of any of my own - I'm sure there are some - but my DHs fits of pique are legendary.

He has smashed many an item that will not behave (a washing line, an indoor airer, a plant pot, a bistro set, multiple mobile phones), but my favourite was the roasties for the Christmas dinner being viciously launched out of the back door into the garden.

That was entertaining enough, but he then picked them all up, picked off the grass and served them.

Musmerian · 14/05/2019 20:32

I once threw all my DHs clothes out of the window into the front garden. I emptied the entire chest of drawers. It was hugely cathartic and got rid of my foul mood. He knew he’d been unreasonable and collected them all in a bin bag!

SignedUpJust4This · 14/05/2019 20:33

I smashed in the lid of our kitchen bin with my fist because it never opened and closed properly

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