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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:
CheshireChat · 14/05/2019 22:52

Papergirl1968 just give her whatever you'd normally spend on a non branded pair, she can cover the difference.

If she complains just point out that since she didn't bother cleaning them, they obviously belonged in the bin.

recrudescence · 14/05/2019 22:52

I once stamped on two portions of fish and chips still in the wrapper - husband had made some ill-advised remark about actually wanting Chinese food. I then put the mangled fish and chips into the washing machine and slammed the door for good measure.

SoWhyDontYouKillMe · 14/05/2019 22:53

Could you eeeeven imagine the responses if the sexes had been reversed in some of these!!!!

The poster who tipped the spaghetti onto her daughter’s head. Did you start a thread about that on here ages ago? Your daughter was really young?

Might be an entirely different poster but thought I’d ask 🤷🏻‍♀️

JaretsGirlfren · 14/05/2019 22:55

I really needed some orange squash one day and went to get the bottle only to find it had been put back empty, I threw it so hard at the floor that it bounced right across the room in a dramatic way, it was almost funny. I ranted on about which idiot had put an empty bottle back it was me

Cautionsharpblade · 14/05/2019 22:59

Smashed an entire dinner set. Ran out of steam towards the end but I soldiered on.

Alfr · 14/05/2019 23:00

I lost it when my son kept shooting me with his Nerf gun, after being repeatedly told not to.
I picked up the bullets, and bit them all in half...

WoollyMummoth · 14/05/2019 23:00

Went food shopping this week with dd and dh. I’d had a tiring day and watched as the lazy feckers both ran off and jumped in the car leaving me with the trolley to load into the boot.Had a strop. Opened the back door and started hurling items from the bags at dh on the back seat. Result. The both got out to help whilst questioning my sanity.

puppymouse · 14/05/2019 23:00

I used to work for a bigoted, racist, narrow minded, stupid old baggage. I hated her and the job. I did everything I could to stay calm and then one day I just lost it over something small. I threw a copy of a trade magazine at her, swore a lot and yelled at her about how sick I was of how she treated me.

Lucky I wasn't fired really. But I'd already gone to HR about her being hateful and I emailed her boss to explain. I left not long after.

SnowyAlpsandPeaks · 14/05/2019 23:03

@CigarsofthePharoahs I think I have the same bloody Dyson!!!!

Mother kicking off one day, sick to my teeth of her doing it whoever something special was happening for someone. Just got in, keys in my hand, screamed in frustration and threw my keys. They hit a large picture frame on the wall in the living room which then shattered into a million pieces. Spent hours cleaning it up, as it was on carpet and ds was crawling. It was my mother’s fault...

Tillygetsit · 14/05/2019 23:04

There's a story in my family that when my mother was a teenager,she threw a full cup of tea at her dad. He caught it without spilling a drop, drank it and said "Thank you."

plominoagain · 14/05/2019 23:10

DH and I used to work opposite shifts , so that if he was early turn , I’d be late turn . I would leave the dishwasher done and the kitchen tidy in the morning , for him to do the evening meal, and then return in the early hours to find it looking like a bomb site , which I would then have to deal with whilst he was at work early again.

After the third time in a fucking week , in a fit of temper , I piled every last clean cup , plate , bowl , fork , knife , spoon , saucer , pot , pan and roasting tray into the boot of my car , and took it to work , and left him his crap only to work with . Oddly enough , when I came home , the kitchen was immaculate .. I only needed to do it once .

OneMoreForExtra · 14/05/2019 23:10

Early date with someone who seemed lovely but turned out to be as n offensive dickhead. After laughing through it and soldiering on for an hour I lost the plot and flounced out (I'm the least likely person in the world to do this).

He was still sitting there open mouthed when I realised I'd left my bag on the seat and had to flounce back in again to retrieve it.

Inkstainedmags · 14/05/2019 23:16

After the third time in a fucking week , in a fit of temper , I piled every last clean cup , plate , bowl , fork , knife , spoon , saucer , pot , pan and roasting tray into the boot of my car , and took it to work , and left him his crap only to work with

This is not a fit of pique it's a stroke of genius. You are my hero.

SnowyAlpsandPeaks · 14/05/2019 23:17

@Blueeyesdarkhair My son must be your sons twin!! Exactly the same happens here! The annoying part is after he’s slept on them they need a bloody wash as they stink of teen! (Thankfully this is his worse vice, he’s ace with everything else!)

frenchonion · 14/05/2019 23:18

My DC were going through a particularly bad phase of toilet talk and giggling and talking about genetailia constantly. It was doing my head in. Every song they sung had poo worked into it, every joke was about willies. So I warned them that if they were rude one more time they'd regret it. Cue me winding down the car window and shouting ALL of the words at the top of my lungs as we drove through the village. Picture car ambling down the high street, all the windows open with a deranged woman screeching POO BUM! BOOBIES! VAGINAAAAAAA. They were so traumatised that the police were going to 'get' me. It didn't work 100% but they toned it down a lot after that, and if one of them is pushing it with one too many fart jokes thee others are quick to bring up that time when mam would shout out of the window again, with the added motivation of now being a little older and keen to be 'cool' so are very worried that their mates would see me.

foreverhanging · 14/05/2019 23:23

I just threw a huge tray of strawberries in the bin because of course after 2 days in the fridge they're already mouldy. Fucking fruit never lasts and they're bloody expensive.

Wannabeyorkshirelass · 14/05/2019 23:23

I kicked the dishwasher when it wouldn't work.

Now I have a faulty dishwasher with a big ugly dent in it.

boatyardblues · 14/05/2019 23:28

I picked up the bullets, and bit them all in half...

I tear them in half, but I understand the sentiment.

ChopinIn10Minuets · 14/05/2019 23:29

When DD's floordrobe got completely out of control I hauled the lot out, chucked it in a hippo bag and dumped it by the front door.

OccidentalPurist · 14/05/2019 23:30

These brilliant posts are making me feel a bit better about my own fit of pique!

My in laws are very 'hands-off' and didn't visit much when our DCs were little, but when they did they over compensated by bringing a load of large, cheap and inappropriate presents for them. I should have been grateful but it really wound me up.

After one visit on my DH's day off, I came home from a stressful day at work to find they'd gone out, but the living room was strewn with opened large boxes and a huge inflatable armchair in the middle. I sort of flipped, grabbed some scissors and shredded the armchair in about 30 seconds like a psycho (and then tidied it away)!

Strangely when they came home they didn't notice it was gone and have never mentioned it since, so this is my first ever confession!

OldAndWornOut · 14/05/2019 23:33

No, I've never made a thread about the Bolognese before.
She was about 11, I think.

foreverhanging · 14/05/2019 23:35

@plominoagain you. Are. Awesome.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/05/2019 23:36

My lovely MIL once threw dh and his brother (then aged about 8 and 4) out of the car and drove off!

They were arguing in the back of the car - she finally reached breaking point and said that if either of them uttered one more word, they’d both be walking home. Cue my dh saying “But it wasn’t meeee, it was him!”

So MIL stopped the car, turfed them both out and drove off.

It was a quiet, straight road that undulated up and down, no turnings off it where they could get lost, and fenced both sides, so they were in no danger, and she drove about a mile and a quarter, and pulled over to wait for them.

In her rear view mirror she could see these two little figures as they came up each slope and vanished down the other side, until they reached the car and got back in.

They were very well behaved - for a while.

alcoholyoulater · 14/05/2019 23:39

I punched about 5 holes in the door after my mother mocked my birth defect to my new boyfriend.

cheeseislife8 · 14/05/2019 23:43

Some of these are amazing Grin

After several nights of no sleep I once completely lost my shit with our smoke alarm that wouldn't stop beeping and I didn't have any new batteries to put in it. I couldn't reach it so I launched a dumbbell at it... DH was not amused Blush

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