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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

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

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

I did pick them up so she never knew

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KnifeAngel · 14/05/2019 23:49

When I was pregnant I asked DH to get me 2 McDonald's Hamburgers. For some unknown reason he asked for them plain. I have never in my life had a plain burger. I launched them at him.

Another time my Dd's were messing round and wouldn't get dressed for school. I warned them I would take them to school in their pajamas. They didn't believe me. I did just that. They got dressed in the car and didn't mess me around again.

OldAndWornOut · 14/05/2019 23:49

Years ago I was invited round for the first time to my boyfriends house.
His dad was in a band, and was sitting in the lounge with his finger in his ear, practising a song (trying to get the tone right, I think)

His mum went into the bathroom, then stormed downstairs in her bra and knickers, ranting about him not putting the lid on the toothpaste.
He ignored her, after rolling his eyes and carried on singing, so she squeezed the whole tube of toothpaste onto his totally bald head.
Awkward.

IncrediblySadToo · 14/05/2019 23:49

ink. That sounds awful 🌷 I hope you can find some treatment that works even better.

I can totally understand the actions ‘in a fit of pique’ but I just can’t bring myself to destroy things. I apologise to a door if I bump into it 🙄

I just couldn’t throw things out into the garden or put them in the bin because I’d feel bad for them not the person they belonged to.

I know where it comes from, but it’s still an annoying way to feel about ‘stuff’.

StoppinBy · 14/05/2019 23:55

I got cranky because the freezer drawer wouldn't go in properly so the freezer wouldn't close, I then shoved it so hard that it cracked and broke and I had to pull it out and unpack it so I could close the damn door anyway lol.

OldAndWornOut · 14/05/2019 23:56

All my freezer drawers are cracked.
They're quite fragile, it seems.

QueenOfTheKibble · 15/05/2019 00:01

In a fit of anger and in an effort not to strangle my teenage son, I hurled a pint of double cream onto my kitchen floor. The aftermath was not pretty.

In another dairy-related incident during my own teenage years, I emptied a pot of yoghurt onto my infuriating sibling's head. This was much more satisfying as I was able to flounce away and leave him to clear that up himself.

NaomifromMilkshake · 15/05/2019 00:11

When DS was about five he went through a phase of not wearing a seat belt.

I picked him up from school, made the usual request, he refused, I drove straight to the police station, left him in the car.

Went inside whilst still having eyeball on the car, and said to the duty officer, I need a uniform to come outside and utter the words, do what your mother tells you NOW. Told him why, he said with pleasure.

Out came this hulking guy who would not have looked out of place playing rugby for Toulon.

Uttered the immortal words....... problem solved.

He is 18 soon and still talks about it.

NaomifromMilkshake · 15/05/2019 00:17

Other fits of pique...

I have hurled a bathroom scales at my DH, made sure I missed, but it got his attention.

Another time I launched a tin of baked beans, he had to deflect them.

Took his game boy and let him think I that I had thrown it on the patio, when he would not stop playing Tetris. Yes I am that old.

A lot of cheap IKEA style crockery got launched when very best friend died and there was no support forthcoming, that got launched on to a terracotta floor and was worth every penny.

CheshireChat · 15/05/2019 00:24

I've had to replace freezer doors and the bloody plastic trim on the glass shelves several times

NameChangedNoImagination · 15/05/2019 00:39

Some of these are funny... Some of them are abusive... hate to be 'That person' but it has to be said!

IncrediblySadToo · 15/05/2019 01:02

Some of these are funny... Some of them are abusive... hate to be 'That person' but it has to be said!

No. It really doesn’t.

When you don’t want to be ‘that person’ - don’t be. Show some restraint.

It would be really nice if people stopped banging on about ‘abuse’ every 5 minutes, it really does devalue the word.

CharityConundrum · 15/05/2019 01:08

Repeatedly throwing things at your partner in anger is abusive though. I can understand the sentiment of wanting to point that out - there are people on here who have been on the receiving end of that kind of behaviour and who might need to hear that it's not ok, despite the intended tone of this thread.

IncrediblySadToo · 15/05/2019 01:50

It’s really not necessary to make something out of nothing, not every single thread has to be therapy. It’s ok to just take a thread and it’s tone at face value instead of virtue signalling.

Being all ‘I don’t want to be the one...’oooh look at ME’ virtue signalling it’s just 🙄

FurrySlipperBoots · 15/05/2019 02:04

Wow, you guys are making me feel sane and normal! I can't remember doing anything on the same sort of scale. In fact the only similar incident I can recall is tearfully pulling down the Christmas lights I'd festooned in the hall because my mum said something about them being very bright or something. I must have been hormonal because she wasn't finding fault, just stating a fact! I put them up again before Christmas.

MaMisled · 15/05/2019 02:08

I was intimidated by my older brother when I was a young teenager and he was 8 yrs older. I was preparing a chip butty......margarine, ketchup, neatly layered chips....when he said "you don't need that, you're fat enough ". I calmly put extra sauce on and with a slice of slathered bread in each hand, rubbed it in his face! I ran like hell into nearby woods and sat there for 2 hours!

Boobahs · 15/05/2019 02:09

I have just been shaking with laughter at some of these!

I remember my mom repeatedly asking me to tidy my room (which was in the attic so she rarely actually came in), it really was in a right state I fobbed her off a few times but I came back from school one day to find that she had emptied every drawer and wardrobe onto my bed, picked everything up off the floor, thrown that on too, then emptied the contents of the bin on the top like it was sprinkles on an icecream. I had to clean the lot before I could get into bed.

Have to say, I did keep my room a bit more tidy after that!

Boobahs · 15/05/2019 02:13

And I may have inherited her temper... I once threw the newly built conservatory furniture across the room when my OH and I were having a heated discussion about which way to position the bookcase in there
It must have been a very trying time as he also kicked the shit out of the cardboard boxes that said conservatory furniture came in because the bolts wouldn't go in right

OwlBeThere · 15/05/2019 02:27

one time my ex (he wasn't my ex at the time)and i were arguing because he was going out instead of having the children like he had promised.
we had 4 very small kids at the time, all under 5, the baby was being 6 weeks old and i was still feeding the 12 month old who regressed to wanting to be a newborn. and i was utterly fucked.
so i'd spent weeks getting the baby to take a bottle of expressed milk, so the plan was he was going to sort the kids for one night and i was going to go and sleep in travel lodge room.
i can't tell you how much the idea of that hotel room got me through some hard times. and then he cancelled it because he wanted to go and watch the rugly. RUGBY. a sport he wouldn't know the rules of if they slapped him in his face.
we argued, he left.
and then i got a huge wooden chopping board and battered seven shades of hell out of his precious car. i did try the windows but they woudn't break. very unsatisfying.
we broke up a few months later, and to this day he things it was vandalised by kids .

Sobeyondthehills · 15/05/2019 02:42

@PookieDo No I didn't, sadly I have grown to accept it and given the 144 comments and the only one to pull you up on it was mine, despite the lighthearted thread, just tells me that once again its alright to use those type of terms in usual conversation

StoppinBy · 15/05/2019 03:29

@owlbethere when I first read your post I only caught the end of it (I was scrolling upwards) and I thought 'wow, this girls is batshit crazy' then I read the full post and I didn't feel so sorry for your ex partner anymore.

I actually laughed pretty hard when I read that he thinks kids vandalised the car, you got to have your cake and eat it too haha.

I also would like to add that I agree that some of these posts are abusive but at the end of the day I guess when these people are complete strangers it's easier to let things slide.

P.S PMSL at the chicken that was too small and thrown in the conservatory before being brought back in and cooked..... wonder if everyone ended up getting enough in the end.

Miniloso · 15/05/2019 07:31

I once in a drunken argument with my exH threw an empty beer bottle across the hallway, intending to hit the wall, but he chose that moment to walk into the hall and the bottle bounced off his head.

foreverhanging · 15/05/2019 07:42

@NaomifromMilkshake I am saving this for later in case I need to do it to dd! She's horrendous at staying strapped in to anything.

foreverhanging · 15/05/2019 07:46

Outing, but my dad once took off my wardrobe doors because I kept leaving them open. I was actually quite pleased haha

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/05/2019 07:54

IncrediblySadToo

I think it was cat litter scattered everywhere. He has a covered tray now.

ichifanny · 15/05/2019 08:21

I threw a 7ft ironing pile out into the garden one day I was raging at it . Never ironed since . They neighbours must think I’m mental .

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