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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...
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Heaviestdirtyestsoul · 15/05/2019 08:52

Dh came downstairs to tell me the toilet was blocked so he had tried flushing it and now it was overflowing, I told him to fix it then, quick! He asked me how... I was holding a tube of yoghurt and squeezed so hard it burst at the end and strawberry fromage frais shot out and plastered the underside of his useless chin. It was accidental, but I still made him go back upstairs and retrieve the blockage (harold the helicopter) from the toilet.

Youvegotafriendinme · 15/05/2019 08:58

Some of these had me in tears! Grin

GPatz · 15/05/2019 09:10

I threw a feeding pillow in the general direction of (not at) our cat who came pootling from downstairs towards me, meowing very loudly, only minutes after getting a grumpy and windy 1 month old to sleep after two long hours of trying. Because I was not trying to hit the cat, the general direction I threw the feeding pillow also contained a baby bath full of warm, soapy water. You can guess where the feeding pillow landed. To top it off, the action did not avert the course of the yowling cat in the slightest and she succeeded in her ultimate goal of waking the baby .

crispysausagerolls · 15/05/2019 09:18

Throwing a soft item eg a burger at someone is quite amusing. Throwing bathroom scales or a tin of beans is not!

I know someone who regularly used to bin or throw engagement rings in the river during a fit of pique - expensive ones too! 😂🙈

Beetlebum1981 · 15/05/2019 09:22

In a fit of sleep induced rage combined with depression when DD was about 12 months old I lost the first plot and took it out on a dining chair 🙈 We now only have 3 dining chairs and there's a significant chip in the laminate flooring. Worst thing is it only made me feel worse when I surveyed the damage and DH wasn't to impressed either.

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PookieDo · 15/05/2019 09:36

@Sobeyondthehills I was thinking about why I wrote OCD, although light hearted thread in my own mind I was separating out what I personally think about my own actions but it did not come out well - I have said sorry
I have suffered anxiety with obessesional and intrusive thoughts from a child but it was not related to being tidy or clean - my anxiety and checking is windows, doors, electrical items. I’ve had CBT. I think it taps in to why it makes me feel irrational at times perhaps

I think losing your shit as a one odd incident is hard to judge if it’s abusive. My DF was abusive but it was more calculated acts and negligence and I think it led to me and Dsis bottling up our anger and then lashing out.
My Dsis and I would really lose it with each other when we were kids and did all sorts of horrible angry things to each other/belongings. I didn’t want mine to do the same to each other - they do row but not very often.

My dsis and I used to no holds barred go at each other in blind rage. Very close now!

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Grumpymug · 15/05/2019 09:38

Oh God, so many things get flung when they won't behave, and/or get told to fuck off.
Two memorable ones though were the laptop I threw at the lying, cheating bastard now ex, he walked in whilst I was recieving message after message, with graphic pictures attached, about his cheating. I asked him how long he'd been shagging her (I had suspicions but he always denied and like a chump I bought it) and he denied again. So I launched the laptop at him. Tbf, it was mine and the only thing of mine that got smashed that day, that was smashed by me.

The other is after 3 days of nagging DD to get the pots out of her room, I dumped them all in her bed and pulled the duvet over the top. She had a hissy fit and called me disgusting, and changed her bed for the first time in living memory and washed them all up. Not needed to do it again.

Last night at work I launched a table cloth across the room because it wouldn't behave while I was trying to cloth a tricky shaped table. As it went on the floor, I had to go get a new one out, worth it though.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 15/05/2019 11:06

"Wow, you guys are making me feel sane and normal!"

But sanity is so overrated - sorry, @FurrySlipperBoots! WinkGrin

MadSweeney · 15/05/2019 11:17

All these room ones remind me of the time I bagged up everything of DD's that was strewn around her room and told her she could have it all back when she started keeping her room tidy. She was about 9 at the time.
We moved last year. At the back of the garage was a bin bag full of the crap from that day. She's 22 now 😂

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 15/05/2019 11:20

I've done too many of these to admit too, particularly in my younger years. I still have my moments but I try to control it a bit more these days.

AndOutComeTheBoobs · 15/05/2019 11:25

Our freezer died and defrosted 30 bags of breast milk.
I was so enraged I punched the bin and dented it twice.

My DH got pissed off that I damaged the bin, it certainly wasn't my finest moment.

The next day I went to put something in the bin and noticed DH had put two plasters on the debts. Divvy. 🙄

AndOutComeTheBoobs · 15/05/2019 11:26

Dents. Not dents.

In a fit of pique...
soulrunner · 15/05/2019 11:34

My sister took my fish fingers ( last 3) off the grill and ate them. I frisbee’d a hard placemat at her in revenge ( hard angle so expected to miss) and it dented her shin bone!

RickOShay · 15/05/2019 11:38

I threw a bag of dog food biscuits at dh on our honeymoon. His crime?
He called me by his ex’s name Grin
Sadly I missed him.

Yabbers · 15/05/2019 11:43

DD left her walking frame in a really inconvenient place (again) I picked it up and threw it across the room. One of the legs bent and it was unusable so I tried to bend it back and it snapped off. Had to pretend it got bent putting it in the car so I could get a replacement. 😳

Ces6 · 15/05/2019 11:47

Naomifrommilkshake Brilliant! I know someone who did that in Italy though and the policeman said "Signora, if he doesn't want to wear a seatbelt, it's not a problem". Aaargh.....

IncrediblySadToo · 15/05/2019 12:01

The next day I went to put something in the bin and noticed DH had put two plasters on the debts. Divvy. Awww. He’s a keeper in my book.

Mind you, I have forgiven you anything after losing 30 bags of breastmik.

SoCallMeMaybe · 15/05/2019 12:28

My husband threw a wine bottle at my head because I kept nagging him about taking the recycling out.

That’s funny though, yeah?

FurrySlipperBoots · 15/05/2019 12:31

@DTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

But sanity is so overrated - sorry, FurrySlipperBoots!

To be fair I don't have children - they seem to be what push most people over the edge! Grin

AndOutComeTheBoobs · 15/05/2019 12:32

My husband threw a wine bottle at my head because I kept nagging him about taking the recycling out.

I mean, there's pique and there's cunt.
They aren't the same thing.

SoCallMeMaybe · 15/05/2019 12:33

It was pique 🤷🏻‍♀️

AndOutComeTheBoobs · 15/05/2019 12:35

Pique cunt.

SoCallMeMaybe · 15/05/2019 12:35

Also it is literally exactly the same thing

StCharlotte · 15/05/2019 12:37

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...

A lad at sixth form once tipped the contents of my bag into a large and deep puddle. We were actually mates and I have no idea/recollection of what I could have done to piss him off that much!

Still, karma got him in the end because he stage-dived at a Toyah gig and nobody caught him. Toyah did visit him in hospital though so that was nice.

SoCallMeMaybe · 15/05/2019 12:37

One woman upthread threw a large wooden plate at her 15 year old. Luckily it missed. Ha. Haha.

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