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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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darkriver19886 · 15/05/2019 12:43

So many phones I have had to replace because I had a moment of rage. I occasionally punch the laptop in a fit of temper.

I am awful

jackstini · 15/05/2019 12:45

Mine was at work when I worked in a call centre

I was exactly on finishing time and my boss asked me to take a really nasty complaint call. She knew I was viewing a house straight from work and it would make me late, but I did it anyway and ended up with a happy customer

I then quickly called dp (now dh) and said I would be there asap and to apologise

There was a work rule that we always had to make personal calls from a call box outside but considering I had done her a favour I didn't think a 15 second call would be an issue

Apparently it was - she said I should have gone to call box so would be disciplined as making personal calls was stealing from the company

I mentioned I'd just done 20 mins overtime unpaid and she said 'tough' so I took 10p out of my purse and threw it at her saying here's your f*ing phone call money

It hit her straight in the forehead - hard
I walked out and viewed (& bought) the house
She had a red mark on her head the next day but neither of us ever mentioned it!

IncrediblySadToo · 15/05/2019 12:50

socallmemaybe

No, that’s not funny. I hope he missed 🌷

But it’s also not what this thread is about. Out of all the posts I think 2 people have thrown heavy things AT someone, only one person twice.

You know what your DH did was terrible, but again, that’s not what this thread was about.

...and I hope you meant EX husband.

AndOutComeTheBoobs · 15/05/2019 12:51

Throwing anything at anyone is pretty terrible.

When I was about 12 a kid was throwing acorns at my bare legs. Really bloody hurt. Was covered in marks.

I picking up a small rock and threw it at his, deliberately missing him.
Except he moved 'out the way' and actually moved in the way and the rock caught his calf.
I felt fucking terrible!

Shallowhals · 15/05/2019 13:00

I broke my kettle last week by slamming it down fiercely on its base. It was 4am and I had to go to the kitchen to make my THIRD bottle of the night for DD who was screaming the house down - she’s a bloody year and half!

It’s an expensive kettle and I had spent ages sourcing it as they don’t make that model anymore and it matches my toaster... this is the second time this has happened Blush

Gravelface · 15/05/2019 13:06

@SoCallMeMaybe

I don't think it is the same. Most stories here involve the chucking of an inanimate object at another. Not stories of objects deliberately thrown at another person.

SoCallMeMaybe · 15/05/2019 13:06

...what?

Gravelface · 15/05/2019 13:07

@soCallMeMaybe

(But I agree with you on the plate one. I have a fucking atrocious temper and found that disgusting)

SoCallMeMaybe · 15/05/2019 13:08

Some of them are genuinely funny. But some of them are awful.

Sobeyondthehills · 15/05/2019 13:13

@PookieDo

My second comment was more a musing at the general population than at you, I am sorry that didn't come across well.

I had a massive anger problem when I was younger, I went through a hell of a lot to learn how to control it, so don't tend to throw things, although tripping over DS' shoes in the hall tempts me to throw them out the window

JaneEyre07 · 15/05/2019 13:13

Oh god, that's me with the shoes down the garden. I do it all the time. We've got a shoe rack right next to the back door. And where are their shoes.... on the fecking floor, that's where.

So I regularly wang them as far as I can down the garden regardless of weather. It's very therapeutic.

thegreatcrestednewt · 15/05/2019 13:46

Some of these are awful. Throwing wine bottles, heavy wooden plates at your ds, tins of beans, saucepans - not fucking funny at all. Imagine if it was the other way around - 'Oh, I threw three wine bottles at my wife. The wine stains are still on the ceiling.' Hilarious.

But this is the worse:
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.

You have a very odd sense of what's entertaining. It sounds terrifying, GIngervitis.

Original poster
PookieDo · 15/05/2019 13:48

@Sobeyondthehills

Agree, I don’t want to celebrate or encourage violent rages but I think most people have a memorable stupid outburst that didn’t actually achieve anything

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Sweetpea55 · 15/05/2019 14:26

I kicked the washing machine out of the back door because it had stopped working..... again.

I just lost my temper with the bloody tjing
Dragged it to the door.. and gave it a big shove and a kick

Also threw a vacuum cleaner out of the front door when ex wanted it back.
My superhuman strength kicked in again and I launched it high into the air.. wishing it had landed on the twats head
It felt good...

AgnesNaismith · 15/05/2019 14:32

I poured an almond milk latte on the ground outside a shitty hipster cafe in London. I had been keeping my 2dc entertained outside for 25 mins while dh waited for it to be made and it tasted like musty cardboard, I was furious. The dc were shocked and disgusted - it gets brought up regularly, especially to strangers.

TheBlessedCheesemaker · 15/05/2019 15:02

My daughter didn’t fall far from the tree... when I lost the plot because she wouldn’t get dressed for school I put a furious DD in the car in her PJs, and drove to school. I threw her clothes in the back before leaving the house for her to change into.
Cue arrival st school. Without a word DD got out of the car and flounced into school. Still in her pjs.

Spudlet · 15/05/2019 15:18

Dh saved the kitchen last night.. the bottom drawer is a bit broken and crap, and it gave up last night. Dh walked down from putting ds to bed to find me heading towards it with a hammer and a somewhat narky expression.... Blush

He gave me a beer and fixed the drawer. I had to put the hammer away myself though Grin

FabulouslyFab · 15/05/2019 15:22

I threw a full plastic bottle of lemonade at my now Ex (he was having an affair) It landed on the floor and punctured in many places - it was like a fountain and went everywhere. He cleaned it up.

BayandBlonde · 15/05/2019 15:29

I was once driving behind my ex in my car (he was on his motorbike). A car beside him tried to cut him up, he pulled the car over got off his bike made the car driver wind his window down, ex then leaned in grabbed the car keys and in a fit of hysterics threw them across a four lane carriageway Confused

A bit of dick move on exes part but the car driver was driving like a twat!

mbosnz · 15/05/2019 15:57

Oh lord. I've just remembered a doozy. The neighbours (a flat full of teenaged boys) were smoking weed, skating on their half pipe they'd erected in the back garden, talking at the top of their lungs, f'ing and blinding all over the show, and I had a toddler and a newborn. About 1am I went and asked them to shut the hell up. Politely.

As I left, one of them yelled at me 'fuck you, cunt' to which I told him too late, it'd already been done, the proof was trying to sleep through their noise.

Get home and they actually ramp it UP. At that point, I'd had a gutsful, especially what they were saying very loudly about me over the fence.

I erm, happened to espy the garden hose. They were all congregated on the other side of my fence. And I may have, um, turned on said hose. And it's remotely possible that I might have pointed it over the fence. And I think it's very likely that they all got bloody soaked. And their sodding weed.

CustardCreamLover · 15/05/2019 16:01

Printers hate me and the last one I had refused to print so in a fit of rage I threw it out of the window. We lived in a flat and were on the 3rd floor. It didn't survive.....

I also punch a young man in the back when I was about 16 for kicking a pigeon and he proceeded to call me a hippy tree loving freak. Very odd response!!

FranklySonImTheGaffer · 15/05/2019 16:21

I remember my mum blowdrying her hair in the living room when the hairdryer blew up. It has been broken for ages and my dad had been promising to fix it.
I was about 7 at the time and it was the first time I'd heard her swear Grin She absolutely roared "FUCK OFF" and sort of frisbee'd it towards the bin when DSis wandered in and it hit her in the arm.
My mum was horrified and very very apologetic.

DH does stupid things like this every so often. We disagreed about where I should put my coat (of all things). He wanted me to take it upstairs, I reasoned hanging it on the coat hook in the hall was more sensible.
We did a tit for tat thing where I would hang it in the hall and he would take it upstairs. Then one day he had a row with his mum, came home to my coat in the hallway and muttered something about my "poxy coat" and how he was fed up of looking at it. He ripped it off the hook and went to carry it upstairs but stood on the sleeve and tripped himself up. In one action he pulled the hook out of the wall, ripped my coat and made a dick of himself.
He achieved nothing. He replaced the hook, bought me a new coat and stopped moaning about it. He also felt very very stupid / sheepish!

Ellybellyboo · 15/05/2019 16:33

I tripped over DH’s shoes that had been left in the hall way for the millionth time. Kicked one which then knocked over a vase of flowers - smashed vase, slightly green water and battered flowers everywhere

DH’s turn to empty the kitchen bin - it had become a bit of a standoff and we were poking stuff in it until I lost my temper and chucked the whole thing out in the back garden. It’s still there and I now dangle a carrier bag from one of the cupboard doors

Eliza9919 · 15/05/2019 16:45

Why did you pick them up? I'd have left the out there for a cat to piss on and teach her a lesson.

AFOLNerd · 15/05/2019 17:08

My two oldest were arguing over a bowl, both far too old to be fighting over a sodding bowl maybe 9 and 12.
So I smashed it on the kitchen floor and stomped off leaving them both standing there in shock!
I think they got the message as they haven’t done it since.