Worst thing you have broken via rage?

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i broke my TV once via rage

I threw my bag away in rage and lost my keys in the process.

Ultimately cost me £120 on my tenancy deposit, the lost letterbox key was the last one so had to replace the box altogether. And before its been replaced, I had to fish the mail with my hand in the slit for something like 18 months.

I now take a big breath when I'm pissed off.

Nothing purposely. I'd be even more cross at having to tidy it up!

I bit our family piano in rage about not being able to play something as a young child. Teeth marks still on the thing.

Most middle class thing I have ever posted - and that’s against some pretty stiff competition.

Too much when I was younger. Kicked a hole in the door, smashed a tv, glasses, plates etc.

I can't remember the last time I did it now.

DM told me me that once, during an argument with my DF, she slung the Christmas tree up the garden

Someone else's car door. Not broken, but dented. Not proud of it.
I was in central London, Picadilly Circus, on a summer evening. Crowds everywhere, theatre chuck out time etc and a mass of people started to cross the road on a green pedestrian light. A taxi has just dropped someone off by the lights and attempted to drive through this crowd, who were crossing quite legitimately. I yelled at him to stop, and when he didn't, I put my foot up and kicked his door.
I legged it.

I've never broken anything in a rage

@Piglet89

I bit our family piano in rage about not being able to play something as a young child. Teeth marks still on the thing.

Most middle class thing I have ever posted - and that’s against some pretty stiff competition.

Did you floss your teeth on the harp afterwards?

@Piglet89

I bit our family piano in rage about not being able to play something as a young child. Teeth marks still on the thing.

Most middle class thing I have ever posted - and that’s against some pretty stiff competition.

Age 8, I carved a treble clef into our piano lid because I didn't want to practise.

Age 8, I carved a treble clef into our piano lid because I didn't want to practise.

You need to see this film: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5,000_Fingers_of_Dr._T.

#pianovandals

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Does 'wind' count - immediately after 'snapping'?

Howling

I put a dent in the wall with a hammer when our neighbours and their animals just would not shut up.

I threw a phone across the room when mobile network didn't give me extra credit they'd promised.

And I've thrown furniture over but it didn't break.

It's a dark part of my personality that I'm not proud of.

I went through a door slamming stage and once broke hinges and couldn’t open the door. Was stuck in room with arguée.
We do laugh about it now. Grew out of it. Not sure why I had that phase.

@DrSbaitso 😂😂😂😂

Oh safari I did that once many years ago. Got a hammer out to bang on the skirting board in rage at yet another deafening next door party. Sold house. Never did repair replace that awfully dented bit of skirting.

I couldn't bear to mark or destroy an instrument, I'm very precious about my own piano, guitar and ukulele*. I have closed the lid on my own hand in frustration a few times, though.

*That's certainly no stealth boast. I'm still very much in a learning stage and a mediocre musician at best. Except for guitar that is. I can't even play that well enough to be considered mediocre! I'm terrible at it.

One of the reasons I left dh was his destructive temper. He, of course, liked to remember the time I threw a plate back at him that he had hurled in my direction.

Ec h. Definitely not dh, unless that means dickhead.

Ex 🙄

The glass in the door of the washing machine, while it was full of water and suds merrily washing away.
I was in a rage because I'd just finished mopping the kitchen floor and my husband stomped across it with his muddy boots on.
I grabbed the mop and was mopping in a rage and brought my arms and mop back too quickly and the mop handle went through the glass.
To be fair, by the time I'd done mopping the soapy water up, the floor was sparkling.
I did however, tell my husband that next time I would ram the mop up his arse sideways instead!

There is a semi-serious point in this.

Going by the person I live with who occasionally does this, when I see it happening it’s almost like there’s a sudden and complete change in personality. They’re not themselves, and in that flash of anger nothing anyone does or says would get through to them. They’re out of control, their own or anyone else’s. If I weren’t 100% confident that the actions would never harm anyone else (this person could NEVER harm a hair on another human’s head!), I think I probably would be frightened.

Equally, it’s odd that a person can so completely lose control of themselves. It doesn’t happen in any other circumstances except, say, substance abuse or extreme euphoria.

Honestly, it’s as though something snaps inside. They can’t help themselves. It’s just actually be pretty awful knowing you have this capacity. Or maybe not. Maybe you just learn to live with it. Maybe, if you feel very badly about it afterwards, you work on changing it or you at least isolate yourself when you feel the red mist descending.

To the extent nobody else is harmed, I see it as a personality trait that’s pointless and annoying - like being careless and losing belongings. But if the person just lets their rage rage away, untrammelled, in the presence of other people….well, that’s not on. Who would want to live like that, wondering if an object is going to come flying at their face as they walk into a room?

@OhGiveUp

The glass in the door of the washing machine, while it was full of water and suds merrily washing away. I was in a rage because I'd just finished mopping the kitchen floor and my husband stomped across it with his muddy boots on. I grabbed the mop and was mopping in a rage and brought my arms and mop back too quickly and the mop handle went through the glass. To be fair, by the time I'd done mopping the soapy water up, the floor was sparkling. I did however, tell my husband that next time I would ram the mop up his arse sideways instead!

I'm surprised he didn't say the same to you!

@ARoseDowntown Agreed. With everything.

That's how an angry meltdown is.

[quote AutistGoth]@ARoseDowntown Agreed. With everything.

That's how an angry meltdown is.[/quote]
Also agree.

I would never live with a man who threw stuff in anger. It's scary and annoying!

Phone about 8 years ago. It kept pretending not to understand what I wanted to type, and it had all gone on so long, so I threw it on the tiled floor. But it wilfully did not break despite a few more goes. So I fetched a hammer and chased it round and round the kitchen floor until it was all smashed up. It was wonderful.

I also used to bite doors when in a rage. Hormonal teen time 😀