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To ask the worst thing you've ever done in anger?

306 replies

Dishwater123 · 20/02/2025 22:25

Getting this off my chest and asking what the worst thing you've ever done in the faint hope of feeling better even if I don't deserve it.

When I had just left for uni, many years ago, I was devastated to receive several insulting text messages suggesting my then boyfriend was cheating on me and they also layed into my appearence and personality. I was so very hurt that when I found out who it was I "hacked" (read as guessed) the password of the culprits email, found several VERY explicit sexting emails from not only my boyfriend but a few others...in my (admittedly misplaced) rage, forwarded all of the emails to her family and friends, including her dad and gran. I still feel super awful about it to this day and can see EVERYTHING that was toxic and wrong with it.

What's the worst thing you've done in anger? For the record I KNOW I was unreasonable posting in the hope of hearing about your misguided rage.

OP posts:
PyongyangKipperbang · 22/02/2025 01:04

AnxiouslyAwaitingSpring · 21/02/2025 12:39

This is a crime! You could go to prison for this...... But I LOVE IT! 👏🏻

It wasnt a crime back then.

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 22/02/2025 01:11

Showerflowers · 21/02/2025 08:37

I was on a bus heavily pregnant and with my toddler son. A man got on and was being very loud and inappropriate. Swearing, smoking and chucking bits of rolled up paper at people. Playing loud music on his phone.

I just snapped. Probably lack of sleep or hormones. But I just got up, snatched his phone, and posted it out the bus window as we whizzed along.

Weird! I've wanted to do this with so many people. The arrogance of thinking we want to hear their music/ conversation or whatever.

Lucky he didn't really hurt you though.

NotVeryFunny · 22/02/2025 02:41

DazedAndConfused321 · 20/02/2025 23:05

OP, you were upset and angry, I don't blame you for reacting to the person who caused that initial feeling! There's always going to be a better way to deal with issues, but yours wasn't that bad. A cruel person might've learnt a lesson!

I was in a group of friends who included someone who was harmless but incredibly insecure and projected her feelings towards everyone else. We were all on eggshells, trying not to upset her or cause her anxiety. We had a trip abroad planned for months, and on the day we were meant to meet at a hotel before getting an early flight the next morning, she told us she'd cancelled our flights (she'd taken it upon herself to do bookings and arrangements) because she was too anxious to go but didn't want to miss out if we went without her. I was livid, drove to her house, and shouted at her until she cried. I was financially struggling and had saved for months, non refundable hundreds of pounds worth of tickets cancelled. And all because she was anxious. All I know is she sought therapy and treatment for her anxiety after, but we haven't spoken since.

Wow. I think your response was completely justified. What a horrendous thing for her to do.

HerbalBovril · 22/02/2025 04:32

Not the worst thing I’ve ever done in anger, but last year I rolled my (now ex) partner’s beloved skateboard into a storm drain.

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 07:57

Biffbaff · 22/02/2025 01:01

Meh, I couldn't get worked up about it!

What, if you received sexually explicit emails that had been written to your daughter or granddaughter? I don't think many people would be okay with that.

embarrassedimaprat · 22/02/2025 08:03

My husband went off with another woman and so in a fit of anger I keyed her car. Really quite badly. All over.

I have no idea why I did that, to anyone's car, but certainly why hers and not his. But there you go. Hell hath no fury and all.

Newfoundzestforlife · 22/02/2025 08:04

ChildOfTheRevolution · 21/02/2025 22:24

Not my finest moment.

late 20s and I was then, as I am now, alternative looking. DD was about 6 and every night I’d park on the school car park and cross paths with a pair of lads who were probably 18 or so. They collected another child, presumably a sibling.
every night without fail I was met with abuse. ‘Fucking goth bitch’. ‘Weirdo’ ‘Sweaty Cunt’ etc. This began to happen whilst DD was with me. I steadfastly ignored but after a month or so it was escalating with them walking behind me right to my car. I spoke to the school, they did absolutely nothing.

One night we were heading back and I’d just unlocked the door when DD said she’d forgotten her lunch box. She turned to run back and fetch it and suddenly my usual chorus was behind me. DD was out of earshot by this point and I snapped. I told the biggest he should come over here and say those things to my face, to which he swaggered over, mouthing off. I genuinely don’t know what came over me, but in seconds I’d thrown him against my car door and had him lifted off the floor by his throat whilst telling him if he ever spoke to me like that again I’d break his fucking neck.

When I snapped out he was almost in tears and his parting words as he scuttled off down the road, as an adult male, were “I’m telling my mum!”

He stopped pick up after that. Never did see his mum, which was a shame. Scared myself in that moment but it was a culmination of months of abuse I think.

You had him lifted against your car door by his throat...? The rules of gravity don't even allow that to make sense. Not to mention a woman lifting a man off the floor....

sashh · 22/02/2025 08:26

Newfoundzestforlife · 22/02/2025 08:04

You had him lifted against your car door by his throat...? The rules of gravity don't even allow that to make sense. Not to mention a woman lifting a man off the floor....

Emotions can do strange things to our bodies. Adrenaline is a powerful drug.

I went to uni with someone transitioning out of the fire service. He said if you have a mother who believes her child/ren are in a house that is on fire it can take two bulky fire fighters to hold her back.

BountifulPantry · 22/02/2025 08:30

Mine now!

I threw a uni housemate out!!!

She stole straighteners and iPod and something else big, perhaps a hard drive from another housemate.

The housemate she stole them off was really scatty always losing things so we did think that perhaps this was just her losing items. But the more time went on the more suspicious I got.

There was one day when the thief housemate left her door open and on her bed were the three missing items. I got my digital camera to take a photo as evidence!

I was furious! As students we were poor and I mean rice and butter for tea at the end of term poor. The scatty housemate in question worked 2 jobs all summer to afford uni. These items meant a massive amount to her at the time. The thief housemate targeted scatty housemate because she calculated that she could get away with it. I was raging.

I then told my other housemates. We got together and booted her out very unceremoniously and I was so so angry!

BountifulPantry · 22/02/2025 08:32

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 07:57

What, if you received sexually explicit emails that had been written to your daughter or granddaughter? I don't think many people would be okay with that.

I wouldn’t be ok with it. I’d stop reading when I realised what was going on and then my main concern would be the “victim”. I certainly wouldn’t judge them and I’d put it behind me very fast. Everyone has a sex life.

Tara336 · 22/02/2025 08:49

I split up from a BF and in a fit of rage he sent private emails to my family (not pictures). It was devastating to be honest. I moved on with my life and tried to put it behind me. Ex tried to contact me several times and rekindle things because his new relationship (with his affair partner) wasn't working out (someone else didn't want to put up with his BS either).

I thought fine so you won't leave me alone and you think it's fine to send private emails to all and sundry? OK I shall return the favour and I forwarded all his emails begging for me to come back to his family and new GF and copied him in.

Low I know but Karma is a bitch my only disappointment is I didn't get to see the look if horror on his face when he realised what I had done

TattedBarley · 22/02/2025 08:49

Years ago my boyfriend cheated on me, more than once. He left his account details logged in to my phone and I went snooping. He’d been messaging girls behind my back, receiving nudes, planning meet ups etc. I know I know my fault for staying after the first time. I collected up all the things he’d left at my house, work uniforms, personal items, photographs of us, gifts he’d bought me. Put them in a bag and poured bleach over them, wrote things all over his work uniform, cracked eggs over them, all sorts. Took it over to his, dumped it on the floor. He put me up against a wall. I left when he let me go, when I got out of the door he shouted after me sarcastically ‘love you’ and quickly shut the door behind him. I saw red, ran back and kicked the door. Apparently hard enough to take it off its hinges. Panicked and ran away. He got his friends to message me telling me they were gonna call the police, made me feel really bad. Probably rightly so. Nothing came of it though. It was a toxic relationship on both sides from the get go. Shudder with embarrassment when I think of it now.

nodeerinere · 22/02/2025 08:58

I collected all of my cheating exes fag ends from the garden (because they were still there despite me asking him constantly to pick them up) and put them in the black bags with his belongings.

jeaux90 · 22/02/2025 09:05

Shagged my exes business partner. Grin no regrets.

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 10:42

BountifulPantry · 22/02/2025 08:32

I wouldn’t be ok with it. I’d stop reading when I realised what was going on and then my main concern would be the “victim”. I certainly wouldn’t judge them and I’d put it behind me very fast. Everyone has a sex life.

Of course you wouldn't judge the victim. But no one wants to know about the sex life of their daughter or granddaughter. I think most people would be upset and angry that they'd had to read it, even just the first sentence or two, and rightfully blame the person who'd forwarded them the emails, who'd put them through that unpleasant experience.

I've got to say, I'm staggered at the number of people defending what the OP did. Even she's not defending it!

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 10:43

Tara336 · 22/02/2025 08:49

I split up from a BF and in a fit of rage he sent private emails to my family (not pictures). It was devastating to be honest. I moved on with my life and tried to put it behind me. Ex tried to contact me several times and rekindle things because his new relationship (with his affair partner) wasn't working out (someone else didn't want to put up with his BS either).

I thought fine so you won't leave me alone and you think it's fine to send private emails to all and sundry? OK I shall return the favour and I forwarded all his emails begging for me to come back to his family and new GF and copied him in.

Low I know but Karma is a bitch my only disappointment is I didn't get to see the look if horror on his face when he realised what I had done

Now what YOU did is totally justified.

ChildOfTheRevolution · 22/02/2025 10:49

Newfoundzestforlife · 22/02/2025 08:04

You had him lifted against your car door by his throat...? The rules of gravity don't even allow that to make sense. Not to mention a woman lifting a man off the floor....

  1. Teenage boy, not man. Skinny, not especially tall. I was much bigger.
  2. I’d pushed him into the car and l slid him up the side of it. I don’t expect he was actually in the air, but certainly stretched and in his tiptoes at that point.
Snowhitesheis · 22/02/2025 13:55

The worst bullies are always the biggest snivelling little cowards. I 100% believe this story.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 22/02/2025 14:00

When I was asked to move out of a rental property I planted 20kgs of corn in the garden and in the outside drains.

Anonym00se · 22/02/2025 14:04

When exH cheated I scratched ‘TWAT’ in foot high letters with a key across the bonnet of his Merc.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 22/02/2025 15:02

cait967 · 21/02/2025 12:31

But this is actually a crime.

So what...

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oakleaffy · 22/02/2025 15:26

Biffbaff · 22/02/2025 00:58

He was obviously wrong for cheating but burning his diaries was so so mean!

Books are actually really hard to burn..That would have taken a lot of effort.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 22/02/2025 15:28

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 07:57

What, if you received sexually explicit emails that had been written to your daughter or granddaughter? I don't think many people would be okay with that.

Surely you know what goes on in people's bedrooms. You wouldn't be naive enough to think your granddaughter was a sweet innocent virgin.

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 15:35

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 22/02/2025 15:28

Surely you know what goes on in people's bedrooms. You wouldn't be naive enough to think your granddaughter was a sweet innocent virgin.

But I, like all normal, reasonable people, wouldn't like to be forced to read explicit sexual messages someone had sent to her.

But then, having read your previous comments on this thread, I'm not sure I'm dealing with a reasonable person here.