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I stormed off ineffectively

236 replies

Justask · 27/08/2018 14:10

I am totally BU.

On holiday and so drunk last night I tried to storm off but I couldn't work out how to leave the pool area of the hotel and just walked around the pool repeatedly, getting more cross with every circuit.

I am a total knob, please tell me IABU 😁

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Tupperwarelid · 27/08/2018 15:35

I stormed off once after an argument with DH. Remembered the car keys but forgot my bag, phone, purse etc. Started to drive off but the petrol warning light came on so I had to park up round the corner from our house and then drive home sheepishly not long after.

Lweji · 27/08/2018 15:35

I once stormed off MIL's home (because of exH..., not MIL) but then the outside gate was closed. Blush

Although, I didn't get to the Blush phase, as I was only annoyed and would have waited until someone came out or jump the fence. ExH showed up shortly after.

Still...

HomerDancing · 27/08/2018 15:36

This thread is hilarious!

Grin
MrsJayy · 27/08/2018 15:39

Late Mil was a challange we had a disagreement about dh not visiting her everytime she phoned anyway i got up flounced out the door of my own house 😂

LakieLady · 27/08/2018 15:45

I once tried to storm off while camping. It was most unsatisfactory.

You can't really "storm" through a door with a fiddly zip, and you can't slam it, either.

MrsJayy · 27/08/2018 15:46

Camping flounce 😁

TornFromTheInside · 27/08/2018 15:51

A camping flounce is when you skip off into the distance instead of walk!

DollyWilde · 27/08/2018 15:54

This thread is killing me Grin 😂😭

NorthernKnickers · 27/08/2018 15:54

I flounced once in London (major busy shopping street) after a having a bit of a strop on with my ex...I did a smart 180 turn and marched straight into a concrete bollard, knocking myself unconscious! 😳 Ex had 'ex-ited' stage left, and I was flat on my back in that there London!! Not my finest flounce 😢🙄

Missingstreetlife · 27/08/2018 15:56

Stormed out of room full of people, turned around, twisted my ankle, landed flat on my arse. Laughter and applause. They bought me a pint though

amusedbush · 27/08/2018 15:59

Last week DH really annoyed me and after a short row I flounced out of the living room, huffing and puffing about how he was being an arse. I came sloping back in less than a minute later because there was a massive spider in the bathroom and I needed him to deal with it Blush

MrsSarahSiddons · 27/08/2018 16:01

At least you didn't storm off the back of a moving ship.

Topseyt · 27/08/2018 16:03

DH once tried to storm off to his study in our last house, slamming the door behind him. It was a sliding door. It came half off its runners and jammed shut, with him inside. He couldn't get out and had to plead with me to try and help him.

He would admit now that it was a very ineffectual storming off, and I was so busy pissing myself laughing that it took me ages to hook it back into position.

Neither of us even remember what the argument had been about, just him slamming the study door and becoming marooned in there.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 27/08/2018 16:04

I once flounced from a party, into the snow. Only no one had noticed I'd gone. I slunk back in after a minute or two with a little pyramid of snow on my head...Then they noticed me.

pierpressure · 27/08/2018 16:05

Sarah, well I thought it was very funny !

Stupomax · 27/08/2018 16:08

I stormed out of my parents' house shouting that I was going home and would never come back.

My car wouldn't start...

FASH84 · 27/08/2018 16:10

As a teen I flounced off from DM in central London, had my own ticket knew how to get home without her. Got back to the mainline terminal, ran to catch the train just as it was due to depart, jumped on feeling smug, only it was then delayed so I just sat there, until she got onto exactly the same carriage 45 minutes later with a coffee and a very nice looking pastry (she did give me the pastry)

ajandjjmum · 27/08/2018 16:13

Slightly different, but when I was about 7 I ran away from home - only to come back 10 minutes later because I'd missed the bus!

angelicanto · 27/08/2018 16:15

😂

Once when I was about 13 I was pissed off at my parents so I decided to "run away from home".....

This involved going next door to the church hall and hiding in a cupboard. It was open because my grandad was there painting it, although he didn't realise I was there....

After being bored there for a few hours I went back home and no one had actually realised I'd gone Blush

UpstartCrow · 27/08/2018 16:16

I fell over in the kitchen this morning, caused a landslide with the washing up jenga pile, had an immense tantrum, shouted 'everything is shit' and broke the cheese grater.
Got up, banged my head on the cupboard and the cooker and found I had cut my finger. Bent down to wipe up the blood and banged my fucking head on the bastardly cooker again.

In my defense I've had D&V for 48 hours and may be a bit light headed.

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 27/08/2018 16:20

I stormed off out of a classroom at school once and slammed the door so hard behind me that a strip light fell off the ceiling! Even more sadly; it just missed the utter cow bag class bully who had been sat underneath!

Parents at my primary school getting divorced. He'd turned up at the house , they'd had a row, he stormed out & got in his car. She followed him to the door & used her remote beeper to shut the gates on his bmw as he went through!

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 27/08/2018 16:27

MawkishTwaddle that is too funny. I've got my sleeves caught on knobs before but didn't manage to catapult myself. I will have to try harder. Grin

viques · 27/08/2018 16:29

I left a ring at a jewellers to be resized and it took weeks for them to get back to me, I phoned them up one morning all prepared to let loose about their inefficiency and their collective resemblance to very dim slugs- in a dignified and ladylike manner of course - to be told " oh hello viques, we've just sent you an email, your ring is ready to be collected".

SentToTheSynByn · 27/08/2018 16:29

When my dc became teenagers we redecorated their rooms. Ds chose a lovely thick carpet, but it meant that the door couldn't be slammed. So funny watching him storm into his bedroom and try to slam the door - calmed me down every time we had a disagreement.

burdog · 27/08/2018 16:37

We had a girl at secondary school who was an epic flouncer. Everyone knew because she'd always fluff it up. One day she pushed her chair back and knocked a table over and on a memorable occasion she stormed out and got her blazer pocket caught on the door handle. I don't even remember her name lol.