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I stormed off ineffectively

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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 😁

OP posts:
JynxaSmoochum · 27/08/2018 16:39

After a series of misdemenours I got to the point where I had to send a teenaged pupil off to a buddy room. He didn't take it well, tried to argue it, grudingly conceded defeat under threat of higher sanction and attempted to storm off through the classroom door shouting "I don't need Geography anyway!"

10 seconds later, he stuck his head through the door and sheepishly asked "Where is room x?"

The irony was not lost on me or the rest of the class as we all fell about laughing. Grin

AspieHere · 27/08/2018 16:46

Have nothing to add but these are hilarious. I'm loving your drunken flounce around the pool OP.

Paddley · 27/08/2018 16:47

In laws visited our new house and can't remember why but FIL stormed off home. Trouble was he went out the back door, we let him wander round the garden for ten minutes and then fetched him in, gave him a whisky and he couldn't even remember that he'd stormed off in the first place. Loved that man.

goforkyourself · 27/08/2018 16:50

On holiday with my twatty ex years ago, he accused me of texting other guys Hmm and stormed out on to the balcony, slamming the sliding door really hard behind him. I just shrugged and went out for a wander round the town by myself.

Returned to the apartment three hours later to find him trapped on the balcony as he'd slammed the door so hard it'd locked behind him Grin To add insult to injury he was just wearing his boxers and there was no shade so he was burnt to a crisp; it still makes me giggle when I remember his stupid lobster face pressed up against the window GrinGrinGrin

Anyonewhoknows · 27/08/2018 16:50

Went to a kids football tournament once so all kids and families were camping over. One of the evenings we all had a bit to drink and 2 of the dads started a discussion about politics. They were both getting more and more wound up until one of them stormed off to his tent and tried to slam the tent door Grin to be fair he found it funny too and it lightened the mood!

IfyouseeRitaMoreno · 27/08/2018 16:51

I stormed off once when I was 4. I packed my red riding hood suitcase and set off to live with my grandparents in London.

Got to the end of the road and realised there was no signage to London. Sat in a bush for a while, eating the crisps and sweets I’d packed for my journey whilst I mulled over this problem of not knowing which way was London.

Then I realised I’d eaten all my supplies and that I’d probably starve by the time I got there.

Told myself I might have to postpone my London plans for a while and that living with my bossy parents was preferable to living in a bush.

So I went home and slipped back in unnoticed.

Years later my parents told me they’d been following me all the time and pissing themselves laughing.

Flooffloof · 27/08/2018 16:55

Ooh I have flounced out the house it was miserable cold, and all I had on was a cardigan or jumper, with shorts. I sodding froze almost on my epic walk. Still kept walking though.
Also once many years ago, had argument in the car, told driver to stop and I would bloody walk home. I was in a big coat, but high heeled shoes, it was about 5 miles to get home. I never had a row in the car again.

whywhywhywhywhyyy · 27/08/2018 16:55

Could have been worse, you could have fallen in the pool!

I'm rather boring and have stormed out a door one way, only to have found it was a dead end and then stormed back through the room again to go the other way.

Loyaultemelie · 27/08/2018 17:07

I flounced out of the front door after a teenage argument with DM, informing her I didn't need to listen to her I was going to live with Nanny (her own DM) because she understood me. After slamming the door I realised the flaw in this plan was we were actually at my DGMs house Blush

stevie69 · 27/08/2018 17:11

Hey, we've all been there. You know ...... tried to storm out and headed straight into the broom cupboard Blush

Flounces require careful planning and orchestration Grin And long hair that you can toss in an 'I don't give a fuck' type of manner. I have no hair!

EnglishRose13 · 27/08/2018 17:18

I had a drunken row with my brother in the smoking area of a pub. I tried to storm off but couldn't open the door to go back inside so just burst out laughing. He had to open it for me.

HateIsNotGood · 27/08/2018 17:19

Haven't read the full thread but "I always knew I was a dickhead but I didn't realise I was that stupid. Now I know"

One of the best Posts I've ever read.

Some people actually go through life not realizing that we are all dickheads in our own way, and they never reconcile their own lives with their own dickheadedness - only believing that everyone else is a dickhead.

It's a rite of passage in personal growth - realizing our own demonstrable capacity for dickheadedness.

You go OP.

FabulousTomatoes · 27/08/2018 17:20

RitaMoreno I did similar! Packed my little red case too (I put in dental floss and a cuddly snake) and announced that I was leaving home. Sat on the bench at the end of the road for some time before deciding that it was rather boring and that I was hungry. My parents later told me that they kept popping out to check me and when I sheepishly slipped back home they pretended that they hadn’t noticed!

AlexDrake1981 · 27/08/2018 17:23

I’m crying 😂😂😂

MrHoolieswaistcoat · 27/08/2018 17:34

The best flounce I ever saw was at a baby and toddler group. There was a dad who attended regularly who told everyone who would listen that he was an ‘experimental musician’ (which seems to involve playing notes in the wrong order) and would sing the songs at the end in a really menacing manor.
One day, the woman who ran the group took him to one side and tactfully asked him to sing a bit more quietly as it was frightening some of the children (and the other parents).
He told her that she was singling him out because he was the only male there and was going to make a complaint about sex discrimination and then proceeded to storm off only to sheepishly return 10 minutes later as he’d forgotten to take his baby.

Cocolepew · 27/08/2018 17:36

I tried to flounce in a pub, I pushed my seat back and it caught on the carpet and I ended up going backwards, still in it.
To add insult to injury I had a pint of cider and black in my hand and ended up drenched.

leghairdontcare · 27/08/2018 17:38

I stormed out of the office last week. There was nobody else there but it made me feel better.

FabulousTomatoes · 27/08/2018 17:38

MrHoolies that is hilarious, I would have loved to have seen that 😂

twoshedsjackson · 27/08/2018 17:38

Two of my class decided to pay me back for having the temerity to restrain their youthful high spirits, by sneaking back behind my back into the classroom as I sent the class out for lunch. There was a large cupboard just inside the door, where they planned to lurk until they could wreak their revenge.
I genuinely didn't spot them.
I locked the door (with the only key to the room, as our beloved Head had lost the other one.....) and went off to fit in a lunchtime supermarket trip, timing my return for 10 minutes before afternoon registration. Apparently the rest of the staff were (almost) sympathetic to the two stricken little faces peering through the glass panel. No real harm done, except that, by the time I got back for afternoon lessons, lunch had been cleared away. Not quite a flounce, I know, but the intention to make an impression was there.

JustBeenNosey · 27/08/2018 17:40

I do this when I'm pissed all the time.. don't worry about it 😂😂😂

JaretsGirlfren · 27/08/2018 17:40

Not me! But I had to meet with twatty ExH to discuss stuff relating to DD. We decided on a coffee shop to keep things neautral (and because I knew he wouldn’t get as nasty in public) it got a little heated and he stood up and stormed out and then stormed back in as he decided he wasn’t finished yet. Five minutes later he decided he actually was finished, snapped ‘you’ll be hearing from my solicitor!’ And fell straight over a rogue high chair.
This is one of my happier memories of him! Grin

Knittedfairies · 27/08/2018 17:48

A friend’s daughter once slammed her bedroom door so hard that a mirror fell off the neighbour’s bathroom wall. She was an epic door-slammer....

JustHereForThePooStories · 27/08/2018 17:52

My SIL had an argument with her (now ex) childminder. After numerous incidents where SIL was unhappy with how poorly her children were being supervised and looked after, she had it out with the CM.

Words were exchanged and SIL stormed out, only to get to her car and realise she’d have to go back in because she’d forgotten her kids.

Mosret · 27/08/2018 17:52

When you have argument with DH but newborn is finally asleep so you storm out of the room- on tiptoe- and then swing the door in a slam like motion -but actually catch it and close it really really quietlyConfused

glintandglide · 27/08/2018 17:53

I love these too much. DM is an epic flounce fail, many a time having to return to close the door she’d Tried to slam but instead it gently wafted closed behind her

She once tried to throw a pack of basil at the kitchen wall and it gracefully floated to the floor. She did it with the force you’d throw a glass 😭