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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:
HeyManIJustWantSomeMuesli · 27/08/2018 20:35

I tried to storm off during an argument once but I’d been sat on my leg and as I got up it just gave way beneath me, completely could not feel it at all. Luckily the person I was arguing with thought I’d had some sort of emotional collapse and was VERY sorry Smile

RagamuffinCat · 27/08/2018 20:38

As a child, I didn't get my own way and decided I was running away from home. I packed some food and my favourite teddy, then left. Except I wasn't allowed to cross the road, so spent two hours walking in circles around the block, until I finally got cold and went home.

weaselwomble · 27/08/2018 20:38

Ok this is a really long one and it might not be as funny written down but I'll tell it anyway.
Ex-SIL is a complete knobber. For weeks before my brother's 40th it was arranged that we'd all go for a drink in the local (DB and SIL, DParents, Me and DH and a few friends) and then back to their house after closing time. On the night, however, pub closes and SIL starts kicking off about how DB had just presumed everyone could go back to HER house (council house in her name). Ok, fine, we won't bother we've had a nice night and wouldn't like to intrude. As soon as we start to head towards the taxi rank she's running after us to go back to her house. You can probably tell she's a bit of a drama llama Grin
As soon as we got back she tells everyone not to shut the living room door as it makes too much noise opening it again and strops off to bed. DH is a bit drunk at this point and forgets not to shut the door. Cue SIL flying downstairs in her dressing gown with a screwdriver in hand, and she proceeds to try and remove the door handle. DM is saying "Oh SIL you'll get oil all over the place" and SIL responds with "Well it's my door I'll do what I like". Anyway, she spent over an hour angrily trying to remove the door handle, in her dressing gown, refusing to speak to anyone and just making huffy noises whenever any one tried to speak to her. I had to leave the room for laughing in the end. Eventually she pissed off back to bed and we carried on without her Grin

EeebyMum · 27/08/2018 20:47

I once stormed off into a cupboard

MrsJayy · 27/08/2018 20:54

Ex sil is clearly batshit 😲

LuluJakey1 · 27/08/2018 20:54

I once got out of bed at DH's flat in Leeds when we were first together and we'd had a row in bed. I got dressed, stuffed my things in my bag and announced I was going home - to Newcastle- at 2am. He tried to stop me and I told him to fuck off, flounced out saying I was not going to be spoken to like he had and went to get in my car and leave.

Someone had parked so tightly behind me I could not get it out of the parking space and after 15 minutes where I was swearing and ended up crying with frustration I decided I had to sleep in the car. There was no way I was going back into his flat. It was freezing. About half an hour later he appeared with a duvet and a woolly hat for me and we made up Grin

DunkandEggAgain · 27/08/2018 21:05

stupid lobster face GrinGrinGrin

KERALA1 · 27/08/2018 21:27

Was at a party years ago flat mates friend had a very volatile relationship- at midnight he shouted "happy new year now fuck off" and ran off into the night never to be seen again. Became a catch phrase for a while Grin

oliviatrivia · 27/08/2018 21:36

I got ID’d in a supermarket (I was 34 at the time and I don’t look particularly long) and flounced away from the checkout as I was so annoyed and didn’t have any ID on me (being 34).

Realised a milisencond too late I had left about 7 shopping bags of Christmas presents I had just bought on the end of the checkout.

Had to sheepishly return and reclaim them. Felt like an absolute fool. Which I was to be fair Grin

oliviatrivia · 27/08/2018 21:37

Long? Old!

Crunchymum · 27/08/2018 22:19

Got slightly drunk and hysterical in a late night pub when I was first seeing DP. I came back from having a fag and he was talking to a very pretty lady he was with several other people, and she had come with a mutual friend and was lovely - I just took umbridge to it.

Stormed out, sat on one of the benches outside.... nothing.... sent him a few nasty messages.... nothing.... miss-called him.... nothing.... left a voicemail calling him a cunt.. nothing.

He appeared after "ages" looking slightly perplexed at my incandescent rage...It had been all of 5 minutes and he had missed my flounce completley. Thought I was in the bog. Oh and his phone was in my handbag.

That was a long time ago now and still makes me cringe

Stupomax · 27/08/2018 22:27

I'm saving this thread for when I'm having a bad day. I think it should probably go into Classics.

Pinkprincess1978 · 27/08/2018 23:06

This has reminded me of a party years ago. My mum got upset at my brothers (regular thing, she can't take a joke and they didn't know when uk stop winding her up). Anyway she properly flounced off.... then came back for her lager 😂 it was a big box of the stuff that she carried on her shoulder and walked out.

loubeylou68smellsofreindeerpoo · 27/08/2018 23:26

My db (age 8 at the time) once tried to flounce off with his suitcase saying he was leaving home so pushed him out the front door just as a taxi reversed into the drive (locals all used it for turning much to our annoyance). He thought it was for him,quickly rushed back in and said he didn't mean it

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 27/08/2018 23:29

@wanderings I whammed the porch door shut at home once and cracked the glass. I've given up flouncing as it always seems to get violent!

tigercub50 · 27/08/2018 23:35

I was absolutely furious with DD once, stormed into the kitchen & slammed the door - but there wasn’t one! DH had taken it off when he laid the laminate flooring!

HowDoIGetOffTheBus · 27/08/2018 23:54

I once flounced out of a pub, rather successfully, or so I thought until the doorman advised me that the back of my skirt was tucked into my knickers.

KitchenDancefloor · 27/08/2018 23:59

Love all the stories so far, but being outpaced by a pedalo is especially brilliant 😂

Not a flounce, but I tried to do a dramatic demonstration of my emotions by throwing a cup against the kitchen wall. I had visions of the exploding crockery being a visual of my conflicted inner life or some such nonsense.
DH (the source of my frustration) was out, so didn't witness the cup just bouncing off with minor damage to the handle and a pathetic dribble of coffee running down the wall.

Good job too or he would have just laughed at my attempt of mass destruction.

Vepippi · 28/08/2018 00:00

In the middle of a blazing row with DP, I tried to storm out of house and drive off somewhere.
Slammed the (old) front door so hard I managed to smash all the glass. Had to carefully come back in and apologise....kind of ruined the effect I had been going for!

ColinsVeryJolly · 28/08/2018 00:18

I work in a shop that opens till late, once just before closing a colleague who lived round the corner walked in. I asked her what she was up to and she said she’d had an argument with her DH but realised after her flounce she’d forgotten the car keys and didn’t want to go back. So she walked to the shop hoping to kill enough time for the flounce to be effective Grin

We ended up having a drink in the pub to really show him!

catinboots9 · 28/08/2018 00:22
  • I once stormed off from a pedalo by diving in an swimming away stroppily.

Unfortunately we were quite a long way from the shore and also the pedalo was much quicker then me. BF just slowly casually pedalled along next to me nonchalently smoking a cigarette and occasaionally saying "are you ready to get back in yet".

After about 15 mins swimming I gave up and to add insult to injury I couldn't get in and he had to haul me out of the water in a v undignified manner.**

^^This story is life itself. Had me in actual tears. And it's been a long time since anything on MN did that to me 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

POPholditdown · 28/08/2018 00:58

She once tried to throw a pack of basil at the kitchen wall and it gracefully floated to the floor.

😂😂😂😂 aahh my god in tears

CatRen27 · 28/08/2018 01:05

These are amazing! Surely one for the classics @mnhq?

FlurkenSchnit · 28/08/2018 01:10

I stormed off during an argument with DH and slammed our bedroom door so hard that it came off the hinges and wedged itself completely in the door frame.
After realising I was well and truly trapped, I sheepishly had to call him to free me - which he did really quickly.
Totally ruined my storming off and made me realise that DH was a nicer person than me cos I'd have left him there to stew for a while!

SaltyPeanut · 28/08/2018 01:15

DH and I, having a humdinger of an argument.

He says, "say that again and I'm walking".

I said 'it' again.

He goes into the hall, puts his coat on, grabs his wallet and phone, all the while muttering angry insults under his breath.

He comes back into the living room and says, 'I fucking told you". He is red in the face with anger at this point.

Turns round to flounce off, goes into the kitchen and slams the door.

The kitchen door was next to the hall door. It was a flat on the fourth floor. The kitchen had no door to the outside.

He tried to style it out. Claimed he needed some paracetamol out of the cupboard before he went because I'd given him a headache. Yeah, right, pull the other one.

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