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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 😁

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ReanimatedSGB · 28/08/2018 01:23

I'm not really a storm-off type but I did (a good 20 years ago) once when pissed, decide I was going to sleep Under The Stars and Commune With The Universe. Which meant going and lying in the front garden at my mate's house. In the snow. People were moderately concerned (they were all pissed too) and every now and again someone would be dispatched out to suggest that I came back indoors. I think I came back indoors a couple of times and then went back out again, so we had a bit of rinse-and-repeat. And then, probably mercifully, in the middle of justifying my love of nature and not being cold at all, I fell asleep at the kitchen table with my head in a plate of leftover chilli.

Sircat · 28/08/2018 01:41

I once flounced off from some colleagues in the lunchroom and caught my shirt on the door handle. This caused all my buttons to pop off and I had to drop to the ground to pick them all up whilst holding my shirt together and pretending nothing unusual was happening.

TechnicalSergeantGarp · 28/08/2018 01:41

I'm not one for flouncing, in fact I forgot to flounce. I did it once after dp had made me a really crappy dinner and himself a feast. Immediately on leaving I was over it and just off to the shops. OH found me and we went for a drink. It was 20 years ago so he must just have known me well, no smart phones back then.

We came back to a friend's after the club had ended. After a while their irate partner came down and cut the plugs off the TV and stereos because we were too loud. We did know anyone was in (he must have). We were drunk and didn't leave. They both came out the next week like nothing happened. It did happen again a few months later, I wasn't there.

Menolly · 28/08/2018 02:56

Early on in our relationship I grabbed my handbag and flounced out of DH's room in a shared house, got as far as the front door before remembering I was wearing a fairly skimpy nightie and it was pissing down, opened the front door just to slam it so he would think I had left then went and sat in the cellar (which had an old sofa and a beer fridge so wasn't too bad but a bit chilly) worked quite well for about 20 minutes til DH phoned me from the front room and heard my phone.

Menolly · 28/08/2018 03:14

I'm loving the number of people that have been foiled by soft close doors.

First real strop DD had she stormed through to her room and slammed the door, I totally ignored her because I have much younger siblings and have watched my mum run up the stairs and try to get the last word too many times to fall into that trap so I was leaving her to calm down, DD waited a minute, opened the door and screamed 'did you not hear my door slam?' and slammed it again, few minutes on she walked to the top of the stairs and shouted 'I'm angry you know!' Grin she hasn't bothered slamming doors since.

Original poster
Justask · 28/08/2018 14:34

You are all hilarious, thank you for sharing and confirming it's not just me.

Being outpaced by a pedalo is the funniest thing I've ever seen Grin

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flowerythorns · 28/08/2018 16:08

I was really cross once at DD who wouldn't put her bloody sparkly shoes on. It was a toddler thing.

I threw the fucking shoes down the stairs.

Where they proceeded to twinkle and flash mocking me Angry

perroy · 28/08/2018 16:55

Can this one go to the classics?

LeighaJ · 28/08/2018 17:00

I tripped over something while storming off.

A drunk friend ran into a door while storming off.

SagelyNodding · 28/08/2018 17:23

I stormed off when I was on holiday in Greece because I had sat on and broken my glasses (drunk). I threw them in the bin and marched purposefully towards the house we were staying in... Wrenched the gate open, slammed it shut and sat myself down at the table of a nice and completely stunned Greek family enjoying their evening meal. The shame Blush I was also blind as a bat for the remainder of the week...

busyhonestchildcarer · 28/08/2018 17:36

My four year old stomped off telling us she was leaving home.complete with little suitcase on wheels she walked down the long front drive and out the gate. As we watched quietly she turned right,then after a couple of seconds turned left then came straight back down the drive again.It was very funny.

DarlingNikita · 28/08/2018 17:46

I once stormed on ineffectively, I think you could call it.

Waiting for a bus. One other person at bus stop. Bus pulls up and is nowhere near full. It's pulled up and the door has opened right by me but the other person shoves violently in front of me to be first on, totally unnecessarily.

I did what I imagined was a slow theatrical turn of the head and scathing look at her, then stepped up with slow dignity to board.

Except I misjudged the step and fell flat on my face. Got up to see the driver giving me a full-on Hmm face.

spiderlight · 28/08/2018 17:50

I learned the hard way never to storm off if you need a wee. Huge row with 11-year-old DS after a long half-term of increasingly awful behaviour, decided it was DH's turn to deal with it, and flounced out of the house and down the street with no money, no phone, nothing. Got about 200 yards away and realised I really needed a wee. We don't live within walking distance of anywhere that has a loo I could have used and I wasn't going to knock on any of the school mums' doors (only people I know locally) to explain that I needed to use their toilets and why, so I continued storming while getting increasingly more desperate, eventually stormed round in a big circle and back to the house, stormed in and up the stairs, had a wee and then couldn't face storming out again.

stillnotTheDoctor · 28/08/2018 17:52

Sagely and Nikita I think u win the thread.

glintandglide · 28/08/2018 17:54

Sagely I don’t think I am
Going to stop laughing for a long time at that

KellyMarieTunstall2 · 28/08/2018 17:55

I stormed off once, I planned to go for a walk and get myself a coffee, the only fly in the ointment was that I was wearing my slippers, so I sat in my car and cried instead!

Dilemmacentral · 28/08/2018 17:58

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.

love this thread but this is an odd one. “Numerous” times you aren’t happy about the care your children are receiving and unhappy with how they’re being supervised....but you keep them there Confused

MaidofEyes · 28/08/2018 18:01

I stormed off out the house, threatening to run away and then had to knock on the door to get my coat as it was bloody freezing.

I then stormed off again once I had my coat, walked round the block and went back home as it turns out I was not cut out for running away from home. (I was about 12).

To her credit my mum just let me back in to get my coat, and then let me back in again about five minutes later, without saying a single word. Probably because she was clearly putting all her energy in to not laughing.

I'm still rubbish at flouncing off.

MaluCachu · 28/08/2018 18:02

This thread 😂

CheeseAndOnionIceCream · 28/08/2018 18:03

Just the title of this thread made me laugh!

I stormed off out of our flat once years ago,during an argument with my then husband. Only I'd forgotten my front door key. Kinda takes the shine off it when you have to knock to be let back in.......

Blueraccoon · 28/08/2018 18:13

I once flounced out of a house where a group of us had done much drinking and got into an argument. I stood up and announced what a bunch of arses I thought they were and stormed out . Unfortunately I didn’t know the layout of house and left by the back door instead of the front, finding myself in the back garden which was completely surrounded by a 6 foot high wall. No way was I knocking to get back in so I had to scale the wall which in my inebriated state was no mean feat.

Loonoon · 28/08/2018 18:22

We (me and three friends, all women in their late 40s) went out for a meal in quite posh restaurant once. It was early so it was largely empty. At one point one of us got offended and stormed out. It took quite a while as she had to walk the length of the restaurant into a glass covered verandah (also deserted) and walk the other way up the verandah (past our table on the other side of the glass) and then stomp off into the night. We and the waiters watched her go in silence.

We sat discussing her exit for a few minutes when she reappeared dripping wet at the entrance and performed the walk of shame back down the verandah and back up the full length of the restaurant - she had forgotten her umbrella! By this point we were all (including her) laughing so her huff passed and we persuaded her to sit down and enjoy the rest of the meal.

To cap it off, she left her laptop in the restaurant, she was too embarrassed to go back so one of our party returned the next day and started to explain the situation and the waiter said archly ‘OH, we remember your table!’ And produced the laptop from under the counter.

PussGirl · 28/08/2018 18:25

I stormed out as a teenager, taking the dog for company.

When I came back a few hours later, mum just said, "Thanks for walking the dog". Hmmph!

Isleepinahedgefund · 28/08/2018 18:50

😂

Love a good flounce fail. Last week one of my colleagues flounced out of the office after an argument about paperclips or the like, but had to come back to get his mobile.

Isleepinahedgefund · 28/08/2018 18:52

Oh and I once witnessed someone’s attempt to storm out of a house with a 42” TV. That was a good one.