Just that really, we were talking about it in the office this morning and wondering if they were common. Have you ever had an argument that completely exploded, no matter how minor?
Mine had to be a few years ago when we were getting our kitchen redone and having an extension. There had been a back date for three weeks on a supply the builders needed and we had tarpaulin over the back of the house (no wall) in November.
This kitchen we had dreamt of and saved for was becoming more and more of a distant dream. We had no money after paying for said spiralling nightmare and I was cooking all of our meals in the slow cooker in the front room.
Both DH and I were working all the overtime we could to get more money in and the first night off we had together in about two weeks I got home at seven, he had finished a nightshift at 7am.
I walked in the door and was a bit confused because I couldn't smell anything. He's sat in the front room (coat on - due to no back of house) playing on his PlayStation. I looked at him and he looked at me, didn't say a word because according to him: 'I thought someone had died from the look of fear on your face'
I looked at the tv, looked down at his PlayStation (which wasn't normally plugged in) down the extension cord and the fucker had unplugged the slow cooker.
Not a big deal, 'oh you idiot, we'll get a takeaway and have it tomorrow, accidents happen,' No.
A month of stress at work and home, tiredness, frustration and just a really shitty time (we'd also been having trouble trying to conceive) exploded.
We raved, we ranted, arguments over the course of our ten year relationship were brought up and revisited and when it couldn't get any worse. I tripped over the slow cooker and knocked the contents on the floor.
At which point DH began to find it the funniest moment of his life and at which moment I began to weep and I cried for five hours about the bastarding slow cooker.
We laugh about it now but never again has he unplugged the slow cooker.