… sweep everything off any available surface any time they get angry?
I’ve just seen (yes, in a gormless TV soap opera) yet another such scene of a jilted lover trashing his workplace. But where did the idea come from - or am I just being British and expecting a tut and a cup of tea to work it all out?
My three-year-old does it, but I have not really seen it among adults.
My older brother did it once… almost. He was angry about something, grabbed our oldest brother’s schoolbooks and threw them on the ground, then he did the same with his own books. Lastly, he grabbed my books. I gave him a “do it and I will throat punch you” look. He put my books down and stomped off.
Or sweep everything off of a desk so that impatient sex may begin.
Sadly, yes. I have done this. Not in a long time, mind you, but yes.
When I was a teenager my mom did this a couple of times. My sister and I cleaned it all up, of course.
Does anyone, in real life, confess to past crimes and lay out their plans for new ones to the (captive) person who has been after them just prior to killing them? I guess we would have no way of knowing and it wouldn’t be much of a movie if they actually succeeded in the killing.
I have never in my entire life seen a person throw something in anger. I’m sure that there are people out there somewhere who do this sort of thing, but in my personal experience, it just doesn’t exist. I’ve always thought it was weird to see this kind of thing on T.V., but just assumed that I lead a more sheltered life – or hang around nicer people.
Or sit bolt upright in bed when waking from a nightmare?
I was at a party one night at someone’s house, about 5 or 6 of us there, when one of the guys who lived there, lost it over something and started smashing stuff and throwing dishes and yelling.
I had never seen anything like it, but apparently it was not the first time he’d done something similar. We all cleared out in a hurry. I did wonder who was going to clean up the mess later, and how anyone could share a house with someone like that.
Queen Victoria loathed William Gladstone, who was PM four (I think) times during her reign. Her heir, Albert Edward Prince of Wales, admired and befriended Gladstone. When Gladstone died in the 1890s, the Prince acted as an honorary pallbearer at the funeral. Victoria was enraged. It’s reported that on reading in The Times of the prince’s participation in the obsequies, she shouted loud, angry imprecations against both the dead man and her son and swept every object on her desktop onto the floor.
But of course, Victoria was nuts. If you’d like to know more about her mental instability, I recommend A.N. Wilson’s bio of her. He makes a persuasive case that she was as looney as her grandfather George III.
My husband does this from time to time. One night, he suddenly sat up in bed, still asleep though his eyes were open and staring, and announced in a loud voice, “I want to buy a camel.” Then he slid back down under the covers and resumed snoring. He had no memory of it in the morning.
Decades ago, one bad loser player did flip the board, and sweep the pieces off the table.
Rare among mature adults.
I did that once, sort of. I had fallen asleep with my arm pinned underneath me such that it had fallen asleep as well. Apparently I moved, and it started to tingle painfully in my upper arm as it revived. In my last flashes of sleep, I dreamed that someone had sawed off my arm.
I first woke up just enough to think to myself, “thank goodness that was just a dream” and I lifted my arm to confirm that it was fine. The problem was that that arm had not finished reviving, and my lower arm, which still felt like unresponsive dead flesh, flopped around and smacked me across the face. That’s when I sat bolt upright and screamed.
It’s drama. It’s not real life. Real life is dull, drama has to make it dramatic. It doesn’t matter if no one has ever done it – it’s dramatic.
I have, more than once. Usually, I am trying to wake myself up by shouting and sitting up, tho the shout mostly only takes place in my head.
I have not swept the table, but I have been known to throw the occasional thing. I also raise my voice from time to time, and have even been heard to use profanity.
Whoa! You’re clearly a dangerous person with serious anger management issues! We need a hug over here, stat! Get some meds! FFS, SOMEBODY CALL THE SWAT TEAM!
:rolleyes:
I did it at least once, as a teenager. Never as an adult.
Yes, it happens. I had a boss who would lose his temper fairly often. Sweep things off the desk, throw things at the wall, yell death threats. Good times, good times.