# Does anyone, ever, in real life....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948 "2016-09-14T17:34:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/21 "2016-09-14T21:15:35Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > 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. You probably hang around nicer people. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/22 "2016-09-14T21:26:01Z")
Has anyone in real life ever…bolt upright from seeing a giant shark and back cautiously into the cabin and murmured “We’re going to nee a bigger boat”? ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/23 "2016-09-14T21:43:51Z")
Hmmm… Sweeping things off a table? Not exactly like that, no. (Either in anger or sex). However, when angry, I do have a tendency (say, once a year maybe) to throw things or slam them down and this can easily knock over items on a table. Given how much better I control my anger than my father or grandfather, let’s just call this progress. Sitting bolt upright in bed? Yes, but rarely because of a dream or sudden realization. Every once in a while if I’m sleeping in a weird position and have eaten just before bed, I can sort burp up a tiny bit of vomit. Just enough to wake me and leave a weird taste in my mouth, but my instinctive reaction is to sit straight up before I’m even conscious of what I’m doing. Confessing to my hostages? Of course not! Everyone knows you don’t talk to your victims until after you’ve strangled them and dressed them for afternoon tea with mother. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/24 "2016-09-14T21:55:50Z")
I flipped a board of checkers (mid game) because it wasn’t going the way I wanted it to. I was probably about 6 or 7. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/25 "2016-09-14T22:05:07Z")
Has anyone actually kissed so passionately that is starts in one place, continues as it moves into the car, through the front door, up the stairs and while the clothes are coming off? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/26 "2016-09-14T22:26:48Z")
My father was notorious for his temper. Not only sweeping entire dinners off the table, but upending the table, or throwing food to the opposite wall. He even upended the outside grill, because a burger had landed on the ground. I won’t go into how he treated his family. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/27 "2016-09-14T22:35:05Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Has anyone actually kissed so passionately that is starts in one place, continues as it moves into the car, through the front door, up the stairs and while the clothes are coming off? Sure. Well, I haven’t gone through cars and steps, but definitely through doors and halls. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/28 "2016-09-14T23:08:27Z")
In fourth grade, I was incredibly disorganized and messy (much like today). My school desk was piled with books and papers. When our teacher asked us to clear our desks in preparation for a test, I took my arm and swept everything onto the floor with a magnificent crash. The class erupted in laughter. Then it was my teacher’s turn. I never ever did that again. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/29 "2016-09-14T23:09:55Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > My father was notorious for his temper. Not only sweeping entire dinners off the table, but upending the table, or throwing food to the opposite wall. He even upended the outside grill, because a burger had landed on the ground. > > I won’t go into how he treated his family. ☹ And then it was your fault for making him waste food? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/30 "2016-09-14T23:35:17Z")
I have never swept desks clean or bolted upright in bed, but I have slammed doors shut while cursing loudly and I think that ought to count. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/31 "2016-09-14T23:54:06Z")
> [@jehan](#): > > Or sit bolt upright in bed when waking from a nightmare? Yeah, I’m another one who did this. Exactly once in my mid-teens, with probably the last real nightmare I had. I even started out mubling half-asleep, then cried out someone’s name! Pure cliche, but I guess they come from somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/32 "2016-09-14T23:58:16Z")
In grade school – fourth grade – I picked up an entire kiddy desk-and-chair and threw it two aisles over. Thank God it didn’t hit anyone, because that could conceivably have killed. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/33 "2016-09-15T00:14:07Z")
I saw a young couple in the supermarket once, who were apparently having an argument. The woman was calm and speaking normally so that I could not hear her. But the man could be heard from many aisles away, and he was shouting and randomly smacking stuff off the grocery shelves. He didn’t clear a whole shelf though. I was torn between getting the hell away from them, or offering the woman safe haven. Spoiler alert: I’m a wuss. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/34 "2016-09-15T01:02:16Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > 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. I bolded the part that for some reason reminded me of the fresh corpse flopping out of a freezer in _Texas Chainsaw Massacre_, which perhaps isn’t the most germaine observation to this thread. In elementary grade after a yelling match with the sisters I threw one of those black plastic McDonald’s ashtrays out my window, and then an X-mas snowglobe. Not sure why I had the ashtray considering I wasn’t a smoker, and as far as the globe’s concerned - it made a nice, loud, splashing crash sound, and when I looked out the window, buddy from two townhouses over looked at the mess, and then _directly_ right up at me, glaring at me, along with that annoying, pointy, outdoorsman-y beard of his. Funnily no knock at the door came. Huh. Maybe I ducked before I could be seen through the window’s glare. A couple years earlier the older brother would vent pathological, volcanic, steam taking slapshots at the basement wall. It was that thin, 70’s wood panelling with black vertical lines (yeah you oldsters know what I’m talking about) that the puck rendered into a splintered void eventually, and before the panelling on the other side got too destroyed (showing more and more stud), mum had to draw the line. In a house I lived in for twelve years (seeing 24 roommates come and go) there was one roommate who got all koogly-eyed and incoherent if he drank shitty-drinking-establishment-style draught. Complete and utter crossing of the synapses, and often his hyper-defensiveness led to assholism. This means he was a shitty drunk. One time (trust me - there’s too many of them - so I’ll keep it to just this one) his drunken gong show-ery led to a nasty cut down his forearm. After smashing some bottles around, he wrote “fuck o” on the basement wall before running out of blood for the “f”'s. Me - whenever I get ever pissed, I might whip a tablecloth off the table as all the fine china, cutlery, and pot roast stay put.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/35 "2016-09-15T01:05:18Z")
I threw a hat once…and it wasn’t because I didn’t like the hat. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/36 "2016-09-15T01:25:14Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Has anyone actually kissed so passionately that is starts in one place, continues as it moves into the car, through the front door, up the stairs and while the clothes are coming off? Sort of yes. I was being carried at the time, until we got to the bed and the clothes started coming off. Happened when DH came home from Iraq. It probably didn’t look cool, though; more awkward as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/37 "2016-09-15T01:49:55Z")
A coworker of mine did it to the boss’s desk some years ago. He was trying to make the gutless wanker fire him, to no avail. I was in awe. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/38 "2016-09-15T02:46:19Z")
> [@jehan](#): > > Or sit bolt upright in bed when waking from a nightmare? I’ve done this but only a very few times and from the _worst_ nightmares. The kind from which I also wake with a pounding heart and various other physical signs of fear. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/39 "2016-09-15T03:10:09Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > 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. Definitely a sheltered life. I’ve thrown things when pissed off more times than I can count. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948/40 "2016-09-15T03:18:58Z")
There’s [this drunk stiff-arming a liquor store’s shelf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwEsH4lVYEs). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-in-real-life/765948.md?page=3)