Anger can make us do crazy things...What was the one unthinkable thing you did in your fury?

I once “accidentally” exposed an entire $200 box of film because my boss really pissed me off. Oopsie-poopsie!!!

I was much younger at the time…

Honestly, there are too many times than I care to relate. They all center around my husband and the unfounded fear that he would ditch me for someone else. Is that anger…or jealousy?

I was so angry at my guardian once for slapping me that I waited until she was otherwise occupied and took her lighter to try to burn the house down. The kindling was to be dried leaves that had gotten under the porch. I thought I’d fix her really good! Luckily, it was too windy, and I failed. All at once I realized I’d have no home and I’d kill someone. She never found out. Whew!

I was 5. I don’t think I’ve ever been that angry since where I out and out hurt someone or caused damage.

Drove an engineering compass right through a 500 page book.

I once grabbed the rolling tray full of broken up beautiful herbs and a couple of nice pipes and threw it across the room at my boyfriend. He was too shocked to be mad and we laughed our asses off after I did it.

Broke someone’s nose. He beat up my best friend (his ex girlfriend) and then told me if he could do it over again, he’d have hit her harder. I thought “seeing red” was just an expression until then, but my vision seriously narrowed and was red around the edges. I caught him by surprise because I’m NOT a violent person. If he hadn’t been so much stronger than me, I’m not entirely sure I wouldn’t have killed him.

work- leave with out saying anything, thwhole place disagreed with me

home- throw papers, nearly slit my wrist, slam the door excessively, slam a weight throught the door, yell at everyone, snap, ignore everyone, shout truthful comments that my fmaily couldt handle since they are hiding things from me

I’ve thrown a stack of books at my daughter (really glad I missed), broken a wind-chime that meant something to me, punched a brick wall (very hard on the knuckles… I don’t recommend it), and kicked a hole in the wall – right in the foyer of my beautiful house. All regrettable instances.

Threw a Blackberry (not mine) into the Pacific Ocean. I apologize for littering.

I wrote a very angry email to my dean, making some pretty strong accusations. Then I sent it. I got a phone call from him soon thereafter. I still can’t believe I didn’t get fired. I’ve actually written several nasty emails to various people whilst angry. And sent them. What I’ve learned is, it’s fine to write nasty, ugly emails. The key is don’t send them, stupid!

@suzyq2463: I’m a big writer whilst angry, too. My rule of thumb is to write it and then walk away from it for 24 hours. When I come back and re-read it sometimes I still want to send it, and sometimes I think better of it.

i wrote a really long, angry, bitchy letter to someone. it was like 2 years of built up anger though. which makes it worse. it felt really good to get it all out, but now, even though i still agree with most of what i remember saying, i feel bad. i’m usually really passive. so that was a huge step out of character for me.

Lied.

I’ve never done anything outrageous while angry, that I can remember. Other than smashing all the glasses and a glass bowl when I got extremely angry once. But, it wasn’t that bad.