What's YOUR Steven Slater Moment?

As moms, our buttons are often pushed to the max and bursting at the seams. We're required to keep it together, set an example and divert and blow off all (parenting) missiles set in our direction. But sometimes, sometimes, we reach our breaking point. Sometimes, like Jet Blue Flight Attendant Steven Slater, we flip and a la Network get "mad as hell" and just can't "take it anymore!"

Whether you liken Steven Slater to your two year old's ultimate meltdown (it personally reminds me of the time I cut my sons string cheese in half, instead of giving him a "whole bite"), one things is for sure: we have all had Steven Slater moments. Today, Daphne Brogdon, Rebecca Woolfe, and Mindy Roberts share their "mad as hell" moments and now, want to know YOURS!

Simply leave a comment and share your story of a time you've really "flipped out" and the best story will win $100 gift card!

Come on, it's fun and we do hope you'll win... Just please don't go Steven Slater on US if you do...

**UPDATE a/o 8/20: We have a lucky winner! Congratulations to Mallory Shea for sharing her hilarious and all too relatable story (at the bank!) with us! To read Mallory's story, CLICK HERE!

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Funmama
1 years ago

It was when I was young and single. In college,I dated a guy for a year when he graduated and moved to another state to work for his dad's family business that he would eventually take over. With no money to complete my degree I moved with him and began working at the same business. Within a few months he was going out after work with other men and I was not allowed to tag along. I stayed home like a "good fiance". Soon after I noticed a change in the way his father treated me. Coincidentally, I got a job as a flight attentant, soon after, and missed all of the family get togethers because I was out of town. In the meantime I was working the family business in my spare time, believing it would be mine too since I'm marrying the only son who wanted it. One day I was cleaning house when I came across a love note from another woman. In one short afternoon I found out enough information to identify the girl & where she worked. Found out he'd told his whole family (except his adulterous daddy, who knew we were still engaged) we were broken up and had been taking the girl on the side to all the family events that I was missing while in flight attendant training! (He said he was planning to tell them he'd gotten back together with me once my training was over, 'cause we were still engaged to be married!) I called the girl, and for some strange reason she agreed to go with me to confront him at a place near his place of business. At first I went to his office to ask him to meet me next door and when his daddy saw me & immediately knew (even though she was waiting in the car) and told me to leave. He said that he was planning to fire me now that we were breaking up for sure & that the laws in our state allowed him to fire me for any reason at all with no chance for severance or unemployment so I blew up on his father. This man saw me at the office weekly and knew that his son was cheating on me while we were supposedly getting married in a few months and he not only didn't say anything (THAT I can respect somewhat) but treated me like I was a piece of crap during that time, and most of the work I did was for free, since I felt it was an investment in my own future. So I had a good bit of yelling to do at his daddy for being such a jerk. (All the things I'd been feeling all along.) To this day I can't think about it without swelling up with pride. It was the first time and biggest event where I've actually stood up to someone in authority and/or someone I felt I should show respect toward no matter what.

sarah.ann.perrone
1 years ago

I want to say really quickly there is no such thing as free health care in any country! Somewhere someone is paying for it. Perhaps higher taxes are doing it but it is not free. I had to write a paper about it in my college class. Anyways I had my moment at Wal-Mart. I was pregnant and my first valentines day was coming up with my husband. I asked this lady if they had any bigger cup sizes for this little outfit on the rack. She said no but that one right there looks like it will fit. I told her nope because my breasts had been getting bigger and bigger every month. She said ohhhhh your pregnant. I said yes mam I am with a smile..... (I must say we lived right off of a military base and I look really young. I look like I am 14 most of the time.) Well this lady goes on to say.... 'Just like every other military wife'............................ I think my eyeballs almost popped out of my head I freaked out. I was hormonal anyways but come on sit there and tell a customer they are a cliche and to make fun of the military right to my face. I flipped my lid and I wanted to shove the hanger down her throat with her snarky a$$ look. It took self control I did not know I had to not lay my hands on her.

salsamite
1 years ago

OMG. I stopped listening after Mindy, because I am APPALLED. Okay, I knew the healthcare system (or lack thereof) was pretty horrendous in the US, but this is out of control! I'm having my moment right now for all of you! And please don't take this as a "my country is better than yours" moment, because I don't roll like that, but wow - you should move to Australia. We have free healthcare, and I opt to pay for private health, but I pay only $140 a month, and it gets me minor & major dental cover, optical cover, alternative therapies, and hospital cover. But then again, you guys get much cheaper cosmetics... probably evens out.

igathers
1 years ago

My moment was the day after I signed up for Dish Network (satellite tv). After discovering that my sales person had straight up lied to me, I decided to cancel my service. That's when I found out about the early termination and equipment fees. Basically if you cancel after the first 48 hours of the order you are subject to a cancelation fee of $275, and additional equipment fees of $400. (Please dont ask me why I decided to give a door to door salesman my Debit Card info when signing up) But all those transactions hit my bank account the day after I canceled. Which I must admit made me FURIOUS. Not only was I lied to about the service that I'd be getting, but since I decided to cancel the service they were going to charge me nearly $300 for canceling early...and then the icing on the cake: because I'd canceled and was technically leasing the equipment from the satellite company, I was subject to giving them a deposit (after canceling LOL) on their equipment, which would be refunded after they received it. Again please don't ask me why I used my debit card. But in the end I yelled at nearly half a dozen people and finally got my early termination fee reversed. It was quite the ordeal...the moral of the story is: If someone comes to your door trying to sell you something, they are most likely lying and trying to steal your money. -Caveat Emptor

michelle.hudak
1 years ago

I was running errands all day and instead of rushing home to cook dinner, I decided to stop for burgers at a well-known fast food chain. I went through the drive-thru and ordered sandwiches for me, my husband and my two children. Everything was off the menu except for my husband's burger which absolutely has to have no mayo. My husband cannot stand mayonnaise and this particular sandwich comes with it unless you tell them NO MAYO. As I drove off, I did the spot-check on the sandwich to make sure it came sans-mayo and sure enough...there was mayo on it. I think the combination of hormones, too much shopping and being tired flipped my switch. I whipped my car around like Jeff Gordon at the Bristol Motor Speedway and practically flew back into the parking lot, parked and stomped out of the car with sandwich in hand. I walked past everyone waiting in line and asked the person behind the counter "Excuse me, does this look like NO MAYO to you?" as I held the sandwich in one hand, bun in the other. The manager came over and asked to see my receipt which, of course in my blind rage, I'd left in the car. I told her it wasn't necessary to see my receipt, I know what I ordered since my husband is allergic to mayo (big fat lie) and I certainly wouldn't order mayo on his sandwich and send him to the hospital, now would I??? I then proceeded to slam the mayo-covered open burger right down on the counter. At this point, I was pretty sure I was going to start crying because whenever I get really angry I spontaneously burst into tears which just makes me even angrier. I somehow managed to spin around and march out the door and get into my car. I'm lucky I didn't run someone over as I drove off.

Jennifer Brandt
1 years ago

Hilarious and totally relatable! Thanks for sharing! Jennifer Brandt Managing Editor, Momversation & Parents Ask

Jennifer Brandt
1 years ago

Great story! So funny. Jennifer Brandt Managing Editor, Momversation & Parents Ask

SilverXeno
1 years ago

I have totally told the "allergy" fib when my food gets messed up. Your job is basic...read the order off the screen & DO IT RIGHT, lol!! I seem to become agitated a lot over food. ;)

shannonb
1 years ago

When my family moved from Canada to the states I did not adequately research the differences in the medical systems. I understood the basic differences but I'm a juvenile diabetic and I use an insulin pump and I did not understand that people in the states mostly buy the supplies and medications that I use through a mail-order company. I assumed that, worst case scenario, I would pick up the stuff I needed at the local pharmacy. As my supplies began to dwindle I was asking around trying to find out where to buy insulin and my other supplies and of course I first needed to get a prescription for said supplies so that my insurance would cover them. Of course no doctor in the area would see me until they had completed a "new patient" visit which they couldn't schedule for a minimum of 2 months. There didn't appear to be any walk-in type clinics and I was told that the few that did exist wouldn't prescribe this type of medication/equipment for me. I made about a bazillion phone calls trying to figure out what to do. I called my insurance and they told me to go to the ER. So I tried that. This is an extremely big and well-known American hospital that I visited. The doctor in the ER refused to write a prescription for the supplies I needed because she "didn't know how to write a prescription for that" and she couldn't tell me where to get them either. She didn't offer to find out. So I made about 900 phone calls (really more like 50) to local pharmacies and doctor's offices, getting more and more frantic. I called my insurance's information line back several times explaining that I needed to find a doctor and that I needed to know where to find my supplies (these are commonly used supplies). Finally, I lost it. I am not the type of person to freak out on a stranger. I am always polite on the phone. But I started crying and shrieking at the extremely unhelpful woman on the phone. "You are supposed to HELP me!" I wailed. "You are supposed to be able to tell me where to find a doctor at the very least! I am going to run out of medication in THREE DAYS and then what am I supposed to do?? I will DIE without this medication! Is that what you want? DO YOU WANT ME TO DIE???

SilverXeno
1 years ago

I would love to know what they said back after that, lol. ;) I certainly hope you found a way to get meds!

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