barges in to

At one point, she barges in to reminisce about the time she shagged the lead singer of an Aerosmith cover band.

Luckily, a dark lady barges in to keep us guessing which way the story is going to lean, and the second act belongs to her.

But their feral existence gets upended when a neighbor barges in to check on their neglected dog, who she has seen scratching at the windows.

Such things weren’t unheard of where I came from—a falling-down wreck on the edge of town, curtains permanently drawn, that would turn out to have been home to some ancient recluse who’d been surviving on ramen and toenail clippings since time immemorial, though no one realizes it until a property appraiser or an overly ambitious census taker barges in to find the poor soul returning to dust in a La-Z-Boy.

But before they can kiss, a real estate broker barges in to show a couple the apartment.