What is the most childish behaviour you have witnessed in an adult ?

[WildRosie]

Mine isn't dramatic but it was pathetic and cringeworthy nevertheless. Our hero was a work colleague of mine in his mid to late twenties, a little sensitive and utterly mollycoddled by his parents. One evening at work, he prepares to put his microwave meal in the microwave oven but, having read the heating instructions, he learns that said meal is "Not suitable for microwave cooking". Fair enough, that's a bummer, especially when you're peckish on a late shift. His reaction was to phone his Mum straight away and whine to her, rather than taking it on the chin and nipping out to the shops or for fish and chips. In other words, taking appropriate responsibility for his meals like a grown man should do didn't occur to him. His priority was to go crying to Mummy. Drip. Painful and ridiculous.

When I worked in a nursery I had an apprentice in my room who insisted she couldn’t clean up sick/poo as she had a phobia. She used to squeal and jump around dramatically if a child threw up even a tiny bit of milk. It was a baby room so I don’t know how she was planning on furthering her career!

Although my lunch break being ruined with a meal I couldn’t eat could really tip me over the edge to be honest! I think I would use it as an excuse for a takeaway.

I know somebody who just completely and utterly lacks logical and adult rational. They have the biggest case of victim syndrome I have witnessed and the tantrums.. well, honestly they are incredibly dangerous.

Unfortunately, you just cannot reason with this person because the victim hood she displays would result in whoever pulls her up being the unreasonable one. Oh and just everybody is a narcissist according to her.

It is the worst case I have ever whitnessed.

Witnessed

Once asked a young shop assistant to off load all the stock from a broken shop floor freezer to one in the warehouse..
Next day boss hits the roof. He had put them all in a fridge.. Apparently he didn't know the difference..

Dd had a boyfriend when she was in her early 20’s who’s mother waited on him hand and foot - to the extent that she brought him breakfast in bed every single morning. Even on the mornings Dd was with him 😯

But actually that’s not childish behaviour is it, it’s him being treated as a child. Sorry!

I used to work in a betting shop. One time a man and younger guy came into the shop (looked to be a father and son) I asked the younger guy for ID and he had none so I asked him to leave. He refused and the older man said "trust me, he is 18". The older man said loudly in front of me "don't worry, I'll put your bets on" I told him I wouldn't be able to serve him. I was 6/7 months pregnant at the time. He reached through the gap in the security screen and started pelting me with pens and paper and whatever else he could get his hands on while screaming how fat and ugly I was. His son just stood there doing nothing. Other customers rushed up and thrust their bets at me ignoring the abuse I was getting. I walked away in the end, he left threatening to come back at closing and beat me up. I got to swap shifts with another local shop so I wouldn't be there at closing but management were horrible to me and offered no support and blamed me. They knew I was in no position to quit and find another job. All because I wouldn't treat his kid as an adult on his word.

I was in a sod play centre for a birthday party one of my kids was at, maybe aged 4. There’s a small cafe area that is at the foot of the big slide. Everyone in the cafe is there with a young child; it was an early afternoon party so definitely no kids over 5 there at the time. Many of the adults had infants with them. One of the party adults, a gran of one of the kids in our group, made a big fuss when I offered a seat to a mum on her own (not in our group.) ‘that seat’s taken, if you’re not with Adam’s party you can’t sit here.’ No, I said, I invited her to sit down. ‘Well, mind your bag’ she replied. She was so spiteful, over something as stupid as an empty chair, very infantile, and childish.

Ex H complaining that it wasn't fair that he had to phone the kids "all the time" ( once every couple of months) they should do their bit - they were 7 at the time 🙄

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I know a man like this, rants and raves like a teen in his 50s also dangerous and has been violent.

I had a few days away last week with a friend. We drove to the coast for a walk round and some fish and chips. Parking up at the coast she couldn't use the machine, totally refused to follow the written and visual instructions, stood there stamping her feet like a 3 year old, she's mid seventies.

A few years ago I was dating a man in his early 30s. One morning he was going to see his mum after dropping me off at the station. On the way out he picked up his full washing basket and took it out to his car. Apparently he did it every weekend and his mum would then deliver his freshly washed and ironed clothes back to his house while he was at work during the week.

I just couldn’t fancy him after that

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I used to work in a betting shop. One time a man and younger guy came into the shop (looked to be a father and son) I asked the younger guy for ID and he had none so I asked him to leave. He refused and the older man said "trust me, he is 18". The older man said loudly in front of me "don't worry, I'll put your bets on" I told him I wouldn't be able to serve him. I was 6/7 months pregnant at the time. He reached through the gap in the security screen and started pelting me with pens and paper and whatever else he could get his hands on while screaming how fat and ugly I was. His son just stood there doing nothing. Other customers rushed up and thrust their bets at me ignoring the abuse I was getting. I walked away in the end, he left threatening to come back at closing and beat me up. I got to swap shifts with another local shop so I wouldn't be there at closing but management were horrible to me and offered no support and blamed me. They knew I was in no position to quit and find another job. All because I wouldn't treat his kid as an adult on his word.

Bookies are the absolute worst. If you've ever wondered what a nursery would be like if instead of toddlers it was full of middle aged men having tantrums, just spend half an hour in one. Thank god I got out.

Someone I work with who is 24. She Iives near a bus stop and a train station with trains every 20 mins. She has been late a few times with bus problems. When I suggested the train instead she said she couldn't possibly as she has never been on a train and would be frightened. Its 3 stops!

Same woman won't catch a bus after 6pm in winter as she is scared when it's dark so she gets taxis everywhere

@Kanaloa that's not childish I have that phobia too. I will actually throw up right there and then, if I see another person's vomit that isn't my own child's.

Many years ago when I worked in investment banking, one of the (male) heads of one of our European desks needed something doing.
He brought the paperwork to my team, and told us to do xyz.
This wasn't procedure, so I explained what he needed to do.
He wasn't happy about this and proceeded to literally jump up and down with rage, shouting.

[quote Peppapigforlife]@Kanaloa that's not childish I have that phobia too. I will actually throw up right there and then, if I see another person's vomit that isn't my own child's.[/quote]
So presumably you would avoid jobs where you might encounter this, such as looking after small children...

[quote Peppapigforlife]@Kanaloa that's not childish I have that phobia too. I will actually throw up right there and then, if I see another person's vomit that isn't my own child's.[/quote]
Presumably you would know not to apply for an apprenticeship in a nursery though!

I spent the evening with a friend last week and her neighbour who I had never met came round.

She was 34 and I have never heard a supposedly grown woman whine like a 7 year old before. It started before she was drinking but got worse the more drunk she got. It was quite cringe worthy watching someone behave like that

I was just amazed at this long drawn out whine of a voice she was putting on. Apparently she is very spoiled by he parents and thinks everyone loves her and has all the men at her beck and call. Just strange behaviour

I saw some children throwing stones at ducks in a pond in a pub garden so I told them not to as it would injure the ducks. Children run off to mummy and daddy to whine that the nasty lady told them off. Knuckle dragging dad comes storming over saying how dare I tell his kids off so I pointed out pretty mildly that I’d only suggested they not throw stones at birds.

What does he do? He picks up a stone and lobs it at the ducks, just to prove that he can.

Absolute bellend.

I was a manager in a large company, one day a young woman in the office came to me actually crying because there was a used tampon left in the ladies toilet, off I went to investigate imagining some foul creature had left said used tampon somewhere (floor, sink, who knows) it was actually in the toilet bowl which had plainly not flushed properly, I flushed the loo without vomiting or fainting , lo and behold it disappeared forever. A few weekd later this young women tells me the job she is in is not for her and she is joining the police, how the fuck she has managed to deal with the gruesome stuff that police officers have to deal with I will never know!

@HollowTalk @massiveportion it would be something I'd consider at the age I am now, and if i really wanted to work with tiny children, I'd speak up and say can I do everything except change a nappy (not that poo bothers me personally) but believe it or not most phobias aren't on people's minds 24/7, it's just something which comes up in the moment when it occurs, so in my late teens or early twenties I might not have taken the time to think about it. I have worked with slightly older children in the past and vomit has never come up as an issue, nor was it on my mind when applying. Most other jobs I've been in, someone of adult functioning age has shat or vomited on the floor of the premises.
I'm sure your colleague soon realised her phobia made her unsuitable for babies that age. But definitely not childish, just a phobia and not thought through properly.

My FIL could be ridiculous. He basically had a tantrum one Christmas Day because the children got more presents than him. He was in his 60s.

I’ve met quite a few adults who won’t make public transport journeys, they’re never even complicated ones. I worked with one who wouldn’t drive whose dad drove her to work. She screamed at her husband take the day off work and pick her up when he couldn’t. I’d offered to take her to the train station and she lived 2 minutes away from where she was going to. Nope, she couldn’t do that.

I used to work in recruitment in the hospitality industry placing temporary staff, often just for a few days or weeks. There were many many batshit chefs.
One who was pissed off that the place they were working at didn’t want them back after the first week. So on their last day took in a screwdriver and unscrewed every cupboard door in the kitchen.
Another who called me after their first day at a new place and told me they wouldn’t be going back because they’d had to cross too many roads to get there.

These same people would then be calling the following week to complain that they hadn’t been allocated any work