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.

I once attended a friend's wedding anniversary party, she had hired a local venue and had a d.j and buffet, decorations, very nice.
Around an hour into it, I was talking to my friend's sister in law when an Elvis track came on.
I said it was a shame that Elvis died so young.
This woman started sobbing hysterically that Elvis isn't dead, how could I say such a thing etc.
Her husband ( my friends brother ) came over and started comforting her like you would a small child who had just hurt themselves.
' There, there darling, it's ok, of course Elvis isn't dead sweetheart she's just being nasty ' etc.
It was so childishly embarrassing to see that I still cringe now, some ten years later.

@OhGiveUp

I once attended a friend's wedding anniversary party, she had hired a local venue and had a d.j and buffet, decorations, very nice. Around an hour into it, I was talking to my friend's sister in law when an Elvis track came on. I said it was a shame that Elvis died so young. This woman started sobbing hysterically that Elvis isn't dead, how could I say such a thing etc. Her husband ( my friends brother ) came over and started comforting her like you would a small child who had just hurt themselves. ' There, there darling, it's ok, of course Elvis isn't dead sweetheart she's just being nasty ' etc. It was so childishly embarrassing to see that I still cringe now, some ten years later.

Unbelievable🙄

[quote Peppapigforlife]@Viggohytten well when you own your own nursery you can decide who you employ and what you expect from your employees.[/quote]
And nobody with an ounce of cop on would employ someone who asks to be relieved of nappy changing duty in a baby room, because they don't like it 😂
But carry on justifying your position, it's a hoot

@Peppapigforlife

The phobia wasn’t the childish behaviour, the squealing and jumping around was, plus the inability to be sensible with phobias/chosen work. If I had a phobia of heights, I wouldn’t apply for a job cleaning the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Also, in my experience a member of staff interviewing at a nursery and saying they can’t change nappies would struggle to get the job. It would mean other members of staff would need to do extra which is also unfair. It would be better to pick a job you can do comfortably. And unfortunately milk sick stains are part of the uniform in a baby room.

A middle-aged guy with a woman on the tube today who out of nowhere screamed 'put a mask on fatso!' To someone getting off the tube (I didn't see them).

I am studying part time in the evening and once the tutor asked us to print something out instead of submitting online. It would have cost 20p at the most.

This 50+ year old ex naval officer had a massive tantrum, insisted he couldn't afford it and eventually bullied the tutor into printing it for him.

@Reloxa

A middle-aged guy with a woman on the tube today who out of nowhere screamed 'put a mask on fatso!' To someone getting off the tube (I didn't see them).

I hope they got back on and decked her . That's not childish, it's loutish.

A 34 year old woman I used to live with would have full blown, foot stomping, screaming tantrums like a toddler if something wasn't going her way. She was an only child so I could only attribute it to that.

The ex-wife of an old friend of mine was a middle-aged woman who frequently had the most outrageous tantrums if things didn't go her way. I remember once, said friend was driving us all to the local theatre, we were in plenty of time for the play but we had to take a detour because of an accident on the road into town so we were going to miss having a drink in the bar beforehand as planned. His wife - I'll call her Ann - started complaining and swiftly began screaming, shouting and banging the passengers door in a rage. Her husband was calmly trying to placate her and she kept screaming at him to go faster even though he was in traffic and driving as fast as possible. DH and I were just sitting in the back in complete shock trying not to laugh. Another time, we went out for a meal with them and their 2 teenage children. They were planning a party for their wedding anniversary. During the meal Anne asked her step daughter to help make the invitations, but step daughter was doing her A-levels and had said she couldn't commit the time to hand-make 80 invitations at such short notice. Anne KICKED OFF shouting and screaming at this poor girl about how ungrateful she was etc etc. People were genuinely leaving the pub because she was ruining the whole thing.

There were loads of other incidents. No apology was ever forthcoming. They are not together any more!!

I have a long list, but one of my exes' many childish behaviours was when he stormed off to his bedroom and flung himself face down on the bed.
It was because his friend and me had both said we didn't like a tune he'd put on.

@User1357

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.

Tell me more!

How are they dangerous?

@AlGorithim

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'd have picked up a stone and lobbed it at his head. Ignorant cunt.

Sitting quite happily in the snow with my oldest making snowballs and piling them up for a snowball fight later. Son starts smashing a few and H sees him and really yells at him to stop destroying the snowballs then stomped off somewhere.....

Came back later and said he’d been hungry/Hangry so went off to get something to eat. one of many childish incidents. The thing that gets me, if you know you get hangry, eat regularly, you’re a supposed adult and should be able to manage that.

[quote Peppapigforlife]@Viggohytten I own my own business and if İ had a prospective candidate who could do every task except one and had a valid mental health reason for not doing so, I would employ them because I am capable of critical thought and I know a person's ability to be a good employee is not dependent on one specific task.[/quote]
My mum had very severe sickness phobia

She’s never ever worked with anywhere where she would even come into contact with someone throwing up. Even as a 20 yr old. I must admit.

@CyberGhost

A 34 year old woman I used to live with would have full blown, foot stomping, screaming tantrums like a toddler if something wasn't going her way. She was an only child so I could only attribute it to that.

@CyberGhost I’ve seen this behaviour in many people with many siblings. Good to see the only child stereotypes are still alive and well though

I work for a housing association dealing with ASB. My days are full of dealing with childish adults. Eg, moaning about wheelie bins and positioning said wheelie bin to block paths or doorways or drives, name calling, tit for tat behaviour, I once had someone phone to complain a neighbour had given her a dirty look. When I explained I can't take enforcement action on a dirty look she full on cried, wailed and screamed on the phone that I wasnt helping and the dirty look had scared her and I needed to do something. It was a full on moment. I did ask her what she expected us to do, she replied "cant you evict her or something. I'm scared she might do it again"

SIL threw her toys out of her pram and walked out of a family meal/celebration because I'd lost weight. Hadn't seen her in about 6 months and I'd lost 2 stone in that time. Was very proud of myself. She walked in and said wow you've lost weight. Then started crying, then stomped out. I was stealing the limelight apparently . It was PIL anniversary 🤷‍♀️. Dunno who's limelight I was stealing tbh.

Daft mare

My ex jumped up and down like a toddler having tantrum when he wasn't getting the upper hand in an argument we were having. It was quite a sight!! Yes, I laughed. Out loud.

My best friends brother was staying with due to his marriage ending.

He loved to mansplain and was telling me that I should buy a house that needs doing up. He could come and look round and tell me what work would be needed and how much it would cost, because he watches American home improvement programmes', when my friend (his sister) pointed out we live in the UK and he has never actually done any sort or home reno or even owned a house, he got really angry screamed 'Why are you being so mean, leave me alone....all of you' then ran upstairs and slammed his door. I just sat opened mouthed.

I also sat in a dicisiplinary for a staff member who was late for work 9btimes out of 10. He didn't start work until 11am. His excuse was that the air felt weird at that time on a morning so he couldn't get up in time. Worst thing was senior management said his manager needed to coach him, to improve his ability to get up on time.

I heard arguing from downstairs and went to investigate. It was my (now ex DP) and our 4 year old. When I mentioned they might want to keep it down as it was 6am my ex pointed at our son and said 'he started it'.

Worked with a guy at a highly professional company who wasn't particularly easy to work alongside.

One afternoon in a long meeting our kind boss supplied biscuits and fruit to keep us going.

29yr old colleague absolutely exploded and angrily prodded our boss in the chest because not all the M&S luxury biccies had chocolate on them.
He'd only had 1 with chocolate on and Bob, Joe, John etc had eaten 2 with chocolate on (John actually ate 3 with chocolate on but he'd not noticed that) and there were none left. He stormed out declaring he was done with the company, we were a bunch of selfish pricks who should burn in hell, wah wah wah.

2 days later we were sent an email from him, totally pissed up in his flat declaring love for us all and he'd be back Monday morning. The boss had HR on the door to make sure he didn't return.

Ex work colleague decided that because she was a manager her job involved standing in one corner all day and staring at everyone else. She couldn’t Hoover at the end of the day because she was management, so I always did it even though I was also management and later pregnant as well. Same colleague deliberately booked a holiday for the same week that the manager was off, knowing full well she wouldn’t be able to take it. She planned to just hop on the plane and phone work to say she was ill which would mean the manager would have to come in and lose her holiday. I grassed her up because she was a twat and when the manager questioned her about it she said I was lying and happily told me that she’d said that while telling me not to worry because the manager liked me so I wouldn’t get into trouble. Constantly told me what a great friend she was and how loyal she was and would send me angry texts if she saw photos on social media of me out with people she didn’t like, which was apparently every single one of my other friends!
She sulked when the manager got engaged because she was desperate to get engaged. Her boyfriend finally proposed on her birthday in August then dumped her on Christmas Day and told her he was seeing someone else. I should have felt sorry for her but I really didn’t. God she was a nightmare!

I'd have picked up a stone and lobbed it at his head. Ignorant cunt.

@Womendohavevaginasnick I know, right?? It was one of the most pathetic things I’ve seen an adult do. It’s hard to describe, but he did it with a kind of flounce and gave me a look exactly like a child does when they do something you’ve told them not to do, like ‘so there‘.

Friend's MIL always compares the value of her Xmas present with what friend gave to her own mum, and throws tantrums and gives months long silent treatments if hers is not more expensive. No, it's not an option to give them the same thing, she does not feel special enough then.