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To ask the most immature or spoiled behaviour you've seen from an adult?

544 replies

HellaFitzgerald · 29/08/2022 21:23

Today, in the supermarket, I saw a woman (I actually heard her before I rounded the corner and saw her, to be accurate) of about 40 loudly berating a man who worked there about something she wanted not being in stock. She then started to jump up and down on the spot stamping her feet like a toddler and then sat cross-legged on the floor in the middle of the aisle, arms folded, bottom lip pouted out. I was mortified for her, the worker, the people witnessing it, for everyone involved. It was so bizarre (though I was secretly glad to witness it as everyone on here always shares bizarre stories from people in public and I always feel left out I'd never seen anything before) Grin

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HappyMeal564 · 29/08/2022 21:46

I was selling my house. The lady buying it wanted the roof checked so she got a roofer out to check. All was fine. She then said she wanted me to pay for a new roof before I sold it to her, it would deteriorate with time and although her parents had told her they would lend her money for home improvements she didn't want to go down this route as she felt it was unfair that they expected her to pay them back

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 29/08/2022 21:50

My mum once tried to snatch all the free samples on the counter at Betty's tea room, and pushed and shouted at any other customers trying to taste them.

She was menopausal, and has never been a particularly calm person, but it was unbelievably embarrassing anyway. The rest of my family all walked out and left me to deal with her. ☹️

SpinCityBlues · 29/08/2022 21:51

Oh it was definitely me. I'll have to get DP to tell the tale.

In my defence I'd just had a hysterectomy.

Apl · 29/08/2022 22:00

My boss stamps his foot when he’s angry. Like a toddler.

This makes it extremely hard to take him seriously.

Desiredeffect · 29/08/2022 22:02

She could of been disabled op. I lady I support does this very often and a quick reassurance and she's back up on her feet.

ShirleyPhallus · 29/08/2022 22:02

I know someone who only has photos of herself in her home. She has entire collages of photos, all of just her. Also photo frames with multiple pics, all her. And even a digital photo frame that only has pics of her. She will go on holiday with other people then only pick the pics of herself to display. Not a single pic of anyone else in her house.

So weird and the kind of thing a teenager would do!

formulatingAresponse · 29/08/2022 22:06

Likely had a learning disability, MH issues, recent traumatic event, medication, any number of reasons

Ziggyisthebestdogintheworld · 29/08/2022 22:08

My sd

it was about a year ago and we where in superdrug

she suddenly decided to go home but didnt have her keys on her so I said she could use mine but I had to find them in my bag

as I fished about,she threw the biggest tantrum-screaming while laid on the floor like a toddler-arms and legs going for it

i stepped over her,and went to go pay-she got up and started screaming (like a toddler who couldn’t have sweets) that I was ‘embarrassing’ her (!) and that I shouldn’t have paid AND used my points card at the same time as ‘your showing me RIGHT up’

i ignored her and started to walk towards the door-she followed me,still screaming so I started walking the opposite way to what she expected and she carried on until she ran out of steam and fucked off

i have no idea where she went as I walked home-via my friends house,which is the opposite way to my house

she had the brass neck to tell her dad that I’d shown her up,shouted at her (I did no such thing) and abandoned her in town! we had a appointment to get her nails done (I just nipped into Superdrug on the way) and she missed it due to this behaviour-she tried to demand I give her the money that I would have paid to the salon (I was meant to pay for it as a treat) and ‘compensation’ on top

i have never laughed so hard in my life-I was not giving her £60 for having a tantrum

it wasn’t a one off-we once went to the Tower of London and she pulled the same stunt all the way there,she ran off in the station,tantrumed all the way round and kicked off all the way home-at one point she sat in the station (on the floor) and refused to move when the train pulled in-her dad pandered to this behaviour-I refused and got on the train-she did get on it with seconds to spare-in fact anytime she went out,she’d do this-it didn’t matter who she was with-she lost a lot of friends around this time

im now nc with her-her dad still sees her and she still pulls the same stunts

ThinWomansBrain · 29/08/2022 22:08

My boss stamps his foot when he’s angry. Like a toddler.

Once had a boss who jumped up and down. We were in a 60's building with low ceilings, he was quite tall - it made the ceiling tiles lift up. V amusing

Lochroy · 29/08/2022 22:10

Unfortunately, my mother on a regular basis. You can't disagree with her (even amicably in a healthy, normal, adult discussion or she walks out. And every couple of months I get told I'm going to be disinherited because I've done yet another thing to upset her (deliberately, even though I mostly don't know what she's talking about).

There is very little about her interactions with others which is adult.

artishard · 29/08/2022 22:21

I was living with my ex and his sister, who was a vegetarian. Had purchased myself a delicious can of heinz beans and sausages. Came down one morning to discover she had eaten the beans out ot the tin. Voiced my annoyance and was physically screamed at and chased in to the bathroom.

Same person used to eat the eggs from inside of scotch eggs and leave the meaty shells in the packet.

Wish this were a joke 😂

TheDogsMother · 29/08/2022 22:28

At a birthday lunch sitting next to a woman in her 50's (I'm similar age before anyone starts calling ageism). Her chicken arrived with a small bone joint in it, a chicken supreme I think. Cue massive fuss, calling staff over, bringing the whole lunch to a halt while this was all dealt with because it wasn't a completely boneless chicken breast.

MintJulia · 29/08/2022 22:28

I dated for a very short time, a guy who could not bear to be perceived as lower in the pecking order than others, no matter how petty.

My house had two parking spaces, one inside the gate & one outside the gate. There was also a public parking space directly opposite the house.

That summer. I had a female friend stay over because she was working locally. I would get home first, park and close the gate, leaving room for female friend who arrived next, to park in my second space. Dp would arrive last and be outraged that he did not have one of the private spaces, so rather than park in the public one, he parked in my neighbour's wide driveway, without asking. She took exception and moved her staddle stones to the very edge of her land to fend him off. I apologised and asked dp to move his car. he refused and left it parked where it was.

The situation resolved itself when someone (I suspect local farmer/tractor) side swiped his car - which was sticking out into the lane. Dp had a hissy fit, blamed me, said if I'd given him priority, this wouldn't have happened, and I should pay for the repairs. I told him to grow up and move his car out of everyone's way, he stormed off. And that was that. 😂

Thepossibility · 29/08/2022 22:31

My youngest sister. Was always pampered by our mother.
Has moved out with her fiance. She gets government payments as she refuses to work. He is expected to pay all the bills and mortgage. My mum is convinced that him wanting my sister to contribute financially at all is financial abuse.
All DS money should be her spending money for treats for herself.
That expecting her to do any housework at all is domestic slavery.
She should just be able to sit there doing absolute f all but earning equity on “her" house.

wafflesandeggs · 29/08/2022 23:09

When I was moving abroad I offered my sister several Le Creuset pieces that were barely used. My sister threw a huge tantrum because one had some oil baked on. It had already been washed, just not scrubbed completely. She demanded that I clean it for her and didn’t even thank me for them.

My mother once stopped speaking to me for 3 months because I got a job. She had kept complaining that I hadn’t found a job quick enough after graduation. Not long before that she threw a tantrum because I had gone on a job interview for another job. To this day I still don’t understand completely what it was the issue.

midlifecrash · 29/08/2022 23:26

Birthday surprise was organised for head of department at the end of a meeting, I was roped in to carry a plate of cakes with pink sugar icing. While a colleague was doing the “happy birthday Paul!” spiel, a woman attending hissed at me “can’t I have one then?” We hadn’t started to hand them round yet…

ilovesooty · 29/08/2022 23:34

A colleague of mine had to tell his wife that he couldn't leave a work meeting early. She'd lost the spare house keys and wanted him to come home and go through the dustbin. She wouldn't do it in case it ruined her nails. For the same reason he had to put petrol in her car too in case she broke a nail getting the petrol cap off.

ChagSameachDoreen · 29/08/2022 23:35

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wafflesandeggs · 29/08/2022 23:36

My mother once stopped speaking to me for 3 months because I got a job.

I forgot to mention that this also included refusing to saying goodbye to me when I moved abroad.

Hawkins001 · 29/08/2022 23:39

Colleague, without two much details, we get geographical areas, colleague was in section c, I was section a, day before colleague had been in section b, previous day, so I ask colleague on day two, if I could use part of section b, if they had not needed that part and they were now in section c, turns out that colleague went from section c, just to do that part of section b, because I asked about it,
To me, what happened to team members helping each other, rather than being odd ?

HailAdrian · 29/08/2022 23:43

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Not in the spirit

Because it's really unlikely that a neurotypical adult did that...

HailAdrian · 29/08/2022 23:45

Anyway, I once had a full blown meltdown because I couldn't find my mascara. Screaming, crying, shaking, the lot. I was stressed in general. Not my finest moment.

Nightynightnight · 29/08/2022 23:49

I had a massive crying fit because my husband brought me chicken chow mein instead of Singapore rice noodles from the Chinese takeaway. I was nine months pregnant so he forgave me.

5foot5 · 30/08/2022 00:07

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Not in the spirit

TBF this is the first thing I thought when I read the OP. This behaviour sounds more extreme then just entitled and spoilt behaviour

PauliesWalnuts · 30/08/2022 00:13

As I got on to a tube carriage at one end, a very well dressed bloke got on the other end and sprinted down the carriage towards me to nab the last seat, landing on the cushion and turned to give me a superior grin. I’d not been living in London long and kind of looked at him, mouth agape. The bloke sat next to him gave a slow hand clap and said to him “despite what you might think, it’s not musical chairs mate”.