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

[HellaFitzgerald]

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)

My ex

I paid for a 5* all inclusive holiday to Mexico including private transfers and seating upgrades.

When we got to the resort he couldn't find the gym . I told him where it was and he then accused me of booking "the wrong" hotel .
So I took him to reception for the concierge to explain.
Concierge did.
Ex turned around , walked out , stamped his foot and said "I want to go home " then fucked off with the room key card so I was stuck with a suitcase, a hoodie and leggings in 35 degree heat until he showed up again .

He'd taken absolutely no interest in the resort when I'd tried to show him telling me to "stop shoving that fucking phone under my nose" so I stopped . Then he complained when we got there .

He's an ex for a reason.

My stepfather, who clearly has a massive chip on his shoulder, specialised in being nasty to waiters.
Everything was wrong, the cutlery, the plates, food was too hot or too cold and he would have a massive tantrum about it.
I haven't been to a restaurant with him for family do's for 25 years because I just can't go through all that again.

My 35 year old colleague not talking to me for a week when she realised I was a grade above her.

She recently wished me happy birthday so I replied 'thank you, how's the house move going?' and she just didn't reply 😂 why bother with fake platitudes!

Working with her was very stressful and I'm very glad I have a new job!

Quoting several examples of when it's used incorrectly doesn't make it right, no matter how mainstream the companies you refer to.

Important to note that Costa, say Panini and Sandwiches, not Paninis and Sandwiches.

So, in your haste you seem to have gathered at least some evidence that undermines whatever very weak points you are clumsily making.

It was definitely me...

So I used to live in a flat above a large super drug that used to have overnight deliveries. They would come about 3 am 4x a week with metal trolleys clanging and rolling and the delivery men constantly shouting, chatting and laughing the whole time they were there for 1 - 2 hours. Lots of ringing and emailing head office, complaining to the store manager in the day and asking the delivery men to pleaaaase be quieter as they were waking my young children up every time.
Anyway one night I snapped. I started off by chucking a bucket of cold water over one of the delivery men's heads as he was going inside, then went downstairs went in to the store (so all lights on, shutters up but it's 3am) grabbed a basket and went round the store shouting 'WELL IF THE STORES FUCKING OPEN, I'M GOING SHOPPING!! ' and swiping shit in to the basket.

Not my finest moment but there were no more overnight deliveries after that 😂

An interesting example of sulking, given that it was a teacher, one would have hoped he might be a better role model for impressionable youngsters in his charge.
He had previously taught KS3, before moving to KS2 and of course that is Much Harder and Proper Teaching. I was a mere female and had only ever taught KS1 or KS2.
We had parallel Year 5 forms, teaching Maths among other subjects, which entailed regular meetings with the subject leader. As it happened, he had the form with more bright sparks in it, so when cross-year assessments were set, he got the better results. Didn't bother me; I knew he had the brighter class that year; luck of the draw, and the subject co-ordinator assured me that I was doing all the right things. He would almost preen visibly at subject meetings, smirking at me superciliously.
Then the wheel of fortune turned and the position reversed; I got the slightly better lot, and he was visibly annoyed: red face, pouting, muttering.......but anything I did to upset him resulted in bitching behind my back. I wasn't one to initiate "banter", but could give as good as I got when sneers were clumsily described as "a bit of joshing", and he would stomp off, slamming the door behind him.
A male colleague took delight in telling me, "Well, you've been promoted - it's not 'Bloody Twosheds' any more, it's 'Fucking Twosheds'!"
When the same colleague found that he was being similarly grumbled about for some imagined slight, (apparently, he was planning to sue,) he brought the matter into the open, asking very mildly if there was a problem, and could they talk things through?
This precipitated storming out of school, and an absence of three days.
To our relief, he moved on, although he did asked for a reference, and I believe he ended up teaching abroad.

I used to pay all the household bills & my ex never really paid much attention to them.

He decided I was 'paying too much' because I am just a silly clueless woman & decided to take over.

When he found out how much we were being charged for water (back before water meters were a thing, so just the standard rate everyone paid) he was so enraged he couldn't make them charge less he stormed around the house & turned on every single tap, the shower, kept trying to flush to toilet to 'show them'.
There were threats of building a pond or swimming pool in the garden to 'get his moneys worth' out of the perfectly ordinary bill we'd been paying for a decade at the time.

He got tired of doing that after an hour or so, as the noise of all the running water was annoying.
He threw the bills back at me & told me he didn't have time to sort 'domestic things' so left it to me again.

I had a full time job & 2 part time jobs at the time, earned more than he did & paid more of the bills.

Just one of the reasons he is my ex.

Oh, I see. You've not only not read the examples, but you genuinely don't grasp the concept of language usage.

Important to note that Costa, say Panini and Sandwiches, not Paninis and Sandwiches.

Er. Do you mean Nero? I didn't post a link from Costa. Excellent close reading skills you have there. I suppose they have one letter in common, so well done for recognising that. It's an 'O'. Congratulations

The Nero menu items read as follows:

THIS PLANT BASED 'CHICKEN' ARRABBIATA PANINI
Seasoned THIS! ‘chicken’ pieces in a tomato ragu sauce, with chargrilled red chilli puree and spinach in a sourdough panini.
vegan
HAM & MOZZARELLA PANINI
Ham with mozzarella and Cheddar in a sourdough panini
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MOZZARELLA & TOMATO PANINI
Mozzarella & vine ripened tomato with basil pesto in a sourdough panini
vegetarian

et cetera.

Quoting several examples of when it's used incorrectly doesn't make it right, no matter how mainstream the companies you refer to.

I see. So every company is wrong. Every menu is wrong. Every poster is wrong. But you, @hotdiggetydog , are right. No matter how every single other person and organisation in the Anglosphere uses the word, you are right because you say you are.

Got it. Enjoy living in your little world where everything is just exactly as you imagine it to be. Perhaps you are the Queen. That must be nice for you.

Just stop hotdiggertydog! Yes I know there should be a comma after stop. But, y’know, it doesn’t matter a panini.

TOO EASY 🎣

#teampanino

What's the grammar meant to be in this sentence, by the way?

You wrote:

Important to note that Costa, say Panini and Sandwiches, not Paninis and Sandwiches.

On a thread about immature behaviour, we have an excellent example of immature behaviour. Well done, people.

All this talk of paninis has reminded me of an occasion when I was telling off a naughty pupil at school. She was one of those kids who was so funny that it was difficult to feel cross, even though she had been a PITA.
I arrived at school the day after the telling off, to find an irate note from her on my desk, which said 'up your pannini'. I had forgotten about it til reading this thread, and I laughed all over again at the memory of it 😂

My daughter's neighbour wanted to fill their huge, 10ft across, pool from daughter's outside tap, he always done is apparently. When she asked why he told her that he was on w water meter and she wasn't.

I've just recalled a priceless example of adult tantrums. About 25 years ago we decided to do a Leavers' Dinner and Disco, now called a Prom, at a hotel about 15 miles from school. Year 11 were told about it in September but were also told that they had a clean sheet for behaviour but if they had more than 2 short exclusions they couldn't go, this was laid out in the letter to the parents that they signed. A couple of weeks before the date a few were told they couldn't go because of various infringments, cheques were sent home for money paid. One mother went ballistic, she yelled at the office staff, tore up the cheque etc etc but he still wasn't going.

Come the night the coach was outside school to take them and she appeared with son who looked so embarrassed. He was going, he was victimised, she was going to the Council, papers, TV etc. eventually she lay down in front of the bus, if he wasn't going, no-one was! The other pupils were in hysterics laughing at her, egging on the driver to Go on, squash her, they were even more shocked when a couple of teachers said to him There's a fiver in it if you do! He didn't go.

grin

I had that once working on nights and gave a colleague a lift home who asked me as she 'lived near me' but still added a mile or so to my journey. Also as you say the inconvenience of waiting for someone else, wanting stop off here there and everywhere etc.
End of the first week she announced that she hoped l wasn't expecting petrol money as she still bought a weekly bus pass so l wasn't saving her any money.
l said fine, you better get your moneys worth then and use it to get home.
She actually reported me to HR who predictably didn't want get involved and she never spoke to me again.

Or someone who has never had to involve other people in their life. I worked with a woman like that.

@BloodAndFire and @hotdiggetydog . A few years ago I taught a very bright student (ended up doing law at Oxford) but also very bumptious and pompous as a certain type of 6th form boy can be. In one of our lessons the panino/panini thing came up. He was very insistent that it had to be panino. I pointed out to him - to the delight of the rest of the class- that sometimes being so pedantically correct just made you sound like a dick.

This is quite ignorant. There are those of us in Britain who quite like to be accurate when using non-English words. Unfortunately, people who think "language works" in the way you would like it to lead to all sorts of howling errors. There are a number of placenames in the Scottish islands for instance which due to English cartographers are now completely inaccurate and bear no resemblance to their correct pronunciation or meaning.

It also explains my recent Ryanair experience. I asked the Ryanair assistant, who turned out to be British, if the queue was for the Goteborg flight, and was growled back at with the pronunciation "Gothenburg" slowly pronounced in her very strong English accent. I was in Denmark at the time...

Also another one going back to teenages so not 'fully grown women' but definately old enough to know better.

My best friend was an only child and quite bossy/demanding of her mother (an abuse surviver who was lovely and always trying to please her precious daughter) and in the summer holidays her mother took us both to the zoo for a day out which was going great.

Until my friend decided she wanted to pet a penguin (not an option at the zoo btw) and she had a FULL meltdown, a 15 year old girl with zero mental health issues (only ever acted bratty like this to her mam) threw herself on the floor kicking and screaming demanding her mam (a single mother on disabilty living allowence so not rich) 'buy' one of the penguins (also not an option, you cant just buy exotic animals from a zoo) so she play with it.

It was mortifying, he mam just ignored it and took me for ice cream (she offered her DD but she was to busy kicking and trying to bite her) and she eventually tantrumed herself out like a 2 year old but then sat in a huff all day... it really made me think twice about the friendship while fade out over the next few years.

I barely ever think about that friend now but I do miss her mam sometimes, I hope shes doing alright.

I disappointed someone in my book group who had made an assumption about me. It was about TV preferences - but along the lines of finding out I preferred the Daily Mail to the Telegraph. She threw a tantrum, was nearly in tears, and hasn't spoken to me since. The irony is that she misunderstood and got it wrong, but wouldn't let me explain. But the rest of us were very embarrassed at this behaviour from a grown woman and I lost all respect for her.

Sorry, I've read that several times now and I'm none the wiser

A relative let her house while away for a year, with a reduced rent on condition that (a) only one person would be living there; (b) as she would be away, she could not come to help sort out any appliances, etc. that went wrong; but he could deduct all costs for repairs, etc. from the rent. Well, the 'friend staying for a couple of weeks' turned out to be his wife, who lived there throughout, and was a VERY strange person. She contacted my relative to inform her that the tumble-dryer wasn't working; my relative said that as explained, she couldn't come to deal with it, but repair costs could be deducted from the rent. The wife, who of course wasn't supposed to be living there at all, got so furious that as later transpired, she took all the linen from the washing machine AND all the clean dry linen that she could find in the house, threw it all on the floor together, and danced in a rage all over it!

If you were going to Paris with a British (or Irish) airline, would you pronounce it Paree?

BloodAndFire is correct.