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 DH brothers ex wife was like this too. So weird. They were married for years and not one pic of him in their flat.

Sounds like there may be more going on here; neurodivergence or maybe a disability. It isn't always blindingly obvious that people are different.

@PauliesWalnuts that musical chairs comment is brilliant 🤩

@Flakjacketon

*Driving on a narrow road in Italy with a precipice on one side I came face to face with an Italian boy racer.

He made it very clear that he expected me to do the reversing. So, I 'searched for reverse' - with a few false starts - and began to reverse verrrrrrrrrry slowly.

Cue lots of waving of hands - and a few Latin expletives, no doubt, then he reversed very quickly into the closer passing place.*

Eek. I have a horror of driving on those sorts of roads. The Italian job brings me out in a cold sweat and I sit there whining "slow down, slow down you fool" while DH issues advice on how to rebalance the coach!

No way would I reverse on a road like that. It'd have to be the other guy. I'd have a fainting fit until they gave up.

With all the bread on thread we don't need to worry about the cost of living crisis! Sorry

My sil one christmas she had full blown hysterics because she broke a plate.
last week she slammed her door in my face because I wouldn't get together the documents to prove her identity and deal with mil financial guy so that she won't be fined for not registering a trust. What I am supposed to sort your personal documents and the ifa break data protection so you can do fuck all?
oh and she refuses to visit her husband whenever he is in hospital (which is frequent)
This week.she refused to go with mil to Wetherspoons to eat with visiting relatives.....as she might give the husband a bug...but that morning mil took her to a busy posh coffee shop

yes I fucking hate her. She's in her 60s but been allowed to behave like a child all her life.

When I was 18 I went on holiday with my 21 year old boyfriend to a remote part of Crete. One morning he had a mardy strop about something and threw himself back on the bed but banged his head on the wall. I laughed spontaneously, he stormed out of the hotel and was gone all day - not returning until late into the night. He didn’t speak to me for the rest of the holiday!

you are so right - gods chosen 😂

Regarding the usage of Italian words, a couple of people in this thread probably sound like this at restaurants:

I cried over a cancelled McDonald’s takeaway order and again when it eventually arrived without bbq sauce. Tbf i was 7 months pregnant at the time.

oh and another time during pregnancy I lost it at a DPD driver who marked my parcel as undelivered even though I was at home, so I stormed downstairs, marched to his van circling it like some sort of vulture waiting for him to return. When he eventually did I very nearly pulled my package out the back of the van myself before waddling away angrily (but with my precious parcel). He looked shaken, I felt bad a few months later upon reflection.

This is brilliant I love it!

We we’re very friendly with our NDN for years but he stopped speaking to us when we had UPVC windows fitted - he believed houses should only have hard wood windows.

He then started letting his dog crap at the end of our drive every morning and used to get his kids to block our drive whenever they visited. When I asked them to move one time so I could get my car out he had a screaming fit and screeched that we ‘had been this way since Princess Diana died’ WTAF???

My gut reaction would be to assume the lady has some additional needs, I'm surprised that wouldn't be the first thing to come to mind

I had a neighbour once that would mow the open plan front lawn but always leave the 18 inch strip that was actually in front of my house.

I'm sorry to say I've got previous for this. When I was pregnant I had to work very long hours for a week, and something went wrong with my laptop at about 9pm (losing a document I had spent hours on) I spent another hour on the phone to the IT help centre who were frustratingly unhelpful, much to the interest (and amusement) of the few people left in the office who could overhear. I ended the call fairly abruptly saying I would have just have to type the whole thing again. Instead of doing that, I stormed over to the office suggestion box, and wrote (biro searing into the paper) a suggestion that we should "stop employing f*cking numpties in the IT department", and signed it. Twenty minutes later, I suddenly resolved the problem myself and started to feel really bad about my outburst. I decided I would resolve the problem by getting my suggestion back out of the box, but when I put my hand in, the box got lodged on my arm, and try as I might, I could not get it back off. Eventually, I had to walk round the office at 11pm with the suggestion box stuck on my arm trying to find someone to help me. With the help of remaining colleagues (who I did not know), we wrenched it off, taking lots of skin off in the process. I am not particularly proud of any of this, but I do think that I might have been spoken about as "that woman that...." for a while.🙄

A 74 year old so called friend deleting me because another mutual friend and I had a disagreement. Absolute shockingly immature behaviour, especially at that age.

After almost all my life feeling like “I never got the guidebook” everyone else seemed to have. At 34 I am coming to the realisation that I may be autistic. I have had some real meltdowns, in public, with family and at home over some of the most insignificant in hindsight things but to me at the time they were BIG and IMPORTANT. I have some techniques I use as coping strategies but sometimes they just will not work. I’ve two sons also with ASD. My OH is a very patient, loving and caring man. The more I’ve spoken to him about it the more he notices when I’m getting overwhelmed and he often steps in. One of the biggest things for me is masking, something I’ve done always, now I try to unmask at home because it’s just debilitating to be “that person” all the time. I have good and bad days. Today I spent time away from home in the company of others that I haven’t spoken to about my traits. My family know I’ve always been odd and I never really fit in anywhere. Upto now apart from my partner and strangers on the internet I haven’t had the confidence to speak about it to others. I understand that some others have gone their whole life just like me being different with no explanation or assessments. So I do relate to the lady that the OP is talking about because that has been me several times before.

It's called second hand embarrassment and is a thing. A lot of people grow out of it, but some never do. For this occasion, even I, who will sing and dance without reason in public, might feel a little second hand embarrassment for this woman. Probably was a mental health issue though.

Many many things from MIL with whom we are now NC, but one that sticks in my mind is her suddenly SCREAMING when someone just brushed against her in a shop - just against her sleeve. It was gentle, definitely didn't hurt her, she wasn't barged into, it was just a light brush as we went through a busy section, and the lady instantly said "oh, sorry" - then MIL did this bloodcurdling scream! DH and I were so embarrassed 😳

Wow that’s a lot of struggles going on for the poor lady. Why would you write that about her? Like you said, she obviously had lots going on but you decide to call her out on here? Strange behaviour imo, but I don’t really understand why people go out of their way to push others down instead of supporting each other.

Oh and yes OP, like other people have commented, I suspect the lady may have mental health problems or something else that effects her behaviour x

Two spring straight to mind, both women and both car park related for some reason.

Walking back to our car holding my sons hands in their (virtually empty) primary school car park after a club and this woman drove right behind us revving her engine and surprised we obviously moved out of her way. BTW she could have gone lots of different ways and been nearer to the school but that's by the by. She parked next to my car and when she got out I said "what was the problem?" and she went off on one. She was acting like a young child yelling and ranting, half of what she said wasn't intelligible and there was a lot of "stupid person" mimicking of me. All three of us had our chins hitting the floor. After this went on for quite a few seconds, I moved to put the kids in the car and said "and that boys is what a sad person looks like". While I was sorting seat belts out she stood there saying "I'm not sad" and laughing in an exaggerated way. I think she then probably remembered that she was late and rushed off to collect her son. A few times after that if she saw me she would rev her car or laugh in that exaggerated fashion. Weirdo.

The other one was in a supermarket car park and as I was driving to go out I stopped at a t junction as there was a car coming. The car stopped in front of me blocking me going forward and the woman driver had an absolute screaming fit at the top of her lungs with her windows down with around people stopping to see what was going on. It was aimed at me, so I had offended her in some unknowable way. The sad thing was I could see a distressed looking child in the back seat. It went on for at least a couple of minutes with me looking back to see if I could safely reverse away - didn't think I could. I pulled my window down and shouted "move" a few times (not wanting to get out and confront a nut) and eventually she shot off and swerved into a disabled parking space parking diagonally. She didn't have disabled stickers or cards on her car - I know some disabilities are invisible but I think she was just being a twat. I drove off wondering WTH was that about?

Because she's empathetic? It's quite normal for empathetic people to feel embarrassment on behalf of others, even complete strangers. It may not be logical but it is a normal human emotion. For people who experience compassion and empathy, that is.

I see this trotted out a lot on MN - with the rather sneery implication that it’s impossible to have any empathy unless you go around in a permanent state of embarrassment at the behaviour of strangers. The woman in question clearly wasn’t embarrassed, so why would the OP be mortified on her behalf? It’s so over the top.

Many moons ago when I was in school, my math teacher would get so angry he would scrunch his face up , cross his arms, put his fingers in his ears and face away toward the white board ignoring the class. He would also stamp his feet. Made me giggle.

Better than throwing the wooden board cleaner across the room, s as my maths teacher used to do! Or stamping across the classroom, grabbing the student's hardback maths textbook and slamming it back down on the student's desk. Those books were heavy!

Can't say I blame him. People referring to Maths as "math" would wind me up too.