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)

Did we go to the same school @Dilbertian
I had a blackboard rubber throwing maths teacher too.
And the music teacher. His initial was G and he was known as Jolly G. It took me years to work out it was a joke as he mostly wasn't jolly at all.

We had a math teacher that had a bald head, and when he got mad, his entire head went red apart from a white circle on the top of his skull. Looked like a carnation sticking there

We saw it a lot as he was very hot tempered

Not math, but our French teacher had a combover and when he got mad his face would turn beetroot and he'd hop up and down in anger, spittle flying, dislodging his well greased hair until it stuck out of the opposite side of his head waving up and down with him as he jumped.
It was very funny. I'm sure the lads in our class used to set him off on purpose just to see the spectacle of it.

@FoggyCrumpet can't say I view a little driving based pettiness as anything other than a public service, how else will they learn?!

Oh, and numerous swimming pool incidents. Public swimming pools seem to bring out the worst in some people. Some people get annoyed that others can swim faster than them and take it as a personal slight to be punished, others are just plain creepy, many can't follow the lane directions and cause mayhem, and so on.

One of the worst was recently when I joined the fast lane which contained a reasonably fast front crawl swimmer. Just 1 fast lane and 1 slow lane with several slower swimmers.

Said woman then came up to me before I started to swim to say that she didn't want to follow the anti-clockwise lane directions but wanted us to take a side each.

I declined, it was lunchtime and other swimmers might come in and I also don't train that way and find clockwise lane movement much easier. And the signs at the end of the lanes had instructions and big arrows telling you do that.

(Apparently, it was all because she was the fastest swimmer and might catch up with other swimmers and be delayed.)

She then had a tantrum. I don't take any shit from anyone and tend to remain annoyingly calm and logical and just kept repeating that I wasn't going to do as she wanted and that she was very rude. She was screaming, yelling, shouted racist abuse at me, really nasty stuff designed to upset, and then suddenly swam off in the middle of the lane.

I tried to swim but she was deliberately swimming up the "wrong" side so that she swam into me head first. Very childish behaviour and dangerous at speed.

I complained to the attendant, who "spoke" to her and she stormed off. Ironically, she was a slightly slower swimmer than me. That may have enraged her all the more.

I dressed, on exiting by the pool reception, she was standing there, shooting daggers at me. I was called to the side, as apparently she had made a complaint about me and they wanted to hear my side.

So I was standing talking to the manageress and she was speaking to another employee, she then suddenly decided to leave, had to pass me and shouted at me being an "entitled little brat used to getting her own way". In astonishment, I blurted out that I was a woman in her forties. Without missing a beat she suddenly changed tack and replied "Well you look about seventy". She herself had grey hair and was a fit looking 60 +.

She was absolutely irate. I thought she was going to try and knock me to the floor, despite all the staff now standing there agape, and I remember bracing myself for the inevitable contact. I have never seen anyone so completely worked up over nothing.

Thankfully, she did storm out and I have no idea what happened to her as I have never seen her at that pool again.

Can I also point out that, just as some people might have mental health problems, other people may also have personality disorders which make them behave in the way that they do and the last thing you want to do is to encourage these people by being empathetic or sympathetic to them. The best thing to do is to engage as little as possible and to go grey rock and not give them the reaction they are looking for, which is either getting their own way with no battle or an emotional reaction on your part.

I don't.
It's funny as fuck.

We had a teacher who was generally ok but the poor man had gone bald very early. He tried to grow the rest to compensate but had a very odd Monk type hairdo and was very sensitive about it. Once in class a pupil told him to “keep your hair on” and he went absolutely purple and was jumping up and down. It was so concerning that someone went next door to get another teacher. He had some time off after that.
I know teachers put up with some nonsense but knowing the pupil who said it I really don’t think it actually WAS a reference to his bald spot

I was in an Out of Hours medical centre one Saturday afternoon. I didn’t know it at the time but I had Blood poisoning due to rather large stuck kidney stone. I was shaking, feverish, sweating, in agony and just generally unwell, A nurse brought me a vomit bowl in case I threw up.
A woman who was there before me kept shooting dirty looks at me, then said “I hope you’re not contagious, sweating like that”. It was taking me all of my strength to sit upright never mind answer.
She shot up and hammered on the glass screen on the receptionist desk and demanded to be moved away from this ‘ Obviously sweating woman’! A nurse came through to see who this sweating threat to society was, took one look at me, dashed off and came back with a wheelchair and a doctor, he checked my pulse, temperature etc and wheeled me through to a examine me properly.
The woman was still kicking off, we could hear her.
The doctor said “A&E for you my dear, you have a temp of 41, heart rate like an express train blood pressure 200/ 110, you’re pretty sick” .
The ambulance came and I was wheeled through the waiting room where the irate woman was still complaining about me ‘pushing in’. The nurse said to her ‘ Well you got your wish, we moved her away from you ‘
I was in hospital for a week, operations and lithotripsy to break the stone up,

Heavens above, @Thinkingblonde - I hope you are feeling better now!

Thank you I am fully recovered, it was 1997 so a while ago now.
One kidney was working but the other one was blocked and backed up, my body was reabsorbing the retained urine along with the toxins the kidneys filter out.

My mother is similar all four pregnancies she has insisted on Bobbie (boy or girl) after HER beloved great-grandfather Robert (so why she didnt name her kids after him I dont know).

We have not named any of our kids Bobbie.

The funny thing is Robin (considered nn. Bobby) was on our list as a high option just because we liked it (non of our kids have honor names, we arent a fan of naming kids after people and want our kids names to be their own) UNTIL she made it wierd and made a big deal about someone else and us having to name the child after them.

She actively put us off and made us cross it off our list because it was no longer about 'our child' but all about her and her relationship with someone else.

I read the whole thread and the most shocking ones are:

1. Lady in Betty's tea room (I just can't understand why? Was she having a bad day and what happened later?)
2. Story about woman having a tantrum, driving into the garden and throwing presents

😬😱😳

Ah yes correcting a type made by the person with brain damage and learning difficulties (as mentioned in my PP so not secretive) you must be so superior.

But yes your right that is not only abilist but very immature.

The Betty's tea shop lady was my mum. No big back story, she's just always had a ferocious temper, and when menopausal verged on psychotic.

We'd gone on for high tea, but hadn't booked so couldn't get a table. On our way out she spotted the samples on the counter and, presumably hangry, tried to snaffle the lot and push anyone else trying to have some out of the way.

Thing is, we may have been in Harrogate, but it's still Yorkshire, so they weren't going to be shoved about by some stroppy Geordie, no matter how loud she shouted, so they shouted and shoved back. The rest of the family, familiar with her antics, rolled their eyes and left to wait outside, leaving me to deal with her. With some gentle cajoling, and encouragement not to go done in history as the first person to start a riot in Betty's, I managed to get her out of there before blood was spilled.

Her brother told me afterwards I had "the patience of a saint" and he didn't know how I cope with her. I pointed out I'd had a lifetime of practice....

It's fair to say there are some utter twats on this thread.

Love the story about the pregnant woman getting the suggestion box stuck on her arm. Who hasn't had a moment at work where they've wanted to give honest feedback? 😄

'Since this is about being immature, I'm going to dive right in.

There is no such thing as indervidual. That isnt a word.

Individual. It is spelled individual.'

@WeepingSomnambulist neither is isnt. If you must insist on correcting other people's spelling and grammar, please make sure you are above average when doing so 😉.

@mam0918 ignore the immature twat 🤣.

Imagine correcting someone else and totally fucking it up 🤔.

Ex boyfriend.

We were away for the weekend on a UK break and he ordered pizza in a nice restaurant which came with olives on it. He was fuming because it didn't say on the menu it came with olives and olives are 'very controversial'.
He went to the loo and when he came back told me he pissed all over the walls to punish them 😳🤮

Same ex also thought he was Very Important. He hated being a low grade at work and having someone above him tell him what to do. He once said "the managers think they're so important, but they have no power over me whatsoever". Not much later he got a promotion and within one day he said "I feel so powerful over everybody." 🙄

Lastly I remember after we broke up and had to stay living together for a bit before he could move into his new place. On the final day he stamped his feet like a toddler and begged for me to stay with him 😳 that just made him soooooo much more unattractive!!!!

I had an English teacher who was very stern. Classes were generally very well behaved but if anyone stepped out of line he too would chuck the heavy board duster across the room at the offender. Only problem was he had a severe turn in one eye - wore corrective specs - and the duster would inevitably hit some other poor sod close by !! We all got into the habit of ducking if we sensed it coming in our direction. Was the source of much juvenile amusement.

Probably from myself really. I was at a theme park and I sat down on a bench whilst waiting for my husband and kids queuing for a ride that I didn’t fancy. The woman who was sitting about a metre next to me shouts “oi move now my son was sitting there”. Said son was about 18 and standing up a bit further away and she said it really aggressively.

Well I didn’t move and it became a massive scene but the more she shouted the more I just couldn’t let myself down and move 🤦‍♀️. It was so ridiculous and the most adult thing to have done would have been to remove myself from a toxic situation. Security got called and my husband could see all this kicking off whilst at the top of the ride 😂😂.

My inner 7 year old wasn’t moving.

I just say I am having Spag Bol!!

Wow😬It must have been quite a show.

"Thing is, we may have been in Harrogate, but it's still Yorkshire, so they weren't going to be shoved about by some stroppy Geordie, no matter how loud she shouted, so they shouted and shoved back."

😂

My mum has early onset Alzheimer’s and can behave like this at times, so I wouldn’t necessarily say it was just bad behaviour from this person.

however, I recently started working in a supermarket doing online shopping. One day I was stopped by a woman asking me for something in another language. I speak 3 languages with knowledge of another one, but it wasn’t one of the ones I knew. I told her politely that I didn’t understand and she shouted at me ‘My English is not good’, and when I said I really couldn’t help she shouted something at me in her language and stormed off

I absolutely get your point and think you are of course entitled to use the loo ahead of others and that people who don’t ‘need’ to use it shouldn’t, however on your point about a teenager exiting, and mother and child, how can you be sure that they didn’t need it? My son is autistic and doesn’t look like he has a disability, however we can not take him into public toilets without him having horrific meltdowns (due to the hand dryers).

the last thing you want to do is to encourage these people by being empathetic or sympathetic to them.

I worked in mental healthcare for a while before my current career.

The idea that you shouldn't be "sympathetic" towards people with mental illness because "sympathy will only encourage them" is an appalling, shocking thing to say.

Yes of course ignore them if you feel unsafe or don't want to engage - no one is obligated to engage with anyone else - but the idea that we should actively withhold sympathy towards the most vulnerable people in society is just evil.

I can promise you, "sympathy" does not "encourage them." Actually the opposite. A tiny amount of sympathy can work absolute wonders in connecting with MI people and getting them to calm down. I've seen people with schizophrenia go from being in such a state they were a danger to themselves, to being calm, just because one person decided to speak calmly and say "I'm listening" rather than shouting.

Referring to people with mental illness as "these people" and making comments about "these people shouldn't be encouraged" is pretty unpleasant too.