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)

@JaneorEleven we delayed my mum's funeral as we had a family holiday planned and she wanted us to go on it! Funerals often take 2/3 weeks anyway to get a date that works 🤷🏼‍♀️.

@SavBbunny sorry tagged wrong person! Saw your update so slightly different as we all agreed!

You know DP's XW?

She meant it, too.

Colleague at work crying for a week because she thought the house they were buying was going to have cream tiles in the ensuite but instead they put down beige laminate

(She was buying a new build that had fallen through at the last minute, the previous buyer chose tiles but didn't pay for them so the builder put in laminate to keep on schedule for my colleague moving in date)

To be fair she was only 12 but NT just super spoiled. There was an item each birthday child was give 2 of. She wanted 4. This was impossible so Dh said no. She then had an epic tantrum in public Mortifying. Had not ever been told no before. She was dubbed Verruca Salt in our family ever since. Thankfully Dd no longer friends with her. Indulgent parenting can create monsters!

I didn't witness this but a bemused friend rang up and said she had been driving from a car park when her estranged sister saw her. Sister chased the moving car round the car park, hollering abuse, and tried to follow her up the road.

A friend insisted on a second hen do because she didn't have enough fun at the first one

@Cleopatra67 , ha, when dds were still at home they’d always go with dh to choose a tree. I’d invariably say, ‘Don’t get one that’s too big!’ and equally invariably they’d come home with a tree so enormous, that not only would dh have to saw about 2 feet off the bottom, we’d also have to shift all the furniture around to make space. And the top would still be hitting the ceiling.

Years ago a man and (I assume) his young son leaned out of a car whilst driving past to shout 'ginger' at me, then drove round and did it again. It was factually accurate I suppose, as I'd recently dyed my hair.

@Beseen22 - I had the same happen when I was a flight attendant. I was literally doing CPR to a guy on the floor and a passenger in the seat next to me pressed his call button. I ignored it so he pressed it on and off repeatedly. I looked up from the unconscious guy while I was doing chest compressions and the seated passenger said “Are you going to get me a coffee or what?” I could only say “No… A little busy here.” Stupid git paid to access WiFi (back in the day) so he could immediately email the CEO to complain that I “rudely” refused to stop performing CPR and get him a coffee. Luckily the family of the poor guy (who didn’t make it, btw…) wrote a lovely one and so did some other witnessing passengers (also including the story of Heartless Coffee Bastard.)

I thought so to.

I remember just as the first lock down was easing, I was at the check out at Aldi.

A man on the next roll was packing his shopping while having an almighty go at the check out assistant. He had been asked to maintain 2 meters and kept coming round the side of the plastic partition.

He was shouting about how he was a lorry driver and he would convince the owner of the company, that the next time they were asked to deliver to Aldi that they missed this particular store. As though the company owner could or would do that.

Then he started saying ‘you will have nothing to sell….that will show you. YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING!!!!!!’

as though the check out assistant cared. Security threw him out and his wife was left packing the shopping. Though she looked completely unphased by it all.

@Sharrowgirl Mum was always entitled and Tbf, batshit crazy.
Another one which is hilarious was her response when I told her that I couldn’t bring my toddler and newborn twins around to show off to her work colleagues because my MIL was arriving from interstate (Aus - VERY long trip) to meet them all. Mum actually said “But I’m more their grandmother than SHE is!!!”

My sister in law.
She and my brother hadn’t been together that long and we’d only met her a couple of times, but she’s very confident.

Mum and Dad decided that as there were so many of us (my siblings, all our partners, my children and my grandma), we were going to go out for Christmas lunch, they’d have a look at what was available and book somewhere. They would pay.

My sister in law said she wanted to go to a very posh hotel about 20 miles away and my parents said they’d have a look.

About a month later we had another family occasion and my sister in law asked if they’d booked this hotel, and my dad said no, they’d booked somewhere nearer and not as posh. My mum added that the Christmas Day menu was very very expensive (think it was £100 a head or something and this was 20 years ago), and although it looked lovely, it wasn’t really suitable for my 1 and 3 year old, or my 93 year old grandmother, who needed a bit of help. They’d booked somewhere a bit more normal.

Brothers new girlfriend (now his wife) flew into a rage like I’ve never seen before, crying and stamping, begging and shouting. Everyone, including my brother, just watched in shock. Eventually she ran out of steam and said nastily ‘I’ll just order a pizza and eat it in the fucking toilet then shall I?’ And marched out of the room.

She doesn’t have anything wrong with her, she’s just been INCREDIBLY spoilt. She was a teacher at the time, now a deputy head.

My parents were horrified, and took her and my brother to this hotel for her birthday!

MILs ex was full of these, despite being in his 70s.
He was from a wealthy and quite well known family in his small town and felt he could do what he wanted because he was a “ surname”. He had never worked and lived on rental income from property he inherited.
The 2 that stand out are once when we couldn’t find some keys that we needed urgently and asked him if he had them, he said he had never had them (untrue as I had handed them to him). DH asked him to check his pockets but he refused as he had never had them. Someone was standing there waiting for these keys.
DH insisted he checked his pockets and he literally jumped up and down in a toddler style tantrum - the keys rattled in his pocket!! Moment of silence then he threw them on the floor and stormed out, refusing to speak to us for the rest of the day.
The other one was when we were out for a meal and as we went to sit down DS(about 4) darted ahead of him and got to the chair at the head of the table. As DS went to sit down he pulled the chair out so DS would fall - luckily I saw this and blocked it with my foot. I challenged him (only one who ever did) but he denied it and I was told I was mistaken by MIL as he “would never do that”.
Thankfully MIL dumped him a few years ago but is very cross that we won’t visit him and take “his grandchildren” to visit.

Yep! Exactly what I thought.

Was buying my first flat with a 'friend' until she told me I had to go out so many nights a week so she could have the flat to herself when her boyfriend came round.

I worked at an Italian restaurant while I was at university. A man came in with his girlfriend one evening, he was lovely but she acted like a spoilt brat from the minute she walked through the door. He politely ordered while she sat in a huff and snapped that she wasn't hungry, so I left it at that. A few minutes later she screeched across the restaurant that I hadn't taken her order and demanded I go over straight away. About five minutes later she stormed over to me and said her food was late. I calmly explained it was a restaurant, not fast food and the kitchen were on it right away. Once she had her food she looked disgusted and said there wasn't a lot there and she was going to leave hungry. The man just kept looking at me apologetically. He tried to leave a tip but she snatched it back up and stormed out calling me a bitch. She obviously had an emotional problem going on but I don't see that as an excuse to treat another person like that.

One pharmacy I worked in one of the team members was having ongoing issues with her boyfriend. She made a mistake which I passed back to her to correct and she burst into tears lay down next to the toilets. I asked politely as I always do. I was pregnant and needed to pee but she wouldn't move so I literally had to step over her and my colleague opened the bathroom door effectively shoving her out of the way so I could get in. I had to do the same rigmarole to get out of the bathroom. I phoned headoffice and asked her to leave. This was the first time she had behaved like this with me but previously she had laid on the floor in the middle of the chemist, refused to move and people had to climb over her to collect their prescriptions. I thought perhaps there were mental health issues at play but she posed a hazard in the workplace.

Another time I had taken my baby to show my colleagues whilst on mat leave and one staff member pulled me to the side and said the pharmacist was refusing to check prescriptions and behaving oddly. She was sat on delivery crates in the middle of the dispensary with her shoes off. Staff member phoned the coordinator to ask for another pharmacist and for advice on how to manage the situation. Whilst she was doing that the pharmacist started to flash customers. I had to stand infront of her and cover her with my baby blanket. I then made her a cup of tea, took her into the consultation room and a staff member sat with her. It's a busy chemist and her antics meant they were playing catch up for the rest of the week as they had to shut the chemist until another pharmacist was able to take over. Poor women had some kind of breakdown. I was asked if I would sign on as pharmacist until the new one got there but I didn't have indemnity insurance as on mat leave so the answer was no plus I had only intended to take baby on for 5 minutes not the hour I was in there.

I know a wedding photographer who kicked off with her friend because friend was getting married on a Saturday and not booking her to shoot the wedding.

She said rang friend to say she should move wedding to a Thursday (not even a Friday) so she didn't lose a day's wages.

A dd once had a boss who absolutely had to have the best/most expensive of everything. Once called the team to the window to admire the very flash new car her dh had driven her to work in. (Cause of much hilarity to the others.) IIRC she even asked whether any of them would just like a quick sit in it later, just to appreciate how amazing it was, and of course envy her (she hoped) even more.

Right after Christmas, she came in with the ££££ designer bag her dh had given her - everyone of course was supposed to be green with envy.
A day or so later one of the team came in with the bag her dh had given her - same ££££ brand, but an even more expensive model.

Utter rage and fury (silent but all too obvious) of the other at being ‘usurped’ by one of her own team - how dare she? - was a cause of even more hilarity on the part of everyone else.😂

wow, how much of America's population have you met?

What would be illegal about it?
When you die, you stay in the morgue/funeral directors until the funeral.
You get embalmed then you go innately drawer and wait until funeral day.
Rather than having a quick funeral, they scheduled it for 3 weeks away and left him in the drawers. It isnt common to have a long wait for the funeral but it also isnt unheard of. During covid, it was totally normal to wait weeks.

Did you think the poster meant an actual fridge at home?

Loads.

PIL quite often demonstrate these behaviours. Generally involving a journey of any kind which they invent some kind of reason that means that the journey can only be made at great inconvenience to any other person because they "must" be dropped off/picked up/delivered somewhere at a certain time. Even though they have been retired for years and have no real commitments. Often it involves them trying to force me to drive somewhere I wouldn't otherwise be going, a long way away, with increasingly brattish behaviour on their part. They've pulled this stunt so many times now that I'm wise to it and just say "no" and walk off and refuse to discuss it any more.

I used to do holiday lets and of many examples, one that really sticks in my mind is the woman in her forties who arrived before her mother was arriving the next day and who was therefore asked to sign the contract (which they were supposed to have posted back). She suddenly burst into floods of tears when I asked her to sign it. I was mortified and told her DH would be visiting later to check up and she could sign it then once she had had a chance to look over it, but that she couldn't stay overnight without signing it. DH arrived about 6pm, everything fine until he asked her to sign the contract and again, she burst into floods of tears, complete with the sobbing and wailing "I don't know what to do", as before. DH had less sympathy than me, told her she would have to leave and find a hotel if she didn't sign, and apparently, the tears immediately dried up and she signed it straight away with a "cross, cynical expression". What a fuss!

I seem to live in an area which has a lot of older, affluent, rural women who have never worked (and who have never learned any people skills) and whose children have left home. They tend to like issuing bossy "commandments" to anyone in earshot, and seem to have a particular penchant for lone younger females ie me. I now know how to deal with them, which is to adopt a slightly louder bossy faux posh tone, and say something along the lines of "Why on earth not?" followed by "Don't be so utterly ridiculous", which is remarkably effective at shutting them up. But they cause genuine upset by picking on children and younger adults. Think pony club mother types, without the children to boss around but still determined to promote their own interests without caring about anyone else.

1st is similar to your own, not entirely sure what triggered it, but obviously wasn't getting her own way at the airport check in desk. Sat on the floor like a toddler shouting ' but I want to' ' its not fair' throwing things out of her suitcase. On the phone to someone crying about the injustice.
Probably others, but those are the most memorable.
People are dicks sometimes.