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)

I work in hospitality so I could tell you hundreds of these but here are my two favourites from recent months.

A sweet little old lady threw a piece of toast across the bar at my face because her butter wasn't soft enough. It came sailing across and smacked me on the cheek. She then demanded new toast with softer butter but refused to pay for it.

Sticking with the breakfast theme, one of the regulars walked past me and told me his sausages were "shite". Nothing else. About half an hour later he came back to the bar asking how long his free breakfast was going to be. Explained he hadn't given anyone a chance to help him, he simply walked past and swore at me. As I was trying to talk to him he walked back to his table, picked up his plate, threw the whole lot on the floor and started jumping up and down on it like a toddler. I of course threw him out and on the way he told me he was going to come back and set fire to the place. I still see him around town most days.

People are delightful.

Dhs mum threw a tantrum because he doesn’t want to see his sister. Told him she was done with him & everything.

The sister doesn’t even like dh. Or mil for that matter.

Toddlers trapped in adult bodies. At the end of the day these people are bullies, their wants override us mere mortals & our feelings don’t matter because essentially we don’t matter. We’re the background to their main character moments.

I also work in healthcare & have seen more than one adult throw their toys out of the pram because they haven’t got what they wanted. Which we document in their records.

Pushing children / adults with children in arms out of the way at a local animal based attraction. I understand child free adults want to do things too, but the way this woman was behaving was rude and really cringe. I did laugh when she was parading around with a bird on her shoulder and shit down her back

In a local toyshop there was a woman with her dd in the Sylvanian section. There was a lot of fuss with staff coming and going to the store room looking for the badger family.
In the end they had to say that they were sadly out of stock just now.
The woman turned to her dd and loudly said ' come on Octavia, we're leaving, we're not in London anymore!'

A woman I used to work for. In her 70s, very loud voice with an affected posh accent. One day, pulling into her driveway, I accidentally backed into her car and dented the bumper. First accident in nearly 40 years of driving, so I was horrified. Told her what had happened and reassured her I'd pay for everything.

Whilst reclining on her chaise longue, she then spent the next half hour shouting at me, screeching about how much the car meant to her. She eventually stopped and said 'I have to go and rest now, I'm so stressed my voice is going, especially as I've been shouting at architects all week'. She went on so much and so loudly that I started shaking and thought I might throw up. When I said I wanted to go and get things sorted out right away, she tried to insist that I stay and work 'to make up for it'.

I got her car fixed, with no trouble and no cost to her, and never went back. She didn't understand why.

The following day, we were going to a family knees-up. I was still in a foul mood after the day before, in no mood for a party, and was very quiet while we were there. One of the women there decided I was snubbing her and flounced off in a huff. It was crap.

My SIL had a huge angered rant at me for saying I wouldn’t pick her child up from school with mine and drop him home like a taxi service when she didn’t work or have anything else to do.

An old friend (now ex-friend) of DH.

I went round to pick up a very large tool DH had lent to him. I turned up at the prearranged time to find him in the middle of a massive tantrum, being placated like a toddler by his wife and his elderly mother. The tantrum was apparently because he'd broken something using the telehandler and this was somehow his wife and his Mum's fault for letting him do it. They were making sympathetic noises as he trashed his barn.

Then he sees me and somehow it's now my fault too. "Someone else who wants a fucking piece of me! You'll have to wait your fucking turn," that sort of rambling nonsense. I shot his wife a sympathetic look then she turned on me "can't you see he's busy, get back in your car and wait". I literally had said nothing at this point, just pulled the car into the yard at the pre-agreed time, got out and walked over. In addition to this, I'd driven 40 minutes (so a 1hr 20 min round trip) purely to save him running it back to us. I went back and sat in the car for about half an hour as the tantrum continued. I had to get back in time to pick the children up from school so I got out and asked his wife if she could tell me where this tool was. He starts shouting again, but does tell me it's in another barn and to move the car there and he'll come over when he's ready. He doesn't come. I can see the tool so I start to dismantle it, so I can lift it into the boot myself. He appears and basically throws the heaviest bit of it into the boot, breaking a plastic switch, then storms off, still shouting obscenities at me.

I managed to get an audio recording of his final rant and that was the end of that friendship.

This comment is very insulting o the majority of disabled people. I don't think that being disabled makes you prone to tantrums, nor is it an excuse for them.

She doesn't need to have met any, to be able to describe a stereotype...

I used to work with someone like that.

Mid-20's with a Masters yet acted like a petulant child all day long.

She threw a screaming fit in our manager's office, swept all his files to the floor and sobbed because he "Wouldn't do something" about the fact that I had been working there longer than she had. Apparently, me having 9 months longer tenure than her made her feel inadequate.

She also had a screaming meltdown because a colleague was promoted to a new team thanks to her work on a new project. Ms Hissy-Fit declared that she was the one who should have been promoted even though she didn't work on that project ever.

She also demanded to be given my login details so she could check up on me. We didn't even work on the same project - just shared an office. She then went into our shared folder and deleted several months of our work "To teach me a lesson" and was not only proud of this but expected to be congratulated by management. Luckily I had it backed up as did my team mate.

Thankfully, that episode and the fact that she was useless at her job - she pretty much spent most of her day on a conference call with her mother and her fiance's mother where they would discuss said fiance and how to micro-manage his life to their satisfaction - resulted in her contract not being renewed.

Oh for gods sake don’t be ridiculous. Not all disabled people are the same. But an adult who has the mental age of a child is given to childish behaviour.

Horrid woman upset my DS when we were at Bewilderwood.

He was trying to cross the broken bridge but she wanted to take some pictures of her DC's, fine. I shouted up to DS ( who has asd and was looking a little distressed) to wait for a minute.

She screamed back down that it would take as long as it would take. She then proceeded to take loads of different group shots of her DC's. Blocking the bridge so noone could cross. I shouted up that she could carry on if she just let the kids that were waiting cross and she said they would need to wait for her to finish. Luckily another parent told her to move before I got up there. DS was in stimming and was quite upset.

She then flounced down and muttered something about kids needing to learn to wait their turn. I retorted back that she needs to learn how to take her quickly. She gave me daggers and we got on with enjoying our day!

The sister delayed the funeral for a holiday.

Phew. I thought you meant she put the ashes in there but still couldn't work it out!

Another holiday let one. I asked a family to leave and refunded them because the female head of the family was so obnoxious and demanding. I had done the usual thing of showing them round the apartment in great detail and got them to sign the inventory/contract, made sure they were happy. Then the next day the complaints started. Apparently, half an hour hadn't been enough time for her to check it fully and she was "tired". The bedding was mismatched colours, there wern't enough cups (she had missed the entire cupboard full of cups and mugs), one of the bins had a stain in it, one of the bathroom tiles had a crack in it, there were a couple of marks on a wall, on and on. I was out (it was a Sunday) so I came back to several increasingly irate voicemail messages and 4 emails, accusing me of "ignoring these issues" and demanding that I come round that evening to sort them out and then go to the shops on Monday morning to buy them new bedding. The last 2 voice messages consisted of basically screaming that she was being ignored.

I did go round that evening, and told them to leave within 48 hours. Very sheepish looking husband there who didn't say a word the whole time. I refunded them once they had gone - tbh I would have paid a lot of money by that point just to get rid of them. The ironic thing is that my apartment was really good value and I'd ended up quoting far too cheap for it because I thought I wasn't going to get it filled post-covid. I'm friends with the agent who let the property that they moved on to and she tried to pull the same stunt with her, although they were paying nearly 3 times as much...

Well it's hardly an improbability?

It isn't a generic thing for an adult woman to behave like that.

She may very well have issues.

We forgot the artificial tree broke and we meant to buy a new one. The following year I was decorating the stairs with dd1 while dh and dc 2&3 put the tree up and decorated it. I walked in to find dh had balanced it against the wall and it looked terrible. I had a full on strop that dh thought that was fine and had he mentioned it when he first put it up the shops would have been open but he hadn’t and it was a Sunday night. We agreed dh would meet me at the shop after school on the Monday but he got caught in traffic so I gave up waiting and bought a real 8ft tree that took up about 1/4 of our living room and we had to cut off the top. We now have a real tree every year and I get final say on the size.

I’m usually quite chilled but apparently Christmas trees matter more than I realised.

Best line ever haha!

A (former) friend was married to a man who had the most extraordinary temper. If little things didn't go his way, he'd scream, cry, throw stuff. She didn't seem overly bothered by this and would just walk out the room and leave him to it.

One day I (and some other friends) were having a girls' day at their house and we'd booked a beauty therapist to give manicures/pedicures etc. Husband comes home as his wife is having her feet massaged and throws this almighty hissy fit because he wanted to have his feet massaged too. Wife/former friend spoke to him like a parent trying to calm a toddler, 'now love, you know this is a treat for the girls. We can't always get what we want. Why don't you go to another room and cool down?' He stormed out the room, making sure to knock a (cold) cup of coffee over on his way out.

We just all sat there (with the beauty therapist) in stunned, awkward silence. Friend told us he'd 'always been this way'. He'd been raised by very wealthy parents and had always been given what he'd wanted. As a kid he apparently used to kick holes in the walls if he didn't get his own way. Guess he never grew out of it.

Safe to say, I no longer see either of them but I recently looked them up on social media and they're still married.

@OhFatty 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.

literally howled at this - is she still the same?

A woman who worked in my dept was always aggressive in attitude, had us all agog one day.
The tea round had been done and a colleague accidentally picked up the aggressive woman's cup from the tray and took a sip just as aggressive colleague walked in.
Aggressive colleague went berserk, snatched the cup and threw it in the floor, breaking it with tea going everywhere while shouting ' you won't fucking drink from my cup again, I'll fucking poison it next time!'
She didn't have any MH issues, she was just a nasty aggressive bitch.
When the incident reached her partner's ears, who works in a different dept, she just laughed and said oh she's just the same at home, it's like living with a toddler.

My MIL - suddenly text demanding a lift one day IMMEDIATELY!!!! Dh explained that we were at an appt then would be going straight to school pick up (he’s the only one who drives) I was unwell at home with 2 younger dc and was going to the gp one older ds was home from school. Dh said next time let us know even a few hours before we can change things around in future but she went mad. Calling me everything, making horrendous comments and judgements to me whilst simultaneously texting dh how lazy I was and how I should have done the appt and pick up so he could prioritise her etc etc it was awful she totally lost her shit

A woman I used to work with found out I passed near her home on the way to work and suggested a lift share. There was me thinking it was a sensible way to share costs and be slightly more environmentally friendly she saw it as a personal chauffer service. She was never ready when I turned up, expected me to hang around after close of business as she wanted a few drinks after work and get a lift home, she soon started to add additional stops on the way home so she could 'pick something up' (her weekly shop) and at one point after dropping her off home asked if I could just drop her DH off at a footie match as it was 'kind of on my way' (it fucking wasn't) and got the hump when I refused. After two weeks I told her the arrangement was not working for me and she started shouting how I was selfish and that I 'ruined' everything. When I pointed out that she had not even offered any money towards fuel she snapped back that I would be spending the money on the journey anyway. She asked again the following week if we could resume the arrangement and that after careful consideration she was prepared to 'compromise' and offer £5 a week as she had done her sums and felt that was a fair contribution. I told her I would rather shove broken glass up my arse.

Apologies if I upset anyone. I don't think if the woman in my OP was disabled, I have no idea, I only saw a snapshot of her behaviour, but from all the stories shared so far where people have described similar behaviour from people they know then I don't see how it's obvious or likely that she is rather than isn't.

Some of these have been outrageously shocking. I felt so sorry for the poster with the newborn baby and overbearing mother.

Years ago. In the office a guy (quite high up within the company) wanted me to process HIS paperwork ahead of everyone else's. It didn't work like that, which I told him. He then shouted and jumped up and down on the spot, asking me "Do you KNOW who I am?"
Tedious.
My boss told him to bugger off and come back when he could behave properly.

DillonPanthersTexas
I told her I would rather shove broken glass up my arse.