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)

One panino
Several panini

No such thing as "paninis"

Or likely she was just being a twat. I'm going with twat.

I've never done anything in public like the lady in the OP, but I can totally identify with the way she behaved.
I have PMDD.

I used to work in a solicitors years ago. My boss, one of the partners used to throw things and slam doors and almost cry if he lost a case. He went through so many secretaries. It was 30 years ago but I looked him up the other day and he’s now a high court judge 😂

I was doing a big presenting in-front of senior management and some of the directors - I was near the end of the presentation (which had so far gone well) when one of the directors ( who had form for being abit eccentric) suddenly started banging his palms on the table like a petulant child demanding to know why his idea for something in the range hadn’t been used.

The room went very quiet and he was just staring at me as if to say ‘well?’

I had already handed my notice in at this point so I wasn’t bothered by it - I walked over to the rail and showed him ‘his idea’ which was disgusting. I just held it up and said ‘ oh, this one? It didn’t really turn out the way I expected, what do you all think?’

Pretty much everyone in the room pulled a face at the item and started shaking their heads. One of the other directors said it wasn’t really on brand. It shut him up pretty quickly.

I enjoyed that moment 😆

My sil once kicked off because we were all ordering a Chinese takeaway whilst visiting my parents and she wanted to order from the one she liked, that no one else did.

She only ever used to order chips and curry sauce. She even admitted the chips and curry sauce were no better from her preferred one. The meat dishes, however were shit. She sat and stropped and made dbro go to KFC for her instead. Still only had chips and gravy. She genuinely felt we should have meals that were shit, because she liked the place more

Once on holiday she got in a strop because my disabled mother wouldn’t let her ‘borrow’ her wheelchair because she was tired.

She told us we could come to the hospital to see their baby but then to leave them alone for 2 weeks. We all said that was fine. Except when the baby was 10 days old dbro kicked off and threatened to never speak to us again because no one had asked to come round. When we told him, she said we were lying until I showed him the text messages.

She also got upset because she wanted my nieces (different brothers child) birthday party to be a joint one with her.

TBF dbro isn’t much better, he told my mum and dad he was moving abroad. Firstly he kicked off because he said mum was too upset and holding him back. She wasnt, she actually thought it would be good for him. When she said this he kicked off because she wasn’t upset enough.

They both kicked off when I declined, at 3 days notice to pay £200 for me, now exh and my 2 kids to attend a lunch for his birthday, even though we had agreed to not spend money on adults birthdays. Apparently I should have back up money saved incase they invited us places.

New sister in law (groom's sister) decided that she wasn't the centre of attention at my wedding so she threw a strop and stormed out screaming 'happy fucking wedding'. To be fair, I do think there's something different about her, her behaviour can be quite odd. Then I found out that odd behaviour ran in the family and now he's an ex 😅

I had a similar fit of pregnancy weeping when my husband brought curry sauce for my chips instead of gravy. DD is now 10 and I still haven't quite forgiven him...

Charlize43 · Today 07:15
This was a few weeks ago in a department store. Some woman (40s) was having a complete conniption outside the changing rooms, screaming at a couple of sales assistants.

New word ! Conniption - I've never heard that word used before. I shall enjoy using it in a sentence soon.

An ex work colleague was very passive aggressive. When she was upset, rather than communicating openly, she would do really angry typing for about an hour- lifting her hands about 6 inches from the keyboard and making as much noise as possible as she hit the keys. The rest of us had to try to suppress laughter as it was so funny to observe.

I had a big pregnancy related strop because when I was about 8 months pregnant with my DD, I asked my ExH if he wanted a cup of tea and he said 'yeah, sure. I stopped until I ugly cried because he didn't say please, and in my head that was because he thought he was better than me and that I should be running around after him.

The woman at Centre Parcs, she was a delight.

We arrived and were given the keys to our cabin. All good, found it started unpacking the car. DD was about 3 at the time and was feeling a little poorly so we popped her into our bed, and carried on unloading the car.

Suddenly this woman appears in the lounge bit, screaming her head off at us that we ‘stolen her cabin’, she was jumping up and down and kicking the furniture. She was having a proper meltdown. Her mortified looking husband appeared a couple of minutes later, followed by a couple of scared looking kids about 6 & 8.

Thankfully her husband was sane, he marched her out to the car to sit down. Turned out we’d both been given the same set of keys for the same cabin.

Rather than deal with her again (she was scary!), we took pity on her husband. Reloaded the car, grabbed our ill daughter and went back to the main gate to find out wtf was going on. They rectified the mistake, gave us keys for another cabin.

We saw her the next day kicking off at one of the restaurants, so it wasn’t a one time stress thing. I felt so bad for her husband and kids.

@godmum56 I have met and liked many Americans but please don't pretend that you don't understand what l mean. Every country has its stereotypes, including this one. It doesn't mean that every single person behaves in that manner, most don't, but that enough people do to reinforce the image

@Sunnyqueen I think the deceased person was at the funeral director’s, not literally in the woman’s kitchen fridge, which you’re right, would have been illegal ( and totally gross)

@BringItBackBruno I think so, sadly (after we got over the initial shock, we quite enjoyed her tantrums - gave us something to talk about when they’d gone) they emigrated but mum was telling me the other day that their son who’s almost 18, told them that he’s gay. She’s told him that it’s a matter for discussion between her and my brother!

Ummm I don’t think so!

The poor boy has been a very keen chef since he was really young. He speaks often about his dreams of studying under great chefs (means nothing to me, but I wish my own children had his passion). However my sister in law just told my mum that they’re delighted he’s just received a conditional university offer to study politics.

I’m hoping he’ll rebel!

Having some conditions are a reason why the person exhibits tantrum like behaviour. No excuses needed. This is why we don't criminalise people who have some conditions when they are violent.

Some people really don’t have any self awareness do they ? Moving home is stressful enough without this kind of crap isn’t it ? We had similar a couple of years ago - a fairly minor issue we knew about before we went up for sale and which the EA had accounted for in setting the price. The buyers were aware of it from the start but when it came up on the survey report they wanted a frankly ridiculous reduction. We pointed out the adjustment in the asking price and that we’d accepted their offer below that. So they threatened to pull out. When we called their bluff they hung out for a couple of days, sending jitters up and down the chain - everything else was in place and we were at the top, buying a vacant possession. They agreed in the end when they realised we wouldn’t budge.

Then there was the doctor. He was coming to the UK from somewhere in Europe, to work in the NHS. He said he was panicking as time was running out before he was due to take up his post and he hadn’t found anywhere suitable. We moved a few things around to accommodate him and he viewed the same day. He then came back for a second viewing with his brother, a third with his wife and kids and a fourth with his parents !! We objected with the EA when he wanted a final viewing accompanied by the whole family but relented as the EA seemed to think the sale was in the bag - which it would have been had we accepted their offer £40,000 below the asking price !! He kept upping the offer in £1000 increments until we told the EA to stop passing the offers to us - we’d only been up for sale a couple of weeks. Not really hard to see why he was having problems !!

My ex was doing a vocational qualification related to his job (not at all challenging) and had a sort of workbook thing to fill in before he went to one of the training sessions the following day, a Monday. On the Sunday evening he suddenly started ranting that he hadn't done it, as if that was somehow my fault, so I said 'OK, well, you've still got time so just do it now.'

I should point out that he was perfectly capable of doing this - it wouldn't have been remotely hard for him and would have taken him maybe half an hour max. He would absolutely have been able to complete it far more easily than about 95% of the other people who do that qualification.

He sat there fiddling around and procrastinating, all the time sulking and huffing dramatically and slamming things around, then announced he was hungry, so I went and got him a sandwich. He then started whining that he didn't understand what he had to do, so I literally read the instructions, found the right page in the book etc for him. After filling in about two answers with some guiding and coaxing, he suddenly announced that it 'wasn't fair' and threw both the book and the sandwich across the room before storming off and lying on the bed with his face to the wall, refusing to speak.

It was exactly like trying to coax a recalcitrant six-year-old to do their little homework worksheet for school, with similar results. Except he was about 40 years old. I was in my early 20s at the time and was infinitely more mature than than he was.

Well why not it could be true.
Very judgmental when you do t know the circumstances.

Wow !!

DP and I had an argument about household responsibilities and he went in a mood and said he would do all his own stuff from now on. So when we went shopping he put his own food in the trolley and cooked his own separate meals for about 3 days before he got fed up of junk food and cracked.

My SIL shouting at her Mother who has dementia in the High Street.
Giving her some home truths about how selfish she was etc etc.
It was awful. I'd spend the previous 2hrs trailing around after MIL, trying to manage a difficult situation.
MIL just stood there open mouthed while shoppers milled past.

God yes I had a client (senior corporate type) who used to throw tantrums in meetings shout / yell then throw paper about and storm out. It was bloody embarrassing being his solicitors as we then had to sort of apologetically scuttle out after him!

Wow. Some extraordinary behaviours here.

But I'm not perfect so I'll confess one of mine.

Once I had just got DD ready for pre-school and it was my day for parent duty when I can't find my keys. Ring DH and yes, he has my keys in his pocket and has used his keys to drive in. I slammed the phone down and literally jumped up and down and screamed "I'll kill that man". A little later when I'd calmed down DD said "Please don't kill my Daddy".

Not my finest parenting hour.

In fairness DH has form for losing keys/driving to work with both sets and there have been many occasions when I have silently gritted my teeth. When DD was a new baby the day her first inoculations were due it poured with rain as we were leaving. Somehow juggling car seat and umbrella caused DH to drop the keys down the storm drain where we were parked. It was full of fast flowing water. Luckily he had forgotten to lock the back door so collected the spare keys and we went to the appointment and I managed not to say a thing. When we got back the rain had stopped, he unravelled a coat hanger and triumphantly retrieved the keys.
I have always tried hard never to park over a drain ever since.