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)

@pigalow27 - picture her with a Liberace-style, sequined jacket, giant sparkly rings, a coif and a smarmy, affected attitude.

I had a very good friend who would contact me almost daily and would meet regularly and were close. Then my teenage DS suddenly died. When I told her, she barely contacted me. Then when I met and spoke to her afterwards she told me:
'Let's not talk about your DS. It is too upsetting for me. I've cried so much and I had to take a week off work. I'm done with crying and have no more tears left'.

She then later contacted me again to tell me that she was still going through her grief stages and finding it hard. She was also glad her DS (same age as my DS) was now off to a Uni nearby so that they could see each other all the time.

Not once did she ever ask or check in with me to find out how I was doing, or acknowledge how I must be feeling. It was always about her and how she was coping 🙄!

She hasn't contacted me again and I have ceased all effort with her now.

DB's ex had an enormous tantrum when the taxi driver didn't show up to the airport on time - arms in the air, dramatic sobbing, "DON'T TOUCH ME!!" when DB tried to reassure her. I was trying not to laugh, and had to walk off and pretend to be very interested in the bus timetable.

I've had a couple of moments but I blame a very hormonal pregnancy. I went to do the food shopping and got home, putting things away and DH picks up the potatoes I'd brought and said they weren't any good. I had a full-on meltdown and was sobbing about it, thinking he'd insulted me personally when he'd just commented on the potato being a bit old. There were a few similar incidents while I was pregnant.

My husband's DU can be very immature, usually at family occasions. At our wedding he kept mentioning that he was hungry until the food was served (the wedding breakfast wasn't particularly late and there was plenty of food) and he started again just before the evening meal was served. At a recent funeral he kept mentioning that he was hungry and wondering when or if food was going to be served. He noticed there was a table set for refreshments in the corner and made sure everyone knew about this. Once refreshments were served he was the first one up and back to our table with two plates...

This reminds me of a work confrence thing we where on, lots of different people from different companies and people where mingling, groups where forming and very few people knew each other previously but almost everyone was being friendly.

One girl came and sat in our group but didnt talk to me at all, she sat with a face like thunder giving me death glares the entire day and hardly acknowledging any one but really giving me specifically dirty looks and no one had any idea why (had never met her before and shy of polite hellos which she actively ignored I had not talked to her).

At lunch time an Ice cream truck arrived, a few of us went out to get ice creams (it wasnt for the company everyone was buying their own), some choose not to (angry girl included) and I got one of those 'sundae' things in the plastic cup.

One of my newly made friends asked to try some so I said she could have the rest if she wanted (I wouldnt usually offer half eaten Ice cream out but she specifically asked) and she had some then tried to give me it back.

I said 'no thanks, you can finish it if you want' (I'm a touch germaphobic so not much of a food sharer) and she then announced to the group 'does anyone wan't the rest before it goes in the bin?' and thunder face looked right in my eyes and actually hissed 'I would have but SHES touched it' and sat crossed armed in a child like huff.

Im still baffled by how me eating some of MY ice cream that I bought and paid for with my money offended her somehow.

I have never really been hissed at before except then, it was so weird.

Do you feel better for that?

Really angry typing!

I love the thought of that, I wonder if someone somewhere does passive aggressive stapling, or mildly annoyed sellotape dispensing.😀

I had a complete meltdown down with a woman in the supermarket when she still moaned after I apologised for parking badly so she couldn’t get into her car. I yelled and swore. It was the week my mum died and I thought I was okay but clearly wasn’t. Worst thing was she was of a different race and she probably thought it was race related. Totally mortified now

Mate, I'd first make sure she was still on HRT before correcting her. First time I’ve laughed in ages….

Ill be on HRT soon so I can laugh, I’m so cross these days 😭

Sorry for you loss.

Its amazing how tone deaf and self involved some people can be.

DSIL on a family holiday with extended family - wanted everyone ( 4 families of adults and kids) to follow her plans for 2 weeks … we mostly did as she’s a control freak and her DH and my in laws find it easier to go along… but I told her me, DP and kids weren’t going to do one of the things planned for later that day as we’re were tired, jet lagged and it was too much.
well. She threw the MOTHER of all tantrums which included shouting, ranting about how h grateful we were, brought up some childhood things between her and DP, and polished it off with the grand finale of throwing herself on MILs bed crying.
absolutely fucking nuts!
my in laws begged us to change or minds but luckily DP was furious at this childish display and we stuck to our guns… and had a lovely afternoon and evening to ourselves instead of ‘making memories’ with crazed SIL.
she sulked for the rest of the trip. And they left a few days early - which was a bonus.

I've worked with women like this. I often wonder if it's because they don't get enough attention at home (or are in unhappy marriages) and then come into work and act out all over the place and throw their weight around. Much worse when you have these types as your boss.

One of my ex-bosses used to spend some of her time with her PA (they were besties) looking up work colleagues on Facebook & instagram and then making derogatory remarks about their houses & families.

I'll never forget overhearing her once saying about a colleague 'How can she have a better kitchen than me on a PA's salary?' It was said half-jokingly at the time, but I noticed that whenever she dealt with that person she treated them like shit!

She was an active bully. Several colleagues had complained to HR and then found themselves shut down, the posts re-structured and made redundant. That seemed to be the company's way of dealing with things when lower staff complained about her. Corporate hierarchies.

The only adult I've seen do as you describe was in a psychiatric unit I was in. Glad you all enjoyed it.

@WrongWayApricot oh come on! People can occasionally ( or often in my DSILs case!) act like arseholes without being seriously mentally ill.

Did they also leave you to deal with the eye-watering Betty's bill too???

Probably the middle aged man who had a 20 min tantrum in the place I worked because he showed up an hour and 20 mins after one of our services closes wanting to buy something from it.

He was kindly informed that it had closed at x time but would be open at y time tomorrow. He started arguing saying it was “always” open til later. I informed him that it hadn’t been for 2 years, and the opening hours were clearly signposted on the barrier in front of the service, the front doors of the building and online.

He then lied and said “a girl” had served him at this time before recently. I know it’s a lie because everyone hated doing this job so there is 0 probability that someone went, unlocked the safe, brought down the till, set it up and served someone at this time. It’s also against company guidelines.

I eventually walked off because I had stuff to do and couldn’t be annoyed with him. This then resulted in him shouting at me when I was busy with other work about how he was an NHS worker (unsure how this is relevant, the service was open 7 days a week from early morning to late evening, so hardly unsociable hours). He also berated two of my staff with the same shite for a further 10 minutes (watched him CCTV). I was about to phone the police but he left, thankfully.

Anyway, from his spiel it turns out that he had forgot to buy a stamp and it was his nieces birthday tomorrow and he’d obviously forgot to send a card earlier in the week. But he had came in on a Sunday evening and the post wouldn’t have been collected until midday the next day, anyway, meaning his entire hysterical meltdown over the stamp was pointless as he could have either

1. not been so disorganised and sent it earlier
2. got up in the morning, posted it and the card still would have arrived late
3. came before it closed and still had the card arrive late

I was incredibly embarrassed for him.

I was going to say Bingo but thought I'd be on the naughty step! I feel really sorry for those with genuine MH problems when it's trotted out all the time when people are just being tits.

@PrimalIceScreamer
So sorry for your loss and your friend's behaviour must have been incredibly hurtful.

Some people just can't deal with death and avoid acknowledging it in any way.

When my Father died and Mum and I were going through condolence cards, one woman (long term social circle rather than close friend) sent a post card that simply said "I'll call you to arrange Bridge next week". I suppose it was her way of letting Mum know she was thinking about her and we all had a good laugh about it so it wasn't all bad. Don't think Mum went to Bridge though.

My sister was 26 at the time. Massively overspent on her wedding plans and demanded that my lovely retired Auntie paid for her wedding lingerie. My Aunt said she'll donate £50.

My sister cried, screamed, stamped her foot and declared that the thong itself would be over £100.

The marriage only lasted 7 months!!

She's in her 40s now and she's still a brat. Last week she had a cold (definitely not Covid!) and she phoned our Dad 30 times for attention and sympathy.

I love her but f me, she's hardwork and it's tiresome pussyfooting

This.

We all know the behaviour OP describes of sitting on the supermarket floor and jumping up and down is not common arsehole behaviour. I hope if this woman was having an episode that she never sees this thread. Or the videos others probably recorded.

I'm autistic. And I do have meltdowns but I tend to hide away.

My husband has seen some shocking behaviour from me though!! It takes about a week to get over the humiliation.

Once on a girls weekend we had a couple of hours in a big shopping mall before we had to go for our train. Unfortunately there was a fire alarm in the big department store and some of the girls got evacuated and were kept outside right until the last minute that we had to jump in a taxi to catch the train.

One of them had the most ridiculous toddler style foot-stamping tantrum I've ever seen in the taxi, because her sister (who hadn't been in the department store so not evacuated) had been to one that she wanted to go to but hadn't been able to, and bought a lipstick that she wanted. She was trying to insist that her sister should give it to her. It was absolutely absurd and bizarre, but she had form for similar selfish tantrums.

It's one of the reasons we're no longer friends.

Another one; a 'heated discussion' in our office boardroom ended in one now ex-colleague prone to childish strops storming out and slamming the door behind her. The whole boardroom is made of glass and everyone in the office just sat and gawped at the glass walls shuddering, fully expecting them to shatter (which would have been a fantastic cherry on the cake, for us spectators).

I've posted this before but it's still worth posting again! The Scene, Asda, 10 minutes to closing on 24th December, a woman in the depleted vegetable section was screaming at a Manager because there were no fresh sprouts, Don't you know it's Christma????? I and the rest of her audience managed to stop ourselves from breaking into song.