To ask what’s the funniest hissy fit you’ve seen from an adult?

[JustLyra]

I’m currently watching my estranged cousin make an utter twat of himself on social media (he has no privacy settings) throwing a massive hissy fit that our mutual cousin has “utterly and utterly” offended him by inviting me to the day part of her wedding, but no other cousins.

He has flown off at the deep end cursing her, but conveniently not mentioning that her fiancée (who he has never met) has been one of my DH’s closest friends for 30 plus years.

He only knows because he bumped into the stag party at the weekend and realised my DH is part of the wedding party,

I just want to get popcorn while I watch other relatives (frequent flying monkeys in tbt past) pandering to him and my elder brother and their pity party.

[Cousin who is getting married doesn’t give a fuck about his whinging. Ironically it’s made us chat for the first time in a long time so totally backfired on him]

My control freak boss demanding that we do a certain task in the most confusing and convoluted way possible that in the end, wouldn’t work anyway. I’d been doing said task for the last 4 years my way, it worked perfectly fine and got the result we needed, but no, she was a Director and wanted it done her way.

Explained to her that it wouldn’t work and why

Huge, massive tantrum ensued. Screaming and shouting “I want” over and over, storming out and slamming the office door, then storming back in to shout “I want it done this way” before storming back out again, repeat x 10.

So I did it exactly how she wanted. What I warned would happen, happened.

Another massive tantrum ensued, she grabbed her stuff and fucked off home with the rest of us utterly bemused.

Was the author JK Rowling by any chance?

Ashamed to say it was me about 25 years ago in my late teens before I had children.

To this day I have no idea what came over me.
I'm usually calm and level headed.

I'd just come out of a counselling session and was feeling emotional.
There were some workmen blocking my way (I was walking) out of the car park.
One of them said "You can't go this way. You'll have to turn round and go back the way you came".

I just completely lost it!
"Who do you think you are speaking to me like that! Don't you dare tell me to go back the way I came! I have every right to go that way regardless of your stupid signs telling me not to!"

It had been an intense counselling session, but I still cringe when I look back on it.

Many years ago I was with a real cock lodger twat of a man.
He was on the dole, I was working ft.
He persuaded me to take out a loan for £10,000 do he could buy himself a motorbike (god knows how he would ever have paid me back...he had a plan to sell stuff on eBay in order to do it 😳)
Anyway the night before I was due to go to the bank to get the loan, I suddenly thought "what the fuck am I doing?!"
So I told him I was no longer getting the loan.
This grown man in his 30s then proceeded to cry, shout, scream, full on tantrum.
It was one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen.
I ended the relationship...obviously!

Years ago, I was in Lloyds bank. A man walks in, barges past two people ahead of him in the queue, slaps a cheque down on the counter and demands they cash it for him. The cashier calmly started explaining that she couldn't, he yells over her that he has been a customer at NatWest for years, she is incompetent etc. He finally runs out of puff, and the cashier manages to get a word in. "But this is Lloyds bank sir, you don't have an account with us". Obviously he didn't have the grace to apologise but his face was a picture!

I tried to tell my boss I thought someone was stealing his car. He didn't want to listen to me. Epic hissy fit once he realised it was gone.

When I was born,my mother wanted me to be christened (she just wanted to be centre of attention and have a party) but my dad refused

‘im not paying for people who I can’t stand,would never go near if they where not related to you,(he didn’t get on with her side of the family apart from an aunt) we are not religious and she can choose for herself when she’s old enough!’

she had her tantrum (dad said it went on for a few days but he held firm) but I wasn’t christened-and nor where my brothers who came after me

anyway,she thought she’d bide her time and it came when I got pregnant and went on to have dd

id barely got out of hospital when she started the whole ‘she NEEDS to be christened and not to worry-I’ve spoken to our local church,I’ve booked the date and I’ll sort out the party for afterwards’

i gave it to her straight-it wasn’t going to be happening-i didn’t want her christened,I wasn’t paying for a piss up for her friends (which let’s face it-that’s what it was about) I wasn’t choosing what religion she was going to be-I’m not religious myself,and she can choose what she wanted to be when she was old enough

ive never seen a tantrum so epic in my life(it went on for weeks)-all her friends grandchildren where/had been done,I was spiteful for not letting her do what she wanted,she wouldn’t get the glory of being the granny of the baby on the day,she’d never get into the school she wanted dd to go to and ‘your just like your fucking father!’

(all the reasons that mean a child has to be christened-nothing to do with god at all)

and she tells everyone that I refused as she refused to pay for it-even though I begged her to!

im now nc

I politely declined someone's offer of help. Her sister moaned at me and she (person whose help I'd declined) kept on and on about it. Because constantly whining is really going to make me change my mind.

Someone else did similar - asked if I was going somewhere and said he'll help me. He couldn't grasp that I couldn't get there. (6 hours by train, hotel they were all staying at was 3 miles from the nearest station and it was pretty much in the arse end of nowhere)

I worked for one summer on a campsite in France (for a keycamp/eurocamp type company) and one man absolutely lost his shit with us on a daily basis that there were sometimes squirrels on the deck outside his static caravan, and why weren't we dealing with it. Apparently they were scaring his children and he wanted traps put down. I guess so his children could see dead squirrels on the decking instead..

A relative at a wedding. As soon as they got the invite to our relatives wedding, they made it all about them. I had to listen to this person tell me how they were going to WW’s to lose 2 stone, hunt down The Dress, and how everyone would be looking at her. Unbelievable narcissistic behaviour.

On the day of the relatives wedding, she arrived in very expensive dress, massive hair, nails, fake tan, fake eyelashes and nails. When others arrived she freaked out because surprisingly to her, other people scrub up well too. Instead of looking great, she’d gone way overboard and looked like one of Rupauls contestants.

The above sounds really bitchy, but it was just unreal to observe. This grown woman literally had a massive tantrum in front of everyone and started pulling out her hair extensions shouting “I hate my hair, I hate my hair”, all because she didn’t look the best. I got a massive bollocking for making an effort i.e. put on a dress and some lippy.

Man in the bank had brought in a cheque that had been made out to someone else, that he wanted to deposit into his own account.
When he was told that wasn't possible, he kept doing really heavy breathing like trying to theatrically calm himself down whilst telling the lady who worked there that she was an idiot. It went back and forth for a bit- she stayed completely calm and he was shouting and pointing through the window at her.
He then stormed out- still yelling and pushed the revolving door way too hard. It overshot the gap and he had to do a slower second revolve in the door while everyone stared at him.

Wow, this seems to happen a lot!

So so many from patients wanting to be prescribed addictive drugs who (when we decline) then scream and shout, often having a literal toddler-style tantrum and telling us that "it'll be your fault when I die" as though that will change our minds

My sister has hissy fits all the time. Usually when one of us meet up with another sibling or dare to see our mum without her permission. She's fucking hard work and everyone panders to her except me.

My mil who had enough of me and my devil vagina magic...

She accused me of tricking her son into falling in love with me once.

It was absolutely hilarious tbh!

Worked in fast food as a part of customer care, got told I would have my head bashed in for looking/speaking at a this woman's husband, I was stood at the door welcoming everyone in as told. The pair of them together had about 3 teeth, you can keep him love

Why would you be expected to love and respect a God that behaved this way?

it’s totally beyond me.. and I am a Christian ( all be it a sweary one)

Myself, when I accidently smudged my 'not quite dry' toenail varnish, when I was in a rush to go out (and wearing open toed shoes).

Pretty spectacular display of twatishness, with full meltdown, throwing the bottle, slamming the door and refusing to go out too. If I can defend myself, I was having a breakdown due to dad suicide - but I often look back and laugh at it now.

In a charity shop for a children's hospice. A woman had an armful of clothes and was about to walk out with them. A burly volunteer stopped her by blocking the door. She argued that the charity had not paid for the clothes so it was ok for her just to take what she wanted. The volunteer explained that the donors wanted te money raised to go to the hospice. She ranted and raved, jumped up and down and threw the clothes all over the shop. Her most memorable phrase was "I don't care about f***g dying kids."

Oh my SIL who’s normally lovely had a memorable hissy fit when we all holidayed in Barcelona. I’d gone with DB back to the hotel to collect something from my room and then there was no bus to take us to meet SIL and her parents. She ranted and screamed stamping her feet up and down like a toddler and complained we were late leaving her DPs in sun (they had shade). I just walked off…

she’d been erratic all week calling a waitress a bitch under her breath for something minor!

When I was a NQ solicitor the partner I worked for used to moan about his office being a mess. It was his fault but he didn’t see that and threw his phone one day when it got particularly bad.

A farmer jumping up and down and waving his arms about, shouting in rage at his sheep and sheepdog, who I presume weren’t doing quite what he wanted. It was actually quite funny to watch, but felt sorry for the poor animals.

I used to work in retail (very popular toy chain) and for weeks this woman came into the store in the run up to Christmas, wanting to check stock levels of what was going to be a very popular toy. Everytime she came in we said to her, buy it now we will sell out.

Needless to say she ignored us, she came into store just before closing on Christmas eve wanting this toy, and we had (as she had been repeatedly told we would) sold out.

She started screaming and shouting and stamping her feet, demanding we get her one, she was crying saying we'd ruined her kids Christmas.

It was the kind of tantrum I'd expect from a 4 year old!

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