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]

Years ago I dated someone for a couple of months. Seemed quite normal. One day I had a 6pm sales planning meeting so I told him I'd be back late. We weren't living together although he had a key. I rang him at 5.30 just to touch base and said 'right, this meeting is starting, better go.'

Meeting dragged on, boss had ordered pizza and a couple of bottles of wine. I finally got home at about 9.15.

The boyfriend was at my house waiting for me. As I walked in, he was running around holding his head and screaming 'where have you been'. Not yelling, but this horrible high pitched screaming. I said I'd been to the sales meeting, and what was wrong? He accused me of lying, of not telling him where I was going, of seeing someone else. It was bizarre.

He followed me around as I sorted my bag for the next day, ironed a shirt, washed my face, cleaned my teeth, still screaming. When it was obvious I was getting ready for bed, he said 'What are you doing, I haven't eaten yet.' When I asked why not, he screamed he was expecting me to cook. 😃

At that point I lost patience, said I'd done a 14 hour day, I was going to bed and could he please bugger off. I had to throw him out. That was the end of that one. VERY VERY weird.

My husband, it wasn’t really funny but it is ridiculous. I was making snowballs for my son and piling them up to throw at each other and he started smashing them. H kicked off and shouted at him, why are you doing that, mummy is making snowballs for you. He had a proper tantrum about it. Son and I looked at him like WTF? He stomped off for about an hour. Came back and said in a small voice….I was hungry. FFS a grown man can’t feed himself when he knows he gets angry when hungry. I couldn’t have liked him less in that moment.

A very, very similar story like this went viral on SM a few years ago, almost word for word except that was on about how a white passenger had refused to sit next to a black passenger so the black person was offered an upgrade to first class and was applauded by the other passengers.

I don’t even know if the original story was true, but I’d bet that version isn’t 🤣

MINE!! tonight when I told my family that they were rude and didnt care a darn about the kittens because they were not appropriately upset about the fact I couldn't find the cats Halloween costumes. Oh and i found them about 20 mins later.

Christmas was the season to be..not jolly, but an utter bitch, in the case of my mother. No idea what made her behave so badly. Generally she and my father came to ours and were waited on and spoiled. Prior to that, her mother used to host Christmas, and cooked like a dream. So she invited us to theirs one Christmas, and I said we'd bring the "treats" - chocolates, nuts, wine, crackers, etc. Arrived at around midday to find no preparations under way. Nothing. She said..."Where's the Christmas dinner? Didn't you bring it?" So about an hour later we sat down to boiled potatoes and frozen peas, accompanied by chocolates, wine, nuts etc. She sat at the table with a face like a boiled trout, then burst into a full-on tantrum "This is the most unChristmassy Christmas I've ever had!!"

My late mother - who had lots of form, but this one took the cake. It was my DD1’s 1st Christmas, and she was the first GC on both sides, so very special for all of the GP’s and GGP’s. We didn’t want to schlepp her around all day taking her to my DP’s, his DF & DSM’s, his DM’s and her then BF du jour, my DGM and his DGM, so instead, we got in early and decided we’d cater Christmas and invite everyone to ours spread out through the day. We’d start with my DPs, (get that over and done with) for breakfast and they could see her rip the paper off her presents and have coffee and croissants, etc (then go the hell home), then the rest would be stagggered through the day. My DH would pick up our very elderly grandmothers and drop them back and they’d have a lovely, quiet time, etc.

My mum rang on Xmas eve saying “Just reminding you that you don’t have to bring anything for lunch, and all my colleagues are looking forward to meeting the baby.” Uh, what? Reminded her that she had agreed to come for breakfast and that we were absolutely NOT coming for lunch. Not at all. We have people coming to our place.”Oh yeah, that’s right.”

They didn’t show up at breakfast time. I rang up at about ten thirty saying “Ummm, I guess I’ll throw the croissants in the bin then.” “Oh, your father doesn’t like much in the mornings. You’ll just have to bring her over for lunch, won’t you?”

“Riiiiight… Firstly, I have seen the shit dad makes when he has access to the kitchen in the mornings. That doesn’t fly. You had zero intention of showing up as you had agreed to. We are not coming over with the baby. She is not a performing seal. We have guests. We are staying here.”

Next thing, she drives up our driveway into our garden, right onto our newly laid lawn up to our front windows and violently hurls all the presents she had bought for DD into the ground while calling me everything under the sun - especially “ungrateful”. My DH walked out and told her to get a grip on herself and said that he was willing to start videoing her and would happily email it to all her friends and the police if she didn’t leave immediately. Both grandmothers and I were crying.

All this because she wanted to show off ”HER” baby

Me... I do cringe when I think about it.

In my defence I was pretty stressed.

At the start of the lockdown my dd was in hospital and I was allowed to go be with her in the day (due to the nature of why she was there), which meant I didn't get the chance to go to the shops to buy essentials. Remember in those days we were in kind of panic mode so everyone was buying out sanitizer and disinfectant etc.

So when she was asleep I thought I'd nip of to the big pharmacy next to the hospital as I hasn't any of these things as yet.

I walked to the section where the dettol was and there on the rack was one bottle, but a 2l so I thought I'd better get it even though it was a huge bottle. As I went to reach for it, another woman tried to as well and were stood there each with one hand on this bottle giving each other the stare. Then I just had a meltdown and started crying and saying it's mine, I saw it first. It was so bad that an assistant came over, me crying and both of us with one hand each on the bottle. I then through crying said I haven't been able to get to a shop, my dd is very ill and I haven't slept in a week. The assistant just looked at me and said to the woman, please can you let her have it. She did and just stormed off and I stood there and the assistant said to me 'you can go pay for it now'

So I said thank you and went off to pay very sheepishly, and of course I passed by my dettol rival in the way.

I am normally calm and collected, but not that day.

Because the whole ‘then everybody clapped’ is well known end to a bullshit story.

Theres currently a troll that pops up with these threads every week or so at the moment ‘I went behind the counter at KFC and showed the manager how to make a better piece of chicken than they could. Customers tried it and declared mine was amazing. And everybody clapped’ or ‘I was in my Chinese takeaway and they were cooking food wrong to I went in the kitchen and showed them how to do a stir fry. The customers tried it and declared it the best stir fry they ever had. And everybody clapped’

Plus it’s a bullshit story that loads of people tell and claim as their own over and over again.

The one I witnessed was actually quite sad

I was in a very nice restaurant with my Dh. It's was very nice but not fancy. A couple where brought to the table next to us. The woman had made a huge effort, lovely clothes, hair and make up. Her Dh looked quite scruffy, not terrible but obviously no effort made. The waiter came over and offered the wine list, the Dh sighed and said "I'll just have a beer".
Omg the poor women just stared crying and shouting, "Could you just make an effort for once, this is a nice place , just want one nice evening" she threw the menu down and stormed out. Her husband looked very embarrassed, he looked at us and just said "I just wanted a beer"
I really felt so bad for her, I can only guess that their marriage:relationship was in trouble and she was making an effort and he wasn't. Always feel a bit sad when I remember them and I hope she's ok and happy now

This is quite sad.

Reminds of a showdown when we were seated next to an arguing couple.

She kept repeating over and over 'you aren't listening to me' in a calm manner. He then screamed and shouted that she never listened to him, he got up and stormed off. They had only got their meal so she very calmly asked the waiter for the bill and to pack up her meal to go, and she left his!

I was in her team for sure, and almost wanted to high five her when she left. Head held high with her dinner in a polystyrene box.

Yep.
@Fimofriend the "everybody clapped"/"the whole bus clapped" (it's often a bus and usually involves a mother with a pushchair kicking the elderly into touch) is a Mumsnet "thing"
Tall tales are told, putting the teller into a good light, often when the teller has actually been a bit of a twat but sometimes when it's a tall tale that's been told so often it's become an urban myth and anyone who's been near the internet in the past 20 years has heard it a hundred times.
Becomes particularly chinny reckon when it's retold verbatim from the original urban myth.

She's a diamond, and I was a brat!!

This is an urban legend. I’ve heard so many variations on the same theme over the years and it’s always wishful thinking coupled with fantasy. Look on Snopes for the different versions. It’s ridiculous.

Keep your anecdote original and you might generate some genuine applause one day.

My aunts then partner, now husband #2, on Christmas. She had cooked a huge Christmas lunch, something the whole family was looking forward to. She'd also cooked things he, as a vegetarian, would eat. Absolutely everyone was catered for.
All the food was on the table, he took one look at it and went into a tantrum because there was meat on the table, on the opposite site of where he was sitting. Shouted about no one paying attention to the fact that he was vegetarian, that there was nothing for him to eat and that we were all just thinking of ourselves.
My aunt got really annoyed by that and told him that yes, she had cooked for him as well, had he looked he would have seen the vegetarian dishes. That she cooked according to his preferences and wishes whenever he was at hers. Finished by telling him that if he didn't like the food on offer, he could cook for once.
He did not like that one bit and stormed out.

Of course, lunch for the rest of us was a bit ruined by this idiot.

@Fraaahnces
I remember reading your post about that…
You handled it very well

Lol at the ‘everyone clapped’ anecdotes- a good indication of something that never happened . 😄

When my DC were younger we used to do a lot of summer football tournaments. One arsey coach used to get furious when his team lost. Stomping about etc. One memorable time he destroyed his team’s gazebo in a rage. Awful.

An ex bf of mine was throwing a tantrum about something minute and got himself that wound up he poured a full carton of custard over his own head...

@tenbob - I cried! That woman was horrible.

A serving Cabinet Minister jumping up and down on the spot, throwing his head back and full throat screaming after one particular meeting with officials. I wouldn't have been surprised to hear he'd 'resigned to spend time with family' but he limped on for another 6 months.

Now to be fair, I don't actually know what was being said due to the language, but me and DH were at Magic Kingdom in WDW waiting for the fireworks to start. An Asian couple came over - dad was with little boy and mum just had a face like thunder. The dad and son sat on the ground and the mum just kicked off - full on shouting, arms up in the air, feet stomping etc. she would go quiet for a couple of minutes then start up again. The dad and young son just kept looking down. The dad looked so sad.

I know we don't know what the argument was about as they were speaking in another language, but I felt so bad for the dad as was getting a really hard time for something. He may well have deserved it lol, but I think it was the fact it was at almost the front of the castle in Disney which made it a bit..... odd!? With loads of folk nearby!

At the end of the fireworks, walking back up Main Street to get the boat back to the car park, we bumped into them again and she was still going off on one!!

And it’s lifted in its entirety from Snopes.

At soft play. There were 2 small babies who couldn’t sit unaided and were both propped up against cushions.

Baby one takes toy out of baby twos hand. After a minute baby two takes it back. Neither baby bothered by this.
Mother of baby one hurtling over screams at the top of her voice ‘I teach my child how to share properly’ grabs baby and leaves. Madness.

My BIL all the time. Learned behaviour from his mother if he doesn’t get his own way/centre of attention. Never works in his favour still.

I know a woman (unfortunately it's my partner's best mate) who will regularly throw hissy fits. The pattern / trigger always seems to be that whenever she isn't the centre of attention or isn't the one in charge of organising an event - that's when she'll have a wobbly. It's so predictable now it's actually quite funny! She will then usually pick an argument with another member of their large friendship group, start doing the drunken crocodile tears crying, walking off etc.
I've put a wide berth between myself and her since she ruined my partner's 50th birthday with her drunk bawling. Haven't got time for that kind of behaviour from a fully grown adult, it's pathetic.

Probably me when about 25wks pregnant with my first and on holiday for a wedding, in my pregnancy state I manage to walk into the glass doors in our holiday apartment thinking they were open.

My husband dared to laugh and omg he got it, I can never remember being so angry in my life, I was livid! Ranted and crying and obviously he profusely apologised. It didn't even hurt. We had a good night at least after I had calmed down 😁