To think it must be miserable going through life being this angry.

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In cafe Nero. A lady in front of me ordered a special request coffee. Her husband came storming over, and demanded the coffee be remade as it wasn't done to his satisfaction. His wife and the barista looked completely confused. But she was about to re make it. He then decided they were leaving and stoned out with his wife in tow.
I felt really sorry for his wife being married to such an angry man. There was just no need for that behaviour. AIBU to think it's a sad way to lead your life.

I’d assume there’s something else going on in his life, I hope he’s not always that angry.

I really wanted to ask his wife if he was always like that!

Yeah I hear you!

And I feel sorry for their wives.

I was in a Chinese restaurant and just sat round the corner waiting for my take away. I seen the owner bringing it to me so I stood up and went to the front of the queue. A man who had only just joined the queue absolutely spitting with rage said ‘There is a fucking queue here!’ His wife was just staring at the floor.

About a week ago I was pulling out a road and a bloke was turning in. He took the corner really wide and stuck the finger up at me. I think he thought I was in his side of the road. So I flipped it back.

He turned his car around and started following me down the street I had turned in to. So I pulled over abruptly because I would have absolutely stood toe to toe with him.

He pulled up to stop, then jerked forward, then stoped then sped off. I think he was really shocked I actually stoped and that actually he wasn’t scaring me. The anger some of these men have is shocking

I very nearly told his wife that level of anger is not normal. She's probably so used to it she doesn't notice.

I feel like I see this a lot. The sad thing is many of these women will have this petulant anger taken out on them at home. Everyone always laughed at that Ronnie Pickering video but I felt awful for his silent wife and wondered if she was ok

I think that, especially if there are kids involved. If that's what they are like in public, what are they like behind closed doors?

Good for you. I hope your doors were locked though! My awful ex gesticulated and swore at a female driver then sped past her while I was in the car. I was so embarrassed. We came to a red light and she pulled up alongside. She gestured for him to wind down his window and then said, ever so politely and with a smile, ‘have I done something wrong?’ My ex was lost for words. She asked again and said, ‘you seemed really angry so I’m wondering what I’ve done wrong’. He couldn’t answer her and drove home stunned. He wasn’t used to people challenging him, especially women.

You know for sure that their wives will be on the receiving end at some point

My dad was, and still is like this. My mum became so used to it, she didn’t realise how abnormal it was, and started being short tempered with other people as well. We went out for a family meal for the first time in years and I was embarrassed at how rude they were to the wait staff.

I know a woman like this. Always ready for a fight, always taking offence where there is none. It must be an awful way to live having a constant chip on your shoulder.

😑 give over.

Men throwing tantrums in public over minor things is usually down to them being angry, entitled twats, not poor little lambs having a bad day.

God I just watched that for the first time, the 'do you know who I am' stuff is so funny, but agree, poor wife

Someone I know is always angry and it's never their fault. I think they go around looking for confrontation and fights because they enjoy it.

Sounds like the man is always like it poor wife

This is my sister. She is absolutely furious constantly and it boils over at slight inconveniences.

When she meets someone who equals her anger, it’s a sight to behold.

She once stood toe to toe at the tip of all places with an angry man who was shouting and swearing at her from in his car for some reason.
She pulled in, threw her door over and flew at his car throwing his door open demanding he get the fuck out and explain himself.
He got out and started screaming in her face and got the same back x 10… the tip fellas stepped in and separated them, she would absolutely have smashed the living shit out of him if he had even raised an eyebrow at her.
She is fearless, does not give a shiny shit who she upsets, offends or intimidates. She is scary.

He was a big bloke, this did not phase her at all. She would have got up and gone back for more of it had got physical with no fucks given.

Let’s just say.. I am VERY low contact with her because she is too difficult to have a relationship with. You never know when she will blow up over nothing.
She must be exhausted all the time with this level of vicious fury.

I know an older lady like this, literally flies off the handle at the smallest thing and is very confrontational. It’s a weird way to behave and she probably has lots of negative interactions because she is always on the attack. I’ve been on the receiving end of her outbursts at work a few times! There seems to be zero self awareness with some people that if you are aggressive you aren’t going to get a great reaction back. Life is too short for that shit, it must be an exhausting way to live!

I had a neighbour/sort of friend who was angry about everything and everyone all of the time. Any kind of domestic noise infuriated her. She also badmouthed her so-called friends constantly. I got to the point where I felt like I was walking on eggshells for fear of upsetting her. My heart used to start pounding when I bumped into her. I feel so much lighter at home since she moved on.

I recently let a friendship go because she’d become a very angry, negative and judgemental person. In her case it was more anger and angst at the world, anger at anyone she perceived to be doing better than her or who she perceived as having any sort of privilege. She particularly hated older people as she considered them all rich at the expense of younger people and ‘fucking things up for everyone else’, as were mums who worked part time apparently. It’s a shame because I used to really enjoy her company.

Me and DH were once at a friend’s BBQ, and their neighbour came furiously bounding into the back garden through a side gate and shouted “Oi!! Whose is the white car???!!!! It’s blocking my drive get it moved!!”

It was my DH. And actually it wasn’t blocking a drive. The neighbour had done that thing where he’d extended his drive but not put a drop kerb in and when DH parked up he hadn’t seen it was a makeshift drive as it was obscured by a large fence. The car was about 2-3 feet over the not-dropped kerb and there wasn’t even a car on that part of the drive

But DH said “Oh that’s me yeah I’ll move it for you mate” and this guy had NO IDEA what to do when someone responded calmly. In the context of us having a really fun time at a BBQ I just thought what a sad little man this person was

I felt a bit like that when I had depression, it was agitated depression, I ripped everyone’s heads off at any perceived criticism.

I have a customer like this at work. I have to ring her every week, for no reason, other than to placate her (because she is a complainer) and my god. She is so hostile from the start of the call, until the very end. She HATES her neighbours, with a passion even though their only offence is being young. I am going to tell her this week that I won't be calling her any more, and I can't wait. One, because the complaint she'll put in will be entertaining in its bat-shittery and two, because I won't have to talk to her again.

She has the choice to stay and have her coffee and not pander to him. She has the choice not to stay married to the nasty man.

Sad to say but my partner is like this. Constantly pissed off at other drivers and ready to get out the car for a fight. Always thinks people are somehow out to get him or driving badly on purpose. We had to move house as he was so angry with literally everything the neighbours did so now live somewhere with no neighbours. It's exhausting.

Is that true? Probably, often, but I've been known, on the odd occasion, to be unbearably rude over something relatively minor, when I'd reached the end of my tether. Most peole who know me would say I'm invariably polite and mild mannered.

You were unwise to react to that driver and exacerbate the situation.

I wonder if it's got worse in recent times. A lot of people are struggling with the cost of living, and that might be a factor.