" I once had the local preacher scream and cuss at me until he was red in the side , then spit on me . He was in my McDonald ’s crusade - thru , and his card was n’t working . "
Reddit userNotAllAltmerrecentlyaskedther/AskRedditcommunity, “What is the biggest adult tantrum you have ever witnessed?” In terms of entertainment value, the replies did NOT disappoint. But am I feeling a bit disappointed in humanity? You betcha! Here’s what people shared:
1.“I used to work at a deli. We ran out of a certain kind of ham. A customer requested that ham. I explained the situation. He turned an alarming shade of purple and, in a shaky voice, screamed at me, ‘YOU HAVE RUINED MY LABOR DAY!!!’ It was right before Labor Day. Then he stormed off, slamming his shopping cart into several other customers' shopping carts in the process.”
— LeeHarveyOswaldsDad
2.“Years ago, I was in the queue at McDonald’s where a very angry woman with three kids marched up to the counter shouting to see the manager. Apparently, a few of her fries were green in color, and she rudely demanded that they refund her and her kids' meals as compensation. The manager said he’d be happy to refund her meal, but since there was nothing wrong with her kids' food, that was as far as he was willing to go. She screamed at him some more before picking up the tray and tipping its contents all over the counter. This was a full tray of food: fries, burgers, McFlurries, drinks. It went everywhere. She was escorted out, and her kids looked utterly mortified.”
— ImStealingTheTowels
3.“My friend has a story about how a man threw a cup of coffee at her because the cup was pink (to bring attention to breast cancer awareness month) and his masculinity was so threatened by the pink cup that he had a ‘mantrum.'”
— ashoka_akira
4.“This happened at a grocery store. A middle-aged guy was arguing with the cashier about an expired coupon. When he learned he couldn’t get his discount, he proceeded to throw a tantrum that would make a toddler proud. He started yelling, ‘I know my rights! I want my discount!’ He began flinging items from his cart across the store. The highlight? He tried to storm out dramatically but walked into the sliding doors instead. The entire store laughed as he sheepishly picked himself up and walked away. The cashier got a standing ovation. It was wild!”
— Minimum_Impression92
5.“At an upscale retirement community, I saw an older woman throw a tantrum because we allowed a few laborers to eat breakfast for free. These guys do great work, they’re dependable, reliable, respectful, and appreciated by everyone except one old lady who was screaming in the lobby about how they shouldn’t be getting a free meal.”
— likestotraveltoo
6.“An older woman, probably 70ish, traveling with her even older husband, was sitting in front of me on a plane. She ordered an alcoholic drink. When the flight attendant brought her her drink, she demanded her card back, started ranting and raving, and called the flight attendant a thief. It went on and on and on, and at one point, she started crying. The thing is, the flight attendant hadn’t even asked for payment yet, and definitely hadn’t taken her card anywhere. This poor flight attendant had to have been the most patient person on earth. She handled it with so much grace. Eventually, the flight attendant found the screaming woman’s card on the floor under her seat, where she had apparently dropped it. She did apologize somewhat sheepishly and was very quiet the rest of the flight. Meanwhile, the husband never acknowledged the situation at all, just sat there placidly while his wife screamed her head off.”
— Acrobatic - Hat6819
7.“I witnessed a woman storm into a Domino’s Pizza, push past the other people waiting to pick up carry-out orders, and slam a Pizza Hut box down on the counter, shouting that it was the ‘worst fucking pizza she’d ever tasted!’ The poor kid working looked terrified and said that she’d get the manager. The manager, who was about 20, came out, looked at the box, and said, ‘Yeah. Pizza Hut sucks. I don’t know what you want me to do about it.’ Chaos ensued.”
— ca77ywumpus
8.“When I was training to work at a tanning salon, we would ask for the person’s name, then look them up in our system. One woman who came in had a note in her account that she regularly uses stolen credit cards. When asked to leave, she freaked out, yelling that she would never steal and we should just run her card. Sure enough, her card declined, and we had to threaten to call the police to get her to leave.”
— lovelylittleoctopuse
9.“This happened to me many years ago. A lady came in, and she was very rude from the start. I got rattled and made a mistake or two, pissing her off further. As she left, I said, ‘Have a nice day!’ She was incandescent with rage. She whirled around and bellowed, ‘I WILL NOT HAVE A NICE DAY! I WILL NOT!’ then stormed out the door. The thing is, they’re double doors, and we used to keep one locked because the wind would blow it open otherwise. So she slammed into the locked door, grabbed it, and tried to wrench it open. I was legit worried she’d do damage. She flailed her tiny arms around and screamed profanity at the heavens before shoving her way through the other door. It was pretty amazing.”
— Pompoulus
10.“For one year’s Christmas exchange, we threw a joke gift into the mix (the real present was hidden within). A full, grown ass adult got this joke gift and threw a fit, saying they’d put in good money for their portion and this was shit. They literally threw the item across the room. This was in front of 20 other people. We sheepishly showed them the real gift and they tried to laugh it off, but damn, that was awkward.”
— Shoddy - Outcome3868
11.“To mitigate resellers, our store allowed customers a limited quantity of water cases per visit after our state got hit by several natural disasters. After ignoring every sign and customer service associate telling her no, this woman decided to go herself, load a cart, and go to the register. Well, this lady just decided to piss herself right then and there, in her own britches thank god, at the cash register after she couldn’t get her way. She left with soiled pants and the amount of water she was entitled to. Repeat customer, too. I’d never show my face in public again.”
— Appropriate_Cod_5446
12.“I was at a car rental at the airport. I guess they didn’t have the exact vehicle this woman wanted, so she sat on a bench and wept theatrically while her (presumably) husband and son watched awkwardly. I couldn’t help but think she probably does this for any small setback. Vacationing with her must be rough.”
— Livid_Parsnip6190
13.“At film school, we had a teacher who was a little too full of himself. We were going to learn how to analyse and review a movie in one of his classes, and he made a huge mistake by choosing one of his own movies for us to work with. That didn’t go well, since the movie above was, well, to put it nicely, a steaming pile of shit. Well, we did our work, and we all put some very well-founded, well-worded, and well-written criticism in our works, and handed our stuff over, while mentally doing the sign of the cross. We knew that this wasn’t going to go down well. The next time we had a lesson with that teacher, he proceeded with having a full-blown mega-meltdown in front of the whole class, to the point where he literally started tearing up our reviews and tossing them all over the room, which he then practically ran out of while raging, screaming, and crying.”
" We did n’t hear anything for the next few 24-hour interval , while the manage director and the leading looked into the subject . Then we were told that he had been fired on the spot after chide and screaming at the managing director after our stratum . It turned out that the man had a severe drinking problem , and that the management was already getting quick to pull the trigger on him . Our review were just the straw that die the camel ’s back . "
— MBAdk
14.“During the height of COVID, a man at Chipotle was told to wear a mask. He left, but not before hitting the wall and breaking the glass doors.”
— BigTuna0890
15.“When I worked retail, a customer approached my register and I said, ‘Hey, did you find everything okay?’ He threw his items on my counter and ignored me. I rang him up, and then he demanded I call the manager. My manager came over and talked to him, and he left. The manager tells me this guy was offended because I didn’t say good morning to him. A few days later, a different manager pulls me into the office because the same guy called corporate and reported me for not saying good morning to him.”
— Blue_foryou
16.“I was in a Dairy Queen, and a man busted through the doors holding a spoon (he had just ordered it through the drive-thru). He went, ‘HEY! Do you guys have any REAL SPOONS???’ They have two different sizes of spoons at DQ, depending on the size of your Blizzard. The guy at the counter goes, ‘Sorry, sir, we ran out of the tall ones,’ and he goes, ‘WELL, YOU SHOULD TELL PEOPLE THAT BEFORE THEY ORDER!!!'”
— shnanogans
17.“I had a woman throw a dildo at my head because I wouldn’t give her a refund for it. She tried to say she didn’t know they weren’t returnable, but I had sold it to her the day before and told her myself. She got so mad that she threw it at me. Luckily, I ducked and she missed. She then stormed out, leaving me with the dildo on the floor. No, it was not in the packaging when she brought it in.”
— GloInTheDarkUnicorn
18.“This boomer couple tried to skip the line at the airport and barge through security. The staff wasn’t letting them. The woman started screaming, ‘Get out of my way and let us through! WE’VE GOT A PLANE TO CATCH!’ Security guy, totally nonplussed, just calmly made a sweeping gesture towards everyone in line and said, ‘Lady, this is an airport. They’ve ALL got a plane to catch.’ She absolutely lost it, started screaming, and was taken away by multiple security staff to a secondary location. I guarantee she missed her flight.”
— Miss - Indie - Cisive
19.“I once had the local preacher scream and cuss at me until he was red in the face, then spit on me. He was in my McDonald’s drive-thru, and his card wasn’t working. At a different McDonald’s where I worked, my friend got aGolden CompassHappy Meal toy thrown at his head because the parent saidGolden Compasswas the devil.”
— ActualLiteralHobbit
20.“The one day I didn’t wear my wedding ring at my retail job, I had a guy ask me out and promptly lose his mind when I told him I’m married. The interaction was great until a switch flipped, and he shrieked at me and said he checked for a ring first. Red in the face, spittle flying. My manager heard him from the back of the warehouse and came sprinting to throw this guy out on his ass. As a woman, I’ve had a lot of dudes get butthurt at me, but I’ve never had one tell me that unless a man openly claims me, I’m expected to say yes to the first man that asks. What I want doesn’t matter; I’m up for dibs.”
— lizzyote
21.“I work retail. A police woman came in wanting to return a pair of $19 shoes. I returned them, but our system at the time didn’t print out a physical receipt. It was emailed instead. She threw a fit and brandished her firearm, demanding to know my name. I refused because WTF?”
— Lurchislurking
22.“I witnessed a man board an airplane drunk and quickly fall asleep. At the point when they announced we’d be landing soon, tray tables up, he woke up and asked a flight attendant for coffee. She said, ‘Sorry, no, it’s too late. We’re about to land.’ He lost his marbles, swore at her about needing coffee, and called her names the entire rest of the flight. When we landed and pulled up to the gate, the captain asked everyone to stay seated, and local PD boarded and escorted him away. He acted very confused about why in the world he was in trouble.”
— No_Helicopter5583
23.“When I worked at a conservative Christian university’s Starbucks, an old, conservative Christian lady’s total for her Frappuccino and breath mints came to $6.66. She started screaming at the top of her lungs, ‘CHANGE IT! CHAAAANGE IT! THE NUMBER! “DEAR JEEESUS.’ I told her I couldn’t. She THREW more mints at me to ring up. I did. She called me evil and stormed off, mumbling about Jesus and calling the manager.”
— poopybuttfacehead
24.“I was once blocked and then verbally attacked on social media by a professional hockey player who somehow mistook me for his ex-wife’s friend. Never mind that 1) I’m a nobody, 2) I don’t even live in the same country, and 3) I didn’t even know he was married. He never admitted to his mistake, and his verbal attack also led his fans to come after me. Today, he has been exposed as one of those QAnon conspiracy theorists, promoting misinformation and false news. So I’m not losing sleep over what happened. He was always destined to behave off the rails. It is still a hell of an adult tantrum, though. Even if I were his ex-wife’s friend, why does it even matter? Is she not allowed to have friends? Is he not allowed to interact with her friends? I just don’t get it. I can only assume that he could be one of those ‘controlling husband’ types.”
— buckyhermit
25.“At the dispensary a few weeks back, a guy told the budtender that he was very eco-conscious and didn’t want his products (cannabis, for anyone not familiar) in a bag. She politely explained that she couldn’t let him carry out the product because of the law, but the bags are paper and recyclable. He got super red in the face and started arguing with her about carbon footprints and whatnot, and she again politely explained that it wasn’t a choice; it’s the law, and she has to follow it. The rest of us in the small store were watching this man get to an alarming shade of red over a paper bag. He snatched the bag from her, called her an idiot, and left. She told him to have the day he deserves.”
" We all started express mirth and clown on him , and he directly came rage back through the doorway and SLAMMED the empty paper udder back down on the counter . Which only made all of us express joy even harder at him . At least we were having a proficient metre ! "
— nuclearmonte
26.“A woman forgot her discount voucher and decided the best way to introduce this issue was to say, ‘I’ve forgotten my voucher. What are you going to do about it?’ Despite the voucher clearly stating it needs to be presented upon purchase, I do actually have some discretion in what to do if someone forgets it. For my regulars who are polite, I’d just apply it anyway. For her, I made what I thought was a decent alternative offer: She pays full price now, but if she brought the voucher within the next two weeks, I’d refund her the difference and make a note of that on her receipt so if she returned something while I was out, she’d still get it. She disagreed that it was a decent alternative offer; she literally stamped over to the door and said, ‘I’ll leave if you don’t honor it in full!'”
" I was done with her by this point , so I just said okay and watched her violent storm out . Or at least presumptively intend to storm out , because she forgot the room access afford inwards , not outwards , and slammed into it rather . That was all for a verifier that would have relieve her about £ 2.50 on a £ 50 order . "
— The_Sown_Rose
27.And: “When I was young, I worked at a Subway. Someone made a catering order for the next day. Naturally, we prepped for it but had not started construction. We were shocked when a man walked in asking for that order. We told him it was scheduled for the next day, but we could make it in about an hour. He. Lost. His. Shit. He raged. He had spit flying from his mouth and said every word your mama told you never to say. We just stared at him calmly. This seemed to make him rage even more. He stormed off and walked toward the exit, but missed the door completely and hit the window instead. We heard the crack, and he quickly found the actual door. I went to inspect, as I could see his forehead skin from behind the counter. This man had made a DENT in the glass with his hard head. He did come back to get the food an hour later. How embarrassing.”
— Lightinthebirdcage
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