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Trump on January 6, 2021. He incited an insurrection because he did not win the USA election.
I worked at a movie store as a teenager. A guy pulled up at 10:15pm (we closed at 10:00). He saw me in the dark store and tapped on the window to indicate he was returning his movies. I looked at him and tapped on my wrist to indicate they were already late.He proceeded to throw all 3 movies at the window as hard as he could and started cursing at me. After he drove off, I went outside and wrote down all the barcodes. I looked up his account and added a note as to what happened. I left the movies sitting outside.Obviously all the movies were stolen. He had to pay the capped late fee plus he had to pay for replacements.Funny thing is, had he just accepted they were late and dropped them in the bin, I would normally do people a solid and check them in before I finished closing. His childish behavior cost him a lot more money (around $100) in the long run.
Christian youth pastor at a chain restaurant where I worked. Brought in 9 teenagers on New Year’s Day after a “lock in” at their church. We were the only restaurant in town open at 6am on New Year’s Day, and 3 people called out “sick” (hungover), so we literally had 1 cook, 1 waitress (me), and 1 shift supervisor for about 60 people seated, and a line out the door.He threw a hissy fit when I offered coffee and he told me they were teens and caffeine was bad anyhow. Then proceeded to order everyone Cokes (ahem…). We were already running out of food (two other restaurants in town weren’t open that we’d expected to be open and our general manager sucked at inventory). Half the food they ordered (things like Eggs Benedict) wasn’t available.The guy was a total a*s to me. I hustled and kept their Cokes refilled, got pancakes/eggs/bacon/sausage orders out fast, and the kids were rowdy and wired but generally well behaved.He tried to DINE AND DASH. I stopped him and he started yelling at me I front of 75+ people, saying my customer service was so poor we didn’t deserve to be paid, that he’d complain to corporate, etc. My shift supervisor cut him off and recognized him. Told him Jesus didn’t like cheats. The youth pastor screamed at him and called me a useless lesbian whore (I had short hair).I got zero tip, a bunch of Chick Tracts, and two kids turned their waters upside down and stuck the half-full glasses to the table so it made a mess when I moved them.Such good Christians.
Dude missed a flight on the big yellow banana. Entirely his own fault. When informed that they could not accommodate him until the next day, he became enraged. Yelling, screaming, stomping his feet. He actually knocked the computers off the neighboring desk. He hit one of the employees, and then had the audacity to try to fly the next day. No, sir, you’re not flying ever again. Attacking an airport employee will get you added to the no fly list.
A new temp was fired so he got his stuff from the break room and walked out of the building punching holes in the walls and ripping down posters and destroying anything he could get his hands on. ALL of it came out of his paycheck and my boss and us were laughing that his check came out to something like 30 cents for a full week of work.
Watched the CEO of a company worked at start screaming and stomping his feet because people weren’t listening to his band at a company event, and instead were mingling at the bar.He literally shouted “this is MY PARTY! This is MY COMPANY! This is mY FAVORITE BAND!“I just started laughing. What else can you do?!
In my youth I worked in a little gift shop. A well dressed elegant couple in their 40s came into the shop one day during the Christmas season, with an ad in hand for a certain item. We had sold out of the item and they yelled at me demanding I order a new one for them or it was false advertising. I was timid back then so I just quietly explained that it was a limited lot, which was stated in the ad, and we couldn’t order any more. This enraged the woman.She… she actually stamped her foot and said we had ruined her Christmas. Up to that point I was annoyed and a little scared of their over the top anger. But when she stamped her foot I burst out laughing. Seeing a grown woman do that was just so absurd. Especially when the item in question was an angel figurine on sale for $5.99.
I had just walked up to my parked car with my family from the beach in SW Florida. It was a packed and busy parking lot. An older retired aged lady flew around the corner and pulled up directly behind us and asked if we were leaving. I told her that we were. We proceeded to open the trunk to put our beach stuff in. We were still wet from swimming and were drying our clothes off with towels, clapping the sand out of our shoes, etc. The lady was still parked directly behind us, watching us like a hawk. It had been maybe 3 minutes since we had got to our car. She then asked if we were almost done, and I calmy replied that it would just be a minute. We got into our car, fired up Google maps, and she started laying on her horn yelling at us to fg move. I put the car in reverse and asked her to get out of the way, as she was blocking us in. She got out of her car and came right up to my window, yelling and screaming profanities at us like we had violated her rights. No shame, yelling in front of several people like a nut case.People in FL are fg insane, especially the retirees. They are nasty, rude, and entitled. It is not just the retirees. Road rage down there is so common, and people fly off the handle for the smallest things. I think the heat gets to people, idk, but the nastiest and worst people I have ever met live there. They are like ticking time bombs. I wish I had recorded this. It would have been an instant viral Karen video.
Dude at Walmart in 2003ish had a complete meltdown over his spiral notebooks ringing up at 30 cents a piece instead of the 25 cents that was listed on the sign. Composition notebooks were 25 cents, someone put those spirals back on the shelf in the wrong spot. He did the whole shebang. Even shouted “YOU DONT KNOW WHO YOU’RE DEALING WITH” while his teenage daughter begged him to stop. The cashier started crying. First time I’ve ever seen someone trashy enough to get thrown out of a Walmart.
My MIL threw herself on the ground and cried because I wouldn’t let her friend use my company’s Gulfstream to fly her to Europe for her birthday. I told her she was more than welcome to charter it at my discount if she liked. When I told her the company would need a 90K deposit is when she fell to the ground in tears.
An ex of mine once had a massive toddler style tantrum on the floor on a Tesco because I bought white pepper rather than black.She was throwing stuff, shouting, crying and ended up on the floor like a beetle with her arms and legs in the air shouting about f*****g pepper.An ex for many reasons, this being one of them.
I live in a small town where all the “Peaked in High School” jocks now have kids who are old enough to play sports. I recently saw a dude who has his picture on the HS “Wall of Fame” cause he had 1 good year of wrestling, lose his absolute mind on his 8yr old son because he struck out in baseball. This 36yr old dude who’s 300+lbs and couldn’t jog to 1st base is screaming “I told you to hit the f*****g ball” while his son is in tears.It’s pretty damn common and it’s sad. All these dudes live such sad lives that they need to relive their glory days through their kids and they have public meltdowns non stop, like are in tears and sulking because their CHILDREN aren’t playing good enough for them.
I witnessed a man throw his entire suitcase down an escalator over a canceled flight. Luckily no one else was on it but I did wish he’d fallen down after it tbh.
It was around Christmas. I was at the airport waiting to fly home to see family. I heard a disturbance coming from the flight check-in counter and turned to see a grown man probably in his 40s beet-red in the face and screaming at the employee behind the counter. I walked a bit closer to hear the conversation,“I want a new ticket! I don’t know when my flight is supposed to leave!”“Sir the flight time is printed on your ticket right there.”“Yeah but it’s in military time! I don’t want a ticket in military time! Get me one that has normal time on it I can’t read military time!”Another man stepped in to break up the altercation and Mr. I-Can’t-Read-A-Clock stormed off. He never ended up getting a new ticket :).
Not necessarily public, but used to work at an Oncology office, someone wanted to reschedule their appt the day before they were supposed to come in. No big deal. I tell him when I have available and none of the times worked for him. He became irate and told me “I need to be nicer to him because he has cancer”Like sir, I sympathize, but everyone here has cancer.
I watched a 70 some odd year old Asian lady have a complete meltdown because a restaurant was out of donut holes. She was lying on the floor screaming and grabbed the restaurants credit card machine and refused to give it back until she got her donut holes. Cops were called, then she claimed she was having a heart attack so ems was called and that’s where I came into itLong story short, she wouldn’t let me touch her so I have no idea if there was anything medically wrong, we let her have her little temper tantrum until her daughter who was there talked her up off the floor, the cops didn’t even issue a ticket but told her to never come back to that restaurant.
A sales guy I worked with just earned a huge commission on a multi-million dollar mortgage. Some of us convinced him he should take us out to dinner because we helped & he was a good sport and we (sales guy & 3 low wage earning women from support staff) went out to a local pub. The bank president was there, which was not unusual, he made the rounds of all the local places most nights after work. He came over to say hello and when he found out why we were there he got angry that he hadn’t been invited and started yelling at us and banging his fists on the table, then he went back to his friends at the bar. We decided he had to be joking, there was no way he could be angry at us for that so we decided we’d be funny too. We asked the server if she would bring him the check, but don’t really leave it with him and she thought it was funny too, so she did. He was not kidding. I’ve never seen a grown man have such a public tantrum in my life. He was screaming at us until we got up and left (and would not let us take the check back). I went to work the next morning and my boss (who was supposed to be with us but had something come up) was coming out of the president’s office and this guy, who did not swear in front of women wanted to know WTF we did to make his boss so mad that he was trying to order my boss to fire the guy that got the commission. Later on, we figured it out. Because of that commission, the sales guy earned more money that year than the bank president.
My brother’s first wife, we were shopping in Safeways and she wanted some chocolates and my brother told her no, she sat on the floor and started to wail like a toddler, 5'2, 200lbs woman crying her f*****g eyes out sat in a fetal position.
A customer got mad at another customer for “buying the last PS5” even though it was a pre-order. The guy followed the PS5 buyer out to his car screaming at him and trying to fight him over it. As the buyer was driving away the guy started throwing rocks at the car. The buyer sped the Hell away nearly running over someone. The crazy m**********r said he was going to sue the store cause we called the cops. Not sure what happened but I hope he got jail time for assault. Fg stupid ae.
Saw a woman stealing those packs of 12 croissants in plastic and then when security didn’t let her leave she doubled down and went insane and started throwing handfuls of croissants. It was f*****g epic.Edit: I wish I saw more but it was leaving a Safeway and as curious as I am I try my best not to rubberneck when people are having moments lol.
Playing mini golf and my date missed the hole and threw down his club and started yelling. That was the first and last date.
I was managing a fancy bar that got full pretty easily. A girl threw a tantrum because it was full and there wasn’t a table for her - she had no reservation. She was screaming so much that I managed to wiggle a big group onto a smaller table and freed up a space for her, just to get her to be quiet.It didn’t work, though. She didn’t like the space I made and said she wanted our VIP table (already booked that night, and it cost €2300 to reserve it). I said no. She said if she couldn’t have it, she’d lie on the floor and scream. I said she couldn’t have it. So she lay down on the floor and screamed while I and all the bar clients watched her.Some people are genuinely insane and I don’t understand their vision of life.
Got in a minor accident in a coffeehouse parking lot. The guy got out the threw a broken piece of his car at my car, got in my face and started screaming that I ‘better f*****g have insurance’. My kids hid in the backseat, I called my husband to come help deal with the guy. Insurance companies found him 100% at fault. Then he starts calling our house saying if we don’t pay the deductible, he will ‘get it from us another way’. Called the cops. Guy screamed at them. We live in a small town and his wife heard the story. Thinking this wasn’t a first offense for him because she divorced him a year or so later.
Security guard here, I’ve seen many, a more notable one was when a drunk lady was trying to drive her car off of a two-story parking garage, but she was failing to make one of the turns without scratching the side of her truck, I tried telling her to leave her truck up there and not drive, but she wasn’t hearing any of it, she then became convinced that the architecture of the building was designed to trap her in particular, so she began screaming ,“HELP I’M TRAPPED” repeatedly before taking the turn so incorrectly that she tore her wheel well and gas cap clean off her truck, I watched and cringed as they were slowly torn off the truck, the sound it made was wretched, she didn’t care she just kept driving, she then proceeded to hit one of the cars on the lower level, at this point I had already documented everything and called the cops, the cops gave her a DUI whilst she was screaming the whole time that I had set her up, a few days later when it was time for her to check out of the hotel, she was staring at me the entire time while checking out, and upon leaving she said “see you later Allen…” my name isn’t Allen…, the front desk guy would ask me to tell this story to people while laughing his a*s off for the following year.
When I was a chef I worked two and sometimes three jobs.Was at job #3, greasy spoon spot in rural colorado, and had not slept in two days. Fired an order of over medium eggs, boss chirps at me to go take care of something. I forget eggs while putting away food while “chef/owner” is standing in the kitchen. I proceed to royally scorch the eggs, no big deal, it’s like $0.45 worth of eggs.Psych. This mother fr grabs the pan, whips it at the wall where the knives are hanging. Breaking the pan in half and sending hot oil and knives flying around our tiny as kitchen. This man child proceeds to scream at me for 5 minutes in our wide open kitchen while I pick up the catastrophe he has just created. Refire eggs, send out the plate, customer is happy.When I quit over text later in the day after going to job#1 he proceeds to call me 26 times in 30 minutes leaving voice mails ranging from “mother fg ae!” “F*t” and “ I will f*****g kill you!” Then he texted me 45 times over the next 8hours threatening my life and telling me to never contact his wife or anyone involved with the business again. Shout out to Shane at the chimney brick in Eaton colorado.
At Orange County, CA John Wayne Airport, a grad school friend I was traveling with actually laid down on her (soft) luggage on the floor, screamed and wailed like a toddler because she missed her flight. I have never seen such a spectacle. The airline desk workers were alarmed and came over to reassure her there were other flights they could put her on later. She was in her 30s.
Used to work at Publix. Old man walked in, went to the deli, bought a fried chicken meal box, and proceeded to lose it because there wasn’t gravy included with the meal. The only time we ever had gravy as a side was Thanksgiving. We explained this. “WAAL HOW’M AH SPOSED TAH EAT MAH FRIED CHICKEN WITH NO GRAVY GODDAMMIT.” Red in the face hollering about his gravy, stomping up and down the aisles. Eventually the store manager got him calmed down and out the door but it was a solid thirty minutes of WHAT KIND OF A PLACE AIN’T GOT GRAVY FOR FRIED CHICKEN.That’s tied with the woman who threw a bottle of wine at my head because the law in my state would not allow me to sell it to her before 8:30 in the morning. God I hated working there.
I was waiting to board a flight once and they were accepting family boarding. This woman and her husband roll up with like 2-3 kids all under the age of 2 and a HUGE folded stroller. I’m not sure what the exact issue was, but they told them they had to do something different with the stroller, which caused them to have to delay their boarding.Suddenly the mom starts yelling her part of the conversation. All I heard was her complaining that “THIS IS HOW LOYAL, WHITE AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE TREATED” (her words, not mine) and that “YOU’D THINK THEY WERE TERRORISTS”. I think the funniest part was not a single person batted an eye over this. Her husband was obviously humiliated, but stayed silent.All of this over common sense airport rules and a SLIGHT inconvenience to them as the airline actually held up the boarding process for them so they could get the situation dealt with and still have priority family boarding.
We were briefly friends with a couple of newly weds from work. We used to hold casual card nights in the houses of all the couples involved in rotation but never had any issues until it was the newlyweds turn.We are all playing cards, one of the husband and wife teams hits a lucky streak and is winning most hands.Suddenly the groom stands up and leaves the table, walking towards the kitchen, where we had all left the snacks we had brought.The winning guy calls out ‘grab me a packet of crisps while you are out there, please.’The groom returns with a big packet of crisps, throws them on the ground and jumps on them, then runs to his bedroom and slams the door.We were all sitting there thinking WTF just happened? His wife says ‘Roddy hates to lose. You should all leave now.’We never told them again who was hosting the card nights.
Semi-regular customer gets assistance from a coworker who had just started that week. Usually this guy loves to talk about how he breeds rottweilers back in Cuba-he’ll talk your ear off and usually I just smile and nod while trying to recommend him the supplies he was actually here for.Well for this particular night, he decided to somehow pivot the usual convo about his Cuban Rotties into how he thinks “kids in Cuba are more mature” than the US (we’re in the US) and started to tell this poor new coworker about how he thought it was b******t that an adult got arrested for statutory with a 16 year old.I, while scanning someone else’s items at the register, had to quickly, calmly, but firmly interrupt him with a simple. “Sir, this is not the time and place for this conversation.“He then goes on about how he thought America was all about “free speech” and starts ranting and raving, with no further provocation from anyone else. The manager came in and sadly, started ringing him up himself rather than kick him out, but even other customers were shocked while he was still ranting and raving about how he “wished this whole country would blow up!“Thankfully I never saw him again, but I also never saw that coworker after that week. Can’t say I blame her.
Oh boy, let me tell you! I once saw a grown man throw a full-on tantrum at the grocery store because they ran out of his favorite cereal. He was flailing his arms, yelling about the “injustice of the cereal industry” and demanding to speak to the manager like it was a life-or-death situation. I half expected him to drop to the floor and start kicking his legs! People were just standing there, wide-eyed, clutching their shopping carts like they were life preservers. It was both hilarious and a little terrifying—like a scene straight out of a sitcom! 😂🥣.
My uncle yelling at me when I was 5. He couldn’t stand the fact that I was sitting next to my aunt in the restaurant, when he wanted to sit next to her.
I used to work at a GameStop. We had told a guy we couldnt buy his games as he didn’t have an ID (a bit of a silly rule as we’d give them like 10 cents for a hundred games). The guy stomped out. About 15 minutes later, we see him come back in and literally throw a jar of mayonnaise at us. He must’ve loosened the lid because when the jar hit the wall behind us, we were treated to an explosion of mayo on god damn everything.
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Weekly market going, as it has been for the previous two or three months (an all summer thing). Dude I guess has enough of it and decides to scream at everyone out his window that he’s going to get his gun and shoot everyone up, then disappears.Well, someone called the cops, we got evacuated, and he got arrested. I can’t remember if he actually even owned a gun, but turns out the guy was all bark and no bite anyway.
Probably the random old guy who started s**t talking and berating the pharmacy staff at my local Walgreens because his meds weren’t ready yet and they were very swamped.I apologized on behalf of that s****y human to the guy working the counter who had to deal with that BS and he said that specific old dude has been doing that constantly at multiple places, not just that pharmacy. Counter guy worked at other places where the old dude has literally been banned for his behavior.Imagine being so uncivil you’re BANNED from basic every day stores/pharmacies. Absolutely ridiculous.
I used to work at a call center for various utility companies, first calling customers with imminent shutoff notices (Cash or Candles) & then in customer service taking calls. I could write a novel on some of the things I heard, but my absolute favorite was during my first year making cash or candles calls.I called a customer regarding his gas bill. He wasn’t there, but his wife answered. For this particular gas company, we were allowed to speak to a spouse if the customer was not present.So I start talking to the wife & start to give her the “your bill is overdue” spiel. As soon as I mentioned the overdue bill, this lady freaking lost it.“THAT SON OF A BH! HE TOLD ME HE PAID IT!” She was absolutely BAWLING into the phone.I tried to explain that it was very possible that he had paid the bill & their number had not yet made it out of our dialer, which happened quite a bit.“BT! BT! DON’T START STICKING UP FOR HIM!” More pitiful sobbing. “No wonder he was gone three f**g hours!”Turns out, this man had left earlier to pay the bill. He had come home, left the bill & receipt on the counter & left again. His wife was convinced he had lied about paying the bill, forged the payment receipt and was cheating on her.It took me 15 minutes to get this lady rational enough to call the gas company & confirm that the bill had, in fact, been paid.
Some woman in the food court yelling at the cashier that her soup was too cold. When the cashier told her to wait because she was taking another customer’s order the angry lady grabbed her cup and splashed the cold soup on the cashier. She called security and the angry customer was ushered out of the mall, screaming like a preschooler all the way.
I had a flight delayed 13 hours once. Here was a procession of adult tantrums towards the customer service counter. It got so bad the airline had police come and stand next to the counter and deal with the verbally abusive ones. It was a complete s**t show.
As a former retail manager, I’ve seen a lot. The most ridiculous one was when I got called to the register because a woman thought the sales tax was a penny more than it should have been. She bought a $3 scarf that was half price, so it was $1.50. With tax it was $1.54. Tax is 6.35%, and she thought it should be $1.53. Math isn’t my strongest suit but I told her that the .35% probably pushed it over an extra penny. She kept arguing to the point where she had tears in her eyes and refused to leave. I finally told her that I would give her a penny and she said no, paid and left.
I worked at a local hamburger/hot dog place in high school. It was a super popular location in a mall food court. We would have lines wrapped around the entire food court starting from opening at 10:30 for 2-3 hours straight. I was taking orders one day when we’d been into the rush about 45 minutes. I was in the zone, not really noticing the people, just taking orders. All of a sudden this dude stormed up to the counter and threw his hamburger at me. “THIS IS THE THIRD TIME THIS HAPPENED TODAY!!!!!! I ASKED FOR NO MAYO HOW HARD IS THAT?” Then he backed down a little and said “SHE PUT THE ORDER IN RIGHT” and pointed at me while waving his receipt. The manager came up from the back and apologized, just as sweet and caring as he could be. He said it was his fault, he’d make a new one right away. Every single person in line just stared at this goon. He finally kind of realized what a colossal a*s he was being and got a little sheepish, though he didn’t apologize to either anybody.I couldn’t help thinking how much fast food does this guy eat to have 3 wrong orders at 11:45 am?
It was my dad, and unfortunately public tantrums were something that happened regularly with him when I was growing up. He would get angry over some minor thing (he didn’t like the food at a restaurant, he thought my mom or I gave him a rude look, someone was smoking in the restaurant, etc). This was in the ’90s, so none of his episodes ever were recorded, but I guarantee they would have been if cell phones and the internet had been around then, because he absolutely loved making a scene and would often leave me and my mom stranded in places until he felt like coming back to get us.The worst time, though, was when we took a 3 day trip to an amusement park and I was allowed to bring a friend. I was probably 15 years old at the time, which would have made my dad about 50 years old then. We stayed in a hotel, and when we got there I think my friend made some joke about sharing the bed with me, like she didn’t want to or something, but it was meant as a joke and everyone knew this except for my dad. He immediately became pissy and stayed in a bad mood. We went to a restaurant and he just kept getting angrier and angrier, finally blowing up at us and storming out of the restaurant. He drove off, squealing the tires, while I was absolutely dying of embarrassment in front of my friend. She had already seen his tantrums before, so she knew what he was like, but it still was awful to have it not just happen in front of her, but in front of all of those people in the restaurant. I was trying not to cry, but wasn’t successful.When he returned to the restaurant, I was sort of sniffling a bit, and that set him off again. He slammed down his fork and stormed out of the restaurant again. I guess my crying had set him off this time. I can only imagine what the other people in the place thought about all of this, but no one said anything to us. He squealed the tires again, peeling out of the parking lot.We ended up going outside to sit on the curb to wait for him to come back, since we were in a different state with no way to get anywhere until he came back. When he came back, he acted like we needed to apologize to him. So my mom did, because she always did when he acted like this. He settled down then and drove us back to the hotel and acted more or less normal (for him) for the rest of the trip.This was just one example of so many and I have no idea how he never got the police called on him when he was doing this stuff, because it happened so many times. I moved out pretty much as soon as I was able to as an adult, for obvious reasons.
Was waiting to board a flight and they are lining up the pre-board passengers. This older man starts throwing a tantrum when the gate agent starts wheeling another passenger in front of him. “I’ve just had chemo and I get to go first!”The gate agent said “sir, all of these people need assistance. I need for you to be an adult and wait your turn.” Guy kept pounding his feet and stomping around in the boarding area. Gate agent thankfully didn’t give in to his tantrum and went ahead and boarded the person in the wheelchair.Throwing a tantrum over being second instead of first to board just seemed unnecessary. Not sure how he decided he was the sickest person boarding the plane.
I work in hotels. Dude left behind his charger. Standard charger, nothing special. Called for daaaaays looking for it to be sent to him in Canada. The charger would cost him more to ship from the US to CAN than the charger was worth. Charger MAYBE cost $20, it cost him $45US to send back to him.GM was in charge of sending items back and unfortunately got sick/family emergencies so it wasn’t sent back for almost two weeks.He called EVERY DAY for 2 weeks about this charger. He would quite literally SCREAM at my desk agents and I to the point I quit taking his calls. The final day, and the day my GM was finally back in office, dude called literally 33 times during my shift. Literally SCREAMING “I WANT MY CHARGER!!!“My visual was that kid from the movie Better Off Dead, " I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS”.I get it is his charger, but he was so out of pocket it didn’t make sense. It was literally a cheap amazon type charger.
I have seen several, usually d***s or alcohol are involved but I’ve seen an anger meltdown from a lady before that was absolutely unreal. Must have been suffering mentally from something as it was beyond intense.The most entertaining one was a beautiful girl, obviously very rich, throwing a toddler-esque tantrum outside of a club in Sweden. She had tried to walk in, the bouncer wanted her to wait in line, she obviously didn’t like that and tried to push her way in before losing it. Stamping her feet, screaming, throwing things, hammering her fists on him until another bouncer carried her away. She stamp walked in circles shouting. It was wild.It was also light outside so everyone walking along the harbor in Stockholm could see her have her little princess meltdown.
I saw the beginning of this but didn’t witness the full blown meltdown. My immediate family flew to another state for my grandmother’s funeral. My husband and I paid for our flights. My parents paid for theirs and my sisters flights. My sister has always been bad with money and my parents have always rescued her. At the time, she was 38 and I was 34. My parents were nice enough to pay for two rental cars: one for them and my sister and another for my husband and me. My sister got pissed that she didn’t have her own rental car and threw a fit. Her fit escalated and she went to her hotel room while my dad followed and tried to calm her down. I didn’t see this part, but I was told that she had a full on meltdown and threw herself down on the floor kicking and screaming. She demanded that my parents pay to change her flight so that she could leave two days early (immediately after the funeral). The next day, at the funeral, she was absolutely and completely charming to everyone. Only a handful of us knew that less than 24 hours earlier, she was a total psycho. Meanwhile, I was still processing what had happened and how my parents were catering to her insanity while dealing with my grief also. I didn’t speak to my sister for two years after that. I still keep her at arms length. She is now on some better meds that stabilize her more, but there is still a ton of resentment in me.
Some dude obsessed with me kept buying me st unsolicited over the countless times I’d tell him no but would conveniently “forget” as if it wasn’t my 50th time declining his advances.At one point he bought me a $50 gift card in which I tried to give back. He yelled at me in an explanation that he’s doing it “to get you to like me”. I told him I don’t need it to get him to like me and he went crazier. He’d slam his fist on the table and scream some st like “I buy people things so they like me it is not transactional so why won’t u take it?!”. I stayed calm throughout all of this as he’d get louder 😭 It was a face flushed in red with eyes swelled up in tears as he’d shake in anger. At this point I’m thinkin this bh is gonna stab me in the face. I ended up changing my mind and keepin the card just so he can shut the hell up and fk outta my face.Over some f***n $50 giftcard. He wanted my validation so bad cause his ego saw me as some trophy to “win” and show off. Then he’d go behind my back and tell people how greedy and manipulative I seemingly am for taking advantage of him even tho I dislike him. Then he’d miserably fail to “read” me and get everyone in on it. LOSERRRRR.
My mother legit yelled at a friggin doorman “We won’t be coming here again.”As if the doorman gives a f**k lmao.
In WV, I would regularly watch grown adults of all ages have complete meltdowns in a grocery store when they were sold out of Mountain Dew.I can’t even look at Mountain Dew the same way after living there for a while….
I’ve seen plenty of grown men get abusive with me as a public librarian over their books on hold or not having a certain DVD. My favorite is when they want me to make someone move out of a chair they want or someone taking too long to read a newspaper 📰🗞️. I wish we had a jar of quarters to throw at them and tell them to get out and buy their own goddamn 📰🗞️. The day I quit was the best day of my life.
Christmas 2001. Worked at Meijer (super center in the Midwest) in the seasonal department. 2 women came to freaking blows over a spool of American flag themed Christmas ribbon. It was the last spool we had. They both ended up getting arrested.
When I worked at a cinema I had a couple roughly in their 60s basically folding their arms and shouting “NO” at me because I couldn’t serve them a ticket to a screening of Saving Mr Banks. It was an advanced screening 4 weeks before the actual release, as a reward for membership card holders (we held these regularly but usually a week in advance, that sorta thing). Disney even sent their own security to monitor for piracy because of how far off the actual release was.This couple had misread the website, refused to accept that it was a members only screening and insisted that I was going to let them buy tickets. I wasn’t. There wasn’t even an option on the till because those screenings were programmed to only scan the cards, there was no option to ring up a regular ticket. And besides, I was working a s****y minimum wage job. Being able to be the first person to ever tell these entitled dickheads “no” was basically part of my wages.They were potentially the rudest people I’ve ever spoken to and thankfully the end result was them leaving in a huff once the manager came out and told them to f**k off.
My ex, in his mid-40’s, becoming so enraged at losing a game of pool, that when a 60+ year old man with Parkinsons reminded him it was just a game, he broke his screaming and yelling long enough to try to punch the guy in the face.He would throw a screaming yelling tantrum at any little thing no matter where he was, which is only one of a lot of reasons he’s an ex.
Saw a grown man throw a fit because he lost a basketball game against some 14 year old was full on going “YOU LITTLE CHEATING TWATS” it was really hard to watch.
I was a PA for an elderly wealthy socialite couple. For whatever reason, the man’s credit card declined at Barney’s. He threw a tantrum at the store and then proceeded to call Barney’s CEO (his friend) to place a complain. It was a surreal reality.
This happened back when I worked in sports broadcasting.They kind of abruptly fired this one guy who was pretty cool. It wasn’t a performance issue on his part. It was just the typical upper management ‘we want to go in a different direction’. They did some reshuffling and it was basically the same as before they fired dude, but with a different number of people and different names for positions. It was cold blooded lets just leave it at that.Anyway on the day he gets the news he is livid. So he goes around to almost every department and tries to extract a promise that if he starts another bigger better thing those people will jump ship with him.It was sad and funny. Because you could see him go office to office, then as he would leave one office to the next people would be miming ‘crazy’ to each other. He got to me and I agreed and said I’m right there if he gets his investors etc. After he left my cubicle neighbor says, “you aren’t quitting for Johns crazy idea are you”.I respond “of course not, but I thought I’d let him win this one”.Sure it’s not as dramatic sounding as a public fist fight or a bunch of broken plates, but it went on for 2 hours.
Was at Walmart with a guy I used to know one night. The check out we were using broke so he started smacking it for not accepting his card. After he whacked it a few times he was told to leave. As we’re walking out the guy who checks recipts calls him over, turns out he had opened a hot wheel and put it in his pocket. He tried to say he cane in with it, that he only had the phone case. I walked out to go smoke so I wouldn’t be anywhere near this if the cops showed up. A few minutes later he walks out all red faced, and said get in the truck we’re leaving. As we walked to the truck he put his arms back and yelled, looked like something out of a werewolf movie. We got back in the truck, and he just turns on the radio and just immediately switches to nice regular mode as if nothing had ever happened. His latest girlfriend was gone the next day.
I have a customer that refuses to use anything more than a flip phone. he had called in an order and I miss heard him or something and short ordered him 2 items. well when he came to pick up the order and it was 2 short he lost it. I calmed him down and then he asked " why did this happen?” and when I said " honestly I miss heard you and it was an honest mistake” he couldn’t accept that and kept asking " why did this happen?”. got to a point were he got into my face, I am not easily intimated and that got him even more mad. he finally just said " f**k this” when I wouldn’t back down and left in a hurry. didn’t see or hear from him for 2 years. next time he came in he knew I had the answer he needed and was overly nice to me.
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I live in Belarus. We have quite a few multi-storey buildings, once when the elevator was not working I took the stairs [I live on the 10th floor]. When I got up, I saw how an adult, pumped-up man was yelling at his wife because she had not prepared fried potatoes for his arrival.This was almost 3 years ago and I still remember lol.
I was in line to drop off a prescription and some woman cuts the line and tells the pharmacist she’s in a hurry, while the pharmacist was talking to an elderly lady. When the pharmacist told her politely to wait at the back of the line, she went on about how she has a child and her husband waiting for her and she’s in a hurry. Then she storms out, still complaining and nearly knocks into me on the way out. I can’t believe I’ve witnessed main character syndrome irl.
A woman absolutely melting down at a desk clerk for not taking her (very old) returned clothes. She was crying, yelling, everything.
I used to do odd bits of freelance web dev. I once met a client in a public workspace for a handover. It transpired that they were not happy despite all defined deliverables being ticked off on my end. They were clearly just looking to get out of paying or renegotiate the price we agreed (already paid 25% deposit for me to start work in the engagement contract).When I insisted that I considered the project complete and needed to be paid in full, they had a bit of a s**t fit. Pulling their face, wouldn’t let me get a word in edgeways, volume increasing, telling me that they planned to use the work anyway and I couldn’t stop them etc. All the scare tactics: “you’ll be hearing from my solicitor”, “I’m going to sue you”, “I’ll report you for false advertising” (? Ok… Haha) He also “name dropped” (if you could call it that) his uncle a few times, like I was supposed to know who he was. I did not. His business was sweeping up little jobs that his uncle’s firm was too big to bother with.I can only assume that he did actually speak to a solicitor because not only did I NOT get sued, or even hear from one, but I was paid in full on the last day before the invoice was to be overdue.The funniest bit was that he made a point of phoning me on the day to tell me he waited until the last day on purpose. Bear in mind he’d done a bank transfer already. There was no other purpose to the call! I was just like “Yeah, everyone pays on the last day. That’s just trade credit mate. I gave you net 14 terms…” and he seemed really miffed that I didn’t care :DFor those wondering, he hadn’t been in business long and his venture never really got any traction. Site is no longer up. Thank god I never offered VPS hosting to clients.
I was working in a restaurant as the ONLY chef that night and it was my first night. I made only two big “mistakes” over all of dinner service. One was putting slightly too much cheese on the cheese plate, the other was slicing a pizza into 8 slices instead of 6. The owner flipped out, he couldn’t stand it that I sliced the pizza that way and was screaming in my face about how I am an fing moron and I was so useless. I just calmly looked at him at said, as calmly as possible “I’ve heard what you said, lets get the food out to the customer, then if you still feel we need to talk, lets do it after closing”. Of course he needed one last jab, which I didn’t pay attention to and I sent the food out to the customer.After the last customer of the night was served and the whole place closed, with only staff cleaning and he was just lounging around. So I walked up to him and said, very calmly, “Brad, we should talk about tonight. If I make a mistake and you want to yell at me, that’s fine, I get it and I respect it. I wont make that mistake again. But you took it a step further and insulted my intelligence and value as a human being over pizza slices. You can’t talk to me like that.“He flew into a massive rage immediately and was screaming at me about how much of a teddy bear he was and if I couldn’t handle him, I shouldn’t be working in kitchens. He then fired me immediately, then paused and lowered his voice and asked me if I could clean up before I left. I wanted to tall him where to shove it, but then I thought about it, what am I gonna do? Go home and play video games? I’d rather make a few bucks. So I agreed, then cleaned up and washed all the restaurant’s dishes. But I did it with a smile and despite everyone walking on egg shells around me, they all heard what was happening, I treated everyone with the utmost politeness and respect. After everything was done, I met him in the main room of the restaurant where he was just chilling at a table talking to an employee about social stuff. I asked if I could speak with him and then told him everything that he needed to know about the state of the kitchen before asking when I could come back for my paycheck. He responded “Wednesday is payday…. but can you come back next Sunday?” and I looked at him and said “yes, under 1 condition. You cannot talk to me like that again.” and he looked at his feet. After a pause he said “….deal…..”. And he never spoke like that to me again. Or at least not until I quit 2 weeks later after seeing him wash a mop in the sink that we washed food in.
I remember being in line at comic con and being one of the only few people they let in line because the celeb had only that line to do autographs for and then a guy came along and was told he had to try again later because the celeb after signing would be going to their photo ops then their panel and then they would be back. the guy turned into i don’t know what would be the male equivalent to a karen but he was so pissed off because he said he wanted to get the autograph before the photo op but he was told to come back later. ultimately i saw the guy was in line once the celeb did go back but before he threw the biggest tantrum in the world.
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