31 of the Dumbest Tantrums Adults Have Thrown

‘She went berserk and stabbed me in the arm with a pencil’
31 of the Dumbest Tantrums Adults Have Thrown
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There’s a well-worn saying that everyone is fighting their own battle. The idea is to give grace to others, because you don’t necessarily know what they’re going through. That said, if someone’s going to start throwing cake pops at a barista because they didn’t pump enough syrups into their latte? I don’t really care how ugly their divorce was, they need to dial it back a bit.

Redditors who’ve seen such tantrums shared some of the ugliest ones they’ve witnessed over completely undeserving issues. Unsurprisingly, a huge amount of them come from the world of retail, a job where you see the mask of civility stripped back from your peers daily. 

For a glimpse into some extremely childish behavior from supposed grown men and women, dip into the stories below.

ogier_79 5y ago Worked for a cellular company and a woman was in with her parents and they were making her get off their plan. She was non-stop complaining how unfair it was. Parents were matter of factly being like this is happening. Tried to tell them she'd just pay for her portion, parents calmly replied she'd said that before and hadn't. Complained that they could afford it. Parents calmly ignored her. Whined about how much more it cost for her to have her own plan than stay on theirs. While she's over loudly whining to her father across the
5y ago A lady came to eat at a diner I worked at, and had an absolute melt down because her toast was overdone. We gave her new toast minutes after she complained the first time, and she spent the rest of her time there throwing a full tantrum over it. Instead of signing her check she wrote you suck ass in big letters on the bottom. I always say, someday I hope I have so few problems that I can spend a full hour and a half raging over toast.
CatPawSoup . 5y ago A grown woman berate an innocent Walgreens employee because they were out of Hilshire Farms baskets and she NEEDED them. The holidays are not fun for retail workers.
Chalupachamp . . 5y ago Once had a thirty year old woman throw a screaming tantrum with tears and threaten to sue my company because we had been out of FarmVille gift cards for weeks and her crops or animals would die or something.
cutiegirl88 . 5y ago I made a 3 point turn and part of my wheel touched her driveway this is private property, get out of my driveway
BeeEyeAm 5y ago Our city does a free lunch program during the summer. They'll give a school style lunch to any kid under the age of 18 if you go to the designated location. During COVID they converted the program to be grab-n-go. Technically you were only supposed to get one meal per kid in the car but usually they were pretty lax about it. I happened to pull up just after a man asked for 20 lunches. Не had no children in his car. The woman who was handing out the lunches told him that she could only hand
feliciates 5y ago My friend's boss, a VP, freaked out over the colors on the slides for his presentation. Now you have to know, he picked the colors and the graphics department told him the combo wasn't a good choice but he insisted so they made them up his way. Then when he saw them projected (this was in the olden days when presentation were projected onto screens) he freaked out. I know all about this since I had a front row seat to the festivities because he called my friend while we were out to dinner. My friend then
g 5y ago Worked at gamestop, guy came in complaining his PS3 didn't work and he wanted a new one covered by the warranty gamestop provided. Well the warranty he bought was in 2009 when it came out, and being 2017 we couldn't cover it, he threw a massive fit and left the store, came back 3 hours later with the PS3 just decimated, screaming look what you did, I shot this with my gun because of you threw the console across the store and left. I think he used a shotgun cause there wasn't much left to it,
Neat_Consequence8289 5y ago I worked in retail for a while, so this was a common occurrence. The best example was one day a man came into our store (a popular eyeglass store) and I helped him try on some glasses, walked him through lens types. Seemed perfectly nice. Then we get to the paying portion and he demanded I give him a discount. Everything in the store had a fixed price point and it was very corporate and we couldn't give discounts. Not me, not the managers, no one. Dude then threw what I can only describe as a tantrum
horselovermidwest . 5y ago My mom threw a burger back into the drive- thru window at McDonald's because it had pickles on it. She told them no pickles. She was screaming at them and they threatened to call the cops. I sank so low in my seat.
callmedelete 5y ago This girl wanted to get her own cellphone plan. She needed proof of residency to do so. She came in with a bill in her name, unfortunately, she didn't come with it address to her. We needed the actual mailing address on the bill, not just her name. Cue her screaming, crying, calling me a cnt, btch, and doing everything but throwing herself on the floor. She stayed in the store for 5 hours, calling customer service 6-7 times while with us, and just refusing to accept that we needed it addressed to her. Multiple times she
Monkey-Tamer 5y ago Wife had a client whose mom came to every family court hearing. At one hearing opposing counsel hooted, hollered, and waived his hands a lot for about ten minutes. My wife stood up, quoted the relevant statute and sat down. The judge ruled in her favor. Client's mom goes off because the other guy was the better attorney according to her. After my wife won the hearing by following the law. Mom isn't allowed to set foot in my wife's firm for that stupidity. If you want to hate humanity be a lawyer.
5y ago Edited 5y ago Senior year in high school, was playing soccer, and the goalkeeper on the other team was being looked at by a few Рас-12 schools. When our team scored a goal in overtime to win it, the girl's mother (I assume) ran onto the field to console her daughter, then looked over at us celebrating and began calling us all sorts of names I won't type here. She even accused us of intentionally scoring just to make her daughter look bad, not to win or anything like that, we just wanted to make her look
meek-sleep-machine 5y ago Worked at a common American food chain fresh out of highschool and had a grown man scream vibrations through my molecular structure about there being a 25 minute wait on baked potatoes, which I had absolutely no control over as a cashier. After he finished his tantrum he left, then came back ~30 minutes later to order his meal without a baked potato. Had he been a reasonable human being, I would've told him we now had them available, but he was a dick, so I did the bare minimum. I hand him his food, give him
5y ago When my wife and I were still dating we had a roommate who freaked out over basically everything. She started crying over a game of Monopoly, started crying over a game of Pandemic, yelled at me because I asked if she used my vegetable broth, and smashed a ceramic bowl across my face because I asked her to keep her cat in her room for a little bit (like my wife and I were doing with our cat) after our cats got in a fight.
fumor . 5y ago In high school, my younger sisters knew someone who became so distraught when Justin Timberlake broke up with Britney Spears that she had to stay home from school.
Shalamarr 5y ago This woman went out for dinner with her husband, two very young daughters, and her husband's family. Her older daughter was potty training and had recently developed the lovely habit of announcing that she needed to pee, then changing her mind once she got to the bathroom. Daughter pulled that trick four times in the space of an hour, at which point the woman said Forget this, I want to go home. (Husband), please have them box up my food to go, I'll meet you at the car. Husband emerged from the restaurant a few minutes later,
Disposable70 5y ago I was doing a volunteer outreach to help unemployed men find jobs, we set up a temp office in an poor area, matched job orders with skills. Most of these guys were pretty tough looking characters. About a dozen guys were in the waiting area and a hummingbird flew in a window, pandemonium ensued, one guy was screaming it'll peck your eyes out , within a few seconds the place was empty, until I escorted the hummingbird out with a cap.
. 5y ago Went to the store with my friend and her mother and she made a scene because her mom wouldn't get her a more expensive laptop than the one she chose. Like a toddler level scene in front of everyone. I almost left, she was 17...
FeralBanshee . 5y ago I served them on the wrong side of the register. She stormed back and yelled at me. She said she was hard of hearing and I said | didn't know that. WELL YOU DIDN'T ASK! Why would I ask? What're you, deaf? lol
Mariospario 5y ago Customer asked if I could look up how many store points she had on her card in our system. Looked it up and told her - she flipped out asking where all of her points went and came to the conclusion that I, personally, must have 'stolen' all of her points... full tantrum, scene caused, mananger called. Turns out she gave her points card to one of her kids who redeemed them all to buy something without her knowing. Idiot....
apocalypticradish 5y ago Edited 5y ago An awful manchild roommate, who was pushing 40 and didn't pay his own rent (everything covered by the bank of mom and dad), having a gigantic temper tantrum because our landlord/roommate told him that from now on, his girlfriend could only stay over two nights a week. She had basically moved in to our house and none of us were happy about that. His girlfriend was as much of an entitled loser as he was (she was the same age and still lived at home with her parents) so I'm sure she had her
GenXer73 G 5y ago Seeing my friends ex boyfriends smash up a car to get back at her for breaking up with him, not realising he was been taped, only to find out it wasnt her car. It was the neighbour who was a famous musician who he was a huge fan of. He's still paying off the damage to the car to this day.
86sleepypenguins 5y ago This middle-aged woman wanted to buy a TV from the store I used to work at. For some reason, there was an extremely cheap price tag on the box. I don't remember the exact price but it was less than $20, while the TV actually cost a couple hundred. She insisted the price tag had always been there and therefore we had to sell it to her for that amount (even though all the other tvs of that type had the correct price on them.) When the employee said no, she demanded to see the manager. When
Boomtownboys . 5y ago A lady in my college math course was so angry i got I the right answer and she didnt went beserk and stabbed me in the arm with a pencil.
markpr73 . 5y ago An elderly lady in Costco who decided, after being advised by Costco employees that she MUST be masked up inside the store, to plant her fat ass on the concrete in the middle of the exit area, thus placing herself in EVERYONE'S path as they were trying to leave. And this was an adult, behaving like a baby, all over having to wear a mask. Unbelievable.
. 5y ago My ex roommate. Не refused to look at one of his new magazines because I had read it first. Somehow, by touching it and flipping through the pages, the magazine was now ruined and he could never look at it. he made sure I knew how much of a transgression I had incurred and was miserable to me for about a week. уер. There I am, just ruining lives....
ZacRMS1 5y ago | used to work at Starbucks during college. A woman came into the cafe, ordered a drink extra hot took one sip and then spit out all over the cafe because it burned her tongue. She demanded to speak the store owner and threatened to press charges. Screaming her head off and making a giant scene the entire time. This woman was at least in her 50s. People are crazy.
5y ago My roommate invited a friend to our house and we got the nintendo 64 out and played some mario party. I got to stole a star and because she had the most stars, it stole her friend's star. I swear to god, she got so mad she left our house. Got up, took her coat and boots and left my house. And she actually never spoke to me again! She said it wasn't because I stole her star but because I said she was acting like a child when she got up and left Imao she was
fermenttodothat . 5y ago My dad started yelling at the self checkout because it kept telling him to put things back in the bagging area.
MasterPokePharmacist 5y ago I had a Karen come into the pharmacy I work at and demand a refund on the thermometer that apparently wasn't working. She was talking to the girl at the front and brought it up to me. She forgot to take off the plastic tape on the screen that people love to peel off the screens and it had something printed on it covering the screen. This was the reason it wasn't working. She also claimed to be a nurse and questioned as to whether I was an actual pharmacist with an actual degree and registration as

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