“A Free Bagel”: 90 Of The Most Simple, Mundane And Insignificant Things That Caused Adult Tantrums

Too much mayo on a subway sandwich. Made the guy making it use a sponge and take it all off and do it a second time.

Her adult son ran an errand for someone that wasn't her.

Children’s sports games.

My daughter plays competitive soccer. It really shows you which adults are living life vicariously through their children AND who can’t control their fragile emotions. Constant meltdowns on the sidelines. It’s actually depressing, I’ve started watching among the other team’s parents usually, or standing really far back from the field. A couple weeks ago several of the girls were literally crying because they were so stressed and embarrassed by parents on the sidelines screaming at the ref, h the players, and the other team parents.

I saw a lady throw her order at a taco bell employee because they didn't put sour cream on it.

My ex had a full blown meltdown cos I asked him to wait putting the washing on til after 4 cos it was cheaper.

I used to work at a bar & grill and we stopped serving cinnamon buns because they weren't selling well. This grown man threw a huge fit about it when I told him. Should've bought them more.

Call of Duty vs. A kid.

My ex - 40 year old man, ex military, body builder jerk type, completely crashed out because a 12 year old called him names and beat him on call of duty.

I just hear screaming and crashing in the next room. He threw the controller, which broke the tv, and snatched the disc out of the console and broke it into pieces.

My mother. She wanted to wear this fancy all in one playsuit to my wedding but couldn't get the zipper up and down by herself. She wanted me to be her "toilet buddy" on the day, to help her when she needed to go.
I told her no, i would not be her "toilet buddy". and i was not spending my wedding day at her beck and call to help her every time are needed to go.

So there was screaming, shouting, crying, name calling, throwing things...
Then there was the sulking and silent treatment for about 4 days.

Then there was more crying and manipulation, trying to get my dad, brothers, aunties on her side for about a week.

Complete meltdown. Despite the fact all my bridesmaids had immediately said they would be happy to be on hand to help her throughout the day/ night. But that wasn't good enough.

Maybe it was me having acting like a toddler though because I absolutely refused point blank.
Ahhh fun times.

Some people will get worked up about anything. I once worked for a week with a man who got worked up, as in almost screaming about it, about how I made my own mug of tea for myself.

Mug with teabag in it then add boiling water. It was the fact I used to use boiling water that got him to go so nuts, I in the end had to have a word with him and point out it was my drink and it harmed no one.

It turned out he's one of the odd people who for some unknown reason thinks it's "Boiled Water" and it had been boiling at some time in the past. It was too cold even for an instant chocolate drink that only needs hot water.

Even if I was doing it wrong it was my drink how I wanted it.

I hate to think what he'd be like if he'd seen my chicken and apple sauce Sandwich, I like them that way, I was having with my drink.

I worked at a Porsche Audi dealership and we had free loaner cars for customers who had cars in the shop. 50 something year old woman had a full on melty because we ran out of Audis and gave her a Corolla. She had a late model base A3. The Toyota was actually nicer.

When i was a teenager (probably 14 or 15 during this particular event) i worked at a fast food restaurant and a woman screamed at me for 15 minutes threatening to have me fired, personally insulting me, and also threatening to call the police because her onion rings were going to be two minutes to cook.

Someone who is related by marriage. He is almost in his 50s and locked himself in the bathroom and was screaming, crying, vomiting, and throwing things because his AI chat “therapist” wasn’t working. Didn’t see it personally, but was told about it.

When someone mentioned that someone else's taste in decor reminded them of Sadam and the cheesecake factory.

I used to be in an IT Manangement role where our 24 hour Operations team was required to escalate specific incidents to me if the went beyond a specific time.

So, it went like this. At 2am, Ops would see an alert of a problem. They'd call the on-call, who worked for me. If the on-call didn't resolve the issue in the pre-defined time (or if the on-call decided that they couldn't fix the issue) Ops called me.

Usually, the call went, "This is David in Ops. I'm calling to let you know that service XYZ has been down for 90 minutes. We are currently engaging Steve as on-call." I'd have them patch me into the standing call, I'd ask Steve, or whoever, what was up, and if they needed anything. If he did, I'd go get whatever he needed.

Other managers would be getting similar calls at the same time (usually because of issues caused by dependencies) and so many of them would get on the call and just curse and scream about getting woken up at 3am,

It was unbelievable. I always made a note of the managers who were jerks at 3am, and made sure to remember it when they asked me for something during the day.

I guess the Operations guys got a fair bit of jerk, too. I rarely saw them in person, but when I did, they'd often say that they were always glad when my systems had an issue, because they knew I wasn't going to scream at them.

Let's try to be professionals out there, everybody. We're all doing our best.

Roommate took the last Pepsi and left the box in the fridge. She didn’t realize there was 0 Pepsi until her food was ready and she was gonna go sit down. That jerk raaaaged!

It was me. I was that jerk.

Some lady at the mall threw a tantrum cause she demanded items she picked to be on sale. Huge amount of yelling, talking over people, assuming she deserved special treatment. It also reminded me to just buy stuff on Amazon after that.

A few times that stick in my mind...

1) Guy's girlfriend gave her bags to the skycap and thought that her luggage tag was her boarding pass. It wasn't and she wasn't checked into the flight. When she tried to check in, there were no seats (flight was oversold). The guy had a full-on toddler tantrum, he was literally SCREAMING at the gate agent like up in her face and insisting that she "kick off" a person who paid less money for their ticket than his GF because she was SO VERY IMPORTANT and had to be in NYC for a meeting the following morning. Well, it went as well as you'd expect. The gate agent shut his tirade right down and, after that performance, no one was willing to be bumped for any amount of money. Girlfriend did not get on the flight...

2) Was at a Home Goods. The young woman working the register was very surly, but not outright rude. She pretty much didn't say anything at all, which wasn't great, but wasn't horrible. Well, the woman she was helping took great affront to this and started giving this girl attitude for "being rude." Well, the floodgates opened and they BOTH start screaming at each other to the point that we all thought it was going to devolve into fisticuffs and backed up accordingly. Manager comes over and eventually quells the situation, but talk about making a huge f'in production out of NOTHING. I swear, some people wake up in the morning and choose DRAMA.

3) Worked in a department store many years ago. It was part of a chain of about 15 stores. The registers were operated from a central location and I literally had NO control over when they shut down, which was EXACTLY 5 minutes after close. At that point, I couldn't ring out any customers, I could ONLY close out the register. As I mentioned, I literally had NO control over this. Because of this, we would do about 6-8 announcements for store close to be absolutely sure all customers made their purchases before this. At least once a week, some customer would have a full on meltdown because they couldn't purchase their items 10-15-20 minutes AFTER close. We'd offer to hold their items until the next day at opening, let them rant, proceed with register close, let them continue to rant and then get security if they were still there ranting (which did happen a ridiculous number of times). SMH. People think "Karens" are a recent phenomenon. They are not - they were alive and well in the late 80s/early 90s back when I worked at this store.

At LARP this guy just lost it because things weren't going his way. At the Horror Survival LARP. Made one of the volunteers cry. I almost slapped him, because we're playing adult pretend adventure camping.

I work retail. Pennies reduce grown people to a raging mess. "But the SIGN...."

The gas station did not fill propane tanks, just exchanged them.