Someone Asks "What Was The Worst 'Adult Tantrum' That You Guys Witnessed?" And 47 People Share Hilarious Stories

My ex when she flipped the f**k out when I ran over a plastic bag that the wind blew in our path. She was certain the bag got sucked up into the engine and would eventually break it resulting in thousands of dollars in damage.

That's when I knew I needed to get the f**k out of that relationship.

My Aunt got drunk on Thanksgiving and literally punched the Turkey because we didn’t take enough pictures of the table

I used to work at a Hallmark store. The people who would come in 30 minutes before closing on major holidays (Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas) crying 'This is all you have left?!' was ridiculous!

Ex's golfing father used to have his golf buddies film him when he was having tantrums and throwing and breaking clubs... then would play them back as 'hilarious' entertainment for unsuspecting guests, and laugh loudly and admiringly at his unhinged performances.

Such a d**k.

The worst adult tantrums I ever heard in my life were when I worked in telecommunications call centres...iphone release day in particular will really show you the worst of humanity.

The most memorable example is a 24 year old woman who was literally SOBBING at me on the phone because we sent her the wrong colour iphone and this was literally the worst thing that had ever happened to her. It wasn't enough that we were going to replace it, she really felt like we'd ruined her life. It was amazing to witness and I had to bite my tongue not to tell her I wanted to live her life if this was the biggest trauma in it.

I used to work at McDonald's. Some of the tantrums I've seen from grown-ass people at 3 a.m. is AMAZING. It's hard not to laugh at them and make it worse. My favorite was the guy who freaked out because he couldn't use the toilet so he threw his food on the floor and stormed out. Then he tried to come back in and demanded a refund for the food he threw.

Worked at the receptionist at a vacation resort, a sort of camping. It was open from 9 am to 7 pm for arrivals.

One lady arrived near the closing, like 6:30. she had a reserved sport for a camping car if I recall correctly. She arrived, was a bit tired of travelling all day, registered and went to her camping car to go to her assigned spot.

Just before closing, like 5 minutes before. She comes back storming in and just scream that she doesn't like her place and it has no electricity (we told her about it) and that she wanted to leave and get a refund or another spot.

She screamed very loudly and me and my coworker tried to find her another spot for the night but nothing was available so she SCREAMED that she wanted a refund, she litteraly started to stomp her feet and screamed "I WANT A REFUND I WANT A REFUND"

It was so loud that her manager arrived to handle the lady, asked her what was going on, and the lady just screamed again that she wanted a refund and she was tired and the manager just said "calm down, we will find a solution".

The lady started to insult my manager, I think she called her a piece of s**t or something and she screamed insults in her native language (she was from The Netherlands) the manager told her to calm down or leave.

The lady snapped and tried to strangle my manager, we didn't process it immediately, it such a wtf moment that it took us like 2-3 seconds before we reacted, we got up and I think she realised what she had done and litteraly flee the scene to go back to her camping car.

At an anime convention.

I'm with a friend of mine and we get separated. She is a 33 year old woman. A find her about an hour later.

She is sitting in the middle of the hotel lobby crying like a child blubbering her eyes out and pounding the ground.

That was when I realized that the friendship was doomed to failure. Every night she cried about something, every time something didn't go her way she would cry and throw a tantrum.

Every. f*****g. time.

i'm not talking about just sitting silently with tears. I'm talking ugly cry like a 5 year old. F*****g hell.

My GF (now wife) and I were in a French restaurant in Lake Worth, Florida having dinner. Out of nowhere, the old guy at the next table jumped up, grabbed a waiter by the lapels and yelled, "I don't like your attitude!" His chagrined wife told him he had the wrong waiter, and he let the guy go and stalked out of the restaurant. When he came back and sat down, his wife hauled off and punched him in the side of the head. The other couple they were dining with - along with everyone else in the restaurant - audibly gasped. They left soon after. Good times.

I work at the communications department for an e-bike company and our office is right above the brandstore.

One day I was smoking outside the store and a customer came in with their bike saying the battery didn’t work and demanding a new bike. The sales associate said they could replace the battery under warranty and that the repair would likely be 3-5 days.

The dude completely lost his s**t and said he wouldn’t leave without a new bike as he couldn’t do without go to work without one. After the sales associate offered him a priority repair (battery replaced same day) he literally THREW his bike at the sales associate injuring his ankle. Charges were pressed and the guy spent some time in jail.

An ex of mine (40ish/M at the time) couldn't manage his money. He made nearly twice the amount I did, and never paid ANY of his bills on time. He constantly asked to borrow money for the sake of paying his phone bill which was on the verge of shutoff every month.

He had a meltdown one day because I refused to go to the ATM to deposit his money and pay his bill. I set a boundary because this was a biweekly occurrence. Told him no because my kid had a bedtime routine I wouldn't break for him. He offered to take my bank card and asked for my pin so he could do it himself. I told him HELL NO! He was so angry he got down on the floor and was throwing a fit in front of both of our children saying that he's never had ANYONE refuse to let him use their ATM card, that any of his friends would have been ok with this. I suggested he ask his friends then. Obviously I didn't want this moron that couldn't manage money to have access to my bank account. Needless to say I gave him an ultimatum about his behaviour, and almost had to formerly evict him because he had burned too many bridges with "friends" and had nowhere to go. It's been a few years since I went no contact. Best decision ever.

Attending to a car versus power pole in North Brisbane a few years back. Driver had gotten out of the car by himself, front passenger was trapped and needed to but cut out of the wreck. cutting through the front pillar to start the process and I feel something hit me in the back. Turned off the saw and turned around expecting to see an ambo or similar and the driver punches me in the face. He then started screaming at me and stomping his foot about me damaging his car. I push him back hard with the butt of the saw and tell him to calm down. He goes to swing again and I tip my head down so he punches my helmet. One of the other fireys grabs him by his hair and drags him away and I go back to cutting the car open to get to the trapped person.

Ambos start working on the passenger and I took the tools back to the truck only to find the driver waiting for me, still ranting that I cut up his car and he was going to kill me. Flagged over the cop and had him assault and death threats. He got done for reckless driving occasioning injury and the other charges. not sure what the punishment was.

Two women in a grocery store. One's cart was blocking the shelf. Another asked her to move. She refused. The one who asked her to rammed her cart with her toddler in it into the first cart blocking the shelf. One of the carts hit the women who wouldn't move her cart so she shoved the woman who rammed her hard enough to put her on the floor. Both are screaming "b***h" at each other and asking bystanders if they saw what the other one did to her. The woman on the floor calls the cops, demanding witnesses. The toddler in the cart remains unperturbed which makes me wonder if this a norm. The stocker and I, who witnessed the exchange quietly slide into the next aisle.

I was a bouncer. I was at work on a Thursday, and a bunch of guys in nice suits shows up. They were obviously celebrating, and having a pissing contest.

This was before the ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, so they were one upping each other with cigars, bragging about deals from what I could hear, and asking what our most expensive drinks were.

One guy, about 40-50 years old, became obnoxious, and was harassing the girl behind the bar. I told him he was cut-off, and wouldn't be served more alcohol, but was free to stay with his group and get non-alcoholic drinks if he stopped talking s**t and apologized to her.

He said he wasn't going anywhere, and he wanted his whiskey. I told him to leave or I'd help him leave. I guess he didn't like being talked to like that by an 18 year old kid who dwarfed him. He stormed out, threw some chairs around on his way out and almost got hit by a car as he ran off. He want to the taxi dispatch across the street and threw their garbage can into the street, then kicked the garbage around while screaming. Some of the suits went out to try to calm him down as he started beating on the taxi dispatch windows and some of the cars. Cops eventually took him away.

I was working at a McDonald's for a part time job when I was 16 and it was a particularly busy day. This woman comes up to the desk where I'm at and says that she's been waiting 15 minutes for her family's order and they need it now so they can go drop off their child to a club or something. I say that it should be ready soon and that she might need to wait a little longer and she starts immediately screaming saying she needs it **now** then she starts telling me about how she works 200 hours everyday or some s**t and starts slamming at the counter whilst yelling. I again the her that it should be ready soon but she starts stomping and screaming and she tries to climb onto the counter but she was brought down by several people and thrown out by the manager

an anti-vaxxer last year threw a fit at my job because we asked him to put on a mask, and he made up something about that his service dog needed to smell his breath as part of a medical condition. He then accused the store of discriminating against him because he’s Jewish.

This one guy was mad our store didn't accept American currency (this store was not in America) so he proceeded to try and smash our debit machine while screaming a bunch of obscenities.

Had a drunk obese dude refuse to accept that it was time for him to go home. He rolled himself under the craps table and kept trying to punch our ankles.

We kept him penned in and called the cops. Trespassed him off property for a year

When I was in eighth grade (I'm in college now), I had to go from one math teacher to another to give a sealed envelope of papers. I presume test scores it something. That teacher was screaming at his students over one student near the back using their phone as a calculator. The door was unlocked, which was against protocol, so I was able to walk right on in. As I walked in, the teacher picked up his office chair as if to throw it. The teacher had a reputation of throwing chairs, and one had reportedly missed a student's head by only a couple inches. When I walked in, he set the chair down as if nothing happened, and was quite cordial with me, but when I walked out, he started screaming at his students again and the wall shook, so I think he threw a chair after I left.

This teacher got fired two years later because he was caught hitting a student over the head with a chair, and the principal tried defending him, which only ended up revealing a bunch of bad stuff on her, forcing both of them out. The principal was just forced into an early retirement though.

And then, last year, there was a purge of middle school staff, for reasons ranging from not covering curriculum to doing nsfw stuff with students.

My SIL and brother were visiting my parents for the weekend. We live in the country and get brown eggs from our neighbor as good county folk do. Breakfast comes around, my brother and mom are cooking breakfast for everyone. My SIL freaks out and sits in the living room ranting and crying hysterically over the brown eggs. Over 15 minutes worth of drama over brown eggs. She is offered non-egg breakfast options, still freaking out. She ends up storming out of the house and goes to McDonald's for breakfast, coming back about 2 hours later.

We now buy store bought eggs when they visit. The cheapest ones we can find. And they now have 3 children who are all just as irrational as their mother.