Most Embarrassing Temper Tantrums People Have Witnessed From Adults

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Oct 10, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

You never know if you're going to get caught up in the middle of a completely unhinged temper tantrum from an adult who seemingly momentarily devolves into a hopeless, childlike state where they've unfortunately tossed rationality out the window. Maybe these people's stories about their notable encounters with adults that had full-fledged temper tantrums will make you feel better about any cringeworthy moments that you got caught up in the vicinity of an emotional implosion. 

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  • 01
    Font - BiteyMax22 · 3d My first job in high school, working at an ice cream parlor. We had 3 sizes: 2 scoops, 1 scoop and child size. Why it wasn't just Large, Medium and Small? Don't ask me. One day a guy that had to be well into his 80's slowly walks in. It was an early afternoon before the typical rush at night so he was able to walk right up to the counter and stare at our board of flavors, toppings etc... You can see on his face he's getting irate for some reason. He's pacing quicker, here
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  • 02
    Font - He keeps going and finally I interrupt: "How about this, I just give you the smallest size we have, call it a small and charge your for our cheapest ice cream" For some reason this answer wasn't acceptable, he goes back into his rant about being a "grown man" and is now screaming at me about how insulted he was. I again reiterate "I can just give you a "small" ice cream" but no, anything beneath an institutional change wasn't going to stop this guy.
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    Font - He just kept going. Now other customers are starting to walk in and just watch him rant. Screaming "do I look like a child?" and things like "I have grandchildren older than you". Meanwhile he's refusing to order something else, just consider the smallest size as "small" rather than "child size" which was written on the board and won't leave either. The owner now comes from the back to see whats going on because there's now a long line, this had been going on a good 10 minutes. As is usua
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    Font - Finally after him screaming at the owner for a few more minutes the owner says "You came into my shop, don't like the name I used for my ice cream sizes, berated one of my employees and are berating me, please stop using the phrase disrespected because you're the only one being disrespectful". Usually in internet stories this is when the writer puts "and everyone clapped" but no one did, the situation was just too awkward for them to acknowledge they were paying attention.... The old man
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    Font - TL;DR - I got screamed at because the ice cream shopI worked at called a small a "child size". Edit - Thank you to the kind stranger that gave me silver! Edit 2 - Thank you to BOTH of the kind strangers that gave me silver! 6 Reply 1 1.7k 3 ...
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    Font - Tenrou · 3d I was at friendly's with a group of friends. One of them brought their BF with them. We all get our treats and sit down. This dude comes to us and says "do you think I should complain about the slushy not having enough syrup?" We all kinda agree that sure it's okay to see if they can do something to fix it. He goes up there and talks to the girl at the register. I couldn't make everything but essentially she told them that they made it the way their told and she couldn't do an
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    Font - SoNerdy · 3d When I Used to work at Best Buy, a woman was absolutely pissed, and threatening to sue for False advertisement, because a kindle case was 2 DOLLARS CHEAPER than what was listed in the ads with the Sunday Paper. 6 Reply 4 1.6k 3 ...
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    Font - whitewidow33B • 3d The last time I was at Heathrow Airport, I witnessed a woman in her 30s, dressed in business attire, literally kicking and screaming because they wouldn't let her take an open carton of juice through the security checkpoint. G Reply 4 566 ...
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  • 09
    Font - [deleted] · 3d I sell safety equipment to major companies. You have to have paperwork to get discounts for this stuff. I've had multiple grown men come in, tell me they work for X, and they want the company discount. I tell them I need their forms, and they begin throwing a fit. They throw around the whole, "do you know who I am?" bit, and get even madder when I in fact do not know who they are. If you were such a big shot, why don't you have the form? G Reply 4 465 ...
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    Font - Orrissirro · 4d Customer service for a doctor's office's credit card program. Spent 45 minutes trying to help a doctor change his password. I couldn't actually help them because every time I would tell them to do something specific they would do this stress-sigh sobbing kind of thing. Would remind me every 30 seconds that he went to school for 8 years so he wouldn't have to deal with this. Mind you he was clearly in his 20's-30's, not an old guy that has an excuse not to know how to do th
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    Font - Sloth_Triumph • 4d UVCH I've seen a stranger throw a tantrum because he didn't know what to order for breakfast, asked for input, but for some reason got angry when our cashier suggested a breakfast sandwich. G Reply 1 435 3 ...
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    Font - SecondTalon · 3d Working retail in a game store. Early 2000s. Man was attempting to return a computer game. At the time there was a "No cash for open boxes, exchange for same item only" policy, which was standard for years before and after (probably still standard) which most people did the whole "Okay, gimme the sealed box and... now I wanna return the sealed box" thing. No one working cared, as long as the intitial return was in the first 30 days. This was a game from like 8 months prio
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  • 13
    Font - nameismyluke · 3d Worked Electronics at Walmart during the summer. Super busy with only 3 associates and probably 20 people all wanting help getting phones off security pegs or had questions about different products. This one lady decided that she was the most important customer there, and just started screaming at the top of her lungs "HELP! SOMEBODY HELP ME! NO ONE IS HELPING ME!" We called a supervisor and they helped her. Helped her leave the store immediately. G Reply 282
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  • 14
    Font - bobtheowl • 3d Most recent one I witnessed was a guy maybe late 40s early 50s in front of my family and I at Ritter's yelling at the teenagers about his milkshake. From what I could get from his ranting he wanted it made a very specific weird way, like a specific amount of milk and something else weird. Definitely heard the classic lines "I order this all the time and I've never had these problems before! How hard can it be!?" My wife and I almost had to say something to him when he start
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    Font - halloweenjon · 3d I had the unfortunate experience recently of being right next to a guy in a grocery store self checkout who was using it, but really wanted everybody around to know he wasn't happy about it. It was a guy in his 60's, kind of dressed like a biker, and he took personal offense to every single nuance of the self checkout process. "WHERE'S THE BARCODE? I SWEAR THEY MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO- oh." Bleep. "PLACE THE ITEM IN THE BAG? WHAT IF I DON'T WANT TO! IS THE WHOLE SYSTEM GOI
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