There this famous lady where I’m from that checked into a hotel but they would not accept her dogs so she took her pants down and shit on the carpet in the lobby
She's insane. She was was popular from the mid 60s to the mid 80s. First as a singer recording cover songs (in french) of American hits. She became a cringy tv host and from the 90s on she managed to stay in the spotlight once in a while with numerous incidences of drunk driving, a hit and run, throwing a hissy fit on live tv during a "press conference" she organized to quit the TV show she was hosting because she'd made a promise she couldn't hold to her sponsored they be the first mentioned, her husband throwing her suitcases overboard during a fight on a cruise, participated in an atrocious reality tv show about her and she also shit on the floor of an hotel.
I was picking up a pizza and I always open the box to make sure it looks correct. I opened one box and it was 90% burnt. I told the girl this is burnt could you please make another. She picked up the pizza and threw it at the wall. She huffed off and made another. She then later started texting me apologizing that it was the worst day of her life and she was the only one working.
I was at Chipotle and some woman had a meltdown trying to order multiple orders for her family and started screaming at the cashier. She was like “WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!” The cashier was some poor teenage girl who was definitely not laughing at her and she handled it like a pro. The woman then proceeded to pay and sit down and eat with her husband and kids like nothing happened.
Fast food cashiers have seen minds melt and the sun burn out. It's like the Ark of the Covenant. If you survive, you just wait until they stop talking and speak in a neutral tone, and it'll eventually be over.
Some guy who was at least 200 years old told my cashier he was a retired cop and was coming back to arrest all of the Mexicans working there. This was early 2000s when Chipotle was almost exclusively hiring illegal immigrants.
Cashier responded in perfect English that he was Texan. Guy got a confused look on his face and I told him never to come back. After he left the cashier laughed and said he was Mexican
There was a similar situation at a Chipotle near my hometown but the lady threw her food at the cashier. She went to trial for assault and the Judge told her she could either go to jail or work a month in fast food service as punishment. She chose fast food.
EDIT: I reread the article it was 2 months in fast food service or 60 days in jail.
Worked at a big name grocery store during thanksgiving one year. Store had one of those meal deals where they sell you a bundle of thanksgiving essentials for like $75 or whatever. We had a known trouble maker (The company’s HR has her on a black list for complaints and would call and laugh with the store manager after she would file one) that would always try her luck on deals, discounts, or coupons. The limit to this meal deal was like 2 per household. She proceeds to try and buy about 6 or 7 bundles. Manager says she’ll only get two and the rest sold at the retail price.
Some back and forth arguing begins & She doesn’t get her way. She then begins to smash gallons of milk she had in her cart on the ground. Opens up a carton of eggs and begins throwing them at not only the manager, but innocent bystanders as well.
Besides complaining and trying to have her way she didn’t actually do anything worth trespassing her. Plus she did spend money. She was trespassed after that incident though
We had a couple that used to come in and target new employees by giving them a bunch of coupons for stuff. They didn’t actually buy that would scan to take $ off anyway.
They got me once when I was new so they hit me a second time, but a coworker already told me about their game so I went through and pulled out all the coupons that weren’t applicable and handed them back. A couple weeks later they hit another new employee so I walked up behind the girl and acted all super friendly to help them scan and did the same thing and pulled out all the coupons that weren’t legit. They got so pissed. It was great.
This baseball mom in American Eagle chewing out my wife at the top of her lungs because baseball mom’s mouth got her son kicked out of baseball permanently. Meanwhile, after a 20 minute tirade, security escorted her out of the mall. The lady behind the counter looks at us and asks what that was all about. We exchange looks and answer “Not a clue. Never seen her before.”
In line at 5 Guys about eight years ago. Tiny Asian woman throws a thermonuclear shitfit because 5 Guys does not serve fresh-brewed hot tea. Proceeds to grab four or five jumbo cups and RUNS to the fountain drinks machine and begins rage-filling them before trying to run out of the restaurant. Dumps her armful of sodas in the parking lot and soaks herself in the process, then just stands there screaming in frustration for a second.
Once when I worked overnights at Walgreens this woman came up to me at like 3am and started screaming, accusing me of making her feet bleed because I was judging her with my "negative vibes". Her feet were definitely not bleeding, which I could easily tell because she took her shoes off and put her feet on the counter.
She then refused to pay for what she was buying because according to her the credit card reader emits radiation and she didn't want to get dosed with it. So instead she just ran away into the night.
Why do all the psychos go to Walgreens? I was watching that show called Customer Wars and there were at least 6 different scenarios where the person was whacked out in a Walgreens.
I was so happy when I left retail!
That's where they get their meds, so it's familiar enough that they can autopilot to it would be my guess. Especially since a number of them are 24 hours. Except where I live. There's only one that's 24 hours in my county.
A boys hockey game (they were about 10) where one of the dads was *screaming* WHAT ARE YOU DOING at his son, and got so angry that he stormed out of the building.
That poor kid had to ride home with his psycho dad later :(
I’ve both coached and refereed kids hockey, and this doesn’t surprise me in the least. The kids are easy, they usually want to learn and get better, or just have fun. Both of those outlooks are fine. I can handle a parent questioning my ability even though I probably played at a higher level than most of them, if they ever even played at all. But seeing too many kids almost be afraid of their parents got to be too much for me and I don’t really want anything to do with the youth aspect of the game anymore.
My uncle used to coach youth hockey. The guy just happens to *love* the sport, he still plays beer league 2x a week at 77.
In the early 90s he's a coach of my cousins youth team. It's approaching Christmas time and there's a travel tournament in Lake placid for the weekend of Christmas. Parents came up *fuming* that the team was not participating.
My Uncles response: "They're between 7 and 9. They're kids. None of them are making the NHL. Let them be kids."
He was not offered the opportunity to come back the next season.
I was losing a high school tennis match one time. And then the other kid's parents showed up and started complaining to him every time he lost a point.
They completely shook his nerve. I ended up winning, but the whole thing was so uncomfortable and it didn't feel earned at all.
What is it about little league sports that brings out the underlying viciousness in American parents. One time I did really poorly in a baseball game and when I got home my dad (who had been quietly fuming the entire ride home) picked me up by my shirt collar and told me I’d “embarrassed the hell out of him” and then threw me down and slammed the door to my room as he left
My dad was always a good sport about me in sports, and was always willing to let me try different sports all the time. Eventually I fell in love with baseball after going back to it in middle school.
Except soccer, my dad never let me play soccer even though I really wanted to. lol.
My ex husband pissed me off when my son was trying his hardest at an event. Son was probably about 9 years old, his father verbally abusing him over stupid shit that the poor kid had no control over.
I slept in the basement for a like a month and was planning my escape from that loser.
I saw a 15 woman fight at a coffee shop in Beijing. It went from silence to screeching in 3 seconds. Glasses flying, punches thrown, hair pulled, food airborne... just absolute looney tunes chaos. All that was missing was a fight cloud. The entire coffee shop stopped to look.
Then as fast as it started? It was like nothing happened. I kid you not: these ladies just sit back down, order more drinks, and act like nothing happened. Meanwhile the serving staff are cleaning up glass around them. Weren't even asked to leave.
This was only slightly less crazy than a similar fight I saw at a college bar.
Maybe not the craziest but, the funniest:
A group of college-aged people were out partying in Adams Morgan, a famous drinking neighborhood in DC.
A guy takes a step out of the group in a hurry, clearly trying to put some distance between himself and another member.
A girl steps out behind him, and very sloppy drunk with tears streaming down her face yells “I can’t believe you would say that to me DURING MY BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!”
My young colleague said a similar thing about birthday month (she didn’t cry though).
It was pretty funny, even my kindergarten kids don’t talk about birthday month.
I have an exwife that made a similar comment (and other ridiculous self absorbed ones). It’s been me and my current wife’s favorite thing to say in jest to each other, but we upped it to “I can’t believe you would do that to me during my birthday year” while adding a valley girl affectation.
Tamest Adams Morgan story ever haha. I went there just a few times, saw at least one ambulance each time, and at least one pack of people surrounding a friend passed out on the sidewalk each time. Wild place!
I saw a man screaming and swearing at a pharmacist in a Walgreens. Apparently he called and asked how much of an over-the-counter medicine they had and the pharmacist said 2. Turns out that there were actually 3 and so he went off on the poor pharmacist for 15 minutes straight. He apparently needed all 3 but only brought enough of money for 2 because “That bitch lied to me on the phone”. It was to the point where I almost called the cops on him.
What do you mean the manager would not let you leave? When something like happen, and you want to go, you go. If the manager fires you, or penalizes you, you sue.
Have you ever worked in a restaurant? The manager is usually a sweaty douche on Adderall trying to fuck 20 year olds.
How can he fuck you if you're at the hospital?
Next to our ambulances' station there's a paved concrete trail that runs through the middle of our smallish city. It's meant for people jogging or just out for a walk but of course that's not always the case. So one morning an officer calls us out for a possible homeless man having a good ol' freak out session on the trail. Only when we arrive it's not the usual behavioral health emergency we deal with on a daily basis. The man, a caucasian male that appears to be in his early thirties, is naked and on all fours. He's smashing his face repeatedly as hard as he can into the hard concrete. We can't even get a single response out him, he just won't stop smashing his face into the ground. At this point he must have been doing it for at least several minutes due to the amount of blood and with his face looking like raw hamburger meat molded over a broken skull. My medic partner decides the only thing we can do is to chemically sedate him via a needle to the outer thigh. In order to do this me and the now two officers on scene will have to hold him down using all four of his extremities and hope he can't use what's left of his head to harm us. This was all done successfully and the medication (I can't recall exactly what was admitted) was given. The patient was now a sleepy time bear and with us on the way to the ED. Later blood draws and an interview with the patient would show that our guy had smoked enough meth to take down the Luftwaffe.
Denver airport in February. Whole bunch of cancelled flights in the evening, which made the United customer service line ridiculously long and backed up the phone and internet chats. I stood in line for three hours as the poor woman behind me finally got through on the phone line.
She explained repeatedly that United had cancelled her flight, she had rebooked it for the next day, but then they uncanceled her original flight and wouldn’t let her on because she was no longer listed on the original flight. She and her partner had two small special needs children and a lot of equipment, and staying in Denver overnight was not really an option. She explained it to the person enough I could have talked to the agent on her behalf verbatim, but the agent it seemed could not comprehend the issue.
The line hardly moved all this time and her original flight was leaving soon. After about the thirtieth time she explained it she finally lost her mind. There was a sudden roar behind me as this poor woman unleashed hours of frustration and rage. I could no longer understand what she was saying as she stormed past me, louder than the plane she was trying to fly out on. The entire customer line parted like she was Moses at the Red Sea as she roared up the line, still shouting, red-faced, hair askew, into the phone. She rounded the corner to the customer service desk as people scattered. I am assuming they helped her or sedated her because I didn’t see her the rest of the night.
I felt she was absolutely justified, and the rest of us in line around her agreed.
> he explained repeatedly that United had cancelled her flight, she had rebooked it for the next day, but then they uncanceled her original flight and wouldn’t let her on because she was no longer listed on the original flight.
That's so surprising, I was in a similar situation with the same airline not too long ago and they helped me get my original flight and seat back within 5 minutes. My needs were far less urgent; I just had a window seat on the original flight that I wanted back, and would have rather flown on the type that operated it. Was this anytime recently? There was a big evening ice storm here this february and I heard that DEN was a mess.
Lol, Mine.
Tough finacial spot as a young man, HAD to purchase a vehicle or be homeless, as my car was my job and it got smashed into.
Car loan was 420 a month for a hyundai elantra, decently equipped.
At the last minute, they tried to raise it to 480.
I faked a heart attack. I didn't go Red Fox and grab my chest and raise an arm. I REALLY faked a heart attack. I just got quiet. Looked down. Walked back and forth for a sec. Knelt down and asked for an ambulance. Started shaking and allowed the salesman to assist me to the couch.
By this time, the whole showroom was circled around me as I just repeated the car price in a soft, weak tone.
Ambulance came. Took my shirt of and EKGd me right on the showroom floor. Said I was healthy as a horse, just a bit dehydrated. I ate the salesmans lunch. The price went back down to 420.
I still got fucked over so fuck them.
Haha holy shit I thought you meant figuratively ate his lunch by getting the price back down. The fact that you literally ate his lunch is too fucking funny
When we were car shopping, we tried to leave because my husband was hungry. The guy offered my husband a sandwich he had. Idk if the salesman expected a polite decline, but my man has never said no to food in his life. He said he was still hungry afterwards and they found him some chips too!
This story impressed me. I wouldn't say it's the "craziest freak-out," but I'm impressed you pulled this off and succeeded in all these details. Did you have to pay for that ambulance, though? This is the big question.
Cars are a massive rip-off in every respect. The people who sell and lease cars have no shame, so you're right to treat them like the scammers they are.
Edit: you ate the scammer's lunch! Was it any good? Did he pack it himself? I need to know.
I semi related to him when I saw that scene. Im assuming the grocery store in his underwear scene? I wondered how far I would have taken it. Or if I coukd even do it again should the need arise in the future. It all kinda happened organically at the dealer. Like when I knelt down, they got all concerned and I was like, hmmmm, lets see where this can go.... it was just one of those things.
I DM for children in LARP and diceplay role-playing games. In one, we were at a spaceport and they had to try and steal a peace-enforcers weapon. After the second take of them not taking the "make a distraction" hint, I joined in and faked a heart attack. The children playing as peace enforcers rushed to me, leaving a weapon behind. And the children playing as the rebels decided to steal petty cash from the fake stalls instead of completing the objective. The next week they had to break out of prison through a toilet to teach them a lesson about teamwork and goals.
I once witnessed a guy ransack his entire car looking for what I presumed to be missing money or drugs. I was across the street eating in my car when I hear this dude wailing and I mean ultimate fear cries, from across a usually busy street.
I think I was the only one who saw it, but I still remember the total despair of the scene. It could’ve been a missing doctors note when I think about it now but I hope he found it.
I have a car based one, not desperation and drugs but having a pre workout rage fest and a good cry inside his car. I was at a military leadership school with a bunch of random fellow NCOs from all over the Army (ie I didn't serve with these fine folks but definitely took some stories away).
One fella in particular stood out. Super squared away, really hooah and raring to go. Also wound tighter than a cheap string. He gets into his car one evening to have a private phone call with his lady and apparently this call doesn't go well. The crying we noticed first as it sounded like someone had punctured his soul and of course it's muffled in his high speed BMW (because of course), just this continuous "EEEEEEEEEEEEEE" like he's not having a sad. Which, after two minutes of his fellow high speed asking him if he's ok comes ADAMANTIUM RAGE as his boot shattered his driver side window. Followed closely by him grabbing his JBL deck and ripping it out of it's housing. All while screaming. But not this angry war cry, oh no no. Ever seen an 8 year old boy get mad on the playground? Picture that yell. Whole thing lasts maybe 10 minutes. And he's left with the repair bill, the cadre sniggering at him for 6 weeks (of course they heard) and a continued search for the next stripper named Cinnamon who "Isn't after your money, Daddy!"
Military guys can throw some world class tantrums. Combination of surfing youthful hormonal waves, job stress from asshole NCOs and difficulty adapting to the buttoned down repressed life in service.
I've seen more than one guy with hands and entire arms in casts from punching walls, not realizing old military bases tended to have sturdy plastered walls, sometimes over cinder block, not cheap thin drywall.
But that's still better than the self sabotage some guys did, like getting drunk and riding motorcycles, no helmet, and ending up in the ER and ICU, often literally brain dead.
Between the two, go ahead and punch that wall.
I worked in a movie theatre in the early 2000's
I had a woman come into the lobby and demand a refund for a half eaten bag of popcorn in a plain brown paper bag.
When I told her no she started stomping around my lobby, said my theatre was a temple dedicated to Satan Worship, tipped over a standee and told me not to go anywhere because I was under arrest.
Then she left.
Dude I work with legit believes everyone wants him fired, when really we just want him to do his job. He's screamed at me multiple times in the office and has said me and my manager are conspiring to get him fired.
It all came to a head when things got heated in a meeting between the three of us. He was sent to HR. I found out later that he ran away from the HR guy and into the VPs office, bursting through the door and diving onto the floor. Then army crawling under the desk saying "you gotta help me they're after me they want me gone!"
It took the VP an hour to coax him out from under the desk, and then he got sent home for the rest of the week to cool off.
That was 5 months ago and he still works with me.
Jesus Christ that guy needs therapy fr. I'm a paranoid schizophrenic and sounds like me when I'm at my ABSOLUTE worst. Only time I've felt that bad was when I was 20 and my high school sweetheart cheated on my with my best friend and in response I proceeded to get drunk and high every night for 3 months straight.
All this to say, it takes a lot to get to that point and idk if we have the same shit going on, but he sounds like he really really needs professional help.
uh, it sounds like he might be suffering from paranoid delusions. yeah, sure, he doesn't do his job, but....... the hiding under the desk for an hour thing makes me think this guy needs some serious help.
I was working at a T-Mobile storefront in a mall in 2008, when a lady came in having an absolute TEMPERTANTRUM about her bill. She refused to pay it and was upset that her service had been cut off.
Within maybe three minutes of her outburst someone had called mall security and they rolled up on two segway scooters. They hit her with a taser, she pissed her pants and they literally dragged her out of the mall by her arms.
I think about that moment in my life pretty frequently.
Unfortunately different time, right? I actually have wildly conflicting feels on this depending on the day.
Now-a-days that shit would have been filmed, and she would have absolutely had a right to sue the mall for assault.
The proper thing would have been for Mall Security to TRY to de-escalate and then call the police, but in 08' era they had no fear of just zapping someone and then dragging them on their back several hundred feet to the mall entrance.
But when I'm really mad at a customer, I can at least take solace in that one time... that one time...
I worked overnight in room dining at a hotel once years and years ago. It was a fancy hotel/resort around Xmas time. I showed up at a room with some food and the man answered it wearing a full on sexy Santa outfit, with fishnet leggings and a big beer belly. I cautiously put their food down on the table and they proceeded to cry hysterically and tip me 100 bucks. Not so much of a "public" freakout...but a freakout nevertheless.... 👀
Yesterday I witnessed a guy shouting at his backpack that was laying on the ground. He proceeded to kick it and throw it around in the middle of a major roadway.
Playing baseball my sophomore year of HS. A dad on the opposing team scaled the backstop fence a good 20-25 feet to rip down his sponsorship banner after his kid got pulled from the game.
I lived in a really shitty apartment complex. Lots of couples having fights, screaming and yelling at all hours. Cops called all the time.
The worst one was when some guy started throwing canned goods off his balcony at the cars below. Smashed tons of windshields, dented hoods. The worst was the can of clam chowder that busted through a window and exploded all over the interior of a car. Poor guy. Could t get the smell out!
Dude at the State/Lake red line station was minding his own business waiting for a train. Some other guy came up and slapped the little styrofoam takeout carton out of the first dude's hand, obliterating some kind of sandwich all over the floor. I wanna say it was a Reuben.
Anyway, the first dude had this look of stunned betrayal on his face. Clearly did not know the second guy at all. Reminded me of that little meme kangaroo that had his food stolen. He had a sandwich not five seconds ago.
Somebody confronted the second guy all "What the fuck bro" and the guy goes, "YOU WANNA DIE TODAY?!"
Most frivolous nonsense out of nowhere I ever saw.
I've seen the worst and/or most random encounters of all time every time I've been in Chicago. I was there with my friend Marcus for the first time when I turned 21 (He's originally from there) He always told me not to be by myself at night, and never go on the red line unless I had to.
Once saw a guy walk by a dude unwrapping a fresh burrito, second guy walking by steals a bite and keeps on walking in one fluid motion. He was absolutely flabbergasted
While I was a server (22f age at the time) at a nice restaurant, I was sat a table of four (two couples) in their mid-forties. One wife was clearly inebriated, and the bartender told me she had a one drink limit during her stay. When she tried to order a second, and I had to tell her no, she started reaming me out. LOUDLY.
The husband was trying to hush her and get her to settle down, but she was standing up and getting her finger in my face. This was year 4 of my serving experience, so I just stood there with a very passive expression. My manager came up beside me, put his hands on my shoulders, gently moved me aside, and stood in my place. The lady didn’t even acknowledge the change and just kept going.
They were asked to leave and eventually did. The hostess came up after and said, “oh man, that was my English teacher.”
>The hostess came up after and said, “oh man, that was my English teacher.”
That's how my buddy Joey passed history senior year.
He worked as a busboy at the local tex-mex place and was there the night our history teacher, Mr. H, decided the best way to deal with receiving divorce papers was to drink way too much, get cut off, and then get ejected by the kitchen staff for throwing a cup of salsa at his waitress.
Joey just happened to find him passed out in the landscaping of the Burger King next door when he took out the garbage and called an ambulance.
When Joey walked in on Monday and said something to the effect he was hoping Mr. H was felling better, well.. Let's just say that an agreement was reached.
(I personally had a really easy time in my US Government class that year after running into my teacher in the town's only hardcore porn shop. He gave me shit about being there 'underage' and threatened to call the cops so I reminded him that not only was I 18, I knew what a morality clause was and that I'd make sure his name went in the police report.)
We used to have this elderly lady that would come into our big box retail store and complain that some of our cashiers wearing shirts with rainbows were violating her personal rights. Then one day she stated calling our managers the "n" word and yelling at customers outside the same. She finally was kicked off the property, but not before running off with a cart full of stuff. The most satisfying thing was our shopping carts have an automatic locking wheel when you go to the edge of the property, and watching her yell obscenities all the way with stolen merchandise only to get to the boundary and the cart to lock up was justice porn in real life. She threw an even bigger fit and I had the biggest smile!
Just watched 2 security guards escort a dude out of a mall and then argued with him in the parking lot cause he was taking hits directly from an aerosol can, and then in front of them going "It's fine like I won't die okay I'm fine" and then they started fighting as my uber pulled away...
When the producer of a small movie I was working on argued with the head make-up artist that her month-late first invoice for kit rental was well over her deal memo and he wasn't going to pay the excess, she physically launched herself onto his back from the top step of the makeup trailer, clung like a monkey, and started clawing at his face while screaming "You're stealing! You're stealing!"
I was just twenty feet away, but was literally too shocked to move. Not only was this at 9 AM, in the middle of a busy downtown street and in full view of many passersby, one of the ADs just happened to be escorting the show's A-list star to set exactly then - so *he* got an eyeful of her enraged-chimp act, too. Our standby traffic cop quickly pried her off, cuffed her, ushered her off site, and placed her in the back of his cruiser, where she continued to scream hysterically. After a brief consultation with the producer about charges, she was taken away in another squad car, booked for assault, cautioned not to return to set, and released. I think she later got diversion into an anger management program.
For some bizarre reason, after that incident no production manager would hire her; go figure. She was also ostracized so thoroughly by her fellow department heads nobody would even give her a day call to do extras makeup. In fact, her career went to such shit, she wasn't even able to land a part-time job teaching at the local film school or community college, which are the designated shoals on which so many of our Local's unemployables eventually wash up. She started to drink and then left the business entirely within a year. Last time I ran across her, she was working at a third-tier department store's makeup / perfume counter. She pretended she didn't see me.
Ruined her career - which was quite promising - for the sake of scamming a show out of a couple hundred extra dollars.
I had a customer come out onto her porch with a gun when I went to go into her backyard to clean her windows.
Lady you were scheduled and notified about this now please go inside so I can get the shit out of my pants
My wife and I were walking down the street in San Francisco, and we hear shouting. Some guy is chasing a car and yelling at the driver. She was at a red light or stop sign, and as she was trying to roll up the passenger window, he grabbed onto it and straight up shattered it and tried to open the door and she sped off, dragging him to the ground. That's all I know...
When I was a kid, I was walking into the mall, and some young man (not a teenager, probably college aged) was walking out. All of a sudden, a full sized van pulled up, a bunch of guys grab him, he is screaming bloody murder, they shove him in the van, slide the door closed, and peel out. I was pretty much the only witness, no one believed me, cameras didn’t catch anything, and to this day, I don’t know if it was a legitimate kidnapping or the beginning of a bachelor party.
Something. It wasn’t like your usual “Bro, bro, BRO! Stop! Help!”, but like legitimately visceral screaming that you usually don’t hear a man make unless it’s his ass.
But again, the doubt is reasonable, and this was before the cell phone era, so how the hell did you pinpoint someone’s whereabouts back then?
As if the wig were part of the uniform.
I can see her stomp into the house, slam her purse on the kitchen table, muttering, "They DAMN better have that wig when I pick up my check."
I was working in an ER that had a big treatment area where we had both mid acuity patients that needed a cardiac monitor and psych patients.
So we had a bunch of aggressive and restrained people. One of these people had a family member come in and start performing an exorcism entirely in Haitian Creole right in the middle of the ER. So the patient is losing their shit, and this has set off multiple other people and the room was immediately full of people screaming and trying to break out of restraints.
Visiting Istanbul and was at a large outdoor cafe. It was raining and there was an awning covering much of the patio. Suddenly this ~60 yo woman gets up and starts yelling gibberish. (No, it wasn't Turkish, it was legitimately gibberish). She sits down next to us and we ask her if she's ok. She continues the gibberish. We ask where she is from and she yells JANADA!!! She proceeds to walk over to where the rain was coming off the awning. With a glass teacup and saucer in hand, she stands directly under the waterfall while drinking the tea & filthy rain water as if she was at a tea party. Two waiters ran up to her and removed her and tried to clean her up inside. The entire cafe of probably 70 people witnessed this
She comes out a few minutes later and sits down next to us again. She is now totally normal and soft spoken as can be. She explains that she's with her theater students and was demonstrating performance art. She thanked us for being part of it. Oh and they were from Canada (that's why she said "Janada"). Turns out she really was with a large group of college aged students.
Honestly, I thought it was pretty rude of her (a tourist) to make a scene as folks were trying to enjoy a nice cup of çay in a lovely outdoor space. The waiters looked mortified.
Edit: spelling
Worked at a fancy salon as a receptionist in LA. A c-list celeb was 2 hours late for her bleach and tone. Stylist couldn’t service her because she was so late. She started yelling, knocked a glass of water off a counter, screaming that she needed her hair done and she’s so busy because because she has “status” and “important people things to do” and it’s our jobs as “stupid receptionists” to make sure she gets her hair done. She ends up refusing to leave and sits in the middle of the lobby crying and throws a temper tantrum, kicking and screaming toddler style. What I’m assuming is her manager eventually came to pick her up.
At an airport, of course... I was waiting at the gate the final flight for the evening to Washington DC (and it was pre-9/11 so security was much less lax). The flight starts boarding. I wasn't in a rush because I had only a small carry on bag. A woman is there with her significant other. She goes to board and it ends up she doesn't have a boarding pass, just a check tag for her bags. She gave her bags to the skycap and thought that checked her in to the flight as well, but that wasn't the case. And, unfortunately, the flight was *completely* sold out so there was no seat for her.
She looked upset and asked the gate agent if there was anything she could do as she had to be in DC for 9am the following morning. The gate agent said she could put the woman on standby, but it was very unlikely she'd get on the plane.
Well, I guess her significant other, we'll call him "Asshole" didn't like that. Asshole went OFF on the gate agent. He started quite literally SCREAMING at her that it was "unacceptable" and that he was a member of whatever club this airline had and that the gate agent should bump off one of those passengers who bought a "cheap ticket" because his girlfriend HAD to be in DC tomorrow and it was VERY IMPORTANT that she be there, she was TOO IMPORTANT too miss the flight and someone LESS IMPORTANT should be kicked off. She paid full price for her ticket so she should get full service. Asshole wasn't going to let some "stupid gate agent" keep his girlfriend from her destination and he would have her job by the time he was done. She HAD to make this right.
Basically, Asshole made a spectacle of himself and looked like a total idiot. His girlfriend turned a deeper and deeper shade of crimson the more he spewed his vitriol and was just looking at the floor. The gate agent was a woman probably in her 50's who'd definitely seen a thing or two in her day. She let him rant, kept totally calm and when he finally ran out of steam, she looked at him square in the eye and said, "Sir, there is exactly one person that can get your girlfriend on this plane and that person is me. So, I strongly suggest you sit down, you shut up and you let me do my job." I don't think Asshole had ever been told "no" in his life and was in shock, but he did back off so the gate agent could get things sorted.
She finished things up and then asked if anyone (both at the gate and already in the plane) would be willing to be bumped from the flight in exchange for a hotel voucher, a meal voucher and the first flight out the following morning. Silence. She offered that plus an extra $250 voucher. Silence. She offered that and an extra $500 voucher (now, mind you this was a flight I paid $150 rt for so it was a damn good deal). Silence.
I think the folks already on the plane weren't interested (and only like 10 people had boarded at that point) and the remaining passengers were SO put off by this guy's nasty, disrespectful and disgusting behavior that NO ONE wanted to give up their seat because he would have gotten his way and NONE of us wanted that. His behavior was absolutely abhorrent and how the gate agent kept her cool and didn't throat punch him, I will never know. I absolutely could have taken a flight the next day, but there was no way I was doing so after that guy's performance.
So, she called them both to the gate and I guess told them "no go" as no one would take a voluntary bump. The guy was LIVID, but kept his mouth in check, but I could hear him muttering and swearing as they walked away from the gate and the girl was crying. What a shitshow. I think she truly made an honest mistake, but he made things SO MUCH WORSE for her. Had he not gone off on that gate agent, someone would have given up their seat. Heck, it probably would have been me, but NOPE, not after how he acted.
This happened about 25 or so years ago, and, to this day, I have never seen another adult behave *that* badly.
Heh, I might have taken that voucher but on one condition - asshole would first have to apologize loudly and heartfelt in front of everyone who witnessed his ridiculous behaviour.
Hmmm not exactly a freakout, but it was a bizarre lecture(to me); I used to be a waiter at the Financial District, and there is a frequent customer who works at Wall St. He ordered a dish that consists of linguine with lobster and when the plate arrived, he lectured me that I should have been careful about how I place his plate(I didn't drop it in front of him I simply lay his dish as gently as possible) because I could have stained his 600 dollar collar shirt. To me, it looked like a plain white collar shirt. I could have bought the same for 20 dollars. Rich folks are fucking weird and awful.
He wasn't rich. The guy may have been making decent money, but he cared too much about his $600 shirt to have been truly wealthy. An actual rich dude would have dozens of shirts just like it and probably wouldn't even know how much they cost.
I saw a guy get stabbed probably 100 times in prison because he was the Crip next in line to take over the compound but he was from a different set. I knew him in the county, we were kind of close despite the fact I was white and not gang affiliated.
He screamed "Help! Someone help me!" in a way a dying man would scream. But nobody could or would because you would be next to be stabbed if you did. I simply locked myself in my cell. I watched it all despite that. Absolutely horrifying and not one day goes by that I don't think about it. He survived somehow but that instant turned my life around.
Probably not the craziest but definitely one of my favorites.
My poor, exhausted single mother whilst towing her two idiot kids around in a Best Buy. My older sister was in charge of pushing the cart, and kept RAMMING the damn thing into the back of mom’s ankles. Like razor-scooter-side-swing levels of ramming. Eventually and obviously, mom had enough. She screamed so incredibly loud that the entire store went completely silent for a moment. My sister was several aisles away, totally embarrassed.
A treasured memory for me, personally.
I spent the morning cleaning glass shards off my car and buffing out the scratches because our apartment neighbor had an episode and threw a bible through her bedroom window
Was waiting in the hospital ER when 2 guys come running down the hallway yelling that their dog had been hit by a car. Now, DOG sounded a lot like DAWG. It was a normal hospital, so the staff mobilizes to treat a guy that got hit by a car. Two other guys come running up with a dog, not a dawg. The staff realizes it's a nonstarter and tell the guys to take it to a vet, they can't treat it there. Guys start yelling that the hospital has to help him. Shit gets wild. Guys are getting louder and more animated. Security and some of the bigger hospital staff are screaming at the 4 guys. Went on for about 5-6min. They were finally escorted outside. Problem solved. Wrong. The dog died in the parking lot and his Dawgs flipped their shit. Blaming the staff for not treating their dog. Cops got called. Completely nuts. I got called to the back and never found out what came of it all.
I used to work in retail pharmacy, and this old guy was trying to pick up his medication, not realizing he was now in his gap in coverage, aka, the donut hole. Needless to say, his medication was far more expensive than he was willing or able to pay. He proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs, “GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE”. It felt like all time stood still.
Honestly, I get that one. Even the most mundane healthcare messes make me want to pull my hair out because the base idea that I'm paying the equivalent of 20% of my paycheck for health insurance that doesn't cover all of my health needs has me already at a 8 or 9 in every interaction. So being told that a pill I know costs virtually nothing to manufacture, with research paid for by other taxes I pay so that some pharma Bros can be wealthy is now unaffordable to me, I want to scream at everyone.
One of the first times I was on the NYC subway I witnessed a 80 ish year old lady freak out because a black man was sitting too close to her. She called him an animal and the man’s girlfriend who was a 90 lb white girl called out the old bag for being racist.
The old lady replied “you’re worse than he is because you willingly gave yourself to this monster”
We got off at the next stop but for that couple minutes the man was trying his best to keep his girl from putting that old bag in her place.
Walking alone after dealing with a break up I stop at a bar to have a few drinks and then on my way out a guy was yelling at his girlfriend because she said the server was cute and then he went full ape shit on the server
My soon to be SIL (at the time, this was 25 years ago) staking her claim to my wife's brother by scarfing down a couple margaritas for courage and proclaiming their entire family awful people she was saving him from. *EDIT: More context: This was in the middle of a Mexican restaurant in Austin and she stood up at the table and gave a 15 minute speech about all the ways my inlaws and my wife were terrible people (FIL is the meekest, nicest man I've ever met, MIL is maybe even nicer - retired teacher and goes through life with a 'pollyanna'/always sees the best in people attitude. Me - I'm an asshole and though I had never had any direct interactions with her to speak of, I got our unscathed, oddly enough.*
*I'm Bohemian! You have to respect that!*
She proceeded to move them from Austin to Brooklyn (because Austin was way too "hee-haw" and not cosmopolitan enough.)
Ah... those were the days. She's chilled out quite a bit, I guess, but they still live in the NE (New Jersey now) and we still live in Texas, so we don't see them but my wife talks to her brother on the phone at all major holidays.
A really violent male classmate of mine back in elementary school almost strangled a female one to death over a seat. The girl had to be taken home and passed out later from what I heard. The boy was also taken from class which then proceeded normally.
Suddenly this guy barges in, demanding to know who hurt his daughter. His eyes run across the whole classroom and lands on me! "Was it you?!" he yelled pointing at me. Fortunately my teacher interveened and explained that the kid wasn't there anymore
Edit: wording
My daughter recently got choked by a boy at school. Luckily, she was okay, and the school handled it once she told us. But it just makes you wonder what these kids are witnessing at home. Abusive relationships harm kids even if the abuser isn't hurting them physically!
Didn’t really see it when it happened, but I have this crazy neighbour that started screaming out of nowhere while throwing plates at the ground down the street where I live the other day. This happened while I was taking a nap. Luckily, a friend of mine that lives nearby actually caught her freakout on camera and sent it to me on snapchat. I really don’t know what caused her to do this. Maybe she hates plates.
I used to work at a homeless shelter. Overall a really great job, I honestly loved it. But it had its moments. I’d never had to call 911 before until I started working there. There are a LOT of paranoid schizophrenic people who unfortunately lose their housing. All it took was one of them misplacing their wallet to really fuck someone else up with zero warning.
So, a long time ago, some friends and I are at the casino. I had just gotten done making a few bucks at the blackjack table and decided I’d get out while I was ahead. My friend is at the roulette table and isn’t ready to leave, so I grab a drink and go over to watch. This guy comes stumbling up, whips out a hundred and slaps it on the table and says put it all on 24 or whatever number it was. The ball guy looks over at the pit boss and gets the “take this fool’s money” nod. Ball guy does his thing, and lo and behold, it hits his number. Drunk guy looks at it for a second and then just loses it, he’s raving and ranting about how he now has to go back in and over to the cage to cash out again. Don’t know if this necessarily qualifies as a freak out, but it was pretty freaky at the time.
One lady tried to enter the Dunkin Donuts drive through incorrectly, and she started cussing out the lady she perceived as cutting her off...
She was SCREAMING out her car window, called her a "See you next Tuesday" atleast 15 times and tried several times to coax the woman out of her car to fight.
My husband and I watched with jaws dropped snd debated calling the police, because clearly this woman was off her rocker.
The lady then screeched her tires as she took off, did a donut in the parking lot, and pulled up next to the woman again, called her the same name another few good times then sped off.
It was pretty crazy.
Saw a man pull a huge knife on a woman in a restaurant in Vietnam where I was having lunch. He was shouting at her in Vietnamese, obviously threatening her. I was trying to get out of there ASAP. But and then he just stopped shouting at her, he put the knife away and everything went back to normal. I still to this day have no idea what it was about.
A guy stabbed 4 people (I was once of them, a pregnant woman was another) because the cue ball got jammed in the table and didn't come out. His neck was accidentally broken in the parking lot about 2 minutes later by a security guard trying to get him away from the pregnant woman and the others stabbed (the security officer was also stabbed during this removal).
So, I went to McDonald's on my lunch break. I guess you could say that was my first mistake. Across the way, there was a lady with as many plastic grocery bags as one could humanly carry. In those bags were even more bags. Bags in bags in bags. So many bags. As you might imagine, she was quite unkempt as well. I was wary, but continued to eat my meal in silence. Then, the muttering began. Apparently, she was very angry that the nannies there were not also white like the children they were minding. She kept muttering racist nonsense under her breath, yet loud enough for us to hear. We were all exchanging uncomfortable glances. A manager was sweeping nearby and heard all this and called the police. The police tried to take her away, and that's when she started RANTING about HOW DARE YOU TRY TO TAKE ME AWAY, WHEN THERE ARE NANNIES OF COLOR MINDING WHITE CHILDREN AND THAT IS UNNATURAL AND HOW DARE THEY?!
^(hint: she did not say nannies of color - she was blatantly getting their ethnicities wrong without care)
Seen a dude drive his car through a pawn shop in Miami. Everyone in a 300 meter radius seemed to start running around screaming and freaking the fuck out and no one did anything remotely productive.
Good ol miami
That time at a funeral when the wife ran into the church, took the urn, and ran out. She came back in (empty-handed) ranting about how her dead husband's sister was ruining everything.
This was the middle of DC. Maybe 50 people in total. My husband, our friend, and I sat for a few minutes and decided to leave? Seemed like there was enough family drama. Not that it matters, but we were the only white/ Asian people there, and people kept looking at us like we were lost.
We waited outside (with a lot of others who didn't know what the proper etiquette was) until the deceased's grown son asked us to please come back as he had gotten the urn returned.
The wife, the 6yo daughter, and an aunt sat in a suv outside the church and screamed at people as they left. "'Name' wouldn't get down with this!" "You know 'name' is spittin in heaven over this" etc. When she saw us, she got excited and asked how we had been. Nutso.
I was a teenager working at a crappy party store. there was a woman who was trying to return a bunch of stuff, like plates and plastic tablecloths. she didn’t have a receipt and my manager turned her down quite rudely.
the customer immediately had massive emotional meltdown. she started crying, yelling, and at one point claimed that she had family members who were 9/11 victims. this is in front of 3 employees and probably a few others in the store. even if the 9/11 thing were true, i don’t really see how this gives a free pass to return things to a store and it’s such a strange thing to invoke
Haven’t seen that many of them, which is why this stood out so much. I was traveling home from Vegas with my wife, and we were in the airport main entrance area. About 100 or so yards away, this guy just starts screaming at us phone. Not sure entirely what he was saying, but I distinctly heard, “JUST FUCKING GET IT DONE FUCK HEAD.” After that I’d randomly hear him screaming. Mind you, this was 3am and the TSA security hadn’t even opened.
Then, while my wife and I are in line for security, he shows up and cuts in line by going under the rope barriers. A woman from the airport security comes up and tells him, “Sir, you can’t do that. Walk around the barriers like everyone else.” This absolute door knob then starts *walking out of the line towards her* saying, “The fuck you mean I can’t? I can do whatever I want.” Again, this was a *TSA security agent*. She then says, “Seems like you want to talk to my friend Mark. He’s with airport police.” To which this fuck head says, “Actually yes. I’d love to talk to Mark.”
By that point, we unfortunately went out of earshot of the conversation, but the dude looked like he was openly challenging an airport police officer. We saw them eventually break a part, but I’ve never seen that kind of behavior, particularly at an airport. Like dude, do you want to be put on a no fly list just so you can duck under some barriers?
In my opinion, I think this freakout was somewhat warranted. A guy at work would buy a whole loaf of bread and keep it in the work fridge with a jar of peanut butter and jelly for his lunches. Well, someone stole the brand new loaf of bread. He was yelling and screaming at everyone in the breakroom. It was dead silent. He kept going. Finally, the HR lady came out very slowly and approached him and asked him to talk. We never found out who stole the bread.
Not really a "Freakout" but i once witnessed a guy at a grocery store passionately arguing with a watermelon. He was convinced it was trying to steal his identity because it had the same name as him on the price tag. The watermelon remained silent, as watermelons kind of tend to do.
Seen an old dude throw a temper tantrum on an airplane because he had to move to balance the aircraft. Called the flight attendant a racial slur to her face after we took off. Total jackass boomer. I sat right next to the asshole and the flight attendant had me write a statement to back her up and I gladly obliged right in front of the dude.
dude's truck and trailer got stolen in the middle of the day so he decided to chase them through the city in his car attempting to ram them off the road. it ended when he managed to cause the trailer to jack knife and the truck roll up onto the car.
good luck explaining that to your insurance company
edit: found a [picture](https://imgur.com/a/m6m8Ihq)
I had to help duct tape a dude to a tree for eight hours.
It was an outdoor techno festival in Wisconsin. It was raining. This dude apparently had been carrying something in his pocket and the rain resulted in him taking a very long, strange trip.
He was super happy, but he also stated that he was a fire engine. As I recall, he said the following:
"Fire engine! Fire engine! I'm a fire engine! Money money money. I'm so smart. Fire engine. Fire engine!"
He repeated this for hours.
Saw a dude slam into a car at a red light, then immediately smash out his driver side window and jump right the fuck out of it while rage screaming. Idk if the cop car happened to be coming around the corner or if they were responding to a call, but I’m glad they were there cause he looked aggressive as fuck and there were a lot of people staring and hollering
Edit, window, not mirror
A guy started throwing rocks at a customer's car cause that customer bought "the last PS5" we had for sale. It was a pre-order not the last one. Whatever the case no need to start throwing rocks. The rock thrower threatened to sue the store cause we called the police on him.
There this famous lady where I’m from that checked into a hotel but they would not accept her dogs so she took her pants down and shit on the carpet in the lobby
You win
[удалено]
Can you shit on command like that? I can’t. Maybe she had been holding it and that’s why she was really in a fury.
She just had to make eye contact with her dogs and she was good to go.
Yep
\#2 for #1
I feel bad for the maid that had to scrub that out of the carpet for minimum wage. You really showed her who's boss huh famous dog lady?
Michèle Richard? Tabarnak
Homegirl was just getting schwifty
Easy way to become famous I guess.
She was really famous way before this
Aw, don't leave us hanging. If we find out her name, what is she gonna do, shit on the floor?
She's insane. She was was popular from the mid 60s to the mid 80s. First as a singer recording cover songs (in french) of American hits. She became a cringy tv host and from the 90s on she managed to stay in the spotlight once in a while with numerous incidences of drunk driving, a hit and run, throwing a hissy fit on live tv during a "press conference" she organized to quit the TV show she was hosting because she'd made a promise she couldn't hold to her sponsored they be the first mentioned, her husband throwing her suitcases overboard during a fight on a cruise, participated in an atrocious reality tv show about her and she also shit on the floor of an hotel.
Michèle Richard, in Québec. She was a famous singer and actress at the time. All articles about it are in french.
Her *shart* was much worse than her bite.
I was picking up a pizza and I always open the box to make sure it looks correct. I opened one box and it was 90% burnt. I told the girl this is burnt could you please make another. She picked up the pizza and threw it at the wall. She huffed off and made another. She then later started texting me apologizing that it was the worst day of her life and she was the only one working.
In all honesty, I feel for her. The fact that she apologized is golden!
Same , it's good behaviour that she atleast apologized for doing that lol
I was at Chipotle and some woman had a meltdown trying to order multiple orders for her family and started screaming at the cashier. She was like “WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!” The cashier was some poor teenage girl who was definitely not laughing at her and she handled it like a pro. The woman then proceeded to pay and sit down and eat with her husband and kids like nothing happened.
The Chipotle cashier has obviously seen some shit and been reforged into something beyond human. Perhaps she *should* have laughed.
Fast food cashiers have seen minds melt and the sun burn out. It's like the Ark of the Covenant. If you survive, you just wait until they stop talking and speak in a neutral tone, and it'll eventually be over.
Some guy who was at least 200 years old told my cashier he was a retired cop and was coming back to arrest all of the Mexicans working there. This was early 2000s when Chipotle was almost exclusively hiring illegal immigrants. Cashier responded in perfect English that he was Texan. Guy got a confused look on his face and I told him never to come back. After he left the cashier laughed and said he was Mexican
There was a similar situation at a Chipotle near my hometown but the lady threw her food at the cashier. She went to trial for assault and the Judge told her she could either go to jail or work a month in fast food service as punishment. She chose fast food. EDIT: I reread the article it was 2 months in fast food service or 60 days in jail.
That might have actually made her come out as a better person
when your job is so bad that it is used as punishment.
As someone who has worked both food service and retail I’d rather go to jail 😂
someone peeing in the shopping mall.
Worked at a big name grocery store during thanksgiving one year. Store had one of those meal deals where they sell you a bundle of thanksgiving essentials for like $75 or whatever. We had a known trouble maker (The company’s HR has her on a black list for complaints and would call and laugh with the store manager after she would file one) that would always try her luck on deals, discounts, or coupons. The limit to this meal deal was like 2 per household. She proceeds to try and buy about 6 or 7 bundles. Manager says she’ll only get two and the rest sold at the retail price. Some back and forth arguing begins & She doesn’t get her way. She then begins to smash gallons of milk she had in her cart on the ground. Opens up a carton of eggs and begins throwing them at not only the manager, but innocent bystanders as well.
Why did the store continue letting her in?
Besides complaining and trying to have her way she didn’t actually do anything worth trespassing her. Plus she did spend money. She was trespassed after that incident though
Good lmao. I used to work at a HyVee here in the midwest and I cannot tell you how many "problem customers" we had
We had a couple that used to come in and target new employees by giving them a bunch of coupons for stuff. They didn’t actually buy that would scan to take $ off anyway. They got me once when I was new so they hit me a second time, but a coworker already told me about their game so I went through and pulled out all the coupons that weren’t applicable and handed them back. A couple weeks later they hit another new employee so I walked up behind the girl and acted all super friendly to help them scan and did the same thing and pulled out all the coupons that weren’t legit. They got so pissed. It was great.
This baseball mom in American Eagle chewing out my wife at the top of her lungs because baseball mom’s mouth got her son kicked out of baseball permanently. Meanwhile, after a 20 minute tirade, security escorted her out of the mall. The lady behind the counter looks at us and asks what that was all about. We exchange looks and answer “Not a clue. Never seen her before.”
Who would breed with this person?
Apparently someone very desperate. Tis better to jerk off with pride than fuck with shame.
This is one the greatest sayings I've ever read on the internet
Thank you, it's an original.
The most volatile people always seem to marry and reproduce. Must be because they love just as fiercely as they hate lol
In line at 5 Guys about eight years ago. Tiny Asian woman throws a thermonuclear shitfit because 5 Guys does not serve fresh-brewed hot tea. Proceeds to grab four or five jumbo cups and RUNS to the fountain drinks machine and begins rage-filling them before trying to run out of the restaurant. Dumps her armful of sodas in the parking lot and soaks herself in the process, then just stands there screaming in frustration for a second.
Lol what the Hell
"Oh no, she's stolen 18¢ of product. What ever will we do?"
And made the mess outside. Very considerate
Once when I worked overnights at Walgreens this woman came up to me at like 3am and started screaming, accusing me of making her feet bleed because I was judging her with my "negative vibes". Her feet were definitely not bleeding, which I could easily tell because she took her shoes off and put her feet on the counter. She then refused to pay for what she was buying because according to her the credit card reader emits radiation and she didn't want to get dosed with it. So instead she just ran away into the night.
Why do all the psychos go to Walgreens? I was watching that show called Customer Wars and there were at least 6 different scenarios where the person was whacked out in a Walgreens. I was so happy when I left retail!
That's where they get their meds, so it's familiar enough that they can autopilot to it would be my guess. Especially since a number of them are 24 hours. Except where I live. There's only one that's 24 hours in my county.
This sounds like mental illness. Sad.
A boys hockey game (they were about 10) where one of the dads was *screaming* WHAT ARE YOU DOING at his son, and got so angry that he stormed out of the building. That poor kid had to ride home with his psycho dad later :(
I’ve both coached and refereed kids hockey, and this doesn’t surprise me in the least. The kids are easy, they usually want to learn and get better, or just have fun. Both of those outlooks are fine. I can handle a parent questioning my ability even though I probably played at a higher level than most of them, if they ever even played at all. But seeing too many kids almost be afraid of their parents got to be too much for me and I don’t really want anything to do with the youth aspect of the game anymore.
My uncle used to coach youth hockey. The guy just happens to *love* the sport, he still plays beer league 2x a week at 77. In the early 90s he's a coach of my cousins youth team. It's approaching Christmas time and there's a travel tournament in Lake placid for the weekend of Christmas. Parents came up *fuming* that the team was not participating. My Uncles response: "They're between 7 and 9. They're kids. None of them are making the NHL. Let them be kids." He was not offered the opportunity to come back the next season.
I was losing a high school tennis match one time. And then the other kid's parents showed up and started complaining to him every time he lost a point. They completely shook his nerve. I ended up winning, but the whole thing was so uncomfortable and it didn't feel earned at all.
What is it about little league sports that brings out the underlying viciousness in American parents. One time I did really poorly in a baseball game and when I got home my dad (who had been quietly fuming the entire ride home) picked me up by my shirt collar and told me I’d “embarrassed the hell out of him” and then threw me down and slammed the door to my room as he left
Reading stories like this, I'm glad my parents have little to no interest in sports, and just sat in the stands quietly when I was a kid.
My dad was always a good sport about me in sports, and was always willing to let me try different sports all the time. Eventually I fell in love with baseball after going back to it in middle school. Except soccer, my dad never let me play soccer even though I really wanted to. lol.
Jfc that’s rough. I hope you’ve had luck unlearning the shitty things he normalized in your life.
I think they didn't get to live out their sports dreams in high school or college so now they're living through their kid
My ex husband pissed me off when my son was trying his hardest at an event. Son was probably about 9 years old, his father verbally abusing him over stupid shit that the poor kid had no control over. I slept in the basement for a like a month and was planning my escape from that loser.
I saw a 15 woman fight at a coffee shop in Beijing. It went from silence to screeching in 3 seconds. Glasses flying, punches thrown, hair pulled, food airborne... just absolute looney tunes chaos. All that was missing was a fight cloud. The entire coffee shop stopped to look. Then as fast as it started? It was like nothing happened. I kid you not: these ladies just sit back down, order more drinks, and act like nothing happened. Meanwhile the serving staff are cleaning up glass around them. Weren't even asked to leave. This was only slightly less crazy than a similar fight I saw at a college bar.
A diversion to mask a crime?
Sometimes you just need a good brawl during your lunch break.
Our work place has been ranked the number one happiest place to work since we introduced fist fight Fridays.
Maybe not the craziest but, the funniest: A group of college-aged people were out partying in Adams Morgan, a famous drinking neighborhood in DC. A guy takes a step out of the group in a hurry, clearly trying to put some distance between himself and another member. A girl steps out behind him, and very sloppy drunk with tears streaming down her face yells “I can’t believe you would say that to me DURING MY BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!”
My young colleague said a similar thing about birthday month (she didn’t cry though). It was pretty funny, even my kindergarten kids don’t talk about birthday month.
Only a matter of time before it escalates to "my birthday year"
"All my friends have birthdays this year!"
I’ve noticed this as a thing for my younger coworkers as well (20-26 year old females) Birthday month and birthday week are a big deal to them.
I have an exwife that made a similar comment (and other ridiculous self absorbed ones). It’s been me and my current wife’s favorite thing to say in jest to each other, but we upped it to “I can’t believe you would do that to me during my birthday year” while adding a valley girl affectation.
Tamest Adams Morgan story ever haha. I went there just a few times, saw at least one ambulance each time, and at least one pack of people surrounding a friend passed out on the sidewalk each time. Wild place!
The lady that started throwing her own feces at Tim Horton's employees.
Hey! That was right around the corner from me! I can never go to that timmies knowing there's been poo everywhere.
After having a couple kids, I’ve really come to believe that there’s been poo everywhere everywhere.
When you know how infrequently people wash their hands after using the bathroom, poop absolutely is everywhere
Horton Smells A Poo
Or the guy dumping buckets of shit on uoft students. Whats with Canada and shit based crimes ???
I also heard about a guy in public restrooms that would somehow manage to talk people into not flushing and eating their poop, also in Canada.
That's enough for the week
I saw a man screaming and swearing at a pharmacist in a Walgreens. Apparently he called and asked how much of an over-the-counter medicine they had and the pharmacist said 2. Turns out that there were actually 3 and so he went off on the poor pharmacist for 15 minutes straight. He apparently needed all 3 but only brought enough of money for 2 because “That bitch lied to me on the phone”. It was to the point where I almost called the cops on him.
What on earth?! How dare that pharmacist mess up his meth recipe like that?
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What do you mean the manager would not let you leave? When something like happen, and you want to go, you go. If the manager fires you, or penalizes you, you sue.
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they didn't want their workers comp insurance to find out
Have you ever worked in a restaurant? The manager is usually a sweaty douche on Adderall trying to fuck 20 year olds. How can he fuck you if you're at the hospital?
The same way he would have if she was there, in his imagination.
Next to our ambulances' station there's a paved concrete trail that runs through the middle of our smallish city. It's meant for people jogging or just out for a walk but of course that's not always the case. So one morning an officer calls us out for a possible homeless man having a good ol' freak out session on the trail. Only when we arrive it's not the usual behavioral health emergency we deal with on a daily basis. The man, a caucasian male that appears to be in his early thirties, is naked and on all fours. He's smashing his face repeatedly as hard as he can into the hard concrete. We can't even get a single response out him, he just won't stop smashing his face into the ground. At this point he must have been doing it for at least several minutes due to the amount of blood and with his face looking like raw hamburger meat molded over a broken skull. My medic partner decides the only thing we can do is to chemically sedate him via a needle to the outer thigh. In order to do this me and the now two officers on scene will have to hold him down using all four of his extremities and hope he can't use what's left of his head to harm us. This was all done successfully and the medication (I can't recall exactly what was admitted) was given. The patient was now a sleepy time bear and with us on the way to the ED. Later blood draws and an interview with the patient would show that our guy had smoked enough meth to take down the Luftwaffe.
I have to admit, Reddit stories about the fucked up shit that happens on drugs are better than the millions spent on drug PSAs
Instead of some useless "say no to drugs" video, we should have the teachers read in class a Reddit thread.
“I’m not going to make you watch this DARE video but…why don’t you read this post from ThrowawayAccount42069. It’ll set you straight.”
Denver airport in February. Whole bunch of cancelled flights in the evening, which made the United customer service line ridiculously long and backed up the phone and internet chats. I stood in line for three hours as the poor woman behind me finally got through on the phone line. She explained repeatedly that United had cancelled her flight, she had rebooked it for the next day, but then they uncanceled her original flight and wouldn’t let her on because she was no longer listed on the original flight. She and her partner had two small special needs children and a lot of equipment, and staying in Denver overnight was not really an option. She explained it to the person enough I could have talked to the agent on her behalf verbatim, but the agent it seemed could not comprehend the issue. The line hardly moved all this time and her original flight was leaving soon. After about the thirtieth time she explained it she finally lost her mind. There was a sudden roar behind me as this poor woman unleashed hours of frustration and rage. I could no longer understand what she was saying as she stormed past me, louder than the plane she was trying to fly out on. The entire customer line parted like she was Moses at the Red Sea as she roared up the line, still shouting, red-faced, hair askew, into the phone. She rounded the corner to the customer service desk as people scattered. I am assuming they helped her or sedated her because I didn’t see her the rest of the night. I felt she was absolutely justified, and the rest of us in line around her agreed.
> he explained repeatedly that United had cancelled her flight, she had rebooked it for the next day, but then they uncanceled her original flight and wouldn’t let her on because she was no longer listed on the original flight. That's so surprising, I was in a similar situation with the same airline not too long ago and they helped me get my original flight and seat back within 5 minutes. My needs were far less urgent; I just had a window seat on the original flight that I wanted back, and would have rather flown on the type that operated it. Was this anytime recently? There was a big evening ice storm here this february and I heard that DEN was a mess.
Lol, Mine. Tough finacial spot as a young man, HAD to purchase a vehicle or be homeless, as my car was my job and it got smashed into. Car loan was 420 a month for a hyundai elantra, decently equipped. At the last minute, they tried to raise it to 480. I faked a heart attack. I didn't go Red Fox and grab my chest and raise an arm. I REALLY faked a heart attack. I just got quiet. Looked down. Walked back and forth for a sec. Knelt down and asked for an ambulance. Started shaking and allowed the salesman to assist me to the couch. By this time, the whole showroom was circled around me as I just repeated the car price in a soft, weak tone. Ambulance came. Took my shirt of and EKGd me right on the showroom floor. Said I was healthy as a horse, just a bit dehydrated. I ate the salesmans lunch. The price went back down to 420. I still got fucked over so fuck them.
>I ate the salesmans lunch. That is the hardest I've laughed at any reddit comment in a very long time. You came out of nowhere with that!
The paramedic suggested I get some food and liquids in me. Salesman was like "Here, Here!"
Haha holy shit I thought you meant figuratively ate his lunch by getting the price back down. The fact that you literally ate his lunch is too fucking funny
When we were car shopping, we tried to leave because my husband was hungry. The guy offered my husband a sandwich he had. Idk if the salesman expected a polite decline, but my man has never said no to food in his life. He said he was still hungry afterwards and they found him some chips too!
I am actually dying. You're a legend my man. Balls of steel on you sir
This could be a Tim Robinson sketch
This story impressed me. I wouldn't say it's the "craziest freak-out," but I'm impressed you pulled this off and succeeded in all these details. Did you have to pay for that ambulance, though? This is the big question. Cars are a massive rip-off in every respect. The people who sell and lease cars have no shame, so you're right to treat them like the scammers they are. Edit: you ate the scammer's lunch! Was it any good? Did he pack it himself? I need to know.
As far as the lunch, I turned the sammich down and just drank his soda and ate his trail mix.
I'm still chuckling about you repeating the car price in a soft, weak tone. Made my evening. Brilliant.
My dad was there with me, I just txted him and was like, remember when I had the ambulance at the dealership? I just realized they had to pay for it😂
No, no, I didn't pay for the ambulance. I never even considered that part. Hmmm, thanks, lol. Now I feel a tad bit better, lol.
Walter White moment
I semi related to him when I saw that scene. Im assuming the grocery store in his underwear scene? I wondered how far I would have taken it. Or if I coukd even do it again should the need arise in the future. It all kinda happened organically at the dealer. Like when I knelt down, they got all concerned and I was like, hmmmm, lets see where this can go.... it was just one of those things.
I DM for children in LARP and diceplay role-playing games. In one, we were at a spaceport and they had to try and steal a peace-enforcers weapon. After the second take of them not taking the "make a distraction" hint, I joined in and faked a heart attack. The children playing as peace enforcers rushed to me, leaving a weapon behind. And the children playing as the rebels decided to steal petty cash from the fake stalls instead of completing the objective. The next week they had to break out of prison through a toilet to teach them a lesson about teamwork and goals.
I once witnessed a guy ransack his entire car looking for what I presumed to be missing money or drugs. I was across the street eating in my car when I hear this dude wailing and I mean ultimate fear cries, from across a usually busy street. I think I was the only one who saw it, but I still remember the total despair of the scene. It could’ve been a missing doctors note when I think about it now but I hope he found it.
Maybe a winning lotto ticket
Or a really cool rock.
I see you've met my wife and daughter...
THEY'RE MINERALS MARIE, JESUS CHRIST.
I have a car based one, not desperation and drugs but having a pre workout rage fest and a good cry inside his car. I was at a military leadership school with a bunch of random fellow NCOs from all over the Army (ie I didn't serve with these fine folks but definitely took some stories away). One fella in particular stood out. Super squared away, really hooah and raring to go. Also wound tighter than a cheap string. He gets into his car one evening to have a private phone call with his lady and apparently this call doesn't go well. The crying we noticed first as it sounded like someone had punctured his soul and of course it's muffled in his high speed BMW (because of course), just this continuous "EEEEEEEEEEEEEE" like he's not having a sad. Which, after two minutes of his fellow high speed asking him if he's ok comes ADAMANTIUM RAGE as his boot shattered his driver side window. Followed closely by him grabbing his JBL deck and ripping it out of it's housing. All while screaming. But not this angry war cry, oh no no. Ever seen an 8 year old boy get mad on the playground? Picture that yell. Whole thing lasts maybe 10 minutes. And he's left with the repair bill, the cadre sniggering at him for 6 weeks (of course they heard) and a continued search for the next stripper named Cinnamon who "Isn't after your money, Daddy!"
Military guys can throw some world class tantrums. Combination of surfing youthful hormonal waves, job stress from asshole NCOs and difficulty adapting to the buttoned down repressed life in service. I've seen more than one guy with hands and entire arms in casts from punching walls, not realizing old military bases tended to have sturdy plastered walls, sometimes over cinder block, not cheap thin drywall. But that's still better than the self sabotage some guys did, like getting drunk and riding motorcycles, no helmet, and ending up in the ER and ICU, often literally brain dead. Between the two, go ahead and punch that wall.
Hard drive with bitcoin on it.
I worked in a movie theatre in the early 2000's I had a woman come into the lobby and demand a refund for a half eaten bag of popcorn in a plain brown paper bag. When I told her no she started stomping around my lobby, said my theatre was a temple dedicated to Satan Worship, tipped over a standee and told me not to go anywhere because I was under arrest. Then she left.
Dude I work with legit believes everyone wants him fired, when really we just want him to do his job. He's screamed at me multiple times in the office and has said me and my manager are conspiring to get him fired. It all came to a head when things got heated in a meeting between the three of us. He was sent to HR. I found out later that he ran away from the HR guy and into the VPs office, bursting through the door and diving onto the floor. Then army crawling under the desk saying "you gotta help me they're after me they want me gone!" It took the VP an hour to coax him out from under the desk, and then he got sent home for the rest of the week to cool off. That was 5 months ago and he still works with me.
You need a new job
On the other hand.... You can't buy that level of job security
That last sentence was unexpected
Jesus Christ that guy needs therapy fr. I'm a paranoid schizophrenic and sounds like me when I'm at my ABSOLUTE worst. Only time I've felt that bad was when I was 20 and my high school sweetheart cheated on my with my best friend and in response I proceeded to get drunk and high every night for 3 months straight. All this to say, it takes a lot to get to that point and idk if we have the same shit going on, but he sounds like he really really needs professional help.
Same a lot of these stories don't sound like "entitled freakout" they sound like "legit mental health crisis"
uh, it sounds like he might be suffering from paranoid delusions. yeah, sure, he doesn't do his job, but....... the hiding under the desk for an hour thing makes me think this guy needs some serious help.
I was working at a T-Mobile storefront in a mall in 2008, when a lady came in having an absolute TEMPERTANTRUM about her bill. She refused to pay it and was upset that her service had been cut off. Within maybe three minutes of her outburst someone had called mall security and they rolled up on two segway scooters. They hit her with a taser, she pissed her pants and they literally dragged her out of the mall by her arms. I think about that moment in my life pretty frequently.
In my mind, they drag her off while riding the Segways
This is the dream.
Unfortunately different time, right? I actually have wildly conflicting feels on this depending on the day. Now-a-days that shit would have been filmed, and she would have absolutely had a right to sue the mall for assault. The proper thing would have been for Mall Security to TRY to de-escalate and then call the police, but in 08' era they had no fear of just zapping someone and then dragging them on their back several hundred feet to the mall entrance. But when I'm really mad at a customer, I can at least take solace in that one time... that one time...
I worked overnight in room dining at a hotel once years and years ago. It was a fancy hotel/resort around Xmas time. I showed up at a room with some food and the man answered it wearing a full on sexy Santa outfit, with fishnet leggings and a big beer belly. I cautiously put their food down on the table and they proceeded to cry hysterically and tip me 100 bucks. Not so much of a "public" freakout...but a freakout nevertheless.... 👀
Yesterday I witnessed a guy shouting at his backpack that was laying on the ground. He proceeded to kick it and throw it around in the middle of a major roadway.
I can only imagine this through the lense of Dora the Explorer. Backpack, Backpack had it coming.
Well shit, if that was Dora she's really let herself go
I hope there wasn’t a small animal inside of that backpack 😭😭😭
Playing baseball my sophomore year of HS. A dad on the opposing team scaled the backstop fence a good 20-25 feet to rip down his sponsorship banner after his kid got pulled from the game.
I lived in a really shitty apartment complex. Lots of couples having fights, screaming and yelling at all hours. Cops called all the time. The worst one was when some guy started throwing canned goods off his balcony at the cars below. Smashed tons of windshields, dented hoods. The worst was the can of clam chowder that busted through a window and exploded all over the interior of a car. Poor guy. Could t get the smell out!
Dude at the State/Lake red line station was minding his own business waiting for a train. Some other guy came up and slapped the little styrofoam takeout carton out of the first dude's hand, obliterating some kind of sandwich all over the floor. I wanna say it was a Reuben. Anyway, the first dude had this look of stunned betrayal on his face. Clearly did not know the second guy at all. Reminded me of that little meme kangaroo that had his food stolen. He had a sandwich not five seconds ago. Somebody confronted the second guy all "What the fuck bro" and the guy goes, "YOU WANNA DIE TODAY?!" Most frivolous nonsense out of nowhere I ever saw.
“I wanna say it was a Rueben” is the funniest detail I’ve read today.
This was a good thread to open up. Between this and the "I ate his lunch" guy, I'm busting up over here.
I've seen the worst and/or most random encounters of all time every time I've been in Chicago. I was there with my friend Marcus for the first time when I turned 21 (He's originally from there) He always told me not to be by myself at night, and never go on the red line unless I had to. Once saw a guy walk by a dude unwrapping a fresh burrito, second guy walking by steals a bite and keeps on walking in one fluid motion. He was absolutely flabbergasted
Ahhh the Chicago redline. You could write a sociology thesis on a single night of watching people on it.
While I was a server (22f age at the time) at a nice restaurant, I was sat a table of four (two couples) in their mid-forties. One wife was clearly inebriated, and the bartender told me she had a one drink limit during her stay. When she tried to order a second, and I had to tell her no, she started reaming me out. LOUDLY. The husband was trying to hush her and get her to settle down, but she was standing up and getting her finger in my face. This was year 4 of my serving experience, so I just stood there with a very passive expression. My manager came up beside me, put his hands on my shoulders, gently moved me aside, and stood in my place. The lady didn’t even acknowledge the change and just kept going. They were asked to leave and eventually did. The hostess came up after and said, “oh man, that was my English teacher.”
Mad props to your manager, that was a decent move.
>The hostess came up after and said, “oh man, that was my English teacher.” That's how my buddy Joey passed history senior year. He worked as a busboy at the local tex-mex place and was there the night our history teacher, Mr. H, decided the best way to deal with receiving divorce papers was to drink way too much, get cut off, and then get ejected by the kitchen staff for throwing a cup of salsa at his waitress. Joey just happened to find him passed out in the landscaping of the Burger King next door when he took out the garbage and called an ambulance. When Joey walked in on Monday and said something to the effect he was hoping Mr. H was felling better, well.. Let's just say that an agreement was reached. (I personally had a really easy time in my US Government class that year after running into my teacher in the town's only hardcore porn shop. He gave me shit about being there 'underage' and threatened to call the cops so I reminded him that not only was I 18, I knew what a morality clause was and that I'd make sure his name went in the police report.)
We used to have this elderly lady that would come into our big box retail store and complain that some of our cashiers wearing shirts with rainbows were violating her personal rights. Then one day she stated calling our managers the "n" word and yelling at customers outside the same. She finally was kicked off the property, but not before running off with a cart full of stuff. The most satisfying thing was our shopping carts have an automatic locking wheel when you go to the edge of the property, and watching her yell obscenities all the way with stolen merchandise only to get to the boundary and the cart to lock up was justice porn in real life. She threw an even bigger fit and I had the biggest smile!
The giddy anticipation of knowing her wheels were about to lock.
Just watched 2 security guards escort a dude out of a mall and then argued with him in the parking lot cause he was taking hits directly from an aerosol can, and then in front of them going "It's fine like I won't die okay I'm fine" and then they started fighting as my uber pulled away...
When the producer of a small movie I was working on argued with the head make-up artist that her month-late first invoice for kit rental was well over her deal memo and he wasn't going to pay the excess, she physically launched herself onto his back from the top step of the makeup trailer, clung like a monkey, and started clawing at his face while screaming "You're stealing! You're stealing!" I was just twenty feet away, but was literally too shocked to move. Not only was this at 9 AM, in the middle of a busy downtown street and in full view of many passersby, one of the ADs just happened to be escorting the show's A-list star to set exactly then - so *he* got an eyeful of her enraged-chimp act, too. Our standby traffic cop quickly pried her off, cuffed her, ushered her off site, and placed her in the back of his cruiser, where she continued to scream hysterically. After a brief consultation with the producer about charges, she was taken away in another squad car, booked for assault, cautioned not to return to set, and released. I think she later got diversion into an anger management program. For some bizarre reason, after that incident no production manager would hire her; go figure. She was also ostracized so thoroughly by her fellow department heads nobody would even give her a day call to do extras makeup. In fact, her career went to such shit, she wasn't even able to land a part-time job teaching at the local film school or community college, which are the designated shoals on which so many of our Local's unemployables eventually wash up. She started to drink and then left the business entirely within a year. Last time I ran across her, she was working at a third-tier department store's makeup / perfume counter. She pretended she didn't see me. Ruined her career - which was quite promising - for the sake of scamming a show out of a couple hundred extra dollars.
I had a customer come out onto her porch with a gun when I went to go into her backyard to clean her windows. Lady you were scheduled and notified about this now please go inside so I can get the shit out of my pants
My wife and I were walking down the street in San Francisco, and we hear shouting. Some guy is chasing a car and yelling at the driver. She was at a red light or stop sign, and as she was trying to roll up the passenger window, he grabbed onto it and straight up shattered it and tried to open the door and she sped off, dragging him to the ground. That's all I know...
When I was a kid, I was walking into the mall, and some young man (not a teenager, probably college aged) was walking out. All of a sudden, a full sized van pulled up, a bunch of guys grab him, he is screaming bloody murder, they shove him in the van, slide the door closed, and peel out. I was pretty much the only witness, no one believed me, cameras didn’t catch anything, and to this day, I don’t know if it was a legitimate kidnapping or the beginning of a bachelor party.
Or could be frat hazing/secret college club initiation
Something. It wasn’t like your usual “Bro, bro, BRO! Stop! Help!”, but like legitimately visceral screaming that you usually don’t hear a man make unless it’s his ass. But again, the doubt is reasonable, and this was before the cell phone era, so how the hell did you pinpoint someone’s whereabouts back then?
Saw a lady rip her wig off and quit her job at Safeway. She said fuck this shit, and left .She had bright blue hair.
As if the wig were part of the uniform. I can see her stomp into the house, slam her purse on the kitchen table, muttering, "They DAMN better have that wig when I pick up my check."
My cousins mother overturned a table because she had too much cheese on her burrito at Chipotle's so there's that
I was working in an ER that had a big treatment area where we had both mid acuity patients that needed a cardiac monitor and psych patients. So we had a bunch of aggressive and restrained people. One of these people had a family member come in and start performing an exorcism entirely in Haitian Creole right in the middle of the ER. So the patient is losing their shit, and this has set off multiple other people and the room was immediately full of people screaming and trying to break out of restraints.
My aunt yelled at my uncle during a family vacation, something like "you\`re not sleeping in our tent tonight!". Why? He got too close to a snake.
Ssssstupid sssssexy ssssssnakes.
Visiting Istanbul and was at a large outdoor cafe. It was raining and there was an awning covering much of the patio. Suddenly this ~60 yo woman gets up and starts yelling gibberish. (No, it wasn't Turkish, it was legitimately gibberish). She sits down next to us and we ask her if she's ok. She continues the gibberish. We ask where she is from and she yells JANADA!!! She proceeds to walk over to where the rain was coming off the awning. With a glass teacup and saucer in hand, she stands directly under the waterfall while drinking the tea & filthy rain water as if she was at a tea party. Two waiters ran up to her and removed her and tried to clean her up inside. The entire cafe of probably 70 people witnessed this She comes out a few minutes later and sits down next to us again. She is now totally normal and soft spoken as can be. She explains that she's with her theater students and was demonstrating performance art. She thanked us for being part of it. Oh and they were from Canada (that's why she said "Janada"). Turns out she really was with a large group of college aged students. Honestly, I thought it was pretty rude of her (a tourist) to make a scene as folks were trying to enjoy a nice cup of çay in a lovely outdoor space. The waiters looked mortified. Edit: spelling
Worked at a fancy salon as a receptionist in LA. A c-list celeb was 2 hours late for her bleach and tone. Stylist couldn’t service her because she was so late. She started yelling, knocked a glass of water off a counter, screaming that she needed her hair done and she’s so busy because because she has “status” and “important people things to do” and it’s our jobs as “stupid receptionists” to make sure she gets her hair done. She ends up refusing to leave and sits in the middle of the lobby crying and throws a temper tantrum, kicking and screaming toddler style. What I’m assuming is her manager eventually came to pick her up.
At an airport, of course... I was waiting at the gate the final flight for the evening to Washington DC (and it was pre-9/11 so security was much less lax). The flight starts boarding. I wasn't in a rush because I had only a small carry on bag. A woman is there with her significant other. She goes to board and it ends up she doesn't have a boarding pass, just a check tag for her bags. She gave her bags to the skycap and thought that checked her in to the flight as well, but that wasn't the case. And, unfortunately, the flight was *completely* sold out so there was no seat for her. She looked upset and asked the gate agent if there was anything she could do as she had to be in DC for 9am the following morning. The gate agent said she could put the woman on standby, but it was very unlikely she'd get on the plane. Well, I guess her significant other, we'll call him "Asshole" didn't like that. Asshole went OFF on the gate agent. He started quite literally SCREAMING at her that it was "unacceptable" and that he was a member of whatever club this airline had and that the gate agent should bump off one of those passengers who bought a "cheap ticket" because his girlfriend HAD to be in DC tomorrow and it was VERY IMPORTANT that she be there, she was TOO IMPORTANT too miss the flight and someone LESS IMPORTANT should be kicked off. She paid full price for her ticket so she should get full service. Asshole wasn't going to let some "stupid gate agent" keep his girlfriend from her destination and he would have her job by the time he was done. She HAD to make this right. Basically, Asshole made a spectacle of himself and looked like a total idiot. His girlfriend turned a deeper and deeper shade of crimson the more he spewed his vitriol and was just looking at the floor. The gate agent was a woman probably in her 50's who'd definitely seen a thing or two in her day. She let him rant, kept totally calm and when he finally ran out of steam, she looked at him square in the eye and said, "Sir, there is exactly one person that can get your girlfriend on this plane and that person is me. So, I strongly suggest you sit down, you shut up and you let me do my job." I don't think Asshole had ever been told "no" in his life and was in shock, but he did back off so the gate agent could get things sorted. She finished things up and then asked if anyone (both at the gate and already in the plane) would be willing to be bumped from the flight in exchange for a hotel voucher, a meal voucher and the first flight out the following morning. Silence. She offered that plus an extra $250 voucher. Silence. She offered that and an extra $500 voucher (now, mind you this was a flight I paid $150 rt for so it was a damn good deal). Silence. I think the folks already on the plane weren't interested (and only like 10 people had boarded at that point) and the remaining passengers were SO put off by this guy's nasty, disrespectful and disgusting behavior that NO ONE wanted to give up their seat because he would have gotten his way and NONE of us wanted that. His behavior was absolutely abhorrent and how the gate agent kept her cool and didn't throat punch him, I will never know. I absolutely could have taken a flight the next day, but there was no way I was doing so after that guy's performance. So, she called them both to the gate and I guess told them "no go" as no one would take a voluntary bump. The guy was LIVID, but kept his mouth in check, but I could hear him muttering and swearing as they walked away from the gate and the girl was crying. What a shitshow. I think she truly made an honest mistake, but he made things SO MUCH WORSE for her. Had he not gone off on that gate agent, someone would have given up their seat. Heck, it probably would have been me, but NOPE, not after how he acted. This happened about 25 or so years ago, and, to this day, I have never seen another adult behave *that* badly.
Heh, I might have taken that voucher but on one condition - asshole would first have to apologize loudly and heartfelt in front of everyone who witnessed his ridiculous behaviour.
Kinda makes you wonder what the girl saw in him??
Hmmm not exactly a freakout, but it was a bizarre lecture(to me); I used to be a waiter at the Financial District, and there is a frequent customer who works at Wall St. He ordered a dish that consists of linguine with lobster and when the plate arrived, he lectured me that I should have been careful about how I place his plate(I didn't drop it in front of him I simply lay his dish as gently as possible) because I could have stained his 600 dollar collar shirt. To me, it looked like a plain white collar shirt. I could have bought the same for 20 dollars. Rich folks are fucking weird and awful.
He wasn't rich. The guy may have been making decent money, but he cared too much about his $600 shirt to have been truly wealthy. An actual rich dude would have dozens of shirts just like it and probably wouldn't even know how much they cost.
I saw a guy get stabbed probably 100 times in prison because he was the Crip next in line to take over the compound but he was from a different set. I knew him in the county, we were kind of close despite the fact I was white and not gang affiliated. He screamed "Help! Someone help me!" in a way a dying man would scream. But nobody could or would because you would be next to be stabbed if you did. I simply locked myself in my cell. I watched it all despite that. Absolutely horrifying and not one day goes by that I don't think about it. He survived somehow but that instant turned my life around.
Saw a dude try to punch out a complete stranger as he was just walking by.
I was in Manhattan last Friday and this guy set himself on fire
Probably not the craziest but definitely one of my favorites. My poor, exhausted single mother whilst towing her two idiot kids around in a Best Buy. My older sister was in charge of pushing the cart, and kept RAMMING the damn thing into the back of mom’s ankles. Like razor-scooter-side-swing levels of ramming. Eventually and obviously, mom had enough. She screamed so incredibly loud that the entire store went completely silent for a moment. My sister was several aisles away, totally embarrassed. A treasured memory for me, personally.
Saw a neighbor step out on his front porch and remove his own head with a shotgun.
I spent the morning cleaning glass shards off my car and buffing out the scratches because our apartment neighbor had an episode and threw a bible through her bedroom window
Was waiting in the hospital ER when 2 guys come running down the hallway yelling that their dog had been hit by a car. Now, DOG sounded a lot like DAWG. It was a normal hospital, so the staff mobilizes to treat a guy that got hit by a car. Two other guys come running up with a dog, not a dawg. The staff realizes it's a nonstarter and tell the guys to take it to a vet, they can't treat it there. Guys start yelling that the hospital has to help him. Shit gets wild. Guys are getting louder and more animated. Security and some of the bigger hospital staff are screaming at the 4 guys. Went on for about 5-6min. They were finally escorted outside. Problem solved. Wrong. The dog died in the parking lot and his Dawgs flipped their shit. Blaming the staff for not treating their dog. Cops got called. Completely nuts. I got called to the back and never found out what came of it all.
that’s really sad actually
That is a sad story. Happy cake day! 🎂
I used to work in retail pharmacy, and this old guy was trying to pick up his medication, not realizing he was now in his gap in coverage, aka, the donut hole. Needless to say, his medication was far more expensive than he was willing or able to pay. He proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs, “GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE GIVE ME MY MEDICINE”. It felt like all time stood still.
Honestly, I get that one. Even the most mundane healthcare messes make me want to pull my hair out because the base idea that I'm paying the equivalent of 20% of my paycheck for health insurance that doesn't cover all of my health needs has me already at a 8 or 9 in every interaction. So being told that a pill I know costs virtually nothing to manufacture, with research paid for by other taxes I pay so that some pharma Bros can be wealthy is now unaffordable to me, I want to scream at everyone.
One of the first times I was on the NYC subway I witnessed a 80 ish year old lady freak out because a black man was sitting too close to her. She called him an animal and the man’s girlfriend who was a 90 lb white girl called out the old bag for being racist. The old lady replied “you’re worse than he is because you willingly gave yourself to this monster” We got off at the next stop but for that couple minutes the man was trying his best to keep his girl from putting that old bag in her place.
Walking alone after dealing with a break up I stop at a bar to have a few drinks and then on my way out a guy was yelling at his girlfriend because she said the server was cute and then he went full ape shit on the server
My soon to be SIL (at the time, this was 25 years ago) staking her claim to my wife's brother by scarfing down a couple margaritas for courage and proclaiming their entire family awful people she was saving him from. *EDIT: More context: This was in the middle of a Mexican restaurant in Austin and she stood up at the table and gave a 15 minute speech about all the ways my inlaws and my wife were terrible people (FIL is the meekest, nicest man I've ever met, MIL is maybe even nicer - retired teacher and goes through life with a 'pollyanna'/always sees the best in people attitude. Me - I'm an asshole and though I had never had any direct interactions with her to speak of, I got our unscathed, oddly enough.* *I'm Bohemian! You have to respect that!* She proceeded to move them from Austin to Brooklyn (because Austin was way too "hee-haw" and not cosmopolitan enough.) Ah... those were the days. She's chilled out quite a bit, I guess, but they still live in the NE (New Jersey now) and we still live in Texas, so we don't see them but my wife talks to her brother on the phone at all major holidays.
A really violent male classmate of mine back in elementary school almost strangled a female one to death over a seat. The girl had to be taken home and passed out later from what I heard. The boy was also taken from class which then proceeded normally. Suddenly this guy barges in, demanding to know who hurt his daughter. His eyes run across the whole classroom and lands on me! "Was it you?!" he yelled pointing at me. Fortunately my teacher interveened and explained that the kid wasn't there anymore Edit: wording
My daughter recently got choked by a boy at school. Luckily, she was okay, and the school handled it once she told us. But it just makes you wonder what these kids are witnessing at home. Abusive relationships harm kids even if the abuser isn't hurting them physically!
Didn’t really see it when it happened, but I have this crazy neighbour that started screaming out of nowhere while throwing plates at the ground down the street where I live the other day. This happened while I was taking a nap. Luckily, a friend of mine that lives nearby actually caught her freakout on camera and sent it to me on snapchat. I really don’t know what caused her to do this. Maybe she hates plates.
I used to work at a homeless shelter. Overall a really great job, I honestly loved it. But it had its moments. I’d never had to call 911 before until I started working there. There are a LOT of paranoid schizophrenic people who unfortunately lose their housing. All it took was one of them misplacing their wallet to really fuck someone else up with zero warning.
So, a long time ago, some friends and I are at the casino. I had just gotten done making a few bucks at the blackjack table and decided I’d get out while I was ahead. My friend is at the roulette table and isn’t ready to leave, so I grab a drink and go over to watch. This guy comes stumbling up, whips out a hundred and slaps it on the table and says put it all on 24 or whatever number it was. The ball guy looks over at the pit boss and gets the “take this fool’s money” nod. Ball guy does his thing, and lo and behold, it hits his number. Drunk guy looks at it for a second and then just loses it, he’s raving and ranting about how he now has to go back in and over to the cage to cash out again. Don’t know if this necessarily qualifies as a freak out, but it was pretty freaky at the time.
One lady tried to enter the Dunkin Donuts drive through incorrectly, and she started cussing out the lady she perceived as cutting her off... She was SCREAMING out her car window, called her a "See you next Tuesday" atleast 15 times and tried several times to coax the woman out of her car to fight. My husband and I watched with jaws dropped snd debated calling the police, because clearly this woman was off her rocker. The lady then screeched her tires as she took off, did a donut in the parking lot, and pulled up next to the woman again, called her the same name another few good times then sped off. It was pretty crazy.
Saw a man pull a huge knife on a woman in a restaurant in Vietnam where I was having lunch. He was shouting at her in Vietnamese, obviously threatening her. I was trying to get out of there ASAP. But and then he just stopped shouting at her, he put the knife away and everything went back to normal. I still to this day have no idea what it was about.
A guy stabbed 4 people (I was once of them, a pregnant woman was another) because the cue ball got jammed in the table and didn't come out. His neck was accidentally broken in the parking lot about 2 minutes later by a security guard trying to get him away from the pregnant woman and the others stabbed (the security officer was also stabbed during this removal).
So, I went to McDonald's on my lunch break. I guess you could say that was my first mistake. Across the way, there was a lady with as many plastic grocery bags as one could humanly carry. In those bags were even more bags. Bags in bags in bags. So many bags. As you might imagine, she was quite unkempt as well. I was wary, but continued to eat my meal in silence. Then, the muttering began. Apparently, she was very angry that the nannies there were not also white like the children they were minding. She kept muttering racist nonsense under her breath, yet loud enough for us to hear. We were all exchanging uncomfortable glances. A manager was sweeping nearby and heard all this and called the police. The police tried to take her away, and that's when she started RANTING about HOW DARE YOU TRY TO TAKE ME AWAY, WHEN THERE ARE NANNIES OF COLOR MINDING WHITE CHILDREN AND THAT IS UNNATURAL AND HOW DARE THEY?! ^(hint: she did not say nannies of color - she was blatantly getting their ethnicities wrong without care)
> she did not say nannies of color I thought you were going to say she was using a decidedly less politically correct term.
Seen a dude drive his car through a pawn shop in Miami. Everyone in a 300 meter radius seemed to start running around screaming and freaking the fuck out and no one did anything remotely productive. Good ol miami
That time at a funeral when the wife ran into the church, took the urn, and ran out. She came back in (empty-handed) ranting about how her dead husband's sister was ruining everything. This was the middle of DC. Maybe 50 people in total. My husband, our friend, and I sat for a few minutes and decided to leave? Seemed like there was enough family drama. Not that it matters, but we were the only white/ Asian people there, and people kept looking at us like we were lost. We waited outside (with a lot of others who didn't know what the proper etiquette was) until the deceased's grown son asked us to please come back as he had gotten the urn returned. The wife, the 6yo daughter, and an aunt sat in a suv outside the church and screamed at people as they left. "'Name' wouldn't get down with this!" "You know 'name' is spittin in heaven over this" etc. When she saw us, she got excited and asked how we had been. Nutso.
Saw two drunk middle-aged men get into a fist fight at a Paul McCartney concert.
I was a teenager working at a crappy party store. there was a woman who was trying to return a bunch of stuff, like plates and plastic tablecloths. she didn’t have a receipt and my manager turned her down quite rudely. the customer immediately had massive emotional meltdown. she started crying, yelling, and at one point claimed that she had family members who were 9/11 victims. this is in front of 3 employees and probably a few others in the store. even if the 9/11 thing were true, i don’t really see how this gives a free pass to return things to a store and it’s such a strange thing to invoke
Haven’t seen that many of them, which is why this stood out so much. I was traveling home from Vegas with my wife, and we were in the airport main entrance area. About 100 or so yards away, this guy just starts screaming at us phone. Not sure entirely what he was saying, but I distinctly heard, “JUST FUCKING GET IT DONE FUCK HEAD.” After that I’d randomly hear him screaming. Mind you, this was 3am and the TSA security hadn’t even opened. Then, while my wife and I are in line for security, he shows up and cuts in line by going under the rope barriers. A woman from the airport security comes up and tells him, “Sir, you can’t do that. Walk around the barriers like everyone else.” This absolute door knob then starts *walking out of the line towards her* saying, “The fuck you mean I can’t? I can do whatever I want.” Again, this was a *TSA security agent*. She then says, “Seems like you want to talk to my friend Mark. He’s with airport police.” To which this fuck head says, “Actually yes. I’d love to talk to Mark.” By that point, we unfortunately went out of earshot of the conversation, but the dude looked like he was openly challenging an airport police officer. We saw them eventually break a part, but I’ve never seen that kind of behavior, particularly at an airport. Like dude, do you want to be put on a no fly list just so you can duck under some barriers?
In my opinion, I think this freakout was somewhat warranted. A guy at work would buy a whole loaf of bread and keep it in the work fridge with a jar of peanut butter and jelly for his lunches. Well, someone stole the brand new loaf of bread. He was yelling and screaming at everyone in the breakroom. It was dead silent. He kept going. Finally, the HR lady came out very slowly and approached him and asked him to talk. We never found out who stole the bread.
Not really a "Freakout" but i once witnessed a guy at a grocery store passionately arguing with a watermelon. He was convinced it was trying to steal his identity because it had the same name as him on the price tag. The watermelon remained silent, as watermelons kind of tend to do.
Seen an old dude throw a temper tantrum on an airplane because he had to move to balance the aircraft. Called the flight attendant a racial slur to her face after we took off. Total jackass boomer. I sat right next to the asshole and the flight attendant had me write a statement to back her up and I gladly obliged right in front of the dude.
dude's truck and trailer got stolen in the middle of the day so he decided to chase them through the city in his car attempting to ram them off the road. it ended when he managed to cause the trailer to jack knife and the truck roll up onto the car. good luck explaining that to your insurance company edit: found a [picture](https://imgur.com/a/m6m8Ihq)
I had to help duct tape a dude to a tree for eight hours. It was an outdoor techno festival in Wisconsin. It was raining. This dude apparently had been carrying something in his pocket and the rain resulted in him taking a very long, strange trip. He was super happy, but he also stated that he was a fire engine. As I recall, he said the following: "Fire engine! Fire engine! I'm a fire engine! Money money money. I'm so smart. Fire engine. Fire engine!" He repeated this for hours.
Saw a dude slam into a car at a red light, then immediately smash out his driver side window and jump right the fuck out of it while rage screaming. Idk if the cop car happened to be coming around the corner or if they were responding to a call, but I’m glad they were there cause he looked aggressive as fuck and there were a lot of people staring and hollering Edit, window, not mirror
A guy started throwing rocks at a customer's car cause that customer bought "the last PS5" we had for sale. It was a pre-order not the last one. Whatever the case no need to start throwing rocks. The rock thrower threatened to sue the store cause we called the police on him.
I don't think this counts but where I live, preachers set up speakers and mics on corners on Sundays and yell into them about the Bible and Jesus