From small children to grown adults, these people are the kings and queens of tantrums. And people are spilling the beans.
“I Still Haven’t Been Able To Look At Her The Same Way”
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“I know a girl who burst into tears and fell to the ground in the middle of a busy intersection because her friend didn’t have time to help her with a homework assignment. We’re in college, and I still haven’t been able to look at her the same way.”
She Demanded Her House Layout Be Changed
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“In high school, I had an acquaintance classmate, we’ll call her ‘S,’ that I sometimes hung out with.
One summer her parents took over another company and decided to build a new house on the edge of town. I hadn’t seen S in awhile and she invited me over one day. When I got to the new house it was a huge mansion!
Inside it was like a freakin’ Mexican standoff. S was standing in the large kitchen, hands on hips, staring down her parents and demanding they ‘change the layout!’ Apparently, the design for the house needed to be changed because her new bathroom was on the wrong side of the sitting room, and the sitting room also had to be made to be bigger than her sister’s bathroom and sitting room.
I grew up in a small farmhouse that was over 100 years old. It didn’t even have 1 complete bathroom, just a large closet with a toilet, while another large closet had a shower/washer in it too. There was almost always at least 7 people living there, and we did not get along at all (still don’t). I lost contact with S after that, she dropped out of school in 11th grade after a teacher refused to up her grade in a class to an A.”
He Took Drastic Action When He Didn’t Get His Way
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“I let my friend sleep over about five years ago. His house was far larger than mine and was literally 90% product placement; every toy, every sugary snack, every video game ever made, it was in that house. However, when he came over to my house it was sort of a Prince and the Pauper situation. He treated my parents, my little sister and I with no respect. He utilized our facilities with little to no care (leaving faucets and showers running, touching objects he had no business touching, etc).
One day, he put his hands on my mother when she refused to do something for him. It was something stupid like not driving to Wendy’s for dinner or refusing to stop for ice cream. He didn’t hit her, he actually grabbed her by the waist and began to shake her while screaming at the top of his lungs. So my mother screamed at him. But he started to shriek even louder as well as curse (I had never heard the curse words he was screaming at that time, so I was pretty confused) and eventually my mother had to succumb to his demands and go wherever he demanded to go.
Oh, but that’s not the worst part. About several hours later, I hear sirens outside my house. It was 1 in the morning. My ‘friend’ had called the police and stated he was being held hostage by a mean woman. I’m not sure when he did it, but everyone in my house was oblivious to what had happened. His own parents were contacted soon after the police got the story (luckily they didn’t jump to conclusions and arrest my mother). My friend’s father tried to justify his son’s actions as his mother reprimanded, not her son, but MY family for leaving him in such a hostile environment or something dumb like that. The boy was taken home and was not scolded for any of his actions as far as I can tell. I never knew kids could be so awful.”
“Money Pleaseeee”
“I had a client curse out her dad on the phone because he wasn’t sending financial info fast enough (like, ‘send me your freaking tax return right now,’ etc). This was a woman past forty who didn’t work and was still completely supported by her psychiatrist father.”
Datezilla
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“Back when my husband and I were dating, we were celebrating Valentine’s Day at an Italian restaurant. My husband told me to look over to the couple on our left side. The girl was wearing a tiara! Yes, a freaking TIARA. She had roses, a giant teddy bear and balloons. She was being loud and obnoxious, but all in all, she was having fun.
All of a sudden, everyone notices a different couple on our left. The guy gets down on one knee and proposes. His girlfriend says yes and her whole family comes out and congratulates them.
The girl with the tiara flips out! She demands to know, and I quote, ‘How come you’re not begging ME to marry you?’ She then proceeds to storm out the restaurant, only after throwing her three dozen roses on the floor. The guy just sits there for a while by himself, looking defeated. Then he leaves for what I could only say was 20 minutes. Then they both come back to the restaurant and finish their meal, her in a bad mood the entire time.
I don’t know what he said to her and I don’t know why he would ask a girl like that to come back, and I have no clue why he was dating her – she was not particularly beautiful on the inside or the outside.”
He Couldn’t Believe What His Friend Asked The Maid
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“When I was in school in the mid-’90s I had to do a project with a kid called Alan. My parents dropped me off at his home, a penthouse at a condo complex in the richest part of town. You could tell that it was for the uber-wealthy because the complex had a separate clubhouse for chauffeurs and bodyguards to hang out at. Alan’s house was fully automated, so you could control everything with a remote control (very expensive back then), and all the food that wasn’t produce was imported from France. I was a bit weirded out by it, but I wasn’t really there to gawk, and we sat down in the (huge) study to work on the project.
Ten minutes after I arrived, the maid came in with two glasses of Coca-Cola on a tray. Immediately Alan flips out and slaps the tray out of her hands. Alan berated her as she cleaned up the mess. How dare she forget the good ice cubes, he yelled, the ones from the special tray that shapes them like space aliens. He continued throwing abuse at her as she left the room to serve new glasses of Coca-Cola, her gaze cast down. As she left, he asked her if she was so stupid because she was poor.”
She Had The Most Ironic Response To Being Called A Child
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“I was supposed to be flying to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. The flight was canceled after multiple failed attempts to fix a mechanical problem. It sucked, but hey, we didn’t die.
Cue irate woman going off on the ticket agent, who had nothing to do with the plane, and was trying to reroute everyone she could. We were literally the last plane out of the Charlotte airport. This woman stayed past her normal shift to help all the stranded people.
The horrible passenger still goes off on her. What made it spoiled and not cranky, tired jerkiness was the comment: ‘You don’t even seem sorry.’
The ticket agent said, ‘Excuse me?’
‘Well all our plans are ruined,’ the passenger ranted. ‘We had a car rented and hotel, and all our plans are ruined, and you don’t even seem sorry.’
‘I’m trying to help you, I didn’t cause this problem for you.’
Back and forth it went until the ticket agent basically told this adult woman to stop acting like a child, at which point the passenger lost her mind. She turned around the to woman behind her in line and said, ‘Mom, are you going to let her talk to me like that? I’m 28, I’m not a child.’
I could not keep it together at that point. I was just laughing with tears coming out. Really girl. You’re asking mom to defend you for someone telling you you’re acting like a child.”
She Threatened To Sue Her Parents
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“My ex-best friend had a trust fund that her parents created for her college, but by the time she got to college their wealth multiplied so she didn’t even need a trust fund and her parents paid out of pocket. Of course, she chose the most expensive private university in a different state (where we met).
Then she kept asking her parents for a car (even though she lived on campus and didn’t really need transportation). Parents bought her a brand new car that she wanted with the trust fund money. She threw a major tantrum to her parents and accused them of ‘stealing her money’ and said she would ‘sue them.’
After that her mom let one of their family friends ride her horse once. Just once. The girl doesn’t want anything to do with the horse anymore because ‘it betrayed her.’ I don’t think she ever graduated college.”
The Child Wasn’t The Brat…
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“My youngest nephew was invited to a birthday party in the first grade. A girl in his class was having a birthday party and invited the entire classroom (about 25 kids). My nephew was super stoked to go to his first ‘big kid party,’ as he put it, and spent the entire evening the night before picking out his outfit so he could look cool. The morning of the party, however, he was on his knees puking his poor little guts out in front of the toilet, crying about not being able to go to the party.
My sister did everything she could to make him feel better, but he was devastated. He was also really upset that his friend wouldn’t get the present he picked out for her. So, while my brother-in-law cleaned up and took care of the sick kid, my sister drove to the birthday girl’s house to drop off the present and explain my nephew’s absence.
Of course, the party was at one of the large McMansion neighborhoods filled with BMWs, Mercedes, Land Rovers, and enough gaudy ‘look at me, I have money’ stuff to stun even Donald Trump.
When the kid’s mom answered the door, she seemed polite enough at first. My sister explained that my nephew was sick, throwing up, and could not come. But, he wanted his friend to get her birthday present, so there she was to deliver it and make sure it was received.
The lady thought that was grand, and then said, ‘Oh, and I have something for you and your son.’ She gave my sister an envelope and a small goodie bag for the kiddos. The bag had stickers, gum, some M&Ms, a bouncy ball – all the typical stuff little kids loved. It probably cost about $2.00 per bag for the kiddos. My sister thanked her and left.
It wasn’t until she got home that she opened the envelope. It contained a card that said ‘We are sorry that you did not feel it appropriate to respect your RSVP’d confirmation. Much time, energy, and money was put into this party. Please pay us back for the money and time that you wasted by not bringing your child to a party he or she was confirmed to attend.’
It contained a break down of food costs (about $25 per kid, according to this woman), costs for the entertainment (a clown or bouncy house or some such nonsense, $35 per kid), and a $150 ‘inconvenience fee for non-monetary expenditures.’ This woman was rolling in dough, and she threw one heck of a bash for her kid (if the itemized bill is to be believed), yet she had the gall to think that a sick kid not being able to attend meant that the parents of the child should be charged over $200 for the ‘inconvenience.'”
She Screamed The Entire Car Ride
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“I was riding with my friend in her car and her two daughters were in the back seat. Well, the oldest starts yelling that her sister is too close to her and wants her to move over. When my friend told her to stop and be nice, the little girl starts screaming and throwing herself around and goes completely ridged and slides out of her seat onto the floorboard. She continued to kick and scream and freak out for the rest of the ride. She is 11.”
He Refused To Do Laundry, So He…
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“A classmate of mine at college was from Qatar. His family owned large shares in a bank and was generally very deeply involved with the financial world in the Middle East. Needless to say, they were disgustingly filthy rich.
First day on campus we all decide to play soccer so he goes to his room to change. When we come back from playing we all go back to his room and when we walk in his clothes were still exactly where he threw them on the floor. He lost his mind at the idea that nobody would clean his room for him and that he had to do his own laundry.
He ended up going shopping every 2-3 weeks for really nice and expensive clothes and would throw them out after wearing them a few times because he didn’t want to do laundry. I’m talking about a Brooks Brothers button down shirt worth over $100 only being worn once or twice before ending up in the trash.”
She Was Impossibly High Maintenance
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“A girl I used to be friends with is the biggest brat I know. Mind you, we’re in our senior year of college, but this girl pitches a fit if she doesn’t get her way. She’s your typical sorority girl, except she’s more high maintenance. She has her mom pay for $200 hair appointments, eyelash extensions and a tanning membership. I remember her bragging to me about getting laser hair removal last year, basically, just the most ridiculous beauty rituals you can imagine and she doesn’t pay a dime for them. She goes on to tell me how proud she is of her single mom raising six children on her own while going to work and attending classes, yet she’ll yell at her on the phone when she doesn’t get her way; truly disgusting behavior.
She would treat her boyfriend the same way. Last winter, they were in the midst of a break up. She tried to keep her conversation lowkey, but I overheard her screaming saying, ‘NOW WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR MY $300 DIAMOND NIPPLE RINGS?’ Like really? Your boyfriend of two years just broke up with you and that’s what you’re worried about?
She’s a different breed.”
He Couldn’t Believe How The Mother Reacted
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“I worked in a gift shop on a holiday campsite and this kid (about 7-years-old) came in wanting an inflatable ball. When he saw all the inflatable dinghies, he decided he wanted one of those instead. His grandparents said no, he could have a ball.
So kid lost his mind and screamed that he wanted a dinghy. His mom picked him up and carried him outside and held him and kissed him until he stopped crying. She then came inside and gave him the money for the dinghy. The kid had such a smug look on his fat little face, then threw the packet at me and said ‘blow it up.’ I threw it back, said no, and served the next customer.
And that is how you raise entitled little brats.”
She Demanded The Most Expensive Option
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“I work at a store that sells computers. There was an incredibly busy day over the summer. It was back to school season, so it was prime laptop buying time. This super cute girl comes in with her mom and I get to help them out. Dope.
She tells me she’s going to college for physical therapy and proceeded to pick out the most expensive laptop we have. I immediately tell them that is overkill and she doesn’t need anything close to that, a much less expensive one will be more than sufficient. The girl then starts stomping and yelling at her mom. ‘MOM! You didn’t tell me you were getting me this one! You didn’t tell me you were getting me that one! YOU. TOLD. ME. I. WAS. GETTING. THIS. ONE.’
She went from hot to not in .2 seconds and guess what mommy bought her? The most expensive, biggest, heaviest laptop we sell.
I saw the mom a year later and pretended not to recognize her. She says to me, ‘Oh you sold us her first laptop! You were right it was too big and heavy after 2 months so we bought her the one you suggested.'”
Her “Friend” Ruined Her Birthday Party
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“I had a party for my 13th birthday. I was really pumped for this party since I was recently homeschooled at the time and barely got to see my friends. I invited this one girl who was spoiled as heck and thought the world revolved around her. She controlled everything we did (the party was at a hotel by the way, sleepover too).
My mom got fed up with her after she wouldn’t let another kid sleep on the bed because ‘she wanted a bed to herself.’ Wanna know what she starts doing? Starts crying, for one, screams ‘screw you’ at my mother about three times, and keeps saying, ‘I only have to listen to my mom and dad, you don’t matter.’
My mom got us a lot of things. She let us go swimming, paid for an arcade, let us eat at this café, and spent her money on extra stuff for my friends. That spoiled little brat never said thank you once. All my mom got was a ‘screw you.’ I think the only reason I even invited that little brat is so that she wouldn’t whine to me over the phone.
Years later, she’s still the same. She has no friends except for her online friends and her online girlfriend. I stopped being friends with her after that incident because, well, my mom doesn’t like her, obviously, and she just makes me angry.”
She Cried For The Dumbest Reason
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“My sister-in-law came home from her first semester away at college and said, ‘I didn’t realize not everyone lives in a big house!’ Like she’d just discovered the most amazing fact ever. Note: my husband (her brother) is very down to earth as were his parents.
After she graduated with her PHD, she couldn’t get a job right away. Neither could her husband. Both sets of parents were still giving them each money to live on and neither set of parents were stingy. At Christmas, she started bawling her eyes out because her parents had given her a beautiful dress as a gift. Why was she crying? Because she ‘Couldn’t afford to go any place where she could wear such a nice dress.'”
She Would Scream Until She Got What She Wanted
“My little cousin is probably the most spoiled brat ever, she still isn’t completely potty trained and she’s almost six. If she didn’t get exactly what she wants the second she wants it, she’ll lie on the floor and scream until she gets it. There was one time she screamed for about an hour and a half because she didn’t get to watch TV in the living room, even though they have three working TVs throughout the house. She used to throw fits whenever someone asked if she had to pee. Her mom has finally snapped, though, and has started to straighten her up.”
She Was A Teen, But Acted Like A Child
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“While in a supermarket waiting in line to pay I watched a teenage girl whine/cry/pout/stamp her foot because her mother wouldn’t buy her a couple $100 iTunes gift cards. She even rang her dad and asked but guessing by the banshee scream that came out of her mouth he said no too. I applaud the mother for not giving in.”
Why Was This Kid At A Preschooler Event Anyway?
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“An 8-year-old kid was at a preschooler event. The kids were painting a playhouse. The brat dominated one side and tried to recruit any and every adult to make other kids not paint. He was fed with some lines by his parents that he used to not take any responsibility for his thoughts or actions.
‘I’m just trying to make my painting and all these kids are ruining it,’ ‘I have anger issues,’ and, ‘These kids are pushing my buttons, and I can’t be held responsible for what they make me want to do.’ He growled and pushed. I am pretty sure the little terror painted the back of my 20-year-old’s shirt.”