Tell me about times you've lost your temper in public

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Last summer I was in a portfolio class. One of the goals and assignments was to do a demo real of my work. It was all agreed on time line with the teacher. Will it came the day that I had to render the reel out of Adobe After Effects at school since I did now own the software at home. To my anger, the software did not have al its peaces installed. I could not get it working. I kept getting madder and madder. I had to leave the class room and walk to cool off. It was not a good day for me.

I am usely good about keeping my temper now days. When I was younger and in school. It seemed like I lost it every other week. Some times I would have a good period. Lot of other times it was just dark.

I think this is more a case where the BMW driver lost his temper than you did. If you had a cell phone on you and this guy was harassing you, I would have called the cops. If it was broad daylight in a city especially, there'd have to be witnesses: "This guy in the BMW tried to run me over as I was in the middle of crossing the intersection, and now he's following me!" Of course, calling the cops may be more hassle than it's worth, so if he gets out and confronts you, just ask him to apologize like a grown-up (his behavior sounds narcissistic, and narcissists love to be talked down to! disclaimer: Narcissists are statistically more likely to react violently when publicly humiliated), or he can let the police figure it out—simple ultimatum. If he's got a modicum of sense to him, he won't try anything violent but will likely be seething nevertheless (of course nearly running you over intentionally was a pretty aggressive act to begin with, but now that the wrongness of it has been clearly called to his attention with your unwillingness to tolerate it, he's more likely to contain himself).

Either you're not telling the whole story, or these police blatantly violated your civil rights. Instead of just threatening to sue, why didn't you follow through? They can't just detain or arrest you for nothing, and if they egregiously speculate someone might be insane and in need of a psych lock-up, they'd better have damned good reason!

They do so arrest and/or hassle you for nothing.

heaps.. here are some that I remember...

Kid was giving me s**t on the way home from school, so I started physically attacking him. He pushed me onto a busy raod as retaliation.

I've nearly kicked holes in walls at the workplace, bashed things, yelled, screamed and broken down more times than I can remember.

Have I lost my temper in public? Not lately. I don't really lose my temper. What I have are verbal exchanges but there isn't any closeness or hitting. There's not any yelling either.
I got into a disagreement once at a Wal Mart Tire and Lube Express. I can't remember what it was over now. There's lots of Wal Marts around here, all SuperCenters with Tire and Lube Expresses so, now, I go to a different one down the road.
No big deal and I've never had a problem at that one.
Then, there was the pharmacy incident. Now, there's a place for a line to form at the pharmacy. Much less chaotic. Still, I avoid that pharmacy but at least the manager listened when I complained.
The other day I was at the grocery store and I turned and bumped into a woman's shopping cart, it was an accident but she wasn't happy with me. I told her I was sorry and promptly turned and went in the opposite direction. I didn't know she was there until I turned around and walked into her shopping cart.
That's the latest but nothing too weird has happened in quite a while. Things are mellow.

Wow, I envy you.

I've never actually "lost it" in public, but I've come close. The thought of everyone around me looking at me, is enough to scare me out of a meltdown. Sometimes, I wish it wouldn't.

I loose count of the times I have lost my temper in public.

The last time was probably when our ex landlord decided they were going to sell the house we were living in. We have been messed about so much by landlords - told our leases were going to be long term then all of a sudden they have to sell the place or need to come back to live there themselves etc, meaning we have had to move 4 times in about three years. One landlord would not give us back our deposit of 100's of £'s for no good reason - so I get pretty upset with this sort of thing.

When we had to move the last 3 times we couldn't afford to hire a big truck to move our stuff and moved everything ourselves, it was exhausting, particularly this last time. I made sure the place we were leaving was spotless etc - even though I knew the place we were going into had been left like a sh!t tip.

Toward the end of the day, after hours of moving stuff the landlord came around. He was supposed to hand over our damage deposit in return for the keys and he was trying to make excuses as to why he couldn't give it to us - he was talking to my gf - I was in the backyard avoiding him as I do with people but as he was coming out with so much nonsense I began to pace and could feel I was getting really angry - this is when he met me for the first time as I always left the house before, when he wanted to check on things and always left my gf to communicate with him. I wouldn't have said a word to him or even shown my face but his excuses were annoying and I could see we were going to get messed about yet again. So I suddenly appeared - I was over tired and hungry and I launched a verbal attack at him...I guess I don't do things by halves even when it comes to communication. [Say nothing or don't hold back] Still he would not give us our money or say when and kept making lame excuses and trying to make it like it wasn't a big deal - yet it was because we are broke and needed the money to put on the next place. We were outside at the front of the house in the front yard. I was shaking my head [as if constantly 'saying' no!] and paced back and forth non stop the whole time I argued with him and I wanted to hit him - called him many various swear word combinations and ended by telling him if we didn't get our money back that I would come back and burn his f--k!ng house down. I was so mad. My gf ended up leading me away to calm down.

I couldn't stop pacing even an hour or two afterwards.

Other times I lost my temper were mostly to do with people over reacting about my dogs when we are out on walks - they only have to look at some people and the people start shreaking and acting irrational, over reacting and shouting at me...I can't bear it and just snap and confront them. I do my very best to avoid people at all cost - I just want a quiet walk and to be left alone so I can't tolerate this over reaction.

People acting irrational, unfair, disrespectful or over reacting or trying to do us wrong get me really wound up. Sometimes I manage to hold back but I can't most of the time.

I would have reacted the same way. Airports are stressful even for most people more adept with these sorts of environment. The overload of finding my way to where I needed to be, trying to remember everything I needed to do and everything going on around me and the woman would have been pushing me enough already - the stuff falling from the bag would have been what made me snap.

Not to mention the airline companies are pure evil these days. It always happens that some flight of mine is massively delayed or cancelled due to non-weather related scheduling screw ups. It didn't happen nearly as much in the 90s.

I've lost my temper in public countless times. When my family and I went to Pennsylvania for vacation, my parents kept hassling me about my throat clearing, and I kept yelling at them that I was trying to, but no matter how many times I told them I was trying, they just kept bugging me about it.

In school, I lost my temper constantly every single day. I used to yell and scream at the kids that bugged me.

2 times i got meltdown in puplic and got restrained

i used to work at a kfc, and it was my job to make the chicken strips. well one day when i was asked to make strips, i informed them that the marinator (a big drum that you spin to add the flavors to the chicken) was dirty, as it had been used a few hours ago, and the dishwasher had not cleaned it yet.


long story short, this led to a huge outburst and i got fired...


...it seems really silly when i tell it, but i just didn't want to use dirty utensils in the kitchen, and i wasn't put in charge of cleaning them.




i guess when people keep repeating the same nonsensical suggestion to me, it gets on my nerves