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

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A few weeks ago I was flying back from visiting my parents over the holidays. The second leg of my trip was a 5 hour flight. On long flights I usually pass the time by looking out the window, one of the only things that makes flying tolerable to me. I have long legs and always get extremely uncomfortable. Anyways, I'd bought a ticket with a window seat on the second leg two months before.

When I go to the ticket counter to check my bags and get my boarding pass I notice that the second leg flight has changed and I no longer have the seat I originally bought. The machine won't let me pick a seat because it says the fight is full. When it prints my boarding pass I see that it assigned me a middle seat on the new flight.

As I'm putting my bags on the scale I tell the woman standing behind the counter that it doesn't seem fair to have to pay the same amount for a crappy seat as for the one I originally bought. I knew she might not be able to do anything about it but I just wanted an apologetic/sympathetic attitude. Instead she just kept repeating over and over in an annoying tone that I had to move my checked bags over to the security machine. At this point I'm getting upset and my hands are feeling shaky. Then as I'm trying to put my boarding pass into my backpack it tips over and a bunch of my files fall out all over the ground. At this point I stood up and called the woman a stupid f*cking c*nt while simultaneously throwing my keys hard against the counter.

was trying to cross the street at an all way stop. i checked the car coming from across the intersection, began to walk, it began to move, it stopped, i stopped, i moved, it moved, lord! ok so then i start walking, and the guy squeals his tires and speeds up right past me, not two feet from me. So i kicked his car. hard. he came after me but i made it into my building before he screeched up to the drive. it was only a moment.

I wonder if his BMW got dented.

(i also wonder if he came back worried he'd actually hit me. but it seemed more like he was pissed. what an a**)

I usually manage to internalize all my anger and only release it when alone and nobody is around. Something I had to learn to do a long time ago, since I was forbidden by my family to have any anger, sadness, depression, or other negative emotions.

One time though was on a school trip. These kids who always tormented me for some reason wanted to take my picture. I don't understand why people who have so much hatred and contempt for me wanted my picture, but NT's make no sense as a rule anyway.

While walking, one of them turned around and took a flash picture right in my face and I just cracked. My reaction was so bad some thought I had a seizure and was hyperventilating. These people showed me no mercy in their tormenting of me and what was worse, teachers did nothing. In fact, one told me i should be flattered they want my picture. I feel it was my choice and if I didn't want my picture taken, that should have been respected. They even thought I was in the wrong for being upset and threatened me with discipline if I didn't quit getting upset with them, it was so unfair.

And some wonder why I have so much contempt for a large percentage of the NT population.

I had just purchased an electric scooter bike, and I started riding it through the crowded city. I became overwhelmed by how many people there were. I then lost my concentration on my steering and I accidentally moved the bike right into the curb. It was a hard impact, but there were no injuries and very minimal damage to my scooter bike. However, I was so furious and I yelled out "f*ck!" as loud as I could. I probably scared many people.

I very rarely lose my temper. It's only happened once in the last 10 years that I can remember. I don't really ever get angry either - frustrated, but not angry. Sometimes I wonder if I'm even capable of anger.

So no, it's safe to say I've never lost my temper in public.

not sure if this is same thing as losing temper,but it's a normal thing for am to have meltdowns in public daily [assuming am out].
yesterday,am had had a good day,had two support staff from the NAS,but stayed in.
when they were due to go,the res. home staff said the agency waking night staff am have was taking over from the NAS-and they know they should never do this-as she is night staff,not day staff-am have never had her in day routine before,so had ran off into the nearest alleyway before being restrained by the NAS staff,so am through self to floor and tried to be as much a heavyweight as possible,more staff came out,
threatened to phone the police to get them to bring am back inside with the night staff lady,and ended up going into meltdown,was restrained again and pillows were put around am,had helmet on so that saved a lot of damage but other parts of body and some of the staff werent so lucky.
eventually got brought back in when recoevered,but still wasnt out of that state,so had shut self into wardrobe [a walk in/slidey door one] and ended up having an MD in there,one of the home staff came to work with am instead which should have happened in first place.

I never have.

I've never physically lost my temper in public, but I did have a silent meltdown during a late shift at my job once when I was extremely stressed out.

I walked out of there, and then the next morning I thought I was fired...it turns out that nobody even noticed.

I try to hold my anger in. Sometimes I I get so angry that I yell at people and it takes them by surprise. One of these days though I think I will really explode from years of pent up anger. Kind of like Ned Flanders did.

It wasn't so much in public, but I really lost my temper this last weekend. It was so bad I barely even remember what happened. I just know that I was at my boyfriend's house, and his friend was drunk and saying all sorts of stupid misogynistic stuff, and the music was up really loud, and there was some kind of horrible smell coming from somewhere, and it was all combining to make me very, very agitated. So I went outside for a while where it was nice and dark and quiet, but it was also freezing... so I had to come back inside, at which point the a**hole friend starts talking really loudly about how "Watch out! K is upset! She's gonna get us! HAHAHA!". And my boyfriend, drunk himself, did nothing but laugh. I'm fairly certain that how upset I really was wasn't visible on my face... suffice it to say, I don't remember much after that, but I do remember walking up to my boyfriend and punching him in the throat. Not hard, but hard enough. Then I ran and hid in his bed and basically flipped out by myself for a few hours.

Amazingly enough, he forgave me. Maybe because he saw how truly upset I was? Maybe because he knew he shouldn't have laughed at me when I was in that state? Maybe because I'm just super crazy and he's just super nice and forgiving? I don't really know. All I know is that I felt like s***...

Needless to say, I will not be going over to my boyfriend's house when he is drinking with that particular friend again (by my own decision, I should note).

we shall not go there, marshall...we shall not go there.

too many delicate ears on WP for me to even begin a brief disclosure on certain aspects of my rather wild and fraught life.......

I went for a walk one night and for some reason a police patrol car pulled up next to me and asked me if I was ok. I said I was ok and kept on walking. They asked me if I wanted a ride and I said no, then kept on walking. The next minute they had got out of the police car and were holding onto my arms, trying to get me into the police car. I had no idea what they wanted and started worrying that they were bad cops. I physically tried to fight them off but I couldn't. I started screaming at them, telling them I'd sue them for harrassing me. In the end I ended up in the police car and back at the station in solitary confinement. Their excuse for picking me up? They thought I was acting "strange" and wanted me to have a psych assessment.

I think I had the right to lose my temper!!

The reason I gave such an "extreme" example is because I can't remember losing my temper in any other public situations (thank goodness).

I usually start kick into something and/or I punch something if anyone looks at me - I swear at them but doesn't happen much. I too have been arrested by police a number of times - I have lost count. You can't lose your temper with the cops - I am facing charges at the moment because I did. I already have assault charges on my record - I really don't like them. They shouldnt throw me to the ground and try and bend my arms behind my back - it hurts.