They Had Enough Of Her Dad’s Disrespect
From Redditor u/srasja:
I can remember that day like it was yesterday…
I was home packing my stuff to get ready for when my husband was out of basic training.
I NEVER yell or even raise my voice to hardly anyone ever.
My dad has always had a wicked temper, and my sister also had a knack for starting yelling matches with him.
One night, she forgot to do something she was supposed to, and the yelling started again. I ignored it up until he called her stupid. It got under my skin so I spoke up a little saying that he shouldn’t call her that. He hollered back, “You are MY daughters, I can talk to you however I want!” That’s when I snapped.
I saw red for the first time in my life, and I completely lost it. I screamed back at him at how I was tired of him treating us like garbage when he lost his temper, at how we hid in the back room with my mom until he cooled off, and how all I wanted was to visit my family before I had to move over 12 hours away from them. I also threatened that if he EVER wanted to see me again, then he needed to shut up and sit in the corner until he was done throwing a fit.
I yelled at him for the first time in my life for a solid 30 minutes. I didn’t stop until everything that had built up over the years was out, and I saw him go from red-faced angry, to what seemed to be guilt-ridden.
When I finally stopped, he was quiet. He didn’t say a word and walked away.
Shortly after I moved out, he went to a doctor and has been put on some medication to help with his anger issues.
Now he’s super friendly, and I haven’t heard him throw a tantrum like he used to in over 10 years now. He has never spoken poorly to me or my sister since then, either.
Their Boss Told Them Work Is More Important Than Family
From Redditor u/Unphayzable:
My grandfather [passed] so I told my boss that I had to take a couple of days off to be with my family. He had the nerve to tell me work was more important than family and threatened to fire me. I went off on him in the middle of the office for a solid five minutes before quitting and rushing home.
They Had To Stand Up For Their Sibling
From Redditor u/MikeOxbigg:
My brother and I played travel sports for a few seasons as kids. One trip, I was at the pool with some of his teammates messing around in the water, and the coach’s kid was being a d*ck as usual. My brother was one of the smaller kids on his team, so the coach’s son would f*ck with him a lot. Most of the kids on my brother’s team disliked the coach’s son but didn’t speak up so they wouldn’t be next. He thought it would be funny to pick up my brother’s drink right in front of him and spit into it.
My dad taught me from a young age not to let anyone f*ck with my brother or sister, so I got seriously p*ssed. I took a good running start and shoulder-checked him into the pool. Since he had just gotten there, he hadn’t taken his clothes off yet and cried because his phone and iPod got ruined. He literally ran out yelling, “I’m telling my dad!”
Well, that backfired, because everyone stuck up for my brother, and the coach was not happy to find out what a sh*tbird his son was being so he was the only one to get in any trouble.
A Woman Came To Their Shelter Just To Tease The Cats
From Redditor u/sonia72quebec:
This lady came to the shelter to see the cats. She asked if she could give them treats, and I said yes. It’s a shelter where most of the cats are free. She gets the bag out, the cats are getting wild with anticipation, and she just stood there laughing and tempting them without giving them anything. She looked like she enjoyed their anxiety, and her laugh sounded like a [wild] person.
I lost it, grabbed the bag out of her hands, gave treats to the cats, and asked her to leave. Those cats are already stressed out, don’t give them more anxiety.
They Tried To Tutor Their Friend To No Avail
From Redditor u/22dunix:
My friend is bad with math. I was explaining a thing once. It took 10 minutes. He tells me he doesn’t get it, so I sit there and explain this thing more deeply. Took 30 minutes. He takes in-ear headphones out of his ear (he was covering it with his hand), and says, “Oh, sorry. I wasn’t listening to you. Found this amazing radio recently.”
I lost my sh*t.
They Got Frustrated While Trying To Help A Patient
From Redditor u/wastedkarma:
I lost my sh*t when my patient got her pre-authorization for surgery for a large grapefruit-sized pelvic mass denied by BCBS. When I did a peer-to-peer, the doctor working for the insurance company said I needed to have a psychiatrist rule out mental causes of her pain first. I had to walk away for 30 minutes before seeing another patient because had anyone given me any more lip, I might have gotten [physical].
They Had An Infuriating DMV Trip
From Redditor u/timefortrees:
My seventh f*cking trip to the DMV when trying to reinstate my license. Every single time, they scrutinized my paperwork and always managed to find something “wrong” and would send me away to fix it.
On this seventh trip, they finally resorted to “you have no proof that you ever had a license,” despite my piles of paperwork showing my driving record, among other things.
I refused to leave the seat and said, “You people are f*cking monsters.”
A manager was called. We argued, he said he believed that I had had a license, but there was just no proof, and he couldn’t risk accepting my paperwork in case someone checked it.
I said I refused to leave the seat until I knew exactly what was needed. Manager said, “Tell you what, I can contact [last state I lived in],” and could get a verification that I had had a license there. It would take three minutes.
That’s when I yelled in the DMV, “WHY WASN’T THAT THE FIRST F*CKING THING YOU SAID?”
Anyway, I got my license back.
They Got A Little Heated During Rollover Training
From Redditor u/wahltee:
I was in charge of a rollover trainer once at a military training site. Think of a Humvee on an axle that spins… like a rollover accident. Part of the safety brief before anyone goes in is to empty their pockets of all items and take off any items on belts. We have rubber items inside to simulate sh*t flying. We do this for safety’s sake.
Part of the training is we stop the trainer on its side/roof, so the participants can get exposure to assisting the other passengers and exit the vehicle safely and quickly.
It’s been a long-a**, boring-as-sh*t day. It’s hot, and like all good army training, I am hungover and irritated. All officers, and they aren’t listening for sh*t. We stopped the exercise on the roof for a group, and they all exit except one who can’t undo the seat belt.
I open the door, and reach in… and place my hand on a dual-edge four-inch boot knife. I absolutely lost my sh*t. I saw red, my ears burned, and I distinctly remember seeing one of the other instructor’s mouth, “Oh, sh*t.”
I chewed out every f*cking officer there. ALL of whom outranked me, many of whom outranked my commander. Didn’t matter, as my position was Safety Officer. I went on a [rant].
I turn around after it was done, and my best friend is f*cking recording it on his phone. That prick showed that clip the rest of the week…
They Nearly Missed The Birth Of Their Child Due To Nonsense
From Redditor u/MakeItTrizzle:
My wife was due to give birth on a date I had a trial (I’m an attorney). The State’s Attorney’s Office refused to consent to a continuance, insisting they were going to be ready for trial that day.
The date comes, I go to the courthouse and find out that the SAO doesn’t have one of their witnesses and is asking for a continuance.
Needless to say, I lost my sh*t arguing against them receiving such a continuance when they had failed to subpoena a witness (or make any effort to contact said witness, by their own admission). The judge, of course, allowed them to have a continuance. I swore I’d never practice in that court again (it’s one known around here for being especially friendly to the prosecution, to the point of absurdity, and where the SAO is known to engage in constitutionally questionable evidentiary practices).
My wife gave birth the next day, and I’ve never been back to the jurisdiction. The State ultimately dropped charges against my client because they didn’t have a critical witness.
Their Coworker Got Them Into Trouble
From Redditor u/amiathrowawayornot:
I lost my sh*t when I was late for work because my colleague asked me to cover their shift and gave me the wrong time and it was my fault from the company’s perspective.
Their Anger Got Them Kicked Out Of School
From a former Redditor:
My friend who is usually a chill person had some girl make fun of her brother who was [slain], and she ended up beating the sh*t out of her, smashing her face in to the wall, and getting kicked out of our school for it.
They Tried As Hard As He Could To Avoid A Bar Fight
From Redditor u/McPansen:
This happened in some club ages ago. I was bouncing around on the dance floor with everybody else and apparently stepped on some dude’s foot who had been standing there with his posse of two or three other guys watching people.
I shrugged and apologized, then turned around to leave. Right then “somebody” smacked me in the back of the head. Not hard, but too hard to ignore. I turned around still calm and said something like, “Look, I’m gonna walk this way, you guys stay here, and nothing more needs to happen”.
Turned around again, got smacked in the head again. I was very much p*ssed off at that point. It didn’t help that they looked at me all innocent. I couldn’t even tell which one of them did it. So I just stuck my finger in the face of the dude whose foot I allegedly stepped on and recommended he don’t do it again. Turned around once more, waiting to get smacked in the head again.
This time they poured a glass of beer on my back. That’s when I completely lost my sh*t. Threw myself around and went straight at the guy. I was in full rage mode, didn’t care what happened next as long as that guy suffered. I could tell by the terrified look on his face he realized he had gone too far. His friends never stepped in to help him. After a while, people separated us and that was that.
I have no sympathy at all for people who resort to [physicality] for solving their problems but feel no shame for having snapped in that situation. I think I did everything in my power to avoid what eventually happened.
All Of The Bureaucracy Got To Their Head
From Redditor u/Realm500:
So earlier this year, my health insurance got messed up. I started making too much money to qualify for my state’s medicare so healthcare.gov requested a notification from njfamilycare to confirm I wasn’t on it anymore. So in January, I called them to get said notification. They say, “Yeah, you should get it in a couple weeks.” It never comes.
Unfortunately, I had forgotten about it until healthcare.gov sends me a message that they’re going to raise my insurance costs if i don’t get them the message in the next two weeks. So I call njfamilycare again and explain to them the situation. They once again claim they’re going to send me the notice and don’t. So now, after getting an extension from healthcare.gov about this, I call up njfamilycare once more and attempt to explain the situation, politely requesting the cancellation notice. But the woman on the phone gets an attitude with me saying some stupid sh*t like, “UMMM, you know this is the cancellation department, right?” and I lost my sh*t.
“What the F*CK is your PROBLEM?! I don’t understand why the F*CK you can’t just send me this F*CKING LETTER. What’s happening over there? Just look in the f*cking file and CANCEL IT. Yes, you B*TCH, I know this is the cancellation department, I WANT A NOTICE THAT IT’S CANCELLED.”
I must have scared the sh*t out of her because the next thing she said was, “Uh, I’ll go get my supervisor,” who solved the problem in 10 minutes, and I got my cancellation notice three days later.
They Ended Up Swearing Like A Sailor In A Mall
From Redditor u/EnIdiot:
My son was maybe eight months old and had recently diagnosed as profoundly deaf. Deaf kids will often inhale to make vibrations and noise that they can somewhat “hear” for stimulation. We were on pins and needles as I had just lost my job and our insurance, and the cochlear implant surgery was going to cost us $170K. We’d have to sell the house and one of the cars. We needed a break, and our in-laws took us to the food court at a local mall. Our boy started to inhale and gasp.
“He needs a beating,” a fat 20-something said not-so-quietly to her friends at the table next to us.
I rarely curse in public and am generally nonconfrontational, but a stream of insulting profanity issued from my mouth for a good 10 minutes that would have put a sailor to shame. I found I couldn’t stop, and it got on the verge of Bukowskian poetry. I insulted her, her mother, her weight, and her pinched-faced friends. I launched into the smell of her tw*t, how fat she was, how she’d only be able to reproduce with a blind drunk moron with a deathwish as she was uglier than the devil’s a**hole on fire with the sh*t of hell. And it only progressed from there. R. Lee Ermey’s Marine drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket would have told me to tone it down a bit. I told her he was deaf and that we couldn’t stop it and this was a goddamn food court in a p*ssant Southern town filled with p*ssant, inbred, motherf*cking hellspawned, redneck, ignorant, mutant, troglodytes that embarrass normal troglodytes.
The food court was silent, and all the eyes were upon us.
And then it progressed from there.
She got up and left crying.
I can honestly say the whole rant was involuntary, like a puss-filled boil popping and draining in a torrent. I had never done anything like this before and have not done it since. I feel bad for her to this day.