tantrum

We like to think that being alive for a decently long time will give anyone some humility and wisdom, but sometimes that's just not the case. There are some of us who just can't take a look in the mirror and see our own behavior for what it is. That extends to unforgivable things house guests have done as well as bold mistaken customers who were at the wrong store.

You didn't hear it here first, but kids have meltdowns over mundane things. Lets face it, children aren't smart, and they just don't have it in them to be subtle. You'd be this upset too if it was the first time in your entire life someone didn't meet your illogical expectations. Thanks to this, exhausted parents have tons of stories about their kids dumb meltdowns. It's hard being a kid. Okay, it's actually pretty easy when you consider what it's like being an adult, but still.

You can tell a child all day that holding a cup of water upside down is a bad idea, but they're not gonna believe you until they screw it up for themselves. Sadly, toddlers learn every day that the world doesn't bend to their needs, and with learning comes earth-shattering tantrums. For more of these, here are snaps of kids having total meltdowns over mundane things.

Okay, we'd be pretty upset too if we couldn't have a beer, but the context is a little different. Here are some parents who found their kids overwhelmed by the most simple and unconcerning things. Wait until these kids hear about having to pay taxes. For more, check out these completely stupid reasons kids had meltdowns.

Sometimes life is going just fine, you're minding your own business, then a bee decides to land on your hand for a second. You think, "oh holy crap this is totally unacceptable. I must let everyone know about the injustice that bee has done, landing on my hand for a second." So you wail as hard as you can for 3 hours, screaming at the top of your lungs, hitting your head against the wall, because of that awful, awful bee. Anyway, for more irrational tantrums, here are more the dumbest reasons kids had meltdowns.

Sure, a developing human is gonna have a hard time adjusting to the rigors of the world around them, but at a certain point, c'mon kid, you're having a full-on meltdown because your mom's not letting you eat dirt. Maybe she knows better than you about eating dirt. Here are more stupid reasons kids went insane.

Listen we get that kids are little bundles of innocence or whatever but they're also screaming, leaking piles of problems made entirely out of your own broken dreams. Here are 35 parents whose kids gave them grief for no good reason. On a similar note, sadly, these types of tantrums aren't just relegated to kids. Adults can have them too.

You'd think that just because someone's over the age of 35, they'd have a healthy amount of humility and shame. If you thought that, you would be wrong. You would be very, very wrong. We've got grown-ups head-butting walls for candy, and self-respecting adults crying over parking spots. Smh.

Cutting a sandwich in half is as good as breaking it! 

Having kids is hard. I don't personally have any, but I was a kid once, so I can only imagine what my parents went through. Children have their own agenda, which includes eating candy for dinner and complaining if asked to help. As a parent, getting angry at your children probably isn't the most effective way to mould them into good human beings. But there's this thing called reverse psychology, and it's amazing. After reading the following posts from AskReddit, I realized that my own parents duped me with reverse psychology. Sneaky... and clever. Well done, parents. 

These people are something else... I'm sure you're familiar with them if you've ever worked in retail or customer service.

These delightful individuals are so self absorbed that they have no regard for other people and don't care who they hurt in their immature tirades agains the world around them. 

The arresting spectacle that is an adult reverting before your eyes, back to red-faced-angry-baby-shit-packed-diaper-mode is unsettling as it is strangely entertaining --- a train-wreck of a mental meltdown, and you can't seem to look away for the life of you. Kind of like impressively immature reality TV that's populated by pompous, psychotically self-concerned, silicone-altered wannabe celebrities that are always jacked up on Svedka and elementary level gossip. Or, or maybe you've experienced one of these shitshows firsthand. Maybe it was a permanent marker-sniffing, cigarette-munching, vaguely homeless woman who was working on a six pack of high life on the bus yesterday, while you and the unfortunate sea of weary spectators were just trying to get home. Yes, that happened on one of the evening commutes to me. Never thought I'd mention it, till now. Well, sit back, buckle up, and be thankful you weren't around for one of these eruptions.