Anger turning adults into children...

[Old Crank]

Nice, sad, commentary about our country today. Wouldn't want to work in a service job these days.

A nation On hold wants to speak to a manager...

Nerves at the grocery store were already frayed, in the way of these things as the pandemic slouches toward its third year, when the customer arrived. He wanted Cambozola, a type of blue cheese. He had been cooped up for a long time. He scoured the dairy area; nothing. He flagged down an employee who also did not see the cheese. He demanded that she hunt in the back and look it up on the store computer. No luck.

And then he lost it, just another out-of-control member of the great chorus of American consumer outrage, 2021 style.

“Have you seen a man in his 60s have a full temper tantrum because we don’t have the expensive imported cheese he wants?” said the employee, Anna Luna, who described the mood at the store, in Minnesota, as “angry, confused and fearful.”

“You’re looking at someone and thinking, ‘I don’t think this is about the cheese.’”


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/business/customer-service-pandemic-rage.html?campaign_id=116&emc=edit_pk_20220104&instance_id=49360&nl=paul-krugman&regi_id=33298458&segment_id=78625&te=1&user_id=1848971a4624dd6c353abb5bbb8f0d03

[SWBTATTReg]

1. These so-called adults, never grew up out of childhood, shouldn't be considered adults.

Spoiled brats.

[genxlib]

2. Tantrums like that

Are usually reserved for Everlasting Gobstoppers.

[Picaro]

3. Releasing his inner 3 year old

I can never erase from my memory a pic of Trump sitting at the desk in the Oval Office in what is known the Trump toddler pose: https://images.app.goo.gl/GqbwyB2hgQfy31Lk8

This is the worst thing he has done to our country. He has given everyone permission to unleash their inner 3 year old.

Civilization is dependent on us all growing up and suppressing this Freudian Id creature that inhabits all of us. Yet he, by his example, has encouraged the expression of the monster.

This angry toddler in all of his followers is what led to January 6th and subsequently all the protestations that Trump couldn’t possibly have lost the election.

All these people apparently need their diapers changed.

[madaboutharry]

4. Another phenomenon I have observed:

Workers who have to deal with the public seem overly grateful when you are polite to them. Cashiers at the grocery store, customer service reps on the phone… when you act like a grown up and are nice to them they seem to be so relieved and thankful that they didn’t have to deal with some a-hole for a few minutes.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. I can't prove all of these nut-jobs are Republicans

But, if the red hat fits...