Losing your temper in public: classic or classic?

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My knobgoblin friend CR was back from uni yesterday, so myself and LC went to The George in Wanstead for a drink with him. Sadly, he brought along his AWFUL beer boy big beat luvvin' friends who I can't stand. So basically the evening degenerated into one ridiculous argument after another, eg "There's no good German music" sez SO, "Bollocks" sez DG, "Well Kraftwerk are alright for a bit of cheese I s'pose" sez SO, "Pffffffffffffff" sez DG, eventually resulting in SO suggesting I might like to go to university cos I have a very linear way of thinking, at which I lost my composure telling him "Don't you patronise me you ginger bastard". Being an old County High Boy (Will knows what I mean, I'm sure) he tried to back out by attempting to convince me that all the stupid things he said were jokes, which annoyed me further. But then he gave up and picked a fight with LC about class or something, who smashed him and concluded the he was "living proof degrees aren't worth shit" Poor old CR seemed a bit embarrassed about this, but then pissed me off by siding with SO even though he agreed with LC! Basically it was BLOKES vs GURL + GURLY BOY, and we won! Hurrah!
But now I've got that off my chest, when was the last time you got really really angry in public? Were you ashamed afterwards or did it make you feel gooooooooooooooood?

― DG, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New ANGRY answers!

― DG, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well done DG!

I can't say I get angry in public...I usually look slightly annoyed about slow service in shops...but that's it...

Maybe my rage is building.

― james, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As I said here, I can only rembember losing my temper three times, and only one of those was in public. But it sounds like you did the right thing here. What an bunch of arseholes.

― N., Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Today I was in town trying to Christmas shop and buy myself a nice warm coat too, I was having little success and getting serious street rage cos things were so busy. Then some guy came up to me from "The Hanley Centre" some charity that sends out teenagers to harass other teenagers for donations. These Hanley Centre people don't fuck off, at all, I'm talking follow you down the street annoying.

So I managed to ignore the first guy. Then a hundred yards later two other chumps from the same thing came up and started hassling me, so I bit my lip and was like "no sorry I'm ok, please leave me alone". Did they take no for an answer? Unfortunately not, and I was forced to lose the rag in a dramatic manner, I freaked at them, I was like "leeeeeave me alone, you annoy me every time I'm in town, I don't want to join your cult, now please please im begging you just fuck off". and he was all "we're not a cult, we help people", so I screamed in his face.

I felt better afterwards, and now it's funny thinking about it. I'd been longing to do it all year. You've no idea how persistent these bastards are.

― Ronan, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Too many Hanleys?

― mark s, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I LOST MY TEMPER IN THE FUTURE

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh i don't remember, i lose my temper in public quite a bit. it makes me feel ashamed. maybe it would make me feel good if i didn't do it so often. its usually when i'm drunk at the pub, someone will piss me off and destroy the illusion of happiness which i am trying to create for myslef. then i either yell at them or storm out in a huff. on friday night some drunk sleazy hippy accidentally spilt beer all over my new blue dress and i just got shitty as, i was gonna storm out but i decided i wasn't going to let it spoil my evening, so i just ranted at him for a while.

― di, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was getting a kebab in the summer this bloke was being a right arsehole to the proprietors. So I called him a patronising cunt. Fortunately, he was also another wimpy posh boy who was terrified of being punched, so we just exchanged a few strong words before I walked out, noses and jaws intact.

― Mark C, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yay DG! do you know, i don't think i ever have lost my temper in public? i should have done on many occasions (mainly on the tube, oh why are people so rude?) but i haven't, and now i think i will. i think it will make me feel better, and hopefully make the litter dropping/pushing and shoving/ getting on the train before others have left it BASTARDS think a bit before they are BASTARDS. ahem.

― katie, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Unfortunately I did it this morning, another nightmare on the tubes, I'm running for the train and some bloke decides to take my flustered hurrying as a sign that I wanted to talk about how Jesus Christ loved me, I was polite at first , but he was persistant, then I was thoroughly rude and may have shouted. And I missed the fucking train, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

― chris, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never in public, though I did kick the wall outside Jigsaw on Saturday in fit of pique with boyfriend+Christmas shopping. I keep my throwing things tantrums to the kitchen, usually.

― Ellie, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will often shout at people who push me in busy places or perhaps even not so busy places, ahem, Brewer St about 10.30 on Friday night. It makes me VERY grumpy and I lash out. But I am not hard at all so I shouldn't really. Other examples where I can be angry in public are when people make assumptions about me or steal my ILE Dream Date Prize leading to me spilling Toms pint, sorry Tom. I can be rather hot headed after some of the DEMON DRINK ahem, sorry for picking a FITE with you Magnus whenever that was. I did not feel good about it, just a bit angry and confused but as I cannot remember what it was about now that should be okay.

― Sarah, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Joei once told a guy who shoved her on a train platform that he needed to watch where the fuck he was going. He pulled a knife out and told her she needed to watch who the fuck she yelled at.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The last time I got angry in public was on a hot day recently. Afterwards I felt neither ashamed nor good.

― maryann, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I never lose my temper in public, I think I am too afraid of being hit. Although if that cunt had touched the Pinefox or any of my other friends once more I think I may have smashed his fucking face in...

But anyway...

I recently lost my temper with a friend on a train journey together, when she was being a selfish little cow and not letting me listen to any of her tapes. This only resulted in me not talking to her for an hour and a half though. I don't really do shouting, as a rule.

― Ally C, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Short-term classic, loooooooong term dud (if said explosion involves people you still know & like).

― David Raposa, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am too stoic to lose my temper in public, even though I can understand DG's outburst! I tend to vent my fury on inanimate objects. Which is really useful... hmm

― Will, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A little bout of pedestrian rage last Sunday. On passing McDonalds, a rather large oriental looking chap walked into me whilst talking on his mobile and eating a hamburger. Nothing wrong with that, but he tutted at me, which at the time conveyed such an overwhelming combination of ignorance and contempt that I couldn't contain myself. I called him a fucking twat and gave him a thousand yard stare. He walked off quickly.

I know I ought to be more tolerant at times, but it's hard to be a gentleman in Oxford Street and I did feel better for it.

― Trevor, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A girl I was with last night got into an argument with a gas station clerk over a fake 20$ bill. She didn't know it was counterfeit but he was very suspicious and refused to provide service. As they were yelling 'Fuck You' to each other, other people walked in and the clerk tried to make them his support team against her. Afterwards she said she felt terrible, but it wasn't shame... it was rage (and she says she will pipebomb the gas station when she gets the chance).

― Honda, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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