Getting angry is completely normal, but losing your temper over a cuppa is perhaps like a storm in a teacup.
This is what happened in Wiltshire when a man lost his cool over slow arrival of his afternoon tea. Such was his rage that he assaulted two people and left a trail of destruction across the grounds of a stately home.
According to a report in The Times, the man, who claimed that his order had been forgotten, became verbally abusive towards a waitress and pushed her. A customer who intervened was also assaulted.
On his way out he drove his car backwards and forwards, striking a passerby and a car before speeding away through a boundary fence. The report said the trailing rope and metal stakes also knocked a mother and her eight-year-old daughter to the ground. The girl suffered minor injuries.
The incident took place at the Coach House Tea Rooms, near Swindon, on March 12.
Wiltshire police are appealing to witnesses to come forward and help in identifying the man.
Well, it seems the anger in the man cannot be justified, but every person has differing levels of tolerance, so what may seem like a “trivial” thing to one, may actually be quite a mountain of an issue to another.
