What's the dumbest thing you've ever witnessed someone get offended by?

I had a lady very offended because I would not let her hold my few days old baby.

This was a complete stranger at the grocery store.

On my whiteboard at work, I'd written the slogan,

No matter what happens, someone will find a way to take it too seriously. After about a week,

someone from HR came by and asked me to remove it because they had received a complaint. The irony

was worth it. A lady started yelling at the cashier and tried to jump over the counter

for checking the $100 bill she paid with. Wouldn't you say that this is a good reason to be even more suspicious of somebody?

Years ago, a woman came into my work and brought a black stove.

The guys take the box up there to her and she flips the F out because the box said,

Negro on it.

Everyone tried explaining to her that it was the Spanish word for black, but she left

there saying we were all racists. Politicians in the UK wanted to ban the term brainstorm,

because it could offend people with epilepsy. At a restaurant years ago, and this guy ordered a soup,

he pulled a bay leaf out of the soup and went

freaking mental. There's a leaf in my soup, and was convinced that it was off the tree outside.

Manager continued to explain that it was a bay leaf, an ingredient for flavor, and this guy wasn't having it.

Since then, any time my wife cooks a soup, we treat the leaf like the bean in a cake,

and whoever finds it gets a free rein over being super grumpy, as long as it's in a jest.

I used to frequent a drive-thru near my job on my lunch breaks. After they repeated my order

and told me to pull forward, I always said, thanks, before I drove to the window. One day the manager

comes to the window and says, hey, I'm going to tell you something. Every time you come here and

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