It's because they always seem to remind you of a toddler having a meltdown. That whinging wind up before the screaming fit. The unparalleled shock to find out that everyone else is insisting they are not the center of the universe. Or even the local galaxy.

The horror and inevitable denial is simultaneously funny and embarrassing.

You want to feel bad for them because that's a debilitating blow to ones ego but then, good Lord, that ego was just too much. Ego on Miracle Gro. And for what? For what?