I read the medical history of a patient I cared for on a geriatric ward of a mental hospital. The admitting physician had duly noted that the parents stated the (then 16 year-old) boy had "destroyed the bean field". I feel I can say with some certainty that the parents had said something more along the lines of, "He was a-tearin' up the pea patch" which, when translated from the country vernacular, means he threw a tantrum.

The patient, when I knew him, was 72 and had been in the mental hospital all those many years.