Tell me your stories of entitlement

[Spidey66]

We’re in the US ATM . We flew London to Seattle so a long flight. We paid extra for premium economy seats, and got good seats.

just before take off, our (front) row were approached by a mother with a new baby (looked like only 3-4 months or so) asking for someone to swap because she had a baby. To cut a long story short, she didn’t get it and stormed off in a huff. Turned out she was actually in economy and wanted a premium seat without premium cost and was wanting one of us to pay premium price and sit in economy! Isn’t that the height of entitlement!!! She thought we should bow down to the fact she had a baby!

I love hearing stories of entitlement. Tell me yours.

My dad thinking I should buy his house (at market value) and let him live there for the rest of his life paying utility bills! He was 57 at the time and in good heath.

Why did he think that was a good idea???

Seen a lot of this. Where do they get that check from???

When someone offered to help me and I said no thanks and that someone else was going to help me.

She threw a right strop on Facebook and got her sister to moan at me

Have experienced the 'Can I have the seat (you paid to book specifically) so my partner and I can sit together ?
I book an aisle seat by choice so was a No. She was very grumpy about it 🤷‍♀️

My ex-husband - who cheated, causing me to divorce him - emailing me out of the blue, to my WORK email (in a job that I wasn't doing when I knew him, so he looked me up online), asking me to confirm the date of our wedding and the date of our decree absolute so that he could fill in a form for security clearance. We divorced in 2007, this email arrived in my inbox earlier this year. The thread is on here somewhere. Stupid entitled toilet goblin.

At the cinema, a family of 4, 2 adults and 2 teenagers swanned in after the film had already started, my husband and I were in the two end seats, then there was a gap of two seats between us and another group. They asked my husband and I to move so they could sit together (there were plenty of other seats they could have sat together at, but they were up towards the front. They were told no.

In a busy bar/restaurant on a Saturday night, the place was rammed. Hubby and I managed to find a table for two and ordered food and drinks via the app. Two ladies then come in to advise us that the table next to us are their friends and can we move? I said not at the moment as there isn’t another free table to move to, plus we had ordered food to come to that table. One of the ladies then stormed off shouting that she was reporting us to the manager, which I guess didn’t go well for her, as no manager was forthcoming.

My mum offered to loan me the money to pay for my university fees / loan, but at 1% below the government interest rate.

The logic was that this was a better interest rate on her savings at the time. Presented as doing me a massive favour.

Thanks mum. I should have taken it and paid it off over a full 40 year term to be petty.

Another airline one. Travellings to the US with a friend years ago. Went online to check in and select seats. Flight was completely full so we didn't get seats together, but did get window seats, one directly behind the other. Upon boarding, I discovered a mother with a small baby (maybe 6 months) were in my row - mother in the aisle, and baby in car seat in middle, lots of baby gear in the window seat (my seat). Politely explained that the window seat was mine. She just said "you can't have that seat" and refused to move. Eventually the steward came along as every one else was seated and flight was getting ready to leave, and I was still standing in the aisle like a lemon. The woman was told to move the baby seat to the window, sit in the middle seat herself, and let me have the aisle seat - safety reasons, as anyone in the window seat would not have been able to get past the baby seat in an emergency. The woman eventually did move, but only after being told she would be removed from the flight if she didn't. Then proceeded to alternate between glaring at me and weeping for the entire flight.

I wonder if this was an attempt to ‘steal’ your order?

My SIL after my mother died. We’d all taken turns clearing the house and they ended up with two huge boxes of photos. I asked if I could take them and get them digitised for all 3 sibs to share. She replied ‘I’m cautious to let them go- there are a lot of pics of my DC’s great grandparents in here’

wtf?! There are a lot of pics of MY DCs great grandparents in there and my own grandparents because we are related you plank.

Sadly the story ends with their house burgled (which was awful) but the pics all ruined after they were strewn across the garden before we resolved it. What an awful year!

toilet goblin! That’s top swearing

Don’t start me on this one! On Friday this week, I had some workmen in. Next door neighbor text me to say whilst I was having this done could they come and do a few things for her. No mention of payment or anything! I was very direct and said yes here’s their number to book them. Reply was ‘but I’m skint and you’ve paid them and they are here already!’ I was like that is not happening!

Fucking hell.

How are people so lacking in shame?!

I remember that thread! The utter cheek of the man!

I had someone asking to borrow my lipgloss, after I'd just applied it. I refused. I think sharing cosmetics is nasty and I get cold sores, so definitely not sharing anything that goes on my mouth.

Omg this is infuriating. did you ever have it out with her? what a nasty woman.

Have posted this before - so sorry. Moved into a new house, some weeks later some neighbours a few houses up said they needed to borrow my car. I explained that my insurance would not cover that but offered to give them a lift if I could. They said no as they were going to a family wedding and if I took them their relatives would know the car was not theirs! I supposed I should be flattered really they had looked up the street and decided on mine! Weirdos.

My SIL isn't speaking to DH and I because we called her out on something terrible that she did.
She recently messaged out of the blue (via one of her older children, as I have blocked her number), asking if we had any hand-me-downs from my DS to hers.

No 'Hello' or 'Sorry for my abhorrent behaviour', just 'This is (SIL). Do you have any clothes/shoes we could have for X?'

How about 'no'.

My SiL experienced a real CF after her mother died. A general invitation went round the family, asking them to take anything they might like before the house was cleared.

The wife of a grandson of the dead woman, so no blood relation, swooped straight in and helped herself to all the jewellery!

I’m pleased to say that they made her give it all back.

My friend wanted me to do an hour round trip to pick her up from a central city train station as she would have to wait 45 mins for her connecting train (15 min journey) to our home town.

I straight up just said ‘no’. And it felt good.

(She wasn’t in a rush, and there was no emergency. She just couldn’t be arsed to wait 45 mins in a large train station with lots of shops and cafes).

So not self entitled but into weird but you have just reminded of a cinema experience....
I took my daughter 7 to the cinema to see Snow White movie. We had the ENTIRE place to ourselves. Totally empty. Big recliner seats, I was in heaven. I get social anxiety. Right at the start a woman come in. She looked about. And walked to our row. Walked right up, missed a seat and sat right next to us. The entire place was empty. I smiled, said hi, feeling a bit weird or thinking, so maybe she doesn’t see folk much or is anxious. She gave me the biggest dirty look and ignored me. She huffed when my daughter spoke. Which usually I would be like sshhh but I let be her talk away. Cf. Some folk are entitled. Others are just plain fking weird.

Oh wasn't that a Kate and Meghan storyline?

I really don’t know. But she is shameless and tries to make out you are being horrid to HER. Nightmare.

Which one?

I am so fascinated by CF’s that I’ve considered, honestly, doing a psychology course to try and understand their mentality, I just don’t get it. Like the current thread about the woman who wants a poster to look after her infant for 4 days so she can go on holiday with her partner and is genuinely upset and angry that she was told no. Do CF’s have literally no self awareness or empathy?