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.

I was going home from work on a packed commuter train (local train, no seat reservations) - fortunately I had found a seat. The man in the seat in front of me had a spare seat next to him - several people made to sit there, but he turned them away saying he was 'saving it for someone'.

I thought this was CF behaviour in itself, but then the train pulled out and the seat was still empty. His friend eventually got on two stops down the line.

A neighbour who had recently bought a property next door to me in a small cul-de-sac, worked for a large construction company and decided to install his own dropped kerb outside his garage. Why he didn't just apply through the usual route I'll never know, probably thought he would save some money. I don't know how the council found out but they managed to reinstate the kerb while he was at work one day and installed two bollards outside of his garage to boot; I moved shortly after so never found out if he managed to get them removed 😆

I was with an ex bf for five years. Lived together, and the relationship ended due to him cheating on me. Five years later he contacted me to ask if I could provide him with a reference for a child adoption he was going through with the woman he had cheated on me with! We had looked after his niece for nearly a year when we lived together due to her mother going through issues, so he clearly thought I was a good choice to provide a reference. I sat on the email for a few days, formulating in my head what I would respond to him with, but in the end just messaged back to his long email with ‘No’, and left it at that…..

Tired that’s saying the unsayable but i think some truth. Some have the mindset that someone else pays because the state does.

My mother was a primary school teacher and did some tutoring for a lad that was behind. It was clearly on a paid basis. After a few sessions she asked the mum for payment the response “education is free in this country”. Fortunately the mum was the lame duck in a successful local family and her mortified brother paid my mum.

Where is the laughing emoji when needed?

I work in a hospital. The amount of people who come in as inpatients for something minor and then sadly lose the use of their arms, legs (and manners!) is overwhelming. A young fit woman whose tray was directly in front of her with a drink on it waved me down urgently to ask can you get me a drink? I told her where to get her own cup of coffee and she started in about me not doing my job! ...she got up to the loo and applied her make up before the Dr's round with no troubles and the bathroom was further then the kitchenette! Another one is when a patient's family member feels that nurses should be at THEIR beck and call just because their family member is in hospital....can you get me a sandwich? Can you make me a coffee? Can you let little Johnny run around in the nurse's station so I can get a bit of peace and quiet..... Oh and the oldie but goodie... making snide comments about nurses only watching their netflicks on the computers instead of making cups of tea for everyone... (most blood results, referrals to various places like social workers, physio's etc, and general nursing notes are online these days..so we NOT playing on our computers - we are working). Oh and the druggy who flung open the curtains whilst I was doing CPR on a real person in a real emergency to announce he was fed up waiting for his next lot of meds. Oblivious to the fact that someone was dying and we were trying to save them!

I had a similar experience in an empty train carriage once. I'm sat all alone a happy looking out of the window travelling into London on a mid morning train

The train stops and another woman gets on and comes and sits in the seat right next to me !!!! In a totally empty carriage.

I was so freaked out I got up and moved.

One that is quite sad.... my dear old Mum was days away from dying and in a ward with the most vile woman next to her. We kept the curtains drawn as much as we could.
All the old bag kept doing was complaining at 'all the attention' my Mum was getting.... yes love, she's dying and in pain and the Doctors are trying to make things better for her and we're waiting to move her to a hospice

Vile woman kept trying to talk to me to complain that it wasn't fair that my Mum got nurses and doctors far more than she did... I just kept ignoring her and pulling the curtain back in her face. She never stopped. It was horrible and I didn't want to upset my Mum who kept asking what the woman next to her was saying.

Over 20 years ago and you never forget the horrible CFery.

@CarterBeatsTheDevil - I think the poster you quoted is talking about taxpayers and benefit claimants in the country she moved to, not the UK.

EDITED: ignore me. I misread ‘county’ as ‘country’. Totally agree with what you said in relation to the UK. (And I’m reminded that I need to make an optician appt!!)

Wow, what did she say after you said no, @greyfrontdoor ? Did she still want to take the original job? I would have emailed back saying "that is batshit crazy entitlement, the answer is no and the original now offer is now rescinded."

It's in the emoji list, bottom right at the end of the text box.

I don't want to derail this most excellent and enjoyable thread, but just to say how much I wish we'd stop using the word 'Nazi' to indicate irritating behaviour. There are many cultures (my own included) and people whose familial experience of Nazis was not a little questionable grammatical correction. Please, as you were. Let the fuckery continue!

It's still there in the emoji list at the bottom right underneath the text box. You just posted it yourself.

She means the react laughing emoji

Cue loads of negative comments towards her.

I think you’ll find that ‘queue’ is how it should be spelt 😉

But yes, what a cow, well played!

This has happened to me:

Young bloke: "How long will you be?"
Me: "As long as I need"

Do you mean your family gave you a copy of the will? For a couple of quid you can get a genuine copy from the probate service here
https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate

And if it is not the same as the one your family have given you can get them into big legal trouble.... especially the dodgy solicitor.

My goodness that’s really quite something! What goes through some people’s heads that they think this is ok !!

Seen a few cinema related ones on here which made me remember the time I went and a woman in my screening let her small child watch peppa pig out loud on an iPad DURING the film and her older child kept jumping out of his seat and running down the aisles and then screaming when she’d occasionally catch him and bring him back to his seat. This was a peak time viewing at a weekend and the screening was full

That reminds me of exDP: He couldn't understand why I was upset that he was scrubbing his muddy walking boots with the washing up brush in the washing up bowl. He has a PhD but was deliberately obtuse.

Touch of the Hyacinth Bucket going on here.

There used to be an instagram account called CouldYouSewThisForMe, which posted stories of entitled CFs asking for sewing ‘favors’ and the sewist invariably being screwed over. The comments section was always hilarious. Account no longer exists, unfortunately.

Agreed. I experienced on a train on Saturday - young woman sitting next to me . I'm autistic too and there are certain sounds that I am VERY hyperactive to. I couldn't switch seats either because the train was full.

No worse that rinsing piss off your hands.

oh look..it's the spelling police.......get a life