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.

People that do this on budget airline flights because they won't pay the fee to sit next to their own children then complain when others won't move for them drive me mad. Ryanair et al should INSIST that anyone flying with a child under 12 MUST pay to seat the child next to one of the adults in the party.

I know they have a policy of deliberately splitting up people on one booking who opt not to pay the fee to book seats together. My husband and I never do, because it's always a short flight and we rarely fly at peak times, so we almost always manage to sit together once boarding is complete. And if we can't, well it's only an hour or two at most for us, so it's no biggie. But for people with children it's really not on to go up and down the plane pressuring other people to move. They may have chosen their seat for a reason and paid extra to do so.

When you find someone sitting in your pre booked seat on a train.

Excuse me that's my seat.

Can you sit in a different seat as someone was sat in mine.

Erm, no, that's my seat.

All that will happen is that someone else will come and get on and ask me to move from their seat, and it continues.

Or, we could just all sit in the seats we have or have not booked.

WTF!!

Oh that email would so accidentally have gone to my spam. I'd never have seen it.

Another plane one… had paid extra for an aisle seat on a red eye transatlantic flight. Turned up and there was a child in my seat. Child had a seat next to his mum but wanted to sit next to his 14 year old sister and so he ‘needed’ mine. Mum offered me his seat in exchange…. The middle seat out of a row of 5!!! Said absolutely hell no. Child and mum both start crying. All for children sitting with parents, but he did have a seat next to his mother!! Literally made no sense! Did get upgrade to a bulk head seat in the end so alls well that ends well I guess

At the gym. I had just got on a machine. Young bloke came up and asked if he could jump on ahead of me. Basically he wanted me to get off so he could get on. I said no. He waited by the machine I was on. I used it for 10 minutes extra than I usually would.
Another time, I got on a machine near a bloke using another machine. He turned round and told me he was using my machine as well. I carried on.
On leg machine, had just got on. Random bloke came up and asked me how long I would be on it for. I gave him a look and told him I usually used it around 10 minutes.

For some reason that reminds me of Fran in Black Books and her new relatives… honestly the chutzpah of some people eh?!

I know he would have emailed and emailed and probably called my work phone (it’s on our work website) if I didn’t reply sadly. He really is that much of an arse!

Staying with a friend in a really popular seaside town a few years ago and ended up at a hen do. At the do was a woman who chatted with me for a bit then added me on Facebook.

A year later I get a message out of the blue from her. " Hi hun. Let's catch up. We got on so well at the hen do didnt we? It would be so lovely to see you. Shall the kids and I come and stay?"

I realised she assumed I lived in the really popular seaside town and fancied a free holiday. So I decided to call her bluff and sent a reply along the lines of this.

"Hey Hun. Oh that would be so nice. Yes come and stay. I dont live in popular seaside town but in Grim Northern Town. Can't wait to see you"

She didnt reply then deleted me off Facebook. Cheeky cow.

That reminds me of a friend of mine during Covid. We'd met for a walk, and I had a bottle of water. She didn't, and asked me if she could have a drink from my bottle, but before I drank from it "Just in case".

I have no words!

Arriving at a the local theatre to find a child sat in one of our seats. A woman sat next to him had another child on her knee. I had booked three seats for me and dc. She looked at me and said but I could only get 1 seat can’t you put 1 of your children on your knee? DS was about 11 DD about 8. I booked 3 seats so we all had a seat. Not to give 1 away. She ended up with 2 pre school children on her knee. Both my children have autism ds struggles with eye contact. So he got upset with this woman giving us the evil eye and didn’t enjoy the show as much.

You let your child chatter away and ruin someone else's cinema trip because you didn't like where she sat? Not sure she's the entitled one here.

I had a work friend ask to pick her, her dog and baggage up from a busy train station, miles away, on a bank holiday. Bear in mind, I hate driving to strange places, or on motorways and she knows this. I did say dh might do it but I'd have to ask him later as he was away.
Me and dh were talking about his mum as she'd been unwell and taken to hospital, mentioned about the lift briefly but said we'd talk properly when he got home.
In the meantime, "friend" had for some reason assumed we were going to defo pick her up and sent an effusive thank you message, asking me to let her know what time so she could book her train ticket. When I politely said hang on a minute, not definite yet, and me and dh had spent the time talking about his mum, not her lift requirements, she got extremely shitty.
Several shitty messages via Facebook messenger, general unpleasantness at work, awful behaviour to my dh etc so I reported it to management.
We didn't pick her up.

Did you read the bit where literally the whole cinema was empty. Theoretically the woman had every right to sit there, but really, who actually does that?

So, you were the woman!

That road did have a lot of weirdos. I had a neighbour post her car keys through my letterbox with a twenty pound note asking me to fill it up with petrol. We were literally 0.5mile from a filling station. I took them back to her and said no and she explained that she was not comfortable turning right!!! I explained (god knows why at this point) that if she went around the block it would be all left turns. But who knows why she though it my job!
Apparently according to ex neighbours she still has a car and is still batshit.

That's just awful @Jellywife

When I took my grandmother's family photos - which were kept loose in a mess in a large tin in her loft - having gone through them with her and I took them away to sort, some of my relatives took umbrage and made a huge fuss (my loving aunts and uncles apparently). They calmed down when I returned them named, sorted and in several nice quality albums (predigilisation times). I was about 19/20 at the time. What did they think? That I was just going to keep them all for myself?

Although once my grandmother died all the albums disappeared (hypocritcally)

Yes I read it. I still don't think it justifies letting your child be a nuisance. People who treat the cinema like their own living room and talk all through the film get on my wick.

Perfect for me to pop this in here, thank you OP.
Nice pub lunch out today that accepts dogs. Used Ladies on way out and whist washing hands the woman next to was rinsing out a dog bowl with gravy etc in. She must have felt my icy stare and explained she always shares her lunch with the dog. I gave her an eye-roll ‘lovely’ ….
Reported to management who eye-rolled too and said she’d send housekeeping could have used the outside tap!
Height of entitlement!

I worked with a real piss taker,she'd open her mouth and people would scatter

Anyway,one day she tried to dump a shift (as she couldn't be arsed) claiming lack of childcare as the reason (both the ex husband and her then new girlfriend who worked with us where off that day and could have done it)

Work saw through this bullshit and said 'no,we need you in'

Cue a shit ton of tears and asking everyone to have these feral kids-everyone said 'no' including me as I was at work 4-11pm and she wanted someone to have them from 6am-2pm and it would be too much

More tears but she claimed to have sorted something out and we all breathed a sigh of relief

Fast forward to the day-my doorbell rang off the hook at 5:50am

She'd driven the kids to my front door and dumped them off before driving off

I rang work to say I'd never agreed to having them and she'd better pick them up or I'd be phoning social services

She thought I was joking and told work I'd agreed and she needed the money,how dare I do this to her?

Work where not happy about being stuck in the middle of this but couldn't do much and had to let her leave to come and get them-by this time,the kids had trashed my house and helped themselves to what was in the fridge even though I was running around trying to stop the pair of them

She was fuming and shouted at me on my own doorstep before dragging them out and leaving

She left work not long after,blaming me as the reason (I don't really care)

Her ex and her then girlfriend (i work with him and his wife who was this womans girlfriend to start with-its a long story) and both said they couldn't do it as they both fancied a lie in that day

As it was,I was so angry I couldn't get back to sleep and did an 18 hour day by the time I finished work

I've never been so angry In my life at her and the other pairs entitlement-they are not my kids and not my responsibility

When I helped run a volunteer led playscheme (all run properly, just nobody got paid) we had a system where people who volunteered for more than 3 sessions in a week didn't have to queue up to register their children, they could do so in advance. Obviously we needed to know who was available and when, and they needed to know they could bring their kid with them, hence the system.

We had one woman complaining that it was horrendously unfair that some people didn't get spaces (we never had enough) yet volunteers got priority.

We ran two sessions a day, and took all the kids on a trip for the whole day on the Friday for £5 a week (thanks to funding from a very generous local businessman). And she still complained about the "perks" the volunteers got. She even suggested it would be fairer if I sent my two kids to the local £45 a day playscheme sometimes 😂

She complains even more now as the £45 a day scheme is £55 a day, and it's now the only holiday club locally as folks like her made everyone quit the other one.

That is bloody outrageous. Where’s the gobsmacked emoji when you need it?

Er... It was Random Woman who didn't like it. The OP and her dd had got there first, and were sitting in an otherwise completely empty cinema. This woman could have sat anywhere else, but decided to sit right next to them instead. If she'd wanted peace and quiet to see the film she could have seated herself at a sensible distance away, but no.

And did she even offer to volunteer once? No she didn’t. I work with volunteers and I totally recognise this CF behaviour. Think the world exists for their benefit.