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.

Well said. People make spelling mistakes for all sorts of reasons - to jump to the conclusion that they’re uneducated and then say that publicly really does indicate an utterly dreadful sort of person

Happened to me and DH - got on the train and two CFs were sitting in our clearly booked seats. It was one of those seats at a table and facing forward (I get nauseous if my back is to the engine). I showed them our tickets and very politely asked them to move. As the carriage was pretty empty I assumed that they'd just get two equally nice seats elsewhere. But no, they simply moved around to the other side of the table. Uh, ok. So my rather petty revenge was to get my slightly autistic brainiac husband to talk about philosophy for two hours non-stop. I could see they were wilting after about an hour, but were too stubborn to admit defeat and move.

Oh okay, yeh we only saw the one the family had. Thank you, I will look into that. this will be very interesting indeed

This reminds me of the time when I put an almost new baby swing on marketplace for a third of retail price. My DC didn’t like it so it was hardly used.

A lady showed up to collect it and asked me if I’d give her a discount. Apparently they’d just bought a puppy and were strapped for cash with a puppy and a newborn. Some people are beyond help.

Except that if she didn’t earn enough, she would not have to pay the government back.
I expect her mother wanted her money back quicker.
If the mother had the money, she could have given her child her tuition fees and living expenses. Parents these days just don’t feel they have any obligations to their children. They would just rather spend the money on a cruise etc.

In which case you've made a grammatical error in terms of your subject pronoun order. It's preferable to put 'I' last when referring to yourself and others as the subject of a sentence. Hope that helps...

Dh’s friend was living in a Spain ( dh is Spanish) and wanted to move to England to work.
His wife and three kids were to stay behind

The plan was that he would stay with us for a month ( we live in Kent ) and then he would move to Stoke ( where he said he had a job).
Not a problem
Arrived home from work one day to find ‘friend’, ‘friend’s wife and three kids in my home . Suitcases all over the place
The CF had arranged for his family to stay in our home without telling us. He had even assigned the bedrooms .
When questioned his reasoning was that he didn’t want to be away from his family and didn’t want to live in Stoke so he thought that as dh was a friend that we should take care of him and his family for at least a year or two .
He deliberately waited until his wife and kids arrived to pull this stunt .
I just told Dh to sort it out . Dh told his friend that they could stay for a week and then they would have to sort themselves out because we could not afford to take care of five extra people .
Dh’s friend’ was furious and refused to speak to me for the duration of the stay. He blamed me for dh’s decision
They eventually moved out after three days and rented two rooms in his cousin’s house .
After six months he managed to find a three bedroomed house to rent .
We see him occasionally at weddings , parties but he does not speak to us

Please tell me it was you with the weedkiller? I'm howling!

He must know my ex-husband, they sound like kindred spirits!!

Who in earth said they were uneducated? There isn’t a comment on here telling that poster she was uneducated. But she was using the entirely wrong word for what she was talking about, and everyone else knew it. Just not her. Leaving someone ignorant when everyone else is looking at it thinking, “um…” is just mean. She should be aware of it, so it doesn’t happen again.

My friend unofficially stopped speaking to me recently (just stopped answering calls and saying she was busy everytime I asked if she wanted to hang out) this went on for months. Then one day out of the blue she messages me asking if I can look after her 6 yo daughter for the ENTIRE day, including a 40 min round trip to pick her up and drop her off, so that my ‘friend’ could go to some friend’s birthday day out. I WISH I’d called her out on it but I couldn’t be bothered with the drama and just told her I was busy and couldn’t do it.

I have had a lot of similar experiences with air and train seat idiots.

My favourite train seat experience is getting on a train at London KX, finding my seat and sitting down, nice and early. I had reserved a seat as it is mandatory for the online advance purchase I made.

A youngish guy gets on my (almost empty, hardly any reserved seats) carriage, comes up to me and tells me "Move. You're in my seat". Very terse and very rude.

I'm , "Um. no, I'm in my reserved seat What seat number is on your ticket?" trying to defuse his stroppy attitude.

He refuses to answer, demands again that I move and when I refuse insists I show him my ticket. I decline to move or show him my ticket until he at the very least checks his own ticket.

He rants and raves a bit more, looming over me, and the train guard arrives and asks what is going on. Guard insists he shows his ticket and of course Captain Numpty has a seat reserved elsewhere, in fact just across the aisle from me. He grudgingly sits in it, no apology whatsoever for his aggression and rudeness.

Train starts to fill up and I overhear Gobby ask another passenger does the train go to a certain town. Reassured by the yes answer, Gobby goes to sleep.

Of course we get to his destination and Gobby is still in dreamland. I guess the poor dear wore himself out with all the unnecessary yelling earlier. I wait until the train is gently pulling out of the station to deposit my empty coffee cup in the bin behind Gobby's seat with a loud clang. Perfect timing for Gobby to open his eyes and see the platform signs receding into the distance. He gets rather agitated when he finds out he has a good hour delay now he has to get a train back from the next stop. I of course was all innocent face but dying of laughter inside.

I had similar at Frankfurt Airport security. I think they'd had a security alert: those of us needing transit flights were made to leave the secure area, traipse round the airport (in my case, take a train) continue to traipse and finish up the other side of where we'd started in order to go through security checks...which took an age - much longer than the checks for my outward flight or the first leg of the return.

I had an hour to go before my flight, but was beginning to get nervous.

An entire family opened up one of the barrier tapes and clambered to the head of the queue. I'd no idea which language they spoke, but turned round and said "Cheeky buggers!"

At this point the father turned round and (with an English accent) explained that their flight to Sarajevo was leaving in 10 minutes, so I said "In that case, I forgive you." I had some sympathy - they were also in transit - but he didn't even ask.

By contrast, another lady going on the same flight (and obviously Bosnian) asked permission for herself and her grandchild to do the same.

I think that she might have made it, but I don't think the rest did - security took much longer to check their backpacks etc - they seemed to have an enormous amount of hand luggage and items were being opened up and checked as well as the normal x-ray.

I got through with time to spare, but then I only had a small carry-on bag and my handbag. (My case was in the hold.)

You’re correct for BA and Easy jet but not for Ryanair. Last time I flew with them I got 1A, DH 13 B and DS 30F. The algorithm must have been working overtime. Funny thing was DS’ French teacher was on the flight and seated him nearby! 😂

This was way back in the year now - in the Spring from memory - hopefully since then he has reapplied for the decree absolute which is readily available and features all of the information he needs.

😂

We had a train one. Got to our seats with our young children and a twenty something blue haired couple were sitting in our booked seats. Dh politely but firmly asked them to move. They did with much huffing.

Then they came back with the ticket inspector to point Dh out! The inspector told Dh off for making the couple feel upset and unsafe! Dh said he had been perfectly reasonable then a man in the next seat said “I don’t know any of them but he was perfectly polite”. About 3 other surrounding random stranger passengers all spoke up to confirm Dh had been normal and polite. The couple and the inspector slunk off. HA!!

Neighbours in two semis, only houses in the road with no off-street parking, car parked in front of house with note on the windscreen."Please do not park here, we have two children, one is disabled". The "children" were a 19yr old son who always reversed into our drive rather than go up the road to turn round, used to hear him hitting the wheelie bins when they were put out. I was told he'd already smashed up one car. Daughter 16ish did have some speech/learning issues but no mobility problems at all...they wouldn't have got disability parking.
The other house, friend visited who hadn't been before. Went out to look for her, she was talking to the husband who I thought was pointing out our house. No it was "you can't park here, my wife's been to the supermarket and she'll need to unload".

Years ago when my son was small I had a Christmas job in a well known high street jewellers. There was an incentive scheme for staff to sell certain products. A woman I worked with tried to persuade me to buy an expensive limited edition Lord of the Rings ring for my son so she could get the incentive. About £300.
She was a bully and horrible to customers and I just could not believe someone could be so hard faced.

I moved into a house where part of the boundary was the rear end of the neighbour's brick shed. A previous owner had planted ivy against that - it was a mature plant.

Mindful of the neighbour, I kept that ivy under control with regular trimmings.

I broke an elbow and had my arm in a sling. Worried about keeping the neighbour happy, I went out to the back garden and used my one good arm to trim the ivy. It looked fab after I'd finished - an emerald green swarth, only one layer of ivy.

I noticed the neighbour watching from her top window.

After I'd finished trimming it all, she came down and called over a section of the boundary fence. She told me that her shed had damp, that it was caused by the ivy and demanded that I take it down.

This was the first that she'd said anything in the two years I'd lived there and she'd deliberately waited until I'd exerted myself cutting it one-handed.

If she'd only said when I'd moved in, it would have been down.

I used my one good hand to peel off all the ivy. I tried to use my secateurs to cut along the base before applying weedkiller, but wasn't strong enough. I was weeping with frustration. I called a friend and he took his hedgecutter to the bottom and did it for me.

When my broken elbow had recovered, I tackled the section of tall boundary hedge which was entirely on my side of the boundary.

I made a lovely job of cutting the top and my side. I then squeezed myself between the cotoneaster hedge and the fence and hacked her side to bare wood, using my loppers.

An hour later, I heard "Wha done that?! Wha done that?! What a mess!"

I did let it grow back, but my initial petty revenge made me feel better.

Two people have politely corrected not your spelling but you using an incorrect word
You simply didn't know the correct word, now you do
How is that rude?

Could all you bitchy spelling pedants give over please, you're annoying.

> automatically seating minors (at least under twelve) with a responsible adult
They all do
Things go wrong when, for example, a couple and infant have A, B and then the aircraft give them D in a different row, and they insist other people have to be moved to allow them to sit together, claiming the infant is the one stuck in D

Pedants Anonymous, as an organisation, would obviously correctly capitalise proper nouns

Oh dear, you are actually being serious, how sad