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 had my back to the child and his mother. Yes, it wasn't the best way to phrase it, but having someone shouting in your face in a venue full of children doesn't bring out the best in you.

Oh, was that why it was removed? Honestly, this is why we can't have nice things.

My mother was like that. We were on the same medication once, same dosage and she had ran out. She asked for mine to see her through. I'd ask her how many she thought she needed and she wanted all of them and I could do without because 'she needed them more than me'. Very strange people some mothers.

That seems petty and unreasonable of you. You didn't pay for the whole table and all those seats - just your two.

It wasn't 'only used to mock' though - most of the time it was used to show appreciation of something funny. I really miss it.

Probably outing but.

My mum asked me to buy a couple of the houses my sister has on rent.

She needed the cash so she could buy her daughter ( my niece) a house. She's starting a new job in September and needed cash quick.

Apparently I was selfish for not wanting to do this and couldn't see all the benefits of missing out on this opportunity.

When my youngest was 4 months old, I was on a near empty car park. The back door was open as I was getting my daughter out and into her pram and someone was beeping their horn as they wanted and were waiting for the space next to mine. There were no parent and child spaces in this car park and every space in the row I was in was empty including the one the other side of my car, but they insisted clearly on that space that I was delaying getting them into 😂. I get if it was the only space but I started getting my daughter out before they were there and there were lots of spaces. Absolutley no need to be like that at all

People like him get away with it because no-one ever challenges him, he should have been told You can't 'save' a seat on this train, as someone sat down.
We were once driving into a tourist attraction, the parking was just a single row, nose in. As we got to the next free space a man jumped in front of our car and told us he was saving the space for his sister's family, he needed them to park next to him. I refused and waited until he eventually moved but as we exited the car he was screaming at us for being 'racist', he Asian, we should have done what he wanted! Some people don't help themselves.

Old friend of dh celebrating a Very Big Birthday wanted us to join him and his wife for a weekend in London.

We paid for 2 nights’ accommodation, 4 tickets for the West End show he particularly wanted to see (then at least £45 each), and at least one lunch and dinner for 4.

He wanted his birthday Sunday lunch at Simpson’s In The Strand, for their famous roasts, and had said that would be his treat.

When the hefty bill came, he had ‘forgotten his wallet’. He was notorious for this sort of behaviour whenever we ate out together (always as tight as they come) but after he’d specifically said that it’d be his treat, we hadn’t expected it.
On returning to the hotel he still ‘couldn’t find it’, and said nothing about reimbursing dh (who’d uncomplainingly paid up yet again).

It was at least 3 weeks before he reimbursed dh - I suspect still very grudgingly and only after Many Words from his wife! It was the first time I’d seen my always over-generous dh seriously pissed off with him.

Another train one - I've posted this in another thread.

My late DH and I were heading south for a funeral. Booked our seats on the train from Edinburgh to our destination in England.

I was on crutches, following an operation on both my feet. DH was poorly, elderly and still recovering from a triple bypass which had required a second procedure. (Even on crutches, I was in better shape than my husband.)

A younger bloke dumped his cases in our seats as we tried to get into them. We remonstrated, but he grinned and told us to sit elsewhere. "I'm getting off at Carlisle," quoth he, as if that made things all right. Meantime, he sat down the front. Bizarre.

We had to sit in the seats behind - no window.

I waited for the ticket inspector and explained.

"Those aren't your cases?"

"No..."

God bless him, the inspector lifted the cases off the seats and took them away. Not sure where - maybe a luggage compartment.

The train stopped at Carlisle. Bully boy strode confidently up towards us. Looked at the seats in front of us. Gawked. Began running up and down the train. He didn't think to speak to us - well, clearly, a couple of invalids couldn't have lifted them.

I have no idea whether he found his cases or not. Bullying streak of **it.

I was surprised that the people who were standing in the aisles just accepted it - I wouldn't have, if I had been in that position, especially not as the seat hadn't been taken when it left the station.

@R0setheHat Presumably you missed the post which said this was a joke. There was a 🤣 as a clue. What was funny was that in the post @Jumpcutjack linked to, the correct spelling had actually been used.

Completely. I'm loving this thread. The boring argument is getting in the way. Go and argue elsewhere people.

Thought of another.
My friend who I had stopped speaking to over another issue.
she sent an email suggesting we met her in a nearby country they were going on holiday to (she lives abroad). And seeing as we would need somewhere big enough for us and DC, could we get one with an extra bedroom and her and her DH would stay in it for free as it ‘wouldn’t cost us anymore’.

I didn’t even reply. I can only think this was a suggestion of her new DH (never met him or ever will now) as I would never expect that level of CF from her.

This has made me furious - entitled on so many levels and, as you say, a bully.

Excellent use of 'quoth' by the way - five stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I don’t understand your point, are you saying it’s ok or not ok?

You really can’t work it out?!

Dearie me 🙄

Years ago, as I was about to exchange on a house (not this one but the previous one), I got a call from the Estate Agents. The other party had found a house that they preferred to the one they had intended to buy but it was much more expensive so would I agree to fund the difference?

Needless to say, my response to the Estate Agent was, 'And you can directly quote me on this, they can fuck right off! I'll call off the sale altogether.'

I didn't really want to - I really liked the house but I was damned if I was going to fund the lifestyle they wanted, rather than the one that they could afford. Besides, I needed the money for renovations (think kitchen - basically, there wasn't one by the time they'd left and that was only the start).

Oddly enough, the sale went through at the original price.

Yes, but their your kids so you should cater for them. Why should I give my seat up for a stranger's baby? They are your responsibility. My aunt would have sorted them out. One word from her and you would shrink away in shame.

On Ryan air you’re offered a free child seat for under 12 and just pay for yourself to sit near dc.

They should simply require that parties including children pay for all their seats, and that the seats must be adjacent.

But it also made me laugh - the notion of this fatuous idiot running up and down the train looking for his dumped luggage (and possibly missing his stop and having to pay extra because he's now travelling without a valid ticket).

Edited for extra info.

I've got a cf childminder one. In the early 90s and I was struggling to find a cm. Finally found one. I didn't gel, but had nothing concrete enough to not use her. First time cm and just newly registered with council. She had a little girl of 5. One day she said "dd has a specialist dental appointment so you'll need to book al" ok. Then "you'll need to book al because dd is going for more treatment" "poor little thing" I said, so young for that, hope it's not painful.""oh no, she's going to an orthodontist because her modelling agency says she needs them sorting" then it was "you'll need al(rapidly dwindling) because dd has to go to next city to have her portfolio sorted" I made it clear I couldn't use any more because I'd just gone back after maternity leave and only had pro rata for the year. So hump was taken. She was really petty as well, I'd send food and milk for ds, but when it spilt in his bag she charged me for a pint and a boiled egg he had instead. Then she bought an african grey parrot and put my fee up to cover it. When I moved, she threatened to report me for using an unregistered cm.