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.

wrong...lol

When we sold our parents' house after they died, we soon found a buyer. The house was in a village and the buyers' parents lived there. Houses rarely went up for sale so they were very keen. Everything went smoothly until near exchange of contracts, when the buyers suddenly asked us to knock £5000 off as a 'goodwill' gesture. Can't imagine why they thought we owed them any goodwill! We said no. They went ahead and bought it,of course.

I think the 😉is there for a reason!

…takes opportunity to be extremely empathetic and declare, loudly, “Oh no, Dear, you’ve forgotten who you are…” raises voice “this person seems to have forgotten who they are - does anyone recognise them?” Turn back to the person and pat their arm “Don’t worry, Dear, I’ll stay until we can find out who you are”

I've just written about an ex friend of mine who lives in a shithole of a house
35 years of living in her house and she's never wiped a side down or cleaned her loo-and she never throws anything out so there is 35 years of crap all over the place
Anyway,she started making noises about painting her house but was skint (bollocks,she's always got enough for her 'wants' in life) but as we'd just finished our house,I offered to run anything left over to paint her house (as long as she liked greens,blues and greys)
Yep,she wanted the paint,so I got dp to run some round
A week or later,I get a snotty message asking when I was planning to go around and not only tidy/clean her house,but when was i painting it for her?
And she fully expected me to buy new rollers,dust sheets etc on my own dime
I cooled the friendship

“Presumably” aww bless you. Yes, correct, I missed the post saying it was a joke after the post that was actually very insulting, which definitely no one had posted, oh but they did after all, oh but it was a joke. Whatever sweetie. We’re annoying people now and getting in the way of everyone enjoying a very good thread. So I’ll take the hint even if you don’t

Same here. If I see that the person behind me has only got one or two items and I've got a major shop, I'll always offer them the chance to go into front of me - but don't just thump them down on the conveyor in front of my stuff and assume it's OK or you will have them chucked back into your own space.

Just love this 😂😂😂😂😂😂

That's reminded me of another 'goodwill' story. I got stranded in Budapest when my flight home was cancelled. Ryanair were no help at all. They told us to sort out our own accommodation and keep the receipts to claim expenses back later. When I did so, they quibbled over the cost of the hotel and later, the price of a sandwich, saying I'd not provided a dated receipt. That email included the dated receipt I'd sent, with the date cropped off. It took me over a year and, eventually, an application to the court before Ryanair paid up. In the accompanying letter, it said they were making the payment (which by then included £100 for all my time and trouble) as a 'goodwill gesture'.

My son borrowing my sewing machine to sew some patches on the backs of waistcoats for his 'wife to be's' brothers at the wedding 3 years ago for me to never see it again. A couple of months ago declaring his sewing machine broke.

Couple of weeks ago "borrowing" our DIY vacuum for a couple of days to have a phone call asking if they can keep it because theirs broke!!

So many, so just a few highlights:

School PTA. A small but dedicated group who bent over backwards (on top of jobs and families and all the other things we were involved with) to organise events for the children. Always the same few people doing all the grunt work. We would regularly ask (nicely) for more people to help but rarely would anyone volunteer.

We would support the school’s Xmas concert by selling mince pies, raffle tickets and videos of the show. The show would start at 9:30 and parents would start queuing outside from about 8:30, often in the rain and cold. We could hear them moaning while we were running around like blue arsed flies setting everything up.

We let the volunteers put their coats on seats before set up - a bit of a perk as they would be rewarded for all of their support over the year with a front row seat for the show.

One parent spotted this and agreed to help with the shows, showing lots of enthusiasm for how much support she would be. She was a childminder and turned up with 3 toddlers and a baby, plonked a double pushchair in the front row and a coat across 2 other seats, changed 3 nappies and put them under her seat) and then sat there waiting in the warm with a flask of tea (we sold tea for 50p and most people would buy one with a mince pie to support the school) and various snacks for her mindees. She did fuck all to help anyone else.

Before the doors got opened I gave the Headteacher a quick appraisal and ensured I had his support, then told CF (whilst picking up her coat) she would have to move to the back near the door in case any of her mindees needed taking out, and that as she had only bought 1 (£2) ticket, she could only have 1 seat. She tried to (loudly) protest that she was a volunteer (I almost had to hold the actual volunteers back!) when the HT asked what she had contributed to proceedings bar 3 dirty nappies. He told her she could take those to x room’s bin and rejoin the back of the queue outside so that the toddlers weren’t able to continue to trash the front of the stage as they were doing.

Her face was an absolute picture.

Many years later and a charity I was involved with was providing services for the King’s Coronation. The central area had a strict security barrier that would close at something like 8am with nobody in or out after that. One volunteer wanted to be “up front” but didn’t want to get there before 8am to do so. They were offered alternative roles outside of the security area but they didn’t want those. They wanted us to see if the timing of the coronation could be pushed back so they didn’t have to get up so early! They were told they could be there at 7:30am
as required or not at all. (They did manage to get themselves there in the end!)

I had a similar one, also in Leeds. A family turned up and said that we were in their seats. We compared tickets and we did seem to have the same seat reservations, but the light up display above the seats showed the reservation to be from our town to London, not from Leeds. They called the conductor and he pointed out that they were on the wrong train - they were supposed to be on one that left five minutes later. I did feel a bit sorry for them, as you wouldn't expect two trains to the same place to leave so close together. But they had been a bit stroppy.

My dad asked me to look after his dog whilst he went on holiday, I said no as my step son was terrified of dogs and would be with us half the week . Dad then said I'd have to pay for kennels in that case (and I did! - madness).

There’s time and place for education.
If somebody’s posting in distress and makes a mistake you don’t correct them.

I’m really confused what the issue is here

@WickedWitchOfTheEast87

Good for you on both occasions!

Also, I totally agree that when asking a favour people often wreck their chances by entitled behaviour. If someone asks nicely and I can help, I often do - it’s totally the sense of entitlement which is unbearable and anyone challenging this is fighting the good fight!

I’m struggling to see what the lady what baked a loaf did wrong?
baking bread takes time and freshly baked bread is lovely, plus some really nice butter to go with it…I wouldn’t be complaining. What did I miss?

Did you post about that before, or are there at least two CF ex-H who still rely on the womenfolk to remember stuff for them?

My brother and his now wife had a dog called dolly (I'm nc with brother as he's a twat and I've never met his wife)

They bred her and kept a puppy for themselves-dotty

I didn't know they had one dog,let alone two,when my ds mentioned dolly had,very sadly grown a lump on her leg and it turned out to be cancer

They took her to 3 different vets and all the vets said it would be best to have dolly put down but they refused,running up massive vet bills as they went

Sadly dolly died and I got an invoice for over 6k and a demand to pay it

They'd told everyone I'd been dolly and dottys owner but they'd stepped in and taken both dogs as I was mistreating them and I owed the money

I've never owned one dog,let alone two and laughed at them before blocking them on every channel

I have no idea if they paid up but I do know they are still saying they where the hero's at rescuing them

Had just moved to a new area, when the neighbour asked if they could borrow the ride-on mower as they had a problem with theirs. Next thing I know their young teenage kid was racing it up and down the path with his friend, taking it in turns after the grass had been cut, and returned it once it had run out of fuel. No gesture from the parents to top it up. The following week they came and asked to borrow it again - it was a firm no!

Yep I did that was me - that's what I meant when I said the thread is on here somewhere - sorry I could have been clearer, I meant that my original thread is on here somewhere.

No…surely not.

Just no…no one could be this unaware.

Went to a Proms night at Castle Howard, there was an area enclosed by ropes where people who'd paid extra as it was in prime position were able to pitch their seats/picnics.
we got there early and set up just on the outside of the roped off area-great place and we were very pleased. A group pitched up behind us, two women in the group kept commenting on 'why are they sitting in there?', about the few couples/groups who were within the area- my dp turned to them and explained about the premium payment etc- they were quite huffy about it saying its not fair, even though anyone who wanted to could have paid extra to be there
as the evening wore on and much alcohol consumed, the women started dancing, stepping over the ropes into the premium enclosure- plenty of space as only a few people in there, and no-one objected- but that wasn't good enough for said women- they began to dance more wildly and teetered over to some of the people, still no objection from those people, then the women got more brash and 'fell' into the peoples' seats and picnics, making sure they 'fell' more than once- giggling delightedly at their 'oops sorry again' antics
such a shame to spoil it for those people because they were envious.

She took her butter home. Who does that? If you've been eating and drinking someone else's smoked salmon and champagne as nice as it is to bring a homemade loaf and some decent butter, at least leave the leftovers with the hostess. Unless the hostess presses the leftovers back onto you because she genuinely has more than she can store or use up and it's a shame to waste it, it's rude to take your contributions home again.

It would be like me going to a dinner party with a bottle of wine, noticing there is still some in the bottle I brought at the end of the evening, after I've been drinking the host's wine all night, and taking my wine back home with me. Just NO.

Friend, famed for being late, asked me to arrive to pub early just in case she got there early as she didn’t want to wait for me.
No.