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 off work for a few weeks when DD was changing CM and I was stuck so I had to pick her up.
One of the mums clocked I was off and rang me to pick her DD twice with some excuse and then didn’t get her for hours.
She then tried it ahain the next week saying she was in town unable to get a bus but I had gone back to work. First she asked if she CM could take her as it would just be a ‘play date’ I said that wasn’t a thing.
CM saw her running out of her house to go get her.

She used to get a lift with a mum and her son for an activity for her DD, then she started saying she couldn’t come as she was ‘waiting for a parcel’, every week so could they just take DD for her. Then she would ring to get them to pick up some being for DDs dinner on way back and would be very difficult about paying them back. She then tried to suggest they PAID for her DD as they were taking her.

There’s loads more with her, so glad DD left primary and went to different schools to hers.

My niece (likely 6 at the time) asking if she could have an item from my home. When I said no as it was something important to me she casually mentioned “ok, I’ll have it when you die”.

To be clear CF was my SIL (not niece) who would regularly talk in front of her children to people about what they’d inherit from who (all assumed).

Still makes my chuckle. Even more so as I know the actual contents of my will.

I used to work in NHS department, someone put my name down for the milk rota, did not ask me, this involves keeping an eye on the milk in the fridge and when it was my "turn" to bring in 20 pints of milk,, ermm NO, I lived 20 miles away do I look like a fucking milkman? I am not carting tons of milk into work

Told em to take 🙄me off this rota immediately, i used to just bring my own drinks and lunch in, i was only part time

I used to work for a very vocal feminist boss who used to start her day complaining about men in one way or another (often that they had 'undressed her with their eyes) on the train journey in (very hard to believe).

One of her common rages was that they hadn't give up their seat for her!

OMG yes. It's rife. I timed one once- 6 mins on phone then 45 seconds using the machine. Fair enough if you have a youtube workout on but I only saw this once. It is so selfish, and frustrating if you want to use the machine. Fair enough if specific pause times between reps but 6 minutes??

I've got one!! Worked with a woman who used to be a friend till I saw through her. We work evenings and she always used to get Friday's off cos of emergencies. Anyway one week she was desperate to have the Friday off as her daughter was starting high school that day and she wanted to go pick her up from school after cos she her daughter was so anxious about it. As a parent myself I felt sympathy for her.

Anyway on the Friday she then shared a whole load of pictures of her drunk night out. I messaged her Saturday asking how her daughter was when she picked her up? Her text back? What do you mean I didn't get her?"

A similar vein when she said she couldn't come in cos her sister had a late miscarriage. When she came back to work I asked how her sister is and she was all confused about what I was taking about. I hate liars but what horrible things to lie about to get a night off work.!!

She is a cow

I worked in an upmarket ladies fashion shop... MOTB, outfits for posh parties etc.

This woman came in and wanted a wedding outfit, I think she was MOTB. I kitted her out, the lot... a navy dress with white accents, bolero jacket with white collar, hat, shoes handbag.

I packed it up beautifully in tissue and a box, it was an expensive spend and she paid for it all cash (think she was a bit dodgy actually...)

About 3 weeks later she came back and said could she change her mind, she had 'gone off' the outfit and wanted a refund for all of it.

When I took it all out... I could see the white collar had sweat marks and make up all round it, there was even a hair or two on the collar, there was a stain on the dress, the bottom of the shoes were scuffed, and sweat marks round the headband of the hat! She had obviously worn it for the wedding and thought I was stupid lol

I politely said... all this has been worn so no, we will not be giving you a refund. She flatly denied she had worn it, saying she had bought it like that. We then argued the toss about the hairs on it, the stain, the make up on and on. She got really nasty and told me she was going to get her brothers onto me and I would regret it. Thank god I had someone else in the shop with me, we nearly called the police but she stomped off eventually.
I did watch my back for a couple of weeks though...

I wish there was somewhere we could go to see all the removed responses. I'm fascinated to know what was said!

My narcissist mother would do this all the time
'Do x or I won't leave you y in my will'
'Lend/give A to me a or ill cut you out of my will' (you get the idea)
One day my then aged about 5 ds said to her 'nan,when you die,can I have that bracelet?'
'Yes,ok?'
'Hurry up and die then'

I got the blame-i only wish I'd thought of it first!

@jumpingthehighjump i had this even in charity shops. Hats and pretty dresses for the races.
We flatly refused any refund.
I owned two perfume shops, they used to say it smelt wrong after using 80%.

Ooh. Edgy

i thought this too lol..apparently the emoji "shows" they're being pendantic..... sorry but emoji meanings are lost on me other than a laughing one x

Sorry, don't know why I am laughing at 'smelt wrong' but I am. CFers indeed, I often think there is a portion of the general public who think the rest of us are more stupid than actually they are!

Having worked in retail, I've heard it all before! My tactic with CFers like wedding outfit one is to say very little... just very very slowly examine every inch of the outfit whilst going 'hmmm', it usually works because CF gets more and more worked up with silence

I too am loving this thread but I also dislike, and sometimes comment on, poor grammar and spelling. Being an adult, I can walk and talk at the same time, multitask in other words.
Does anyone else proof read their posts, I often find missed or extra letters?

Why is this cheeky? I did same to my ex husband recently as couldn’t find the decree and knew he could. Not to his work though as he is retired.

I recently changed my sofas and offered the old ones free and buyer collect on the Nextdoor app. Got a message from a lady about 4 miles away asking me to deliver them to her, 2 sofas, one was a sofa bed with a metal bed frame so quite heavy.
it was a no from me. The person who got the sofas paid £100 for delivery.

I am so glad you and your DH stood up for yourselves and your DSs , to expect anyone to drive all that way is CFer grounds , but to expect your DS that has only just passed his test is both cf and bloody dangerous.
If I was feeling generous may of sent them a link to train and coach times / tickets.
Who the heck pays £600 for a cab unless it's a desperate family emergency.
I bet the taxi driver chuffed tho , I wonder if s/he managed to get a fare back .

was that you lol x

I get it. I would have done same.

Oh and another one. My baby was a few weeks old and I met a mum who I knew from school with a baby a similar age. She can't round my house for HOURS then when I said I need to pump now and would she mind leaving at I'm not comfortable to do it in public she said "how about you go in the back room and do it whilst I put the TV on" . I blocked her after she started texting asking for money for cigarettes....

It's God and Nazi

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A good one I've just remembered – a large group walking in last minute at a gig in a busy indoor venue, and demanding seven seats together.

I was flying along on EasyJet (two rows of 3 seats) and pre-booked the aisle seat. Parents with two children (about 3 and 5) got on. They’d been allocated window and middle in rows behind each other.

Initially, they asked me to move to their middle seat in one of the rows so they could have a row of 3, and one single seat. I refused (they didn’t ask the bloke sat in the other aisle seat!) Then bugger me when mum and dad sat in one row and sat the kids next to me, and said ‘can you keep an eye on them then?’

No, I fucking well can’t. I am flying solo without MY kids, I’m damn well not watching yours on a 4 hour flight!

They argued that they only had one iPad so the kids had to sit together. I argued that it wasn’t my bloody problem - eventually Dad had to give up his phone, poor lamb. My heart bled.

Oh lord I remember being about that age and asking my nana if I could have her tv when she died. She never let me live it down!