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 met a lady through my ds. Nice enough, always organising events, brunches etc.

She organised a cinema night except I'm the only one who drives or has a car.
I picked up 4 other ladies, all scattered over north London. Took me ages but it was a nice evening.

No-one offered to contribute to petrol and I just put it down to experience and thought to myself I wouldn't get caught out again!

A few months later the organiser text me telling me to book tickets for the cinema and I could pick them all up, they all had booked...
I was on holiday!
Such a CF.

I was on BA from Singapore
had booked baby own seat and reserved bulkhead
flight came in from sydney
person refused to move who had been in seats from Australia - to be fair they were on oxygen

allocated my party of 4 with 2 children -
2 single seats and 1 pair
ended up with baby on top if me in a non bulkhead seat when I had paid for a seat for them

I worked at Debenhams and a woman came in wanting a refund for a child's coat. It was filthy - grimy & greasy & smelly - and worn to rags and by checking the product code we could tell it had been sold about a decade earlier. The absolute fucking temerity.

Good ruse!!! 😀😀

I think you mean ironic not pedantic!

Why must she be aware of it though? We all knew what she meant, including you and the others who have made comments. The point of language is to make oneself understood, everything else is just window dressing.

If a spelling or grammatical error means that the reader is unable to discern what the writer means, then it is fair to ask for clarification. Otherwise the only reason for correction is to allow the corrector to feel superior (whilst demonstrating to all around them that they are very much not).

The PP could go her whole life not knowing the different between cue and queue and it would make not a jot of difference to her or anyone else. Being corrected in public, however, could make a person feel small and stupid, which sadly is so often the intention of the person doing the correcting.

Or Conservative voters who've had a privileged upbringing and got overpaid jobs through knowing the right people, then begrudge paying their fair share of tax and look down on the people doing the hard work they'd never dirty their own soft hands on. Oh, and fail to understand that not everybody who needs support is idle and feckless.

16 Yr old son demanding a new xbox and £60 game outside of holiday/birthday time. While contributing to none of the costs

& demanding to be rewarded/let back in after assaulting me 🤦‍♀️

I had a very similar experience a few years ago when I lived in Paris. I was in the bedding department at Galerie Lafayette looking at all the lovely linen. It was a warm day so I didn’t have a coat. I was approached by a stylish Frenchwoman who asked me a question about where the ‘couettes’ (duvets) were. I replied in French that i was sorry but didn’t know, I moved on but she followed me demanding that I show her. I then twigged that she thought I was a vendeuse, so politely told her that I was not a saleswoman. She still continued to harass me so I just walked off. On reflection I think that I probably should have been flattered that she thought I was stylish enough to be a vendeuse at Galerie Lafayette 😀

Because he cheated on me, as I said in my original thread - thereby ending our marriage and blowing up my life - and nearly two decades later thought it was fine to get in touch to ask me to furnish him with information that he readily could have got himself from the courts. We have not been in touch all this time. He is an arsehole - can you not see that?

Ok I get it. I was the one cheated on. So probably wasn’t seeing the problem when I should. I just contacted him because ‘handy’.

Sorry that you were cheated on too, it's crap isn't it. I can't envisage a situation where I would ever contact my ex for assistance - I'd rather give him as wide a berth as possible. I don't have his number, his email address, we're not friends on any social media - I don't even know where he lives these days although I am fairly sure it's not in my country thankfully.

Definitely a wide berth - maybe I would contact him only if we somehow ended with two halves of the same treasure map and I needed his half to find where 'x marks the spot' - but even then I think I would ask a mutual friend/pirate to ask on my behalf!

I am adopting this attitude ! Much more healthy. I ended up badly emotionally dependent on him for years. I have only recently shaken that off and will only for the x marks spot treasure map ! 😂

Hurray! Good for you, genuinely. It can totally take time to disentangle yourself from someone who has cheated can't it, because they inevitably gaslight you - even when the evidence is there - and like to make up revisionist history later...

You know like they cheated on you because of something YOU did.

Apparently it was my fault because I worked in another country for six months... I mean we worked for the same company in adjacent departments, he agreed to it when I was offered it, I also came back home every two weeks and the extra money helped pay off the loan we took out to fund the wedding. He conveniently forgot those bits when his back was against the wall. Let's be pirates together!

Christ what might she have called your dd if she had struggled and had a meltdown? Honestly, it made no actual difference to cf.

It’s a tough one though- I actually thought I was maybe being completely unreasonable by saying no…such was his outrage!

I wonder if any real gym bunnies know the etiquette here?

I hope that you replied 'Cant remember, but the date you cheated on me was Xxxx. Perhaps you can work it out from that'

It’s sad that people used the laughing emoji to be unkind. I think you’re wrong that people “only ever used it to mock” though. I used it only to laugh when someone told a funny anecdote or made a joke.

Yawn 🙄 the rest of us are having a good time here, go back to twitter

Wow

Then she shouldn't have invaded their personal space and sat away. I have a phobia about hearing people eating in public so hearing people crunching crisps or popcorn literally makes my body and mind tense but it's my problem so I don't say anything. That being said if I see a family with a lot of snacks I will try to sit elsewhere..simple! In this case said woman chose to sit next to a mum and child so very very weird to be irritated by their noise

Working as a swimming teacher in a members only club. Granny plopped 4yr old grandchild into the lesson 15 mins late and declared she'd be back in 45 minutes and sashayed off.

15 mins later once the class had finished, her grandchild was wrapped in a fluffy towel, handed over to a manager. Manager was given the task of tracking down granny.
I got on with my next class.

Bloody cheek!

Same.

This is all getting very petty.

As a single woman often travelling alone I seem to meet these CF on a fairly regular basis. I no longer move unless for a very good reason - as is often said on here, other people’s failure to plan is not my problem.

My best experience happened when I was on holiday with a friend in a well known tourist spot featuring a tower with a posh restaurant. Friend and I booked dinner months in advance as a treat as the place is known to sell out. To go to the restaurant you had to go through airport level security and we seemed to be in a race with another family. Or at least they seemed to be racing us - pushed in front at every opportunity, insisted the five of them all went through together instead of one at a time, shoved as out of the way to get the lift to themselves. Friend and I let them as we knew the table was booked and would rather not ride with them. We got to the restaurant to find the dad having a full blown row with the host. Turns out they hadn’t booked and just turned up on the off chance. The host managed to calm them down by saying if they waited he would see about fitting them in. Angry dad then demanded that they be seated at the vacant window table he could see. He didn’t like it when he was told it was booked and if he did get a table it wouldn’t be in the window as he had no reservation.

The expression on his face when we were taken past him to be seated at the window table was one I will never forget. Best part was that the restaurant revolved and he was still sat there when we came back past the reception. We raised our glasses to him 😂