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.

Mine is when we took the children to a big sporting event. We arrived and sat in our booked seats. Few minutes later another family turn up and they have been allocated the same seats, I think it was something gone wrong with the computer. Not our fault, not their fault but they got really rude about us being in "their" seats and showing them our tickets made no difference. The poor young member of staff was getting flustered so we said fine we'd move as we were promised new seats. So our seats were quite far back and we were delighted to get seats court side sitting with team managers/players families.

So the players came on to warm up, came and grabbed my kids who went on and warmed up wth them. At the end of the night my kids were given t shirts and had photos taken with the players.

I don't know what the other family thought as I couldn't see them but they could certainly see us.

I’m so glad you like it 😁😆

She was making a joke, so perhaps you should be on it too 😁

Why should they pay ? It costs the airline nothing to seat them together. They can be seated anywhere in the plane, they're not asking for specific seats. Just that babies and young children not be left on their own, which surely is a matter of safety that the airline has an obligation to uphold, not something that families should pay for.

If I still had my wedding photos (and hadn’t snapped the CD in two on the day my decree absolute came through!), I would photoshop myself into it - ahhh reunited! 😂😂

😁 I get the feeling you were probably out of his league

I have another 2. Both kind of similar. I should preface this by saying I used to be a people pleaser but thankfully menopause has contributed to that changing.

1. dayghter of a workplace colleague decided she would do a sponsored shave of her hair for a cancer charity. I’d not been at that workplace for long and was a bit baffled and judgy about none of our other colleagues even acknowledging this and changing the subject when it came up. Should have warned me. 🤨 so feeling flush i sponsored her to the tune of £50. After the deadline i enquired how the shave had gone and colleague said airily that her daughter had decided she was too attached to her hair and had gotten highlights instead.
2. another former friend had a son who wanted to do a major sporting endurance thing and she was fundraising on his behalf. DH who is usually a soft touch said he was not sponsoring a jolly so I used savings from my dedicated family holiday account and handed over about £150. I’m a fucking mug tbh. My friend ( who was always quite difficult to handle) rang me up and abused me solidly and included the immortal words ‘ I thought you’d be good for a couple of grand’ . She broke our friendship off completely. Her son never did the jolly and a mutual friend told me that his mother had said ‘well at least he got enough to pay off his overdraft’

Id like to think that sort of thing doesn’t happen to us anymore but DH has recently been stung by a friend of his along similar lines.

(yes typos galore no doubt but I am on my phone and it’s 4 am where I am. Jet lag is a bummer)

Years ago I was in a newsagent shop, it was quite busy, when a woman dashed in, pushed to the front apologising in that fake way, Sorry, I can't wait or I'll miss my train! One old man snorted and said You've missed it luv, the station's been closed the last 10 years!

Oh you’re so lovely, thank you! 🤩 (And not the first person to say that IRL! So you’re clever and astute too!) 😚

Good job 😊

My grandmother did this to me.
She was in a small supermarket looking at tins and I approached her having realised it was her. As I drew up alongside she turned to me and asked me where the tinned peas were. I was a) not in the supermarket uniform and b) she was talking to her granddaughter. Just didn’t recognise me as out of context I guess, bless her ! She did when I said ‘Hello Granny !’

My bil was walking across Lego blocks in his bare feet for charity.
I didn’t sponsor him but the pic on sm showed the Lego path was about 5 ft long and there was lots of Lego pieces.
Surely it would have been more effective to shove him in a dark room with random individual Lego blocks strewn from entrance to exit.
After all it’s the unexpected block that really hurts.

Last week in padstow whilst I was waiting outside the Rick Stein deli shop with my 10 and 12 year old children. A guy and his sister had just ordered fish and chips. He collared one of the staff that had just been taking an order to the outside seating. He started off by saying we had to get a takeaway because you wouldn't let my dog sit in the restaurant area. He then said is there anywhere they could sit down to eat which she replied yes, we have seating around the back. He said "I know but there is no view is there anywhere that you provide with a view?!" She named a few public benches( anyone that knows Padstow will also know that these are dotted around everywhere). He then said "and you can confirm that this isn't more than a 2 minute walk away?!" The sister then appeared and he asked the lady to explain what she had just told him to his sister. They then both said then that'll have to do! No thank you's or anything of the like.

My kids just looked at me in disbelief at what they'd just witnessed. These were grown adults in their 50's! I suspect(the silver spoon accent was a giveaway) that they are normally waited on hand and foot and never have to do anything for themselves.

Actually, in the Padstow area there are a number of entitled characters roaming around. It's no wonder the locals hate the 2nd home residents.

An acquaintance had a really hard time in the run up to covid. Her husband left her and she had no work so was struggling financially. She set up a go fund me asking people to donate to help her and her daughter pay the mortgage. This was heavily publicised on her social media. All fine until it became clear that the daughter was still in a very pricy private school. The vast majority of people she was asking to donate could never in a month of Sundays afford to send their children to private school!!

Agreed struggling to see the issue here lol

@BeltaLodaLife

only just catching up but did you mean to be so rude? There is no need for your comments

I recently reported a comment on another thread for use of 'nazi' but it wasn't removed.

@BeltaLodaLife

its how you did it that’s rude and unnecessary. We all knew what the op meant, and how do you know shes not ND or dyslexic? You don’t. You where just condesending and rude

Imagine having the gall to think random strangers will help you pay the mortgage, regardless of where the rest of your money is actually going.

As a teenager I worked in a pretty fancy local restaurant, which was almost always fully booked during summer evenings. A terrible couple rocked up one night for dinner, to be told we were fully booked, but as a courtesy we could keep them a table at lunchtime the next day since they'd apparently travelled a long way to eat there (but hadn't considered booking). They took turns coming up with the most ridiculous excuses on why they had to come that night ('we'll be too full at lunchtime because the breakfast in our hotel is so big') and eventually the owner caved and said they could come back at the last seating, and we'd fit them in, but the menu would be limited, and the special daily preorders wouldn't be available (like a limited number of fresh lobsters). The couple actually asked us to ask all the other diners who'd ordered to change so they could have it!!!! Worst people ever, who not only didn't tip, but asked for a discount because they had to wait.

Absolutely agree @SpaceRaccoon .

@mumsnet please make it a rule that NO ONE is allowed to correct anyone's spelling. We're sick of the spelling police.

DD has always done pet care since aged about 15 and still does it when she is home from Uni or in her Uni town.
I had a message from someone I know professionally- it went like this (during one conversation I must have mentioned that DD pet sat)
Can your daughter look after our dog next week?
I am sorry she is away at Uni
But we go away this weekend
............................................
Can she recommend anyone?
Sorry no
But we are going away, what are we supposed to do?
No idea, good luck
Can your daughter help us find someone
No I am sorry she doesn't know anyone who can do it
But we have booked and its not refundable
........................................................
Can you do it?
No
Why not?
I can't
But we are going away
Sorry
Can you help us find someone to do it|?

It continued but I just completely ignored her after that

Just thought of another one. (Another thread about a funeral reminded me) many years back a colleague sadly died of cancer. She was a single mum to a teen boy and the father was not in the picture. She was also quite wealthy with a few rental properties. Her brother gave the eulogy and g said ‘to our nephew … your family will be looking after you now … but we will expect that you will also be looking after us also. ‘ he then made a reference to the bereaved boy not needing so many houses at his age. It was one of those jaw dropping moments where you think you cannot possibly have heard what you just heard.

Lol she didn't have a space because she just walked in front of everyone and then me and did it. The cashier was gonna let her until I said I'd be speaking to her manager. The manager even said its just one item and I told them myself and other customers had patiently waited so why should someone else get to queue jump because she has 1 item. At this point all the others behind me agreed so the manager had no choice but to tell her to get in line like everyone else. I used to work in retail and I never allowed anyone to cut the to front you get in line and wait for your turn like everyone else.

Makes you wonder how these people exist day to day doesn’t it?! How do they ever do anything if they need others to do everything for them?!