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.

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Only kidding (I hope that's obvious). I'm just annoyed I didn't think of using that name first!

I also removed my honesty box which I fill with fresh eggs, home baked sourdough, home bakes, a variety of home grown veg etc after people were taking the stuff and not leaving the money. We had one family (caught on the cctv) who lifted 3 dozen eggs, 4 sourdough loaves, 11 portions of cake, home grown tomatoes, cucumber and salad and had the cheek to take the flowers I had at the side of it to make it look pretty. It’s quite sickening what people will do tbh.

I hope you made him replace it!

That's really sad. What absolute gits

How awful! Some people are greedy bastards. I hope they choked on the food!

What a horrid cunt! I hope that young boy hasn't or won't give his greedy uncle anything!
I've always said when folk die it shows people's true faces, especially when they think they are o the make.

That’s awful.

I agree. But it seems to me that the entitled one here is the OP expecting more from the parent. It would be great if the parent helped out more but the child isn't entitled to that help.

Not at all. Most people used it to acknowledge their appreciation and laugh along with an obviously deliberate joke or witty comment. I found it very useful for that; I feel bad now when somebody has gone to the effort to give us all a good laugh and they don't have a simple means of knowing how many people appreciated it, without everybody filling up the thread by quoting it and adding the laugh emoji there.

Unfortunately, there was a minority of nasty people who, as you say, did indeed take their opportunity to act like complete bumholes and mock people - often people in very sad and vulnerable circumstances; thus it clearly couldn't be allowed to stay.

Just one more example of 'this is why we can't have nice things' - because of the nasty arseholes who like to spoil things for everybody else.

To be fair, you can’t know how the majority of posters were using it.
Neither do I… But I remember a lot of threads asking for it’s removal because it was being abused.

Oh, I‘ve just had a flashback to our own Halloween CF! We usually carve a pumpkin and leave it on the step to show we‘re up for divilment, and if DH and I feel energetic we put on cloaks and witches‘ hats and scare the bejesus out of the kids from our street when they ring the bell (that used to work better, the little buggers are getting older and more sceptical). They‘re dressed up too, mostly witches and vampires, and they usually sing a wee song or chant a rhyme to „earn“ their sweets. One year the bell rang and a very bored preteen with a very sketchy attempt at a costume (think slightly floured face) was on the step and drawled „Trick or treat“ in a „wha‘ever“ kind of tone, holding out his sweetie bag. I could see his dad on a bike in the road behind him. I said, „Is that it? No poem or song?“ but held out the bowl of sweets and he put a paw in and took a massive handful (pre- COVID btw!). He went back to his dad, emptied his sweetie bag into a bucket in the dad‘s bike trailer, and the dad said briskly, „Right, you should have taken two handfuls but let’s try the next street now!“ I mean, I know kids go wild for cheapo sweets, but I didn’t think the parents got cut-throat competitive about it! Super grabby. To judge by the preteen’s attitude, it had all been the dad’s idea. We didn’t see them next year; I had a speech all ready about not spoiling it for the others, too 🙄

That's a cf story...

This is horrendous- that poor kid! Just list his mum and his family are basically money grabbing at the funeral!!!

My sister is like this. I had just gone through a horrible separation and moved countries as a newly single mother of a toddler. My head was all over the place. Within two weeks of being back in my home town my sister had arranged for me and my/our mum to take her two kids for a week as ‘she really needed a break and had tonnes to do’. It was lovely to be with her kids but I kept wondering if that was appropriate to have asked that of me given I was in quite a state and struggling with adjusting to all the distress and life changes I was going through at the time. At the end of the week I asked how she’d spent her time and she said she’d just laid in bed watching telly all week (!!).

loads more examples of CF behaviour like just inviting herself, partner, friend and their 4 kids round for dinner on a school night with 1 hours notice and expecting skint single mother me to lay on dinner for them all. Then complaining I was being unkind and ungenerous when I asked if she was bringing any food with her or if I was making a full meal for everyone.

then fast forward a couple of years and I started to put boundaries in place and lo and behold she tells me she’s a ‘giver’ and I’m a ‘taker’ and now tells everyone who’ll listen how selfish and unkind I am for treating her so badly and bullying her.

how some people manage to twist the telling of a situation until it is unrecognisable (for their own gain) never ceases to amaze me!

Well if the woman had gone and sat somewhere else she wouldn't have heard the child talking would she.

What’s all this repeated sink obsession? You don’t put your hand IN the sink and rub them on the basin. It’s better not to use a plug either, and most places don’t even provide one. You clean your hands with soap and running water, so what other people clean is nobody else’s business.

My cat who had been missing for a few days was sat in my neighbours front window. I knocked and told her that the cat was mine and had been missing from home. She said, oh, but we like him, we buy him food and hes happy here. I told her my kids were upset and if she wanted a cat to get her own. She called me evil and nasty. So I called her bluff, said she could keep him, and also pay for his £80 a month medication. I was again hurled with obscenities and said we dont want to own him, we just want to keep him.

Bought a house in the March and was happy seller had left lots of garden pots. Come July received a text from seller to say we are sat out in our new (bigger) garden and realise how bare it looks so I’m coming round to collect all the pots I left 🤣. I didn’t know if she would turn up but yes she did, new partner in tow and bossed him to collect all the pots in the garden. I was too gobsmacked to say no. But should have!

This made me feel so sad for you and so angry at her. I'm sure you know, but your daughter is worth every bit as much as a child who grew up wealthy. What an awful person to say that to you.

I worked with a lass a few years ago.

She was socially awkward , as was I, so I went out of my way to be friendly with her

Anyways she met a lass who was here on holiday , who obviously went back home to England, and she wanted to go visit, had no lift for the airport, So I said Id take her and lift her. ( 4am start ) Then 2/3 days before she asked me if I could get her Stirling and she would buy them off me. So that morning I pass her £40 and she says thanks, Ill give it back on pay day

Day Im meant to be lifting her, I ring her an hour before the gates close to check the flight is on time - not even at the airport so misses her flight. Balling her eyes out - no money cant get home, so I book and pay for the next flight - now she owes £120 - Ill get it to you on pay day

Pay days come and go, finally I say I need the money - oh I cant pay you cos I owe my sister this month and it will leave me short !!!!

She left the job to open her own business then slagged me for not going to spend in it !!!

Never did see the money

Washing a dirty bowl in a sink? Yeah totally disgusting 😂😂

Washing a dog bowl in a sink isn’t normal! Where do you wash it then???

I was collecting a prescription in the pharmacy and had been queueing for about 5 mins. Junkie twat asked if he could jump in in front of me as he had a bus to catch. I said no. Cue JT, cursing and threatening me. I told him he should have got up a bit earlier - it was about 11am.

Not sure if this in entitlement, CFuckery or both…
when we purchased our house, it was from a miserable old bitch ( yes I can say that because she was a bloody nightmare. If it weren’t for the price we would have not continued the sale!) anyway. She told us everything would be out by 2pm, okay fantastic, we get there at 3, due to us travelling from london and bad traffic, she’d left pieces of furniture in every room of the house. We went to the estate agents to find out what was happening, they called her, put her on speaker, she basically told us, it was her house she needed to keep stuff thier until she was ready to collect it. My mum basically told her she had until the next afternoon to collect it or else it’s going to the tip. They’d also left the garage full of stuff which means we were limited space. She’d left all the keys in a pile with no labels as to what was what. They never came the next day, lucky for them the tip was closed so we couldn’t remove it. 2 days later we came back from a food shop to find her stepson and grandson emptying things from the garage, they’d kept a garage key and not told us. They were reluctant to hand it over after they finished loading, which they still hadnt taken everything. We threatened to call the police and we haven’t seen them again since. I mean that was 16 years ago so the old witch is probably dead.
we were nice as pie to her the whole way through the sale, she was very difficult, very cankorous, bitter. But the price was phenomenal so we didn’t wanna pass it up.

I had one today!
My husband bought me a beautiful bee pendant from Pandora last year, quite out of the blue. It was gold and I wear silver, so didn't have a chain for it. I said it was ok, I'd wait to get the chain.
Fast forward to today, we were out in the shopping centre he'd got the charm from, so he said, come on, we'll get the chain.
I told the girl at the counter the exact one I wanted and she went to get me it.
Meanwhile, a woman stormed in, virtually elbowed me out of the way, plonked her massive handbag on the beautiful glass counter (I could hear the glass scratching from all the crap she had hanging off her bag! 😬) and stood there, right up to the side of me, tapping her nails on the counter.
The girl came back with my chain and was taking it out to hand to me, when the woman waved her hand in front of the assistant and said very loudly said "Yes, right, well I would like such and such an item..." The girl gestured towards me and said, "I'm sorry, but I am serving this lady at the moment, I will be with you when I'm finished". She huffed and puffed and tutted, as I made my way round to the till.
DH who had seen all this, called me over to look at some charms, meanwhile, the assistant took her time in sorting the box and the packaging out. I took way longer getting back to the till than I needed to and DH stayed at the other side, joking about paying; the woman was getting more livid by the second!!!
As I walked away after DH had paid, I said to the girl, "I really hope you have a good day and don't have to put up with too many more rude and obnoxious people"! She beamed at me and quietly said thank you, hopefully not! If looks could have killed from handbag woman, I'd have been a puddle on the floor!
It really is like the rest of the world doesn't exist to some people!