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Ellie56 · 18/08/2025 23:07

Arlanymor · 17/08/2025 16:13

My ex-husband - who cheated, causing me to divorce him - emailing me out of the blue, to my WORK email (in a job that I wasn't doing when I knew him, so he looked me up online), asking me to confirm the date of our wedding and the date of our decree absolute so that he could fill in a form for security clearance. We divorced in 2007, this email arrived in my inbox earlier this year. The thread is on here somewhere. Stupid entitled toilet goblin.

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Oh yes I remember that thread! What an arsehole.

WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 18/08/2025 23:14

DisabledDemon · 18/08/2025 21:52

That's even worse! Just taking it for granted that you can strut to the front of the queue without waiting!

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Thank you and that was exactly why I stood my ground even though it was petty she didn't even get in line she casually strutted to the front and acted like it was all fine and dandy because she had one item when me and the others behind waited patiently for ages because it was the busiest time. I did apologise to cashier for threatening to get the manager but I wasn't allowing that entitled and rude cow jump the line. Had she asked nicely I would have said yeah no problem but I don't reward entitled behaviour and I won't hesitate to call it out. Thats why these entitled fuckers get away with their behaviour because they rely on people being too polite to ever challenge them or call them out.

Also I never allowed anyone to push in line when I worked retail I refused to serve them until they got in line like everyone else.

StrawberryWalls · 18/08/2025 23:15

Senuousnotsensuous · 18/08/2025 04:27

I just realised there was also a time where me and DP were inadvertently CF’ers.

We used to meet a friend once a week at the pub whilst he played darts and the pub always had a buffet on that we assumed was just a Tuesday tradition, we are both ND and just didn’t think to link it to the darts.

We never ate much - usually just a couple of triangles of sandwiches and some crisps, maybe a little cake to share.

We carried on going to the pub after my friend stopped playing darts and still happily had a little bit of the buffet, it wasn’t till someone told us to our face how cheeky we were that we realised the food was just for the darts players 🤦🏼‍♀️.

They didn’t mind when our friend was playing but seemed to assume we carried on going for the food, it was actually just somewhere local we felt comfortable.

Hopefully we made up for it, after my mums funeral we dropped off the food left over from the wake (refrigerated and stored properly) and I regularly baked cakes for the team every week after that.

We were mortified but the pub owners knew us well enough to know that it wasn’t intentional. The funny thing was that we’d have happily eaten nothing but didn’t want to offend whoever had put on the spread!

Autism is a minefield and it’s often things like this that set you apart from other people when you have a completely different mindset.

This reminds me of when we hired out the upstairs of a pub for my dp's 30th birthday party and 2 random people wandered in and helped themselves to the buffet. Everyone was asking everyone else, who are those guys? Assuming they might have been invited by somebody, like friends of a friend or something. One of them frowned at me as I was looking at them trying to figure out who on earth they were, probably thought I was rude for staring.

The expression on their faces as we all started singing happy birthday was great.

aurynne · 18/08/2025 23:21

tipsyraven · 17/08/2025 19:19

It’s a sink and it’s gravy which will go down the sink. People wash their hands with faecal germs on them and that goes down the sink.

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Exactly, people wash off faeces and menstrual blood, and snot, and pus after picking on a pimple on that same sink. Some people spit in the sink. Personally, I'd take the dog bowl any day. People are, in general, far more disgusting and germy than dogs.

Timeforabitofpeace · 18/08/2025 23:23

BeltaLodaLife · 17/08/2025 21:11

So if someone you knew was having a conversation and repeatedly using the wrong word, you’d just let them carry on? Knowing everyone else is side eyeing each other over it.

If your kids repeatedly use the wrong word in their homework then you correct them. You don’t let them continue doing it in case you come across as rude.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in this country. The average reading age of adults is that of a 10 year old. People should be corrected.

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@BeltaLodaLife

One of the rules about use of commas is that one should use a comma after a dependent clause that starts a sentence.
Just so you know.

Greencactusgirl · 18/08/2025 23:27

ThatBlackCat · 18/08/2025 08:12

Lol so was it really Miss World? I am sure she would be travelling by limousine, not a public train.

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Yes, astonishingly, it really was Miss World - the event she was going to was at the Queens Hotel in Leeds which is attached to the train station so the train would have been really convenient and quicker. I imagine they would have been travelling first class on the train from London, so it must have been a dreadful experience for them to have to disembark at Wakefield and transfer to the very rickety local train . Miss World herself seemed pleasant as well as beautiful, it was the entourage that were a bit snotty.

sequin2000 · 18/08/2025 23:32

Celeryedition · 17/08/2025 18:06

I had a similar experience at a cinema in Central London. I went to see a film that was at the end of its run, it was mid afternoon mid week and I had the entire (massive) cinema to myself. A couple walked in a few minutes after the start and sat right in front of me! It was years ago and I still can’t work it out!!

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There must be a lot of these types around. A friend and I went to see a film just after we opened up again after COVID restrictions. Similarly the cinema was entirely empty apart from us and a couple came in and sat next to us. Weird even before COVID but given that we were still naturally social distancing we were 😲

Tryonemoretime · 18/08/2025 23:34

I bought a burger and chips and an orange juice for a homeless man who was sitting on the pavement. He didn't say "Thank you", but he did complain because I hadn't got him a coffee instead of the juice.....

BorneBackCeaselesslyIntoThePas · 18/08/2025 23:35

StrawberryWalls · 18/08/2025 23:15

This reminds me of when we hired out the upstairs of a pub for my dp's 30th birthday party and 2 random people wandered in and helped themselves to the buffet. Everyone was asking everyone else, who are those guys? Assuming they might have been invited by somebody, like friends of a friend or something. One of them frowned at me as I was looking at them trying to figure out who on earth they were, probably thought I was rude for staring.

The expression on their faces as we all started singing happy birthday was great.

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James Herriot tells a story much like this in one of his books. He was abroad, didn’t speak the language, and walked into a buffet restaurant and started helping himself. It wasn’t until he saw a bride handing out threads of her dress (a local custom) that he realised he’d gatecrashed a wedding reception

MyDeftHedgehog · 18/08/2025 23:37

Greencactusgirl · 18/08/2025 23:27

Yes, astonishingly, it really was Miss World - the event she was going to was at the Queens Hotel in Leeds which is attached to the train station so the train would have been really convenient and quicker. I imagine they would have been travelling first class on the train from London, so it must have been a dreadful experience for them to have to disembark at Wakefield and transfer to the very rickety local train . Miss World herself seemed pleasant as well as beautiful, it was the entourage that were a bit snotty.

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As a teenager in the 70s I met the former Miss World the astonishingly beautiful Wilnelia Merced.
I can confirm that Bruce Forsyth was punching way way above his weight 🤣🤣

WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 18/08/2025 23:39

Senuousnotsensuous · 18/08/2025 04:04

I worked as a receptionist with a waiting room open to the public, I had my handbag behind the desk as usual.

A family came in to use the service we provided every week and despite only one person (the mother) needing to attend the appointment she came with her husband, toddler in a buggy and two kids - a boy of about 7 and a girl of about 4.
The kids were often left to run riot, jumping on and off chairs, screaming, playing games and videos on the iPad at full volume and just creating chaos. There were often long waits for the appointment and they would set up a picnic for the kids in the waiting room where food would be smeared and spread everywhere.

There were two of us on reception and I mostly worked with a man who lived near this family and was friendly with them.
On one occasion I went to the toilet to find he’d let the kids come behind the reception desk, they had also emptied out my handbag.

Everything was tipped out on the floor, my make up, contact lens case, medication, purse etc…
When I went to put it all back I noticed an expensive lipstick was missing and a £10 note and change from my purse. They had even taken and eaten (smeared everywhere) my lunch that I’d just brought back after a break and not had chance to put in the fridge.

I asked the other receptionist I’ll call Gareth (because that was his name!) what happened to my make up and money, he said the kids had taken it but made out I was a horrible person for being pissed off and asking for my stuff back.
I got the money but the little girl was covered in my lipstick so I obviously didn’t want it back.

I was quite unprofessional and told the family what I thought of them and their “thieving urchins” Gareth thought I’d get into trouble but he was the one who received the disciplinary warning for letting the kids behind the desk.

I have plenty of plane ones I’ve posted before under a different username.
I’m 4’10 but terrified of flying, I find it easier to book and pay for the extra leg room seats at the front or the plane. I get served drinks first, can get off first and feel less hemmed in, it’s usually quite pricey.

I travel a lot and in the last two years I’ve been asked to move twice by taller men who think they deserve the space because I’m small and have room already.
I usually book a window seat because again it feels less claustrophobic, I was told I had to move last July for a family who “needed” the room as they had a baby and the toddler wanted the window seat. My DP was having none of it and very politely told them to move, they refused until we had to get cabin crew involved.

There are plenty more as I’m a total people pleaser but therapy is helping with that. I’m sure some people can remember my thread about my friend who brings her daughter everywhere including a planned adult spa day…

Omg I remember that thread with the friend bringing her daughter everywhere. But I gotta say the entitlement of people with kids and expecting seats does piss me off. I don't mind giving up my seat on trains and buses for young kids who can't stand but I've had so many rude comments from parents about me not giving up my seat for their older kids. My mother made me give up my seat to people who couldn't stand when I was 6.

However no fucking way on earth would I give up my seat on a plane that I've paid a load of money for so some entitled cheeky fucker can enjoy comfort at my expense I'd have no problem telling them to fuck right off. You want a decent seat in comfort bloody pay for it you tight fuckers.

Also this may help you with no more people pleasing. Remember entitled cheeky fuckers have no problem demanding and don't give two fucks about your feelings or they would behave that way in the first place. So don't worry about their feelings and upsetting them. Entitled CF always prey on people pleasers because they sense you lack assertiveness so they see it as a liscense to take the right piss. I learned that the hard way and thats why I don't have any problem challenging entitled CF now because I don't care about their feelings its very liberating when you realise this and it really helps with being assertive when I encounter these twats.

bert3400 · 18/08/2025 23:41

I witnessed an awesome woman dealing with a CF . Me & DH had two seats at a table (no pre booking) a guy was sitting opposite my DH and on the other seat was all his bags.
As the train got busier, people had to stand, no one said anything to CF bag man apart from this feice Italian lady.
She said " move your bags I want to sit down"
CF said " it's my friend's seat , he is in the loo"
Now we knew this was BS, but kept quiet.
So she stared at him for 5 minutes....then said "Move your bags, I have paid for this train, your bags do not require a seat"
He moved his bags and it made a very awkward journey...but loved her

WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 18/08/2025 23:50

EmShire · 17/08/2025 19:28

WickedWitch - remind me not to sit in your seat😂

🤣🤣 now you know why I'm called WickedWitch.

nomas · 18/08/2025 23:53

Panterusblackish · 17/08/2025 21:33

Ummm she's expecting him to contribute to housing the 3 kids.

He's not divorcing his kids, they're still his responsibility

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He can house his kids without letting his ex wife have the whole property though, can’t he?

Uptipp2025 · 18/08/2025 23:55

I’m a personal stylist at a very top end department store. About 3 years ago a well know “celebrity” came in wanting to “borrow” a few outfits. Even though I know I can’t sell the outfits to the public I agreed. On her way out having 9 outfits In her possession she noticed a one off designer outfit and wanted to borrow it and I told her I couldn’t do that as the designer wouldn’t agree so she said she loved it so much she would pay for it. 5 days later she returned it saying she had changed her mind unfortunately she had worn it on her show which I had watched the day before and told her so, she was so abusive told me I was a nobody and she could have u sacked for saying I couldn’t exchange. Luckily the management team backed me. After the do you know who I am threats she accepted my decision. And afterwards I spoke to other stylists who worked for other stores to be told this was something she did on a regular basis. Sad thing was she was a favourite of mine before that encounter and now I switch on when she is on tv

SlimeSuspect · 18/08/2025 23:55

@greyfrontdoor (and everyone who replied to you)

I’m still not entirely sure why this didn’t sit quite right with me, but it’s something to do with the CFs gender. It seems like the kind of macho move a deluded guy might make…which might inspire his even more alpha interviewer to give him the job out of sheer respect for the cheek of it (to much back-slapping and locker room banter).

Was she trying to do some reverse psychology type anti-sexism bullshit? Or did her stupid macho OH persuade her this was the way to negotiate the job she “deserved”?

Mind boggling either way!

MillieMinx · 19/08/2025 00:11

Spidey66 · 15/08/2025 15:29

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.

Gosh that is such entitled behaviour, where has it all come from? For my next flight I’m getting this tshirt with a matching hat. I’m a fairly small build woman who mostly travels alone so makes me a target. However my potty mouth usually puts people straight but I’m sick of being asked to swap my nice prepaid seat for their shite one!

nomas · 19/08/2025 00:13

WutheringTights · 17/08/2025 21:27

Middle one fair enough but the last one the bloke was totally being fair. I sometimes ask people how many sets they have left and other people ask me. It tells me whether it’s worth waiting or not. If I only have an hour to work out and it’s my last machine I’ll wait if you have one set left, but if you’re planning to be there for half an hour I know to skip that one.

I’ve never asked someone if I can jump in first (though been tempted - there one woman at my gym who spends 30 minutes plus on every machine, whereas I can do three sets in around 6-8 minutes). I wouldn’t mind someone asking and might go for it if there are other machines free that I want to use.

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Middle one fair enough but the last one the bloke was totally being fair. I sometimes ask people how many sets they have left

Why would you ask someone who has just got on a machine how many sets they have left? That’s rude.

WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 19/08/2025 00:16

SardinesOnGingerbread · 18/08/2025 09:07

I don't want to derail this most excellent and enjoyable thread, but just to say how much I wish we'd stop using the word 'Nazi' to indicate irritating behaviour. There are many cultures (my own included) and people whose familial experience of Nazis was not a little questionable grammatical correction. Please, as you were. Let the fuckery continue!

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Apologies I meant no offence or disrespect.

nomas · 19/08/2025 00:16

Darkdiamond · 17/08/2025 21:58

It's so unbelievably rude and ungracious to correct someone's grammar. I would never dream of embarrassing someone in such a manner, and let's face it: very few people appreciate being corrected on this unless they are learning a new language and even then it can be dicey. Even if my husband uses the wrong word or mispronounces something, I'm very careful about how (if) I will broach the subject because it's just so belittling. I will correct my own children, because I am their parent and that is my job, but I wouldn't dream of correcting another adult. It's so incredibly condescending and you are more likely to be side eyed for being that person than whoever made the mistake. It is rude, patronising, bad-mannered and actually insufferable behaviour. I can be as pedantic as the next person, but calling other grown ups out on their spelling, unless you are literally their tutor, is nobody's business.

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I think this has turned into a pile on now and the point has been made so people
should give it a rest and stop sticking the boot in. I never correct spag or expect to be corrected as no one should expect perfect spag on a chat forum but even I can see the poster corrected the other poster’s spelling with helpful intentions.

nomas · 19/08/2025 00:20

PringlesTube · 17/08/2025 22:23

CF right here ☝️

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Eh? Are you saying men don’t need housing? Where is the ex H supposed to live?

nomas · 19/08/2025 00:28

jumpingthehighjump · 17/08/2025 22:37

I think it was rude. If someone corrected my spelling in such a patronising way it would really make me feel quite small.
(It's not likely to happen as I used to be a proofreader a long time ago but that's not the point)

It's just acting superior and it's unnecessary especially when the meaning was very obvious

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Which bit was patronising? It was just factual with no judgemental language.

Xmasxrackers · 19/08/2025 00:30

Our next door neighbour wanted us to give them a quarter of our garden so they didn’t have to go through their own garage because it was full of crap. They had hoped we would take our fence down and move it further into our garden so they could put up a gate around their shed and exit the bottom of their garden (on to a carpark)

Xmasxrackers · 19/08/2025 00:31

Our next door neighbour wanted us to give them a quarter of our garden so they didn’t have to go through their own garage because it was full of crap. They had hoped we would take our fence down and move it further into our garden so they could put up a gate around their shed and exit the bottom of their garden (on to a carpark)

Holidayz · 19/08/2025 00:54

Holiday with my husband, kids 9 &12, and my parents.
We had a villa with a private pool, us and kids were having a splash about.

My mum put herself on a blow up Lilo, with a book and started floating around the pool. Then had the nerve to moan that she was trying to read and we were splashing her.

No shit, it's a pool. It's what you do in a pool. You don't wanna get wet? Then get out of the pool.

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