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Spidey66 · 2025-08-15T14:29:51+00:00

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.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 19/08/2025 01:19

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.....

At least that was better than the man with a ‘homeless and hungry’ placard, who dd bought a Big Mac for on a cold night. He told her to fuck off, he wanted money.

HideousKinky · 19/08/2025 01:59

RoseAndGeranium · 18/08/2025 07:45

My SiL visited our nearby city to see an old friend of hers, plus us, with her husband and DC. The old friend was happy to put them up for a night and (without consulting me) DH offered to pay for them to stay one night in a hotel in the city, and one night with us. At the time, I was eight months into a pregnancy with some complications and looking after our toddler. Our shower room was half way through a refurb, which we had paused for lack of funds after finding some underlying structural issues, so we had only one bathroom so I asked DH if maybe SiL (who is much better off financially than us) if could get another night at the hotel. He called the hotel and they had space but SiL was adamant that she wanted to stay with us. Reluctantly I agreed as it was soon after covid so we had missed visiting them the previous Christmas because of lockdown and apparently she was still upset about that. A week before they were due to stay I caught an awful cold from my toddler that turned into a serious chest infection. I’m asthmatic and was finding it so hard to breathe I had to sleep sitting up. The day before they were due to stay I went to the GP who took by blood oxygen level and sent me to hospital. I was discharged, with advice that I really, really needed to rest, the following day, which was the day of SiL’s family stay at the hotel, and the day before she was meant to stay with us. Knackered, worried about the baby, still struggling to breathe, and back in charge of the toddler, I begged DH to see if the hotel could take SiL’s family for another night. They could. He reluctantly booked the room for a second night and we paid for it ourselves. He called her and she was really angry and told him I was ‘creating a rift’ between him and his family. The next day they visited us. I made a lovely fresh lunch (sitting down, wheezing) and did my best to socialise with them. She managed to go the entire day without asking me a single question about anything at all, let alone how I (heavily pregnant and clearly still unwell) was feeling. When I eventually went to lie down she let her 10 and 8 year olds run around upstairs outside the bedroom screaming and even come into the room to ask me why I was lying down. SiL insisted my husband go back to the hotel for dinner with them, leaving me to manage bath and bed alone with our toddler, despite still finding it hard to breathe, and she spent the evening sulkily telling him how upsetting it was to have to stay at the (very nice) hotel (that we had paid for).
I actually don’t think I’ll ever forgive her.

Why didn't your DH stand up to her?

WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 19/08/2025 02:08

Emma6cat · 18/08/2025 22:32

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.

What an entitled fucker! You acted pretty tame if that was one of my cats I wouldn't have even engaged I'd have told her she was a thief and took my girl back. Wtf is wrong with people there are so many rescue cats out there that need a loving home adopt one or two instead of stealing someone else's beloved cat.

WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 19/08/2025 02:37

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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I am not a child you need to correct thank you. You could have messaged me privately instead of publicly posting. Its ok I'd rather people think I was ignorant over a simple mistake instead of a supercilious and rude madam like yourself.

Also I know the diffence between the meanings of cue and queued, amazingly I am educated I just made a simple mistake it happens I've admitted it so instead of trying to justify your rudeness just either get lost or accept you were a bit out of line in how you corrected me and move on.

As the other posters have said they knew exactly what I meant so why you felt the need to patronise like I'm an idiot is anyone's guess.

DaisyDuke77 · 19/08/2025 04:14

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ColinVsCuthbert · 19/08/2025 04:29

Sibling blamed our parents for their divorce. The reasoning was that they didn’t buy the couple a house 🤯.

MysticChevron · 19/08/2025 04:38

Met a young Mum through church. She was doing it tough but trying her absolute best. Poor woman had several kids under five and a useless “partner” to boot. She’d also been the victim of a string of notorious attacks in our state in the preceding years. Anyway…she’d found herself without a phone. My then-husband and I conspired to purchase her a phone (plus SIM card and credit) and have it delivered to her house anonymously. Another “friend” and I happened to visit her the day said phone arrived. Young Mum looked at me with great big watery grateful eyes and said, “this was you wasn’t it, Mystic?”
I just shrugged my shoulders, pleading ignorance. Other friend we were with looked at me and said, in all seriousness, “where’s MY phone?”
🙁😑😩

FancyNewt · 19/08/2025 04:48

I used to work for a charity which offered a service that people normally have to pay quite a bit of money for. We didn't means test people but we were aiming at people who couldn't afford to pay for the service normally. It always amazed me the number of wealthy people that used the service and rarely made donations. A friend of a friend used the service . I knew from my mutual friend that she was wealthy and I was miffed when she didn't make a donation.

One night at 11pm I get a WhatsApp message from this woman who had got my number from the friend (without my knowledge,) and she was asking questions about her case. I immediately blocked her without responding..I emailed her from my work email the next day and said under no circumstances should she contact me on my personal number and reminded her of my work hours. Never heard from her again .

EasternEcho · 19/08/2025 04:58

CatMum27 · 18/08/2025 17:40

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 😂

CN Tower?

aphroditeflighty · 19/08/2025 06:25

Lampzade · 18/08/2025 21:43

A former neighbour ( two doors away) asked to borrow our brand new lawn mower. I wasn’t happy about this since we hadn’t even used it , but dh allowed the neighbour to take the lawnmower.
Neighbour said he would return the mower the next day.
A week later neighbour still hadn’t returned the lawnmower so I asked dh to go and collect it
Dh arrived at neighbour’s house only to be told that he had given the lawnmower to his friend who was setting up a small gardening business and needed a lawnmower .
Dh was furious and asked neighbour to return the lawnmower by the end of the day .
He returned the lawn mower , which had been completely ruined to the point that we couldn’t even use it

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Wow, that one takes the biscuit! I hope they apologised and refunded you in full?

SeasalterSadie · 19/08/2025 06:25

nomas · 19/08/2025 00:16

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.

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It was condescending that's why so many people made a comment

Poobs2022 · 19/08/2025 06:42

It's not massive CF-ery like some of these posts I'm reading but it's a parking one. Nursery has one disabled bay and it only has hashings on the side close to the nursery. I park here with my little boy and his blue badge (he has CP). A few times a week there will be another car parked the other side really close to the line, on the line and I've even encountered OVER the line into the disabled bay. Some parents just stand there with the doors wide open onto the bay because they assume no one uses it. I always make sure I park within the bay (usually quite close to the car next door) just to make a point that yes, someone does need to use it and they should park properly.

clickyteeclick · 19/08/2025 06:44

Iamanunsafebuilding · 17/08/2025 19:02

I used to be a Nail Tech and one of my clients was going on a 4 week cruise. She booked an appointment for the day before she left but then asked what I was going to do about the regrowth on her nails while she was away! I suggested she got her nails done on board or on shore at a stopover but she ‘didn’t like either of those ideas’ and just looked at me for another option. In the end I had to ask her what exactly she expected me to do given that I couldn’t stop her nails growing and I wasn’t going on the cruise! She had no answer but she wasn’t happy 😂

You win 😂😂😂

CoffeeCantata · 19/08/2025 06:57

nomas · 19/08/2025 00:28

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

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But I think the pp who corrected another person’s SPAG could usefully learn not to do that. There are very few occasions outside work scenarios when it’s appropriate to do so. That poster excused their post by saying “You’d correct a child, wouldn’t you?’ In some circumstances you might correct a child, but as far as we know pps on here are not children.

I’m a SPAG pedant but unless I see mistakes in a professional context I don’t think it’s any of my business.

Sorry to continue this derail but, just as the pp thought it their duty to correct a stranger’s English, I think it’s my duty to make this point!

LupaMoonhowl · 19/08/2025 07:18

Timeforabitofpeace · 18/08/2025 22:29

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.

in the club lounge at Gatwick recently I was puzzled to see a sign in the loos that people are not permitted up wash their feet in the basin😂😂 utterly bizarre -presumably considerate people wandering to have non smelly feet when they take their shoes off on the flight?? But you’d think they’d have showered before leaving home😂
So clearly premises can decide their hand basing are for specific purposes only, so as in the case of the PP, for human handwashing only, not dog paraphernalia or other items.

WutheringTights · 19/08/2025 07:32

nomas · 19/08/2025 00:13

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.

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Because they might be doing one set or five. 🤷‍♀️ If the former I’ll wait, if the latter then I’ll skip that machine and go home. If I ask them then I’ll know. I’ve never minded people asking me. Speaking to each other is how we navigate shared spaces and it’s weird to be so against any human interaction that you’d punish someone for asking by deliberately sabotaging their workout.

GrumpyExpat · 19/08/2025 07:35

HideousKinky · 19/08/2025 01:59

Why didn't your DH stand up to her?

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Why didn’t either of them stand up to her. I would have lost my shit and told them to fuck off.

Pudmyboy · 19/08/2025 07:55

ilovepixie · 18/08/2025 22:52

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

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Sorry I meant to say not in the toilet/bathroom sink

MrsDoubtfire1 · 19/08/2025 07:59

Went to a 90th birthday a few years back -nice do, nice meal. The 'girl friend' of one of the gents attending came with a doggy bag and proceeded to go around the table at the end of the meal collecting the scraps off people's plates before the waiter came. She really was a piece in so many other ways.

BMW6 · 19/08/2025 08:02

Pudmyboy · 19/08/2025 07:55

Sorry I meant to say not in the toilet/bathroom sink

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A sink is a sink........what's the difference which room its in?

It was gravy not nuclear waste.

aphroditeflighty · 19/08/2025 08:03

I live in a small hamlet, when a stray dog came in. We did everything we could to try and track down the original owner, but to no avail. The neighbour he originally approached was not a dog fan, so despite having numerous cats we took him in. The dog had some health issues, which cost us almost two months wages to fix, but it saved his life. The cats were okay with him (and vice versa), and all was well for about 6 months, and then he disappeared!

We put up notices and lost photos, including one in the hamlet. More than two days later, another neighbour told us they'd seen him staying with another woman (retired, single and reclusive) living on the other side of the hamlet (only about 100m from our door). She knew it was our dog, but took them in, bought them a new collar, and even renamed him, no consideration at all that we were really worried about them!... If she was a sweet old lady, desperately lonely I'd have a little more sympathy, but she isn't. Our kids went over to her house and asked her why she'd taken him, and brought him back to our house, because I think if I'd gone over, I wouldn't have been so nice about it.

Phoebesparrow · 19/08/2025 08:03

WhiteDiamonds · 18/08/2025 22:02

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.

My narc mother pissed me off when I was in labour

She'd invited herself to be there 'for the main event' (her words) and I'd agreed as I didn't have anyone else

I went into labour and she was moaning that she didn't have any coffee with her

(she acted like labour was a complete surprise and she'd had no time at all to put a jar of coffee in a bag along with a mug)

She fucked off and came back with a smirk and a steaming mug and once that had gone,she went back for more

9 coffees she had while I was having a baby (I was in labour 2 and a half hours)

It wasn't until I was leaving the labour ward and we heard a nurse telling another couple about the kitchen that was at the end of the corridor and there is an honesty box to cover drinks

I fully expected my mother to go back and put some loose change in the box but she just laughed and walked away

Shes a cf millionare

She also once gave my father a plastic card and told him to hand it over whenever he paid for his petrol

He's a very intelligent man but can be thick as fuck at times and he didn't question what it was (it was a nectar card)

He handed it over at the counter for years until one day my uncle said something about the points on his card

It's a bit of a long story,but my father been paying (via the points) for his own birthday and christmas presents for years!

Cue a massive row as he was pissed off and she couldn't see what she'd done wrong!

sueelleker · 19/08/2025 08:21

Emma6cat · 18/08/2025 22:32

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.

"We'll just keep him, and you can pay the vet's bills"?

CatMum27 · 19/08/2025 08:24

EasternEcho · 19/08/2025 04:58

CN Tower?

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Got it in one.

Pudmyboy · 19/08/2025 08:28

BMW6 · 19/08/2025 08:02

A sink is a sink........what's the difference which room its in?

It was gravy not nuclear waste.

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Right. This is not a sink at home. It was in a pub with an external tap for the use of cleaning dog bowls.
Do what you like in your own home, you can wash the dog bowl in the toilet bowl if you prefer.
But in the instance quoted, the bowl was being washed somewhere which was inappropriate, the appropriate place was the external tap.

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