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.

Sorry to disappoint you but it’s a true story. When you work as a Nanny/PA to billionaires you literally sell your soul to the devil. They pay you a fabulous salary but in return they don’t see you as a human being, you are a robot paid to meet their every need at the drop of a hat. The insane stuff employers expected me to do….. I could write a whole book. 99% of the time I dropped everything to do whatever they needed of me, because like I said - the money! But cancelling my wedding to facilitate a business trip was one step too far.

D'oh! I missed that part - thanks! I was also thinking about the PP who was at the darts match, though.

How strange for the restaurant (where James was) not to clearly separate the part that was for regular customers and the part that was for the private function - unless maybe they put a sign on the door saying closed to the public for a private function, in the local language which James didn't speak?!

I probably should have read the book to properly understand it all!!

Yes - I can well believe that whole scenario was planned by M to throw shade at Kate with unpleasant racist overtones.

My comment was about someone who said they would rather not be educated when they make a mistake

It did not refer to the OP

I know it's a long and complex thread, but @BeltaLodaLife was quite correct, no one has referred to OP as uneducated

Another train one. Once I was on a train in Wales which was horribly packed due to earlier cancellations, to the extent that lots of people (including myself) were standing at close quarters in the aisles. At one point the train pulled in at a station where a fair few more were getting on, and a man who had a seat took his bag off the floor, and put it on the seat next to him 🙄

It has become the accepted norm online, that single-paragraph sentences are not required to use a full stop

I griped about this myself when I first started contributing to online discussion, way back in 1995, but have eventually come to accept it

It does irritate me that when I have a multi-sentence paragraph next to a single-sentence one, current usage would dictate one should have the full stop and one should not, so I tend to keep my paragraphs to a single sentence

Indeed

Some cunty fuckers from grammar town
Couldn't take a cue to cool it down
They screamed about
"Queue to hear me out"
Your spelling obsession ruined a fun thread, you clowns

When I got divorced, long time ago and I think rules were a bit different, my solicitor said he'd get me "everything" I said we were splitting everything 50/50. He said but you can have the lot. I said so do you want my children visiting their father in some grotty bedsit while we still live in the nice 4 bed family home. He had no answer for that.

When my ex died my son said one of things he would always treasure was that I never said anything bad about his father and his father never said anything bad about me. Some things are more important than grabbing everything you can.

It's no wonder some divorces are acrimonious.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

When I had to empty out the house last year, I was very lucky. My solicitor had recommended a reliable family run estate agent and the estate agent in turn recommended a family run removal firm: they were excellent.

At one point, I had struggled to move a fold-down bed couch (supposedly a futon, but actually bulkier) from one room to another by myself: one of the two removal men carried it downstairs with one arm...

Yes, I can 100% believe this.

Your typical everyday CF believes that the world exists solely for their own enjoyment, and that everybody else is only there in the background as a prop to make their life nicer - so if you have a huge amount of money and can pay those 'background people' copious amounts to enable your life and choices at every turn, instead of just blagging/demanding/finagling it, I can see even more why it just wouldn't occur to them that you aren't basically their 'possession'.

You pay a load of money for an expensive luxury car and expect it to be there and ready for you to use whenever you want to; why would a human servant be any different?!

You seem unusually invested in this

Oh so recognisable! I organised the Scout fete in our village for several years and wait at the end of each meeting to ask parents if they could help in some way. My most memorable encounter was with a woman who looked at me with incredulity and said "Of course not, I have children!".

I thought Eiffel...

Some people have still not been paid by Ryanair for their costs after the Eyjafjallajokull volcano

A relative of mine was offered a job as a nanny because of her qualifications as a health-care professional. It would have meant moving abroad, and she saw this as a tremendous opportunity.

She was all set to accept, but then the family demanded that she change her religion...

I can well believe the cancel the wedding thing. It’s hard to explain and I’m not justifying it but the super rich have an entirely different mindset to the rest of us. We have this in our lives at the moment (not us sadly!) and it’s fascinating to observe. They and their family come FIRST and when money is literally no object that is quite eye opening.

My husbands cousin stayed with us rent free for months. She got a job in our city and we agreed to put her up til she found her own place. She barely spoke to us, stayed in her room all evening skyping her Mum. In all the time she was with us she only looked at two rental properties and the first thing she always asked was can she have her cats and refused the property when they said no, eventually her Dad put his foot down and he found her a rental within 24 hors and her Mum agreed to house the cats. She was always going 'home' every weekend back to the house she stilled owned with her ex, cos neither of them could afford to buy the other out, they argued all weekend cos he wanted to move his new girlfriend in. She wanted to draw up a legal custody agreement for the cats. She would lash out at him causing him to try and defend himself, then she would call police on him. I have never heard of two crazier people.

Someone once asked me this, but their seat was in first class and mine was in economy, so guess what I said? Best flight I have ever experienced in my life!!!

I hope you've cut the vultures off!

Wouldn’t have hurt for you to have asked “would you like something to eat? What would you like?” Instead of deciding for a stranger what they should eat and then being pissed off that they’ve ruined the self gratification for you when you’ve got them something they don’t like/ want.
FYI people living on the streets are often not starving but are usually cold, probably why he wanted a coffee.

I'm genuinely not sure how much of this was CF and how much gross stupidity. But the CF has a gofundme active for doing a PhD, so I have to assume CFery....

I have just come back from a camping holiday with 150 friends (and yes, we do all know each other). A slightly unusual and delightful setup (she says, aware she is outing the situation with every word, and not caring).

So the CF asked to borrow my mattress inflator, which I was happy to lend. After three requests for its return I was rather less happy, but he then informed me he had returned it to the bag, as specified.

Except.... it wasn't in the bag. I queried this, and discovered that despite precise instructions (I would have thought 'the bag contains hot water bottles' was pretty specific) he had put it in someone else's random bag.

So when he asked to borrow it a second time I almost said no. Sadly, considerations of how uncomfortable he would be on a deflated mattress overcame common sense. I told him very clearly that he could collect it from my tent. My instructions included -

• it's not the same one you borrowed before. It's in a BRIGHT GREEN bag. I repeated this as the bag is neon, and very easy to spot.
• it's in a special storage net attached to the tent, at the bottom of my bed.

I returned to my tent to find the incorrect inflator positioned in the middle of the floor for me to trip over. In order to find this incorrect inflator he had been through my entire suitcase, and ignored the storage net. Believe me, I had no wish for anyone to go through my suitcase, which was full of dirty laundry.

The irony is also that if he had bothered to return the inflator to where he had found it, I would not have known of the invasion of my privacy. Guess who won't be contributing to his gofundme!

Give it a rest! Move on!

So a clean dog bowl was brought to the pub, food placed in it for dog and then bowl was rinsed in a sink before being taken away?
I see no issue at all with that

Ffs 🤦‍♀️
The selfish cow, doing a nice gesture all wrong. She should hang her head in shame.

Reminds me of a trip to the US, we were walking through the hotel mid morning, OH had gone to check something and a woman came up to me and asked what I taught. I'm quite used to teachers being able to spot other teachers so I said Maths, we were talking and she steered me across the lobby to a table of coffee etc and pastries, inviting me to help myself and including OH when he reappeared. Subsequently we all realised that she had assumed we were part of the convention taking place, we thought she was just being hospitable! We all had a good laugh but I felt awful.
On another occasion I was at a weekend meeting in a hotel in the UK, on Saturday morning I asked my 2ic why he'd missed breakfast, he looked puzzled and said he hadn't. Turned out he'd seen trays of bacon rolls and pots of coffee in reception and helped himself, not realising that we were in the restaurant and they were for another group.