Page 9 | Tell me your stories of entitlement

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.

FancyNewt · 17/08/2025 20:28

Another one from years ago when the DCs were young. We had a nanny for a while who used to collect my DD from the primary school nursery and then DS from Reception a few hours later. A woman who lived down the road had two DCs the same age and was a SAHM. She started asking our nanny to bring her child home after the nursery session and drop him off to her house . I only found out about a few weeks later when the nanny said she assumed I knew but was getting a bit fed up of it as it was extra work for no money. I contacted the neighbour and said she needed to pay the nanny for her time and I would have appreciated being asked first. She responsed by saying the nanny was already being paid for her time so why did she need more ! Yes, she's paid to look after my children not yours !! Unbelievable.

I was a SAHM myself for a short time later on, one day I got a call from the school asking me to collect my other neighbours son. It turns out she had added my details as a contact in emergencies without telling me !

I had lots of people expecting me to provide free childcare when I was a SAHM. I used to point them to a list of childminders.

KilkennyCats · 17/08/2025 20:28

Maxorias · 17/08/2025 18:24

I mean, personally I think the airline shouldn't split minors from adults in the first place. This deliberate policy to force people to cough up money for something that is supposed to be optional and that literally costs them nothing riles me up so much. And then other passengers complain about the parents rather than complaining about the airline that deliberately created this situation in the first place.

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Well, yes. People complain about the entitled idiots who refuse to pay and want others who have paid to hand over their seat.
If you disagree with the charge in principle, don’t pay it and take the consequences of this yourself, don’t try to pass it on to some other paying customer.

Phoebesparrow · 17/08/2025 20:28

Many moons ago,I had two school mum friends (my youngest was besties with their kids)

I was a skint single mum,they had husbands and a lot of family support-i didn't

Anyway,one of them had a short illness and was struggling to pick her ds up from school (dad could drop him off,it was the afternoons that where the problem)

For about 4 months,I would pick him up from school,feed him (which i could barely afford to do) drag my lot back out to walk him home and back again (I can't remember why dad couldn't pick him up)

No money changed hands

The other one would dump her ds on me about once a week and at 4am when she went into labour-and as I was a friend,I did it willingly

Then,one day my older ds had an accident and broke his arm

I rang my mother,who refused to have the others (no surprise there)then my sister in law (who wanted £150 for her time plus petrol,so i told her not to bother) and I rang both women to ask if they'd take my lot while I got ds seen to in a&e-his arm was swelling badly and it needed to be seen

Both went nuclear and refused (illness mum actually asked how much was i offering in cash to do it even though if fed her ds 5 nights a week for 4 months,and then got shitty when I said I'd have to owe her the money as I didn't get paid for 3 days and was utterly skint)

I ended up phoning my friend,who rang her mum to have her kids so she could have mine (i will always be grateful to both of them)

Both women stopped talking to me for daring to ask for a favour and started a smear campaign against me and to this day (over 11 years on) are still at it

Utter pisstakers

NotCamping · 17/08/2025 20:29

Years ago I was on holiday with a friend and on the journey there I’d bought dinner for us. I then bought breakfast the next morning and said that after this we could either split the cost or alternate buying meals, or buy our own and asked what she preferred to do.

“Why do I have to do any of those?” she said. Did you run out of money?

She seriously expected me to pay for every meal.

This was the same friend who once, after agreeing to go to a particular museum, said that she didn’t have any money. So I grudgingly paid it. We get to the gift shop and guess who suddenly has money in her purse?

We are no longer friends.

Rosscameasdoody · 17/08/2025 20:31

Saturdayishere · 17/08/2025 20:15

When we were first time buyers (and naive) we were due to complete at noon on the Friday. The sellers asked if we could give them until Saturday morning to move out as they had a one year old.

We were really excited to move into our first new home but agreed. I was working Saturday so that morning my husband turned up, with his friend, to move in.

They hadn’t even moved out. The husband was on his own with a van he’d hired. My husband and his friend had to help load the van - or we never would have moved in.

On top of that the house was filthy. The house wasn’t much more than ten years old and was pristine when we viewed. It’s as if they stopped cleaning and intentionally damaged everything since we’d last viewed it.

I felt sad but I felt really sorry that their little baby had been crawling around in that filth.

Similar when we bought our last house. Both gardens were pristine when we viewed but the grass was window height and there were weeds everywhere the day we moved in !

Beachhutgirl · 17/08/2025 20:31

Minor compared to some of these, but it did irritate me. Went to a pub for breakfast, on my own, and left my book on a table to reserve my place while I went to the bar to order.

When I got back to the table there was a couple sitting there, who denied having seen the book. Not totally convinced, I asked the waitress, and then had a look round and found it on the side table with the sauces etc. So I sat at another table, definitely in sight of the original table. When my food came out, naturally to my original table, the couple said it wasn't theirs, and sent it back to the kitchen, so that I had to chase it all through the bar.

Really annoyed , it was so obvious that it was mine. Bad enough to take my table, without apology, but to not redirect my breakfast to where I was sitting.

Panterusblackish · 17/08/2025 20:34

ChicOliveCritic · 17/08/2025 17:48

I was about to say similar!! I'm genuinely aghast at some of these...the two airport flights, the neighbours who wanted to borrow a complete strangers flashy car! You walked all the way from economy class to ask those who had paid £££s more than you in premium economy to swap?! @Jerseycreamtea , @RafaFan @Breadcat24 ! 🤭 There needs to be some type of scientific research into how such people think. Clearly they feel no sense of shame whatsoever. 😔

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It's wild. I've just checked and one way a PE upgrade london to Seattle costs over 1200 quid on BA. Who on earth thi is so.ene should just gift that to them!?

Lovelynames123 · 17/08/2025 20:34

We used to do a monthly community litter pick, we'd start from my shop and go out for 60-90 minutes then back to the shop for refreshments and I'd store the rubbish til the council collected. Sometimes there was a handful of people, sometimes upto 30 so some months we'd be able to cover a bigger area. Without fail, once we posted on the local FB page, several people would start moaning that we never did their street, unbelievable!

EmShire · 17/08/2025 20:35

Some interesting (but awful) stories here. Any more theatre/cinema/concert ones?

MrsWatson1985 · 17/08/2025 20:35

I am a long time mumsnet reader but never made a thread or commented but I just had to on this.
My MIL can't drive. She never has been able to but she is one of them people who always seems to want to go places only a car can get her too and demands rather than asks to be taken somewhere.
She booked her & her sister a holiday which they needed to get to via a ferry. She assumed one of us would drive them down to Southampton (we live in Yorkshire) and then back down again in weeks time to bring them back. My husband told her under no circumstances are we taking them. She then suggested our eldest or middle son take them (eldest was working away on a training course & our middle son only recently passed and we wouldn't dream of letting him drive that far 6 days after passing his test). That only got my husband even more angry. They ended having to to pay £600 for a taxi firm to take them.

BeltaLodaLife · 17/08/2025 20:36

WickedWitchOfTheEast87 · 17/08/2025 19:25

@Phoebesparrow omg that is absolutely fucking cheeky my jaw is still on the floor! 😯

My entitled CF was also over a pre-booked seat on a train. I was going to visit one of my sisters and it was a 5 hour journey. I can't stand on trains because I have arthritis in my ankles so I always pay to reserve a seat on a table with a plug socket and it didn't cost much at this time only a few pounds extra. I get on the train and there is someone sitting in my seat with their phone charging.

I politely said to him "excuse me but you're sitting in my seat" he replied calmly "those seats are free you can sit there" whilst pointing at the seats opposite that had no plug socket. My cheeky fucker alarm bells started going so I replied firmly "I paid to book that seat and I will be sitting in it. Now please move or I'll get a member staff to move you" CF huffed then got up and moved his stuff but left his phone charging which got my back up even more so when I sat down and unpacked my stuff I unplugged it and plugged mine in CF rudely told me "I need to charge my phone" his rudeness, entitlement and utter cheek made me snap so I rudely replied "well you should have booked a seat with a charger like I did you rude dickhead" he looked shocked at my reponse but I didn't care had he moved right away and asked nicely I would have let him charge his phone but I refuse to reward entitled cheeky fucker behaviour.

Another one was in the supermarket it was so busy and I'd cued for 15 mins and was next whe this lady with one item walks to the front and puts her item in front of my shopping . I politely said there was a cue and she replied that it was ok its one item. I know I could have let it go but her tone and the entitlement pissed me off so I told her no she isn't cutting in front of me. She then turns to the cashier and tells her to just scan her item so I said to the cashier if she allows this lady to cut the cue I'll be speaking to the manager, cashier then called the manager and the lady was arguing that its one item she's in a rush. At which point I said to the manager that myself and all the others behind have cued up why should she be allowed to cut and the other customers agreed so the manager told her to get in the cue like everyone else. She was furious but cued and spent the whole time giving me daggers but I didn't care I hate cue jumpers their entitlement annoys me.

It’s queue and queued. Not cue.

A queue is a line you wait in.

A cue is a signal, like, “The red light is your cue that you have to get off stage.”

Maxorias · 17/08/2025 20:37

KilkennyCats · 17/08/2025 20:28

Well, yes. People complain about the entitled idiots who refuse to pay and want others who have paid to hand over their seat.
If you disagree with the charge in principle, don’t pay it and take the consequences of this yourself, don’t try to pass it on to some other paying customer.

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How, exactly, do I take on the consequences "on myself" ?
For the record this never actually happened to me, but yes in principle I think airlines who do this are the CF. Me sitting next to my child isn't a favor they're doing me - it's a fairly straightforward matter of safety and practicality. Airlines know this, which is why if you turn up without having booked and they stupidly sat the parent away from a young child, they end up scrambling to fix it. And yes, inconveniencing other customers. But that's the airline's problem to fix really.

placemats · 17/08/2025 20:40

LillyPJ · 17/08/2025 20:03

Germs pass through toilet paper. Don't you wash your hands after?

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Well yes of course I do, as I'm sure you, whoever you are, do as well.

songbird3086 · 17/08/2025 20:41

Offered to look after my niece as my sister in law called panicked that she had a work meeting and had messed up childcare. When I arrived to pick up said niece i discovered that she had her two neighbours children with her ( nieces) friend and her little Brother!! The assumption was I would take all three as they ‘get on’

my sister in law said she owed her neighbour so thought it would be fine. I refused and said you owe her a favour I certainly don’t and I don’t know these children!

LIGHTSNACKER · 17/08/2025 20:41

imacroissantgirl · 17/08/2025 17:32

Perfect for me to pop this in here, thank you OP.
Nice pub lunch out today that accepts dogs. Used Ladies on way out and whist washing hands the woman next to was rinsing out a dog bowl with gravy etc in. She must have felt my icy stare and explained she always shares her lunch with the dog. I gave her an eye-roll ‘lovely’ ….
Reported to management who eye-rolled too and said she’d send housekeeping could have used the outside tap!
Height of entitlement!

Not really sure I see the problem here. Are you upset she was washing out a bowl the dog had eaten from in the toilet sink?

Fatnearlyslim · 17/08/2025 20:42

My younger sister was in a bad relationship & when she eventually decided to leave him I picked her up and drove her the following day 1hr away to her other sisters.
A few weeks later she messaged me asking if I was free to pick her up and take her to the hairdresser where she had fled DV - it would have been a 4hr round trip not to mention waiting for her hair to be done.
i explained that there are hairdressers where she now lives.😀

Birdy1982 · 17/08/2025 20:43

Put a bike for sale on facebook for £100, someone knew from school 20 years ago offered £30 for her son as it’s all his dad would offer & wanted it delivered 2 hour drive away ….

No was a whole sentence

SeasalterSadie · 17/08/2025 20:44

BeltaLodaLife · 17/08/2025 20:36

It’s queue and queued. Not cue.

A queue is a line you wait in.

A cue is a signal, like, “The red light is your cue that you have to get off stage.”

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Any need?? I understood what was being said

DiscoBob · 17/08/2025 20:45

My slumlord, who was actually my cousin who I worshipped, rented me an illegally uninhabitable flat with no paperwork. I was 20, he was 40 and a director of a large successful company. There was an old style meter where you had to put an old 50p through. There were cockroaches. Leaking toilet. No heating. No taps in the bath. Broken windows...

When I lost my job he doubled the rent. He also said I had to pay the rent of my abuser who wouldn't leave the flat, months after I myself had to leave. I lost nearly all my furniture and household property.

This was who I thought was my saviour after my dad died when I was a kid. I literally thought he was trying to help me.

CyanMaker · 17/08/2025 20:46

My mother recently passed away. One morning as I was walking down the sidewalk going to mom's home to start the clean out one of her neighbor's came running toward me at top speed. No "good morning" or "sorry for your loss" from her. Out of her mouth comes "What are you going to do with her porch furniture?" Unbelievable !

Robin67 · 17/08/2025 20:48

Sorry for your loss @CyanMaker. The nerve of some people though

Mumsgirls · 17/08/2025 20:49

My one time boyfriend was starting up a mobile disco and had bought equipment , but had only a motorbike. Asked me to ask my Mum, who worked full time to transport him on her Saturday off. Most put out at refusal said ‘ his dear Mum would have done it’ only problem his family had no car and she couldn’t drive. Really didn’t not get why Mum would not love to help him Ernie extra cash. Strangely he was someone who would never Do others a favour

KilkennyCats · 17/08/2025 20:51

Maxorias · 17/08/2025 20:37

How, exactly, do I take on the consequences "on myself" ?
For the record this never actually happened to me, but yes in principle I think airlines who do this are the CF. Me sitting next to my child isn't a favor they're doing me - it's a fairly straightforward matter of safety and practicality. Airlines know this, which is why if you turn up without having booked and they stupidly sat the parent away from a young child, they end up scrambling to fix it. And yes, inconveniencing other customers. But that's the airline's problem to fix really.

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By not asking someone who’s paid extra for a particular seat to swap.
Sorry, I thought it was obvious what I meant? Clearly not…

Americano75 · 17/08/2025 20:51

BeltaLodaLife · 17/08/2025 20:36

It’s queue and queued. Not cue.

A queue is a line you wait in.

A cue is a signal, like, “The red light is your cue that you have to get off stage.”

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Why would you do this?

Rosscameasdoody · 17/08/2025 20:51

SeasalterSadie · 17/08/2025 20:44

Any need?? I understood what was being said

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Me too. Some people just can’t stop themselves from saying things here they wouldn’t dare say to someone’s face.

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