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Tell me your stories of entitlement- thread #2

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NotInMyyName · 19/08/2025 18:16

I think there must be more stories to share 😎?
Thread #1 was my favourite to date in MN.
No spelling pedants.

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NotInMyyName · 19/08/2025 18:30

Another shop related one.
University town in Scotland.
I arrive first at a supermarket checkout lumbering slowly with pushchair and toddler.
BUT an entitled parent squeezes in just ahead of me. And is super smug at barging in. “Hah” !
I have had enough and speak v loudly in my best outdoor voice to my toddler, the cashier, the other queue “Ah do go ahead of me. I had NO IDEA you were so important. Im sorry I didnt recognise you. You must be so so more important than my child and I. What was I thinking. Can I have your autograph”?
The cashier sniggered and I kept up the diatribe until the beastly woman left.
I have told that story for the past 30 years and I plainly keep a grudge.

(The University town was over run every year with Mummy and Daddy sorting out supplies for their student DCs at the beginning of term. Small tip. Use your indoor voice in Scotland in supermarkets. Shrieking and or sneering not socially acceptable to the locals).

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EmShire · 19/08/2025 18:45

I'm guessing St Andrews was the town? I agree, the first thread was great. Hopefully this one will take off

NotInMyyName · 19/08/2025 22:27

YES! How did you guess 😎

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EmShire · 19/08/2025 23:06

Hmm 🤔😀

NotInMyyName · 19/08/2025 23:17

Was it you @EmShire in 1995 in Tesco? 🤔

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EmShire · 20/08/2025 10:32

Nah, lol 😂

CoffeeCantata · 20/08/2025 10:58

My one is not very exciting and may come over as mean, but I assure you, I am not mean and if you'd been there, you'd have understood!

I was working as a teacher at a museum where a group had come to do a complicated day of activities. The children were Year 2, I remember, and the teachers with them were very laid back. Whenever we lined up to move somewhere or we were taking turns to do a fun activity, there were always the same 3 very pretty, blonde little girls at the front. After half-an-hour I got wise to this and noticed that they were actually pushing in each time. They smiled winningly at me, hoping obviously to come over as the stars of the class.

Once I'd got wise to it I took satisfaction in letting them line up, watching the entitled three shove others out of the way to get to the front and commence their charm offensive on me and then walking to the back of the queue and announcing that end would be going first. Wow - the outrage! Cue for these girls to try to get to the front (the ONLY place for them), which I have to admit, was quite funny. The bullied, quiet, unassuming children with low self-esteem were all at the back and it was nice to give them a go at being first.

No unkind words were spoken - I was really a very nice teacher! There are just ways and means of teaching entitled little madams and sirs an important lesson in life! And there own teachers just seemed oblivious. But I know ho upsetting it is for some shyer small children to see the same confident and pushy kids always getting what they want.

CoffeeCantata · 20/08/2025 10:59

Their own teachers, not there own teachers!

sgtmajormum · 22/08/2025 18:25

My CF moment was several years ago when my kids were small.
My oldest had a friend in his class at primary that he got on really well with. They had subsequently moved to a different school at KS2 point.
Hadn't seen child or mother for about a year when I get a message out of the blue from the mother asking if I'd pick her child up from after school club (at the other school) and have him at ours for dinner and a play date as she was on a training course.
I decided to agree as my son really liked this boy and was very excited for play date. Both boys are ASD so it was rare that he gelled with others.
Get to the school, the teacher obviously didn't know us so refused to hand over child (even though he was expecting us to pick him up) i was totally fine with this as appreciate they have to ensure safeguarding. Went to school office who called mum to confirm ok for us to collect. All was confirmed.
Took child home, dinner, play etc..
Agreement was for her to collect at 6.30pm

6.30pm came and went, couldn't get hold of mum on the phone. Had no other numbers for her/husband. Child was getting anxious as mum not arrived.
Kept trying to call for the next 2 hours.
My youngest was getting fractious and really needed to be put to bed, visiting child even more anxious and my oldest also now had enough and tired.
On verge of calling SS when I get a call from the dad. So sorry, wife just got home, got caught in terrible traffic and mobile had died.
Fair enough, these things happen but he then says "as it's late you might as well keep child for a sleepover"
I replied "absolutely NOT! You will come right now and collect your child this instance!"
He was most confused, but did come and collect his child.
The mum never called/messaged to thank me for looking after her child and no apology for the delay.
Most bizarre. I always insisted on having an emergency contact when looking after others kids from then on. People thought I was batshit until I told them this tale. Never going to have that happen again.

CastleofMey · 22/08/2025 18:31

May I have a link to the first thread please, if you don’t mind (I don’t want to sound entitled).

Poobs2022 · 22/08/2025 21:51

I posted on the original thread about my disabled bay usage at nursery and how people like to park over the line. Well I turned up yesterday and this massive range was parked way over the line because he thought he could just have his door wide open into the disabled bay. In I swung, leaving a gap only big enough for me to be able to get out. He had to wait for me to leave before he could get in the car 😂

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