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What's the most pampered/indulged behaviour you've ever seen?

634 replies

ChaosTrulyReigns · 16/08/2013 12:08

When I used to have a proper job Wink, one of my colleagues would phone her mom at the first spit of rain to go and fetch her washing in. This was about 8 miles from the office (so who knew what the weather was like at home?) abd a 4 mile round trip fir the mom and dad (mom didn't drive).

SIOB that the parents would do it!

She once called home and asked her to go and wash up a breakfast bowl as she had run out of time to do it.

Hmm
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TheSecondComing · 18/08/2013 17:07

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 18/08/2013 17:07

There may be hope for me becoming a princess one day.

DH put a coffee in my hand today. I nearly fainted. That NEVER happens.

I do have scarlet fever though

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 18/08/2013 17:09

X-posted with a fight

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AndyMurraysBalls · 18/08/2013 18:19

A family friend sadly lost her husband a few years ago.

These are some of the things she had NEVER done before, because he always did them:

She had never put petrol IN HER OWN CAR.
She had never mowed the lawn.
She had never been IN HER OWN LOFT.
She did not know what the fuse box was for.
She had never read a meter.
She had never done any of the internet banking/bill paying.
She had never used the drill.
She had never put the bins and recycling boxes out.

She was utterly disgusted with herself and threw herself into DIY courses and Car Maintenance courses. She refused help from anyone, declaring that she would bloody well learn to manage. She's a new woman and much happier for it. Of course, she would have him back in a heartbeat but not without her new found life skills (her words).

We are all so proud of her gutsy attitude. He would be too.

My lovely, gorgeous, "perfect man" step-brother is probably the loveliest man I've ever known. He would do anything for anyone. He carries his wife's handbag for her. She has no physical limitations. It makes my teeth hurt. It's none of my business, of course, but privately I could scream. None of my business and I'm probably being a cow because I am one of those really independent types .....

marriedinwhiteisback · 18/08/2013 18:45

Good for your family friend :)

My MIL had never cut the grass
Never opend her car door
Never unloaded the trolley or boot
Never paid a bill
Never checked her bank statement
Never booked or asked for a train or theatre ticket.
Never made a decision.
Never cooked a meal from scratch.
-never thought about anyone other than her and FIL-

She has also always been very good at inveigling other people to do stuff for her.

DH now visits for a weekend every month to sort out -open post- bills, check the house and make sure the odd jobs/garden are done.

TBF she waited on FIL like a servant but the saddest thing is that she was a deputy headmistress!!!! And DH and his sibs were hungry as children and when FIL died it emerged there was more than a million in the bank!!!! Effing tragic really.

BuskersCat · 18/08/2013 18:54

DP makes me a cup of tea every morning and brings it to me in bed, and breakfast is waiting for me downstairs.
He does all the shopping, and cooking while I tell him what to buy and mn
He lets me lie in every weekend despite him working f/t
I get drinks poured for me, and dinner bought straight to me, salted/peppered already.

kungfupannda · 18/08/2013 19:25

I lived with a pampered princess when I was at law college. She was the girlfriend of a good friend of mine and he introduced us and suggested we flatshare as she was looking for somewhere to live after she finished uni and started work. She seemed nice and we got on well, so we rented a flat together.

She was always telling people how she always managed to get her own way by batting her eyelids, because she was so "little and sweet."

She moved into the flat a few days after me and, despite us having agreed who was getting which room, she waited till I was out and then moved all my stuff out of my room and put hers in. Apparently she "just wanted that room." Somehow I let this go Confused

She later split up with her boyfriend and expected me to take over his role of ferrying her around and waiting on her hand and foot. She'd wake me up in the middle of the night if there was a moth or a spider in her room, or if she was bored. If I was going out and she had nothing to do, she'd insist on tagging along and would then demand that everyone changed their plans to whatever she fancied doing, and would then sulk if people refused.

She wanted me to drive her to work everyday - a one hour round trip after which I'd have to park the car at home and then get the bus to college. When I said no, she would try to force my hand by "oversleeping" and then crying and wailing that she would lose her job if I didn't take her. I took her a couple of times and then started refusing. She then woke me up early the morning before an exam and said she had an important breakfast meeting at work and needed a lift. I said no, so she threw a tantrum and quit her job.

She went out with someone I knew and when she was fed up with him she instructed me to dump him for her. When I refused, she sent him a message saying she needed to speak to him, so could he come round. She then went out without telling me he was coming, to try to force me to give him the bad news. He rang her and she told him I had something I needed to tell him, and hung up.

She eventually decided that life outside the family home was too hard and she preferred to be "daddy's little princess" - her words. She moved out without telling me, and when I rang her to ask where she was and why her rent hadn't been paid, she told me daddy wasn't paying the rent anymore as she wasn't living there, but she was going to leave her stuff in her room as she might come up to stay every now and again.

She then texted me to berate me for not getting her a birthday present, and when I told her I was moving out at the end of the tenancy, she demanded I box her stuff up and courier it to her! I refused and she eventually turned up in an almighty sulk, called me a selfish bitch and cried. Her dad rang me to apologise a few days later - but never offered to pay the rent she owed Hmm

Reality · 18/08/2013 19:35

I've just remembered one about my sister.

She came to stay with me when we were about 19 and 20, we went out clubbing etc.

The next morning she TEXTED me from the bedroom next to mine to tell me go downstairs and get her a glass of water.

She has also called my Dad at 11pm to get rid of a spider for her, as her DH was away.

expatinscotland · 18/08/2013 19:38

kung, I had a flatshare with someone like that once. We got together and threw her out.

marriedinwhiteisback · 18/08/2013 19:39

buskers don't you feel a bit lazy and ashamed of yourself?

kungfu I hope you feel proud of yourself :). I'd have had her out within. Fortnight with no lifts!

YouTheCat · 18/08/2013 19:41

Kung I also had a flatmate like that, only she was a total junkie, whose parents gave her a shed load of money every month.

She left me with £400 of bills (despite being loaded) and, although this was 23 years ago, she is the only person I would happily hit hard in the face if I ever saw her again. She got me into debt and made my life miserable.

bloodybutunbowed · 18/08/2013 19:43

My lovely former neighbour went away for a weekend and her husband appeared at my door that evening with the food she had made him - which he needed me to warm up in the oven because he had no idea how to do it - and a coat with a button that needed to be sewn on. I ended up taking care of him till she came back, but he had been brought up in a culture where the women served the men first and waited on them hand and foot. It didn't occur to either him or to her that there was anything wrong in finding the nearest available female to look after him in his wife's absence.

beepoff · 18/08/2013 19:45

Just to be devil's advocate, my DH offers to do loads of stuff for me/us, from getting up with DS in the night, doing the washing up, carrying my bags, pushing buggy, etc. is it nasty to let him? I don't demand or expect it at all...

kungfupannda · 18/08/2013 19:46

It kind of crept up on me - she could be so fun and nice and sociable that I'd start doubting myself about how unreasonable she was. The room thing should have alerted me, true, but her boyfriend, my friend said he thought she was just panicking about life in the "real world" and was used to being looked after by people, so was pushing the boundaries to see what people would put up with.

After they split up things went downhill rapidly because he'd done so much for her.

BuskersCat · 18/08/2013 19:50

don't you feel a bit lazy and ashamed of yourself?

Nope, not at all. I appreciate everything he does for me, and tell him this regularly. If he stopped doing it, I'd have to do it myself, but why should I when he is so happy to do it for me. You'd honestly say that you would not like tea and breakfast every morning?

cocolepew · 18/08/2013 19:52

I need to train DH up Hmm

LessMissAbs · 18/08/2013 20:02

TheSecondComing Did you forget this bit too miss abs? 'I apologise for sounding like a bitter twat?' your posts would read better if you inserted that somewhere

What about?

Do would-be princesses honestly think no-one else can get a husband who occasionally makes them a cup of tea?!

HamletsSister · 18/08/2013 20:58

Went on a tour of the BBC. Apparently, Prince (or the artist formerly known as Prince) has bodyguards to carry him up and down stairs. He also won't speak to anyone except his girlfriend and he whispers to her what he wants and she tells them. He won't even use his LEGS or his VOICE!

YouTheCat · 18/08/2013 21:03

He's a proper Pwincess Grin

NicknameIncomplete · 18/08/2013 21:09

I have just spoilt my daughter by making her go into the kicthen and get me some biscuits. What a great mum I am Wink

bigfuckoffpie · 18/08/2013 21:37

After I graduated I worked for a small company and one of the department heads was awful.

Mostly it was because she was madly obsessive about procedures, bad tempered and gave people impossible workloads. But she occasionally veered into being massively self indulgent.

She used to ask me to go out to the sandwich shop around the corner and call her to go through what was on the menu, which I absolutely HATED because I didn't see why she couldn't just bloody well decide before I left. If I said I had no money on my mobile (I earned a pittance and had a pay as you go), she'd give me hers and insist I call her.

I once got given the wrong order for her and we didn't realise until I got back to the office and took whatever it was I'd been handed out the bag. She stood over me while, at her insistence, I called the sandwich shop to ask if her fucking salad was still there and then sent me back to get it. And she acted like the woman in the sandwich shop giving me the wrong bag was my fault.

She also once got stuck on hold when she was calling the gas company or similar to pay a personal bill. She got bored of it and insisted I hold onto the phone while she wandered off, even although I had no idea what she needed to speak to them for. Luckily I was still on hold when she came back.

Urrrgh - she reminded me a little bit of the boss in the Devil Wears Prada.

nauticant · 18/08/2013 23:28

After much reading of this thread, my considered opinion is that a significant contributory factor to this problem is mugs.

YonilyDevotedToYou · 18/08/2013 23:38

Someone upthread asked 'wouldn't you like tea and breakfast made for you every morning'. My answer is a big fat NO. It would make me feel guilty and lazy. Once in a while, yes. Every day, not on your nelly!

Reality · 19/08/2013 06:59

My Dad has brought my Mum coffee and breakfast in bed every day for 40 years.

That's before she gets up, does all the housework, goes to work, comes home, cooks dinner for him, does the shopping and sorts the garden out.

greenfolder · 19/08/2013 07:30

ex colleague of mine

mum and dad said that they would match whatever they saved as house deposit- dhs parents gave them £8k, so parents matched that. then paid for windows and doors because of security.

mum and dad drove her to work because she hadnt learned to drive- she was 30 and it was 20 mile round trip. they went to her house everyday and did her washing and ironing, and walked her dog.

eventually they all moved down south and bought a house together.

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