AIBU to think greedy people should be shot at dawn?

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And by that I mean people who take more than their fair share just because they can, not because they need it.

Went to an Easter egg hunt thing today. Community event so low cost (£1 a child) as some eggs had been donated. Each child given a small cardboard basket - big enough to fit in four or five eggs/items. Some children were scooping up enough everything they could see. Fair enough, small children so probably didn't know any better, although the rules had been explained beforehand - only what you can fit in your basket. However, several adults were encouraging their children to stuff their pockets full, and one woman actually shoved a load in her handbag!

There were complaints, but apparently she refused to put them back because she'd paid for them. Oh yes, that £2 you paid for your two kids really covered the price of the eggs you all took. And there weren't quite enough to go round because of those who took far more than their share.

Next year they are planing to use fake eggs which will have to be exchanged for chocolate, or do it as a treasure hunt type event, to stop the greed. Apparently they had issues at Christmas as well.

What on earth possesses people to be so greedy? It's even worse when they take way more than they can possibly eat (think 9 fairy cakes!) and are wasteful as well.

highinthesky

"If she puts her purse before her health, obesity and type 2 diabetes beckon. That's punishment enough."

The woman the OP mentioned sounds horrific, this is one of the worst sorts of behaviour that I abhor. No excuse for grabbiness.

BUT I find your comment offensive. I am a type 2 diabetic. I have a normal BMI and I am very fit (two marathons this month). Please don't just link type 2 diabeties to this sort of behaviour and automatically put it as a curse on the obese. It can be a lot more complex.

YANBU. I remember at school a teacher brought in a packet of chocolate digestives and a couple of my classmates took more than their fair share. Another girl from a different class who'd been on work experience all week came into our class for the last half hour of the day to wait for the school bus home. The teacher offered her the last biscuit, only for one of my greedy classmates to snatch it before she took it. I was furious. .

Even now whenever something like a music concert/rare food/designer clothes in a High Street store appears. People scoop up every single item to sell on eBay leaving few for genuine shoppers.

The same people wipe the whole reduced bay out in supermarkets instead of leaving stuff for other people

M & S are like this.
It's not unusual to see greedy gits piling a trolley full with about 30 loaves of the same type of bread. It leaves nothing for other people.
One person had his trolley full of reduced 30p sundae type puddings. They weren't the type of things you could freeze either and the sell by date was for that day, so I suspect it's pure greed.
Older men are the worst.
I think it's a hobby/sport for them in their retirement. It's a contest to see how many reduced items they can pick up at any one time
A kind of supermarket version of willy waving

People who take a load of food and then leave half of it really enrage me. I'd like to lock them in a dungeon with rats, and chuck them half a mouldy crust now and then. Or put them in the stocks and pelt them with ordure. Maybe both.
Last year I sat next to a bloke at a wedding who took a stack of lovely roast lamb from the buffet, and then left most of it. I wanted to kick him.

Greedy and selfish.

I have a couple of lovely friends, sisters, I've known and loved them for over 40 years - so how on earth did they bring their kids up to be so greedy? I've done an easter egg hunt here before, my kids were, say, 4 and 6 and their 4 DCs upwards of 10 and yet they took every egg they could lay their hands on, pushing my littler ones out of the way to get them. Then at dinner I laid out a full hot buffet to feed all of us (6 kids, 5 adults), went into the kitchen to get some vegetables and in that few minutes their 4 children took every single item of bread, meat, potatoes and nibbles etc off the table and piled up their plates.

Adults just smiled. Then genuinely wondered why they only had vegetables for dinner.

If I go somewhere where the meat is put on the plate but the vegetables come in bowls to help yourself I always take the tiniest amount. Probably too little- especially if the bowl starts with me, because I am scared the last person will have nothing.

Oh yes another one, we were at one of those buffet restaurants, and a 16" cheese and tomato pizza was laid out - the last one to be made that evening as quite a few had been put out beforehand. One couple rushed up and took the entire 8-10 slices of pizza, loaded it up as a round straight onto a spare plate and took it to their table. then had a couple of bites out of it and left.

brickinitIam supermarket willy waving

At work, we sometimes have people bring in cakes/biscuits on a Friday or if it's somebody's birthday. There were two clients who would come in and eat the lot before anyone else had a chance to have some [anger]. This went on for a while and then there was another birthday and someone brought in 3 types of cake. One of the clients had about 3 slices of cake and a staff member had a private word with her and told her that she wasn't allowed any more because everyone else wanted/hadn't had any cake yet.

Absolutely was at a hunt earlier where I saw one girl had 10 eggs... But my younger sister got a mini packet of sweets. The girls parents just sat there and let her keep them all! Makes my blood boil how selfish people can be, the wankers

Salad bar karma:
Years ago (lots!) I saw a bloke build a salad-bar scaffold with bread sticks, extending the bowl by two or three times height. He filled this structure to overflowing and then drowned it in dressing -- and that was his undoing ... some of the breadsticks were soaked, the side of the structure collapsed and dumped the greasy, soggy mess on his suede* boots!

*Suede boots tells you how long ago this was.

theyre parents should be ashamed

u should see the buffets in america though theyre amazing always replenished i do go a bit mental at those

I used to work somewhere where we got free lunches in the canteen. Hot meal, sandwiches, fruit, the choice was really good. One guy I worked with used to take whole bunches of bananas etc, anything he could, basically using the canteen to do a free supermarket shop.

The free lunches later become subsidised lunches...

I am greedy and at a Carvery or something similar I will take a huge amount because I assume that the restaurant have plenty of food for everyone. At a wedding or house party type buffet I will be far more restrained as I know that it is likely that all the food is out and there is no more to come. I never waste food though, I do eat it all!
I appreciate it is not an attractive trait and I am working on it, I have real issues with binge eating, but I am quite nice in other ways so hopefully it all balances out.

The restaurant/carvery will have plenty of food for everyone as long as each person doesn't take a huge amount I would think.....

I stayed at a nice boutique hotel recently and at breakfast one woman took the entire display of pastries. She and her husband then tucked into fruit and cereal. Then their teenage ds came down and forced the entire plate of pastries down (9, I was counting) before mum went up and demanded more.

How lovely.

The parents who want their child to have the best and most of everything are by far the worst aspect of working with children! We run holiday events where I work, usually art based, and there are always the parents who grab all the nicest things on the table and then want us to get out more craft bits (that are not planned for the project at all), different coloured paints and so on- and that one parent who always arrives 15 minutes before the end and thinks that means they get to stay for half an hour after the finish while we clean up around them.

Since starting there, I have encouraged our soft hearted boss to crack right down on this. Because I'm a volunteer and know I'm an asset to the place I have no hesitation in saying no. We now make a point of walking around and telling people nicely that we will be closing in 10, then 5 minutes. If I think someone is planning to ignore, I stay near their table and 'help' them clear up once the end time has passed. I think it's harder for boss to do that as she is employed and under pressure to make as much money as possible, so I take responsibility for being the mean one. We have far fewer piss takers now and none come more than once- but profits are still going up.

For easter, we do a kind of scavenger hunt, where the children find various things and tick them on a list. Then when they come back, they get an egg (or allergy friendly alternative). You do get some children who ask for more but that's just cheekiness rather than greed and it's easy to say 'no' -and accept 'no'- because there is no direct competitiveness involved. No one can claim that their child somehow ticked a sheet 'better' than the others! Again, numbers go up substantially every year so it's not a negative thing!

Our church egg hunt is for pieces of a picture or letters to a word such as "easter" Find the pieces, Go inside, make a card then get an egg. All eggs the same size!

Every Easter we talk about the time we went out for lunch on Easter Day to a lovely pub where there were little eggs left all over the place. We were some of the first to arrive in the pub as DD was 3 & still preferred lunch at midday. We let DD have the three eggs on our table, the one on the shelf immediately behind our table which no one else could reach. DD could see more & was very keen to eat them so we explained that they were for people on other tables although we probably had a fair claim on some of the others very close to us. Another family turned up with an obese daughter of about 8 who went around the whole restaurant and took all of the eggs. Not just the communal ones but the ones on the unoccupied tables to so those arriving a bit later would have known nothing about the pub's gesture! The restaurant was in two sections & and we heard her mum tell her to go & try the other section & also heard her point out ones she had missed! There were a lot of . By chance, neither of the adjoining tables to us had DC sat there and one of the men sat at one table saw what was going on and passed the mini eggs on their table & next to them to DD and then a lady from the other table did! When we left, the waitress gave DD a napkin with another half dozen in & said they had planned on putting more out but didn't because of this girl. DD always asks to go back as I'm not sure she'd ever had so much chocolate in one day!

Some good ideas for next year, thank you. I'll pass them on.

We did a communal Easter egg hunt where everyone had to find eggs and put all of them in one big basket and then we divided them all equally. So it was more of a cooperative thing. It worked very well.

The national trust one I have been to before had letters to find to spell an Easter word / which you took back to claim your egg

I wouldn't leave eggs out for people to collect as people are dicks!

My neighbour did a hunt for the kids on the street. One girl had a bag full and was witnessed shoving and barging kids to get to the eggs. She also wouldn't let other kids read the clues. Others including my DD had very little and were visibly upset.,

When the neighbour saw how much she'd got in comparison to others she took everyone's off them, put them in a bucket and divided it up equally.

If greedy girl had played fairly they could have kept what they found!

I've often thought strategically placed snipers could solve a lot of life's issues...selfish parkers, greedy shoppers, litter bugs, graffiti "artists" (I love street art but hate tagging), noisy neighbours...