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To ask for your overheard spoiled/entitled comments (lighthearted)

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punanddusted · 20/02/2020 14:14

Asking for your best/most shocking overheard comments that are spoiled, entitled, oblivious to others, self absorbed etc... just for fun!

My favourites are

"Mother, I'm not 12 any more, I can't just be expected to always turn up with the same trainers on"

And (while Christmas shopping in a very busy department store)

"You know, you'd think most of these people would do their shopping in Poundland or somewhere"

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Jeleste · 20/02/2020 14:47

'Being a parent is so much work' said by a friend who lives abroad and is a SAHM with 2 kids, 2 nannies and a maid who cooks, cleans and does laundry!
What made things worse, she said it to another friend who has recently become a widow, has 4 kids and no family support where she lives.

Daftodil · 20/02/2020 14:54

"Ugh, I hate my dad sometimes... he's bought me the wrong camera!" (Said by a furious 18/19 year old on a gap year abroad, which the awful dad was also paying for)

SisterAgatha · 20/02/2020 14:59

My friend to her mum “I’m not arguing with you mum, I just want the deposit to buy a property and you always said you would help me out, you owe it to me to give me it right away and I want it now”

Whynosnowyet · 20/02/2020 15:01

Telling ds 5 not to throw the xbox controller about -
I know dm you have told me SEVERAL times
In sighing dramatic tones..

poorbuthappy · 20/02/2020 15:03

A fellow delayed traveller at Basel Airport at 11pm...
"And they're taking the families with small children to the hotel first!!"

I may have responded by stamping my feet and declaring loudly - don't they realise how pretty I am....

IamPickleRick · 20/02/2020 15:05

Haha!

My sister in law this week. I’d had a car crash with whiplash on Wednesday. I was supposed to be giving her a costume for her daughter on the Friday at a group we go to. She saw my FB stories about the accident. She saw that I wasn’t going to group because I wasn’t feeling well enough. Never asked if I or my DD, her niece, was ok.

She messaged on the Saturday saying “are you not getting my messages?” Ah ok, maybe we had her wrong and she actually has been messaging to see if we were ok.

No! The message was “why didn’t you drop off my costume?”

Selfish bastard.

Anonanonanonanonanonanonanon · 20/02/2020 15:09

“I hate my life” said my 11yo boy when he realised he’d left his iphone on his private school bus on the last day of term, just before heading off on a skiing holiday. I did point out the first-worldliness of his problems.

SVRT19674 · 20/02/2020 15:18

See daughter dear? (outside expensive spa) I hope you study and work hard so that you don't end up thick and ignorant like ...(she looks around) that lorry driver, who cannot aspire to a better job...

Lazymorningsareover · 20/02/2020 15:26

When ds was about 6, he asked for a certain game for his Nintendo DS for his birthday.

There was only one Argos that had it in stock in a local shopping centre so off we popped off to get it unbeknown to ds. We discreetly bought it from Argos, then went into card factory to get some wrapping paper for his presents.

By which point ds was bored and stroppy at being dragged round all of two shops, was picking up crap in card factory and keeping on asking for things.

I said no and told him off a bit for misbehaving to which he responded "this is the worst day of my life", and "you never buy me anything but you buy things for yourself" gesturing at the wrapping paper.

Lazymorningsareover · 20/02/2020 15:30

Also an ex boyfriend when I was about 18 he was the same age, he lived with his nan. He was a spoilt brat, his nan bought his dinners up to his bedroom and basically did everything for him.

I remember him once having a real go at her because she'd bought him the wrong deodorant.

MillicentMartha · 20/02/2020 15:46

At a university open day tour of accommodation, going past the laundry room. Mother to her DD in shocked tones. ‘You have to do your own washing?!’ Shock

Who did she think was going to do it? The maid service? Grin She didn’t look like (my idea of) a boarding school DC either.

cleanasawhistle · 20/02/2020 16:06

A family I knew sold there house and were renting a 3 bed semi on a recently new estate while there brand new home was being built......

....the daughter said she couldnt believe noone had invited them around for Xmas and they had had to spend it in that awful small house

Original poster
punanddusted · 20/02/2020 17:21

These are great!! Grin

I know dm you have told me SEVERAL times

Aww this one made me laugh! Smile

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Herringbone31 · 20/02/2020 17:24

I overheard a boy who was around 5. How his dad has brought him the wrong (but latest iPhone) for him and his brothers

The cost came to over 3000!!!

OwlinaTree · 20/02/2020 17:26

My parents about their business class flight - 'we had to drink the champagne really quickly before the plane took off'

abstractprojection · 20/02/2020 17:32

'the only good thing about sainsburys is that it keeps the riff raff out of waitrose'

'well so and so said that they shop at sainsburys so i thought it was ok, but then i found out that my cleaner does so im not sure anymore'

Original poster
punanddusted · 23/02/2020 11:05

😂😂😂

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Whynosnowyet · 23/02/2020 11:32

The same ds 5 was asked yesterday by his db 11 for a foot massage.
Apparently he couldn't give foot rubs because he is the Prime Minister!!
Grin

Hoppinggreen · 23/02/2020 11:38

DD goes to Private school but is pretty grounded, she went to quite a mixed State Primary school and has friends from a variety of backgrounds
Some of her school friends who have been at her school from age 3 can be a bit in a bubble though. I overheard DD talking to one of them about the bus station and she said “ I don’t understand about buses, why do people use them? Why don’t they drive?” DD suggested that not everyone has a car and the friend asked why didn’t they get an Uber then?

Sarcelle · 23/02/2020 11:44

I went to Southwold a few years ago. I had heard it was snobby. We got there quite late and walked along by the beach. Most people had left the beach but there was one family sitting having a picnic. There was a 12 year old boy, think Jacob Reed Mogg in junior form, he was standing up, eating something and staring out to sea. He drawled..."wouldn't it be absolutely ghastly if we were overrun with chavs" I am guessing there had been a few rowdy (normal?) people on the beach during the day. And that they feared that Southwold would become like Southend.

I don't see the appeal of Southwold or Southend.

Honeyned · 23/02/2020 12:28

These are funny Grin
Took ds1 to a bday party once for a child from his nursery a few years ago. One set of parents were very posh and always late.
Mum turned up about half an hour before the party ended...
'happy birthday dylan'
'...I'm not dylan, I'm *Charlie'...'
'oh good for you!'

Neron · 23/02/2020 12:51

Walking to the station in London, a tourist family coming towards me with a road inbetween us.

As the son was walking ahead of the family, the mother called for him to wait at the road and they'd cross together.

The son turned round and shouted at the mum to 'stop ruining his life'

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