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To think this was the most dickheadish thing I’ve ever seem

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Getoffmyhelicopter · 12/08/2020 15:05

Have name changed as this is outing (especially if anyone was also there).

Dh and I went for a break this weekend. Nice country hotel but not like that amazing.

Anyway - a family turned up via helicopter and parked it on the main lawn - so basically left it where everyone was sitting eating dinner/having drinks,

Unsurprisingly a parked helicopter gets quite a lot of attention from children playing on the lawn. As a small child with his mum went to peer into the window the husband came running across (a very long) lawn screaming “DONT TOUCHMY HELICOPTER” kid wasn’t touching it and do t park a fucking helicopter in a huge public space if you don’t want anyone looking at it.

First AIBU to think the guy was an absolute duck and secondly have you ever experienced anything as ridiculous.

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shadypines · 12/08/2020 15:53

CottonEyeJoe

One Dad, loudly and making eye contact with as many people as he could, saying "Don't worry, this is just a pit stop - we wouldn't dream of actually staying in this town

ha ha this reminds me of a young woman who boarded my bus with a toddler ..she repeatedly (and I mean at least 5 times) declared to other passengers toddler VERY LOUDLY 'we've got to get the bus to go and collect the car from grandad's garage'. FFS the toddler was sitting there quite happily, not asking about the need for the enforced mingling with bus lowlife bus journey...infact she was probably singing 'the wheels on the bus happily to herself.'

As for helicopter guy, I sort of feel sorry for people who go through life like this.

ChangeThePassword · 12/08/2020 15:54

First AIBU to think the guy was an absolute duck

Yanbu. He's completely quackers.

Biddie191 · 12/08/2020 15:55

*Omg.

I Want a helicopter.

I would be such a wanker. It would be brilliant.*

PMSL

Ohtherewearethen · 12/08/2020 15:56

Ha ha ha, what a twat! Definitely new money. How obnoxious. It's a shame money can't buy you the ability to see when you're not impressing people, they just think you're a giant knob.

nevermorelenore · 12/08/2020 15:56

That's so trashy! I love it. I grew up in an area with lots of footballers and mock Tudor mansions. We'd often see people going to the shops in super cars or getting chauffeur driven to pizza hut. I want to win the lottery so I can do stupid stuff like that.

A friend of mine went to Dubai and apparently you can order an Uber helicopter. Maybe that service has made it over here?

showmethegin · 12/08/2020 16:00

Omg @CottonEyeJo tell us more! I was very tempted to take a similar job for UHNW people and changed my mind in the end!

Shannith · 12/08/2020 16:02

@ODFOkaren Grin

SimonJT · 12/08/2020 16:02

A friend of mine went to Dubai and apparently you can order an Uber helicopter. Maybe that service has made it over here?

You can do this in Brazil, we hired one to do a tour of Rio as it was cheaper than hiring one of the actual tour helicopters. A forty minute flight was something crazy like £80 and there were three of us.

MrsTerryPratchett · 12/08/2020 16:04

@UnfinishedSymphon

Our neighbour has a light aircraft, he uses it to go to Manchester United away matches, he's not dick about it though
I used to know an American millionaire type. He had two planes and would fly himself and his mates around (fights in Vegas etc.). Let us 'borrow' it to go to the Caribbean when we were in the States.

Proper nice rich people aren't precious with their crap.

Holothane · 12/08/2020 16:04

I’m a James Bond fan so I too would be up and close to the helicopter he’d hate me then. Ddickhead.

Shannith · 12/08/2020 16:05

I want to hire a helicopter too just so I can shout "don't touch my helicopter."

Except I'd be way better and have stickers on it with a photo of a poor person crossed out in case they got too close and hadn't heard my scream polite request.

Maybe you can hire helicopter bodyguards to go with it in case you had to land somewhere non U.

I want them all. In pink.

plominoagain · 12/08/2020 16:06

See if he was proper wealthy , he wouldn’t have given a shit - if it gets damaged, the staff deal with it , or he gets another one . That’s either hired by the day , or he can only just afford the one . He needs to try harder .

ZigZagPlant · 12/08/2020 16:06

What a twat. I agree he probably wouldn’t have had a relaxing evening guarding his helicopter - maybe it was his butlers night off?

AhNowTed · 12/08/2020 16:07

Arseholes.

EinsteinaGogo · 12/08/2020 16:07

@CottonEyeJo

Oooo I could start a whole thread on rich wankiness that I've seen/experienced in my time (I'm a Nanny for UHNW families)

Off the top of my head

  • Flying in bottled water from Italy, rather than drinking from the filter tap or the local bottled water. And I quote "why else have a private jet?"

One Dad, loudly and making eye contact with as many people as he could, saying "Don't worry, this is just a pit stop - we wouldn't dream of actually staying* in this town

  • McDonald's? Isn't that where the poor people eat?
Yes please @CottonEyeJo

Please please please do start an 'AMA' post.

Pleaaaaasssssseeeeee!!

CourseTheyWere · 12/08/2020 16:09

Why do I get the feeling that ‘Don’t touch my helicopter’ is going to be the new ‘cancel the cheque’? 😂

ZigZagPlant · 12/08/2020 16:13

@CottonEyeJo

Please do! I would enjoy the read.

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 12/08/2020 16:14

What's UHNW??

Maybe if a poor child touched it, the helicopter would shatter into a million tiny pieces in shame.

TrufflePioneer · 12/08/2020 16:15

Hahaha, what a knobber. DH used to work for a very rich family - they didn't behave like that exactly (that would have been below them, they'd have sent security to guard the helicopter), but they did have a deranged approach to money. Can't really tell any specific tales as they're a bit outing, but they could be weird as shit.

DH was the gardener but would help the chauffeur out occasionally with taking the various supercars to the petrol station for fuel, in an area known for the odd celebrity - he used to laugh at how disappointed the forecourt staff and punters were when two £250,000 Ferraris came growling up to the pumps and he'd get out of one looking like worzel gummidge, and a 100 year old fat chauffeur got out of the other looking like Uncle Albert.

TrufflePioneer · 12/08/2020 16:16

@ICouldHaveCheckedFirst Ultra High Net Worth

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat · 12/08/2020 16:18

I don't like slogans or sayings on T-shirts but if I had to have one I think it would be...

Don't Touch My Helicopter

sotiredofthislonelylife · 12/08/2020 16:18

@ICouldHaveCheckedFirst

What's UHNW??

Maybe if a poor child touched it, the helicopter would shatter into a million tiny pieces in shame.

Ultra High Net Worth
SierraOscar · 12/08/2020 16:23

@CourseTheyWere

Why do I get the feeling that ‘Don’t touch my helicopter’ is going to be the new ‘cancel the cheque’? 😂
I have this feeling too. It's made me belly laugh!
Holothane · 12/08/2020 16:24

Oh please @CottenEyeJo I could do with a laugh.

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 12/08/2020 16:26

What an arsehole. Agree with PP that if he was that rich he would have someone minding it. But if he was that rich he probably would have been a little bit more chilled about kiddies harmlessly looking.

Unless there was something in the chopper he didnt want people to see? Dead wife? Kilos of cocaine? Donald Trump?