We were staying at a small hotel, we just finished lunch when we saw a middle aged couple arguing with the young receptionist.
Their problem was that the all you can eat restaurant had self service and that they ran out of one of the meals. The receptionist tried to explain that this kind of thing happens sometimes but they try their best to refill the trays.
They then asked for the owner, but the receptionist informed them that he’s out of town and not available, but if they want they could write a formal complaint. Hearing this the woman shouted: “then how will we get a refund???”.
I was at a coffee shop in a rich neighbourhood. Someone left the shop and then came back in speaking loudly to everyone. “Who here has the Mercedes with the license plate that starts with M?” They asked.
Someone raised their hand.
“You need to move your car” The entitled man demanded.
“But I parked in the middle of the spot.” The Mercedes owner replied.
“I can’t get in to my car”
It turns out the entitled guy had a Rolls Royce that he parked over the line. The Mercedes driver parked next to him, but inside the lines. The Rolls Royce driver didn’t accept that he was the one who parked terribly. He just demanded that the other person needed to move their car. Not politely asking, just a demand.
To add to it, this place only has about 8 spots and it’s always busy. The idea that no one should park next to him is the epitome of entitled.
When I see someone parked awfully, I do give them the benefit of the doubt that they might have parked where there was room, and someone else before them parked even more absurdly bad.
But I wouldn’t if they show up making that kind of a scene.
There is a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode about just this.
Funny, I recently had a similar story at work. We’re in a building with several companies, so the “Rolls Royce” guy of your story was someone from another company, and the “Mercedes” guy was one of our colleagues. Exact same thing, the other guy was badly parked whereas our colleague was within the marks (although slightly misaligned TBF, but still in the marks). Some people…
I know “person” disqualifies my cat but at the same time if she could read this, she’d be furious she wasn’t included.
I’m sure there will be crazier answers, but one memory comes to mind. I’m walking down a busy street late one night in Montreal. I see this preppy looking guy lliterally screaming in the face of a bouncer outside of a club, like about to burst a blood vessel. Anyway, this guy is asking dumb questions like “dont you know who my dad is?” And yelling about how he’s going to get this dad on the phone to ruin the bouncers career for not letting him into the club.
Maybe I’m lucky, but I don’t see cartoonishly entitled behavior like that often, so it stuck out to me. To the bouncer’s credit he kept his cool and just gave the other guy a blank stare the whole interaction…total pro.
Yesterday this mf brought a whole shopping cart full of groceries to the self-checkout. Three of the checkouts were down so there were only 3 open. Not the spiciest, but like, damn.
Using the self checkout for larger shopping is ok in my book. But what sucks is using the SCO and buying an age restricted item (e.g. beer). The checkout locks down and summons an employee to verify the age and unlock the station again. If you buy age restricted items, go to the normal checkout where your greying hair is accepted as age verification!
I’m not sure if paying for your groceries makes you entitled.
You’re technically supposed to use a human cashier lane if you have a lot of groceries. At least in the USA, it’s pretty common for self-checkout lanes to have “15 items or fewer” signs.
Depends on the stores these days, in my experience. Some stores are scheduling fewer cashiers after installing more self checkout lanes and have removed signage about item limits in self checkout. If you want a human cashier, you have to wait a while because there might only be one on shift so you get a line.
