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No parent intends to spoil their kid, bottom line. But as circumstances, age, and love would have it, often it turns out the opposite. Especially when it’s not you, but other parents, family members and friends pointing out that your mini-me is badly behaved. How dare they call that little angel that way!
So today, we are diving into a series of real-life quasi-horror stories about “spoiled brat” kids from people who encountered them. From babysitters to school teachers, here are some of the most shocking and eye-opening examples of just how treating a kid too indulgently and letting them get away with anything backfires against you.
And you know how it goes: spoiled kids grow up into spoiled adults, or some grown-ups act like they were spoiled kids. Of course, we are all kids at heart, but hey, rolling on your back in Wal-mart for not getting what you want from life when you're 30+ (or wanting to do that!) is probably a no-go.
Scroll down through the stories below and be sure to share your thoughts on the subject matter in the comment section!
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#1
In college, I was trying to work out how I was going to purchase a textbook that I needed for a class. I had come to the conclusion that I had to wait till the next week when my part time job paycheck came in and I'd try to survive in the class until then. My friend took notice of this and came to me the next day with a brand new text book that he bought with the credit card his parents gave him. Said he buys so much on the card that his parents wouldn't question him about it even though he didn't get it for himself. He was super spoiled, but also helped me out so I can't sh*t on him.
Patricia O'Rourke 4 years ago
Even though he got tons of stuff from his parents, it sounds like he managed not to be totally spoiled. What a nice thing to do!
Hans 4 years ago
It indeed seems that he is aware of his situation and his parents failure in teaching about value...the most astonishing that he managed himself. This definitely is a nice gesture.
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NsG 4 years ago
Kind of torn on this one. So many of these are really examples of TOTALLY SH1TTY PARENTING, but something has gone bizarrely right when a friend can be so altruistic, even if it comes from a place where money means nothing, they still choose to do something nice. Hasn't taught them the value of a dollar, has taught them the value of friendship. Good kind of spoiled?
Paul Davis 4 years ago
This doesn't fit the article. Kid has money but not necessarily crazy money. And doesn't sound spoiled at all.
Johnny 4 years ago
Yeah, kind of not cool to even mention it here since it was a good deed, and really he doesn't even know if it's true -- maybe his friend had to pay his parents back, but didn't want the other guy to know. This would fit better in and artciel like "when did someone do something nice for you, no strings attached"
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Marcellus II 4 years ago
Downvote. Spoiled in the sense of being spoiled by his parents, possibly; but not spoiled in the sense of gone bad.
BigOrangeTractor 4 years ago
Jealous people say 'spoiled' when what they mean is 'has more than me'.
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
That's not spoiled. That's a generous act that the spoiled won't do
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#2
The Macbook Girl Incident.
I was a student tech at our university, so I was usually helping with repairing student and the occasional professor's laptop or desktop. However, during a big sale, it was required that we helped freshman and their parents with buying computers from the student store. Now, we had two options at this point for students who chose to buy our laptops with a student discount. We had Dell Latitudes and Insprions, and we had Macbooks. A girl and a father walked in and she darted right over to the Macbooks. She knew exactly which one she wanted. Her father told her that they didn't have the cash for the laptop, and at my recommendation, we settled on a Dell Latitude Laptop. I thought it would be an easy sale.
Well, the father and I did. The daughter did not agree with our opinion. She threw a f*cking tantrum right in the middle of the store, initially with hushed reservations which escalated to her loudly calling her father out, telling him how much of a good girl she was, how much of a sh*tty father he was because he wouldn't buy her things like her mother always did, and how he was RUINING HER LIFE, because she would be unpopular if she didn't have a Macbook. The father then said he was stepping out for five minutes, at which point she began asking random customers to help defend her, all of them looked at her like she was crazy, one even told her that they'd buy the dell laptop from her for fifty bucks minus retail, others said they'd be happy to get any laptop for free, and she should be too, that their parents never helped them through college, etc. When the father came back, they continued fighting, and he left once again, telling her she was not getting the Macbook. She left a minute or so later.
Fifteen minutes later, she came to the register where I was at, and asked for a Macbook Pro. When I plopped down the box, her eyes widened. I took the card out of her hand, and examined it. It was obviously the Father's card. I asked for ID, and did the usual policy for high end purchases. Because it was not her card, I declined the sale. She gave me every excuse in the book, oh he's outside, dad gave me the card, blah blah blah. None of it stuck and I refused the sale, explaining the situation to the store manager, who had seen the entire thing and confirmed it. The father, confident where his daughter was, came storming in a few seconds later. He asked her what happened and I told him exactly what had happened, and she gave me extremely dirty look as I handed back the card. She had stolen the card from the backpack the father was carrying their stuff in. She turned quickly and begged for the dell laptop, but the father refused anything, saying he had a much better punishment. We all laughed and cringed. Others in the line chuckled.
I saw her two months later and she scowled at me, blaming me for not just swiping the damned card, because she had to use the lab computers for everything for an entire semester as punishment. I laughed, and walked back to my desk.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Definitely her father didn't spoil her. So... not belonging here? Entitled, not spoiled.
ThatOneWriter 4 years ago
Her mom does, based on what she said to her dad when yelling at him. So bit of a toss-up really
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SuperChicken 4 years ago
Happy that her father has the common sense to not budge in and gave her, in her own sense (or lack thereof), a stern lesson.
Random Panda 4 years ago (edited)
I bought my first laptop with money I saved. It didn't even occur to me to ask my parents to buy me one and was delightfully surprised when dad paid half.
Dodo 4 years ago
I've always bought my own laptops. First one I bought with inheritance money from my grandma. Definitely wouldn't have occurred to me to ask my parents.
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grotesqueer 4 years ago
She got mad for her dad not buying her a MacBook for school, stole her dad's credit card and tried to buy it with it but didn't succeed, dad punished her by not buying any laptop and forcing her to use the school's laptops for the entire semester.
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squid eric Haney 2 months ago (edited)
I'm no diagnostician, but the extremity of the situation sounds like something deeper than just being spoiled. It sounds like it was exacerbated by that, though.
#3
A friend of mine from high school. She was filthy rich thanks to her step-dad. I'm just going to list a few of the things I remember about her:
- Her mom and step-dad asked her for permission if they could have a child together and she told them no because she wanted to be an only child.
- She constantly whined because her parents refused to move out of the master suite of their mansion. She felt that she deserved it because the attached walk in closet and bathroom were bigger than hers. To reconcile this, she had her parents pay to redecorate her room every single year.
- On her 16th birthday, her step-dad gave her his one-year-old hummer. She full on cried when he tried to give her the keys because it was the "wrong color" and used. They went out and bought her a brand new one in the color she liked that day.
- She only wore designer clothes and would constantly make fun of people who couldn't afford to wear the same. When we went to the mall, I would often buy nothing, but her parents would give her not one, but two credit cards to buy whatever she wanted.
- She hated doing her homework so her mom and step-dad did all of it, including writing her papers and doing her school projects.
- She had her own private bonus room with a flat screen, multiple gaming systems, a desktop, massage chairs, a pool table, etc. If her parents tried to go in it then she would scream at them.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I think it takes idiot parents to do this but it also takes a certain nasty kind of character to then act like this girl did.
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Casey Burns 4 years ago
I read that in the most annoying voice automatically lolol
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lara 4 years ago
About her "not allowing" her mom and step-dad to have another child is beyond selfish. She should be tossed out of the house on her 18th birthday. She is a walking advertisement for contraception.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
This is the sort of person you actually hope winds up in a tent beneath an overpass.
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SuperChicken 4 years ago
Parent's fault. One day, as this child will never grow-up, will have a tremendously rude awakening about life.
If you’re a parent to a young kid, people glaring at you is something you’re probably familiar with. Whether it’s a public tantrum in the candy aisle at the supermarket, or the stares when your mini-me gets away with acting like a big boss, you just know what’s going on their minds: “what a spoiled brat.”
#4
in person? Ben Roethlisberger. The biggest spoiled little kid I've ever met was ~25 years old and actually said, verbatim, "Do you know who I am?" when a bouncer wouldn't let him and his entourage cut in front of a line of 50+ people to get into a night club. It was both hilarious and nauseating. After Ben stormed off (with the obligatory "I'll talk to your boss" threats), people were tipping the doorman for the entertainment.
Gavin White 4 years ago
First of all, you are extremely fortunate to not know this guy. He is on the pittsburgh steelers football team. He once r*ped someone and then paid them off. Awful human being.
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Rick Hoppenbrouwer 4 years ago
I had that happen to me many years ago, same situation. Told him he was the last guy in the line, now shut up.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Les Bains Douches turned David Bowie and Mick Jagger away. Just saying.
Misty-Dawn Amayi 3 years ago
Yeah, I know who you are, and it's in your best interest that I pretend I don't.
#5
I was talking about the water crisis with my students and we were discussing what the response would be if our local area had an impending Day 0. One of my students shrugged and said, "well, I would just go to our house in Spain."
I reminded her that this wasn't an option for the majority of the population and her response was, "well, it's not my fault if they can't afford it. Get a job."
It was the very beginning of the school year and the majority of my students in that class were from low-income familes who had never been overseas let alone had a holiday house in Europe. She sat by herself for the rest of the year and I don't believe it was by choice.
Dodo 4 years ago
Trouble is, she'll never learn. She'll believe that poor people are just lazy and that they're a-holes who hate rich people.
Me Oh My 4 years ago
She's not wrong about the latter, but if they hate rich people, it's because of spoiled brats like her.
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Ma Fra 3 years ago
That's what I was thinking. It's not like the problem doesn't exist there.
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Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
My father has a job! Why don't we have 2 houses in exotic locations? Oh, cost of living is higher due to the large number of people in my family? Ah...makes sense.
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AtomKat 4 years ago
Once had to talk to my tutor group about refugees and got them to think about what it would be like if they had to flee their home country because of a war with nothing but what they could carry. One kid said that would be fine because he’d just buy new stuff on his credit card to replace what he left behind…
Shelli Aderman 4 years ago
Wow. I really feel bad for some of these kids, because they’re missing out on living a genuine life due to their parents’ poss-poor job of parenting!
#6
I know a couple who couldn't have children. They finally got approved for adoption when they were older and they finally got their first child in their mid to late 50s.
They were just so happy with finally having a child that they spoiled him rotten. Anything he wanted, they gave him. He grew up demanding things and throwing tantrums. They let him eat what he wanted so he ballooned in size. Eventually he dropped out of school because he didn't want to go and his parents were fine with this until the state told them they weren't allowed to do this, so they got his butt back into school, which he failed miserably in because he didn't give a sh*t.
He was eating away at all of their savings. He would randomly pick up new hobbies and needed top-of-the-line things for those hobbies, which he gave up on after a few months. His parents received an inheritance, and he blew through that entire amount within a few months, spending on stupid sh*t.
Eventually, his mother passed away, and his elderly dad, who is in his 70s, is having to work two full jobs while his son, now in his 20s, does nothing all day except drive around in his vehicle, live streaming himself talking while driving. He's already had two accidents from filming himself while driving.
His extended family tried to have a family meeting with the dad, telling him that he's got to put his foot down because his son is going to kill someone, and when the dad finally had a talk with the son, the son attacked him, knocking him down a flight of steps.
He didn't want to press charges. After he got well again, he went back to working his two jobs, and became an alcoholic during his non-work hours, letting his son run all over him because he is terrified of telling him "No".
The worst part... the dad has spent his entire retirement fund on this "kid". He is going to have to work until he dies because he has a parasitic son who refuses to do anything except spend spend spend.
Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
This is really sad, and easy to see how someone desperate for a kid could inadvertently spoil the kid they have. I've heard of it happening after a miscarriage or the death of a child too.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Tee Witt, there is another option you're not considering: what if a miscarriage was a freak accident that was not meant to happen but did anyway?
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Random Panda 4 years ago (edited)
I have fertility issues too and I get what they went through, but I have limited sympathy. As cruel as it sounds, the parents did this to themselves. If you want to spoil something rotten, get a pet.
Shelli Aderman 4 years ago (edited)
As an adoptive parent, I can share just how wrong this is! We tried for years to conceive, and were so happy to become parents to our two awesome kiddos. And did we spoil them a bit? Sure. WHEN THEY WERE BABIES! 🤣 Adoptive or biological does not matter. A parent still has to parent their child. Children are humans who need guidance, they are not puppies. 🤦🏽♀️
J. Normal 4 years ago
Raise the child to become an adult you want to be friends with.
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The son is gonna be completely screwed when the dad dies and all the moneys gone.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
He'll probably wind up a homeless junkie and die of a horrible disease.
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You may argue that every kid has their off days. And it’s true even with adults; on some days we are better versions of ourselves than others. But it’s all part of being human. However, what separates spoiled kids from kids who are acting weird on a given day is that the former ones “are stuck in ‘me’ mode,” suggests Michele Borba, an educational psychologist. If that mode when the world has to revolve around them is their daily MO, you’re raising a spoiled kid, bottom line.
#7
I was at a friends house who has two little girls, about 7 and 2 and it was around Christmas time. My friend also had a few other friends over who had brought Christmas presents for the two girls. The 7 year old opened one of the presents (mermaid/ocean puzzle and a book) and started crying because she didn’t like the gift. My friend, the mom, tried to console her but she continued having a tantrum. So the mom then asks the friend who brought the present if she wouldn’t mind getting her something different because the daughter didn’t like what she got. The friend looked pretty uncomfortable but agreed she would consider taking the presents back in exchange for something else. The mom said her daughter really wanted an American girl pony, much more expensive than the two presents the friend originally bought. Mom then proceeds to leave the house to go buy this pony for her daughter. Mind you, mom’s friends were from out of town visiting and she just randomly leaves to get her daughter this pony because she’s still throwing a tantrum. Mom comes back, and has the friend give her daughter the new toy.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
She'll be so spoiled and entitled, nobody will want to marry her!
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Nope sorry, I would have just taken back the present and left. I would then donate the gift to a charity or children's hospital.
Auntriarch 4 years ago (edited)
You're right, that's a terrible thing to do to a child
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Lovin' Life 4 years ago
My kids asked one year for bikes and then complained that I got them the wrong one. I took them with me to donate them to kids that would appreciate them. They thought I would replace them. The surprised look on their faces when I didnt was priceless. They grew up without bikes. I can say they are much more appreciative now.
J. Normal 4 years ago
What do THEY say about your parenting? How close to them are you now? Personally I feel punishing them throughout their childhood for one childish mistake is cruel.
Load More Replies... Laly Lynch 4 years ago
If Mom knew she wanted that pony, I'm wondering why she didn't get it for her for Christmas in the first place, seeing as she was able to buy it after the girl threw the tantrum.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
OMG if one of my children did that after receiving a present, they wouldn't have been able to sit down for a week.
#8
Guy I went to school with. He was a rich brat who got whatever he wanted, immediately and without question. He came to school with designer clothes, bag, watches, etc. and bought thv latest and most expensive phones as soon as they released.
For his 16th birthday, his parents bought him a brand new MG roadster. Dude never took any driving lessons but took it out in the roads anyway. Within a week, he wrapped it around a lamppost. He somehow walked away with minor injuries but the car was a total loss, it wasn't even recognisable as a vehicle. How did his parents react to their child driving illegally and completely destroying what was at the time a seriously expensive car?
They bought him another one.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That's completely f****d up. Not only are the parents giving him what he wants but they also condone his illegal behaviour. He could have bloody killed someone.
Mazer 4 years ago
When I worked at a local police department in a very affluent city, we had a call of a car accident. Our officer was sent to take a report, turn up to see a brand new BMW 733i sitting precariously in a couple of redwood trees next to a carport. He learned their 16 year old was responsible. The officer jokingly said to the father “I guess the kid will be walking for awhile”, the father turned to the officer and replied”no, that’s what insurance is for, we already have a replacement on order”. Stunned the officer, who thought to himself that he will most likely be back at the address in the near future.
Paradise 4 years ago
My brother has a history of wrecking cars and my parents bought him one after a wreck that was his fault (all were his fault). I put in my entitled hat and talked to them about fairness and when someone crashed into me and I had to get a new car they help me out. I had a good record. They agreed and had always felt bad they made that decision. I otherwise never do that. Hell, I didnt recieve a bday check once and said nothing. My parents say they will spent inheritance money on themselves, OK go for it. But that one pissed me off.
Stephanie A Mutti 4 years ago
I knew a girl in basic training who was gifted a Mazda Miata [this was a while back] if she was honor grad which she obtained by somewhat cheating during basic and as I came to learn, cheating in life in general. She of course immediately wrecked it as well. To be fair, I think her parents left her with some mental health issues and struggles going forward.
Robert T 4 years ago
This doesn't compute. The MGB roadster pictured, finished production in 1980. Expensive phones are 2000 if not 2010 and later. So unless they mean either a recently restored one, or one of the really expensive modern replicas/rebuilds, I think someone may have mixed up the brand.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
The pictures never match the stories on here. Don't think they belong together
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Sue Phillips 4 years ago
They always do this. I know a girl who wrecked 2 brand-new BMWs, and when that didn't produce the desired result (quality attention from her father), she got pregnant.
MelFunction 4 years ago
My parents bought me my first car. They made it clear that if I drove irresponsibly or drunk even once, they would take it away from me and sell it. They also made it clear that if anything happened to it, there wouldn't be another one. I treasured that car. Of course, 6 months later, a taxi jumped a red light and nearly wrote off my beautiful car, but since it was obviously not my fault, they helped me to fix it. I still miss my ugly little yellow Renault.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
My daughter was friends with a family who were actually really, really lovely people. And wealthy. But not very smart. Their elder daughter managed to total three brand new Mercedes in her first year or so of driving, so they bought her a brand new BMW instead. But the parents and the girls were truly some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Maybe they're not so secretly trying to get rid of him? Also, the picture isn't a brand new MG...
Caro Caro 4 years ago
Off topic: Where's the picknik basket on the back? I love these cars. I can see me cruising along in say ... Italy with a stuffed picknik basket full of cheese and chilled rosé. Don't ruin this daydream please.
Robert T 4 years ago
I drive a close relation - a Sprite - but it doesn't have a boot rack. Picnic goes inside the car. Less chance of leaving it all over the road. LOL.
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Have a billionaire customer with 4 kids, all of them pretty spoiled but the youngest once said to me spitefully "we're going on tiger next week and you're not allowed to come."
(Tiger is the name of their yacht in southern italy)
It's not just that he's spoiled that gets to me, it's the fact he knows it and rubs it in.
Jerry Mathers 4 years ago
To which I would have replied, "You mean I don't have to come! Being around a turd like you, no matter how nice the surroundings, always stinks"
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Gee kid, boats sink all the time. Hope you can swim and fight sharks.
Jane Smith 4 years ago
Hope this snot has excellent health insurance. The day when someone tells him NO he'll have a heart attack and a severe mental break with reality. Poor sod.
Felicia Dale 4 years ago
“Yes, I know! I’m so pleased for you!” Thinking, Thank heaven I don’t have to go…
On the other hand, the word spoiled itself may be flawed when referring to ill-behaved kids who think and act like they’re superior to others. It may wrongly suggest that the kid is “ruined” and that there’s nothing that can be done about it. But this is not true. So to find out what exact steps parents could take in unspoiling their child, we reached out to Lynn How. Lynn is the author of “Positive Young Mind” and a life coach who specializes in supporting educators, parents, and children with improving and prevention of mental health issues.
#10
Ex-friend of mine was given a puppy at his 7th birthday party. He threw a tantrum because he didn't like the breed.
Thankfully, the puppy was given to his aunt and the little sh*t was told he would never have a pet. Cue epic tantrum saying he changed his mind. Nope. Didn't work.
Patricia O'Rourke 4 years ago
Well good, that means his parents stood firm despite the tantrum.
Mpkfighter Plays 4 years ago
EXACTLY! I’M SO grateful that The parents FINALLY said something!
Load More Replies... Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
This isn't spoiled. This is a kid who acted entitled and got aptly punished for it, by good, non-spoiling parents.
StormWolf 4 years ago
Solid parenting. Little shít has learned a few invaluable lessons here: be grateful for the thought and effort more than the actual gift, actions have consequences and his parents' refusal to back down once he realised they were standing firm shows consistency, which children so desperately need
Lara Verne 4 years ago
One family from my town decided to give their son (10 years old) dog as Christmas gift. He liked schnauzers, and they adopted one from shelter. Their son was overjoyed, until he learned that dog was from shelter. Then he threw a tantrum, because he wanted "real schnauzer, not some dirty mutt from shelter". Unfortunately, his parents returned poor dog to shelter and bought his another.
#11
My friend's ten-year-old son is a brat, and always getting sent to his room for one thing or another. The other day, I peeked in to the kid's room. Laptop, desktop, TV, and three game systems. Oh my god, what a horrible punishment. Amnesty International is going to write letters about this.
Nugua 4 years ago (edited)
Poor child. Perhaps a little bit of love, attention and time spend together would help more than being constantly parked in front of a screen.
Mpkfighter Plays 4 years ago (edited)
The kid is too far gone to care about love, tbh (in my opinion)
Load More Replies... StormWolf 4 years ago
Spoilt kids are not always the product of parents who indulge them too much. Sometimes the opposite is true: parents can't be àrsed to actually *parent* their children so just throw material goods their way to shut them up. I think in the long run, the latter is worse than helicopter parenting
Inclusion 2020 4 years ago
Honestly I feel like every parent should have to take basic behavioral science classes.
Miriam L 4 years ago
I felt this way too (not a parent yet) so I went and did it! I still don't know what I'm doing, but I know what not to do
Load More Replies... NsG 4 years ago
Clueless parents, when that kid is smart enough to briar patch you, you've failed as a parent. If I was a brat my punishment was to stay OUT of my room and socialise (usually with my parents friends or some elderly relative). Can't say that was the better approach as I now very much prefer my own company, socialising is definitely a punishment.
Satya Bain 4 years ago
I'm 59 now and my mom will still talk about the time she realized that sending me to my room as punishment was not effective. That's where my books were. I would happily accept that exile as I am definitely a reader and always will be.
Cecily Holland 4 years ago
Sounds like a smart kid that deliberately gets sent to his room where all they goodies lol
#12
My 11yo cousin didn't feel like cutting her food, so her dad cut it for her. Later, she didn't want to read her school assignment, so her father read it to her.
MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
Hey, I didn’t cut my food until I was like 9 or 10…mainly because my arms are so weak they would be tired after a few minutes of cutting it. Especially the hard stuff like steak.
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Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
Perhaps get the child checked for neurological disorders? I've seen this behaviour displayed in children with autism. Could very well just be an entitled child but it's better to know and actually help than to not know and just blame.
ChickenNugget 4 years ago
Jeez, at 11 I was already cooking meals and babysitting. THIS CHILD IS ACTING LIKE A BABY
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago (edited)
At 11? I was babysitting at 9! (It's not a contest, it was meant in jest. I really was babysitting at 9 though. Older brother really isn't good at childcare. I was and am).
Load More Replies... ThatOneWriter 4 years ago
I've seen this in my family and if baffles me. My 4 yo cuts his own food (with supervision and a butter knife) and when he asks to help with chores we let him to avoid this exact thing.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
My baby brother insists on "tutting fewd" by himself with a fork. Watch out, bread! He's coming to getcha!
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Cheyenne 4 years ago
When my son was 8 a friend of his spend the night. We had pancakes for breakfast the next morning. The kid just sat there pouting. I asking him what was wrong and he whined “Somebody cut my pancakes.” I said “In this house everyone cuts their own pancakes”, and we all went on eating breakfast. He pouted a little while longer and then cut his pancakes.
Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
Will he apply for her jobs? Will he do her laundry? If she commits a crime will he plead guilty and go to prison for her? At some point he's got to figure it out, because she won't.
Gretchen Esquilin 4 years ago
Omg, my sister's 1st husband wouldn't cut his own meat at the age of 24. His mommy had to cut it for him. My sister & his next wife told him to pound sand & learn for himself. LOL
Jill Bussey 4 years ago
Leave it until she is hungry enough to cut it for herself. Don't read the assignment? Fail the class.
According to the life coach, after realizing the problem, a parent should be proactive in wanting to change it. Leaving it as it is will not only not help the situation, it may also worsen it. “Be committed to make a change,” Lynn said, referring to the very first step. She added: “Get used to saying no and letting them have the tantrum, then saying no again.” It turns out, our words have so much more power than we believe if we really stick to what we say.
#13
An old friend of mine and his family are loaded. They constantly get the newest car, massive house, multiple out of country vacations a year first class, and he’ll get the most expensive tickets possible for concerts and mommy and daddy would never say no.
When the iPhones/ and iPod touches were blowing up, he asked for a very specific color and GB for the iPod touch. It was near Christmas time and they were sold out EVERYWHERE. His mom was so disappointed that she paid a lady at the mall DOUBLE the price of the newest iPhone max GB while she was walking out and so he could get something similar since she couldn’t find what he really wanted for Christmas.
Fast forward to Christmas Day, he opened the box and was so pissed it wasn’t what he wanted that he threw it so hard onto the floor saying that it wasn’t what he asked for. It was DESTROYED. Then he called her a b**** and left to his room without opening the rest of his presents.
She then had a breakdown and went to the mall again to ask for what he wanted for the next few weeks until yet again, someone had just bought one and she paid double to gift it for him again.
That was the last time we ever spoke and from what I hear, he has no job, still lives with mom and dad, no high school diploma, upgrades his Mercedes every year, and decided that he’s going to be a rapper or nothing at all.
StormWolf 4 years ago
Well sure, everyone knows the best rappers come from wealthy upper class, nuclear family homes with parents who do their every bidding!
les 4 years ago
I particularly liked dr dre's 'wheres my organic gray poupon'
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Sam Kunz 4 years ago
I think the best rapper is Will Smith who is a very level headed, nice person. That kid should take a lesson from him and not rappers like Travis Scott
1.21Gigawatts?! 3 years ago
Level headed huh? 9 months in the future I have some news for you…
Load More Replies... Cristian Mihalache 4 years ago (edited)
Rapper(today's rapper) or nothing, same thing...useless.
Cheyenne 4 years ago
He called her a what?! If that kid was mine his room would be cleared of everything he owned and he’d never get another gift from me.
#14
I used to baby sit these kids. The one girl didn't feel like doing her homework, so I told her we only have a couple problems left and I had been helping her, so it was gonna go by quickly, and we could play games as soon as she was done.
In response, she told me she wished I was dead (this girl was 6 years old), threw a bunch of crackers on the floor, kicked her dog in the nuts, and said she was going to blame it all on me and get me fired. Of course, her parents didn't believe I threw food on the floor and assaulted their dog, but there was absolutely no repercussions for what she did. They just turned their heads, put their hands on their hips and were like, "what did we say about lying?" And that was it.
Tim Crowhurst 3 years ago
If they don't discipline her, the dog will. And then it will be destroyed for defending itself.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That poor dog, it needs to be taken away from that family. Being kicked in the nuts coz the girl didn't want to do homework. What else would she do to the dog for not being her way.
ThatOneWriter 4 years ago
I'd fire /MYSELF/ and potentially report them for allowing animal abuse!
Bisexual Tiger 4 years ago
Lolllll do you mean quit XD but it definitely agree. That poor doggo!
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De Gueb 4 years ago
How can a kid take it out on there dog. It makes me cry. I loved my dogs when I was a Kid. I remember once our dog was attacked by another dog, she was quite old and was badly injured. I didn't remember but my dad told me that I slept with her all the time she was getting better. I was about 11 at the time. She lived till she was about 17 (we didn't really know her age) even now a tear comes to my eye.....
april jenkins 4 years ago
next time, i would have poured the milk on their couch, more oily food on the floor, smash their ornaments, appliances and devices. watch her get the blame when parents gets home😋🤭
#15
My husband and I moved to a new city and spent a lot of time with his gal pal from high school. She had a toddler son who was absolutely atrocious and without mental disability. She threatened him with punishment all of the time for his behavior but never followed through. We would often meet her for dinner where he would throw a tantrum, and she’d say, “If you keep acting like that, we’re leaving.” He kept acting up but she never left with him.
She had him with a live-in partner who is Cuban and grew up with a “Cuban boys should be treated like gods” mentality. One time we saw her get upset with the kid for throwing a toy at her head, only to see the kid’s dad yell at her, “No! You shouldn’t have given him that toy! Now YOU apologize to HIM!” The kid was in a stroller until he was 5 because he couldn’t be trusted not to run off into traffic when they were out in public.
The last time we hung out with them, we went mini-golfing. Each time one of us hit our ball, he would snatch it and throw it across the course. I wisened up to this and immediately went to pick up my ball for safekeeping after I hit it. As I was picking it up, he tried to grab it out of my hand and fell over lightly. He laid on the ground, pounding his fists and crying. His parents looked at me like I was the a*shole. We ended up limiting our time with them as a result of the kid’s bad behavior.
Nugua 4 years ago
Not the kid's bad behaviour, sorry. The parents' bad behaviour would be more fitting.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I have a friend like that but her kids do have ASD. She doesn't follow through with consequence threats. She will say things like if you don't stop that behaviour you will lose your tablet for a week. She will take it but for maybe an hour or so coz she gives in to their whinging. I was at her house cooking dinner for everyone and one of her kids kept on hitting and biting his sister and my son. I warned him that if he didn't stop he wouldn't get any dessert that I bought. Well he didn't stop so I said no dessert. Well it came round to dessert time and my friend pulls me aside to ask if I really wasn't going to give him dessert and she only wanted to know whether or not she will give him something else for dessert. I have told her that she's just making a rod for her back.
Inclusion 2020 4 years ago
I work with kids with ASD/behavioral issues. You have to be clear and consistent in your approaches. If your friend looked online, she'd find tons of simple charts/contracts to address her sons behavior in a scientific and healthy manner. Once he's fully grown, if he still exhibits aggressive behavior like that it will be dangerous for him as well as for others.
Load More Replies... StormWolf 4 years ago
My kid insisted on walking *everywhere* as soon as she turned one. It obviously tripled the time spent on any errand or outing, but it was great to see how proud she was of being "a big girl" and knowing all the pedestrian rules. We would both side-eye parents with their 5-6yr olds in prams when out and about. Lazy parenting, simple as that. Unless they have a disability, there is no reason a child over the age of 3 should be in a pushchair ALL the time
MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
A push chair? What? Is that what they call strollers in Britain?
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Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I knew someone once whose child LITERALLY THREW ROCKS INTO HER EYES THREE FRICKING TIMES and all she said was "who's a handsome boy? I love you so much!"
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
I feel sorry for the mother too. Her narcissist husband is gaslighting her and making her apologize to the kid? She may be a useless mother, but he is a dangerous father.
Lynn continued with her tips: “Follow through on behavior sanctions and ensure sanctions are consistent as well as the right size—don’t say, for example, ‘if you do that again we are going home’ when you have no intention of actually going home!”
Most importantly, the life coach reminds parents that changes don’t happen overnight and you gotta just stick to it and keep at it. Getting friends and family on board may also work wonders. “For example, make sure your partner doesn’t give in when you have said ‘no,’ make sure you are on the same page,” Lynn explained.
#16
Spoiled child syndrome that bled into adulthood. I work at a collection agency, and this guy racked up a 200k debt. Thing is, anything of that size we had to go over financials. Dude got 60k a month from his father. A month. He got more in a month than I do in a year. But, still followed procedures. He claimed huge amounts for expenses. Didn’t add up to the 60k though, only 20k a month. Dude could pay off his debt in half a year. He then informs me he can’t afford the 40k monthly payment, as he is renovating his house. And spending all of that 40k each month on said renovations. Thing is, he was technically employed by his father, and that was a garnishment source. So when he basically threw a tantrum and hung up. I just hit send on a wage garnishment, which his father would likely see.
Dani Alexander 4 years ago
Being a young spoilt brat is something, but being a old spoilt brat is just next level.
#17
I worked at Toys R Us so I had to listen to some pretty ridiculous sh*t. What stuck with me though was a boy, who was about 9, tell his mother they better leave with the nerf gun or else she know what he’ll do when they get home. The look on his face was akin to that of a person who purposefully belittles their spouse in public.
StormWolf 4 years ago
I witnessed something eerily similar a while ago at my local supermarket. This approx 6yr old boy was demanding his mother buy him energy drinks, called her a stupid bïtch when she refused and then just kinda sneered "You know what will happen if you don't..." She went very pale and picked up a few cans of Monster
#18
Some douchenugget who once told me he was going to feel like he was living in poverty if he made anything less than a million a year. The kid lived in Idaho, wasn't even 20 yet and had never worked a day in his life.
Dodo 4 years ago
Maybe there could be some sort of summer camp where these kids have to live on minimum wage. A sort of 'how the other half live' thing. Might make them more compassionate.
StormWolf 4 years ago
Here in the UK we actually had a TV show with that exact premise; rich kids live with a working class family for a bit, see how the other half live and realise their privilege. Pretty interesting
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Emmie Jensen 4 years ago
There should be a season of "who wants to be a millionaire" but all the contestants are billionaires and they have to answer questions about normal life, if they answer wrong, they leave as a millionaire bwahahaha
Teaching your child to be responsible from an early age is also crucial. One such way to go about it is simply providing them pocket money instead of buying them things so they have a better understanding of the value of money, Lynn said.
#19
Not a kid, he’s in his late 20’s, but he “works” for his rich dad’s company, but takes a week long “business” trip at least once a month and posts Facebook statuses b*tching about the most minor inconveniences on his vacations. For example he posted a paragraph berating the “stupid idiot” waitress who didn’t cut the limes small enough to fit into his Corona bottle, and how he didn’t tip her because she “didn’t deserve it”.
Kanuli 4 years ago
If he had specifically asked for it, we can argue. But I assume he thinks the whole world evolves around him...yta
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Who was reading all this c**p? And why didn't they tell him what a skidmark he was being?
#20
Kid at my high school.
When he was 14 he had a learners permit but his parents got him a Mercedes-Benz G-Class. Every day he drove it to school and he was determined to park it in the parking lot to show it off. So he had his housekeeper drive to school with him and her son drove a car behind her to take her back home (which was only about 2 miles away from our school).
Sally Appleton 4 years ago
Knew a girl who got a sports car when she turned 16. How could her parents possibly top that for her 18th, when was finally legally allowed to drive? Of course, they bought her a plane.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Where in the world can a 14yo have a learners permit. That's insane to me.
Alex the Country Dog 4 years ago
Many U.S. states. 15/16 is more common for the learner permit, but several states begin at 14. I am 100% for the functionality being taught the mechanics of driving at a young age (children in our family learned "how" to drive a vehicle as young as 9 years old on family property--not on roads), but we were not given the responsibility of driving a vehicle on roads until state-legal age. I think learning those motor skills (literally) made us much better drivers (accident free--all in our 50's/60's now, and we all live where we drive on snow/ice/4x4 etc.). My biggest issue with allowing learners' permits at that age is that their developmental stage is not yet ready for the attentiveness and emotional maturity required to drive safely.
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Monic Krugell 4 years ago
Spoiling your kids too much is already one thing, but supporting them rubbing it in other people's faces is another thing all together.
#21
I lived in Russia and worked for a very wealthy family. The four year old had very clearly never been told “no.” The first time I did, he threw a full scale tantrum for four and a half hours. He was a monster (though not to me once he understood I had all the time in the world for tantrums, and definitely wasn’t going to give in to one).
Harri Ellis 4 years ago
not a spoiled child, but a typical 3 yr.old on the floor screaming a beating her fists. I opened the door to this, and she looked at me in anticipation that I would do what she wanted. I totally ignored her, and stepped across her. Shocked, she stopped, got up wiping away her tears, and started playing alone. That little girl is now 25!!!
Load More Replies...In the end, any parent wants their child to grow up into an independent, responsible adult. That can’t be done if you continually spoil them by showering them with whatever they want, and by letting them get away with anything. “Develop resilience by letting them figure out their own issues (up to a point!)—if they have an issue in a playground, for example, observe from afar to see if they can sort it out themselves before bowling in,” Lynn concluded.
#22
I work at a summer camp and we had a 12 year old come in after his birthday. He got a brand new Iphone that had just come out, His mom was a nurse and was always stressed to all hell when she came out. The mom came in to tell the kid she got him a case for his new phone, he asked what kind it was, and the mom said it was an all black otterbox. The kid then berated his single mom, that works day and night shifts, with a mentally disabled 6 year old, who had also just bought him a $600+ phone, for buying an "ugly and old woman case". For a solid five minutes, I have never looked at someone with such disrespect, I wish I could've done something for the mom. I hope she's doing okay, she had a lot on her plate and she deserves a good life.
Erik Lawrence 4 years ago
yes, of course. the kid sounds completely reasonable, and would change his attitude and mind set if some random person stepped in and said his mom was right.... damn, why hasnt anyone tried that before?
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
You should have said "I hope I can be as good a parent as your mom is. You are so lucky to have such a great Mom."
Steven Dirkson 3 years ago (edited)
Signe, she just wanted what was best for her child. And while yes, she could've done it in a better way, she probably loves her kids dearly.
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My little brother. He has a PS4/Xbone, gaming PC with two monitors, laptop, smartphone, TV, Netflix subscription. He gets every game he points at. He’s 11 years old...
Judo Flipped By Nobody 4 years ago
My little brother had to earn money himself to buy a swich... He's 10.
Unnamed Hooman 4 years ago
Huh, I guess I was the same… as an 11 year old, I had a laptop, a nintendo switch, a phone, good wireless earbuds, a queen sized bed to myself, a 3ds with like 50 games (I paid for all of them), and I used my mom’s netflix and disney plus subscriptions… I never acted like these brats though, I was very thankful for all I had.
Kanuli 4 years ago
Funny. That’s my life now :) But I worked hard for that and love, enjoy and appreciate the life I earned myself. My wife and I are often stingy but push eachother to get stuff we want and deserve. We also talked about kids and how we have to be careful to set boundaries and limits, plus not overwhelming them with games and goods. Screentime, all that.
#24
My mom used to run an in-home daycare. One kid named Jackson did lots of horrible things for attention, but here are the 3 worst. (He was like, 5 or 6) 1: Break a TV by throwing his backpack at it. 2: Bit his little sister hard enough to break the skin (she was like 2 or 3) 3: a year after we stopped babysitting him, we heard from his mother that he had stabbed his father with a pocket knife and they had to go to the ER.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
I don't think spoiled. I think anger issues and in need of a therapist STAT.
Dani Alexander 4 years ago
It sounds like this kid might be in need of help, maybe try a therapist or something because behaviour like that shouldn’t be tolerated.
Felicia Dale 4 years ago
That’s not “just” spoiled- that’s serious behavioral issues that need professional intervention before he kills someone.
Adira Bennett 4 years ago
This is a child who is suffering. An adult who does these things can be labeled with a personality disorder and can be held accountable for their actions, and that's justified. But a child so young acting in this manner is either dealing serious biologically-based mental illness, has experienced violent trauma, or both. It's not right to call a child like this a sociopath or a criminal. With help and support, he could very well grow up to become a functional adult with much better emotion regulation skills than anyone should expect from a second-grader overwhelmed by extreme emotions and impulses.
Davo gifman 4 years ago
It sounds like that kid will be on a FBI list of some kind; one day in the future.
#25
Going to high school with the son of the owner of a large TV company. He thought he should be allowed to sit alone in the classroom surrounded by unfilled desks. I had the "privilege" of sitting in front of him and was constantly harassed with attacks from his ruler and pens if he thought I was even remotely leaning back.
StormWolf 4 years ago
In cases like this, rich TV exec daddy more than likely provides large "donations" to the school, so staff look the other way
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Littlebunnyfufu 4 years ago
Did anyone else read that last line as "even remotely learning" instead of leaning?
Scott Moore 4 years ago
You should of kicked his ass in the hallway. Bet he wouldn't hit you with the ruler and pens then.
#26
In high school, girl turned 16, parents gave her a new bmw with the understanding that the live-in maid would use it once, maybe twice, a week to get groceries/run errands. Unacceptable! A week after her epic tantrum she had a brand new Land Rover. In college, there was a serious party girl (drugs/alcohol),she goes out one night with her car (think it was a Land Rover). Can’t find it after a night at the bar. Tells her parents it was stolen, G-Wagon replacement. Turns out her car wasn’t stolen it was parked in a lot across from the bar, not the one adjacent to the bar. Oh well, she had two cars at school for the next two years...
Dave P 4 years ago
A Mercedes SUV that is a modern update on a car popular during the Nazi era with the SS that they made back then.
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#27
I started working part-time when I was 12 to save for a car. By 16 I had $7k saved up. I bought myself a used Pontiac G5 Coupe that I was very proud of. At the same time, a popular girl in school turned 16 and her dad bought her a brand new Mustang GT. She ended up crashing it in winter that year...
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I paid for my first car as well, I was so proud of myself. Even though it only cost $550 and I never got a chance to drive it lol.
Erik Lawrence 4 years ago
this is the issue.... these 2 situations are completely unrelated. one doesnt get or lose "value" based on the other. The person that saved isnt any better or worse than the other person, and shouldnt seek "value" of themself, their accomplishments, or the things they own based on what other people have, had to do to get them, or not. its just as toxic as anything else, and completely the same vein as the spoiled kid upset because they didnt get the *random thing* they wanted because of what it would represent to others.
Casey Burns 4 years ago
Best advice I have. Use all that energy worrying about other people to better something about yourself. Also keep up the outstanding work.
ChariotLee 4 years ago
I briefly remember my parent's church leaders (husband and wife) buying their 14-year old a mustang because "she had to have it" Yes, I knew the daughter, and yes, she was horrid, yet her parents raved about her like she was some kind of exceptional child. Luckily my parents couldn't stand that entire family and eventually dropped out of their classes.
#28
My cousins. On my sisters 7th birthday my cousin called her to say happy birthday. My sister began telling her about the awesome party she was having later that day. My cousin was upset she couldn't go, so my Aunt put her on a plane that day and arranged for a driver to take her to our house (Uber was not a thing). They are upper middle class but by no means rich enough to be doing that kind of stuff.
#29
Some kid (like 11 years old) that got an iPhone 8 for Christmas and she was like "I was expecting the iPhone X
A_fangirling_Demigod_witch 4 years ago
I have a samsung that came cheaper when you get t mobile :)
Micah<3 4 years ago
I got a phone when I was 11, but it was purely because I would walk from my mums house to my dads house and back. Then when I was 12 I had a major meltdown and threw it on the ground where it broke, I cried for a few hours, and then once I got a phone again the next year I was so careful that it didn't even get a scratch. I don't even understand why people are so crazy over iPhones, I've always preferred the cheaper phones
ThatOneWriter 4 years ago
I would never have said that. My parents would have taken back the gift and a few other things besides to remind me nothing is for granted. Sheesh!
squid eric Haney 2 months ago
Electronics being turned into status symbols is nauseating, especially when other devices work just fine.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
What is it about Iphones that make them so expensive? I've never had an iphone and wouldn't buy one on principle. They're deliberately overpriced for what they are.
#30
A kid I was a nanny for in the US: she threw the biggest fit over the fact, that her parents gave a backpack to charity. She got a new one just a month ago. She had a friend who got everything she wanted. No matter what price. I was so appalled. I usually work with kids who have so little and who don’t act like that. But they were just spoiled brats tbh.
Samantha Melnychuk 4 years ago
Yeah, helicopter parenting and not telling kids 'no' at its best...
#31
Some Native American kid from one of the rich tribes crying at one of the tables at the Indian Casino I work at. I'm also Native btw. He couldn't understand why his tribe would cut back their earnings checks from $50,000 to $30,000 because they were engaged in some huge public works project, and how he could live on that little. I was talking to him about cutting unnecessary spending and that living on 30k a year will be pretty easy. Although, he didn't mean a year - they were getting $30,000 usd a month and he was worried about "getting by." By comparison, my tribes individual checks totaled $2,000 for the year
lara 4 years ago
One of the worst things that the US government did to "native Americans" among a lot of awful things, was make them into "children dependent on the government to take care of them." I just want to bitchslap everyone who works at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, because it is nothing more than a department of horror. Bringing total government stupidity since 1824.
Sammie 19 3 years ago
I'm watching Dr Quinn atm and I know it's fiction but omg it was horrible what the illegal aliens did to the native Americans. I just want to cry. It was their land and shouldn't have been forcibly moved from it, ending up being massacred, all buffaloes killed and then having been ordered to move off the land. None of what happened to them was right.
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a girl in my grade broke or lost her phone six times in the past year and her parents replaced every single one. the last time she broke it (like two months ago), she complained because she got an iphone 6s instead of the new one.
lara 4 years ago
When I was 11 my dad "gave" me an allowance of 2 dollars a week. I never actually "got" the money, but my mom, every Saturday, would write down 2 dollars on the calendar. When it came time for me to buy my horse AND I BOUGHT HIM, my mom showed my dad how much money I was due because of my allowance. And yes, I earned it. I was the oldest and there were four other kids, younger than me. Best time of my life. I miss my mom so much.
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Some kids really are bloomin' clumsy and forgetful and won't learn to get their act together until they are older, that's just a truth about humanity. In the meantime, unfortunately, we live in a world where stuff's set up so that people can't get by without a phone. So yes, the parents do have to replace it, even if it is through gritted teeth. If your kid kept ripping their trousers you wouldn't be able to then just send them to school without trousers on for a year. However the price and quality would go down if this was a pattern.
#33
My boss's kids I used to babysit. They were the definition of spoiled, privileged, and sheltered children. Family had their own private plane, took multiple ski trips throughout the year, went to an expensive private school, etc. One time when I was driving them home from school, the little brother asked the older brother to share his snack. The older brother gave him about 1/4 of his granola bar. The little brother rolls his eyes and goes, "That's it? Give me some more." The older brother refused and it became bickering between the two of them. I figured this was normal sibling bickering until the little brother rolls down the window and throws the granola bar out onto the streets. I was so shocked to see him waste perfectly good food and asked him why he did that. He said, "Because if I'm not going to have the whole bar, I don't want any." Now, I know it wasn't my place as a babysitter to give them a lecture about morals but I couldn't help but to scold him for wasting food that someone could've needed. I told him there are people starving and would've loved to eat that granola bar and we shouldn't take food for granted. He just shrugged and said, "not my problem." So glad I don't have to deal with their attitude anymore.
#34
A kid kicked me in the leg while having a tantrum at the doctors. His mum looked at me and said hes just expressing his frustration and then proceeded to give him a bag of sweets because....well I'm not sure why. Was mega pissed!
#35
Family friends daughter (14,F) -Breaks iphone screen every week (not exaggerating), parents get it fixed every week. Once, her phone crashed and she WILLINGLY slammed the iPhone on the table also cracking the back. Refuses to put a case or glass screen protector on it. Throws tantrum when her parents won't fix it for her. -Claims she will get a BMW as her first car and will not settle for anything less. -Gets Gucci for her birthday/christmas -Refuses to be picked up in any other vehicle other than the Mercedes her parents own. If someone else is getting her, they park around the block.
Viola Yarrow 4 years ago
Gucci for birthday is probably fine. It’s the people who get Gucci on random days that are the problem (but that doesn’t distract from the phone thing
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
I had my first Gucci handbag at age 11. I also worked my butt off for the money to buy it. Vacuuming and dusting the entire house every week for 13 weeks. This was 1981, so no where near the prices the bags are now - I think mine was $130 at the time.
Me Oh My 4 years ago
Good job, you! You worked your ass off to be able to afford it, and thus deserved it!
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When I used to roleplay on Gaia Online (god that's a really old sentence), there was a guildmate of ours who tried to bribe the admins to ban my account, since our friends tended to prefer roleplay with myself over him. When that didn't work, he tried to DDOS my computer from his private jet. I don't know what happened to him.
#37
When I was a teenager my mom ran an in home daycare. There were these two sisters, about 3 and 5, that were spoiled rotten (literally). They weren't necessarily wealthy, but they were definitely never told no. We had lunches set up two ways, the parents could pay a little less and send lunch with their kids every day, or pay a little more and we would provide lunch for them. These two girls would bring their "lunch" which their mother let them pick out and usually consisted of mostly fruit snacks, super sugary juice, and other non nutritional foods. They simply refused to eat anything else. Of course this meant they were always in a bad mood because sugar can only get you so far, and if another kid had a snack they wanted, the girls would gang up on the kid and try to take it. They had to be closely monitored during lunch and snack time. They ate so much sugar that their front teeth were nothing but little brown nubs....
Patricia O'Rourke 4 years ago
That's disgusting about their teeth - bad enough about their crappy diet, but ruining their teeth as well!! I knew someone who constantly complained about her daughter's lack of appetite, but spent at least 5-10 euros almost daily on sweets and sugary treats for her on the way home from school. At 11, the child needed some serious dental work and already had a mouthful of fillings. Bear in mind that mum was, an educated professional, and the girl was normally polite and well behaved, so it was shocking how she was so spoilt when it came to food.
#38
From the age of four I grew up with a girl whose Mum and Dad bought her everything she asked for. I mean literally, she could walk into any toy store and say she wanted lots of things and she would get them. Even now she’s in her twenties, her parents paid for her car, tax, insurance, all her bills etc. She can’t (read: won’t) hold down a full time job because she finds working more than 16 hours a week too stressful. She lives with her boyfriends mum and dad (rent free), and has all high tech stuff. She actually had the audacity to call me a slob for asking if I could watch something on her Netflix (paid for by, you guessed it, bank of mum and dad). I wasn’t asking for the password or anything, I was at the house she lives in and wanted to watch the last episode of big mouth on her MacBook (you know where this is going).
Philler Space 4 years ago
Macbook? Is this the girl from the computer story earlier? Did she win?!
#39
Knew a kid- parents bought them a BMW for their 16th bday. At our school we had limited parking so Seniors had first dibs, then juniors & then, if any was left over, the sophomores who drove would get a spot. There was also off campus parking (i.e.: side streets). Well this kids parents were pissed because the kid didn't get a parking spot. So they bought their kid a Honda to drive just to school because they were having to park on side streets. THEN, they went a step further and rented a strip of grassy land from the neighbors next to the school so their kid could park there.
#40
This dude Matt I knew, like 30 years old, who was addicted to heroin, lived at home, his parents DROVE HIM TO THE CITY AND GAVE HIM MONEY to buy drugs every morning so he could WORK A PAID JOB delivering pizzas WITH HIS DAD'S BMW at the family pizza shop without being sick. And the motherf*cker still had the nerve to b*tch about what an a*shole his dad was. I watched him literally CRY on the phone with his dad begging for money, and as soon as he hung up, he talked sh*t because the dad said he had to wait for a slow period at the shop before delivering the drug money to the son. Meanwhile we were all struggling to keep apartments, pay bills, keep jobs, taking the bus everywhere, etc. (while also having drug addictions, obviously). I just couldn't believe the balls of this dude to b*tch about how good he had it. Yeah, he obviously ended up in jail (not sure if he's out yet or not.) He did sell me a decent TV (from his family living room) for $20 once though. Still have it.
#41
I knew a 17 year old who’s parents gave him a bmw and he had a maid. Okay not too weird I’ve met a lot of doctors’ and franchise owners’ kids with that stuff what really got me though was when this kid said how he traveled to his dad’s factory in another country. To get there he usually is flown in a helicopter and then driven around in a limo. This kid also had zero understanding of how to live without someone tending to his every need so he was a terrible roommate, we were in college by the way. He didn’t clean up anything (I watched him one and he really didn’t know how to work broom) and demanded (by banging on their door) his roommates cook for him. After reading all that I’m now pretty sure I might have been friends with a real rich kids of instagram kid.
#42
Hosted and gave a lecture to a cooking group (+ kids) and as a thank you for this free event the organizers gave me some cupcakes they had baked during the workshop. One of the kids started screaming at me that she wanted the cupcakes and almost pulled the plate from my hands. The mother very softly said that those were meant for me and the kid shouted while stamping her foot "but I want them, she (meaning me) doesn't want them". The mother just looked ashamed and did not say anything further while the kid ran off angry. It's not about the worth of the cupcakes, more about the sheer confidence in the kids eyes that I would hand the thank you gift I had just gotten over to her, just because she wanted them.
#43
A guy (in his mid 20s) that worked for me was mad that his father bought him one jet ski. On Christmas he said to his father, “What am I going to do with one?” His father bought him a second one so his friends could go too.
#44
3 year old refused to eat rigatoni and made her grandpa cook penne instead. Parents let it happen. I went to the bar.
NsG 4 years ago
At 3, it's all bratty. The Terrible Twos last about 18 months. There's not enough info here to establish if this is a pattern, or if the parents let it happen because they're human and it's one tantrum too many today and on any other day they'd have dealt with the fussy eating more appropriately. You witnessed a toddler, not a spoiled brat
#45
me. I was 8 and no joke threw a long temper tantrum on a flight from CT to Hawaii because my mom surprised (!) us very last minute (like booked it the day before) with a trip to Hawaii which meant I wouldn't see my pony (!) for 3 weeks. I was a terror.
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
But! A pony! It’s a living thing! Need background to decide if kid is empathetic or bratty.
Piet Puk 4 years ago (edited)
I understand. I know people on the spectrum, myself included, who don't like surprises and get plans interrupted. If we know in advance, we can enjoy a lot of things much better.
Yoga Kitty 4 years ago
I hate surprises. Even if it is something I would usually enjoy I am irritated if it is suddenly forced on me.
Load More Replies... StormWolf 4 years ago
Perhaps, but mixed with a hearty sprinkle of Class A brattishness. Even OP acknowledged her own spoilt behaviour
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Sometimes sudden change is really hard to process, and children are still learning how to work through their feelings. I am absolutely sure it was flight your parents will never forget, but it doesn't mean that those intense feelings were literally only about not seeing your pony.
MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
I’ve been wanting a trip to Hawaii for all my life and your mom just has a last minute decision to do it? So lucky wow
#46
The toddler in McDonalds one morning. Instead of asking for another bite or another sip, he would simply scream this high-pitched screech of anger that faded into pathetic whining. And his useless piece of sh*t parents would hop to it ever time and reward that godawful behavior. It was like he was a king and they were hired servants or something. They seemed terrified of him. People were literally getting up and leaving because that screeching every 20 seconds was so painful on the ears.
Dodo 4 years ago
Did you see him use words any other time? Could be some sort of mental issue.
J. Normal 4 years ago
I understand that could be it, but then those parents are AH for subjecting others to his screaming. Maybe I am horrible, but if his disability causes reasonable discomfort, then he needs to not eat in public.
Load More Replies... Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
This is a child that has learnt that they will be ignored unless they scream and whine. I bet the parents weren't including the toddler in their general conversation and making it seem like a shared experience. Some of these stories aren't actually about children whose parents are very tuned in to them and how they're feeling, they are actually stories of children that are generally ignored by their parents unless they kick off long and hard. This is the opposite of being spoiled really it's a form of neglect. The kids are the sane ones for the way they behave.
#47
After sixth grade I went to the same sleepaway summer camp as my friend. I loved camp; he hated it. He had a total meltdown the first night, crying and begging to be allowed to call his parents. I made new friends while he sullenly kept to himself...We began to drift apart. His parents used to clip comics from the newspaper and send them to him. He would read them and then put them in the recycle bin. One day another kid took one of the thrown-away strips out from the bin and started reading it. My friend started screaming. He ran up and punched the kid, then knocked the strip out of his hands. "Don't read that - IT'S MINE!" Maybe this isn't "spoiled" as much as "pathologically selfish" but it really burned into my memory. We were not friends after that summer.
#48
Kid at my school “Ughh my parents suck, they never get me anything” (Went to Malibu over winter break, and got a MacBook and an iPhone XR for Christmas)
#49
Not really a kid, but when I was at Uni there were a couple of very well off girls (had everything paid for them, could do whatever they wanted and left with zero debt) and they once spent an entire evening complaining how unfair it was when the others got more loan/grant than they did. Because it’s definitely nothing to do with how much your family earns or anything...
#50
A dude on my study abroad program had a $5,000 grant + free housing to do research in Europe for 2 months at 19 years old. 2 weeks into the program he got the stomach flu and his step mom flew across the ocean to feed him soup for a weekend and then they both flew back to the USA a few days later.
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
I've always wondered what 'stomach flu' is?? There's no such illness in the UK.
Violet Jensen 4 years ago
Basically those illnesses with lots of nausea and vomiting :(
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#51
My bf's cousin is extremely spoiled in my opinion, one time she was about to go to a cinema with her friends and found out that her parents were about to go there too.. I guess she didn't wanna be embarrassed or something, so she told them to go to another cinema (the only other ones are 30+ km away) and they actually did that.... Left me speechless
#52
Went to Dubai to visit my mums best friend. They were the typical Arabs there, Villa, super car, some cool other toys. I commented once while in his room saying "you're rich". He looked at me baffled and replied "no? We only have 4 maids. My friend has 12"
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
OMG STOP IT! Does everyone have to be perpetually offended by everything???
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31 year old Arab child screaming at his Dad because his Dad wouldn't give him the money to open another restaurant (the first one was failing) and also wouldn't allow him to buy another car. (At that point he had about 7, including a Ferrari, Maserati and a vintage GT500) He ended up getting the money for the second and third restaurant, the third one is opening now but don't know how it's doing, the first two are sh*t)
Miriam L 4 years ago
31 year old child - that about sums it up. Being a child is not inherently a bad thing. Children are precious. But childhood is meant to be temporary. Children have fewer responsibilities while their brains and bodies mature and they begin to collect life experience. You can still learn and grow as an adult - most humans do. But this guy - yeah, I think child becomes an insult when applied to him, and some of the other adults in this post.
#54
I was a camp counselor for a while... had a granddaughter of the man who owns Torké coffee one week. I dont know how materially spoiled she was, but I was baffled that the kid could not understand that having a rich grandpa does not entitle her to get to use the only working teatherball, alone, because she demanded it. I had to have a ten minute conversation with her during playground time about how, at camp, everyone are equals. Thankfully she was fine the rest of the week!
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
If all it took was your 10 minute conversation to set her right I feel so bad for the kid not being appropriately parented. Most of them don't start out as monsters.
#55
My older sister at some point in her life. She threw a fit when my dad bought her a pink IPod shuffle instead of an IPod Nano. She made my dad return it and threw a tantrum. She eventually got a pink IPod Nano. I know this because a year later she stopped using it completely and I inherited when she decided to throw it away. I still have it. Bear in mind. My parents came from extremely poor backgrounds and we were what you’d consider working class at that time.
#56
My ex had this friend whose parents were loaded. He lived in an upscale apartment downtown with just him and his girlfriend. Didn't have a job. Dad paid for everything. All he ever did was go to music festivals (even ones out of the country) and throw parties. Didn't know the meaning of a dollar. Always threw hissy fits if something didn't go his way.
#57
There was a kid in my brothers grade whose parents bought him a brand new dodge Cummins jacked up and all that stuff. He blew the engine of his truck within a week. So his dad bought him a brand new ford f250 to replace it and paid to have the dodge fixed. So this kid got over $100,000 worth of trucks within a few weeks.
#58
I tutored a kid in college who's dad was a surgeon. His dad was a surgeon and had a driving range built in his backyard that teed up on the deck and shot down a large hill onto a green about 200 feet away. It was absolutely incredible. His 15 year old son was angry because it wasn't built well enough.
#59
I knew a dude who got a PS4 with two controllers and four games + a XBox One with two controllers and four games + a new 4K TV + other things for Christmas from his parents and still complained it wasn't enough. He was 15, already had a 2000€ PC, the richest motherf*cker I met.
#60
my roommate in college was extremely manipulative, and she would even say things like "I know that i'm lying but it's like, i've convinced myself it's true so i believe myself." she once cried so hard and manipulated her dad into taking out yet another loan so that she could have her range rover.
#61
Another child once threw a tantrum at a birthday party because they wanted a birthday present too (it was not their birthday, or their party). She got her way, her parents took her shopping after the party and she got a Gameboy.
Erika 4 years ago
Not necessarily spoiled, a lot of kids, depending on age, don’t quite understand how gift giving works.
Alexandra Grey 4 years ago
True, but you don't fix that by buying the child a Gameboy after the party.
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#62
Recently saw a boy (8-10 years old) throwing a hissy fit as his family was checking into the Four Seasons. "I hate this hotel chain. The bath products are terrible. The conditioner always makes my hair crispy!!"
Dodo 4 years ago
Solution is get him different conditioner. Which is a valid issue, since different hair types require different products.
StormWolf 4 years ago
Maybe, if he had been much younger. But 8-10 is old enough for his parents to start explaining the difference between rights and privileges and also that although hissy fits might get you your own way sometimes, it will never make people like or respect you
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A kid I was in the Boy Scouts with. It was our week at summer camp right after the N64 came out, on Monday he was like "yeah, I've already got one N64, but I want a second one too, watch this, I'll have it by the end of the week" the kid then proceeded to work on his mom all week long (she was there because she was a scoutmaster) and sure as sh*t, by Friday she had agreed to buy him another N64.
Zozo🤟 4 years ago
Can someone pls explain to me why people need more than one of the same gaming console?
Grace Walsh 4 years ago
I have two, I think. Only because my dad bought it. I didn’t ask him for it, just to clarify
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One student at university drove a new Jaguar and lived off-campus in an elegant house with a housekeeper/cook provided by his parents. It was as if he were "granting an audience" to faculty and staff by his presence.
#65
Had a boss ages ago. Great guy. He had two kids: one was a pretty normal guy and then a very, very "everything is about me" daddy's girl for a daughter. One day, she runs through our office, tears streaming down her face, straight out "looks like someone died" levels of trauma. She slams the door to his overhead office, loud enough that everyone in the store can hear, and then theres a ton of tearful screaming ("WWAHHHHHTBTHBTHA THASKJHT THBTHTBTHBTHBT') as her father just keeps repeating over and over "Whats wrong? What happened?" Ten minutes later, she blurts out I RAN OVER MY IPOD MINI. She must've dropped it in the parking lot at the gym and backed over it somehow? Who knows. Couldn't stand her at all, apple fell very far from the tree on that one.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 4 years ago
"I mean, I did it on purpose to see what would happen, but I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD BREAK!!!"
#66
I teach karate and every once in a while there are super spoiled kids that come. One girl is spoiled because her mom is the greatest example of a Karen that I have ever seen. One night during our normal class time (40 minutes long from warm-up to bowing out, mind you), she asked to get a drink because she was thirsty. She wasn't coughing, sick, exhausted, or anything that would indicate she needed a drink right that second. It's also a well-known rule that once they're on the mats, they can't leave unless its an emergency. She asked my coworker and he said no because the class was going to end in 10 minutes anyway. She didn't listen to him and left the mats anyway to get a drink. When she came back, he told her how she didn't follow directions and left the mats without permission. He wasn't yelling or anything, just being stern because she wasn't listening. She started crying and her mom through a fit too to our boss to get him fired for disrespecting and humiliating her daughter in front of the whole class. No one noticed the situation and even if they did, it wasn't that serious. I'm still amazed to this day this was all because she didn't follow the rules and got in trouble for it
Bisexual Tiger 4 years ago
In my opinion, she should have been given a bit of water to drink - you can simply be thirsty without being full on dehydrated. Still, throwing a temper tantrum was definitely not an acceptable response for being told off
MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
This is not okay, but I have had experiences where I need a drink asap and start coughing like crazy. Once I wasn’t in a position to get a drink and actually threw up. But yeah the behavior stuff is not okay.
memyselfandI 4 years ago
Which is why they said “unless it’s an emergency”. For this sort of thing, coughing and needing water is an emergency.
Load More Replies... #67
A younger cousin was upset when I moved because he was worried that I moved into a mansion larger than his. He lives in a suburb and I live in the city
#68
A girl in my high school bullied her mom into buying her an electric guitar that was signed by our state basketball team at a silent auction. She didn't play the guitar, or like sports.
#69
A kid on my sons baseball team struck out and dented/cracked his composite bat having a hissy fit behind the dugout. Coach laid into him. Sat him. Parents complained of course. Next practice. Brand new composite bat. Those are a few hundred bucks by the way.
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
I think like sat him on the bench for baseball, or booted him out of the game temporarily? Idk I don’t play sports
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What do you think ?
Hans 4 years ago
But for a few cases maybe, not the children are to be blamed here. It are the parents. Ultimately, they deprive their children of learning basic life skills. The children will pay this failure in a way that money cannot compensate for.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Reminds me of the song the Oompa Loompas sing after Veruca Salt has her conniption fit in the goose room. Who's to blame when a kid is a brat? The mother and the father.
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lara 4 years ago
ALWAYS bad parenting. Except for sociopaths, kids are not born bad, they are raised that way.
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 4 years ago
The only light I can see in these stories is that, thanks to these asshole kids, their wealthy moron parents are putting more of their money back into circulation where it can benefit society.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I'm reminded of a story by James Herriot (a vet and author). He knew a couple who owned two terriers and those dogs were the most aggressive, horrible little monsters imaginable. They barked and snarled at visitors and attacked the vet while the owners stood by mumbling apologetically. The dogs eventually passed away, and the owners bought two adorable, sweet little puppies to replace them. In a matter of months those puppies were just as horrible and badly behaved as the last two, and I think we can all guess why. Children, like pets, need discipline and boundaries. If all you do is smile and nod and mumble vague apologies, then you have nobody to blame but yourself when someone inevitably gets bitten.
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
wen i went food shopping my husband went to get the stuff on the list and this woman saw me with my mask on. ill let u guys know ahead of time y this situation was messed up. im epileptic and covid can cause seizures for me so i wear a mask even tho i got the vaccine. now back to the entitled woman. she saw me with my mask on and said "omg were u vaccinated if not stay the hell away from me" i told her it was none of her business especially if she was going to b rude and went back to talking to another woman on line waiting at the deli counter. this woman then scoffed at me and said "u r a danger to everyone if u wont say if u r or not" at this point the woman i was talking to stuck up for me and said we both r im just immune compromised and wear a mask for extra protection. this woman scoffed at her and said she didnt care im still a danger to ppl and cut in front of both of us to make her order at the deli counter. the guy at the deli counter witnessed all of this and stuck up for us but she said if he didnt serve her shed leave a complaint so he served her. wen she left he apologized and then i asked how the woman i was talking to knew i was wearing the mask for extra protection due to medical reasons. she told me it was a guess since she saw my vaccination card in my wallet earlier wen i went into to give my husband the list. she also thanked the deli guy for serving the entitled b!tch first bc she didnt want that woman around me any longer. the deli guy replied with "neither did i. this young lady comes here once a week and is so kind to everyone here. i couldnt stand to see her b disrespected." i have social anxiety so i was about to have a panic attack but thanks to 2 kind ppl it was disfused. i hate getting into conflicts with "im more important the u" kinds of ppl.
AsexualShrimp 3 years ago
I’m so sorry! I have family which are similar to you. I can’t imagine how terrible it must be. Hopefully you are doing well!
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jk nbt 4 years ago (edited)
Parents, please do not raise your precious little Jimmy or precious little Jennifer as a spoiled brat. They will someday grow into insufferable adults. Everybody will hate them. They will have endless trouble in school and any profession. Please don't do this for our sakes, if not for the kid's sake. Okay?
Hans 4 years ago
But for a few cases maybe, not the children are to be blamed here. It are the parents. Ultimately, they deprive their children of learning basic life skills. The children will pay this failure in a way that money cannot compensate for.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
Reminds me of the song the Oompa Loompas sing after Veruca Salt has her conniption fit in the goose room. Who's to blame when a kid is a brat? The mother and the father.
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
ALWAYS bad parenting. Except for sociopaths, kids are not born bad, they are raised that way.
Load More Replies... Paul Davis 4 years ago
The only light I can see in these stories is that, thanks to these asshole kids, their wealthy moron parents are putting more of their money back into circulation where it can benefit society.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I'm reminded of a story by James Herriot (a vet and author). He knew a couple who owned two terriers and those dogs were the most aggressive, horrible little monsters imaginable. They barked and snarled at visitors and attacked the vet while the owners stood by mumbling apologetically. The dogs eventually passed away, and the owners bought two adorable, sweet little puppies to replace them. In a matter of months those puppies were just as horrible and badly behaved as the last two, and I think we can all guess why. Children, like pets, need discipline and boundaries. If all you do is smile and nod and mumble vague apologies, then you have nobody to blame but yourself when someone inevitably gets bitten.
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
wen i went food shopping my husband went to get the stuff on the list and this woman saw me with my mask on. ill let u guys know ahead of time y this situation was messed up. im epileptic and covid can cause seizures for me so i wear a mask even tho i got the vaccine. now back to the entitled woman. she saw me with my mask on and said "omg were u vaccinated if not stay the hell away from me" i told her it was none of her business especially if she was going to b rude and went back to talking to another woman on line waiting at the deli counter. this woman then scoffed at me and said "u r a danger to everyone if u wont say if u r or not" at this point the woman i was talking to stuck up for me and said we both r im just immune compromised and wear a mask for extra protection. this woman scoffed at her and said she didnt care im still a danger to ppl and cut in front of both of us to make her order at the deli counter. the guy at the deli counter witnessed all of this and stuck up for us but she said if he didnt serve her shed leave a complaint so he served her. wen she left he apologized and then i asked how the woman i was talking to knew i was wearing the mask for extra protection due to medical reasons. she told me it was a guess since she saw my vaccination card in my wallet earlier wen i went into to give my husband the list. she also thanked the deli guy for serving the entitled b!tch first bc she didnt want that woman around me any longer. the deli guy replied with "neither did i. this young lady comes here once a week and is so kind to everyone here. i couldnt stand to see her b disrespected." i have social anxiety so i was about to have a panic attack but thanks to 2 kind ppl it was disfused. i hate getting into conflicts with "im more important the u" kinds of ppl.
AsexualShrimp 3 years ago
I’m so sorry! I have family which are similar to you. I can’t imagine how terrible it must be. Hopefully you are doing well!
Load More Replies... jk nbt 4 years ago (edited)
Parents, please do not raise your precious little Jimmy or precious little Jennifer as a spoiled brat. They will someday grow into insufferable adults. Everybody will hate them. They will have endless trouble in school and any profession. Please don't do this for our sakes, if not for the kid's sake. Okay?
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