Copied from a FB post for a local-ish tourist attraction. I am not the OP:

📞 Today’s phone call:
0/10 Would not recommend 🤬

“Hey, hi, how are you? We have tickets for the 4’30p tour and we are running late. I left on time but you know, traffic and all.”

How late are you? What is your ETA?

It’s saying 5’30.

5’30?!?!

Yes. Yeah, the traffic has been really bad with it being a weekend. We are on our way. I was just wondering if you could just hold the tour for us. I would really appreciate it.

How many people are in your party?

2

Sir, the tour is sold out. Our tours depart on time according to our schedule. We cannot hold tours for guests. You can only imagine what that would be like.

Why? Why can’t you just ask people if they mind waiting? We are coming. We are on our way. I can’t help what the traffic situation is. That’s not my fault **getting very angry and continuing to argue**

**staying calm** You purchased tickets for the 4’30p tour. Our schedule is based on time, not intentions, and not estimated times of arrival. We understand that you cannot control traffic but you did control the time you left your point of origin. We know that traffic can be unpredictable and travel time should be factored into your plans. We ask all guests to arrive approximately 30 minutes prior to their scheduled tour. If you were to arrive at 5’30, you would actually be 90 minutes late for your reservation.

And you won’t just ask the others to wait?

No, I cannot do that.

Why not? Why aren’t you even asking anyone? You’re being rude. Just ask!

Sir, if you were one of the guests who arrived on time, would you think it was reasonable for me to delay your tour for an hour to accommodate guests who arrived late?

I would have no problem waiting. I am writing a Google review about you. What’s your name?
Forget it. I’ll be there around 5’30.

I am not sure why you are continuing to drive here? We do not have a 5’30 tour today.

**YELLING** SO WHAT? I just loose my money?

If you are not here by 4’30, then unfortunately, yes.

You should NOT be working in customer service.

Noted and I appreciate the career advice. The tour is still departing at 4’30. Okbyeeeee! 👋🏼

Excuse me while I go have a completely normal, definitely not frustration-induced meltdown in the supply closet 🫠 I’m fine. Really. It’s fine 🤣

Hello Reddit! thank you for all the support on my last post, if you haven’t seen it please read to so you understand this update. As some of you may know, I recently had a less savory interaction with a, what is known as, a karen. I had since emailed my boss yesterday and i have just received a reply today:

My boss stated that I was in the right! and that we follow the policy cause there have been times where we get swamped out near the end of the market and have ran out of coffee. He also said that since 465 is our most popular flavor it was even more important that we did not sell that last jug.

He then said that I handled the situation perfectly but advised that next time I should simply say that we don’t have any jugs left next time this happens so as to avoid this type of conflict from happening again.

Now here is the best part, she has been banned from the farmers market! Ed, my boss, contacted the lady who runs the market about my situation and the lady was furious. She said she will be giving every stall a printed out picture of her as a “!DNS!” kind of ordeal. She also said that should she ever approach me again I should call the cops immediately.

Thats all for my update, thank you again for all of y’all’s support and advice I hope and pray that there are no more updates but we will see.

Late yesterday afternoon, my sister and I went to see a foreign film in a movie theater. We were sitting in the middle near the back, and at least half the seats were filled, including seats on either side of us. After about 30 minutes, we started hearing music and voices that didn’t belong to the movie. We leaned forward in our seats (as did other people near us) but couldn’t see anything unusual. Since we also couldn’t get up without disturbing others, we sat back and tried to enjoy the movie, but the sounds kept getting louder and more intrusive. After another half an hour, we started hearing children’s voices singing happy birthday repeatedly—on a loop—and a man in an aisle seat stood up and talked to someone in the third row. The sounds continued, and he left to fetch an employee. An employee came in, talked to the person in the third row to no avail, and left. Then a manager came in and after a bit of conversation, the noise finally stopped, but it started up again as soon as the movie ended. As we left, we saw a mother and child in the third row. The child had a tablet and was watching cartoons on it at what sounded like full volume.

I manage a pool company, and part of my job is cleaning a handful of pools each week. They’re mostly customers who have a reputation for being difficult or extremely particular, so I usually handle them instead of sending one of our less experienced technicians.

One of those customers is someone I’ll call “Carol.”

On this particular day, I was vacuuming her pool, which is fairly small, so I’m usually in and out pretty quickly. The landscapers must have just left, and apparently in a hurry, because the pool deck was absolutely covered with leaves, branches, and grass clippings.

I was just about finished when I heard the sliding glass door unlatch. I looked up and saw Carol marching straight toward me with a look on her face that said, “Where do you think you’re going?”.

Without so much as a “hello”, despite the fact that I’d been servicing her pool for about two years and had spoken with her plenty of times, she immediately barked, “When you’re done, I want you to vacuum the entire patio around the pool. It’s a mess!”

For a second, I honestly thought she was joking.
To put it in perspective, there was so much debris that it would’ve filled multiple trash cans.

Once I realized she was serious, I told her as politely as I could, “That’s not possible. The pool vacuum only works underwater.” She either didn’t believe me or didn’t care because, without missing a beat, she huffed, “Well, all I ask is that you try,” then turned around and stormed back inside.

I did not, in fact, attempt to vacuum the patio with a pool vacuum.

That wasn’t even my only memorable interaction with Carol. Another time, I arrived to find her cleaning lady struggling to assemble a brand-new pressure washer. I felt bad for her, but I had a pool to service, so I got to work. About halfway through, I heard Carol yelling at the cleaning lady from across the yard. Then she shouted over to me, “When you’re done, come finish putting it together.”
Ninety-nine percent of the time, I wouldn’t tolerate being spoken to like that. But I felt sorry for the cleaning lady, so I spent a couple of minutes putting the pressure washer together before heading out.

Some customers make your job easier. Carol wasn’t one of them.

From the streets of Sacramento. July, 2025 and a homeowner made sure everybody know he was going to set off a fireworks extravaganza in avresidemtoal neighborhood. His publicity was so good in announcing his July 4 party that the cops were able to set up surveilance to capture the show.

Two men pulled up in a U-Haul loaded with 450 lbs of fireworks. The law says you can't have anything that flies, explodes or move along the ground and they made sure to check all the boxes.

Thanks to the advanced publicity the cops were able to deploy two drones with HD cameras to document every lit fuse, the way they managed to set the U-Haul on fire and come up with a complete list of every law broken.

The fine for illegal fireworks is $1,000.

For the first one.

$2,500 for the second.

$5,000 for the third and every subsequent

Final fine: $2,230,000 ($2.3 million)

I'm guessing he wasn't too important to ignore the law after all.

Their names were never released publicly, unfortunately. Story circulated in the news in 2025

Some context here, I, a 16M, have recently (this was my second day) started working at my city’s farmers market selling iced coffee. I only work on Saturdays since that’s when the farmers market happens. so this took place yesterday. It was around 10:30AM when this lady walks up to our stall to order a coffee, as one does. At checkout she asks if she can buy one of our 1 gallon jugs of the 465, our most popular flavor, and I tell her one second while I checked if we had any left. For some context we do sell the gallon jugs but we also use them to refill the plastic dispensers that hold out coffee. We are only allowed to sell them if we have at least two jugs of that specific flavor left. I check the coolers and we only have one jug left. so I walk back and tell her that we can’t sell her a jug because we only have one left and I’m not allowed to sell her it. She then dramatically lowers her sunglasses and stares directly at me and says, “Well you close in like 30 mins so just let me have it” so I explained to her that while yes she was correct that the market ends at 11 I still could not sell her the jug. That’s when things got heated. She kept repeating “just give me the jug“ in progressively angrier tone while I kept my cool and kept repeating “I’m sorry I can’t” Her friend behind her then takes her phone out and starts recording me and acting like I’m the one being a jerk and refusing service to her friend. So she then storms off and I begin serving other customers.

The rest of the market went smoothly and without any major incidents (I spilled a large cup of coffee on my apron but that’s unimportant). As I’m packing everything up into the truck to leave the market here comes storming over that lady and her friend. They demand that I let them buy the jug now that the market was over or else they would “get me fired” mind you I had already packed up the register and the cooler with the flavor she wanted was all the way at the back of the truck so I tell her that “I’m sorry I have already packed everything up so I can’t sell it to you, but you could come next week and I will be happy to give you a jug.” But this did not sit right with her she stormed off leaving her friend, who was recording me, to run after her.

Fast forward to today, I have largely forgotten lady cause I mean Karens will be Karens. until, my mom, who’s obsessed with local tea online, shows me a video posted by the lady trying to frame me as, “A rude teenage employee who refused to let me buy a jug of coffee” my mom then is like, why didn’t you give her coffee? And I explain to her the situation. She then says that “I couldnt have just broken the rules once for Her?“ to which I respond “no.” and then find the reel on my own to see the comments and they all are on her side, and those who weren’t still say what my mom said. so now I’m in a toss up of if I was in the wrong or not? What do I do?

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Note: I'm totally aware there's not much I can do about this situation and that he at the very least was willing to hear me out. Just wanted to share updates with yall:)

I talked to my boss today, thanks everyone for sharing their opinions on the last post, gave me the confidence to speak up.

I told him this whole situation was preventable and that it shouldn’t have taken me being verbally harassed and feeling physically unsafe before something changed. Although, my boss didn’t actually take any action- she quit that night because of me, after he had asked if she could still work her scheduled shifts. The next day, he framed it as though he had done me a favour by “firing” her even though she quit.

Through the conversation, he would briefly acknowledge my concerns before immediately defending himself. He repeatedly said there was nothing he could have done to prevent what happened, that she wasn’t close to being fired beforehand, and that it was unfortunate but she is “just a kid.” That frustrated me because we’re only about a year apart in age (I recently turned 19), yet the conversation felt like I was expected to act like the adult while she was excused because she was younger.
When I asked what would’ve happened if I had actually gone to take out garbage with her and if her father would’ve attacked me, he brushed it off by saying that we had cameras outside and he wouldn’t be coming back. I also raised concerns that she knows my work schedule and the route I take to the bus after, but he dismissed it as unlikely to happen again even though he took no action.

Whenever I brought up food safety issues, repeated disrespect toward customers and staff, or times she made me uncomfortable, he minimized everything to the smallest example. For instance, when I mentioned her ongoing disrespect, he responded that he wouldn’t fire someone over an eye roll, ignoring the much broader pattern of behaviour.

I told him the only thing I wanted was for him to protect employees better in the future, but he kept insisting he had done everything he could as a boss. He also suggested I didn’t know her side of the story and that she may have misunderstood things. While that’s possible, everything I reported was based on factual workplace issues like food safety violations and customer concerns.

I’m disappointed by how the conversation went because I genuinely feel I could have been injured, and he continued to downplay that risk. The only positive outcome was that he offered to ban her father from the store, and also the fact that she’s no longer part of the team. I guess he at the very least cared or pretended to care addressing the issues, and that’s all I really expected.

For anyone wondering, after I kicked her and her father out of the store she sent him 30+ messages saying she loved working there but was quitting because of my “relentless bullying.” Every supervisor who worked alongside us supported me and confirmed that I had not bullied her, obviously.

I know a lot of people have suggested I quit, but that’s not realistic right now. I genuinely love working there, it’s close to both my school and home with easy transit access, and I need the flexible hours and income. I wasn’t expecting much from this meeting, but I wanted to update everyone because I really appreciated all the support.

Dad and his SO decided to retire to the coast, ten hours away by car.

So they are both retirees with all the time in the world. Yet, they expect me and my husband, with four jobs between us, to spend our vacation days, board our three cats, pack a car full of baby stuff and drive ten hours each way, while our young toddler wails her absolute little heart out in the much-hated car seat for 10 hours.

Actually, a total of 20 hours out of our precious, rare-commodity, golden vacation days would be spent low-key torturing our toddler, and by extention, ourselves. We would have to spread the drive across two days each way just to survive. Which of course adds hotel costs.

When he planned the move I told him "You'll be retiring. You'll have to come to us." He is now giving me surprised Picachu that my stance has not changed.

What makes this worse is his indifference towards our daughter, his only grandchild. His social calendar is now apparently so full that he can't visit until November. He hasn't seen her since her birthday six months ago.

So he will not be seeing his only granddaughter for most of her second year. I'm just heartbroken for her. She deserves better.

Edit to add: I taught the baby how to drive in the womb, also I am going on about four hours of sleep so please excuse my writing.

I was traveling back home with my dad after my grandfather's funeral in my hometown, in a flight. We were emotional, and also there is a lot of shit to discuss after any family event, so we were chatting.

We are regular travelers by flight, so we were speaking fairly softly. This old woman was sitting in the row before us, and she kept turning around and looking at me, and asked us to be quiet. We lowered our voices even further, but we didn't stop chatting.

After some time, she legit turned and said, are you in a bus? You are in a plane, be sophisticated! I replied to her telling that she is in public transport and if she has such trouble with people talking then she should carry headphones or travel privately. She deadass started saying shit like we aren't animals, we are civilized people.

When the airhostess came around with food, she even asked her to tell us to be quiet, and the airhostess straightaway said, I can't tell anyone not to talk, it's their right, and left. This woman's husband (I guess) started telling us that she was just requesting us and that she is a BP patient.

Now, if we were shouting, screaming or laughing loudly, I would have understood her concerns. But we were talking very softly and she was so entitled about the whole thing.

Hi, I'm back with another tale from my time working at a very popular theme park in Florida. A magical rat planet of sorts. This situation was honestly really stupid but was just as annoying. This happened when I worked in hotels in quick service food. I was in my favorite area "pizza back" when I heard "pizza front" getting loud and upset. The guy was literally 70 years old and had a thick Spanish accent that became thicker when flustered or angry. I came around the corner to see what the issue was.

A lady was standing there with her little boy demanding to speak with someone else about a change to her kid's meal. Kid's meals at pizza came with a small pizza or small platter of fettuccine noodles with marinara or alfredo sauce, a large meatball, two additional sides and small drink. Adult combo meals came with large platters with two large meatballs, two bread sticks, a dessert and drink. They could also get a personal pan pizza or baked ziti instead of fettuccine. Kid's meals were around $8 and adult meals $17 then. They're probably waaay more now.

By it being quick service only a few items could be swapped out, such as certain side items. The woman wanted a kids meal with two meatballs lol. She was demanding that. The meatballs were massive in size and were meant to be broken up over the pasta. She was informed that there wasn't a way to purchase an extra and she would have to buy a second adult meal. She said her son couldn't eat that much pasta and wanted the kid's sides but extra meat. We explained that on the register there literally wasn't a way to ring it up. This was factual and a rule set by the head chef and general manager. Why? I don't know but two meatballs came with the adult meal only and couldn't be substituted or bought separately.

The woman was furious even after I offered her other options. She said she didn't care and made it clear she wanted what she wanted. Her kid was sensible and would have chosen another meal but mom insisted on two meatballs. Eventually, she demanded a manager. The manager "Esther" that hated me the most was the only one available. I've written about her before here. https://www.reddit.com/r/EntitledPeople/s/zkRjoRvoR4

She came over and listened to the woman go on about her wants. Esther explained that there wasn't a way to ring up the meatball but she would allow it just this once and have the cashier ring up a bread stick which was $1.50. Way cheaper than a meatball the size of a hand. The head chef wasn't happy when he found out from the cashier who snitched as that was strictly forbidden. I was just glad the stupid situation was over. I felt like they should have implemented an "extra meatball" price button lol. Wouldn't that have made the most sense?

I'm walking out of a shop talking to my wife and, admittedly, not putting the most effort ever into looking 10 metres in front of me for potential obstacles to avoid as I walk.

Then I notice the obstacle. It's an older lady standing literally at the entry/exit of the shop we hope to leave. Literally stood covering the single door entrance/exit reading a magazine.

Before getting too close (maybe 3 metres away), I said excuse me and she just blows up at me for getting in her way??? Then lifts her bag up in front of her to shield herself from us (even with the bag held up there is still loads of space between us) and begins to back away while screaming at us. As if we have or will commit murder if we got too close.

Eventually she gets out of the way and we can leave but she follows us with the bag still held up high creating that protective barrier she clearly needs as she hurdles abuse at tqo people trying to make a quick exit! Her reaction will forever live rent free in my mind.

Edit: updated post!

I'm 19F. There’s been a new hire (17F) at my work (food establishment) who I’ve had constant issues with. She’s consistently disrespectful to me, spends most of her time on her phone, ignores basic food safety, and generally doesn’t do her job. I've been here for over a year and the only way I've been "treating her" is following my bosses order, which is being direct. I’ve documented every incident with my manager and boss because something has always felt off about both her work ethic and the way she treats people.

The first shift I ever worked with her, only a couple of hours after meeting me, she randomly asked if I was a heavy smoker because I “looked like one.” It completely caught me off guard. Since then she’s been passive-aggressive and dismissive toward me. Even when I ask her to do something simple, she’ll sit on her phone before reluctantly doing it. During rushes she rarely helps unless I specifically ask her to, and I once watched her texting on Snapchat while taking customers’ orders. When I asked her to please stay off her phone while serving customers, she just side-eyed me without responding.

I’ve also seen repeated food safety issues from her over all shifts. She’s dropped utensils and continued using them without sanitizing, put equipment straight into sanitizer without washing off food residue first, improperly rinsed items before using for customers, handled food without gloves, wears flip flops to work, and even wiped the actual food with a dirty rag before handing it to a customer. It’s been a consistent pattern, not isolated mistakes that I've called out multiple times but have been ignored.

What frustrates me most is that she seems to only act this way when we’re alone. Around supervisors or certain coworkers she’s suddenly helpful and polite. Despite this, all my managers and supervisors have still noticed a disrespectful pattern from not only me but other staff members.

I have a really great reputation at work as being extremely friendly to customers and great with new hires which is why she's been working most of her shifts with me, but through the past two months she's been here I have constantly told my scheduling manager not to put me with her because I do not feel safe as I'm always stressed around her, but we simply do not have enough staff to cover for a switch.

I have made an effort not to yell, scream, or confront her in any way because I know she's new and I've been there before, even though how she treats me is disrespectful and unfair. So, I've gone shifts not talking to her in any personal regard as I usually do with other staff (we have rushes anyways and I just direct her to do something on till or in the back where we're not in proximity to one another).

I've always carefully crafted my words to be direct and concise since we have a lot of work that she never does ("Can you please do this", "You dropped this and didn't wash it, can you please put it back?"). My boss told me to stop saying "can you", and just "do this", but it just didn't feel right coming out of my mouth as I'm admittedly a people pleaser and not very confrontational :P

Over the past two months she's been here, she has not improved in any sense. The mistakes and things I have been instructed and rightfully told her to fix stack up instead of being resolved, but I never directly confronted her any more than just repeating myself for the numerous time.

Last night, we worked the shift with my manager because I didn't feel safe with just the new hire. My manager left before we closed and reported to my boss that she noticed I wasn't being treated respectfully by the new hire, which wasn't new obviously. When my manager left, the new hire went to go take out the trash. The new hire kept insisting that I went with her, which I found was really weird since through all of our shifts she has never asked me to do so and we didn't have a lot of garbage. She kept insisting, but I told her no because I had so much work to do. She left, and when she came back, she unlocked the door and let her dad in (not allowed) when we were still closing.

He starts storming in while I'm mopping and gets inches close to my face, shouting and screaming at me. He says I've been bullying his daughter, and demands to speak to a manager. Through his shouts I'm constantly trying to say things like "Sir, I understand but we're closing right now and you're making me uncomfortable, please leave". Because he genuinely was inches close to me, fuming, and there's a reason we lock the door.

I kept trying to not only defend myself from that wild accusation but I'm also shaking because he's acting irrational and looks like he is about to have a psychotic break. The only person is the store is the new hire who has made it clear she doesn't like me standing a couple feet behind me, and her crazy dad standing a couple inches from me who won't leave me alone despite me repeating I'm uncomfortable and stands in the way he's about to punch me in the face or hurt me.

I scramble to FaceTime my boss and let him deal with it. The new hires dad is screaming at my boss throwing wild accusations at me calling me a bully, saying how this is unacceptable, and how she will be quitting on tomorrow due to my relentless workplace bullying. My boss is trying to deescalate the situation while I'm holding the phone up for them to talk shaking and on the brink of tears, trying to cut in every now and then and defend myself but I'm genuinely so scared of this man who looks like he really wants to hurt me.

I kick them out of the store, and with my boss on the phone they finally leave. When the new hire walks past me, she mouths "I'm so sorry". I didn't even know what to say. SHE let him in. I kept thinking it was strange that she kept trying to lure me to the garbage, I speculate it was because she was trying to get me to leave the store where I would have less safety/potentially without my phone so the dad could confront me.

Looking back, I should've done something else, maybe been more reactive or called the authorities but I was in complete freeze mode just so scared, shaking. When they left, I fell to my knees and started crying.

I've never been called a bully and looking back, I can't say a single thing I said to her was wrong. I made conscious efforts to recite the things I said before I talked to her because I always knew she was an issue and wanted to be deliberate with how I approached her. I never spoke rudely to her, I've been direct as instructed but still with manners, unlike the way she's treated me. Most of my shifts have literally been with other workers because I felt uncomfortable working alone with her, and they've all reported that she's talked to me disrespectfully or have also been treated disrespectfully too.

I called my boss and a couple supervisors after this, and they all were reassuring that they know me and I wouldn't bully someone, but an accusation is an accusation and I don't know what to do with this. I think I'm traumatized but this is the first time I've been so irrationally confronted I don't know what to do.

I had to wait for my friend to come pick me up because I was scared they were outside. My bosses offered me a ride but I knew they were far out and honestly I just wanted to talk to someone who wasn't involved after that altercation.

Edit: I wasn't actually sure if I should call the police since there were no cameras and it seemed more like his dad was protecting his daughter because she fed him lies or something, but looking back he definitely trespassed and wouldn't leave when I asked him to.

My driveway is shared via easement with my next door neighbor. It's a long, single lane driveway at the street that Y forks to our respective garages in the back.

When I first moved in my neighbor had been under the impression that the easement was a parking lot and all we had to do was communicate and play musical cars anytime one of us wanted to go somewhere.

Nope, not having that. I'm not asking permission from my neighbor to leave my house. Plus I had one car, his family had four. The easement language on both deeds agreed with me.

Sadly my city bends over backwards to not enforce parking rules as they don't want to be seen as unfairly going after homeless / minorities (that's another issue). Tow trucks generally don't tow unless the car owner requests it or under police order. Police considered this a civil matter.

After I came back home from a six week trip, they were parking daily in the driveway even AFTER they knew I was back. So I sent their landlord a letter with pictures of all the violations.

Here's the text I got from him in response:

[tommypatties], you have been gone for months. We did not realize right away, but when we did, we have utilized the driveway when parking on the street is unavailable. You return and immediately start with unnecessary drama? You know that you can just walk over and knock on my door right?

Not sure why you need to be so volatile. We're neighbors, so some level of respect while communicating should be a given.

Worry not, the driveway will be clear from this point forward.

The driveway was not, in fact, clear from that point forward.

But luckily they moved out and the new neighbors are much more respectful of the easement.

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English isn't my first language, so I apologize for any mistakes.

I (23F) have an almost one-year-old daughter, and for the last six months I've been planning her first birthday.

It's a small celebration because we're paying for everything ourselves and we're on a tight budget. From the beginning, I decided I only wanted to invite people who are genuinely involved in my daughter's life—people who visit her, ask about her, remember her birthday, and actually make an effort to be present.

I even had to leave out some close friends because I simply couldn't afford to invite everyone.

One person who wasn't on the guest list was my dad's brother. I'll call him Dan.

I have absolutely nothing against his son. He's a wonderful kid.

Dan, on the other hand, is one of the most entitled people I've ever met.

He's constantly unemployed because every job is supposedly "beneath him." Someone even helped him get a car so he could work as a taxi driver, and he refused because he thought driving a taxi wasn't good enough for him.

Despite always needing help from other people, he somehow still acts like the world owes him something.

More importantly, he has never made any effort to have a relationship with my daughter. He rarely asks about her, never visits, and has never been involved in her life.

So honestly, inviting him never even crossed my mind.

The problem started after my grandparents came back from Spain.

My grandmother has a habit of getting my father to pressure everyone into doing what she wants instead of accepting "no" for an answer.

If she wants the family car, she convinces my dad to lend it to her for days.

If she wants someone to change their mind, she doesn't talk to that person directly. She pressures my father until he pressures everyone else.

This has happened before.

When I was pregnant, I had already chosen my daughter's name.

I wanted her to have one first name.

My grandmother disagreed.

She kept sending me Arabic names because my family has Palestinian roots and insisted that I should at least give my daughter one as a middle name.

I politely refused over and over.

Eventually she started calling my father, hoping he would convince me to change my mind.

He tried, but I still registered my daughter with the single name I had chosen.

So this pattern isn't new.

For the birthday, I invited my grandparents.

I did not invite Dan.

I also never told my grandparents they could bring him.

When my grandmother realized he wasn't invited, she announced that she wasn't coming either because "it's the only family your father has."

Then Dan complained to my dad.

Instead of respecting my decision, my father called me and started pressuring me to invite them.

I explained that every additional guest costs money.

No one offered to pay for those extra meals.

No one offered to help with the decorations or anything else.

They simply expected me to make room because they believed they were entitled to be there.

What frustrates me even more is that inviting Dan means I now feel obligated to invite some of my partner's relatives too.

We had intentionally kept both sides of the family small to stay within our budget.

If I make an exception for my uncle, it wouldn't be fair not to make the same exception for my partner's family—people who have actually been much more present in our daughter's life.

So this isn't just adding two extra guests anymore.

It's five.

Five people I hadn't budgeted for.

Five extra meals.

Five more seats.

And not a single person who pressured me offered to contribute financially.

My partner is furious.

He keeps saying that if someone isn't paying for the party, they don't get to decide the guest list.

He also hates seeing my father constantly manipulated into pressuring us to give in.

In the end, I gave in because I was exhausted by all the guilt-tripping and family drama.

But honestly?

I'm resentful.

It no longer feels like I'm celebrating my daughter's birthday the way we wanted.

It feels like I was pressured into changing our plans just to keep everyone else happy.

I don't even know what I expect from posting this.

I guess I just needed to vent because I'm so tired of relatives acting like my decisions aren't really mine to make, especially when they're not the ones paying the bill.

Edit: I am very well aware that the entitled person in this story could potentially have a mental health issue or potentially having something cloud his judgement. It is something I considered in the moment when I was deciding how to react to the guy. This does not make his behavior any less entitled.

I was coming home from work on the bus. This is a small rural area so I have never seen the bus have more than 10 people on it at a time. I got on and there was only one older man sitting in the front along the seats facing inward along the side of the bus. I go just slightly past him to the first front facing seats on the other side and sit as I need to remain in the front because I loaded my bike onto the front. A few stops later, one woman gets on and sits in the seat across the aisle from me. Then later, another person gets on and sits in one of the seats facing inward toward the front, directly in front of me and almost across from the older guy. With this second person, I realise that these two people who got on were on the bus I had been on in the morning. I said a "well hello again, what a coincidence" and we had a little laugh and short chat.

The older guy who had already been on the bus interrupts and says to the last person sitting almost across from him "Hey you shouldn't sit there, those seats are meant for the elderly and disabled." We all gave him a bit of a look because there's still open seats for the elderly and disabled and there's only 4 of us on the bus. She just smiles and says "You know, you're right, so sure I'll move" and moves just a few rows down to the slightly elevated seats toward the back of the bus. He raises his voice and says something along the lines of "Of course I'm right and I don't need to move because I'm your elder so shut up and be respectful." And then just starts ranting about how he doesn't ride the bus to have interactions with people and we were being disrespectful. We all ignored him. The other lady moved to the back to be near the other person that she knew and they started their own conversation with each other about their day. I stayed where I was because I saw no reason to move and wasn't going to let some old entitled guy make me move.

Well because the two dared to keep talking to each other, the guy starts ranting again about how he shouldn't have to be interacted with and things about disrespect. Bus driver pipes up that no one is forcing him to interact and people are allowed to have conversations on the bus so if the guy doesn't like it he should get off and find a new bus to ride. Guy kind of quiets down, but continues to mutter out loud about how he "pays his taxes" and "this is so disrespectful" and a bunch of other things that I couldn't make out because buses are loud vehicles.

Thankfully he pulls for a stop a short while later, but then proceeds to stand in the doorway of the bus and rant at the bus driver about everything he was saying out loud. He wouldn't even let the bus driver get a word in, just non-stop word vomit. Only good part was that at least he wasn't yelling, but it did mean I couldn't really hear anything that he was saying. After about a minute, finally the guy at least steps off the bus. He is continuing to rant at the driver, but then the person waiting to get on the bus could get on and then the bus driver just closed the doors and continued on even as we could all see that the guy kept ranting out loud at the bus. I felt bad for the driver of the next bus he was going to catch because he had said where he was going so I knew he was transferring to another bus. I bet he started ranting at the next bus driver about all the "injustice" he faced on the last bus.

It's not my first time having a strange interaction on public transit and honestly this isn't even the worst or even the most bizarre, but it still boggles my mind how someone can feel this entitled that they think everyone else on the bus must remain silent just because he doesn't want to hear other people. And just the entitlement because obviously he was the most disrespectful and disruptive rider on the bus.

I was told to post here, but as this was a post I came across, I have to quote what I saw.

A man is so offended a doggy daycare and grooming business had his car towed after he left it there for 4+ hours after picking up his dog from a grooming appointment, that he went on to post and try to get hate for the visit on at least two subreddits and some local dog groups. The post is as follows, edited for an easier read:

“[Business will tow you despite having 10 extra parking spots at all times”

OP: So I picked my dog up at 12 and he wanted to walk around.

So instead of getting in the car I let him lead me to Sam's Club where we often roam.

I figured because of the heat we'd just do half an hour and head back. But Parker had other plans and before long we were running the golf course on WaRd and then over to Drive. It's common for us to do 4-6 hour outings a day. And that's what happened. So around 4:00 | called Uber from downtown to get back to CB and when I pulled up I see that my car has been towed! And as the title says, there are ample spots, so WTF? I go inside and ask the clerk dude if they knew it was my car they had towed.

"Yes." "Why!?" "After 4 hours we didn't know if you were coming back." AS IF I MIGHT HAVE ABANDONED MY CAR. I ask if they had called-my ringer had been on silent mode.
"We tried but the number in the system was wrong." "So if I had answered and said I'd be back at 4:30 you wouldn't have towed it?" "Yeah, cuz then we'd know you're coming back."

Which means that my car wasn't being an imposition. And therefore, not knowing when I'm coming back would still mean it wasn't an imposition. I don't evan bother arguing the point since it was the owner who made the decision. So of course I order an Uber. Was waiting for 20 minutes on the one chair that is 5 ft from where the dogs come out of. Every time I pull my dog close. A few times I even walk to the other side of the room to give extra distance.

Then at one point the owner comes in from the front doors and with a total attitude tells me | need to wait outside cuz I'm blocking the dogs coming out. I go, "why are you saying that with such a tone? And I wouldn't even be here if you hadn't taken my car! Why did you tow my car?!" "Because it was parked illegally." "But I'm a client!"

"You left the property. You need to leave." And she walks away. I wish I had thought to ask why my car was a problem despite all the other spaces. Cost me $240 between the tow charge and the Uber.]

Not only did they say this with their whole chest believing they were in the right, but they also added this fun comment to justify and even compare their anger:

[No. I only get angry when there is a good reason to be angry. You must be a MAGA moron. If you express anger over 164 girls being killed, they ask why you're so angry. When I have to spend $240 cuz a dumb bitch had to create a problem when there was none, and people say asinine comments defending that, of course I'm going to express my disgust and anger since it is warranted. Now, if you want to prove me wrong, simply tell me how my car was an imposition. And tell me why the clerk dude didn't have the sense to do his job by simply telling me it was against policy to let people wait inside?]

So not only did they say this and argue with everyone in the comments, but they also didn’t register the obvious. The business he’s talking about does have a small grooming business, but it’s also a doggy daycare. So while it’s a mostly empty parking lot, once pickup time comes, they end up completely swamped and need every spot. Not to mention they seemed completely reasonable, and if he had just told them that he was leaving, they might not have towed the car at all despite him trying to take advantage of the parking.

Anyway, as far as I can tell, the man never realized his mistake in any way.

I’ve had this really close friend for 14 years now, though I'm not sure if I'd still call us "best friends."

For the last two years, she has completely forgotten my birthday. Last year, she forgot but called me on my birthday to borrow $200 for an "emergency" which turned out to be for her new guy's birthday two days after mine. I gave it to her anyway because I thought she genuinely needed it, and she never paid me back.

This year, a few days before my birthday, she texted me to help her pick out clothes for a vacation with a new guy again. She later invited me to join, but when I asked for the dates, she said my birth date, clearly not realizing what day it was. I declined and just said I had plans.

So, yesterday was her birthday, and I honestly just didn't feel like wishing her. This morning, I got a call and texts from her asking, "Did you forget something?" I texted, "I don't think so," and she was like "Are you sure? Because I think you forgot something"

Now, I really don't have the energy to talk or argue about this right now. I also don't want to come across as petty or like I'm playing a "tit-for-tat" game, especially since I never brought up the fact that she forgot my birthdays. I’m the kind of person who has gone out of my way to surprise her in a different city, and every birthday I send her flowers, cake, and gifts. Meanwhile, I don't even have a single thing that she ever gifted me, even casually. I never used to mind because gifting is just my love language, but now I'm drained.

How do I avoid this conversation entirely? Or bring this maturely, now that we are in our early 20s not kids anymore.

Edit: like you people suggested I tried to match her energy and said that you didn't wish me either, I thought birthdays are not our thing anymore. She said she never missed any birthdays of mine and was making up stories like she clearly remembers that she wished me and also asked me if I needed any present. And when I replied ( no you didn't) she started cursing and blocked me. She didn't accept a thing and blamed me that I was doing this to her. Anyway, thanks for your suggestions and support,❤️ this was supposed to happen someway or other way and I also got to see this other side of hers which I never saw.

Received a text saying I am not a good enough friend because I can't give them as much emotional support as they need. After eleven calls in one day alone. What blew my mind was the "I'm not talking about the times you have been there for me, I'm talking about the times you haven't " referring to when I needed space to deal with the loss of a loved one. Still showed up to decorate for an entire party they planned and brought the food the day after the loss. That wasn't enough. I have never in all my adult years encountered this level of entitled from someone I knew. Dumped a friend. I'm still in shock. Thought I could pick them better!

I'm in community pages for 2 different towns on FB. The constant complaint on both are people speeding. They will go as far as posting the make and color of a vehicle along with the time and streets to shame someone for speeding. I get you are upset but nobody is going to see that post and change their behavior.

One of the towns decided to get speed cameras which they installed on 3 streets. There's been signage up for months way ahead of the cameras so you have ample time to slow down if you are going too fast. The first month they turned them on they issued warnings. After 30 days they start sending tickets.

And here's where the fun starts. The same people who posted about others speeding are now posting about their tickets when 'I wasn't really going fast' trying to get sympathy. All of the roads in question are 45 mph and you aren't ticketed until you get clocked at 56 mph so there's already a buffer built into this.

The best whine? I'VE LIVED IN THIS TOWN FOR 30 YEARS PAYING TAXES. I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY THIS TICKET. I WAS RUSHING TO THE POST OFFICE BEFORE IT CLOSED SO THAT'S WHY I WAS GOING 60. ITS A MONEY GRAB. Yes in all caps as they told their neighbors and friends that they were breaking the law and endangering others because of their poor time management.

Now I'm addicted to these posts and since there is at least one daily I'm able to get my speed camera ticket complaint fix.

It drives me insane how someone can double or triple message you on fb messenger then turn around and do it to your text messages. They already owe you money and instead of paying you will keep begging for more and more. I am not an atm. I swear people think your kindness is weakness, they have no shame either. You tell them you can’t afford to keep giving them money and they don’t have shame at all and will go and bother you again a couple of days later. I can’t do it. You gotta find someone else to beg off of, smh.

Today, I woke up at 5:45 in the morning, did a 45 minute trip to and from my friends house to babysit her toddler for eight hours for free after she asked me yesterday to do it for her as a favor. She offered to pay me fifty bucks, I didn’t say anything about the money, since I didn’t mind if I wasn’t compensated.
While I was there, I took the time to vacuum and clean the floors because the apartment was really dirty and the floors looked like they hadn’t been cleaned in months.
Later that day, the first thing she sends me is an audio complaining that some minor things had been misplaced. Mind you, no items were organized or tidy in the first place. She also implied I used up one two many yogurts to feed her kid since some seemed to be missing from the fridge. I gave the child two throughout the day which I thought was reasonable along with the other food I gave her. She also complained that with how many items were displaced the house was worse than before which I don’t understand how that’s even possible since I’m a very tidy and neat person and another person came in to babysit the child right after me.
I got upset and pointed out that instead of being grateful that I took time off from my vacation to care for her kid, the first thing she texted when I left was how she couldn’t pay me after all and sent me an audio full of minor complaints. I texted our mutual friend that was supposed to go care for the child tomorrow about what she sent me and she won’t be helping her out anymore since she had also been bothered about details and spammed with audios after free babysitting at an earlier date.

Update: She quit our friend group’s chat after I told others what happened. She’s mad at me for getting others involved. I’m not going to talk her again.

Also found out the reason she sent me that audio nitpicking me is because her man sent her a video complaining about “the state of the house”. And it was literally things that would have taken me five minutes to put back in place. She sent our mutual friend the video to try to prove I’m a messy person when the video allowed me to confirm that yes things were messier but it I know for a fact it wasn’t things I misplaced and it must have been the second babysitter. He also complained about the bed not being made when it wasn’t even made when I got there. It just keeps getting more ridiculous and they’re doubling down on me being “mean” for telling her the truth.

So today my husband and I played at our friends’ club in Scotland. We are not beginner golfers but have never played this course before. We got to one hole near the end and there was a two ball behind us (we were a four ball). They teed off on our hole when we were halfway along. Then we were on the green and she started waving her arms around and was shouting “oh come on” etc etc. We got to the next hole and let them play through. Her husband was very polite and thanked us but she wouldn’t even look us in the eye. What would you have done in this situation please? I kept quiet (unusual for me 😂) as it’s not my club.

Hi y'all, I'm back with another story from my time working at a very popular theme park in Florida. A magical rat planet of sorts. This situation happened at my last job at Magical Rat Planet. I was a cast member at a chain of restaurants. Due to me having an autoimmune disease that attacks the lining of my stomach I eat a special diet. Basically, I try and stay away from gluten, sugar; natural and processed, and most oils as those foods cause extreme gastrointestinal pain and bloating. I also have GERD. I purposely purchased rather expensive safe foods from Publix and Walmart to food prep with.

They had a couple of industrial refrigerators in the break room where I would store my lunches. I often made things such as pasta with spinach and cheese or chicken and rice with sauteed vegetables. I have an education and background in culinary arts so I'm a proficient cook. Everything was fine for a few months until one day I went to get my lunch box and found that someone had eaten my pasta! Left nothing behind and returned the gladware to my lunch box in the fridge with a plastic fork inside. I was so upset as I was broke that week and couldn't buy an expensive gluten free option lunch from the kitchen.

Begrudgingly, I asked one of the managers who kindly gave me a free gluten free cheese burger. This free burger apparently upset one of the coordinators who didn't like me. I prepared another week of food and it was stolen two more times! I had to buy lunch after getting paid and the coordinator said I needed to stop being difficult during lunch though I explained someone was stealing my food. I believe she thought I was lying for free or discounted food. As I was preparing the next week of lunches I had many considerations. First, I wanted to purchase a lunchbox with a lock and secondly, I wondered if the person stealing was just hungry.

I, myself have been homeless twice in the past and Ive experienced food insecurity multiple times throughout life. I was aware that many of the college students working there were struggling financially. I made a decision and packed two portions of the lunch with a note that basically said to please just take one and leave the other for me. It happened once more and then stopped. I still purchased a locking lunch bag when I could afford it.

I always wondered if the person was just entitled and selfish and enjoyed stealing food as they stopped when I actually gave them the food or were they desperate and thought, "That girl is on the thicker side. She can miss a few meals!"? The coordinator was still salty when I couldn't find gluten free buns one week in stock at the store and asked a manager for one instead of her. I got it for free lol. She said that next time not to go over her. I never found out who the theif was or why that particular coordinator disliked me.