'She huffs and puffs and demands we make 7 dozen fresh donuts': 20+ Times that privileged people were introduced to real-world problems

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 2, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

If you've ever had a roommate who doesn't know how to cook or clean since their mom always did that for them, these stories are for you. 

Some people are born into entitled families, or are born with an immense amount of privilege. As a kid, their parents do everything for them. Then, when the kid grows up and embarks upon their journey into adulthood, it's clear that they're spoiled and clueless about how the real world actually works. 

I knew a dude in college who was only failing classes because he kept "forgetting to go." All of us students had our schedules before the first day, but this guy was so used to his parents reminding him to wake up for school, that he just didn't know how to manage his time. He had a few kind friends who took turns setting timers on their own phones, then going into his room and waking him up for class. But even with his friends' kindness, he still didn't always make it to class, and he certainly never did his homework. If your parents do everything for you until you turn 18, it doesn't exactly set you up for success IRL.

Check out these people below who encountered some rather entitled and privileged people. Then, take a peek at these ultra powerful final bosses who you can never defeat. 

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    Human body - [Serious] What is the worst case of entitlement you have ever seen?
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    Font - [deleted] I was an usher at a theatre (live stage theatre, not movie theatre). Couple shows up 30 minutes after the show started. Both of them look surprised and the husband says "You didn't hold the show for us?" I chuckled...they just stared at me. They were completely serious.
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    Font - beccaonice I made some mention to my college roommate about how annoying the bus route I took to work was or something like that, and she turned to me quizzically and said "Why don't you just tell your Dad to buy you a car?" I was 22 at the time.
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    Font - [deleted] Used to work at a call center doing tech support for Apple products, specifically iOS devices. Had a 19 year old girl tell me she had cracked her fifth(!!!) iPhone and needed a new one ASAP. I explained that she would need to either mail it in to us or take it to the nearest apple store so we could replace it.
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    Font - She literally said "Oh my fing god you expect me to go to the fing STORE?? JUST GET MY PHONE FIXED!" Then I explained that if she didn't want to go to the store she could mail it and that if she went with the most expensice shipping options we could get her her new phone in three days. She thought I was fing joking. The call lasted for another 20 be minutes because I think she actually did not understand that there was no way for her to get exactly what she wanted immediately. I quit the
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    Font - Thewrongbaked potato. When I was in the military, there was a private (PV2) in my unit who told the first sergeant, "I'm not trying to pull rank or anything, first sergeant, but my mother is a major." He literally thought he could boss around the command team because his mother outranked them. He ended up getting chaptered.
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    Font - [deleted] When I was 6, I had this friend who would come over all the time to hang out. I lived in a town of ~200 people, and kids that were my age and wanted hang out with me were scarce. So he would come over, and I had an Xbox and a Nintendo 64, which was pretty cool btw, but anyway he would come over and just play it while I watched. This
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    Font - was pretty boring for me so one day he came and I said I didn't want to play games, I wanted to go outside and do something. He got real mad, and said if I didn't want to play games we couldn't be friends anymore. I, already having developed the you" attitude, said fine. I guess he didn't expect that cause he threw this huuuuuuge fit and started crying and my mom had to call his mom to come get him. so yeah
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    Font - [deleted] Was at the movies seeing a Star Trek movie, kid has an asthma attack about 10 minutes in (I think because of the lens flare, that's what I blamed) so I scoot her out to the lobby to get some more inhaler in her and assess whether we need to leave or not. Commotion at the concession stand.....interesting. My kid is feeling better so we move in closer because we're nosy as and also she needs a soda, but mostly we're nosy. It's the local on-air weather guy bing and moaning about ho
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    Font - sake. That poor manager. Trying to explain that there were already about 30 people in there about 20 minutes in at this point, and that even if the weather guy had the only ticket he could not restart it because it would mess up the rest of the day's schedule. Weather guy was not hearing any of it. He even once yelled out "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!" like it f ing mattered. I still refuse to watch that channel. F that guy.
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    Font - She ended up being a good room mate after she learned that we did not have a maid and she had to clean up after herself. She wrote me a sweet note when we moved out thanking me for my patience with her. She was entitled and spoiled but ended up just being a little spoiled by the end of the year. It was nice to see her become self aware and change for the better.
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    Font - Drunken_Consent I've probably seen worse cases, but this happened yesterday so it's definitely fresh in my mind. I work at a car dealership and I was writing down some information while a customer was on the phone with their insurance. They were back and forth on hold, talking to different people, trying to figure out why their rate would go up so much. I'm there trying to finalize a few things. I guess she had to write something down that she was talking about.
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    Font - She takes the pen I'm using to write out of my hand, takes the notepad, rips the page I was writing on off and throws it down next to her, then begins writing talking into the phone like "yeah, uh huh, mhm, right, right" I'm sitting there with my jaw literally on the floor. Normally I wouldn't say anything but I made a little mention like "Oh, if you needed a pen I'd be more than happy to hand you one" and she looks up and goes "You are MY salesman, you are here to work for ME. You can do
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    Font - Politely asked her to leave, told her to have a great day.
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    Font - [deleted] Freshman roommate in college chucked a massive fit because, after buying her a ton of presents, buying all her friends dinner, and going on an additional shopping spree, her mom wouldn't buy her a $450 purse. Her mother had agreed to purchase her one in the range of $250, but argued that she had flown in for daughters birthday and was renting a hotel room on top of all the things she had already purchased for her and she had coupons or some such for a purse in that price range.
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    Font - Pojodan Was at a shopping center and came out to head to my car and heard someone honking repeatedly. Curious, I went over to look and saw a car sitting in a lane, turn-signal on, with 5+ cars behind them, going to town on the horn as someone sat in their car with the engine running in the closest parking space to the door, clearly content to sit there and ignore the person demanding they leave faster.
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    Font - I stood and watched for a minute, along with a gathering crowd, as the guy in the parked car just sat there. When I left I could still hear the person in the turn- signalling car still honking away.
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    Font - FACOFACOFACO I'm a flight attendant and once a person had a heart attack during boarding. We started CPR and were trying to revive him with the AED when another passenger started yelling at us because he was going to miss his connecting flight. He told us that we should open the plane door and throw him out so we could take off on time and multiple other passengers agreed with him.
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    Font - hiesther My room mate my freshman year of college was a sweet girl, but grew up insanely wealthy. She was so entitled but clueless as to real life so it wasn't annoying, more entertaining. Some gems from her: -"where do you buy bottled water?" -"I have to change my own sheets??" (This was in October. We moved in in August. Gross." - Thought we had a maid... In a college dorm.
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    Font - Another time she asked me to go to the ATM with her because she didn't know how it worked. She needed like $300 in cash to buy football tickets for her family. The withdrawal was declined because she didn't have $300 in her account. She looked at me and said, "Am I poor?" with the most heart breaking face ever. Turns out she thought her family's money was in some big account that they all had access to, bc she'd always had a credit card and that had never been declined. We had a lesson ab
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    Font - My roommate's response was to finally storm off in the store, and then tell me and the rest of the friends she was with that her mother "always does this!" and that she couldn't find any purse that cheap that she wanted. Went on a rant about how her mother was probably buying all the good stuff for herself. This was fairly early in the school year, my roommate and I ended up having a lot of problems.
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    Font - o Gordonbombay1990. I work graveyard at a gym. I rerack every night around 1. When people see me doing this they almost always put the weights back where they belong. One night I was reracking and this big dood came in and started using the heaviest Dumbbells (120lbs, 115, 110s etc). Instead of putting them back he was just leaving them on the floor. Some of the regulars walked up and said hey man don't be an as see he's putting s away, just put them back. you
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    Font - He said, "no, I will not do that. This is MY gym. I pay a membership here. I'm paying for him to put s away. If I wanted to rerack my own weights I would workout at home."
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    Font - watches_u_p I have a friend that does something similar. She will bring a ton of clothes into a changing room, and when she is done trying on, she will just leave the room looking like a bomb went off. Never puts anything back on the hanger or brings it out of the room. I have actually heard her say "they get paid to clean up the fitting rooms" I don't really talk to her anymore.
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    Font - chocolate787 I worked as a busboy at a seafood restaurant when I was younger. The issue with lobsters that people don't realize, is that no chef can control how much black sludge gets inside it (The black substance is made of eggs that were resorbed when caught). Most lobsters don't have it, but when they do, it's perfectly normal and safe to eat it.
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    Font - Anyway, a women happened to get a lobster with the substance in the tail and immediately flipped out about it. The manager was sent over to assure her it was normal and that there was nothing to be alarmed about when she interrupted her by screaming "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!? I AM THE EDITOR OF TIME MAGAZINE!!!". The manager paused, said "good for you ma'am" and continued on about how the lobster was fine.
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    Font - I was 15 and was shocked by how snobby an adult could act...as well as confused as to why her being an editor of a known magazine meant she deserved more than other guests.
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    Font - Kilen13 I went to a pretty upper class private high school thanks to my mum working there. My senior year I saw a girl go into a full on screaming, tear filled, rant at her father in the parking lot after he'd surprised her with a brand new, fully loaded, BMW. She had wanted a Mercedes and straight up would not accept the gift.
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    Font - aDILF418 When I was a waitress at a rather fancy University resturant, these three women came in for lunch and charged it to the department they work for (i.e. lunch was free for them). I brought them coffee at the end of the meal, but they sent it back because it wasn't "as hot as the surface of the sun." And they complained for at least five minutes about how there is "literally nothing worse in the world than coffee that isn't piping hot." Then they commanded I get them piping hot coff
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    Font - (which they easily could have done themselves, but I was happy to do) and got them some "piping hot" coffee. Then they all drank every drop of their stupid coffee. But then when I brought them the bill, they got mad that I was making 20% gratuity off their meal...so they fought tooth and nail for me to remove the coffee from the bill because, "even the second round was too cold for their liking." I'll remind you, this meal was FREE FOR THEM because their department was covering it. But th
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    Font - I dealt with a lot of entitled customers at that restaurant, but these three stand out to me the most because I felt like they were trying to "put me in my place," and make sure I remember that I am servile and they are superior in every way. I get it, cold coffee is annoying. But it is hard to convince a person that cold coffee is the "worst thing in the world" when her tips are the only reason she can even buy coffee.
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    Font - BathofFire I work at a car dealership and one that stood out was a person expecting us to work on their car for free simply because they bought the car from us. A couple thousand in repairs and they wanted it for free.
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    Font - This gonna be a bit of a story, I'll try to keep it short. My ex roommate is the most entitled person have ever met. He regularly quits jobs when he doesn't get promoted immediately because he thinks he's so great. During his unemployed times, he's get food stamps. However, he did not utilize them properly. He would blow through them in a week on steak, soda, and various other expensive luxury food items. So for the rest of the month he's be fed. But he wasn't, because he started eating M
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    Font - just the staples, like a potato here and there or some cereal I wouldn't have minded. But he went after the good s and my snacks. Entire boxes of granola bars in one sitting? Gone. 3/4 of a left over pizza? Gone. You get the trend. Well one day I was craving some hot Cheetos because I hadn't had them in years. So I bought a bag and tucked it away in my cabinet for later consumption. A couple days later I decide it's Cheeto time! And I open my cabinet...to find the bag opened. Okay, no big
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    Font - was time to confront the and tell him to cut his s . I approach him in the living room and calmly start off "hey man could you please not eat my food? I don't make very money and I was really looking forward to those Cheetos." Dude absolutely exploded on me. "What the f do you expect me to do?! I'm fing starving to death over here! I don't have any money, you have to help me! Fing b You don't even need it!" Then he storms off and I'm just kinda stunned into silence. Dude was fat, he wasn'
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    Font - After he got a job he continued to eat my food but I couldn't eat his. What's mine was his, and what's his is his.
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    Font - saucycoco48 My roommate in college. I can think of a few things but one that stands out was breaking up with her boyfriend because he "couldn't afford her." This is the one who sent her flowers monthly and oftern paid $700+ to fly to visit her and for her to fly to him (they were long distance).
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    Font - boxofsquirrels Someone I met through mutual friends. She was in her 30s, had gone to a private university, racked up a six-figure debt in student loans and working a low paying job (not minimum wage, just tight budgeting-level). From her monologue about herself it was clear she bought new clothes and electronics every week. Her parents were covering half her student loan payments each month, plus helping her out with 'unexpected' expenses.
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    Font - She matter-of-factly explained she was doing her parents a favor by making any payment towards her own debt. "If they had forced me to go to a public school instead the one I chose, I wouldn't owe so much. It's their fault!" Apparently her parents had almost lost their house after her mother had a severe health crisis. Despite this her father had also been secretly helping with her rent until her mother found out and put a stop to it. Girl was pretty py that her mother would dare prioriti
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    Font - She was also py that her parents had recently bought a trampoline for her brother's kids, saying the money they 'wasted' should have been put towards her loans. There was more but my brain shut off as a survival mechanism.
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    Font - RedSquirrelBBQ I work at a bakery, where I often have to take orders for cakes, cupcakes, donuts, etc. We have a policy for orders that you have to enter them two days in advance, but we often are able to do last minute orders anyway. So anyway, a woman comes in one day in the middle of our 9'o'clock rush. She wants 7 dozen donuts, which we can do, even a day in advance we can do that. So I'm taking the order, fill it all out, and then I ask her "and what day is this order for?" And she r
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    Font - she huffs and puffs and demands we make 7 dozen fresh donuts. I refuse, because that simply can't happen, we are too busy to make donuts during the day, it's simply not an option. She then turns her eye to the racks of donuts we have out and says "give me those". Keep in mind, we have a storefront full of customers waiting in line, most of them patiently waiting to get a few donuts. It'd been a busy morning, so we didn't have THAT many donuts. Actually, we had about 10 dozen left. And thi
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    Font - politely ask her to perhaps wait a day, we need donuts to sell for the rest of the day, to which she replies "I don't need a moral lesson, I want my d donuts and I'm tired of asking. Get them." To which I reply by informing her that if she does that, these customers likely won't get donuts. She then turns around and shouts "I'M TAKING ALL YOUR DONUTS, HAPPY???" Which elicits a collective murmur along with a few toddler tantrums. I was so disgusted by her behavior that I refused, but an ol
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    Font - out. I had to give 70% of our donuts to one woman while all our customers and their children and friends and etc. watched. It seems a little petty typing it, but she truly did not seem to have a shred of empathy for any of them. I had to turn away loyal, regular customers that I know by name who come in every Sunday morning because some woman thought she was entitled to all our donuts. Scw her.
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