'I was at a loss for words': 20+ Entitled people who acted completely ungrateful

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 25, 2024 3:00 PM EST

Gratefulness doesn't come naturally to these people. Usually, people are taught from the time they're young that when someone gives you a gift, you should be thankful. Even if you don't like the gift, you should thank the person who got it for you. When they're five or under, kids tend to be brutally honest about the gifts they do or don't like, and it can be pretty funny for those around them. But when a teenager throws a fit because her parents bought her the wrong car? That's a whole lot less charming. 

These people were absolutely flabbergasted when they went out of their way to give great presents, only for the recipient to act wholly ungrateful. Some people went really far out of their way to give such a present, spending lots of money or going great distances, and still got a negative reaction. 

Most people have a pretty low tolerance for this kind of behavior. The OP of this post is a great example of that. They told their own story of what happened when they gave their niece a laptop. u/CarelessMonday sold their own belongings in order to get their niece this nice college present, only for her to call it the "worst present ever." The OP shares that after her freakout, they're not contacting that niece again---and certainly never giving her anything again. Hopefully, the niece learned something from the whole situation. 

Next up, the way this barista talked to a customer has the internet divided on whether or not the barista was out of line. 

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  • 01
    I gave my niece a laptop on her birthday and she screamed at me because it wasn't brand new. What's the most ungrateful thing you see someone do? Today is my niece's birthday and she just went to college so I thought I'd get her a laptop for her birthday. Now, I am a student myself but I still want to give her something special. So I searched for a great used laptop, and I found a decent Toshiba Satellite. I
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  • 02
    sold my PSP and some other things so I can afford it. So there we were at the dinner table opening presents. She opened mine and has this grim look at her face. "This is it? I thought you'd buy me a brand new one" "You know I can't afford it. It's the best I can do." "I want a brand new one, not this. This ! Worst present ever!" She then shoved the laptop and box across the table and fell
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    down the floor. I picked it up, and walked out. My cousin tried to stop me, I just said "I would never give her anything again." She even had the nerve to call back and asked for the laptop. Apparently her parents punished her for her behavior and she will now have to buy her own things. No hand-outs or gifts. My friend bought it as a favor. He helped me pick it out, and knows how much I bought for it. The profit was only $10(roughly)
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    What's the most ungrateful thing you see someone do? UPDATE: Niece called this morning, asking for the laptop, because she will need it for college and her parents told her she will never be handed- out stuff while she is in college. No apology yet, only demands. Her brother said I would cave and give it to her. no, and you niece.
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    xeos A couple years ago a friend and I were driving across the country in a big moving truck full of my moms furniture. We had been on the road for about 18 hours on the 2nd to last day of the trip and stopped at a rest stop to stretch our legs and use the bathroom. Sitting at the rest stop late at night was an entire
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    family, mom, dad & 2 young kids and their car which was obviously broken or otherwise not working. Feeling like I should try and help I asked the father what was wrong and he told me they had run out of gas and just needed to get to the next town which was about 40 miles away. I couldn't leave the rest stop with that family stranded so my friend and I got back in
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    the truck and drove the 40ish miles to the next town, bought gas & a can and drove all the way back in our huge moving truck. The whole trip back and forth took us about an hour and a half and by the time we got back to the rest stop we were both about to pass out. Well, the family was still there waiting and I hopped out to give them the gas they needed so badly. I
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    handed the can to the father and he looked at me and said "I would rather have the money". This caught me off guard as money wouldn't help them get anywhere but it was then that it dawned on me that he never wanted gas to begin with and probably had some in the car. He was just fishing for cash and using his kids as the bait. I felt really bad for the mom as
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    she was just looking at me the whole time with this expression of "I'm so so sorry". I was at a loss for words since the dad didn't even want the gas we had just drivin for over an hour to get for them. I just set the gas can on the ground, got bak in the truck and left feeling like a giant idiot.
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    + icanseestars Cousin gave my son a broken PS2 for his birthday. I fixed it (just needed to clean the optic on the player). Then the cousin asked for it back.
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    anything_here I delivered a pizza in a low-income type apartment complex...total was $18.something and she handed me a $20 rolled up and told me to keep the change. I turned around and started walking down the stairs back to the parking lot while unrolling the $20 to put in my when I find a $100 I of cash
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    wrapped up inside of the $20. Immediately I turned around and went back, knocked and said "I don't think you meant to include this inside the twenty." as I extended my hand towards her with the $100 bill in it. She instantly started screaming at me about how she didn't give me no hundred dolla tip and that I'm lucky she doesn't call the police.
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    Slammed the door, then called to my pizza shop to complain. I told the manager the whole story, she was put on the do-not- answer list. Crazy lady.
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    Lady_FriendOfSpiders · When we were very young we were very poor. My sister's birthday was coming up, I think she was about 7. There was no money to buy gifts but my mother had a small piece of white satin cloth and a box of tiny little pearl beads. She hand sewed this beautiful little wedding
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    gown for my sisters doll and sat up night after night hand sewing these tiny little beads on the dress. When my given it for her birthday she threw it across the room in disgust, saying I don't want that it's my old dolly. I'll never forget the heartbreak on my mother's face. sister was
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    EDIT: Overwhelmed by the amount of comments supporting my mother, thank you everyone, I am going to see her soon, she lives quite a long way away. I shall give her a kiss and a hug and tell her that I love her, appreciate her and the internet thinks she's an awesome Mum.
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    cepheus42 My son was 6, and was really into trains. He had a fantastic wooden train set with all the bells and whistles, and he and I spent hours putting it together in different ways and playing. But he kept begging for an electric train, begging and begging. I told him "not until you're 8." Well, that Christmas I
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    decided to surprise him and I put together a small electric train set on a 4 x 8 piece of plywood. I couldn't spend exhorbitant amounts on it, but it was a nice oval with a split off that went up and over the main track and rejoined. A couple of engines, a few cars, some simple trees and a crossing with lights. It wasn't much, but I spent hours putting it
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    together after the kids went to bed every night. Christmas morning comes, all the gifts unwrapped, and I tell my oldest, "There's another surprise for you downstairs." He ran down and found the train and his eyes lit up, he was so excited. I showed him how to work it, then went upstairs briefly to help pick up. Ten
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  • 20
    minutes later I'm coming back downstairs to play with him and the train set, and he's walking up the stairs. He looks me in the eye and says, "It's kind of boring," and walked past me. Yeah, I admit it... I J cried...
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    [deleted] A girl in my highschool received a used car on her 16th birthday. she was unhappy with the fact that it was used (3 yrs old) So she intentionally totaled it. Her thinking was that if she totaled this one her parents would have to buy her a new one. She didn't get a new car, and had to ride the bus.
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    NikitaJ76 I used to work for a local car dealership. I was selling the cheapest car on the lot to a dad and his daughter. It was a 2000 Daewoo for $3,000. She was SO excited to have her own car and it was what her dad could afford to buy her. At this same time another salesperson was selling a brand new Eddie Bauer
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    Explorer to a dad for a present to his daughter. As I was presenting the Daewoo to the new owners the daughter of the other dad comes in to see her new Explorer. She starts throwing a fit and yells "I didn't want an explorer, I wanted an Expedition!!!" I was really proud of the dad of the Explorer as he walked back into
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    the finance office. He changed the deal. He corraborated with the guy buying the daewoo and switched the names... So the girl crying over her "Explorer" now had a crappy Daewoo and the girl who was really grateful to have a car ended up with a fully loaded paid of Explorer... I would never have believed it if I had not been the salesperson.
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    Verdris Valentine's day, 2004. Now, I've never given about two Valentine's day, but my girlfriend at the time had never been in a serious relationship and wanted a special Valentine's day. I was more than happy to oblige. That day, I went to the local nursery (flowers, not babies) where I
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    used to work and bought two dozen red roses and grabbed an unused delivery invoice. I still had the uniform - just a t-shirt and hat, but enough to make me look like a legit delivery person. I then spent my entire paycheck on gifts for her, and food for dinner. Everything: balloons, decorations, red and pink cutsey and several I
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    expensive gifts including an iPod and a new camera. I went back to her house and decorated everything, transforming her kitchen and living room into what looked like a display at the mall. I even did the rose petals on the bed thing, because I was would sure my efforts wo lead to a romantic evening.
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    I looked up her class schedule to figure out where her class was (we had different majors) and proceeded to burst in, pretending to be a delivery person. I gave her the roses and a teddy bear in front of her entire class, even going as far as making her sign the fake delivery invoice. It was her last class of the day so I knew she'd be heading home. I raced out of there so I
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    membership card was on an outer flap. (This was one of those large female wallets that was more like a mini purse with lots of flaps and zippers and such.) After handing it to her I asked for the next customer in line to step up and basically tried ignoring her. She starts screaming "MY MONEY IS GONE YOU STOLE MY MONEY" which really surprised me as
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    she was a pretty normal looking soccer mom type. I ask the customer I'm helping to wait a second and explain to her the way the wallet was handed to me, and reiterated that I had not personally opened the wallet any further than the first flap. She starts screaming again saying there was over 200 dollars in it and that she was
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    calling the police. I shrug and tell her to go ahead. At this point I'm completely satisfied to ignore her. She walks to the back of the store and whips out her cell phone. I continue helping the line as customers are looking back at the woman as she is loudly calling the police. Most of the customers are like ¡" etc. I just "what a shrug and smile.
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    After the line was cleared the lady comes back to the register and tells me, with a super smug look, the police are on the way. "Ok." I say and give her a "I don't give a shrug and ignore her while checking in movies. About an hour "I later a cop finally enters the store (she waited right next to my register the entire time) and she starts waving at him and
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  • 33
    pointing at me at the same time. I see the cop and roll my eyes and shake my head. He asks her to repeat her story and as she's repeating it he's almost completely ignoring her and watching the football game that we have playing on our DirectTV kiosk. After she gets done he looks at me, rolls his eyes, and asks "did you take the
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    money?" "Of course not" I say. "I'm sorry there's nothing we can do ma'am" the cop says and leaves the store. As he leaves he holds the door for her and tells her to leave if her business is complete. I smiled super big, like cheshire cat big, and told her to have a super day as she left.
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  • 35
    After she left I bought pizza with the 200 bucks I took. Just kidding, but I almost wish that's how the story ended after she embarrased me like that for close to two hours.
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  • 36
    could get there first, change, and start cooking dinner. I got there maybe twenty minutes before she did, and everything was going to plan. She was upset when she walked in the door. "Why didn't you wait for me after class?" She asked. I told her I wanted to start dinner before she got home and finish decorating the house. "Oh, I really
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    wanted to go out to dinner tonight. Can we go out to dinner?" I explained that I was going to make something special at home, and had, in fact, already started cooking. She looked at the table full of presents and the house full of decorations and just sighed, disappointed.
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  • 38
    "I really wanted this to be a special Valentine's day. Just this once. I was really hoping we could have a special day together but I guess not." tl;dr: spent $800 on Valentine's day, put on a great show, and it wasn't good enough. Never again.
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  • 39
    volothebard When I was younger I worked at a Blockbuster. I was the night shift manager and one night I was working by myself when a customer walks up and hands me a womans wallet, says he found it on the ground. I peeked inside it to find an ID/membership card so I could look up her account/phone
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    number. Sure enough she had been in the store about 30 minutes earlier so I gave her a call. She seemed pleased on the phone and said she would be right in. Store policy for something like that was to lock the item in the safe until the customer arrives. I did so and went about my business. About an hour later the woman
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    comes in and asks for her wallet. I tell her it's going to be 15 minutes as the safe was timed and ask her to wait. This was apparently unacceptable and she asked if I could get it faster than that. Told her no and continued helping other customers while she waited. Once the safe beeped I grabbed her wallet and hand it to her, I had to
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    put the line of customers on hold while I did this because I wanted her out of the store ASAP since she had spent the last 15 minutes fuming and standing right next to my register. As soon as I hand her the wallet she says "my money better be in here" I explained that I honestly had no idea as I didn't open it all the way as her
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  • 43
    PaxiSnack Bought my cats some gourmet food and they looked at me like I was trying to poison them. Cretins.
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    insertnerdyusername. I have quite a few I could tell about my little sister. I'll stick to two. My Mom bought her numerous laptops, iPhones, and cameras on the condition that she take care of them. Every one was broken in a month or two. Bought her a $900 digital SLR she knows I've been coveting for
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    years, because my sister claimed she was going to take a photography course at school. Got the camera, bitched that she didn't get any other presents, used it for a day then let it sit around for 6 months. She uses it now for pictures on her tumblr, but she told my mom she never intended to take a photography course and she can only use the
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    thing on auto. For Easter I spent a couple hundred dollars buying her tons of Hunger Games stuff and random stuff for an Easter basket because I stupidly wanted to do something nice (I'd just pick up random stuff over the course of a few months that I thought she'd like). She was upset that my mom wouldn't be
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    doing baskets anymore because she's 15. She threw a tantrum after she opened everything because Easter sucked because we wouldn't hide Easter eggs for her or hide plastic ones filled with money like her friend's parent's did. SHE'S 15 for fuckssake. I haven't gotten her a thing since. I bought my mom a MacBook Air to pay her
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    back for years of caring for me, and my sister threw the biggest tantrum ever. She clawed at my mom's face and tried to steal her car because it wasn't fair that my mom got something nice for the first time EVER. Literally, ever. My sister has since "accidentally" broken her laptop hoping I'd buy her one too. Not going to ever J happen.
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    lexxiilou1108 My older sister Amanda is EXTREMELY spoiled. My dad practically worships the ground she spits on. Well she's 9ish years older than me so of course she was able to do more things. I used to help my mom at a resturant every day from when I was 5-8 years old. Because I was so young, people would give me tips
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    throughout the day. When my moms shift ended, she would walk me nexted door to the bank and I would deposit my earnings. By the time I was 8 I had a little over 800$ saved up. May came around and my sister was going to to turn 17. For her birthday she wanted a tons of hair styling stuff and makeup. Well my father had other
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    plans... He convinced me into letting him "borrow" my $800+ and combined it with his $500. He then went out and bought a cheap car for $1000 and used the other $300ish for seat covers, new tires, a new stereo, etc. May 5th... We gave my sister the car and she threw the biggest fit ever! She wanted nothing to do with the car. So she
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    sold it for $700. Dad got his 500 back, amanda got 200 to spend on hair I got nothing back... Just a ungrateful and out from an
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    [deleted] My spouse used to have an old Mercedes E-class; it was like a 1995 or something. He wanted to give it away to my little cousin as a first car, because it was safe, reliable, and my little cousins parents couldn't afford to buy their kids anything big, like cars. So we gave her this car and she freaks out, much like your niece did, and
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    started going on about how we were going to go out and buy a new one and she wanted a new one too. So my spouse took the keys away from her and gave them to her older brother, right in front of her. (The reason we didn't give it to him in the first place was because he had an old Honda that he had paid for himself; however, it was falling
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    apart and needed a lot of work to keep it safe.) We even volunteered to pay for his insurance and his first year of college just to spite his little sister. That felt real good. We haven't bought my female cousin anything in over 3 years. We don't even send her a birthday card. If you act like that when someone gives you something you clearly aren't worthy of anything. I think your
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    actions of taking the laptop away and selling it were completely justified. Good on you, Sir.
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    Scambrero Well, this is embarressing.. When I was a kid I was hope sick from school one day. My mom told me she'd go rent a movie for me to watch. Expecting a cartoon, I got really excited since I loved cartoons, and back then they were seldom on TV. She came home and had brought a live action
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    film. I was so dissappointed I cried and yelled for a while, and said I didn't want to watch it. She was like "Fine, I'LL watch it on my own!" When she started watching it I pretended not to watch, but I couldn't help not watching it. Turned out it was the best movie I had ever seen. It made me both appreciate live action films and convinced
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    me my mom always knew what was best for me. The movie was Back to the future.
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  • 60
    ray0890 When I was in Jamaica on vacation my family and I decided to go to Dunns River Falls. This is basically a small waterfall you can climb up with the help of the locals who work there. When we got to the top of the falls, one of the locals was collecting tips for all the workers.
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    My sister handed him $5 (US Currency). The guy took the bill from her looked at it with disgust said "that's it" and "no thank you" and then proceeded to hand it back to her. We were all in shock because everywhere else we went in Jamaica all the locals would be so happy when we gave them more then $1 tip.
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    [deleted] I work for a NFP and we will have cookouts for people in poverty. They complain so hard that we buy generic soda or don't have "good cheese" for their burgers. One time we gave away thousands of pairs of shoes in the city. The "what is this !?"'s outnumbered the thank you's about 20 to 1. This from people who came without shoes.
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