‘You want me to arrive like some classless girl?’: Entitled cousin Lena demands her cousin’s brand new SUV to impress high-profile rich classmates as she "can't be seen arriving on foot or on public transport"

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jun 3, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

If modern adulthood has taught us anything, it's that a reliable car is less a status symbol and more a hard-won badge of survival, especially if you've had to eat more ramen than you care to admit to get those monthly payments squared away. 

Meet Lena, this family's undisputed champion of vehicular destruction, who's racked up more insurance horror stories than actual payslips in the last three years. With a resume built on job-hopping and joyriding, Lena's latest scheme is to borrow her cousin's brand-new SUV for exactly one evening: the sacred, image-defining ritual of impressing her "high-profile" party friends.

See, public transport is apparently for the classless, the forgotten, and the not-Lena crowd. As she so graciously put it, the thought of arriving at a suburban cocktail night by bus is social kamikaze, never mind that it's only twenty minutes away and that, statistically, she's more likely to arrive in style if she's not behind the wheel. Her argument relies on the time-honored tradition of "your property, my entitlement," seasoned with a healthy dash of "you just don't get the rich kid hustle."

After politely declining—because, shockingly, her cousin isn't lining up to add her SUV to Lena's growing collection of totaled vehicles, Lena accuses her of mockery.

I, for one, kind of hope Lena's at least half right and her cousin is mocking her, not for riding the bus, but for thinking "borrowing" equals "handing over the keys to your life savings so I can impress a group of people who wouldn't recognize me on foot.

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  • Entitled cousin needs my car to impress her "high-profile" classmates

    "Are you kidding me? My friends pull up in Benzes and Audis?"
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  • I have a new SUV that I struggled hard to be able to afford. Lena, on the other hand, has a reputation that she has wrecked
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  • two cars over the past three years, doesn't own insurance, and is constantly job-hopping.
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  • Lena asked me whether she could borrow my car for the weekend. I asked her why.
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  • She told me that she is going to a small party with some "high- profile friends" and she "can't be seen arriving on foot or on public transport."
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  • I asked her where it was. It was not even far perhaps a 20-minute bus ride from where she was. So I said to her, "Why not just take public transport?"
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  • Her response: "You kidding me? You want me to arrive like some classless girl while my friends pull up in Benzes and Audis? its hard
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  • for you to get it because you don't hang out with rich friends and try to fit.".
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  • At this point, I'm just blinking at my phone in disbelief. Then i told her "First off, I'm not handing over my car to anyone, let alone
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  • someone who's crashed two in the last few years and doesn't even have proper insurance. Second, your poor planning is not my emergency".
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  • She then said I'm mocking her.
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  • ChaoticlyFiendish "You want me to arrive like some classless girl" I would've told her, "well at least you'd be the most authentic one there"
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  • I can't imagine the delusion of mocking op and demanding to use their car. Like what happens at the next party and you don't
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  • show up with the same car. Tell her to tell one of her rich friends to lend her a car. Because they get it, right?
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  • Mundane_Ad_9416 Mock her more
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  • Virtual_Date_9127 If you give in and her your keys. Anything that happens good luck and at the end of the day it will be your fault. Because you know better. She isn't trying to work to
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  • help herself. She wants to put in an image and try the easy way. You worked hard for what you have. Take care of it and let her be humbled. Sounds like she needs a reality check.
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