Recently, we did a series of posts where we asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about the incredibly bad-behaving and entitled people they've met. Here are highlights (or is that lowlights?) of the jaw-dropping series:
1. "I went to middle school in the wealthy area of Boca Raton, Florida, even though I lived in a more modest part. One day, I found a girl crying on the bathroom floor. When I asked her why she was crying, she said, through sobs, that her mom wouldn’t let her get a new $350 Tory Burch bag.
2. "In high school a boy in my class asked the teacher, 'How can people live making less than $200,000 a year?'"
3. "There's a customer who shops at my store who always throws the loose change they get back into the garbage can on their way out."
4. "My husband had a classmate who got his high school girlfriend pregnant. He didn't want to get married, but his mother convinced him to do the 'right' thing by buying him a sports car, Xbox, and a bunch of other expensive stuff."
5. "I went to high school with this girl who was pretty wealthy. The day after her birthday, she got out of a brand-new white Mercedes super upset. She was crying, she explained, 'Because my parents got the wrong color. I wanted it in black.'"
6. "I live in Boca Raton and once saw a 10-year-old throw a fit because her mom was buying her Gucci sunglasses and she wanted Versace ones."
7. "A guy I went to high school with loved flaunting his wealth and would drop twenties all around the mall on purpose. He'd even make them into paper footballs and flick them off balconies."
8. "My 4-year-old was wearing her first set of earrings, and one of her preschool classmates told her mom that she liked them. The mom replied, 'They're probably not REAL gold, and that's all that matters.'"
9. "I overheard a dude trying to explain to his friends that the amount of money his dad had just given him wasn’t a big deal. They kept saying that it was a big deal, so he finally said, 'Look, it’s not that much to him; it’s less than it costs him to fuel his jet!'"
10. "I knew someone who complained about how both of his family's condos in Hawaii were small. They had TWO condos in Hawaii."
11. "One of my fellow teachers informed her first-grade class on the first day that it was time to clean up. One little girl kept playing, and when my coworker reminded her to start cleaning up, the little girl — without even making eye contact — said, 'I don’t clean things up. When does the maid get here?'"
12. "At the airport, a couple had pushed together bench chairs and were sleeping on them, blocking everyone from moving around them. As the waiting area became more congested, they woke up but didn’t move so other people could sit. Elderly people were forced to stand around, waiting, while this couple reclined together on at least 10 seats."
13. "My dad gave my 15-year-old cousin a job on a building site for his summer break. My cousin showed up for two days, called in sick for the next two, then resigned on the fifth day. A month later my dad got a request to endorse my cousin's LinkedIn, where he had listed the job under employment history."
14. "I used to work with a woman who shared a birthday with her husband. One year they threw a joint party and invited everyone from work. Normal, right? Except they registered for gifts. Both of them. And they expected everyone to buy two gifts, one from each registry. And no one at work even knew her husband!"
15. "My daughter worked at Sephora, and once — when the checkout line was really long — a woman cut in front of everyone, saying, 'I need to go first because I just know I'm spending more money today than the lot of you.'"
16. "My neighbor just received a settlement from a lawsuit but still asks his neighbors for money. Last night took the cake, though: He hired escorts and the moaning went on until 4 a.m. Even my 6-year-old heard it. Then, after we saw the girls leave at 6 a.m., he came over to ask me to borrow $50 for gas."
17. "I’m a server at the Cheesecake Factory, and the other day a lady complained that her bread was cold and hard. I apologized and said I would see what I could do. She then threw the bread — hitting me in the chest — and barked, 'Feel for yourself!'"
18. "A woman called our dental office and requested an appointment at a specific date and time. When I told her there was already someone scheduled at that time, she had the audacity to say, 'Well, can’t you just MOVE them?'"
19. "I had a woman at the restaurant/bar I worked at get so drunk that she pissed herself. She then called the cops because we 'made her do it.'"
20. "In the late '90s I was managing a video store and a woman was letting her kids trash the place. It came to a head when one kid, around 4 years old, TOOK A SHIT ON THE FLOOR. His mother stood there laughing about how 'cute' he was.
"I handed her a roll of paper towels and cleaner and she was APPALLED, saying I should clean it. I told her I don't get paid enough for that literal shit, so she cleaned it — then proceeded to complain to corporate. Upon review of the tapes, they took my side and canceled her membership."
21. "I worked at Starbucks and had a customer order a 'no foam' latte. I made it, making sure to scrape off any and all foam that could have come from, you know, steaming milk. She took the lid off, stuck her finger in it, then pulled her finger out and croaked, 'Fucking FOAM!' She had me make it again — the same exact way."
22. "I used to work at a hotel. An influencer called, demanding a free stay during Coachella, with everything included, or else she’d talk shit about us on social media."
23. "I worked at a very busy Starbucks where a lady came in each day for a green tea and always moaned about having to wait in line for an uncomplicated drink. One day she got fed up with us telling her she had to wait in line like everyone else, so she came behind the counter and started making her own drink!"
24. "I worked at a nice clothing store where a customer spilled her coffee all over a table of clothing. She left the cup there and kept shopping around. When the manager came over with napkins, the woman didn’t apologize or anything. She then shoved her coffee cup into the manager's face and said, 'You can clean the rest of that up.'"
25. "There was an armed robbery at a store my sister and I worked at. Once the robbers left, we locked the doors and waited for the cops. Suddenly a woman knocked on the door, so I told her, 'Sorry, just robbed at gunpoint; we're closed for the day.' She rolled her eyes and said, 'Really? Are you serious?' and stomped off, huffy.
26. "My sister threw a tantrum when my parents bought more presents for my newborn son (their first grandchild) than they did for her. She counted 'only' 11 for her and he had 13."
27. "At a meet and greet with Santa, a woman shoved her way through the entire line to the front with her two very embarrassed children. She then cornered Santa and wouldn’t let him greet any other children until hers had been greeted first."
28. "We gave gift cards to my rich-kid cousins, who rolled their eyes and said they had drawers full of them. I suggested to my parents that next year we make a donation in their names instead."
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.