Some folks have an overinflated sense of entitlement. I’m pretty sure that it’s the modus operandi for an entire generation (Gen Z and upcoming Gen Alpha).
Recently a situation came up at my apartment complex. New kid moves in. Decides that it’s okay to park in front of someone else’s front door (parking is at a premium here but the layout of his apartment allows three cars to fit–one in the garage and two on the pad outside if they park nose to tail–he’s got it made in the parking situation). Is asked not to because it’s preventing the occupant from being able to use his front door. Decides to do it anyway. Is told by management not to do it. Tells management that ‘it’s not hurting anyone’ so does it anyway again. Either the kid is oblivious or has balls as big as an elephant’s….
Pretty sure he’s gonna start getting towed because at some point he’ll have to learn that actions have consequences.
I know of another similar situation where the kid figured out pretty quickly that squatting in someone else’s parking place while they were gone was not going to continue once they were back but it took several conversations to convince him that if his vehicle was there, it was going to end up in a ditch somewhere. But he gave it a good try (Gen Z, meet Gen X and fuck off).
Kind of like the entitlement that a former talkshow host had when, after being told that a particular item was not for sale in a shop that she was in for less than five minutes, decided to take her ire to social media and release the hounds on the poor shop. Now they are getting death threats from her hangers-on.
I personally think she was pissed that they didn’t recognize her and grovel at her feet, but that’s just my take.
We do see this behavior every day, in ways both big and small. The only way to counter them is to call them out because they sure as hell are annoying.
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