One of the things that some people love is receiving gifts. The moment they open a gift is such an exciting event. Also, it’s an exciting moment for the person who gave the gift.
Just imagine the moment when they are waiting for the person’s reaction to their well-thought present. Now, however, how would you feel if the person did not like your gift? Well, these people knew best!
1. Wasted Time And Effort
A couple of years ago, a friend and I were driving across the country in a big moving truck full of my mom's 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 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 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 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 and probably had some in the car.
He was just fishing for cash and using his kids as bait. I felt really bad for the mom as 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 back in the truck, and left feeling like a giant idiot.
xe0s
2. Real Purpose
This thing happened to my dad and me when we walked out of a movie at around 10:30. A man walked up to us and gave us a long, detailed story (they always are) about how they'd done a big contracting job for a client, and drove out here to meet him for dinner and get paid.
Still, the client didn't show up, and they used their last gas getting out here. Now, they had no place to stay, no gas, and were stranded. Could we please offer a few bucks to help them out?
In the past, I'd gone from giving a few bucks to just saying "no," but my dad was a bit more savvy about the situation and told them, "Tell you what. I'm sure you have enough to drive to that gas station across the street. I'll meet you there and fill up your tank, but that's all I can do for you."
You could already tell the guy wasn't thrilled with the answer, though he pretended to appreciate it. He went back to his father, who was waiting in the car, to tell him our answer.
So we drove to the gas station and waited a few minutes, thinking they weren't going to show up. Surprisingly, they did drive up!
Less surprisingly, the father got out and immediately said that gas wasn't the problem and that they'd rather have money for a hotel room. We left without another word.
Defendership
3. Changed Personality
I delivered a pizza to a low-income apartment complex. The total was $18.something, and she handed me a $20 roll-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 wad of cash when I found a $100 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." 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 a hundred-dollar tip and that I was lucky she didn't call the police.
She slammed the door and 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.
anything_here
4. Shameful Behavior
I had the weirdest thing happen at an ATM. The guy before me had pulled out what looked like $400 and then walked away without taking the cash.
I didn't realize what had happened at first, so by the time I put two and two together, he was out of the store. I grab the money, run after him, and catch him in the parking lot.
I hand him the cash, and he violently grabs it from me and starts talking crap about me trying to steal his money. He started getting in my face when his friend mentioned that before he ever met me, he was $400 down.
Then I came along, and he's back to even, ending with, "What the heck is wrong with you?" The guy never did thank me, but his friend did.
CassandraVindicated
5. Wasted Sleepless Nights
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 gown for my sister's doll and sat up night after night, hand-sewing these tiny little beads on the dress.
When my sister was 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.
Lady_FriendOfSpiders
6. Brat Prevention
I got the worst reaction from my daughter over a dollhouse. She wanted one of those old-style Victorian huge doll houses.
I dropped 500 bucks on one cause I liked them too. She took one look at it and said, "Mom, it's boring without the lights and such. You should have known I like light-up stuff."
She was about 6 or 7. She now gets 40 bucks on her birthday, and that's it. Just to be clear, she isn't a brat or spoiled. This was a one-time thing, but I refuse to raise a spoiled brat. I had one for a sister. Never again.
XxmsmaliciousxX
7. Cake Decorator
For my son's 5th birthday, he told me he wanted a half-batman, half-superman robot cake, something like this. My fiance's son has celiac and is always excluded from the cake at parties.
So, we always make a gluten-free cake for parties at our house. It's actually not that bad, just expensive ($7+ a box, and you're talking 2-4 boxes to make a decent-sized party cake). Doing it, gf excludes us from 'ordering' a cake from a store.
So, the day before, I spent 6+ hours baking, frosting, and decorating this cake, to the point that I had to stop because my hands were cramping and shaking. Now, I'll admit that I am not an artist, but I was pretty proud of my work.
Take it out, sing the song, and his grandmother asks him, "What do you think of the cake your Daddy made for you?" He says, "It's not perfect." Hit me like a ton of bricks. Mouth open forgot to breathe. I had to step out for a minute. Sucked.
I got over it pretty quickly because I realized he didn't do it maliciously. He was just being honest and didn't grasp the concept of kooth at that age.
And I certainly didn't expect him to gush over it or anything. While I was outside, his grandmother had a chat with him and told him he hurt my feelings, and he came out and said he was sorry and gave me a big hug.
AndyPod19
8. Wasting Gift
This is my girlfriend’s sister. Well, her husband bought her a brand new Ford Focus, and she hated it because it wasn't "cute."
She then decided that she would just wreck it to get a new car from the insurance company.
She honestly believed that "full coverage" insurance meant they would buy you a new car of the same value if the first one was totaled.
It took us over an hour to convince her that it wasn't true. She still googled it just to be sure. I can’t believe she’s 30 years old.
LeftyBigGuns
9. The Husband
I had a coworker (and a good friend of mine) choking in the lunch room. I reached over and gave her the Heimlich, and everything went well.
The next day her husband came into the office to scream at me for touching his wife, that I had left a bruise across her ribcage, and he was going to sue me for everything I had, and THEN he was going to beat my ass.
Got right into his face and very quietly asked if he would have preferred that she had died...and that if he wanted to arrange it to look like an accident, he should let people know ahead of time so we don't interfere.
The guy actually started crying. Later, she told me that he confessed that he thought we were having an affair, and that the bruising was because of making out.
inibrius
10. Worst Tantrum
I work at a National Guard base. One guy who was divorced and had a young (20s, which I think factored into the son's angst) girlfriend bought his son a brand new Ford Ranger for his birthday.
He parked it in the excess parking space (free parking) on base until his son's birthday and brought him out to surprise him. His son flipped because he wanted a brand-new car like a Camaro or Mustang.
The kid threw a tantrum and refused to accept the truck or leave with his dad. The guy had to call security on his own son.
They threatened to detain the kid and have him arrested by civilian police for trespassing if he didn't get out. I can't remember if the kid accepted the car, but he finally got off the base before being arrested.
amidemon
11. Two Different Personalities
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 for her.
At this same time, another salesperson was selling a brand new Eddie Bauer Explorer to a dad for a present for his daughter.
As I was presenting the Daewoo to the new owners, the daughter of the other dad came 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 the finance office. He changed the deal. He collaborated 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 Explorer... I would never have believed it if I had not been the salesperson.
NikitaJ76
12. Worst Mom
When I was fifteen, a girl in my driver's ed class turned red and stood up. She put her hands to her throat and couldn't make a sound.
Her eyes looked crazy. She was choking on a piece of candy. Everyone looks for one beat, two beats. I'm like, "What the hell?" and I stand up and walk over two tables and give her the Heimlich.
On the second attempt, the candy flies out like ten feet, like in a movie or something. She starts gasping and bawling. It's a big scene. She thanks me.
The next day at class, when our parents are picking us up, she walks down the hall with her mom. They walk up to me. I'm expecting a thanks from the mom or something.
I've never seen this woman before, and as she gets close, she starts yelling, "What did you think you were doing? You aren't a doctor or a nurse! You could have broken her ribs! You're lucky I don't get a lawyer and sue your family! I still might!" Et cetera, et cetera...
Varnu
13. Trying Too Hard
I spent a summer in high school pushing carts at a store. I found a wallet left in a cart. I never even opened it. Just took it in and handed it to the lady at the customer service desk.
A day or so later, I'm pushing carts, and they call me up to the desk, and there's this two-legged douchenozzle staring daggers at me and cracking his knuckles like I was supposed to be intimidated.
He steps right up to me and demands his "other four hundred bucks" because supposedly he had 800 in his wallet and only 400 when he got there to pick it up.
I'm staring down at the bald spot on the top of this guy's head and outmass him by at least his own body weight, and he's screaming that I'm a thief and he's going to kick me.
After I managed to stop laughing and catch my breath, I calmly told him that if I had taken anything out of his wallet, I would have taken everything.
I dropped the empty wallet in one of the trash cans in the parking lot. He sputtered his way out the door, and I never saw him again.
eithris
14. Carrying Burdens
I was asked to help a friend move. He lives alone with his mom, who is one of the laziest and irrational people I've ever met.
I told him I'd be free up to a certain time. He called me to come over when there were about three hours left, even though I'd been sitting there all day.
Once there, we quickly loaded up everything while his mother sat there directing. The car was packed, so only two seats were available.
That's when the mother decided she needed to come as well when she had done no physical work. However, she wasn't ready as she had yet to put makeup on. So we waited.
Once there, she sat in the car, smoking while we unloaded. That's when my time was up, and I had to go. She says to me, "That's it?" Never even said thank you.
hzlntcoffeebean
15. No Romantic Day
Valentine's Day, 2004. Now, I've never given two care’s about 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 used to work, 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 legitimate delivery person.
I then spent my entire paycheck on gifts for her and food for dinner. Everything: balloons, decorations, red and pink cutesy crap, and several 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 mall display. I even put rose petals on the bed because I was sure my efforts would lead to a romantic evening.
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 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 finished decorating the house.
"Oh, I really 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. "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."
Verdris
16. Nice Try
I was the night shift manager, and one night, I was working by myself when a customer walked up and handed me a woman's wallet and said he found it on the ground.
I peeked inside to find an ID/membership card so I could look up her account/phone number. Sure enough, she had been in the store about 30 minutes earlier, so I called her. She seemed pleased on the phone and said she would be right in.
The Store policy was to lock the item in the safe until the customer arrived. I did so and went about my business. About an hour later, the woman asks for her wallet. I told her it would be 15 minutes as the safe was timed and asked her to wait.
Once the safe beeped, I grabbed her wallet and handed it to her; I had to put the line of customers on hold 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 handed her the wallet, she said, "My money better be in here." I explained that I honestly had no idea, as I didn't open it all the way, and her membership card was on an outer flap.
After handing it to her, I asked the next customer in line to step up and basically tried ignoring her. She started screaming, "MY MONEY IS GONE! YOU STOLE MY MONEY," which really surprised me as she was a pretty normal-looking soccer mom.
I asked the customer I was helping to wait a second and explain to her how the wallet was handed to me, and I reiterated that I had not personally opened the wallet any further than the first flap.
She started screaming again, saying there were over 200 dollars in it and that she was calling the police. I shrugged and told her to go ahead. At this point, I was completely satisfied to ignore her. She walked to the back of the store and wiped out her cell phone.
I continued helping the line as customers looked back at the woman, who was loudly calling the police. Most of the customers were like, "What a witch," etc. I just shrugged and smiled.
After the line was cleared, the lady returned to the register and told me, super smugly, that the police were on the way. "Ok." I say and give her an "I don't give a care" shrug and ignore her while checking in movies.
About an hour later, a cop finally entered the store, and she started waving at him and pointing at me simultaneously. I see the cop roll my eyes and shake my head.
He asks her to repeat her story, and as she repeats it, he almost completely ignores her and watches the football game. After she gets done, he looks at me, rolls his eyes, and asks, "Did you take the money?"
"Of course not," I say. "I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do, ma'am," the cop says and leaves the store. He holds the door for her as he leaves and tells her to leave if her business is complete.
I smiled super big, like a Cheshire cat, and told her to have a super day as she left. After she left, I bought pizza for the 200 bucks I had taken. I'm just kidding, but I almost wish that's how the story ended after she embarrassed me like that for close to two hours.
volothebard
17. Wrong Accusation
I used to wait tables. A guy finishes eating and then goes to the bathroom. The bus boys assume he's gone and start busing his table.
He comes back screaming for a manager, stating that he left his phone on the table and the bussers must have stolen it. He demanded that the manager search the bussers.
He was promptly told no, we're not doing that. The guy calls the cops. The cops show up and tell him, "Sorry, sir, that's abandoned property. How do you know a customer didn't take it?" The guy stormed off.
GoodOlSpence
18. Shame Numb
I work at a movie theater, and this sort of thing happens all the time. People seem to think that if they are irresponsible and lose their things, we are legally obligated to find and return their lost items immediately.
It's worse because there is always someone whose sole job is to clean the theaters. I can't count the number of times the user has been accused of stealing.
I once spent a half hour helping a frantic woman search for her wallet. I searched the auditorium twice, the bathrooms, the lost and found, etc.
The more time went on, the more her anger started to be directed towards me. She started saying things like, "Well, what are you going to do about it?" and talking loudly to her friends about how she couldn't believe this sort of thing could happen as if she's somehow immune to life.
Eventually, she searched her purse for the 40th time and found that her wallet had been with her the whole time. She just left without a single word to me. No apology, no thanks for the time I spent helping her search.
I then had one of those moments where I had to step back into myself for a moment and have a few violent images flash through my mind. Then it was back to sweeping up popcorn.
petrichor1987
19. Not Today, Girl
This is one of my favorite stories of instant justice: My mother's friend threw his daughter a birthday party; this was a fairly affluent family, so she had a big party with all of her friends, and this girl got a lot of nice stuff.
She got dolls, a doll house, various toys, and a horse with all of the riding gear and the promise of lessons and everything she could ever need for the horse.
This brat got what millions of little girls all over the country dream of, and you know what she did? She flipped out because it was the wrong doll house. She got a horse and threw a huge screaming temper tantrum over the (enormous) doll house.
Her dad competed in the Olympics and worked hard to become a doctor of some kind. As one might expect, this guy did not take kindly to his daughter's obvious lack of appreciation for her privileged lifestyle, so he cut that right out.
Her dad canceled the party right then (the guests still got to eat cake and keep their party favors on top of an apology for his daughter's behavior), packed up all the toys, and took them back to the store. He took the horse back and grounded his spoiled kid.
Bakoro
20. Awful Sis
I have quite a few stories about my little sister, but I'll stick to two. My Mom bought her numerous laptops, iPhones, and cameras on the condition that she take care of them. Everyone was broken in a month or two.
Bought her a $900 digital SLR she knows I've been coveting for years because my sister claimed she was going to take a photography course at school.
Got the camera, talked bad that she didn't get any other presents, used it for a day, then let it sit around for six months. She uses it now for pictures on her Tumblr, but she told my mom she never intended to take a photography course, and she can only use the freaking thing on auto.
For Easter, I spent a couple hundred dollars buying her tons of Hunger Games stuff and random stuff for an Easter basket because I stupidly wanted to do something nice (I'd just pick up random stuff over the course of a few months that I thought she'd like).
She was upset that my mom wouldn't be doing baskets anymore because she was 15. She threw a tantrum after she opened everything because Easter sucked.
After all, we wouldn't hide Easter eggs for her or hide plastic ones filled with money like her friend's parents did. She's 15.
I haven't gotten her a single thing since. I bought my mom a MacBook Air to pay her back for years of caring for me, and my sister threw the biggest tantrum ever.
She clawed at my mom's face and tried to steal her car because it wasn't fair that my mom got something nice for the first time EVER. Literally, ever. My sister has since "accidentally" broken her laptop, hoping I'd buy her one too. Not going to ever happen.
insertnerdyusername
21. Hardships Gone
My older sister Amanda is EXTREMELY spoiled. My dad practically worships the ground she spits on. Well, she's 9ish years older than me, so of course, she was able to do more things.
I used to help my mom at a restaurant every day from when I was 5-8 years old. Because I was so young, people would give me tips throughout the day.
When my mom's shift ended, she would walk me next door to the bank, and I would deposit my earnings. By the time I was 8, I had a little over 800$ saved up. May came around, and my sister was going to turn 17.
For her birthday, she wanted a ton of hair styling and makeup. Well, my father had other plans... He convinced me to let 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 sold it for $700. Dad got his 500 back, and Amanda got 200 to spend on. I got nothing.
lexxiilou1108
22. Quick Justice
My spouse used to have an old Mercedes E-class; it was like 1995. He wanted to give it away to my little cousin as a first car because it was safe and reliable, and my little cousin's parents couldn't afford to buy their kids anything big, like cars.
So we gave her this car, and she freaked out, much like your niece did, and 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. (We didn't give it to him in the first place because he had an old Honda that he had paid for himself; however, it was falling 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 really good. We haven't bought anything for my female cousin in over three 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 actions of taking the laptop away and selling it were completely justified. Good on you, Sir.
[deleted]
23. Hurry Up
A kid I barely knew asked me to help move cause I'm pretty strong and can move the couch and stuff. First problem: he has two friends there who carry a pack of gum up and down the stairs each trip, as well as his mom.
So I take the bed. He has a part, and his mom has the guts to ask me to speed up cause her rental on the truck was only for 3 hours.
At this point, I turned around and asked her if she wanted to take care of it herself cause she was more than welcome to (I have this rare ability to not give much of a darn if I'm talking to an adu;t, my friends don't).
So she just shuts up and leaves me alone. At his new place, I helped move in and put the bed back together, and then he told me as I was packing up MY tools, "Oh, can you leave your tools here? I have some other things to build, but my friends are coming over for dinner.”
I packed my things and gave him a piece of mind, and told him that this story would go around campus, and he would appear for the ungrateful little crap he was.
OneAngryBunch
24. Higher Standards
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. 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 than a $1 tip.
ray0890
25. Nothing But A Witch
It's mostly my sister who does these things. My stepdad takes us out to his house in Pennsylvania for weekends. It's awesome. He cooks for us.
He lets us swim in his pool, watch TV on his massive TV with a TB HDD full of HD movies, and pay for the tickets to and from the house (upwards of $150 every other weekend).
Meanwhile, afterward, my sister complained and made a big scene that we couldn't take a $50 cab ride home instead of just taking the train from Port Authority (NYC). She does this every weekend.
One weekend, we got home, and she saw the new bed that my mother bought her, the one she asked for. As soon as she saw this new $300 bed, she began complaining that she didn't like it and threw a hissy fit. My mom had enough.
RodnTherlald
26. Sheltered Girl
A co-worker whined that her grandmother gave her a silver necklace for her birthday when "She knows I only ever wear white gold!"
I laughed and told her that when my grandparents were alive, I only ever got a birthday card, and that stopped when I started high school.
However, the co-worker only got more defensive, trying to get me to sympathize with her situation. This co-worker is actually a lovely person but has lived a very sheltered life.
lampshadesnoopy
27. Same Negative Vibes
I made Christmas stockings for my then-GF's two teenage children. I spent hours finding specialty candies, toys they'd like, makeup, etc.
I tried to make them outrageously nice stockings and happily spent about 200 bucks* on the two of them. On Christmas morning, they spent about two seconds looking at them, judged them unworthy, and then just cast them aside.
The boy actually stepped on his at one point, breaking one of the toys, and did not care. To this day, I think he did it on purpose.
It sort of ruined the whole thing, making Christmas nice for the kids' mood for me. They are adults now, and I guess the fact that I still remember that scene points out how petty I am. But still. You asked.
FletcherPratt
28. Back Off, Miss
The last few years have been very tough when I was living at home. My dad worked two jobs, my mother worked, I worked, and my brother worked.
We all helped to pay the mortgage on the house and the bills. We all worked to save money and cut costs here and there, but we still lived a pretty nice lifestyle.
One day, my father was talking about defaulting on the mortgage. I pushed even harder to save money at that point and pretty much gave my entire paycheck each week to assist.
I explained to him we need to get rid of things we do not need. (He likes to provide us kids with all we want, so it does not come naturally to him to cancel a $300 cable/internet bill; he does not want to affect us kids.)
I told him it had to be done. We would drop cable and get super slow internet for $20 a month. My sister walked into the room. (20 years old, never had a job. Sits around the house all day. She has done fewer chores in her life than my brother did in a day.) And talked badly and screamed about not canceling cable. It is the only thing she has left to do all day.
I calmly explained to her that we could not afford it and did not have a choice. She stood her ground, not that her opinion mattered in the discussion. I grabbed the cable boxes and returned them that day, and I had the Inet dropped to the cheapest they offered.
Ten years later, to this day, my sister is still the same exact way. She has a firm but fair father, a Loving but Firm mother, two hardworking sons who have paid for everything on their own, no debt whatsoever, and then her.
She swaps between welfare and living with my parents, complaining every step of the way. There is no appreciation on her part that I have ever seen.
oridjinn
29. Grow Up
After getting close to $500 in gifts for Christmas, my sister tore down the tree, kicked other people's gifts, and started yelling and crying.
It was because she didn't see a Wii among her presents (this was when they were really hard to find). We actually did get her a Wii, but she just hasn't gotten to it yet.
I even had to take on a second-holiday job at an online gaming store to get it. She was a 24-year-old medical student at the time.
[deleted]
30. The Karen
So last year, I was sitting outside the fast food chain, and this young, black(relevant) girl, around 15 or 16, was walking out the door.
As she was coming out, two older Caucasian women, around the late sixties/early seventies, were coming in, one in a wheelchair.
The young girl steps aside and holds the door open for the two ladies, complimenting one of them on their hair. As they are about to part ways, the women say, "Thank you."
But right before the door shuts all the way, one of them whispers (but not really), "Little (n-word).” The girl looked shocked and then started tearing up.
BigBadMrBitches
31. Flat Mind
I saw this woman on the side of the road with a flat tire who was clearly having issues changing it. So polite ol' me decided to halt my run and see if I could help.
I stroll over and offer my services to her, and she accepts, but she backs away to a pretty far distance. I change her tire and help get her on her way.
As soon as I finish and extend my arm for a handshake, she says, "Back away. I have 911 on my phone right now, and all I have to do is press Call."
I don't know if she thought I was going to attack her or something, but you don't just do that to someone who just helped you change your tire. Flabbergasted, I ran away and haven't seen that witch since.
Unfriendly_alien
32. Change Of Mind
It's a bit late for people to notice this, but I was visiting friends at their farm years ago. My friend from high school, his wife, and their daughter, who was about 16, were there.
The daughter was out saddling her horse when the horse kicked her in the chest. Collapsed her throat, and she couldn't breathe.
I performed an emergency tracheotomy, saving her life. About two months later, I got a letter from a law firm. They changed their mind about how grateful they were and decided to sue me for leaving a scar from the tracheotomy.
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33. No Mercy
I have two nephews, aged 14 and 12, and they have every game console out there. So, thinking I was going to be the coolest aunt ever, I bought them 4 of the latest games, and they were over $50 each.
I don't see them often. I wanted to do something special. $ 250 is a lot of money in my budget. They took one look at the games, said, "They suck," threw them against the wall and broke the cases.
I picked them up and took them back to the store, but they refused to take 3 of them back due to the damage. I ended up selling them at the mall to one of those game stores and got almost nothing for them. Never again.
firewrks
34. Help Went Wrong
Around 2:30 am on a Friday night (Saturday morning), a friend and I witnessed a pickup truck run a red light and barrel through a white taxi van doing about 50 MPH (+/- 5MPH) with no breaks, just CRASH.
The white van instantly spun around a couple of times until it hit against a light pole. My friend and I were in complete shock but were the only ones around, so we got out of my truck to help.
On the way to the van, my friend called 911, and a fire started flaring inside the crumpled hood. The man inside was bleeding everywhere and obviously very hurt; however, the driver's door was smashed so much I couldn't open the door, and the passenger door was blocked and resting against the light pole.
By this time, the fire under the hood was starting to engulf the front part of the van and getting very hot. I took my shirt off, wrapped it around my hand, and then broke out what was left of the glass on the driver-side door.
I proceeded to pull the man head-first out of the van with the help of my friend and drag him about 30 feet away to a grassy area by an office building. About 2 minutes later, the entire front portion of the van is in flames.
Another minute later, the fire department showed up and put it out. I gave my information and such to the police officers. The man I pulled from the van thanked me over and over again.
I thought I had done my good deed for the day... 1 week later, I was served papers stating I caused physical and emotional damage/distress to the man, and he was suing me for $100,000. One awesome Public defender, three witnesses, and four days in court later, he lost.
maverickaz
35. Too Much Money
My co-worker's sister was at the office. I ended up chatting with her around 7 pm while she waited for her bro to finish up work. I hung around only because she was kinda pretty and single.
After mentioning her father paid 100% of her $100,000 tuition, a car, and all her living expenses, she starts laying into her dad for promising only $500,000 as her future graduation gift.
She was expecting something more along the lines of $750k to $1 million, so she was super pissed and kept talking about what a jerk he was being.
Apparently, she changed her major one too many times for her father's taste and was living the lifestyle of a "forever student."
This was when I was struggling to pay off my college loans, not earning very much, and barely staying afloat by paying my rent and covering my beer money.
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36. Insensitive Wife
My wife was rampaging on a Sunday morning for no real reason. She started screaming that she was tired, hungry, etc., and I offered her something to eat to soothe her.
She said she wanted fried eggs. I asked her how many, and she said 3. So I cooked three fried eggs, and if you've ever fried eggs together, you know that they meld into one giant egg white with three yolks.
I come back with the eggs, and she loses her mind. And I laugh and ask what her problem is, she screams, "I DON'T LIKE MY EGGS TO TOUCH."
I said screw it and ate the eggs in front of her. Later that day, when her friend came over to do some crap, I came out of the kitchen holding two raw eggs and stood in the doorway of the living room.
Her friend and she looked at me as I slowly moved the eggs toward one another. As soon as they touched, I started yelling/bellowing. It was very funny to me, and my friend was completely confused.
turkalurk5
37. Little Brat
My friend's youngest daughter had a Dora the Explorer birthday party for her 4th birthday, which was in August, so naturally, I assumed she liked Dora the Explorer.
Come Christmas time, I bought her a set of Dora's baby sister and brother; it cost about $30, which is a lot to spend on a child I didn't birth.
She opened it up and started screaming that it was for babies and that she was too old for Dora. Her mum took her home without her present, so I gave the dolls to my youngest, who fell in love with them.
A few weeks later, when she came over to our house, she threw a tantrum and took the dolls home because "they were hers first!" I know that kids don't have a filter when it comes to manners, but I know my kids would never do anything like that.
They have received some pretty strange gifts from relatives in the past, and they just say thank you and pretend to be excited about them until they get them home and throw them to the bottom of the toy box.
9ninety_nine9
38. Specific Brand
Sounds like my cousin. She asked for a laptop, and it was the only thing she wanted for Christmas (she was 13 then). My uncle is an IT guy and bought her a tricked-out laptop and personally added on a whole mess of stuff (like her iTunes, photoshop, video editing, etc).
On Xmas, she is excited till she opens it and sees the laptop. She exclaimed something (I am told like), "Omg wtf is this piece of crap! I wanted a Macbook."
My aunt told me that my uncle took the laptop to the other room, drew an apple on the back, and tossed it to her. Lol, that was a good one.
sxcamaro
39. Huge Mockery
My niece, who is part Hispanic, had her quinceanera(SP?) I don't know much about it since it's not my culture, but apparently, it's a HUGE deal for them.
I am not the richest person in the world, and her dad's side (the Hispanic side) spoiled her with a MacBook, TV, iPhone, diamond necklace, etc.
I agreed to get her an iPad even though I don't have a ton of money, so I got her an iPad 2 32 GB since the iPad 3 was out and the iPad 2 was super cheap on Craigslist.
So she gets my present and notices it isn't the iPad 3 and throws it back on the table, yelling at me about how stupid I am and how she wanted the new iPad, and it really hurt my feelings.
I almost cried because the spoiled brat didn't understand how much money that was to me. I will never in my life buy her another gift until she apologizes for it because that hurt.
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40. The Leech
I have a friend who knew she had to move out of her place in a few months. There is no exact date, but whatever. She calls me at about 6 p.m., saying she has to be out of her place the next day by 1 p.m., or the police will escort her out. I should also mention that she has 3 kids.
Now, the moving wouldn't have been such a big deal. Her problem was she hadn't found anywhere to go. I wish I could say it was due to a lack of places, but it was just because she hadn't looked.
So, within 12 hours, I asked a different friend that she had NEVER met if she could stay with them. She still got an apartment and moved her.
Go a month later. She's totally screwed over my generous friends financially with her attitude and lies. I'm embarrassed and apologizing. So she FINALLY has her place, but because she's not great at life, she has no way to move.
My friends are sick of her and drop everything, as do I, cause I feel like a jerk and move her. When it gets bad, I noticed she didn't have a crib mattress for one of her daughters. I offered to let her use mine because my son just got a big boy bed.
She starts screaming at me, saying it's hers and how she has no friends that ever help her. I stood there in shock for about two seconds, told her to back off, and walked out of the apartment.
Erixie
41. Had Enough
I have an aunt like this. No matter what you get here, she will complain. And no matter what you get the rest of her family, she'll complain too.
So, while everyone else ever gets a $50 limit on their presents, she has a $150 MINIMUM. We have gotten her D&G sunglasses, over ten expensive purses, and a bunch of other things she outright stated she hated.
What did me in was on Mother's Day when she told me she hated the hand-drawn card I made her. "You messed up on the present, and I didn't even get a pretty card to make up for it. Am I not important to you?"
My parents tell me to put up with her with respect and that she doesn't know any better because she's old, but I'm so freaking done.
theheebiejeebies
42. Tiring Day
This past Christmas, I went home to visit my family for our first Christmas together in 10 years. Because it was our first in so long, everyone was there (about 20 of us).
Being Sicilians, we celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with lots of food. We were all at my mother's house, and she was stressing about everyone being there, so I ended up cooking all of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinner.
I made the traditional feast of fish for Christmas Eve, as well as cookies and cannoli. I roasted prime rib and broiled lobster tails for Christmas Day dinner.
I did all this for 20 people. My whole family thanked me profusely, except my mother, who yelled at me for leaving the kitchen messy, which my brothers cleaned up anyway.
dma1965
43. Husband’s Gift
It's not just kids and teens who are ungrateful. Working in IT retail in the UK, I see all sorts. Last Christmas, a husband wanted to get his wife a brand new laptop so she could start using the internet for shopping, etc.
He purchased from us, after much deliberation, a brand new Samsung 13" chrome book, etc., and a few days later, the wife marched him back into the store, demanding that I refund the order and supply her with a MacBook.
Then she had the nerve to tell her husband he was useless and that he didn't listen or understand her. The phrase "open your freaking ears" was used repeatedly... Really boiled my blood.
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44. Queen Of Worst Personality
The father and 17-year-old daughter came into the dealership to buy her a new car for her birthday. Now, this isn't any Honda dealership. We sell Porsches. 17-year-olds should not be getting Porsches for their birthday.
I don't care if they made the honor roll every year for their whole life. So the girl has her mind set on a 2012 Porsche Panamera 4S, which is a $100,000 400hp AWD V8 sports saloon.
The father, seeing the price tag, looks disappointed and says, "Well, sweetie, I can't afford a brand new one, so why don't we get you a used one?"
The used ones go for about 85-90k, have barely any miles on them, are Porsche-approved certified, and come with a warranty worthy of a brand-new car.
She replies, "Well, it is not my fault you don't make enough money for our family. You're going to buy me a new one, or I'll never speak to you again.
What really bothered me was that I could see the pain in the father's eyes when she said this. He looked genuinely hurt that he didn't make enough money.
I wish I was a customer because I would have told her to back off. So the father said, "Alright, well, get the new one." (the funny thing was he leased it, and she had no idea).
When they returned from the test drive, the salesman told me that the girl disrespected him and her father the entire time. When the salesman was trying to show her all the different features, she flipped out and told him, "I think I can figure it out. Okay, I'm not stupid."
Then, on the actual test drive, she did over 100mph on the highway and told the salesman to "shut up" when he asked her to slow down out of fear for his life. He said the father just sat there and said nothing.
penisinthepeanutbttr
45. Back To You, Dad
Actually, my dad is like this. For his birthday, I went out of my way to get him some thoughtful gifts (nothing huge, but not bad for a 17-year-old) that I knew he would like.
Later, while lecturing about not being appreciative, he criticized me for not getting him any gifts.
When I reminded him that I did get him a gift, he stated it was not on his list.
This is the man who got me an iPad when I explicitly said I didn't need one because they're such a luxury. I just understood our family situation at that time.
Lindsaythe