Most people have a decent sense of when they're wasting someone else's time, but a select few of us don't care, and probably love the attention. Here are some entitled folks who made ridiculous demands, whether they be requests for free stuff, absurdly low offers, or completely dumb demands for things that benefit no one but themselves.
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You can't exactly blame people for trying new things, but you can if it's obviously a design fail. Every day people push the boundaries with wildly tacky shirts, deliberate stains, poor building planning, and misguided but persistent creativity. At least it seems like for most of these someone was trying something new. On the other side there are straight up stupid design fails that someone thought were fine.
Bureaucracy can be a mind-numbing puzzle of forms to fill out and cranky people to deal with. Sometimes you get a real treasure of a human being who absolutely hates what they do, and dealing with them is pulling teeth. Here's one of those times. For another school themed story, here's Karen and Karen Jr getting outed for trying to cheat the school system.
After a request like this, it would be pretty hard not to send someone a photo of your bare ass and directions on where to kiss it, but this person kept things classy. It's still extremely hard to have any sympathy for the kind of person who thinks they deserve a discount in exchange for literally a penny's worth of water, but that's entitled goofs for you.
There are a lot of moments from history that not only sound unbelievably coincidental, incredible and stupid, but also so contrived that if it were to happen in fiction you wouldn't be able to suspend your disbelief. There were baboon railway controllers, great molasses floods and foulmouthed parrots. Here are some more history things, like the importance of mundane people in history, the spikey insanity of the lantern shield, and crazy "I'll do it myself" moments in history.
The earth is filled with a huge number of reasonable and kind people who wouldn't think to return a Christmas tree in January. That said, there are a small number of entitled people with preposterous demands who feel like people should just give them stuff. It could be a bad boss, a self-centered influencer, or a complete stranger. The world has a small but persistent supply of entitled folks with ludicrous demands.
Every once in a while a divorce attorney hears a real stupid reason for a couple wanting to get a divorce. Sometimes there's a straw that breaks the camel's back, sometimes someone is extremely petty, and other times someone is trying to cook up a legal scheme that would never actually work.
It's no secret that people tend to take things too personally. A statement about your own favorite TV show will be interpreted as an attack on their favorite TV show. An attempt to pass someone on the freeway can turn into an impromptu drag race. Here are some incredibly minor and absurd things people tend to react to as if they've been slapped in the face. There's just some petty stuff that that people are extremely passionate about.
Twitter can be a war zone of horrible takes and unsubstantiated arguments about things no one really cares about, but it's also cut with sweet, delectable jokes. For more odds and ends, here are some more funny tweets that hit the spot and some random funny Tumblr nuggets.
The world has its fair share of entitled folks and their frustrating demands, but sometimes it gets worse than someone just wanting a discount for no reason. Sometimes people's approach to haggling is writing out their intent to come over to your house and mess you up. It's pretty stupid. For another ridiculous person who wanted a deal, here's a choosing beggar raging after rejection and getting shut down again.
Twitter is at times a bundle of arguments just screaming over each other, but mostly it's just people's weird and extremely specific thoughts, weird scenarios and random funny tweets bouncing into each other. For more thoughts and bits of internet, here are some strange and random bits of Tumblr gold.
We're not sure what kind of a fantasy world entitled people are living in where they think they can be paid to take your things, but it seems like a world they'd be disappointed a lot. It's a world of influencers trying to pay for things with exposure, strangers making up fake discounts, random people demanding that the universe hand them their dream job and just about any unreasonable demands you can think of..
There are a few things about this whole exchange that send up a few red flags. Conventional wisdom is literally screaming: don't agree to the visit. For people who wanted stuff, here are entitled individuals and their preposterous demands. And for another weird and unsettling one, here's a very strange choosing beggar case.
This customer seems to be upset that they made the wrong decision with their glasses, so they decided to take it out on the store that provided them with the glasses for free. The owner let them know what was up. The retail world is swimming with entitled people and their unreasonable demands, as well as entitled people who went full Karen. Sometimes ridiculous customers don't get their way, like this Karen who demanded to speak to a fellow customer's manager.
There's a lot of people walking around with their heads still full of garbage they heard on the bus in 6th grade, and they're more than willing to tell you with full confidence that bears lay eggs. From absurd falsehoods to nonexistent laws that people insist are real, people are willing to say some absurd things in complete seriousness.
With the power to post about yourself on the internet comes the responsibility to not spend your time putting people down and pretending to be a brain-lord. The internet is full of absurd people who think they're total geniuses just because they were an early reader. Being able to sit through a Youtube lecture on quantum physics doesn't make you a genius, but it might make ridiculous individuals believe they're geniuses.
