People Share The Most Ungrateful Thing They Ever Witnessed

Being polite is a very important part of our, mostly, friendly society. Gratefulness (and the odd joke) is the grease that keeps conversations, from first meetings with strangers to heated debates with life-long friends (over who’s the best running back or which Doctor was the funniest), running smoothly and ensures that as few people as possible get their feelings hurt from rudeness. However, some people are simply ungrateful. Perhaps they were born that way, or maybe something happened when they were a child which prevented them from learning this simple lesson: it is important to be grateful, even for little things. From getting gifts to having someone hold an elevator door for you, it is important that we are grateful to other people when they do something nice for us. When we’re not, it can hurt the other person’s feelings and have consequences that ripple out from there, sort of the opposite of the “pay-it-forward” mentality.

The stories below were written by people who witnessed something so ungrateful they couldn’t contain their annoyance and had to share the experience with everyone online. Ungrateful people are everywhere, unfortunately, as these stories prove. Hopefully, we can all recognize these rude actions as terrible behaviors, and will never do something similar ourselves

42. Switching Car Deals On Grateful And Ungrateful Daughters

“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 her. At this same time, another salesperson was selling a brand new Eddie Bauer Explorer to a dad for a present to his daughter. As I was presenting the Daewoo to the new owners the daughter of the other dad comes in to see her new Explorer.
She starts throwing a s**t 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 corroborated 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 off Explorer… I would never have believed it if I had not been the salesperson.” NikitaJ76

41. Returning A Wallet And Accused Of Theft

“When I was younger I worked at a Blockbuster.

I was the night shift manager and one night I was working by myself when a customer walks up and hands me a woman’s wallet, says he found it on the ground.

I peeked inside it 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 gave her a call. She seemed pleased on the phone and said she would be right in.

Store policy for something like that was to lock the item in the safe until the customer arrives. I did so and went about my business.

About an hour later the woman comes in and asks for her wallet. I tell her it’s going to be 15 minutes as the safe was timed and ask her to wait.

This was apparently unacceptable and she asked if I could get it faster than that. I told her no and continued helping other customers while she waited.

Once the safe beeped I grabbed her wallet and hand it to her, I had to put the line of customers on hold while I did this 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 hand her the wallet she says ‘my money better be in here’ I explained that I honestly had no idea as I didn’t open it all the way as her membership card was on an outer flap. (This was one of those large female wallets that were more like a mini purse with lots of flaps and zippers and such.)

After handing it to her I asked for the next customer in line to step up and basically tried ignoring her.

She starts screaming ‘MY MONEY IS GONE YOU STOLE MY MONEY’ which really surprised me as she was a pretty normal looking soccer mom type.

I ask the customer I’m helping to wait a second and explain to her the way the wallet was handed to me and reiterated that I had not personally opened the wallet any further than the first flap.

She starts screaming again saying there were over 200 dollars in it and that she was calling the police. I shrug and tell her to go ahead. At this point, I’m completely satisfied to ignore her. She walks to the back of the store and whips out her cell phone. I continue helping the line as customers are looking back at the woman as she is loudly calling the police.

Most of the customers are like ‘what a b***h’ etc. I just shrug and smile.

After the line was cleared the lady comes back to the register and tells me, with a super smug look, the police are on the way. ‘Ok.’ I say and give her a ‘I don’t give a f**k’ shrug and ignore her while checking in movies. About an hour later a cop finally enters the store (she waited right next to my register the entire time) and she starts waving at him and pointing at me at the same time.

I see the cop and roll my eyes and shake my head.

He asks her to repeat her story and as she’s repeating it he’s almost completely ignoring her and watching the football game that we have playing on our DirectTV kiosk.

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. As he leaves he holds the door for her and tells her to leave if her business is complete.

I smiled super big, like Cheshire cat big, and told her to have a super day as she left.” volothebard

40. Keys Locked Back In Car For Being Rude

“The older auto shop teacher at my high school made me chuckle one time.
We were in the middle of class when this middle-aged woman (guest speaker for some other class) comes strolling in and says  ‘I need to get my keys out of my car now. I guess I locked them inside’.

My teacher gives her an odd look and says OK. He then proceeded to walk over to her car, fish around with the ‘slim jim’ and pop the lock. He leans in and picks up her keys, all the while she is not saying anything. Half-jokingly he tells her it will be $20 and she laughs and makes a quip about how the teacher must be so desperate for money that he charges extra for ‘part of his job.’ The best part was when he responded with, ‘No ma’am.
You locking up your keys is not in my job description.’ He then threw the keys back in, locked the door, shut it, and proceeded back to the class.” gt465
39. Driving To Get Gas For A Family That Didn’t Even Need It

“A couple years ago a friend and I were driving across the country in a big moving truck full of my moms 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 to begin with and probably had some in the car. He was just fishing for cash and using his kids as the 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 driving for over an hour to get for them. I just set the gas can on the ground, got bak in the truck and left feeling like a giant idiot.” xe0s
38. Instant Justice For Spoiled Child

“This is one of my favorite stories of instant justice:

My mother’s friend threw his daughter a birthday party; this was fairly affluent family so she got 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 freaking 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.The.S**t.

Out because it was the wrong dollhouse. She got a horse and she threw a huge screaming temper tantrum over the (enormous) doll house.

Now I shall digress a bit and tell you about her father. Her dad came from Africa to the US as a refugee, most of his friends and family were killed. This guy competed in the Olympics and worked his a** off 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 s**t right out.

He 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 the s**t out of his spoiled kid.” Bakoro

37. Yelled At For Returning Money

“I delivered a pizza in a low-income type apartment complex…total was $18.something and she handed me a $20 rolled 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 find 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.’ as 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’m lucky she doesn’t call the police. Slammed the door, 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

36. Child’s Disgust Over Poor Mother’s Hard Work

“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 sisters 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
35. Trying To Sue The Saviour Over A Jacket

“One time we came to a motorbike accident.
The driver was in horrible condition. In order to save his f*****g life, I had to cut through his leather suit with was a pretty good race combination (full leather, many protectors).

Me and my teammate did a good job and saved his life. He later tried to sue me for cutting his leather suit in pieces. Needless to say that he wasn’t successful.

Sorry for bad English I’m German.” Odatas

34. Saving Daughter’s Life, Suffering Mother’s Wrath

“When I was fifteen, a girl in my driver’s ed class turned red and stood up. She put her hands to her throat, 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 is walking down the hall with her trashy mom. They walk up to me. I’m expecting 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 broke her ribs! You’re lucky I don’t get a lawyer and sue your family! I still might!’ Et cetera, et cetera…” Varnu

33. Not A Special Valentine’s Day To Her

“Valentine’s day, 2004. Now, I’ve never given two s**ts 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 and 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 legit delivery person.

I then spent my entire paycheck on gifts for her, and food for dinner. Everything: balloons, decorations, red and pink cutesy s**t, 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 display at the mall. I even did the rose petals on the bed thing, 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 finish 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

32. Accused Of Trying To Steal Money She Was Returning

“I had something 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 s**t about me trying to steal his money.

He starts getting in my face when his friend mentioned that before he ever met me he was $400 down, then I come along and he’s back to even, ending with “What the f**k is wrong with you?”

Guy never did thank me, but his friend did.” CassandraVindicated

31. Quickly Bored With Father’s Gift

“My son was 6 and was really into trains.
He had a fantastic wooden train set with all the bells and whistles, and he and I spent hours putting it together in different ways and playing. But he kept begging for an electric train, begging and begging. I told him ‘not until you’re 8.’ Well, that Christmas I decided to surprise him and I put together a small electric train set on a 4 x 8 piece of plywood. I couldn’t spend exorbitant amounts on it, but it was a nice oval with a split off that went up and over the main track and rejoined.

A couple of engines, a few cars, some simple trees and a crossing with lights.
It wasn’t much, but I spent hours putting it together after the kids went to bed every night.

Christmas morning comes, all the gifts unwrapped, and I tell my oldest, ‘There’s another surprise for you downstairs.’ He ran down and found the train and his eyes lit up, he was so excited. I showed him how to work it, then went upstairs briefly to help pick up. Ten minutes later I’m coming back downstairs to play with him and the train set, and he’s walking up the stairs. He looks me in the eye and says, ‘It’s kind of boring,’ and walked past me.

Yeah, I admit it… I cried…” cepheus42

30. Nothing Back From Foolish Father Or Ungrateful Sister

“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 crap ton of hairstyling stuff and makeup. Well, my father had other plans… He convinced me into letting 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 b***h fit ever! She wanted nothing to do with the car. So she sold it for $700.
Dad got his 500 back, Amanda got 200 to spend on hair s**t and I got nothing back…” lexxiilou1108
29. Not Solid Pink, So She Didn’t Want It

“My sister did this kinda with an HP netbook I got her for Christmas. She had asked for a pink netbook, preferably HP, so I got it. The day she opened it, she was upset because it wasn’t solid pink, even though I knew she liked the plaid style. She tossed it aside, saying she won’t use it unless I return it and get it in solid pink.

Almost slapped the Hispanic out of her.” Outgoing_yet_shy

28. Giving Back An “Unsatisfactory” Tip

“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 to Jamaica all the locals would be so happy when we gave them more than $1 tip.” ray0890
27. Sheltered Girl Only Wears White Gold

“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, but 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

26. Children Toss Aside Stockings

“I made Christmas stockings for my then GF’s (now wife’s) two teenage children. I spent hours finding little specialty candies, little 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 making Christmas nice for the kid’s 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.

*that I definitely could not afford at the time.” FletcherPratt

25. Not Satisfied With His Gift, So He Gets Nothing Now

“My mom always spends the same amount on me and my siblings for our birthdays.
Last year, I was the only person to ask for something specific, so my mom got that for me plus 25 bucks. My brother’s birthday is two weeks later, and she gave him fifty bucks, equivalent to what she spent on me. He actually complained that she didn’t give him more. This being after he hasn’t gotten our parents anything in years for birthdays or holidays.

so this year, he didn’t get anything from her and wondered why.” [deleted]

24. Sister Is A Lazy Bad Apple

“Times were very tough the last few years when I was living at home. My dad worked 2 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 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 a 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. Has done less chores in her lifetime then my brother has done in a day.) And b*****s and screams about not canceling cable, it is the only thing she has left to do all day.

I calmly explain to her, that we cannot afford it, and we do not have a choice. She stands her ground.. Not that her opinion mattered in the discussion. I grabbed the cable boxes and returned them that day, and had the Inet dropped to the cheapest they offered.

10 years later to this day my sister is still this same exact way. A firm but fair father, a Loving but Firm mother, 2 hardworking sons who have paid for everything on their own, no debt what so ever.. and then her.

Swapping between welfare and living with my parents. Complaining every step of the way. No appreciation on her part that I have ever seen.” oridjinn

23. Saved A Customer Money And Received Verbal Abuse

“I work at a McDonald’s and a while back I was taking orders and payments for the drive-thru by myself. A woman came through and ordered two Big Macs, two large fries and two cokes, which came to a total of like $21 (it’s Australia, our prices are ridiculous).
In the time she took to drive from the speaker box to the cashier window I reentered them as large meals to save her some money, and as she pulled up I said ‘Hey, that’ll be $16.xx thank you.’ She eyed me strangely as she fished out some money, and when I held out her change and a receipt she snatched them out of my hand and looked over what she had ordered.

After what seemed like an eternity she started shouting at me about how she didn’t want meals, she just wanted the burgers, fries, and drinks. It actually comes up pretty frequently as understandably not every customer knows the ins and outs of the McDonald’s menu, and generally when you explain what they’ve actually paid for they apologize and are appreciative of the money you’ve saved them – so I start going through the routine with this woman, explaining the components of a meal and how she’d actually saved $5 while still getting exactly what she ordered.

I stood there waiting for her to realize she’d benefited from what I’d done when all of a sudden she started hurling insults at me. Stuff like “I COME THROUGH AND ORDER THIS EVERY WEEK AND IT’S ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME, YOU PRESUMPTUOUS LITTLE B***H” and “HOW F*****G DARE YOU THINK I’M SUCH A MORON THAT I DON’T KNOW HOW TO ORDER MY OWN F*****G FOOD”.

I tried explaining that I didn’t think she was a moron, it was just my job to give customers the best value and I was sorry that no one had done it before, and she threw her change at me (about 60 cents) and drove off.

In this time a woman in another car had actually come through to order a free cup of water and had driven straight to the payment window, and as a result, had seen most of the abuse this woman had given me. As she pulled up I was visibly shaking, because despite verbal abuse being one of the things you’re expected to handle as a drive-thru worker I’d never been treated that badly, and she started telling me that she saw (and heard) the whole thing and that I was totally in the right and asked me if I was okay.

I talked to her for a while and ended up putting through a free coke for her because I appreciated her making sure I was alright. Eventually, she left and I went into the changerooms and cried for about ten minutes.” doodlefiester

22. Only Wants Her Earrings After They’re Taken Away

If I behaved this way, my parents surely would have reacted the same way:

“My younger sister got diamond earrings for her 16th birthday from my parents. She then says in a b****y tone, ‘This isn’t what I asked for.’ Parents then take back earrings, scold her and she gets nothing for her birthday. She then spends the rest of her birthday demanding that they give it back to her.” dr_adventure

21. Teenage Daughter Demands Brand New Porsche

“Father and 17-year-old daughter came into the dealership to buy her a new car for her birthday.

Now, this ain’t no Honda dealership, we sell Porsches. 17-year-olds should not be getting Porsches for their birthday I don’t care if they made 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’s not my fault you don’t make enough money for our family. You’re going to buy me a new one or I’m never speaking 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 the f**k off. So the father said ‘Alright we’ll get the new one’ (the funny thing was he leased it and she had no idea).

When they got back 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.” [deleted]

20. Wanted A Mac Book, Not A Tricked-Out Windows Laptop

“Sounds like my cousin. She asked for a laptop and it was the only thing she wanted for Xmas (she was 13 at the time).

My uncle is an IT guy and bought her a tricked out Asus and personally added on a whole mess of stuff (like her iTunes, photoshop, video editing etc). On Xmas, she is excited until she opens it and sees the laptop. She exclaimed something (I am told like) ‘Omg wtf is this piece of crap! I wanted a mac book’. My aunt told me that my uncle took the laptop to the other room and drew an apple on the back and tossed it to her.” sxcamaro
19. The Touching Eggs

“My wife was rampaging on a Sunday morning, for no real reason.

She starting screaming that she was tired and 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 3 fried eggs, and if you’ve ever fried eggs together, you know that they meld into one giant egg white with 3 yolks.

I come back with the eggs and she loses her mind and I laugh and ask what her problem was, she screams ‘I DONT LIKE MY EGGS TO TOUCH’.

I said %^*$ 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.

They look 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 the friend was completely confused.” turkalurk5

18. Child Takes Her Dora Dolls Back After Spurning Them

“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, started screaming that it was for babies and she is too old for Dora now. 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 it until they get it home and throw it to the bottom of the toy box.” 9ninety_nine9

17. Trying To Balance The Scales For A Rude Daughter

“When I moved out to go study my parents bought me a computer (they don’t really have much money, and it was partly on loan that they only recently paid off).

It was my going away/birthday present etc. and I really needed it for my study.

My sister, who was a couple of years younger than me (I suppose because of this age similarity, she’s always felt the need to ‘out-do’ me in terms of possessions) threw a massive tantrum when I was leaving because our parents had said no to paying for her to go an overseas trip. When I said something she screamed about how I got to have a computer, why can’t she have this? Parents then got her a new ps3 she never uses to even it out, then a fancy laptop the following year so she can browse Facebook and not do anything.” kindersunrise

16. Father Only Wants Gifts On His List

“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) things I knew he would like.

Later, while giving me a lecture on not being appreciative- he criticizes 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.” Lindsaythe

15. Helping A Friend Who Screws Other Friends Over

“I have a friend that knew she had to be out of her place in a few months.
No exact date, but whatever. She calls me at about 6 at night saying she has to be out of her place the next day by 1 pm or the police would be escorting her out. I should also mention 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 still she got an apartment and moved her.

Go a month later, she’s totally screwed over my generous friends. Financially, with her attitude, and her lies. I’m embarrassed and apologizing. So she FINALLY has her own place but because again she’s not great at life, has no way to move. My friends are sick of her and drop everything, as do I cause I feel like a*s, and move her.

Where it gets bad, I noticed she didn’t have a crib mattress for one of her daughters.

I offer 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 f**k off and walked out of the apartment.” Erixie

14. Sued Over A Life-Saving Scar

“Its a bit late for people to notice this, but I was visiting friends at their farm years ago. My friend from high school and his wife and their daughter who was about 16. 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 get 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.” [deleted]

13. Spoiled Nephews Break “Sucky” Games

“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, 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, got almost nothing for them.

Never again.” firewrks
12. $500,000 Is Not Enough Of A Graduation Present For Her

“The sister of my coworker 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 p*ssed and kept talking about what a jacka*s 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 with paying my rent and covering my beer money.” [deleted]

11. Niece Ungrateful For A Sound, But Ugly Car

“My niece was raised by my parents. My dad doesn’t make much money, but he saved and saved bought my niece her first junker (car) he is a mechanic and made sure it was sound, just didn’t look pleasing to the eye. (Hell, my first car cost 10 bucks and that was for the tow).
She looks at it and says ‘No way am I driving that, I wanted a nicer one’. Dad left, sold the car, said he will never buy her anything again.” sixvoltsystem
10. Saved A Man From A Burning Car And He Tried To Sue

“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) no breaks, just CRASH.

The white van instantly was 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 go help.
On the way to the van, my friend called 911, and a fire started flaring up from 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 is starting to engulf the front part of the van and getting very hot. I took my shirt off, wrapped it around my hand and the broke out what was left of the glass on the driver’s side door and proceeded to pull the man headfirst 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 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 am served papers stating I caused physical and emotional damage/distress to the man and he was suing me for $100,000. 1 awesome Public defender, 3 witnesses, and 4 days in court later he lost.” maverickaz
9. Changed A Tire For A Rude Woman

“I saw this woman on the side of the road who had a flat tire and was clearly having issues changing it.

So polite ol’ me decided to halt my run and go see if I could help out.

I stroll over and offer my services to her and she accepts, but she backs away to a pretty far distance.

I proceed to change her tire and help get her on her way and as soon as I finish and proceed to 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 damn tire.

Flabbergasted, I run away and I haven’t seen that b***h since.

Edit: I do understand that I don’t understand what she may have been through in the past, but if it was that uncomfortable for her to accept help from a stranger then she should have just thanked me for offering but graciously declined.

Not accepted my help then threaten to call 911 on me.” Unfriendly_alien

8. Wife Is Extremely Ungrateful For Husband’s Thoughtful Gift

“It’s not just kids/teens that 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 marches him back into the store demanding that I refund the order and supply her with a MacBook and then had the nerve to tell her husband he was useless and that he didn’t listen or understand her, the phrase ‘open your f*****g ears’ was used repeatedly… Really boiled my blood” [deleted]

7. Sister-In-Law Ungrateful For Having To Pay Part Of The Electric Bill

“My wife and I had just moved into our first place on our own.

After being on our own for about 3-4 months, my wife’s sister calls her crying. Her sister, husband, and daughter had lost their home in a fire about a year prior and had been staying with some friends who were kind enough to let them stay with them. Apparently relationships had deteriorated with the friends and had to leave immediately. So we had an extra bedroom so we decided to let them come stay with us until they got on their feet. It was supposed to only be a few weeks but it turned into 8 months. 8 months we let them stay with us rent-free, the only thing we asked them to pay was the difference in the electric bill each month, which amounted to only like $30-$50 a month.

I should mention that we were violating our lease by letting them stay with us, we hid them from our landlord for a while but eventually, she figured out we had them staying with us. Fortunately, she felt sorry for them and said it was ok for them to stay a little longer. But after the 8th month, she sent us a letter saying that if they weren’t out in a week then we’d be in violation of our lease. So we had to ask them to go. Almost immediately after they left they deleted us off Facebook, and never talked to us again.
When we tried to get into contact with them to see why they were mad at us, my wife’s sister claimed she was angry that we asked them to help out with the electric bill.

And because of that, they weren’t able to buy tickets to go see A Perfect Circle. But my wife and I had bought ourselves tickets and I even bought my little sister a ticket too since she’s never seen them live before. And apparently they were p*ssed at us for this.

TLDR; let my wife’s sister, her husband and their child live with us, rent-free for 8 months.

After they left they deleted us from Facebook and never talked to us again.” Ericyoung0322

6. Handmade Costume Not Good Enough For Ungrateful Anime Fan

“I made the mistake of being nostalgic while at my uncle’s house and watching an old episode of Sailor Moon online. My younger cousin who’s about ten watched it with me and was instantly obsessed. Her birthday is in August and I’ve been babysitting her for years, so I’ve seen her ridiculous ‘birthday lists.’

That year she demanded that she get a full-on Halloween Costume of Sailor Moon complete with red boots, scepter, and long flowing blond hair.

My aunt searched tirelessly online–but to order one of those really nice cosplay costumes with custom measurements can be hundreds of dollars.

Instead, she made it, slaved over stitching this costume and creating this wig and little leg covers all for one day of my younger cousin’s life. It was honestly very good, and much better than some of the stuff they sell online.

She presented it to her on Halloween, and my cousin just cried, threw down the costume and started screaming and stepping on it and telling her mom how much she hated it and how it wasn’t even close to what she wanted.

I was shocked.” FreeTheGingers

5. Helped Mother Cook For The Holidays, Got Yelled At For The Mess

“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
4. Accused Of Delaying Important Mail

“The previous owner of my house occasionally still gets mail delivered to this address.

He and I both work at the same university, different departments.

I generally take his mail to his department’s main office/secretary, rather than writing ‘not at this address’ on the envelope and putting the mail back into the box.

One day I ‘bundled’ two mail items, which apparently caused him to think I waited for the second piece of mail to arrive and thus delaying his mail–I happened to be on my way out of his department’s mailroom when I overheard him exploding to his department’s secretary, complaining loudly that this was very important mail and for me not to give it to him right away was ‘just unconscionable.’

So I coughed a bit louder than necessary, drew his attention to me, and left, not saying a word.

From then on, all his mail got the ‘not at this address’ treatment.” blonderengel

3. Gave Seat Up For A Rude Girl With A Box

“Back in college, I use to ride the city bus to and from my apartment to campus.

Pretty much everyone did. My bus would sometimes get crowded so all of the seats would fill up & people would stand. Anyway, this tiny girl gets on the bus carrying a large box. I was seated but gave up my seat to her because I tend to give up my seat to the elderly/girls. Anyway, she took my seat without giving a thank you and said ‘You only gave me your seat because you didn’t want me to fall on you.’ God, I hate people some times.” impactplayer
2. Cousin Was Ungrateful For Used Car, So Gave It To Her Brother

“My spouse used to have an old Mercedes E-class; it was like a 1995 or something.
He wanted to give it away to my little cousin as a first car because it was safe, 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 freaks out 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. (The reason we didn’t give it to him in the first place was 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. ” [deleted]

1. Totaling A Used Car To Try For A New One

This girl’s logic isn’t very sound, and her idea backfires terribly:

“A girl in my high school received a used car on her 16th birthday.

She was unhappy with the fact that it was used (3 yrs old), so she intentionally totaled it. Her thinking was that if she totaled this one, her parents would have to buy her a new one. She didn’t get a new car, and had to ride the bus.” [deleted]

How’s that for a dose of reality? Some of these people just don’t get it. They demand the royal treatment, even with their poor attitudes, expecting the world. Entitled? Just a bit! Got anything to share? Tell us everything!