In an ideal world, people would be pragmatic and compassionate, untouched by the concerns of money, social status, or material belongings. Which is why it can be so startling when you meet someone who's just a downright spoiled brat—it really makes you question humanity. Whether it's a friend's kid screaming over an iPad, or a grown adult who seems to care more about money than their fellow man, coming across a spoiled brat in the wild can be a truly horrifying experience. Here, people have shared their absolute worst encounters with some of the world's nastiest spoiled brats.
1. Role Model
Some kid at an extended family gathering got an iPhone 8 for Christmas and said: "I was expecting the iPhone X!”
2. Bookworm
I gave my nephew some books as a gift. He said "Oh man, are you kidding me?" and threw them on the floor.
3. The Only Way to Travel
My friend’s kid was in a stroller until he was 5 years old because he couldn’t be trusted not to run off into traffic when they were out in public. If only life for the rest of us was as simple as being chauffeured around wherever you want to go without even having to move a muscle.
4. Making Amends
A girl at my high school constantly whined and complained because her parents refused to move out of the master suite of their mansion. She felt that she deserved it, because the attached walk-in closet and bathroom were bigger than hers. To reconcile this, she had her parents pay to redecorate her room every single year.
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5. Keep On Truckin’
There was a kid in my brother’s grade whose parents bought him a brand new Dodge. He blew the engine of his truck within a week. So, his dad just bought him a brand new Ford to replace it—oh, and paid to have the Dodge fixed. This kid got over $100,000 worth of trucks within just a few short weeks.
6. Spoiled and I Know It
I have a billionaire customer with four kids, and all of them are pretty spoiled. However, the worst case is the youngest one, who once said to me spitefully "We're going on Tiger next week and you're not allowed to come!" Tiger is the name of their yacht in southern Italy. It's not just that he's spoiled that gets to me, it's the fact he knows it and rubs it in purposely.
7. Empty Threats
My husband and I moved to a new city and spent a lot of time with his gal pal from high school. She had a toddler son who was absolutely atrocious. She threatened him with punishment all of the time for his behavior, but never followed through. We would often meet her for dinner—where he would throw a tantrum, and she’d say, “If you keep acting like that, we’re leaving.” He kept acting up but she never left with him.
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8. Pinch Parent
I was seated next to a Texan once on a flight, with an entire family behind us. The 9-year-old kid, who was seated directly behind him, would not stop kicking and pushing the seat as if nobody else mattered or even existed. After a while, the Texan turns around, looks right at the kid, and says, "You keep kicking my seat kid, and we're gonna have problems".
Kid stares at him blankly for a second, and the Texan continues "You understand what I'm saying? Keep your feet off my [darn] seat or I'll beat you to smithereens". He stares him down for a full 10 seconds. Never looked at the parents once, and the kid looked petrified. It was clearly the first time he had ever been talked back to, and he didn’t know how to react.
The Texan then turns back around, looks at me, and winks. It was pretty classic. The parents never said a thing, and the kid was like a mummy for the rest of the flight.
9. Family Planning
One classmate’s mom and step-dad literally asked her for permission to have a child together. She told them no because she wanted to be an only child. They listened.
10. If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Beat ‘Em!
A girl at my college who had always been extremely spoiled wanted to be the perfect sorority girl that she had always imagined she would become. Therefore, she demanded that her boyfriend step it up and she began trying to mold him into a typical ‘frat bro.’ She changed his hair and clothes and made him rush tons of frats.
When he didn't get into any, she had her rich parents help fund the start of a new fraternity on campus. I still don't think it's an officially recognized fraternity, but they've been trying to get it validated for three years at this point. As if that wasn’t bad enough, she had them declare her the "fraternity sweetheart," and plastered the title all over social media.
Umm, hello? It wasn't even a real fraternity! This is what happens to people who always get what they want, they turn into complete monsters!
11. This Kid Messed With the Wrong Parent
I took my kids to a children’s museum when they were toddlers. There was a specific area for toddlers with a whole grocery store set up. Such is life, there was an 8 or 9 year old kid in the toddler area being a pain in the rear end. He kept taking all of the kids' toys and hoarding all the shopping carts. He would hand out a few pieces of food to the kids but mainly wouldn’t let them touch or play with anything else.
Now, normally I would let my own awesome kid deal with the situation. He doesn’t take nonsense from anybody. But they started getting into it when this kid got on my son’s nerves, and then the older kid hit my son. Done. I went over to the kid, got right up in his face and said, “No! We do not hit! Get out!” Instant tears, dropped all the toys and left the play area.
His mom caught the tail end of the scene, and tore him a new one. “What is wrong with you?! I can’t turn around for 2 minutes! And then some other parent has to come in and tell you to behave!” Unfortunately too little too late for that one.
12. Spoiled Doesn’t Always Mean a Jerk!
In college, I was trying to work out how I was going to purchase a textbook that I needed for a class. I had come to the conclusion that I had to wait till the next week when my part-time job paycheck came in and I'd try to survive in the class until then. My friend took notice of this and came to me the next day with a brand new textbook he had bought with the credit card his parents gave him.
He said he buys so much on the card that his parents wouldn't question him about it, even though he didn't get it for himself. He was super spoiled, but also helped me out—so I guess I can't say anything disrespectful about him. Hopefully, you get the point though!
13. Long-Term Memory
I played football in the local kids' league. One kid from another team was basically untouchable as his dad was a major sponsor of the league and would donate money for uniforms, drinks, etc. His son was a pretty good receiver but didn't like getting hit, and his parents made a big deal of leaving their son alone so he can develop his skills.
He was insufferable. Anytime he scored a TD, he would do over the top celebrations and mock all the other players, his teammates included. Then came high school. Most of the kids from the league ended up in 1 of 2 schools. He went to mine (and some other players). During tryouts, he did well. The coaches were mostly focused on skills and minimal contact during the first few rounds of cuts.
The final round was when things got interesting. Full contact was permitted and he got rocked over and over again. No one was actually trying to tackle any harder than normal, it's just that this dude didn't know what to do when he got tackled. So he screamed and cried a lot. He didn't make the team. Until his dad came down to the school and offered to donate money for uniforms and some other goodies for our sports teams.
So he made the team and again we were told to take it easy on him a bit. So we did. But the other teams didn't. And he went up against some of the players he mocked previously. And they remembered. Our QB kept passing to him, and he was getting repeatedly smashed. Over and over again. It was the only time our team cheered for the other team. He quit playing football after that.
14. Backpacking
I was a nanny for a kid in the US. One day, she threw the biggest fit over the fact that her parents gave an old backpack of hers away to charity. She had gotten a new one just a month ago. I was so appalled. I usually work with kids who have so little and still don’t act like that. But this one was just a spoiled brat.
15. One Kid’s Loss Is Many Kids’ Gain
I used to work at a women's shelter. Christmas time rolls around and a man and his sour-puss teenaged son come to the door. He says his son would like to donate some items to the kids staying at the shelter. Great! The man and his son start hauling in some expensive items. There was an X-Box, a bunch of games, a flat screen, iPod, cool headset, etc.
Turns out the kid ran his mouth and the Dad made him give everything to the kids. Christmas was pretty cool for our gang that year.
16. A Step in the Wrong Direction
I went to high school with the son of the owner of a large TV company. He thought he should be allowed to sit alone in the classroom surrounded by unfilled desks. I had the "privilege" of sitting in front of him and was constantly harassed with attacks from his ruler and pens if he thought I was even remotely leaning back.
17. Monkey See, Monkey Do
I went on a bushwalk in Singapore and there are pretty clear signs around not to feed the monkeys as they can get aggressive. Anyway, there were these two boys around the age of 8 swearing and throwing sticks and rocks at a little monkey in a tree. The dad was standing there laughing and allowing this to go on.
I was about to say something when one of the kids ripped open a bag of skittles and started throwing them. The monkey immediately ran down from the branch and snatched the skittles; at the same moment another three monkeys came out of nowhere, and in an epic display of monkey-justice, swarmed the kids, making them and the dad run away for dear life.
18. Sounds Like A Hole in One
The last time we hung out with my friends and their kid, we went mini-golfing. Each time one of us hit our ball, he would snatch it and throw it across the course. I wisened up to this and immediately went to pick up my ball for safekeeping right after I hit it. As I was picking it up, he tried to grab it out of my hand and fell over lightly.
He laid on the ground, pounding his fists and crying. His parents looked at me like I was the jerk. We ended up limiting our time with them as a result of the kid’s bad behavior.
19. This Kid Definitely Got What He Deserved
When I was 12 my dad dated a nice lady with a bratty 9-year-old who would talk back to her and refuse to do chores which would then be passed on to me. One day at the dinner table everyone is eating and he goes listen! And rips a tiny toot. His Mom is embarrassed and asks him to stop or go to the bathroom. Instead, he smiles this awful grin and leans in to rip one loose—and accidentally soils himself in the middle of dinner.
His expression of horror was the best thing ever, I passed out laughing as he ran clutching his butt away from the table.
20. Coffee Break
I was a camp counselor for a while. One week, I was responsible for the granddaughter of a man who owns a big coffee shop. I don’t know how materially spoiled she was, but I was baffled that the kid could not understand that having a rich grandpa does not entitle her to get to use the only working tetherball, alone, whenever she wanted, simply because she demanded it.
I had to have a 10-minute conversation with her during playground time about how, at camp, everyone is equal.
21. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Will Hurt Me Far More
I waited tables in a breakfast diner a few years back. Two ladies come in and towed one of their kids along, a chubby boy with gold chains and a nice watch (the kid is probably 10-11, for reference). Mom is clearly very tired of dealing with him as he is very demanding, blurts out what he wants before I can say hi, etc. Partway through the meal, he holds up his Sprite cup and shakes it at me, and utters only the word "more!"
Mom looks aghast and chastises him for being rude, to which he begrudgingly apologizes. I shrugged and told him "don't apologize to me, apologize to your mom." Was a little worried when I came back around with his Sprite and saw his salty, hot tears streaming down his chubby face. Mom left me a ten on a 30 dollar bill, however, so I think she was happy with my service.
22. Car Trouble
On my friend’s 16th birthday, her step-dad gave her his one-year-old hummer. She full on cried when he tried to give her the keys, because it was both used and “the wrong color”. Naturally, they went out and bought her a brand new one in the color she liked that same day.
23. This Kid Took Things One Step Too Far
I worked as an outdoor camp instructor. One week I was on logistics and had to drive the van to pick up kids. I had heard from my friend that one of the kids in his group was a little brat, back chatting, lazy, making fun of other kids. When I got to the pickup point, the kids hopped into the van and my mate in the passenger seat.
My mate Mitch gave me the rundown on the kid. As I started the van up I did a visual check of seatbelts and everyone was good, except for the kid. I asked, he said no. I told him I can't leave until he puts it on. So he did and I started to leave. A minute down the road I heard him unclip his seat belt again so I had to stop the van and ask him again.
He put it back on. This happened one more time. On the third time, I just pulled over, turned the van off. Radioed base and asked for my manager and the overseeing teacher who was his Dean to come up and pick this kid up because he was a danger to the others in the van. That's when this kid started pleading and begging. Told him no. I already made the call. He got sent home. My mate Mitch had one of his best weeks after this kid left.
24. Those Don’t Count!
A kid at my school was constantly saying things like “Ughh, my parents suck, they never get me anything!” Meanwhile, she went to Malibu over the winter break, and got both a MacBook and an iPhone XR for Christmas.
25. You Passed the Test With Flying Colors, Mom
One time I wouldn’t give my daughter a push on the swing because she was whining instead of asking. She knows we don’t listen to whining but her grandpa was there so she was testing me. When she figured out I really wasn’t going to do it, she grabbed the rope from the swing and flung the swing at me. It missed me, came back and smacked her right in the face.
I’m sure it hurt too because it was a board with a rope through the middle. Not that I’m happy that my kid was hurt over it but I taught her about karma that day.
26. The Road Less Traveled
My cousin’s daughter used to smash and break things as a way of "punishing" her parents when she didn't get her way. She got a brand new car when she was 15 years old, despite not even being able to learn to drive until you're 17 where we live. She got it just because she wanted it. She then decided that she wanted to take the car for a road trip with her friends, and she told her dad she would accuse him of touching her if he didn't pay for all the trip expenses.
27. Bossy Pants
I think I was around 9 or so and I made "friends" with another kid down the road. It was his grandparents' place and he visited a lot. If I remember correctly we met through baseball. He was incredibly overweight and bossy. He always made the rules of the games we played and would throw major tantrums if I objected.
For instance, while playing with action figures, I had the toy do some cool flips. He went crazy saying how it needed to be realistic...the first time I visited his house I was blown away by the volume of toys he had. Growing up fairly poor I was accustomed to having maybe one cool toy. He had all the PlayStation games and a huge collection of anime on VHS.
Not surprisingly, his parents were overweight as well and would make very dense dinners that would take me 2 days to recover from. Eventually during one sleepover he wanted to play wrestle. Didn't take but a second to know how bad of an idea that was, him being 100 lbs+, especially since he wanted us to be shirtless (???).
I refused and he cried telling me to take my shirt off and to wrestle. I remember walking out and asking his mom for a ride home. She just gave me the look of "I understand." 2 days later he shows up at my house asking for me to come out. My brother told him I wasn't home as I walk by the kitchen. He flipped his lid and that was the last I heard of him.
28. Eating His Words
An ex-friend of mine was given a puppy at his seventh birthday party. He publicly threw a tantrum because he didn't like the breed. Thankfully, the puppy was given to his aunt and the little brat was told he would never receive another pet. Cue epic tantrum saying he changed his mind. Nope. Didn't work.
29. A Serious Case of Eating Your Words
On the first day of a two-week vacation, I saw my spoiled 10-year-old cousin tell his mother, his older female cousin, his aunt, and his grandmother that he wasn't going to clear his place or rinse his dishes because "that's women's work." For the rest of that two-week vacation, nobody had to lift a finger to clear a plate, rinse a dish or wash a pan because it was his job.
At times there were over a dozen of us there.
30. Hey, Big Spender
This one girl only ever wore designer clothes and would constantly make fun of people who couldn't afford to wear the same. When we went to the mall, I would often buy nothing. Meanwhile, her parents would give her not one, but two credit cards to go buy whatever she wanted.
31. Was the Mac and Cheese Really Worth It?
Here at Uconn, they serve special mac n' cheese on certain days, I'm sure lots of schools do it. But our bacon jalapeno mac is pretty darn good. Well, a certain sophomore from a wealthy family who is used to being bailed out of trouble by his rich parents got inebriated and decided he wanted some mac n' cheese. He was clearly intoxicated, and had the nerve to walk around the food court drinking booze.
The manager sees this and won't let him in the food line. As seen in the video, our boy spends the next 10 minutes mercilessly berating the poor guy and his staff for being beneath him. The manager gives him so many chances to just walk away, but our boy isn't leaving without his mac. He shoves the manager (not for the first time) and another employee decides he's done with this nonsense.
Hero employee tackles our boy and pins him. The jerk spends the next few minutes pinned to the ground while the authorities arrive, screams "I'M ABSOLUTELY F***ED," and is apprehended. Not his first time in cuffs, not his first expulsion from a college. From what I hear, he's since been locked up or expelled from another school. We'll never forget you, Mac N' Cheese kid.
32. Disrespecting Your Elders
This one girl whose mother I used to know would spit in her Granny's face if she didn't give her money every time she saw her. She also told her dementia-ridden Grandpa that she couldn't wait for him to die so she could buy herself gifts with the inheritance money.
33. Yes, I Do Know Who Your Mom Is
I used to work at a pony camp that catered to rich kids from a very nice neighborhood. We would have really spoiled kids all the time. While annoying, the most frustrating part is trying to maintain authority just so the little brats don’t get themselves trampled by 1,000 lb animals. Anyway, we had a maybe 10 yr old kid from some mildly famous sportscaster one week.
The kid was just downright awful. She ignored everything we told her and was mean to the other kids in camp. At one point she started a physical fight with another girl and when she felt like she was getting beaten she started yelling “Do you know who my mom is?! I’m going to tell her!” The other kid got scared and started crying.
My coworker replied “Actually, I do know your mom and I know she wouldn’t like to hear about this. Why don’t I call her right now?” Little brat didn’t believe her so my coworker did. She was much easier to deal with the rest of the week. Turns out, my coworker worked with her mom many times over the years. She’s a professional makeup artist for tv and did her makeup more than a few times.
34. My Little Phony
I was at a friend’s house who has two little girls, about 7 and 2 respectively. It was around Christmas and a bunch of us had brought presents for the two girls. The 7-year-old opened one of them and started crying because she didn’t like the gift. My friend, the mom, tried to console her. She continued having a tantrum nevertheless.
So, the mom then asks the friend who brought the present if she wouldn’t mind getting her something different to replace this. Specifically, if she could buy a specific brand’s pony toy—significantly more expensive than what the friend had originally bought. Mom then proceeds to leave the house to go buy this pony for her daughter herself.
35. A Very Understanding Father
This reminds me of a story maybe 5 years ago. I was at my friend's house and his two boys were 5 and 3. They were playing outside in the front yard and the neighbor, roughly 8 years old, runs up and pushes the 3-year-old off his bike. The 5-year-old runs over screaming "THAT'S MY BROTHER" and pushed the kid over then starts pummeling and kicking his head.
Kid runs off crying and we forget about it. Few hours later we get a knock on the door and it's the boy and his father; his father was told his son got beat up and he came over to talk to my friend about it assuming it was my friend's kid’s fault. He explains what happens and he looks at his kid and just says"you deserved it AND you got beat up by a 5-year-old, how do you feel? You're grounded" and takes him home.
36. Time to Hang Up
A girl in my grade broke or lost her phone six separate times in the past year, and her parents replaced every single one for her. The last time she broke it, she actually had the gall to complain because her parents got her the second most recent model as a replacement instead of the newest one.
37. Don’t Mess With Future Olympians
Used to work at a non-overnight summer camp and after-school program and week-long soccer camp. The town isn’t huge so needless to say over a few years I got to know several kids from different programs. One 10-year-old boy I knew from after-school care was a total jerk. Bully, snob, didn’t think he had to listen, tattle tale (personal pet peeve) just awful.
He came to my soccer camp and proceeded to make fun of an 8-year-old girl cuz she had old cleats where he had the newest Nikes and a brand new cool design ball. Unfortunately for him I also knew this 8-year-old girl and knew that the reason her cleats looked old and worn down is that she was a freaking BEAST, just all around amazing athlete who loved soccer and played hours every day.
I paired him with her for a simple drill where one person started with the ball and you just tried to get past the other person and kick the ball at stationary ball/cone about 10 yards away to simulate passing/scoring accurately while under pressure. He was, of course, angry saying she was too young and a girl. I said if he hit the cone 3 times he could pick his partner.
He again pointed out her shoes to me as if that were going to change my mind before giving in and playing. She proceeded to humiliate him over the next few minutes. Not once letting him dribble past her in 5 attempts. He was LIVID!! Bending down messing with laces as if the shoes really mattered then saying he needed to use his ball.
Nothing worked. He was so angry I thought he was going to be violent but then it was her turn to be on offense. He talked some kind of smack, I forget what and refused to let her use his ball. She didn’t say a word, got a new ball. I blew the whistle and she did a step over fake which made him move to the side, she stood back up straight and kicked it between his legs and hit the cone.
She barely even moved. He was so freaking angry. Second round he charged her screaming, she kept her cool, wound back like she was gonna drill it at his dumb face, he ducked and squealed as she dribbled around him with his hands still covering his head and hit the cone. I didn’t make her embarrass him for the remaining 3 attempts and called a water break.
The kid was just dumbfounded, he honestly thought his shoes were going to make him better without any effort. He was better behaved the rest of the week but honestly, I think she just broke his spirit. He just seemed out of it. Hope he’s doing all right. The girl is like an all American high school soccer player last I checked, won’t be surprised if I see her in the Olympics one day.
38. Blaming the Victim
One time, we saw my friend get upset with her kid for throwing a toy at her head, only to see the kid’s dad yell at her, “No! You shouldn’t have given him that toy! Now YOU apologize to HIM!”
39. Did Us All a Favor
I was on a flight from Washington Dulles to Heathrow. This 6-8-year-old kid behind me was screaming the whole overnight flight. Constantly whining to his mom for food, toys, what the heck ever. Mom was the “Shhhh honey, no no honey, shhh sweetheart” type. Finally, the mom had to get up to use the restroom. The kid starts wailing.
The guy next to me leaned up over his seat, turned around, and said “Hey, Kid. Shut the **** up.” The whole plane didn’t clap but we enjoyed five minutes of total silence till mom came back.
40. And Party Every Day
My ex had this friend whose parents were loaded. He lived in an upscale apartment downtown with just him and his girlfriend. Didn't have a job. Dad paid for everything. All he ever did was throw parties and go to music festivals, even ones out of the country. Didn't know the meaning of a dollar and always threw fits if any little thing didn't go his way.
41. Variety Is the Spice of Life
I pick one of my son’s little friends up from school once a week for a play date. When his mom comes to get him, she tells him to help clean up and get his shoes on. He doesn't listen 9/10 times. So I say it once and off he goes. Kids hear it from their parents all day. Sometimes, they need to hear it from someone else. It’s a running joke now and we help tell each other's kids what to do. Mom voice works!
42. Don’t Pick the Flowers
This one was told to me by my parents since I was too young to remember at the time. The neighborhood bus stop for the Catholic high school was on the corner where our house sits. Sometimes when it was raining the kids would wait right next to our house for cover. That didn’t bother my parents. They had kids, they didn’t want somebody else's kids standing out in the rain.
What did bother them was when they realized the kids started passing the time by ripping up all the flowers around the house. Parents called the school to complain and had a nice chat with the principal. That Saturday all the kids who used that stop showed up to replant the flowers, which they or their parents paid for.
When the flowers were replanted they got to spend a few more hours helping with our other yard work. Then the school moved their bus stop to the main road on the edge of the neighborhood. That meant about 2 more blocks of walking every day for most of them and waiting in a field with no shelter from bad weather.
43. At Least the Dog Didn’t Eat It
A classmate of mine decided one day that he hated doing his homework. So, his mom and dad did all of it for him, including writing his papers and doing his school projects from start to finish.
44. Sharing is for Suckers
In high school, a classmate of mine turned 16. For her birthday, her parents gave her a brand new BMW—but with the understanding that their live-in maid would get to use it once or twice a week to get groceries and run errands for the family. Unacceptable! A week after her epic tantrum, she received a brand new Land Rover.
45. Putting on a Show
Was at the Vancouver Aquarium with a school field trip for my kids and a few other families. One family would do everything to push their way to the front, not pay for things, etc. Their kids had heelies. The park was pretty busy. Little brats would run into people and just skate away without a word. We were sitting and waiting for the Beluga show to start and one of the kids comes buzzing in from stage left on his stupid heelies and hits a wet patch and his feet go flying out from under him and he lands flat on his back in a giant puddle in front of the entire crowd. Everyone started to laugh. It was glorious.
46. Wrong Jurisdiction
A friend of mine has a son who is spoiled rotten and is clearly on the path to becoming a really terrible person. A few years ago, I saw him in a parking lot at night playing hide and seek. He was maybe 9 years old. I said, “Hey buddy, maybe you shouldn't be playing hide and seek in a busy parking lot at night, you're smarter than that!"
The kid replied "What are you going to do about it? Tell my dad? He never tells me what to do, so why do you think you can tell me what to do?" I laughed and said "Fair enough, get run over for all I care!"—and proceeded along my merry way.
47. Surprise!
Was at a family event for my girlfriend of the time. One of her cousin’s kids was just running around making a ruckus in spite of the numerous times his parents told him to settle down. Eventually he took an interest in the motion activated glade air freshener on a counter. (It had been turned off because it would be spraying nonstop with all the people around).
So this little 6-year-old bugger is standing on his tiptoes ignoring the constant warnings of "don’t touch that, please" and reeeeeaching over pushing buttons and eventually it happens. He flips the switch to "on" and 3 seconds later gets a direct blast of Glade to the face.
48. Mamma Mia!
This 3-year-old refused to eat rigatoni and made her grandpa cook her penne instead. Her parents just let it happen. I went to the bar.
49. Don’t Toy With This Kid
I worked at Taco Bell in HS. At the time, we had kids’ meals. This kid comes in with his parents and orders a kids’ meal. Apparently, he had been in recently, and already had that toy. He started screaming at me to get him another toy. His dad looked at me with an absolutely dejected look on his face and begged me to go get the toy.
I dug through the new box of toys, and found one. The kid ripped it out of my hands, and ran outside... Directly into a rose bush. My coworker was legit laying on the ground laughing.
50. Modeling Excellent Behavior
A former friend of mine decided that she wanted to be a model, so her parents paid for modeling school and dozens of photo shoots. She wasn't ugly, but she was definitely not model material. She would brag to everyone that she was a model and talk about having another gig or photo shoot, when in reality it was paid for by her parents to keep her happy.
51. Scouting out the Animals
Boy Scout camp out in Utah (when Boy Scouts were pretty much run by the Mormon Church). A porcupine walked through our camp and this spoiled rich kid got a stick and chased it up a tree. We all told him to stop. He wouldn't listen. Scout leaders were off doing God knows what at the time. So this porcupine is up the tree and now the spoiled weenie wants to shoot hard candy at it with his wrist rocket.
He can't get a clear shot so he climbs up the tree and sits on a branch under the porcupine. Shoots a hard candy at the porcupine and hits it, hard. It was right then that he learned that when a treed porcupine feels threatened, it just lets go and lets the quills break the fall. The big porcupine fell right onto the spoiled kid's shoulder, bounced off, hit his thigh and then landed on the ground.
It waddled away and we just laughed at the now howling spoiled kid. One of the scout leaders had to drive the kid to an emergency room. I hope he caught heck for not supervising too.
52. The Proof Is in the Pudding
Years ago, a student of mine was bragging about all the extravagant Christmas gifts he had received that year. If he was to be believed, he received some "15 games per system." Based on his grades that semester, I believe that he likely did.
53. With a Little Help From My Friends
I was about 15, I was in the woods with some friends (local public nature reserve) playing on a rope swing, drinking energy drinks and eating snacks, chatting, just having a good time keeping to ourselves really. The rope swing itself was on a very tall tree, hanging over what I can only explain as a miniature valley (2 small hills, a gap in the middle, rope swing on one side but will reach the other side).
Then some kids came along on their bikes, maybe between 10-12, dressed up in tracksuits and quite mouthy, you know the type. They told us to move along from "their" rope swing. It wasn't theirs, I set that thing up myself because I was like a spiderman kid back then, I could climb anything. Obviously, we said no, but we did say we'll leave them to it for a bit if they want to have a go there's no reason we can't all enjoy it.
They wouldn't take that answer, so we carried on playing on the rope swing, but then they begun throwing sticks and rocks at us, didn't phase us. Next thing one of them tries to show off, and speeds down the hill on his bike to try and grab me while I swing, but his mate throws a stick at the same time and it lodges in his wheel and sends him flying down the hill, to add insult to injury he flies right in my swing path and gets two knees to the ribs.
Completely took the wind out of him, and so they all left feeling defeated. It feels good because we did nothing out of order, the cards just worked in our favor.
54. I Guess Beggars Can Be Choosers
My mom's cousin’s kid was, and probably still is, the worst. She was like something out of a TV show, stamping her foot and getting her way while her parents scrambled like madmen to ensure that she got everything she wanted. Once, when my Grandpa was very sick, she had to be driven home by my uncle. She point blank refused to get in the car.
When asked why, she said: "My daddy drives a Ferrari. I'm not getting in that thing!" It was just a basic Ford Fiesta. She sat on the floor and screamed. We told her to get in the car. She still wouldn't, so my uncle called her dad. Her dad then drove all the way back from the hospital and picked her up like it was no big deal. She was 6 years old at the time.
55. Revenge
My friends and I grew up in a small town and would occasionally build forts in the fields surrounding the town. We had a cool little area but turned out there were some other kids (three brothers) that had a fort nearby. We would try to sneak up on each other to spy on each other and every once in a while we’d play some mantracker-like game. It was generally good times.
Until their little brother started being a stain. At one point he threw a large rock at my friend which gave him a nice gash, and threw a chunk of dirt at our other friend’s face. Then their dad came out and started yelling at us for some reason. The two other brothers didn’t even try defending their little brat’s actions either.
The next day me and my friend that got hit with the rock showed up earlier, before the other kids got there. The other kids' fort was an old upside down mine cart, and they dug an entrance hole and an exit hole. I had this idea that I thought was brilliant, to take a dump in their entrance (I was 14-15). So I did, it was a perfect log, not too wet and not dry.
I tossed a little layer of dirt over it to hide it. Then I went back to our fort and we watched and waited. Not too long later we saw them approaching. We were giddy with excitement. The bratty little brother was the first that tried to crawl into the fort, and consequently ended up screaming when his hand smeared the log. No regrets.
56. Good Luck With That...
A teenager once told me that he was going to feel like he was living in poverty if he made anything less than a million dollars a year. The kid lived in Idaho, wasn't even 20 yet, and had never worked a day in his life.
57. Lightsabers Bring out the Real You
We moved into a newly built neighborhood when I was 10, so everyone there had just moved in within about a year. There were a handful of us that were the same age, so we were all trying to make friends with each other at the same time. All of us were on the low end of middle class except for one kid, who was the youngest in his family and his dad had just gotten a 7-figure dismemberment settlement from an accident.
He got whatever he wanted from that point forward. He would flex on us (even though none of us called it that) whenever he could and ended up being one of the worst bullies I had growing up. But one time when we were 11, Attack of the Clones was about to come out and we were all hyped about buying toy lightsabers and fighting with them.
Four or five of us were playing in my house's unfinished basement, and Spoiled Kid kept bragging about his more-expensive lightsaber and how it would destroy ours in a fight, while sitting on the side and not actually fighting anyone. We all got sick of it and called him out on it, and he came in to fight me and my $9 Qui-Gon saber.
10 seconds in, I accidentally hit his fingers (which happened constantly in these fights) and he immediately started screaming and crying. The rest of us got silent, shocked at how much he was overreacting. He threw his saber across the room and ran out of the house. He kept being a garbage pile until we both graduated and moved away, but for a long while, no one would let him forget what a whiny baby he was at lightsaber fighting.
58. There’s No Place Like Home
One student at university drove a brand new Jaguar and lived off-campus in an elegant house, with a housekeeper and cook provided by his parents. It was as if he were "granting an audience" to faculty and staff by his presence.
59. Epic Case
Didn’t witness it personally, but I went to high school in a super-affluent area and a few years after I graduated a bunch of kids got busted because a kid paid his tutor for a flash drive with key swiping code, took several teachers’ passwords, and changed his and his friends grades in the system. They made the argument in their defense that it wasn’t their fault because they were so wealthy and used to being handed things that they didn’t know how to work for them (“affluenza” and whatnot).
Got expelled, made national news for being arrogant, and all the other districts in the area argued over who would take them, because nobody wanted to.
60. Park Drama
I was at the park with my brother's wife and their daughter (my niece) and oversaw this exchange: A young kid, probably around 5-7 was being obnoxious. Every 15 minutes or so, his grandparents (I assume) would gather his toys and bring him over to their bench and put him in time out for a few minutes. He threw tantrums, but they would completely ignore him when he screamed and calmly ask him if he was finished. Time out didn't start until he stopped crying.
He would go back to playing, then get all wound up, and end up in time out again. This happened 3 or 4 times in the hour-ish we were at the park. Finally, he made a little girl cry by taunting her that she didn't have a certain toy and he did. I think it was a minecraft thing. The grandparents calmly walked over, took the toy from him, gave it to the little girl, and they left the park. The boy lost his mind the whole time they were leaving.
61. Fantasy League Gone Wrong
My alma mater made national news again when a “prom draft” ring was exposed, where guys would get together and have a fantasy football style draft over who got to take whom to prom. It was exposed after a girl complained to the administration that she didn’t want to go with the guy who picked her in the draft, and the guy threw a hissy fit because apparently, he paid off a bunch of people to get first pick and thus felt he owned her on prom night.
Everyone in the draft was suspended and/or banned from prom, if I remember correctly. Arrogant rich kids are the worst.
62. Room Disservice
A girl I went to high school with had her own private living room in her house with a flat screen TV, multiple gaming systems, a desktop, massage chairs, and a pool table. Again, this was a bonus room just for her—on top of her bedroom and the rest of the family’s main living room. If her parents ever tried to go in it, she would scream at them until they left.
63. Justice From the Ghetto
I grew up in the ghetto, so parents usually stayed inside, neglected kids, and told them to play in the streets. So one day I'm outside playing with my friend, I'm around 10 at the time and she's 7, and an actual 3-year-old starts calling us everything you can imagine. The kid ends up biting me so I go over and tell his dad. Dad calls me a the B-word, great.
Sometime the same week another kid is harassing us, calling us poor and ugly and once again, the B-word. So about fed up with this, he's sitting over a rain drain so I grab the Payday bar that he had apparently saved up all his money for (he's like 6) and throw it down the drain. He starts screaming and wailing "I'm gonna tell Mama! My mama's gonna beat you!"
I sit around while he tells his mum a few houses down, he comes back all righteous and tells me "Mama wants to talk to you." So I go over to his house and his mum says "what did he do to you? I heard his side, I want yours." The kid’s smile immediately drops. I tell her about the harassment and she smiles the sweetest little smile before beating his backside right in front of me. Justice from the ghetto everyone, thanks kid's Mama.
64. Row Row Row Your Boat
A girl at my high school used to complain that her boat was a foot short of being a yacht. Not her family’s boat. They had a different boat. This was her boat.
65. The Long Arm of Karma
I used to babysit this boy down the street. His parents gave him everything he wanted. One time he shot a window out with a B.B. pistol and when the neighbor came over to talk to his parents about it, dad basically took the position that his boy was too little to understand (he wasn’t) and gave his kid a bowl of ice cream.
Presently he is in his 40s, unemployable and an alcoholic. He has been bouncing around recovery houses getting kicked out for not following the rules.
66. You’re Never Too Old!
This 30-year-old guy I know named Matt is the most spoiled person, adult or child, that I’ve ever seen in my life, hands down. He is abuses substances and still lives at home. His parents literally drive him to the city on a regular basis and give him money to buy junk with. He works at his parents’ restaurant, delivering pizzas in his dad’s BMW.
He can goof off on the job and take days off all the time, never having to worry about being fired. And the jerk still has the nerve to whine about how awful his dad is! One time, I watched him literally cry his eyes out on the phone, begging his dad for money. As soon as he hung up, he whined because the dad was going through a slow period at the shop and said he would not be able to deliver any money that day.
Naturally, this guy ended up landing himself in prison recently—and he may even still be there for all I know.
67. Stay in Your Lane
I played tenpin bowling as a kid. I was in a league, and in one of our tournaments, we often had a free lane next to us where we could take practice shots. A kid from another lane got it into his head that he could just walk over us and use our lane to practice in. He also didn't want us to rest our feet on the little ledge that was a metre behind him.
I was a shy kid, but I still got up and confronted him, but he was adamant. So I sat down. So my father got up, grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him to face him and gave him a quiet, but very stern lecture. He never bothered again. Not really epic or spoiled, but comparatively for a kid, I was quite pleased.
68. Doing the Crime, and the Time
My friend's 10-year-old son is a brat and is always getting sent to his room for one thing or another. The other day, I peeked into the kid's room. Laptop, desktop, TV, and three game systems. Oh my, what a horrible punishment! Amnesty International is going to write letters about this.
69. Taking Care of Business
When I was in about 3rd grade there was a 7th grader that rode my bus who decided he was going to kick my butt at the end of the day when we got off. I don't remember the reason, but it was something stupid and he was just being a bully picking on the chubby kid. Anyway, a bunch of 8th graders heard about it and they get off and beat HIS butt for picking on a kid almost half his age.
Later that evening my mom gets a call from his complaining that I got people to beat up her son, but once the details came out he just got in more trouble and my mom was attempting to stifle her laughter.
70. That Poor Dog!
I used to babysit these kids. The one girl didn't feel like doing her homework. I told her we only have a couple questions left and that I had been helping her, so it was gonna go by quickly—and we could play games as soon as she was done. In response, she told me that she wished I wasn't alive, threw a bunch of crackers on the floor, kicked her dog in the nuts, and said she was going to blame it all on me and get me fired.
This girl was 6 years old. Of course, her parents didn't believe I threw food on the floor and hurt their dog, but there were absolutely no repercussions for what she did. They just turned their heads, put their hands on their hips and were like, "what did we say about lying?"
71. Speaking Up
Went to see a local high school play set in Nazi Germany, two rich teen girls with their fancy handbags etc sat the row in front of me. They spent the whole show talking quite loudly about how the actors were so bad etc, and at one point said: "this is why I go to private school, so I don't have to sit through this all day."
As the intermission began and everyone was applauding the guy sitting next to me leaned forward and told them "if you shut up you might learn something." The look on their face was priceless, and I didn't hear a peep out of them for the rest of the play.
72. Or Else...
I used to work at a toy store, so I’ve had to listen to some pretty ridiculous things. What stuck with me most, though, was a 9-year-old boy who warned his mother that they had better leave with a Nerf gun or else she knew what he’d do when they get home. The look on his face was akin to that of a person who purposely belittles their spouse in public.
73. Blocking Him out
I remember being like 5 or something and 2 kids were hogging all the blocks of one of those big lego block pits in their little castle. I asked for some and he threw it at me. He was probably standing on a stack of blocks to look over the wall, so I tossed 1 block back knowing he'd throw it back and when he peeked, I tossed it straight to his forehead.
He fell down and probably broke something, but Jesus Christ, that was one heck of a satisfying throw. Right between the eyes, I remember it clearly.
74. The Experience Pays Off
Working at a Chuck E Cheese one year. Some little kid keeps getting mad because he can't win many tickets from a game. Kid begins to kick and scream. Toss stuff around, etc. I think he tried to hit one of the animatronics. When someone tried to get him to stop he pulled the, "DO YOU KNOW WHO MY DAD IS? DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE CAN DO TO YOU?"
We all just shook our heads and didn't know what to say. Was his dad the owner? Rich? etc? "Tell me what I can do." We see this guy in a business suit just standing there with a really angry look on his face. It was the kind of face that you look at and wonder if this man ever smiled. The kid just froze up and muttered something.
The man apologized and walked away. He came back a few hours later and gave all the employees gifts. I got an Xbox 360. One of the first generation ones. I still have it with me if anyone wants a picture. He just gave me the console. No wires, controllers, or anything.
75. Think Fast!
I was on the bus a year or 2 back and a kid and his mom were seated in front of me. The kid kept screeching about wanting to ''press the button'' (you press a button to notify the bus driver that you need to get off at the next stop) because he liked the beep it made. Every. Single. Bus stop. This little jerk screeched asking if he could press it yet. Finally his mom said he could press the button.
I pressed it. It only beeps for the first person to press it. The little brat cried.
76. With a Little Help From My Housekeeper
There was a kid at my high school.
When he was 14, he had a learner’s permit, but his parents got him a Mercedes-Benz G-Class. Every day, he drove it to school and was determined to park it in the parking lot to show it off. So, he had his housekeeper drive to school with him and her son drove a car behind her to take her back home—which was only about 2 miles away from our school.
77. Sold to the Highest Bidders
Mitch got everything he wanted. Granted, he was smart and ambitious, but was also petulant and snobby. The combination made him virtually hated by everyone. Our 3rd-grade class would get monopoly-esque money for an auction of toys at the end of the year. If you were bad, you had to pay money, but if you were a little sycophant, like Mitch, you were filthy rich.
At the end of the year, Mitch surveyed all the toys and calculated how many "brownie points" it would take to swipe all the best stuff. One by one, Mitch swiped the best toys, always bidding perfectly. At the end, Mitch had enough for the most coveted toy on the table: the Chia Pet. Brent had the second most money and timidly started the bidding.
Mitch toyed with him and gradually raised the price until Brent had to go all in. Mitch raised the bid by a small margin and then Susan, who almost had a nerf gun, gave her sizeable pile to Brent and Brent raised. Mitch panicked and counted his money for a higher bid, but it was already too late. All the people he had screwed suddenly turned the auction into a popularity contest and Brent delivered the final hit.
Mitch freaked the heck out and had the most satisfying meltdown. If he had just tried to get a few things, no one would have wanted to screw him, but by leaving so many people with so much worthless cash, he was truly hoisted by his own petard. Screw Mitch, lol.
78. Respect My Authority
I used to work security at a hospital and my booth was next to vending machines with candy that would agitate the heck out of kids. Kids have no finesse, and kids crying for candy are really annoying. So any time I would hear the parent had decided no, but the kid kept on crying, I would walk out in my intimidating all-black security uniform, with the radio and huge keychains, and inform the kid that the vending machine is actually out of order.
Every single time they would shut up for good. I believe I was a good security guard.
79. Bullet Dodging 101
It wasn’t in my home, but I brought a girlfriend at the time to my parents for Christmas. We had been dating for roughly 7-8 months and my parents went and dropped some cash on gifts for her. She opened them and said: “It’s like you don’t even know me. I would never wear any of this [clothes and scarves and such from Nordstrom’s and Neiman Marcus]. You can take them back and return them.”
I asked her to leave and she asked if I could give her a ride home since it was Christmas...I said no and to call a cab. My parents did take all the stuff back.
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80. Sounds About Right
A kid I know claimed he wasn't rich by saying, "I don't get to pilot my helicopter as much anymore." The guy sitting next to him, when prompted to define an income bracket for the middle-class, couldn't answer. He eventually arrived at a $700,000 annual income as a rough estimate. For a middle-class salary.
81. Making Amends
A girl at my high school constantly whined and complained because her parents refused to move out of the master suite of their mansion. She felt that she deserved it, because the attached walk-in closet and bathroom were bigger than hers. To reconcile this, she had her parents pay to redecorate her room every single year.
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82. A Step in the Wrong Direction
I went to high school with the son of the owner of a large TV company. He thought he should be allowed to sit alone in the classroom surrounded by unfilled desks. I had the "privilege" of sitting in front of him and was constantly harassed with attacks from his ruler and pens if he thought I was even remotely leaning back.
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83. She Doesn’t Sound That Nice…
I was good friends (and still am) with this kid whose mother was an executive for a big gaming company. Basically, she would attend Pax East (pretty big gaming convention) every year and would give her kids tickets for themselves and their friends. I wasn't one of those friends that year, but I got tickets for Christmas and we still went together and oh my god, what his mother did literally sent shivers down my spine.
We went to the booth where she was at (that year she was advertising a new game, I don't think it ever hit off, if it did I don't remember the name of the game then). When she saw me and her son get to the little show floor, she pushed every kid out of the way so that we could be first in line, and actually got a kid kicked out for throwing a fuss about it.
I wanted to say something, but my parents had paid $50 for me to get to the convention and I wasn't looking to get kicked out before even being there for an hour. She was a nice lady though, she was able to get basically a few of everything that the popular exhibits were handing out (hats, shirts, wristbands, coupon codes).
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84. Aren’t They Precious
Young girl about five years of age, getting ready to go into New York City to visit her Grandmother. She was at her Aunt's house and did not have a pair of shoes that she liked. She called her chauffeur, told him which pair of shoes she wanted—the dude got the shoes and drove some 20 miles to deliver them, and she told him he got the wrong ones and he was an idiot. No one in the family thought this was inappropriate.
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85. Bank of Dad
I occasionally hung out with a kid whose dad was super rich. He would just ask for money and get it. He tried to use an ATM and had no idea how to, so he asked me or someone else to get money for him. It was so confusing for him. Most simple tasks were incredibly difficult because he was raised not to lift a finger.
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86. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
I work retail at an electronics store, and it was launch day for a new product. A guy and his 13-year-old son came in and asked if we had the biggest and baddest model in a certain color in stock. I told them we had that model in a different color. The father gets a phone call and tells his kid to talk to me. The kid pulls out a wallet full of credit cards and snidely asks, “How much would it take to get me that phone?”
I told him I couldn't sell him something we didn't have, but that he could order it online. The father comes back and the kid tells him the news. The father looks at the kid and says, “I have to go to a meeting, I'll have the driver come get you. Don't back down.” And walks away. I look at the kid. Challenge freakin’ accepted.
He says, “I read on Mac Rumors that you hold 4% of your inventory for DOA phones out of the box. I want one of those phones.” To which I replied, “We don't have any for that model because we didn't get any actual stock for it in.” Long story short, the kid starts screaming in the middle of the jam-packed store.
My team leader, who happens to be there, comes out and the kid tells her that I called him a snobby little jerk. She looks at me like he was a crazy person and somehow convinces the kid to buy a different color. As it turns out, we couldn't sell him the phone because the cardholder wasn't present to show ID. I was mad about the whole thing at first, but felt that he got what he deserved.
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87. The “Happiest” Place on Earth
When I was in high school, my family was pretty poor, and I had a fairly rich friend. My single dad spent years saving up for us to go to Disneyland. We finally went when I was 16. Fast forward a year, my friend is going to Disneyland for Halloween break. Her dad told her to invite two friends. So, she invited me and another girl.
I was freaking stoked. But she kept saying, "I don't know, it’s probably going to be boring, my grandma takes me to Disneyland like every break." And when we got there, all she wanted to do was sit on benches and text. All of the rides were "boring” and she'd already been on them dozens of times. It ended up being pretty boring for me because I didn't want to go on the rides without her.
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88. Room Disservice
A girl I went to high school with had her own private living room in her house with a flat screen TV, multiple gaming systems, a desktop, massage chairs, and a pool table. Again, this was a bonus room just for her—on top of her bedroom and the rest of the family’s main living room. If her parents ever tried to go in it, she would scream at them until they left.
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89. Older Bro Comes Through
Everyone has a story from their childhood that still ticks them off, this is mine. I was 5 years old and my snotty older cousin was over at our house. I had just gotten a copy of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out for my birthday. He was getting his butt kicked by King Hippo and he got so angry he rage quit. But he didn’t just rage quit, he ripped the cartridge out of the Nintendo and spat into it. Then he threw it across the room and stormed out.
I told my parents what happened and they told his parents and they made him apologize, but the game was ruined. It would kind of play but would freeze up all the time. My family barely had enough money to get me the game for my birthday, never mind buying it again. I was sure I would never be able to play it again.
Then for Christmas, this little jerk got Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. So my older brother went over to his house and switched our ruined cartridge with his. It was awesome.
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90. Spite Trip
I drive a limousine, often for wealthy clients. My least favorite are the children. One of my spoiled trust fund clients once insisted on picking up four friends from different areas of town. He convinces these people to go to the bar with him, but when we get there, he kicks them out and has me drive him to the airport, where he picks up a last-minute flight to Vegas.
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91. A Costly Choice
I was invited to a graduation party, hosted by a very wealthy couple whose daughter had just graduated from Yale. Her father came out, in front of the guests, displaying his Rolex and Cartier watches—asking which one of the two expensive watches the group thought would be "the more appropriate for the occasion." Everyone just looked at each other, silently—not quite sure what to say.
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92. Beanie Brat
One of my friends in kindergarten wanted a Beanie Baby I had and when I told her she couldn’t have it, she took it away from me and tried to flush it down the toilet. Then, when the toilet started overflowing and my mom came in, she started crying and said I did it. We did not stay friends.
93. A Serious Effort at Discipline
My nephew (by marriage) is a jerk. I had to drive him once and he kept messing around with the windows, so I locked them. Then he started incessantly pushing my door lock buttons. So I stopped holding back gas and stopped opening the windows. And let me tell ya, this was during a phase in my life where my toots smelled like I might be suffering from some sort of colonic necrosis.
He gagged and sputtered and threatened to throw up. It didn’t matter. I just kept passing gas. In fact, at a certain point I thought I might poop my pants. I didn’t care. I was willing to do it just to make that little bugger suffer a bit. Take that, Evan.
94. Blastoff
Neil Armstrong's nephew or grandson or whatever was attending Space Camp the same week I was. There were many rumors of him being a little brat. It was confirmed true that almost every day he was at risk of getting kicked out. The last day of camp Neil actually spoke to a huge crowd of space nerds. Minutes before the speech, that little brat got kicked out, publicly, in front of mostly everyone at the camp. Neil must have been so embarrassed.
95. Eat Your Words
A while ago I decided to treat myself to some Burger King. I was having a bad day and had a headache coming on. So I was waiting in line at the BK, when suddenly this woman comes in with a monster of a child. He was out of control, screaming, punching his mother, throwing things around. The mother didn't pay any attention to him and he continued yelling, "I want a PIE."
My headache turned into a full-blown migraine. I calmly turned and asked if she could please calm her child down. Immediately she got up in my face, telling me to mind my own business. I nodded and turned around, when the child cried out again how he wants a pie. I then decided to ruin their day in the most devious way I could think of.
When I got to the front of the line I asked the person at the register how many apple pies they have left. They told me and I bought all of them. I ate one and made sure the kid saw me throw the rest in the trash.
96. Happy Nothing Day!
A child who was a guest at someone else’s birthday party threw a tantrum because she wanted presents too. She got her way—her parents took her shopping right after the party and she got a brand new Gameboy.
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