that's MY suppository 👀 r/EntitledParents 

Snatching medicine, needed or not, from a child’s hands is inexcusable

It's okay to ask if someone would move seats. But if they say no....move on. Where it becomes not okay is berating and humiliating people for not bending to your every whim.

As a disabled person, I hate when parents use other people's disabilities and differences as a way to scare their children into acting correctly. That could've been such a good teachable moment for that girl to learn about how other people are born different and that it just makes them more unique, but instead her mom just made her fear disabled people and the idea of being different. I'm partially blind and was using my white cane at a concert. I heard a little girl behind me ask her dad why I was "using that stick?" Her dad just said "It's because she can't see very good, so we have to make sure not to run into her." Sure enough, when they walked past me, the dad put his arm around her to pull her out of the reach of my cane so I didn't swing it into her. Perfect teachable moment; now his daughter knows what it means when someone has a white cane, and there was no message about how she'd end up like me. It's not that hard folks.

I have season tickets to our local theatre (always the same seat), and was asked at the concert last week to change seats. I said “no,” since I have physical issues that make the aisle seat necessary, and I specifically paid for that exact seat. Luckily, my polite refusal was met with equally polite acceptance. It never hurts to ask, but everyone also needs to learn to accept a NO.

About the pharmacy story. Couldn't the EM just ask at the counter if there was more in the back? That's a terrible way to procure medicine for your child. She was really entitled and really crossed the wrong person. I hope they found the medicine but also learned some manners.

Shaaba: Tries to think of ways to compromise with pharmacy mom. Meanwhile, me: You know, technically pharmacy mom just committed assault on a child. Maybe there'd be suppositories available in jail.

I'm actually shocked how lenient you are being with the person who pried the medicine out of the kids hands. The sheer audacity of her to lay hands on a child or anywhere near them... I get it. I sympathize with the desperation and exhaustion, but I would be f'in LIVID. I would also struggle if a friend I was relaying this story to was being so lenient. I'm not mad at Shaaba whatsoever, just a little shocked given it's a story with a kid and she's usually much more intensely "mama bear".

Snatching anything from another customer in a store is wild let alone medicine from a child! No justification for that weirdness

17:09 for me it’s the whole, “well if you don’t have kids you’re not a REAL family, just a couple” 🙄🙄🙄

Siobhan is an ableist. She should not teach her child that OPs disability was OPs fault, how messed up is that! That child will end up with some screwed up beliefs and copy the ableism her mother showed as a child.

You are being very kind. The woman was willing to steal from a child. By the sounds of it the op's kid could end up in the icu if they did not have those

As someone who used to work with kids, you can totally ban a parent and not the kid; we did it more than once!

That last story is AWFUL on so many levels. Siobhan managed to imply that disability was the fault of the disabled person AND probably instill a lifelong fear in her daughter that her fingers will fall off if she doesn’t eat her vegetables or if she spends too much time on her tablet. And she made disability seem like this terrible, scary thing. Real great parenting there, Siobhan! Ugh.

Last story: I have a friend who has keilods all over their shoulders. They are often approached by children who want to know what it is, and then often determine that it is going to happen to them. My friend always respond with "No honey, it won't happen to you. It is genetic like your hair color." And it tends to bring kids comfort. But the fear of it painfully happening to them is real. That mom is borderline abusive to allow that child to fear that their actions will disfigure their hands like that.

My younger brother was born... [drumroll]... 25th of December. But luckily for him, his mum was born Jan 3rd and had 🎉opinions🎉 on holiday birthdays. Since his birth, everyone in the family has 100% understood that Nick is special and important enough to have an 🎉official birthday🎉 ("Nicholas and the Queen") on the 25th on June. That's when his "real" birthday is, for us. It doesn't get a mention on the 25th December - that's Christmas, that belongs to everyone. He gets a day that's all about him, and he didn't have to wait 364 for the next Big Present Day, growing up.

For pharmacy mom, if someone accused me of lying about my kid being sick, I'd assume she was lying. She has no problem assaulting a child, so she'd probably lie about having a sick one. For the plane one, I always think it's okay to ask, but never assume you deserve the seat. If there were any extenuating circumstances of why one adult couldn't look after both kids AND they couldn't book the seats together, she could have calmly explained and asked again. But based on her reaction, she's just an entitled ahole. Kids make shit exponentially more expensive/difficult, but if you choose to have them, you can't expect anyone to cater to your choice.

Stealing medicine from a child isn't just terrible, it's so _obviously_ terrible, like something you would come up with if you needed to give an example of something that a bad person would do

As a mother of 2 kids I have to say that I would never be kind to anyone that decided to take something directly from my child. I am not responsible for the other person or their child I am responsible for mine. That is something that is tough because I am a people pleaser too so my instinct is to help. However, you are rude enough to touch my child then you have lost kindness from me. I can totally see your point but really I am not responsible for other people and their needs. If she had come up and had a conversation with me then yes maybe we can negotiate something. I would probably just give it to them immediately and get another somewhere else. I know the stress of a sick kid and not being able to get what they need. You just have to look after your own because that is your job.

For story 2, if the other mom had ASKED first and been like: "Look, my kid really needs the suppositories because X", then I might be inclined to go: "OK, it was an extra recommendation in my kid's case, so you can have the last pack." But once someone tries to take something that's already claimed without asking...yeah, my inclination to help out would go WAY down!

If I was OP & someone had tried to say I was lying about needing suppositories for my sick kid, I would have asked," Do you really think I'm buying these for fun? Do you go around buying children's suppositories for fun?! Use your brain & actually think why else would anyone be buying kids' suppositories?! Actually look at this screaming baby for a second before you answer that question if you still doubt my need! The eff is wrong with you?!"

For the medicine one: Sometimes when a child can't keep anything down you need suppositories, so the mum might have had no other possibilities. If there were other options available I might have given the medicine away, but not without telling the EM that she is the rudest person I have ever met and I'm only doing this for her child.

Respect goes both ways old man, and we learned that just because you are older or have kids does not entitle you to be a garbage human and still call us the disrespectful ones. You chose to have kids, you accepted the responsibility for those kids, in every way, and your poor management is 100% not my problem. Especially when other reasonable options are available to you.

people always joke about stealing candy from a baby. never thought stealing medicine from a (metaphorical) baby would be worse

Transition year/TY isn't just about work experience, it's supposed to be a year about building up your confidence. It's a year between The junior cert exams (similar to the GCSE's) and the start of our last two years that lead up to the leaving cert exams (similar to A Levels). It's sort of bridge year between the two exam program cycles. At my school in TY, we only did two weeks of work experience, but in other schools their TY programs do one day a week of work experience for a certain amount of time. But you don't usually work for the whole year.

As a December baby, it is THE WORST. Everyone’s busy, and it’s been forgotten a number of times. Even as an adult, I can’t get time off to celebrate because it’s the busiest time of year for my workplace 😢

Thank you for mentioning having travel anxiety/fear etc. There are a million and one conditions that are invisible and people just assume they can take anything they want. Person could be autistic/terrified of flying/have OCD/ANYTHING. I have really bad emetophobia and being on a plane where anyone at anytime is a possible risk to puke, I'm constantly ANXIOUS/panicky. Leave me alone.

Yes Shaaba, you are too kind. Worry is one thing but nobody has the right to behave like an a-hole especially towards children. If a medication is not available that is frustrating (I know because my ADHD medication is still not back in stock and no information on when its back) but I know others suffer too and my pharmacy is doing the best to get it. I could not even imagine to be like - I need it more than someone else. Especially when you or you loved one is suffering you should have compassion for others in the same situation.

Ok the suppositories: I live in America and there is a thing called "First come First Serve" whoever gets to the store first gets the item that is in stock. Being that OP clearly arrived at the store with a sick child in tow, she was entitled to the medication. The EM should have known this, and even though it is a hassle, traveled to another store to see if she could find more. With all that said, no way in Jell-O should she have taken the medicine FROM A CHILD! OP had the right to give everything she had to that trash of a person😤

I’m kinda struggling to understand the Pharmacy story, or maybe pharmacies just work differently where OP is from, than where I am from. In my country, if it’s something you can buy over the counter then it usually isn’t rare because if it was, it would be a prescription only. I get that the shelf OP took it from could be empty, but then EM could just ask the staff if there was more in the back instead of assaulting literal babies because she was just too plain lazy to ask. You are being way too nice to her, Shaaba. I would also just like to add that sharing medication, even over the counter is a really bad idea. Firstly, there can be a hygiene issue in splitting up a box, secondly you might forget what those random suppositories are, and mistake them for something else.

The plane one, both me and my partner are autistic and both have fairly severe anxiety so we support eachother. If someone asked one of us to move we’d have to decline because we actually do need eachother. We both have other health conditions as well that require some aid sometimes. Its somewhat rare but I can wake up paralysed sometimes, I fall asleep on a plane and wake up paralysed I want to be next to my partner who understands my non verbal noises and how to support me in regaining mobility, not some stranger who would just question why I’m moaning and meowing at them.

I doubt that this was the only pharmacy in town. Just go to another store! Don't steal from a sick child.

Plane one... the other adult could sit there, then EM can sit with her kid.

The airplane story literally gave me so much anxiety. I haven't been on a plane in a decade cos of anxiety of being away from home. Whenever I travel anywhere out my comfort zone I rely so hard on the people I'm with to help me regulate my anxiety. Being put in the position and the assumption that being together is just a preference and not need just because they are both adult is uugh

My nibbling BDay is in winter she always wanted a bouncy castle. One year my sibling rented a hall and had an indoor bouncy castle.

Oh wow that Mom in the last story.... As a person with a disability (I walk differently) the "worst " I get is parents say "she's ill " which still really frustrates me!

On the plane situation: I have anxiety issues with crowded spaces, and physical disabilities that made it impossible for me to fly alone, even back when I still could fly at all. I had no choice but to pay extra for someone flying with me to be able to sit next to me, so that I wouldn't feel boxed in by a stranger. Making an ass of yourself after you've been informed someone paid extra to sit together is ABSOLUTELY entitled behavior, and busy-body old man didn't need to comment on a situation that didn't involve him. If it was such a big deal to the mother, she should have approached a flight attendant first, and let THEM find a place where mother and child could havve sat together without ruining other passengers' flying experience.

My general opinion is asking is always fine, not accepting the answer if it isn't affirmative is wrong.

you do not touch someone else's child, just do not. she could've asked where she found them or ask an employee if another location nearby has them

A few years ago, my sister-in-law invited hubby and I and our autistic 19-year-old at the time son to go to Alaska with her as a graduation gift to our son and a late anniversary gift for us. The way seating worked with the airlines we flew with was you got online the day before and picked your seat -- no extra charges, but if you were late it was tough luck. Well, she had one flight where could *not* for the life of her get the seat selection to work, so we showed up a little early. Sure enough, our seat assignments were all over the plane, the closest two being two rows back and across the aisle. So we talked to the airline person explaining that while our son was an adult, he was also autistic and needed one of us sitting with him. A couple minutes later, a family with children also came up needing seats with their kids, having overheard our discussion. The airline employee managed to trade the seats around so we had two seats together and they had two pairs of seats. If you know the seat assignment is a problem, address it with the airlines *before* you get on the plane. Simple

Little Shaablings sounds like a delight.

The problem with seats is that not everyone can pay for the seats they want. Airlines are making it more and more expensive to do so and someone is always going to end up booking their tickets last and not able to choose. And sure "You should have done it eariler" but someone's gotta be last at some point. Airlines should just stop charging to choose seats like they used to, people would be a lot more willing to move and acommodate if they hadn't payed hundreds to be were they are.

I hate when people just ASUME that they are entitled to an accomodation more than you and need it more than you. Feel free to ask for it but dont act like the other person is selfish. You don't know anything about them. I once got yelled at for not getting up for an elderly person on the tube. She didnt even ask first she just yelled specifically at me (probably didnt help that I was not talking in english) I passed out 10min later on the station floor, because of severe pain. It was not physically possible for me to get up.

I would have no problem ASKING if someone would mind moving /changing places etc... BUT i would also respect them and not argue and compain if they didnt want to.

As a person who's travelled a lot, who's been on a plane a lot, I wouldn't give up my seat. You need to plan for these things and you absolutely CAN plan for these things. If you need specific seats, they can be reserved in advance, sometimes for extra pay sometimes not, depending on an airline. Or you can ask to sit your family together as you check in for the flight. I mostly travel alone and because I want to be comfortable I usually make it a point to choose a specific seat whenever possible. Why can't this other person do the same?

Pharmacy story - who grabs a child’s wrist? You should never touch a child that isn’t yours without permission - especially a child/family that you don’t know at all

As soon as your baby puts his hands on the box, his germs are all over it. It wouldn't be safe to share them.

22:41 One time, I was at a clothing store with my cousin and her young daughter (who I call my niece). My cousin left to try something on. I have no kids, so I am obsessively watching my niece like she might just get hurt at any moment, and I see her staring intently at something, so i follow her gaze, and i see a woman with dwarfism. I think nothing of it for about half a second before I remember my niece. I turn to her, and in slow motion, i watch as she starts to raise her arm and point her finger. I gently stopped her and explained that we don't point at people like that and her mother will explain it.

Deranged EM in the chemist. Who would steal medicine from someone in a line? EM could see the child, and they would look sick? Strange women! EM should've asked if there is more stock, sometimes you can get an equivalent none branded product which does the same stuff? (sorry medicinal chemist hat is on). I wonder if the doctor would've phoned the pharmacy to check if the item has it?

As someone who works retail sadly the fights over products happen a lot unfortunately and people also use retail employees as models to make their kids behave stating that if they don’t behave the retail workers will get them or in some cases when they’re looking down on retail workers they tell them that they’ll end up like us etc. as if that’s a bad thing somehow and it really pisses me off. Although what pisses me off the most is people who treat us like it’s our job to clean up after them when they mess up everything around the store and claim “job security” for us as an excuse, or even worse think it’s funny when their little hellions of offspring do it without giving them any consequences and then proceed to berate us for daring to say anything when said kids start doing something that isn’t safe.

The real bad guy is the airlines not sitting groups with children together.

People who accuse others of lying for no apparent reason are usually the ones lying.

I think you're such a kind, wonderful, and inspirational person, I love you shaaba ❤

I'm fairly sure that the mom from the first story was going to try to weasel OP's brother (or mother) into giving her kid the PlayStation, the first step was going to be "oh well take it off the market so that my son can play it and then he'll come to the sleepover" and then "my son had so much fun and really wants one but I can't afford it, could you just give it to him because you aren't keeping it anyways"

20:20 No exams, the most is little class tests, you do around 3 weeks of work experience, go on a lot of trips and learn new skills. you choose to do it or to skip to 5th year, but it's just like a relaxing year after the junior cert, were don't do a lot of school work, before going into 5th year and have to start studying for the leaving cert that you do at the end of 6th year

I relate to the last story because I was born with polydactyly- Had an extra ring finger on my left hand at birth. It got surgically removed, There's a huge scar on both the surviving ring finger and pinky finger, and the two are deformed with The ring finger having its knuckle fused so I can't bend it. When I was older I didn't get in many comments, But I remember my mom saying that others would stare and glare at me for having that issue

11:11 oh no. Someone takes something out of my babies hand I AM reminding them we are in a stand your ground state.

The one with the family and the seats on the plane could come under as being a health and safety issue. If I had been OP, I'd have gotten the attention of the air crew prior to take-off and informed them that this random child is not mine. It's part of legal regulations that children under the age of 12 or 13 (I believe) can only fly unaccompanied if the correct forms are filled out. By placing the child in that seat the child is technically an unaccompanied minor. The other issue with this is that the airline will have issued specific seats for each family member, and as such the five year old was not in the correct seat. This is a safety issue should anything occur during the flight. In these kinds of situations the air crew are definitely your friends. And if you get them involved then other passengers can't stick their nose in like the older man did; which again, his offering of those empty seats is a safety issue for if there is any kind of incident at any time on the plane as the plane manifest will state the passengers' names and seat numbers. You can switch seats with the permission of a passenger you're switching with but also the air crew so as they can update their manifest on your new seats. As for paying for seats, I always pay extra to be able to pick my seat because I'm disabled. I need to be able to choose a seat that is convenient for me (in regards to where the exits and toilets are) and so even if someone asks me to change my seat I'll politely tell them "No, sorry. I paid for this seat for a physical reason". Also there are some areas of planes now that a disabled passenger cannot legally sit in (at least for UK and Japanese airlines). Sometimes I travel with someone who can help me get my crutch so as I can go to the toilet or stretch my legs a little, so in that situation that person also can't give up their seat and needs to be next to me.

Regarding seat changes...If there was a reason to sit in a different spot than I was assigned, I WOULD ask people if we could switch. (You don't know if they paid extra or not). But, if they said no (ESPECIALLY if they paid extra) - then that's the end of it! Maybe if it was an emergency (like if I was injured and would benefit from extra leg space or something) and I had cash I'd offer to reimburse them...but the pressuring is not OK. Although...I do feel like the rise of "pay more for better seats" may have exacerbated this issue. Because I remember when I was a kid and that wasn't so much a thing, people would swap seats all the time. So it may be that people are coming into this interaction with those old expectations?

I pay for seats for a few reasons. I want to make sure I actually have a physical seat on the plane for peace of mind and I also want to make sure I have the aisle. Also if I am in a hurry due to connecting flights, i like to pay for a seat closer to the front. I would absolutely not give up my seat, I paid for it and I def dont think its fair to have to move for parents doing that.

Wow, snatching the medicine is such a weird thing to do in that situation 🤨 That person could have easily asked OP where in the store they got the medicine- OP didn't say it was the last one but just hard to find. Heck, if you're that desperate for medicine, ask one of the store employees for help! I 100% would have pried it out of her hands and told her to F off to the lane where the medicine is in. Go figure it out there ya lil sht. What a horrible move to take meds (from a kid) when you literally could ask an employee to help you locate it in the very store you're already in 🤦

On the pharmacy story I think it's important to remember that BOTH children are really unwell but only one is not at home since they were at the doctor. If the other mum got the meds then that sick child might get taken to another pharmacy to look for them. The other mother can shop around without taking her child. Regardless you can't snatch literal medicine from a child so she's really got no good argument bar mum panic.

omg the pharmacy situation shows just how huge shaaba's heart is for little squishes. she'll make the best mom if she chooses to have kids

The problem isn't people not paying extra to sit together. The problem is that you have to pay extra in the first place. I haven't had the luxury of traveling in recent years but when I was a teen and young adult I did some traveling with my family and we didn't have to pay extra to pick our seats and make sure we were sitting together. You just got to pick your seats and sit together.

you can't just take stuff from other people, let alone small sick children. doesnt matter if you're in a shop and they havent bought the items yet. if i were EM, I'd have checked the shelves then either gone somewhere else or asked someone to check stock in the back.

For the TY one, I'm Irish and am currently doing it! We usually do it for two weeks twice in the year though some people do it for one day every week with school on the other days. You don't have to stay at the same place either for the first week and the second week.

I was always under the impression that you had to ask a flight attendant to change seats, both out of courtesy and so that they're aware that someone is in a seat that isn't on the flight manifest. They will also be aware of any empty seats, so seated passengers don't necessarily need to be bothered. But I still don't understand why any parent wouldn't automatically book seats together. I'm pretty sure that for kids under 12 you even get a discount.

The ableist comment was so mean because now that kid will think anyone with a disability somehow "deserved it" for doing something bad. Instead of the kid seeing op as just a human with a difference and that being neutral.

Theory on the first one, EM bought her son PlayStation game and just let her son play it at the friends.

When I was travelling in Europe with my family recently (from Australia), we went on many train trips. The Austrian railway company had a system where you could pay to have assigned seats, while those who didn't pay had to fill in the remainder. We were not used to the system at all, and weren't aware until we were told that we were sitting in other people's seats. Allocated seats, we were told, only cost an extra couple of Euro, so basically everyone purchased them. The booking had been made online with difficultly as the website had little English, and we spoke to a couple of other tourists who were also unaware of the seat-booking system. This meant that we had to shuffle around throughout the trip and sit alone, including my younger sibling. All this to say, I don't really understand why this system exists where you have to pay to have allocated seats when it just means a few people are left to fight over the few leftovers.

It absolutely seems like that mom on the plane put her little kid in the seat so she could go for the emotional appeal, “oh, my poor child has been seated here all alone, I couldn’t possibly allow that as her mother.” Once it became obvious that OP caught more of the context, she went to Plan B. And then this other passenger who’s only just tuned in to the conversation thinks he knows everything. 🙄

For those wondering transition year is the year people transition from the jr cert (GCSEs) to leaving cert (A levels). It's an optional non academic year, with no end of year tests. Each school does it a little differently but it tends to be the year people do work experience, international language trips, school plays and a lot of other worthwhile non academic things. Some people skip TY others love it

For the first one I feel like in that exact moment I would never be able to think of something like sharing with the other mom, but afterwards I’d feel so guilty for what would feel like taking medicine from another child in need. I definitely don’t blame the op at all for not thinking of something like that, but also it would’ve been nice if she had

Suppositories are the main way we (in Italy) give medication to children. It's better for them overall because it doesn't affect the stomach. Here, when a medicine isn't available at the pharmacy, they order it for the customer, and they get it by the next day or even the same day. Everything considered, I find that story very strange. I'm not saying OP was lying, but that maybe there was a way to fix the problem. If EM hasn't been that terrible of a person, maybe OP would have been more understanding

Transition year you usually do about 4 different week long work placements and some other more "life-skills" stuff. You still do English Irish and Maths as they are obviously essential.

As a mom I would be so pissed off as a mom I would not give any at all I feel bad for her kid but she crossed so many lines.

Having your birthday around Christmas is the worst. Especially when it's another siblings birthday around then. In my house we have Christmas, 2 birthdays and NYE all within a week. Very chaotic and super stressful for my parents trying to afford everything. I've decided to just treat my bday as a chill day from now on cus it's too much to try and do smth for it.

Growing up, my family couldn't always get seats together of planes. If we couldnt find: 2 & 2 , 3 & 1 or 3 , then we would get at least 2 seats together. Then my mom would ask if the person in the 3rd seat if they wanted to switch seats. Sometimes they would say no so my mom would maybe ask the people neighboring one of our other seats. But if people said no we respected that!! We would figure out other options rather than harassing another famil!

What really rubs me the wrong way about that last story is how it frames disabilities as some kind of punishment for a certain behaviour, thus making it sound as if disabled people did something that consequently made them be disabled, which sounds a lot like the way of thinking we had predominantly in the olden days of a person‘s character being reflected on the outside, linking „beauty“ and „able-bodies“ to a „good character“ and „ugliness“ and disabilities to a „morally corrupt character“.

a 30 year old man just wanting a bouncy castle for his birthday, but not being able to have one due to bad weather is so heartbreaking 😭

I am absolutely the angry mama bear for my kitty. I would do anything for my precious squirmy girl.

I'm absolutely baffled that entitled mom in the pharmacy store simply didn't just say to her "Oh my child needs those too. I've been looking everywhere for them. Where did you find them?" I hope she's not normally like this though, and she was able to find what she needs for her sick child elsewhere.

9:39 touching another person without consent, especially a minor, pretty sure you can be charged for that.

The first story very much sounds like the kid wanted a PlayStation for Christmas but the EM didn't want to buy him one, so she tried to get out it by 'allowing' him to go play on his friend's during the sleepover and now that she found out the PlayStation is being sold she is upset that she actually has to be a parent and get her kid a real gift...

Having a birthday right after Christmas is HORRIBLE!

You can get a bouncy castle if you hire a village hall though! I hired one for my daughter's birthday in November. Just gotta make sure the ceiling is tall enough for an adult size one 😂

I didn't know Jamie and I share a birthday! It was always half term here too (in Sweden) and crappy weather. I was so jealous of one of my sisters who could have fun summer birthday parties in the garden while mine had to be indoors and a lot of friends were away for the break. Then when I turned 10 my birthday was on the last day before the half term break and I was pissed I had to be in school for my birthday! Even though it was costume party day at school (cause you're not gonna get any work done anyway the day before the break). Can't win, I suppose.

On the flight thing, I don't think I've been on any flights where you could pay more to sit next to someone? But I have asked people if we could swap seats to sit with friends/loved ones. But I'm always very polite about it and make it clear that I won't be upset if they say no, so they don't feel any pressure to change. Sometimes they say yes, sometimes they say no, either way I'm nice to them and leave it at that. You can't yell at someone for sitting in their assigned seat that they paid for.

My college roomie interned at our city zoo too! It wasn't paid, since most internships here aren't and bc there was so much competition for spots they had no reason to incentivize, but it was extremely helpful to have several years of it on her resume when it came time to apply to vet schools, since there are only 32 in the country and they have an average acceptance rate of 10%. She ended up getting into one of the only programs in the country with an exotic animal vet program bc of it, and she's pretty happy there. We didn't have work experience time included in our public schooling as a standard practice here in Texas, but our school did have a couple special arrangements where kids who wanted to go into medicine could workstudy as pharmacy technicians or EMT trainees during their senior year if they had all their required credits already

For the seat thing, the only reasonable explanation would be if no more seats were together at the time of booking, but clearly, that wasn't the case as the old man had seats next to him. But also the person is still within their rights to say no

Yeah, you’re being way too kind with the woman that snatch medicine from a child 😅

shaba you are so sweet but yes unfortunately there are entitled mothers, mothers who are abusive narcissitic etc. and they don't deserve your leniency so while it's nice to see the good in all people we also need to remember to be realistic when it comes to people and it's a bit frustrating watching such a kind person like yourself make excuses for horrible people like that lady.

I've been asked on a plane to move to let families sit together and I had absolutely no issue. When I was alone. But they'd always ask if i was traveling with someone and not even ask when they'd split up people. Because that's just obviously easier for them to ask for

As soon as the named was announced as Siobhan I knew it'd be batshit. No offence intended to the Siobhan community.

I have a friend who pre birth had the umbilical cord wrapped around her hand so her fingers on that hand are missing. Everyone calls her Bear and that’s her bear paw. With the entitled mother on the plane I would have said okay if you give me (now before we move) this certain amount of money then I will move. If not we’ll ask someone else, you sit here or leave the child here and I will watch them. But I’m a nanny so the child next to me on a plane would honestly help my experience because I would be distracted and the plane ride would go by faster for me. Also I would like to point out that my father is a pilot and would agree with my solution.

Shaaba, you are such a sweet bean but I can see your people pleasing tendencies coming out when talking about the mother with the suppositories. Personally, I don't see any reason for OP to go out of their way to try to compromise with the entitled mom. Regardless of need, the bottom line is that OP had the suppository first, so the entitled mom had no claim to it. Yes, you are being very kind to think about compromising, but that's something above and beyond and not a necessity.

Re: mama bear story: touch my kid again and you'll need painkillers

I hope the kid at the school said to her EM "cool! I want a crab hand too!"

My birthday is the same! It was *always* in half term which just means you're on your own and nothing much is happening.

Great video! I'm so sorry for all the kids involved in these stories, who are entirely blameless.

I can’t with the “mother” stealing medicine. As a mother myself I can definitely tell you she would’ve been smacked and on the floor as soon as her hand stretched out towards my baby. Mother bear mode doesn’t have time for discussions