Ah, the spoiled child (or adult). The world is filled with them but we very rarely are graced by their overwhelming presence long enough to have a good story about them. Well, here, we look at people's best stories about some of the most spoiled people they know.
Thank you to everyone who shared their story. Comments have been edited for clarity.
Just Do Some Chores
I have a story about one of the most spoiled kids I’ve ever met: my boyfriend’s little half-sister.
So her parents are real hippies. They live at least 40 minutes from the nearest town, which doesn’t have much anyway, and they live on an Eco-friendly farm, which her parents built from scratch. Since the age of 10, my boyfriend’s sister has been a thief of money. It all started off by taking coins when she was babysitting for neighbors. She eventually started finding out where stashes of cash were kept and then the neighbors found out and told her parents. They were mortified but didn’t do much apart from tell her off and make her promise she wouldn’t do it again.
Little things like that happened with the same outcome. Then her grandad passed away, who left a share of one million dollars to her mother, which was used to upgrade the farm and buy more land, etc. She stole money from her dead granddad’s wallet in his pocket when he was lying in the house dead when no one was looking. All she got was a bit of a tell off. She never had to give the money back because she spent it first. Her parents just say ‘work it off’ by doing chores.
Now she’s 16 and her latest crimes have been stealing her mum’s card to buy $800 USD of makeup online. Her parents took the makeup from her hoping to return it but not before she replaced the makeup in the boxes with old bottles. They let her keep the makeup and still let her do all her school camps, parties, etc.
The last I heard, her parents started a bed and breakfast and made a couple grand only to have it disappear because she found out their internet banking passwords, transferred it to herself, then spent it on food, friends, and makeup all in a weekend before they could find out.
Her punishment? Working it off by doing chores.
It makes me sick. I had to do chores for free! I’m still doing chores for free in my own house.”
Pretty Much The Worst Sister
“This is the tale of my crazy spoiled sister.
She doesn’t have a job and lives by herself in my parents summer condo. She drives my parents’ old car and doesn’t pay any bills. She squanders all the money my parents give her for food and ’emergencies’ on going to bars.
She refuses to apply for anything that isn’t a ‘glamorous’ receptionist position for at least 17$ an hour because she’s too good for it, despite having a worthless degree from a joke private school. She has a new garbage boyfriend every other week.
Despite all this, she’s incredibly mean. She never has anything nice to say to my parents or other siblings and constantly criticizes them to their face and behind their backs.
The last thing we trusted her with was picking is up at the airport (literally 30 minutes away from the house), for which we gave her a week’s notice and texted her every other day to remind her. We land and she doesn’t answer my calls; then she calls my mom to complain and my mother starts yelling at us for ‘ruining my sister’s night.’ My sister then sends us a bunch of text messages saying how disrespectful it was for us to ruin her weekend by expecting her to stay home to pick us up instead of going out. It was, like, 7:00 and she could have easily gone out after… We had to take the train and it took us three hours to get home. I’m never speaking to her again.”
Volleyball Team
“This one spoiled girl in high school volleyball acted like she was the hottest thing on the team even though she was the designated bench warmer. No one wanted to be her partner in our practices and warm-ups since she was super rude.
Her mom ended up coming into our practice and screaming and crying about how we were ‘bullying her baby’ and how ‘her baby was only ever nice to us and we abused her.’ The girl was smirking the whole time her mom was having a hissy fit.
The best part was our coach’s response of, ‘Uh, okay then…’
Her mom then said that her daughter would no longer participate in volleyball since we don’t respect her or her daughter. That made the girl start crying because she didn’t want to quit volleyball.”
That’s A-Boat Enough
“My spoiled roommate is an application essay reader for a university’s business school. He was just telling me about a kid who wrote his ‘overcoming hardship’ essay about how he really wanted a boat because all of his friends had boats, and it was hard for him to be left out. Then he overcame his hardship when his parents bought a boat.”
When Your Sister Ruins Everything
“When I turned 16 all I wanted for my birthday was to see The Blue Man Group perform. I saved my own money to pay for my own ticket. I gave my mom the money, and I was really excited because my mom said she had the tickets and everything. My mom, my sister, and I all got in the car to go see the show. We arrived at the wrong place and I immediately thought something was wrong.
When I asked my mom why we were there she said that my sister wanted to see ‘O’ by Cirque Du Soleil so she just bought tickets for that instead. I was so blown away that even though it was my birthday and my money, my sister had the final say over what we ended up doing. I refused to see the show and opted to walk through the casino the entire time instead.”
Kickin’ Cars
“I saw the most spoiled demon when I was at the Ford dealership getting my oil changed and killing time by walking through the big showroom.
There was a Mustang GT350 sitting in the middle with a huge bow on it and folks gathered around waiting for someone. Minutes later the family comes in with their son who immediately yells about wanting it in blue instead of black and denting the passenger door with a swift kick.”
Loaded Parents
“When I was 15 I was dating this really spoiled girl that I met at a coffee shop downtown. Her parents were LOADED. Like, they had a home movie theater, beverage cellar, and a live-in maid.
The girl got a brand new Lexus for her 16th birthday. It took her four times to pass her driving test. A week later she totaled the car so they bought her another one.
Her parents also flew her from California to London to go shopping for new school clothes.”
Used Cars
“I dated a really spoiled girl who was given a brand new car for her 16th birthday. She had it for less than a year before she crashed it. Her parents then bought her a used car. She had it for about a year before crashing it. They bought her a THIRD car (which was also used) and then when her brother turned 16 she pitched a fit because he got a new car while she had to drive around her used car.”
A Rude Son
“My girlfriend’s son is crazy spoiled. He’s 17, gets home from school by 1:00 in the afternoon, and has a grand total of one chore that he has to do. Just wash the dishes. But, his mom does it for him. She also has to wake him up every morning because he ‘doesn’t like to set his alarm.’ He also drops any trash that he has on the floor wherever he happens to be standing, which she also picks up and throws away.
His personal hygiene is also completely non-existent. The only time his hands touch water is when he showers. On a related note, he doesn’t rinse away his spit when he brushes his teeth so there is toothpaste spit building up in the sink on a daily basis.
Outside of all that he is also the standard Xbox player who feels tough when he includes racist or offensive names into every sentence possible. That attitude, of course, extends to his mother whom he swears at and has no problem saying whatever he wants to her.
All in all a Grade A pile of garbage. I would say that I feel bad for whoever has to deal with him when he moves out, but I know he will never do so.
And he is also the reason I am ending it with his mother.”
Nipping Entitlement In The Bud
“I once had a friend ‘Don’ who had two really spoiled kids, a year apart in age. When his son turned 16, Don was ready to give him his PRISTINE Volkswagen. Don really babied his cars, so this Jetta, though about seven years old, was truly in like-new condition, a car that most normal 16-year-olds would be thrilled to have. I would have been thrilled to have it myself!
So Don tells his son the plan and his son goes, ‘Dad, I’m not driving THAT car. It’s a seven-year-old Jetta. I need a new pickup truck.’ After taking a deep breath so he didn’t throttle his son, Don simply said, ‘Well, then. I’ll drive the Jetta for one more year and then give it to your sister when she’s 16. If you want a new pickup truck then you’ll either have to ask your mother or buy one yourself.’
Now Don and his kids’ mother had been divorced for years and, through a series of bad choices, his ex-wife had barely two dimes to rub together. Don had gotten remarried to a woman who was a very successful and wealthy business owner. So his son (very mistakenly) thought that Don and his current wife would foot the bill for whatever the son wanted; how very wrong he was…
Fast forward a year and his daughter is very happily driving the Jetta. Don bought himself a brand new Mazda. His son has access to neither of them. In desperation, his son bought himself an $800 beater just to get himself to and from work. Lesson learned I hope. I applaud Don for sticking to his beliefs and teaching his kid not to be so entitled at an early age.”
Sponging Off The Parents
We all went to a private, pretty expensive school in the U.S. The spoiled rotten girl got a degree in Journalism and promptly moved to London to find a job.
Her parents rented her an apartment, and I assume paid for her life for about two years before she was forced to move back because she never looked for nor was employed while there.
Once back in the States she refused to live in her parents’ house, citing that she was a grown woman and how could this be expected of her.
Her parents bought her an apartment in NYC.
Last I heard she still lives in that apartment, without a job, but is/has moved because it’s in Brooklyn, not Manhattan.
Spoiled Sister
To this day, I give my spoiled sister a sizable allowance every month because my parents were having trouble making ends meet, and couldn’t afford to give my sister spending money while she attended an expensive art school.
One evening, I needed to attend a fancy fundraising dinner for work. Knowing my sister had no plans to go out that evening, I asked her if I could borrow the new luxury sports car that my parents had bought for her (at the time, I was driving an old, beat-up hand-me-down). She told me that she drove 50 miles that day, so she wanted the engine to rest. I gave her the most incredulous look, and my dad, sensing how flabbergasted I was, told my sister, ‘Your brother gives you money, couldn’t you let him borrow your car for one night?’ To which she replies, ‘I never asked him for money.’
My dad reduced her to tears that evening.
When she first said that to me, my dad didn’t say anything because he always treats her like a princess. She’s the youngest and the only girl in the family I said something to the effect of, ‘This is unbelievable’ and went to my room. So, unfortunately, I wasn’t there when my dad said whatever it is that he said to her. But my sister came knocking at my door 15 minutes later, crying and apologizing and offered to let me use her car. I ended up just driving my own.”
Cursing Out Your Mother
“I was in a Toys R Us in the ’90s and saw this really spoiled kid come in with her mother. This mother and daughter, who had to be around 12, were shopping. The girl asks if she can have some toy. The mother said, ‘No, we are here to get a gift for someone else.’ The girl asked once or twice more and the mom declined.
The girl then told her mother off, cursed at her, and took off running. The mother chased here while the kid cursed her out. Eventually, it must have ended.
I went to check out and the mother and daughter were behind me. The mother not only got the toy she wanted but actually apologized.”
Why Can’t You Come To Paris?
“I went to a very expensive private school and knew a very spoiled student.
Personally, I had a lot of scholarships going into it where I wouldn’t have to pay the 52k a year they were humorously asking for. At the time they had very lax acceptance policy but was considered a great school, which had the interesting result of attracting very rich kids who weren’t interested in the school for its academics but more for its parties/nightlife of the town/city it was in. In my dorm freshman year, there was a girl who supposedly is a descendant of the Versace family of some sort. After seeing the money she’d blow nonchalantly, I was inclined to believe it.
Almost every weekend there’d be a knock on our door as she ran through the halls asking who was coming with her on her trip this weekend. She didn’t mean her trip to the grocery store or even a trip home. She meant whatever trip she was planning around the world that weekend. Sometimes it was Paris, others times it was Australia or Bali. Really, it was wherever her little heart desired. She’d fly out to these exotic places for WEEKENDS, not three- day weekends, not holiday breaks, just your average Friday/Saturday/Sunday. And she would be gobsmacked and sometimes insulted when after a moment of stunned silence, you tell her that you couldn’t possibly go with her to Paris for three days let alone afford a last minute ticket to Paris. She literally just couldn’t comprehend that normal people couldn’t afford those things.
Oh, and she also ‘lived in the dorms’ because she was a freshman and you couldn’t live off campus as a freshman… but she really lived off campus in what I would later find out to be a four grand a month apartment by herself with a house cleaner who’d come every day.
She was the most detached-from-reality person I’ve ever met. And of course, she was drop-dead gorgeous. She’ll probably never experience a ‘hard time’ in her entire life, or have to work a single day.”
Big Shot Dad
“In college, I knew a spoiled girl whose daddy was some big shot banker or something. He made enough that the wife didn’t have to work and three kids could go to expensive schools with little financial aid.
This girl didn’t have to work during college, had all her supplies and lodging paid for by daddy, and got to fly home every time there was a three-day weekend. All on her father’s dime.
I once had to borrow $10 from her to pay for some food when we went out to eat. I promised I would pay her back once I got my check next week (at the time I worked for a cafe) and she seemed cool with it. Turns out she was not cool with it, and promptly bashed me on her blog and to all her other friends calling me a bad person and a thief….because I borrowed $10, which I paid her back. I brought up the blog posts and she was very embarrassed.
Last I heard of her she’s living in a daddy-paid Manhattan apartment working part-time as a receptionist at a yoga studio. She started a new blog about ‘the struggle.'”
The Temper Tantrum Sister
“One of the worst cases of someone who was spoiled rotten has to go to a buddy of mine. He saved up for an iPod when they first came out. He literally saved for a year to get one. His mom took him and his sister to the mall so he can purchase his. His sister started throwing a tantrum because she didn’t have one. Their mom got so fed up with her about it she bought the sister one to just shut her up.”
Stacks On Stacks On Stacks
“In high school, 1987, this really pretty and spoiled girl was about to turn 16 and her parents got her a fully framed, restored 65 Mustang. Well, that car wasn’t what she wanted, so they got her a new Porsche 944. It was customized with rims and upholstery that had her name embroidered on it. When she graduated they got her a new Lexus Sedan. Her father was a preacher at a small rural church. Her mom was a stay at home trophy wife. I still have no idea how they pulled that off.”
Spoiled Rotten
“My boyfriend’s sister has skirted the line of ‘spoiled rotten,’ but for now, she’s just ‘spoiled.’
She throws fits the moment school and work get a little too challenging for her (like full-on, screaming temper tantrums). Whenever she feels overwhelmed, her mom will spend hours doing her research homework and writing her papers for her. (I would actually report this to the school if it wouldn’t be blatantly obvious who did it. Her mom is an educator and should know better.)
She once had her boyfriend drive four hours out (and another four back) to come pick her up during a family trip because she didn’t have a space private enough to focus on her school work, even though we were all sharing rooms and dealing with the lack of space equally (her mom ended up doing that school work for her). Her parents even offered to give her the master bedroom to herself, which would’ve had two of us sleeping on the floor.
I should mention, this girl is 22 and in college.
She does have a sales job, which she’s surprisingly really good at, which is why I think she still has the hope of being a productive adult.”
The Entitled Teenager
“My little sister is spoiled. She thinks she’s entitled to everything – she always steals my beauty products and pretends they somehow magically go missing. She always wants new clothes, and she hates doing chores at home. She yells and screams when things don’t go her way, and threatens me when I tell her ‘no.’
All she cares about is popularity and friends, and get this: she’s 13.”
A Race To The XBox
“My brother was a pretty bad case of being spoiled. When I was a kid I had to work and save, like, $300 for a new Xbox and _Halo 3. _Then my younger brother got to play it all the time (literally all day long). The only way I could play it is if I got up earlier than him, and at that point, he’d wake up, complain I’ve been playing for too long, then proceed to play all day long again. Eventually, it broke from him playing too much. Eventually, I gave up because he would try to get up before me to play. I decided it wasn’t worth trying to wake up at 5:00 in the morning just to play video games for a half an hour.
To top it off my parents always told me to play outside instead of playing video games, but they told me I played too much when I wanted to play for, like, 30 minutes on my own Xbox. God that was infuriating.”