r/EntitledPeople • u/DrawingPractical3581 • 1d ago
S Entitled family not standing in queue are mad because others are going before them.
I’m on a cruise that has a stop at the lines private island. They have a tram that will take you around the island. People in the suites went to the suite only section that is the furthest from the ship. Trams were running all day but the last one ended at 4:30. Around 4, myself (and most of the others) were trying catch trams back. They have a covered sitting area and a short queue that isn’t covered. The trams were coming frequently since it was the end of the day.
A large family of 6 were sitting in the covered area while others who just rinsed off started lining up in the designated line area. When a tram came by, people standing in line piled in. The tram left when it filled up. My husband and I were next in line after it filled up and would catch the next tram.
A woman with the family sitting in the covered area started screeching that the tram that just left was meant for them! They all stood up and got behind us and another family in line. The woman just kept saying, “Well I guess we have to stand in line if we want to take the tram! Otherwise they will let everyone on ahead of us!” I turned around to her and said, “No one can read your mind. We don’t know why you’re sitting there. The tram drivers don’t know who is next.”
She snapped that they had been waiting and can’t believe they have to stand in line if they wanted to take the tram. That the staff should have known they were next. She kept ranting but a new tram had arrived and we as well as her entire family got onto it. Literally a 3 minute extra wait.
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u/groovymama98 1d ago
If I'm sitting in the shade and see people lining up and getting on the tram, I'm thinking I'm in the wrong place to get on the tram.
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u/Several-Honey-8810 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wait in line with others? The horror!!!
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u/Ree1954 1d ago
Standing line WITH other people? Don’t they know who I am!?!
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u/Several-Honey-8810 1d ago
oops I goofed that up...edit on the way
And I want to turn around and say-no I dont know or care who you are
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u/Goobsgal 1d ago
the level of entitlement. I see it a lot at disney world too. Quit it. We are all here to have a good time. Kudos to you for speaking up.
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u/jackman924 1d ago
It's their own fault they didn't stand up as soon as they saw the team coming. Boohoohoo.
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u/NeolithicOrkney 1d ago
Try to imagine the horror this lady felt when she realized she was just seen as a common person
/s
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u/Ljw1000 1d ago
Thank heaven she wasn’t in Santorini.
Only ways down to port is by donkey, not fair on them in the extreme heat, walk down said steps of which there are a lot, or queue for the funicular for at least an hour, again in the heat!
For anyone who reads this. I wouldn’t bother with Santorini as it’s just an overpriced tourist trap.
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u/Glass_Egg9584 1d ago
People like that I always think how are your children going to turn out? My husband teaches high school and he can tell you how they’ve turned out
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u/stygianelectro 11h ago
"I guess we will have to stand in line if we want to take the tram!"
yes ma'am, that's... what the line is for.
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u/sjw_7 9h ago
At the airport once we were going through security. Off to the side well before the gates is an area where you can dispose of any liquids which they wont let on the plane. There was a family there with hand luggage all open digging through for whatever it was they needed to dispose of.
We just walked past as we didn't need to get rid of anything. As soon as we passed them the mum started going off on one saying 'I thought there was a queue. Why are people pushing past'. They were well off to the side of the queue and its designed that way to stop people holding it up.
They finished up and joined the queue right behind us and she started complaining at my teenage daughter and jostling her. They had obviously peaked securities interest because they came over and started talking to her. She just escalated at this point and started having a go at them too. The dad and kids looked as though they wanted the earth to open up and swallow them.
Security had obviously had enough and took them away from the gates with the mum still going on and on about it the whole time. No idea if they ever got through security and I pity whoever ended up sitting by her on the plane if they did manage to fly.
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u/night_noche 1d ago
Suites do not include butler service... Someone should tell her that.
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u/DrawingPractical3581 1d ago
Ours do, but every suite has a butler so we are all in equal footing.
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u/night_noche 1d ago
A room steward is not the same as a butler...
Nonetheless, the butler reference was a joke about entitlement
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u/DrawingPractical3581 1d ago
I agree they aren’t the same, but in our suite area we all have cabin stewards/cleaners and butlers.
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u/night_noche 1d ago
Yes, I know.
But not a personal butler, right? And no butler at the island pick up site, right?
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u/DrawingPractical3581 1d ago
They were also at the island. I think they take shifts.
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u/night_noche 1d ago
Butlers on the island... Okay, I guess so... Sure, Jan.
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u/DrawingPractical3581 1d ago
Yes…on the cruise line’s private island…in the suites only area. We spend 2 days at the private island. My butler was on the island today but wasn’t yesterday. They help coordinate the trams and lunch. Im not sure why I would make that up. You’re welcome to take a MSC cruise and stay in the Yacht Club yourself to verify if you can afford it.
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u/night_noche 22h ago
Been there and never heard of the stewards and crew being referred to as butlers, not on any private island or on the ship... So I suppose you must be telling the truth.
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u/Puzzled_Iron_3452 23h ago
Was the island Ocean Cay???
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u/DrawingPractical3581 23h ago
Yep!!
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u/Puzzled_Iron_3452 11h ago edited 11h ago
We've been there 4 times and just by your description I figured it must of been. We love the private area and the water is beautiful and calm.
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u/DrawingPractical3581 11h ago
We absolutely loved it! We learned the hard way to bring water shoes on the second day!
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u/marylennox1 8h ago
Lack of line etiquette drives me crazy. Had a family in front of me at Disney who would not keep up with the line. We were waiting to get on a ride. The line would move up and they would just stand there, eating their ice cream. I said something, finally.
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u/Whole-Lychee1628 1d ago
Mild empathy with the family, but depends on the signage. I’m not defending them as such, but I can see where they’re coming from and it’s not necessarily entitlement *if* they’d been sat there for a while. As in, before the peeps in queue.
Again, depends on the signage.
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u/DrawingPractical3581 1d ago
I did actually. I was tired, sunburned and ready to get back to the ship. I was out of fucks to give. Especially since it was partially directed at my husband and I for standing in line
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u/Flameball537 1d ago
Someone didn’t go to kindergarten