“What’s The Most Ungrateful Thing You’ve Seen Someone Do?” (40 Answers)

Was at a mate's 18th birthday and his parents bought him a brand new SR Hilux. He threw a fit because it wasn't an SR5 (the next model up with only minor upgrades). His parents decided to keep it for themselves and made him buy his own vehicle.

A girl in my highschool received a used car on her 16th birthday. She was unhappy with the fact that it was used (3 yrs old) So she intentionally totaled it. Her thinking was that if she totaled this one her parents would have to buy her a new one. She didn't get a new car, and had to ride the bus.

Bought my cats some gourmet food and they looked at me like I was trying to poison them. Cretins.

Today is my niece's birthday and she just went to college so I thought I'd get her a laptop for her birthday. Now, I am a student myself but I still want to give her something special. So I searched for a great used laptop , and I found a decent Toshiba Satellite. I sold my PSP and some other things so I can afford it.

So there we were at the dinner table opening presents. She opened mine and has this grim look at her face. "This is it? I thought you'd buy me a brand new one"

"You know I can't afford it. It's the best I can do."

"I want a brand new one, not this. This [blows]! Worst present ever!"

She then shoved the laptop and box across the table and fell down the floor.

I picked it up, and walked out. My cousin tried to stop me, I just said "I would never give her anything again."

She even had the nerve to call back and asked for the laptop. Apparently her parents punished her for her behavior and she will now have to buy her own things. No hand-outs or gifts.

My friend bought it as a favor. He helped me pick it out, and knows how much I bought for it. The profit was only $10(roughly).

UPDATE: Niece called this morning, asking for the laptop, because she will need it for college and her parents told her she will never be handed-out stuff while she is in college. No apology yet, only demands. Her brother said I would cave and give it to her. [Hell] no.

My spouse used to have an old Mercedes E-class; it was like a 1995 or something. He wanted to give it away to my little cousin as a first car, because it was safe, reliable, and my little cousins parents couldn't afford to buy their kids anything big, like cars. So we gave her this car and she freaks out, and started going on about how we were going to go out and buy a new one and she wanted a new one too.

So my spouse took the keys away from her and gave them to her older brother, right in front of her. (The reason we didn't give it to him in the first place was because he had an old Honda that he had paid for himself; however, it was falling apart and needed a lot of work to keep it safe.) We even volunteered to pay for his insurance and his first year of college just to spite his little sister. That felt real good. We haven't bought my female cousin anything in over 3 years. We don't even send her a birthday card. If you act like that when someone gives you something you clearly aren't worthy of anything. I think your actions of taking the laptop away and selling it were completely justified. Good on you, Sir.

I was visiting friends at their farm years ago. My friend from highschool and his wife and their daughter who was about 16. The daughter was out saddling her horse when the horse kicked her in the chest. Collapsed her throat and she couldnt breathe. I performed an emergency tracheotomy saving her life. About two months later i get a letter from a law firm. They changed their mind about how grateful they were and decided to sue me for leaving a scar from the tracheotomy.

I delivered a pizza in a low-income type apartment complex...total was $18.something and she handed me a $20 rolled up and told me to keep the change. I turned around and started walking down the stairs back to the parking lot while unrolling the $20 to put in my wad of cash when I find a $100 wrapped up inside of the $20. Immediately I turned around and went back, knocked and said "I don't think you meant to include this inside the twenty." as I extended my hand towards her with the $100 bill in it.

She instantly started screaming at me about how she didn't give me no hundred dolla tip and that I'm lucky she doesn't call the police. Slammed the door, then called to my pizza shop to complain.

I told the manager the whole story, she was put on the do-not-answer list.

Crazy lady.

When we were very young we were very poor. My sister's birthday was coming up, I think she was about 7. There was no money to buy gifts but my mother had a small piece of white satin cloth and a box of tiny little pearl beads. She hand sewed this beautiful little wedding gown for my sisters doll and sat up night after night hand sewing these tiny little beads on the dress. When my sister was given it for her birthday she threw it across the room in disgust, saying I don't want that it's my old dolly. I'll never forget the heartbreak on my mother's face.

My niece, no dad raised by my parents. My dad doesn't make much money, saved and saved bought my niece her first junker (car) he is a mechanic and made sure it was sound, just didn't look pleasing to the eye. (Hell my first car cost 10 bucks and that was for the tow) So looks at it and says "No way am I driving that, I wanted a nicer one" Dad left sold the car, said he will never buy her anything again.

After getting close to $500 in gifts for Christmas, my sister tore down the tree, kicked other people's gifts, started yelling and crying, because she didn't see a Wii among her presents (this was when they were realy hard to find). We actually did get her a Wii, she just didn't get to it yet. I even had to take on a second holiday job at an online gaming store to get it.

She was a 24 year old med student at the time.

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

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

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

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

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

From then on, all his mail got the "not at this address" treatment.

Around 2:30am on a Friday night (Saturday morning) a friend and I witnessed a pickup truck run a red light and barrel through a white taxi van doing about 50 MPH (+/- 5MPH) no breaks, just *CRASH*. The white van instantly was spun around a couple of times until it hit against a light pole. My friend and I were in complete shock but were the only ones around so we got out of my truck to go help. On the way to the van my friend called 911, and a fire started flaring up from inside the crumpled hood. The man inside was bleeding everywhere and obviously very hurt however the drivers door was smashed so much I couldn't open the door and the passenger door was blocked and resting against the light pole. By this time the fire under the hood is starting to engulf the front part of the van and getting very hot. I took my shirt off, wrapped it around my hand and the broke out what was left of the glass on the drivers side door and proceeded to pull the man head first out of the van with the help of my friend and drag him about 30 feet away to a grassy area by an office building. About 2 minutes later the entire front portion of the van is in flames. Another minute later the fire department showed and put it out. I gave my information and such to the police officers.

The man I pulled from the van thanked me over and over again. I thought I had done my good deed for the day... 1 week later I am served papers stating I caused physical and emotional damage/distress to the man and he was suing me for $100,000. 1 awesome Public defender, 3 witnesses, and 4 days in court later he lost.

**TL;DR** I saved a mans life and he tried to sue me.

My younger sister got diamond earrings for her 16th birthday from my parents. She then says in a [snarky] tone "This isn't what I asked for". Parents then take back earrings, scold her and she gets nothing for her birthday. She then spends the rest of her birthday demanding that they give it back to her.

A few years ago i bought my younger sister a sharpy doll for Christmas, she opened it and screamed I wanted gabrelli (sorry don't know how to spell her name). So the next year I got her back by getting her a potato, her reaction was priceless.

My older sister Amanda is EXTREMELY spoiled. My dad practically worships the ground she spits on. Well she's 9ish years older than me so of course she was able to do more things. I used to help my mom at a resturant every day from when I was 5-8 years old. Because I was so young, people would give me tips throughout the day. When my moms shift ended, she would walk me nexted door to the bank and I would deposit my earnings. By the time I was 8 I had a little over 800$ saved up.

May came around and my sister was going to turn 17. For her birthday she wanted tons of hair styling stuff and makeup. Well my father had other plans... He convinced me into letting him "borrow" my $800+ and combined it with his $500. He then went out and bought a cheap car for $1000 and used the other $300ish for seat covers, new tires, a new stereo, etc. May 5th... We gave my sister the car and she threw the biggest fit ever! She wanted nothing to do with the car. So she sold it for $700. Dad got his 500 back, Amanda got 200 to spend on hair and I got nothing back... An ungrateful jerk.

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

I used to work for a local car dealership. I was selling the cheapest car on the lot to a dad and his daughter. It was a 2000 Daewoo for $3,000. She was SO excited to have her own car and it was what her dad could afford to buy her.

At this same time another salesperson was selling a brand new Eddie Bauer Explorer to a dad for a present to his daughter.

As I was presenting the Daewoo to the new owners the daughter of the other dad comes in to see her new Explorer. She starts throwing a fit and yells "I didn't want an explorer, I wanted an Expedition!!!"

I was really proud of the dad of the Explorer as he walked back into the finance office. He changed the deal. He corraborated with the guy buying the daewoo and switched the names... So the girl crying over her "Explorer" now had a crappy Daewoo and the girl who was really grateful to have a car ended up with a fully loaded paid of Explorer... I would never have believed it if I had not been the salesperson.

My parents paid for my college (private women's college in the southeast) completely. They sent me away to school without the car they had given me in HS (a Maxima, a nice car) and gave it to my brother to drive back and forth to school. I had a formal coming up and called them to ask if I could have "my" car that weekend. They politely reminded me that it wasn't "my" car, it was the family's car and my brother needed it. I promptly threw a rich girl hissy fit over the phone, telling them that they were terrible, that they obviously didn't love me, that they were being selfish and uncaring, blah blah blah. They had planned to come visit me 2 hours away at school that coming Sunday but told me they weren't sure if they were going to come now... I said fine, whatever, stay home, don't care, all of that stuff. They showed up. With a brand new Mitsubishi Galant (this was in 1992). They wanted me to have a brand new car that I could put all of my friends in and go to the beach, etc. They had purchased this car home approx. 20 minutes before I called them and went off about borrowing a car. I cried and cried with regret for my terrible, spoiled behavior and drove that Galant until it fell apart. They've since forgiven me, of course, 20 years later, but I'll never forget that shame.

I helped my work mate move house, hungover after far too much tequila. I moved all his [stuff], his boyfriends and his roommates basically by myself as he was useless. Took almost 12 hours. [He] didn't even buy me a beer, food or anything all day. Then fobbed me off when I asked for help to move. Then had the nerve to ask for help when he moved out.

When I was fifteen, a girl in my driver's ed class turned red and stood up. She put her hands to her throat, couldn't make a sound. Her eyes looked crazy. She was choking on a piece of candy. Everyone looks for one beat, two beats. I'm like, "what the hell" and I stand up and walk over two tables and give her the Heimlich. On the second attempt, the candy flies out like ten feet, like in a movie or something. She starts gasping and bawling. It's a big scene. She thanks me.

The next day at class when our parents are picking us up, she is walking down the hall with her white-trash mom. They walk up to me. I'm expecting a thanks from the mom or something. I've never seen this woman before and as she gets close she starts yelling, "What did you think you were doing? You aren't a doctor or a nurse! You could have broke her ribs! You're lucky I don't get a lawyer and sue your family! I still might!" Et cetera, et cetera...