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

I have two nephews aged 14 and 12 and they have every game console out there. So thinking I was going to be the coolest aunt ever, I bought them 4 of the latest games, and they were over $50 each. I don't see them often, I wanted to do something special, $250 is a lot of money in my budget. They took one look at the games, said "they [blow]", threw them against the wall and broke the cases. I picked them up, took them back to the store but they refused to take 3 of them back due to the damage.

I ended up selling them at the mall to one of those game stores, got almost nothing for them. Never again.

A girl at my high school broke into a hysterical, foul mouthed, tear filled rant because her father surprised her after school with a brand new, fully loaded, BMW for her birthday... apparently she wanted the Mercedes.
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EDIT: Just to further clarify I went to school with this girl for two years at an incredibly rich private school in South Florida that I was lucky enough to attend almost entirely free thanks to the fact that my mother taught there. While it wasn't rare to see acts of extreme snobbery like that the vast majority of the people who went to that school were incredibly kind, caring individuals. That said, this particular female was a grade a [jerk].

My sister was so unhappy with the car my parents got her that she tried to sell it every time it was parked. This was back before cell phones so the only number she had to give was the home phone which my parents always answered if they were there. They got her back by moving the car one day and telling her that someone had bought it but since it was their car they got the money for it.

I have quite a few I could tell about my little sister. I'll stick to two.

My Mom bought her numerous laptops, iPhones, and cameras on the condition that she take care of them. Every one was broken in a month or two. Bought her a $900 digital SLR she knows I've been coveting for years, because my sister claimed she was going to take a photography course at school. Got the camera, bitched that she didn't get any other presents, used it for a day then let it sit around for 6 months. She uses it now for pictures on her tumblr, but she told my mom she never intended to take a photography course and she can only use [it] on auto.

For Easter I spent a couple hundred dollars buying her tons of Hunger Games stuff and random stuff for an Easter basket because I stupidly wanted to do something nice (I'd just pick up random stuff over the course of a few months that I thought she'd like). She was upset that my mom wouldn't be doing baskets anymore because she's 15. She threw a tantrum after she opened everything because Easter sucked because we wouldn't hide Easter eggs for her or hide plastic ones filled with money like her friend's parent's did. SHE'S 15.

I haven't gotten her a [single] thing since. I bought my mom a MacBook Air to pay her back for years of caring for me, and my sister threw the biggest tantrum ever. She clawed at my mom's face and tried to steal her car because it wasn't fair that my mom got something nice for the first time EVER. Literally, ever. My sister has since "accidentally" broken her laptop hoping I'd buy her one too. Not going to ever happen.

God, that turned into an epic rant.

Gave my ex girlfriends family my old car( 2003 Nissan Maxima se) in great condition because they were on hard times and I had just gotten a New car. They proceeded to get down on their knees and thank Jesus for answering their prayers. I still haven't gotten a thank you.

I went to my rich family-friends birthday. He was turning 16 and his parents bought him a new, beautiful expensive BMW and he yelled out "This isnt the model I wanted, Why do you [mess] things up?!" among other things meanwhile I only got a cake for my 16th birthday and I was happy with that.

Well, this is embarrassing..

When I was a kid I was hope sick from school one day. My mom told me she'd go rent a movie for me to watch. Expecting a cartoon, I got really excited since I loved cartoons, and back then they were seldom on TV. She came home and had brought a live action film. I was so disappointed I cried and yelled for a while, and said I didn't want to watch it. She was like "Fine, I'LL watch it on my own!" When she started watching it I pretended not to watch, but I couldn't help not watching it. Turned out it was the best movie I had ever seen. It made me both appreciate live action films and convinced me my mom always knew what was best for me.

The movie was Back to the future.

It's not just kids/teens that are ungrateful, working in IT retail in the UK I see all sorts... Last Christmas a husband wanted to get his wife a brand new laptop so she could start using internet for shopping etc... He purchased from us after much deliberation a brand new samsung 13" chrome book etc and a few days later the wife marches him back into the store demanding that I Refund the order and supply her with a MacBook and then had the nerve to tell her husband he was useless and that he didn't listen or understand her, the phrase "open your ears" was used repeatedly... Really boiled my blood.

Father and 17 year old daughter came into the dealership to buy her a new car for her birthday. Now, this aint no honda dealership, we sell Porsches. 17 year olds should not be gettting porsches for their birthday i dont care if they made honor roll every year for their whole life. So the girl has her mind set on a 2012 Porsche Panamera 4S which is a $100,000 400hp AWD V8 sports saloon.

The father seeing the price tag looks disappointed and says, "Well sweetie i can't afford a brand new one so why don't we get you a used one?" the used ones go for about 85-90k, have barely any miles on them, are porsche approved certified and come with a warranty worthy of a brand new car. She replies "Well it's not my fault you don't make enough money for our family. You're going to buy me a new one or I'm never speaking to you again.

What really bothered me was that I could see the pain in the father's eyes when she said this. He looked genuinely hurt that he didn't make enough money. I wish i were a customer, because i would have told her to [get lost]. So the father said "Alright well, get the new one" (the funny thing was he leased it and she had no idea).

When they got back from the test drive, the salesman told me that the girl disrespected him and her father the entire time. When the salesman was trying to show her all the different features she flipped out and told him "I think I can figure it out okay im not stupid". Then on the actual test drive she did over 100mph on the highway and told the salesman to "shut up" when he asked her to slow down, out of fear for his life. He said the father just sat there and said nothing.

We had a gift exchange at my church when I was little & my youngest cousin (who went to the same church) got my gift. He didn't like it so he started crying. I took it away from him, which caused this random lady I'd never seen before (& never saw again) to tell me to give it back to him. I responded by telling her that he was my cousin & was acting like a brat, so he couldn't have his gift. Then I walked away.

I saw this woman on the side of the road who had a flat tire and was clearly having issues changing it.

So polite ol' me decided to halt my run and go see if I could help out. I stroll over and offer my services to her and she accepts, but she backs away to a pretty far distance.

I proceed to change her tire and help get her on her way and as soon as I finish and proceed to extend my arm for a handshake, she says "Back away, I have 911 on my phone right now and all I have to do is press Call." I don't know if she thought I was going to attack her or something but you don't just do that to someone who just helped you change your d**n tire.

Flabbergasted, I run away and I haven't seen that [her] since.

Edit: I do understand that I don't understand what she may have been through in the past, but if it was that uncomfortable for her to accept help from a stranger than she should have just thanked me for offering but graciously declined. Not accepted my help then threaten to call 911 on me.

The sister of my coworker was at the office. I ended up chatting with her around 7pm while she waited for her bro to finish up work. I hung around only because she was kinda pretty and single.

After mentioning her father paid 100% of her $100,000 tuition, a car, and all her living expenses, she starts laying into her dad for promising only $500,000 as her future graduation gift. She was expecting something more along the lines of $750k to $1 million so she was super pissed and kept talking about what a [jerk] he was being. Apparently, she changed her major one too many times for her father's taste and was living the lifestyle of a "forever student".

This was when I was struggling to pay off my college loans, not earning very much, and barely staying afloat with paying my rent and covering my beer money.

A couple years ago a friend and I were driving across the country in a big moving truck full of my moms furniture. We had been on the road for about 18 hours on the 2nd to last day of the trip and stopped at a rest stop to stretch our legs and use the bathroom. Sitting at the rest stop late at night was an entire family, mom, dad & 2 young kids and their car which was obviously broken or otherwise not working.

Feeling like I should try and help I asked the father what was wrong and he told me they had run out of gas and just needed to get to the next town which was about 40 miles away. I couldn't leave the rest stop with that family stranded so my friend and I got back in the truck and drove the 40ish miles to the next town, bought gas & a can and drove all the way back in our huge moving truck. The whole trip back and forth took us about an hour and a half and by the time we got back to the rest stop we were both about to pass out.

Well, the family was still there waiting and I hopped out to give them the gas they needed so badly. I handed the can to the father and he looked at me and said "I would rather have the money". This caught me off guard as money wouldn't help them get anywhere but it was then that it dawned on me that he never wanted gas to begin with and probably had some in the car.

He was just fishing for cash and using his kids as the bait. I felt really bad for the mom as she was just looking at me the whole time with this expression of "I'm so so sorry". I was at a loss for words since the dad didn't even want the gas we had just drivin for over an hour to get for them. I just set the gas can on the ground, got bak in the truck and left feeling like a giant idiot.

My niece who is part hispanic had her quinceanera(SP?) i don't know much about it since it's not my culture but apparently it's a HUGE deal for them and i am not the richest person in the world and her dads side (the hispanic side) spoiled her with a macbook, tv, iphone, diamond necklace etc. and i agreed to get her an ipad even though i don't have a ton of money so i got her an ipad 2 32gb since the ipad 3 was out and the ipad 2 was super cheap on craiglist.

So she gets my present and notices it isn't the ipad 3 and throws it back on the table in yelling at me about how stupid i am and how he wanted the new ipad and it really hurt my feelings. I almost cried because the spoiled brat doesn't understand how much money that was to me.

I will never in my life buy her another gift until she apologizes for it because that hurt.

My wife and I had just moved in our first place on our own. After being on our own for about 3-4 months, my wife's sister calls her crying. Her sister, husband and daughter had lost their home in a fire about a year prier, and had been staying with some friends who where kind enough to let them stay with them. Apparently relationships had deteriorated with the friends and had to leave immediately. So we had an extra bedroom so we decided to let them come stay with us until they got on their feet. It was supposed to only be a few weeks but it turned into 8 months. 8 months we let them stay with us rent free, the only thing we asked them to pay was the difference in the electric bill each month, which amounted to only like $30-$50 a month. I should mention that we were violating our lease by letting them stay with us, we hid them from our landlord for a while but eventually she figured out we had them staying with us. Fortunately she felt sorry for them and said it was ok for them to stay a little longer. But after the 8th month she sent us a letter saying that if they weren't out in a week then we'd be in violation of our lease. So we had to ask them to go. Almost immediately after they left they deleted us off facebook, and never talked to us again. When we tried to get into contact with them to see why they were mad at us, my wife's sister claimed she was angry that we asked them to help out with the electric bill. And because of that they weren't able to buy tickets to go see A Perfect Circle. But my wife and I had bought ourselves tickets and I even bought my little sister a ticket too since she's never seen them live before. And apparently they were pissed at us for this.

TLDR; let my wife's sister, her husband and their child live with us, rent free for 8 months. After they left they deleted us from facebook and never talked to us again.

When I was very young, maybe 6, my mother took us kids to her friends' house for New Years' Eve. We were pretty poor, and her friends were a lot better off - beautiful house with marble counters, a piano, all kinds of stuff.

Her friend's mother was gracious enough to give us kids small presents - mine was a gorgeous (looking back) domino doll with porcelain hands and face, and a silk outfit.

I told her I was too old for dolls. I still cringe looking back on it, my poor mother must have been humiliated.

I was banished to the play room with the other kids, where I started feeling...not so well. By the time we went home, I felt awful and itchy.

I got the chicken pox because I was rude. :P.

My so-called friend in Year 2 "accidently" threw away the present I gave her. It was a mini kiddie make-up set I spent months saving up for because my allowance was a mere $5 per month (parents were poor). I didn't know someone else gave the same thing to her earlier and when I asked her about it, she said she only wanted one, not two and "accidently" threw it away. Needless to say I'm no longer friends with her anymore.

I made Christmas stockings for my then GF's (now wife's) two teen age children. I spent hours finding little specialty candies, little toys they'd like, make up, etc. I tried to make them outrageously nice stockings and happily spent about 200 bucks* on the two of them. On christmas morning they spent about two seconds looking at them, judged them unworthy and then just cast them aside. The boy actually stepped on his at one point, breaking one of the toys and did not care. To this day I think he did it on purpose. It sort of ruined the whole making christmas nice for the kids mood for me. They are adults now and I guess the fact that I still remember that scene points out how petty I am. But still. You asked.

*that I definitely could not afford at the time.

I have a friend that knew she had to be out of her place in a few months. No exact date, but whatever. She calls me at about 6 at night saying she has to be out of her place the next day by 1pm or the police would be escorting her out. I should also mention she has 3 kids.

Now the moving wouldn't have been such a big deal. Her problem was she hadn't found anywhere to go. I wish I could say it was due to lack of places, but it was just because she hadn't looked. So within 12 hours, I asked a different friend that she had NEVER met if she could stay with them still she got an apartment and moved her.

Go a month later, she's totally screwed over my generious friends. Financially, with her attitude, and her lies. I'm embarrassed and apologizing. So she FINALLY has her own place but because again she's not great at life, has no way to move. My friends are sick of her and drop everything, as do I cause I feel like a [jerk], and move her.

Where it gets bad, I noticed she didn't have a crib mattress for one of her daughters. I offer to let her use mine because my son just got a big boy bed. She starts screaming at me saying it's hers and how she has no friends that ever help her. I stood there in shock for about two seconds, told her to [get lost] and walked out of the apartment.

My sister once started crying and locked herself in her room after my parents spent the last of their money buying her a Gameboy - because the Gameboy was grey and not pink.