She thinks shes entitled to lion's share of everything
By syramoon
@syramoon (654)
United States
May 30, 2012 1:26pm CST
I guess I grew up differently than the friend that is killing my nerves right now. She seems to think that she's entitled to the lion's portion of everything when it comes to food. The other day I made dinner at her house, as in I bought the stuff, took it over to her house, and made dinner for her and her mom. Then as I was taught when I was younger I made everyone's plate. I made them all equal serving sizes, because we're all about the same size and like food a lot. I won't lie about that now. But it proceeded to be an argument through dinner, saying I should have saved her some more for later. I told her that 'okay, save some of your plate for later." It went around and around, and I started to think I've always noticed that about her. Even when something is mine, like the brownie my neighbor gave me for my birthday, she throws a fit if she doesn't get more of it than me or her mother. I don't know what to do with her, or why she's like that. But it's driving me crazy. I'm more than willing to share what I have, but growing up I was taught that sharing, was giving some, or maybe half of what was yours to the other person, but she seems to think when someone 'shares' with her shes entitled to most of it, or certainly more than the person that it originally belonged to. Myloters, have you encountered someone like this before? How did you handle it?
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@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
30 May 12
Sorry, but I don't know what to call your friend.
Why does she act like that?
I mean, how old is she to act like that?
i don't have a friend who act like what she did-so I cannot understand why your friend sounds so immature.
It's just a food, and why she needs to have a big share than the others- and she always do it always- she's not that selfish huh?
@syramoon (654)
• United States
30 May 12
I don't know what to call her besides childish and selfish either. She's in her thirties, and does have some mental illness, but in this day and age who doesn't? I don't know if she's afraid she'll go hungry (which she never has for a day, since I've known her, and that's been a long time). Or if she just thinks for whatever reason she's more important or deserving than other people. I've asked her about it before and she always gets defensive, which just annoys me that much more. I don't know what to do about her.
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
30 May 12
in her thirties?
Goodness, fine, yes, who doesn't have metal illness these days.
And having a friend like her will give me more mental illness either 
Goodness, fine, yes, who doesn't have metal illness these days.
And having a friend like her will give me more mental illness either 
@GemmaR (8517)
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31 May 12
I hate people who are like this, and I have a friend who is exactly the same. Whenever we go to watch a film, we will buy a bag of popcorn to share. I like to save mine until the film has started, whereas she prefers to eat hers before. So I say to her that she should eat half of the bag now and then give the rest to me when the film starts. She always eats more than her share at the beginning, and will then have even more of it when I am supposed to be having mine, which means that I probably only get around 25% of the bag when I should have got 50%. Sometimes these people don't think that they're being selfish, so you should take a bit of time to explain it to them and hopefully they will then see how they have been behaving.
@syramoon (654)
• United States
31 May 12
That sounds exactly like what happens, and anytime I confront her about it I get the "Well, G-D it, I'm hungry." Answer and well, I'm tired of that answer. Like last night when she caught me in the bathroom and drank my soda. I went off on her, when she gave a similar answer about being thirsty, so was I, which is why I had walked in pain for 3 blocks to get one. Not to mention caffeine withdrawn. Her mother ended up going to the store to buy more, but the thing is she shouldn't of had to, I walked there in pain to get myself one, I have trouble walking at all right now, and if she wanted one she should have walked it herself. Not to mention, I'm so tired of hearing the GDit word outta her mouth when I ask her about it.
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
31 May 12
While I might LIKE more then a fair share (which is about half of whatever it is) I know it's not RIGHT to do that, and so I leave it up to the person. Most of the time if it's a brownie or something, if it's not split in half we give a little chunk and then if they ask for more we give them more.
Of course I also grew up around a grandfather who believes he should have more then everyone else, and will keep going back for seconds and thirds so if you want more you have to go back FASTER then he does.
