Entitled Person(s).

I don't understand how certain people possess such a sense of entitlement.  I suppose it could be that they've been pampered from an early age and still expect such treatment, but as far as the majority goes I really don't know if that's the case.  Lately I've been really bothered by this: people feeling entitled to things that really aren't basic rights but rather things that should be earned or simply cannot be earned but must be simply given to them by the wishes or deeds of another. 

Rant:

The frustration began when I started working with the general public at Bachelor a month or so ago.  I'm not an easily angered person, but I find myself wishing I wasn't on the clock so that I could call people out for their blatant stupidity and disregard for the people around them.  Just because you are spending money on vacation at a ski resort does not mean that A) you own that resort; B) you can speak to the employees as though you are the C.E.O.; or C) that you can cut in lines in front of other people who are paying just as much and sometimes more than you are to be skiing there.  People just feel like they are so damn special, and why?!  It's not as though you're waiting in line at the ticket counter, somebody in the back spots you and taps on the guy's shoulder selling lift tickets and instructs him to charge you extra because you're special.  You are in a sea of people doing the same exact thing you are, paying, using, riding, paying, paying more, taking care of whiny kids, paying, eating, paying... you get the point.  So when you have to wait in lines to get on the chairlift or have to sit on the chair for a few minutes because somebody fell getting off at the top, don't bitch to people, don't expect special treatment, just effing deal with it because you are no more important than anybody else around you.  Rant nearly complete.

The second place I see this far too often in my life is with the males, the men, the boys, whatever they want to be called now I don't even know.  WHY is it that their entire gender feels entitled to being able to tell a girl what they're going to do?  Do not insult my intelligence, self control, or willpower by instructing me on what I should do and when.  Last time I checked I'm a big girl and I can do whatever the hell I please, and I don't need to take directions or advice from a man that couldn't possibly know me if he tried.  No, I don't want to buy a drink on your tab, now get out of my face.  ALSO, men who feel the need to call women out on certain choices that they make in their personal lives (which typically are none of that man's business but for some reason he chooses to make it so) need to shut their mouths and mind their own business.  If I want to do something, I'm damn well going to do it and there's close to nothing you can do or say to stop me.  I don't care if you don't agree, I don't care if you don't like it, I don't care if it makes me look stupid or like a prude or like a child, I'm going to do it and if you don't like it then walk the other way and don't come back.  I'm not a child, I'm not stupid, I'm not uneducated, I'm not unaware.  Rant complete.