Comments on: Entitlement!

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:59:15 +0000

My dad always said: “Class shows”

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:19:17 +0000

and P.S….my Mom used to have a saying.. “money can buy you a lot of things..but it can’t buy you class.”

Thanks Mom, truer words were never spoken! ;)

By: Alicia Pascale

Alicia Pascale — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:55:04 +0000

My husband delivers high end furniture and he says that sadly the rudest are the richest. Apart from Grenwich CT. Lower Westchester is the worse. And the kids are out of control. He encounters people who think they are entitled all the time. It stinks.

By: Justice

Justice — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:38:36 +0000

Demographically and geographically speaking, “Rudeness” knows no bounds.

Hey Sue – 44 is not “old”

By: Bridget W

Bridget W — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:38:45 +0000

Imagine having to cater to these people,I’m in the restaurant business&let me tell you people think that they treat service staff with disrespect,as a manager I have had to on several occasions to repremand the CUSTOMER for the way they treated my hard working staff-~~like the lady that anncounced one night that my waitress would not have a job if it were not for the like of her~~—~~this was totally uncalled for& as i had to point out~~ ——you would not be able to come out and eat if hard working people like this waitress were not here to serve you.This lady(i use the term loosley) was trying to impress her friends,I made her look like a FOOL and the worst is she did’nt even know it.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:30:36 +0000

Oh this one touches a raw nerve with me,Jeanne!!! I totally agree with Gayle….if you are raised in a polite, considerate manner, you will act accordingly.

At the risk of sounding old..(I’m 44)..I will say, the younger parents are part of the slacker, “me” generation…their attitute is very selfish, self centered and “it’s all about me.” Many are the same people who feel they’re entitled to everything: ie: music is free, why should I pay for it when I could download it for free.

Rules dont apply to them, copyright laws certainly dont and consideration is …well…not even a consideration.

I have a nurse friend who works in a pediatrician’s office who says that behavior, is sadly, rampant! Parents demanding their kids be seen in such and such a time. And, worse yet, she says, people bring more than one kid in to be seen when the appointment is just for one. Then they get angry when they’re denied!

In my “old” age when I see things like that, I have no inhibitions and say what’s on my mind. Shocking what AGE can do to you! :)

By: Sophia R

Sophia R — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:04:59 +0000

I am not a parent, but I look at this blog from time to time because sometimes I cannot believe the people and the kids in Westchester. So, here is an outsider’s opinion.
Steve C, I too am from Brooklyn, and while there is some level of entitlement there, it is nothing compared to Southern Westchester. Which is one reason why my husband and I, after 3 years there (Scarsdale) moved to extreme Northern Westchester—NOT Katonah/Chappaqua/Briarcliff Manor, which IMHO, are simply Scarsdale North.
What a difference! The people here are real, the kids are mostly courteous, and the non-working/self-aborbed woman mentioned in the article would be laughed at. I only hope that Southern Westchester twits don’t move up here and spoil it.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:53:47 +0000

I have to bring up the cellphone rant because it fits here:
I just got back from my sons play on John Brown. A parent’s cellphone went off. I wanted to smack her head.
mine was on silent the minute i got there…
so here these kids and teacher are nice enough to invite us and she is so important that her phone rings loud and when she played with it it made all these wonderful annoying sounds.
I showed much restraint and therefore feel i earned a beer. :-( but its way too early. sigh

By: Gayle

Gayle — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:20:34 +0000

I think this kind of behavior has nothing to do with one’s geographic location and everything to do with how children are being raised. If you raise your child to be considerate, polite and thoughtful of others—and if you conduct yourself in the same manner—then you will most likely rear a child who embodies those qualities. Sure, there are poorly raised children, raised by ill-mannered adults. But they’re not just in Westchester, they’re everywhere. The best you can do is to make sure that your children know how to act, not only around you, but around others, too.

By: deb

deb — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:04:32 +0000

And then there’s the kids who say…I don’t want to wait ten minutes for a ride from your mom, I’ll just call my mom and TELL HER TO COME GET ME RIGHT NOW.
No thought that maybe the mom is busy at that very moment and the poor underpriveledged suffering soul will have to wait a few minutes in somebodys toasty warm house or at their self chosen after school activity. And the mom, of course doesn’t bother to say, honey.. you can politely ASK me if its convenient to come now…of course, she’s been TOLD by her 9 year old so she drops everything and gets there just in the nick of time before poor little Johnny throws a tantrum.