This homeowner was technically not a part of the local HOA, and yet these entitled HOA board members thought they could enforce certain rules whenever it suited them.

The irony here is that when this author first moved into the neighborhood, he actually volunteered to join the HOA and pay the monthly fees so that his kids could have access to the community pool and playground. His request was denied outright. 

So how come he couldn't pay HOA fees if he wanted to (and he wanted to!) and yet the HOA could still find a way to tell this guy what to do? Someone make this make sense!

One day, the author discovered that a large branch from a tree outside his house had been mysteriously cut down. It turns out that this branch was bothering some members of the HOA, even though technically speaking, there was nothing they could do about it. After all, the guy wasn't even allowed to join the HOA in the first place!

Still, their entitlement led them to believe they could just go ahead and cut down the branch on this guy's property. Well, think again, folks!

People are expected to be protected in the workplace, and equally have their belongings protected, too. This pharmacist brings her makeup bag into work after applying it during her commute. Although after a few weeks she began to notice something strange…some of her make-up products were starting to vanish, one by one! She kept her bag in the communal break room, alongside everyone else's. 'No, it can't be,' she thought…Who would steal from their own coworkers? First Fenty, then Makeup by Mario, from mascaras to lip liners…There was a pharmacist thief among them, and it was now her job to expose them!

Her biggest challenge? Not only were there zero functioning cameras, but there were fifteen coworkers present during her shift. So with no solid proof, other than a few smudged blushes, how could she morally accuse anyone of being the Clinque criminal…? I mean, one could try lacing the bag with glitter and seeing which culprit's hands shine the brightest at the computer's keyboard. That seems pretty on theme, don't you think? 

No one wants to get on this divorced dude's bad side.

After feeling like his separation was mostly amicable because he caved and decided to pay for pretty much everything, this author had had enough of his ex-wife when he learned that she was still heavily reliant on his accounts. 

Now, it should be noted that the author was generous enough to politely ask his ex-wife if she would remove herself from any such accounts, and she said she would. But that was six months ago. Now, he found out that she had added her phone number to his Spectrum account, and he was now paying for both her internet and phone access.

That was the last straw. At a certain point, one has to put a stop to being cordial when one is being actively manipulated time and time again. Clearly, this man's ex-wife interpreted the terms of their separation as validation for continuing to have him pay for everything under the sun. Well, that window has come to a close!  

This theme park employee deserves an award for calling out an entitled family for cutting the line.

One of the more egregious inconveniences in life is being stuck in a long line and seeing some entitled stranger cut in front of you for no valid reason. It's the kind of act that makes you question not only someone's character but also their audacity. What prompts someone to believe they are superior to others and therefore exempt from the rules?

This family went to Disneyland and saw that the two lines to a popular ride were significantly different in length. The longer line was the regular one, in which groups of attendees were guaranteed not to be split up on the ride. The much shorter line was reserved for single riders only. 

Everyone was aware of the differences between these two lines, so before you consider the possibility that these folks were innocent, they were not. Cast members were loudly ushering guests in the right direction and were constantly reiterating the rules for each line. They could only have gotten it wrong if they were doing this on purpose.

When workplace banter crossed into uncomfortable territory, professional boundaries quickly became blurred between these two "work spouses"

Professionalism is, at its core, about not crossing boundaries.

It's ok to develop personal relationships and joke around, but as with anything in the workplace, you need to treat it lightly and tiptoe into new territory. Moving too quickly risks upending the balance of the entire workplace dynamic.

Let's face it, you'll often see advice online and meet people in the workplace who have adapted to corporate life by having their private life completely severed from their personal life. They won't answer any personal questions about themselves, and they'll seldom engage with their coworkers. Fair enough. It's perfectly possible to operate in that way, but also, where's the fun in living like that?

Having friends at the office and running gags between you and having connections to other people outside of your immediate family make the worst and most boring parts of your life somewhat tolerable.

You can't call dibs on a first-come, first-served locker at the gym. Everyone knows that whoever gets there first has first choice of their selected locker, and just because you're a hot-headed Karen with a self-entitlement complex doesn't mean you get to push everyone around to get your pick. In this next viral story, Locker #47 posed a very serious problem for a gym Karen after she discovered a fellow gym goer had beat her to it, claiming the locker space that she felt was hers. 

Tighten your weightlifting belt and retie your running shoe laces, because this gym-going story is going to send you on a Stairmaster straight to rage. 

Karens are infuriating in all circumstances, but there's something far more unsettling about a 40-year-old, lycra-clad, sweatband-wearing gym witch. Entitled about their machines, weights, and bands, these are the types of gym rats that ruin the workout experience for the rest of us. Having a gym membership doesn't entitle a person to stomp around the soft mat floor and declare ownership of everything in sight. If anything, you're a sweaty wannabe athlete just like the rest of us… Deal with it. 

A man proposes to his now-fiancée and an angry elderly woman decides to interrupt the proposal with unwanted comments. Though the proposal took place in a public space, the now-fiancée explains that nobody else in the area had a problem with this self-described prompt proposal, which took place at a Halloween event in the area. When you enter a public space, of course you sign up for a stranger's intervention in whatever you're doing. The proposal, despite the elderly woman's anger, meant everything to the woman who shares this story, and it seems like it touched a few of the scare actor's hearts… So much so that they decided to give Grandma a fright she'll never forget. Scroll below to read all about it.

This story sums up how fast hard work turns into a bad idea when management gets weird about pay. The job setup sounds simple enough. You get a zone, a list of tasks, and a time limit to finish each one. The catch is those time limits are huge. Most jobs only take half an hour, but they hand out two‑hour schedules like candy. Everyone used to just log the full time anyway, because it kept pay fair. Then new management showed up and said nope, if it takes less time, you earn less.  

So yeah, everyone started "running the clock." Finish a job in twenty minutes, then stretch those two hours doing normal stuff. Grab lunch, hit the store, scroll social media, kill time until it's safe to clock out. It wasn't laziness, just matching the energy of a company that punished getting things done too fast. The smarter you worked, the dumber your paycheck looked, and that kills motivation fast.