Entitled Woman Tries to Skip Other People's Turns at Trampoline Park Because "her child has been waiting for 30 minutes"

Entitled woman tries to skip other people's turns at a trampoline park because she claims that "her child has been waiting". Here's what happened.

So to start off, I am a 13 year old male. I am in a Boy Scouts Troop. I have matured greatly, as I am nearly an Eagle Scout. I am the Senior Patrol Leader, which is kind of like the leader of the group. I run all the troop meetings and the like. Recently, I suggested meeting at a local trampoline park, we'll call it Jumpland for the sake of privacy.

Three other Scouts and I went to Jumpland to have some fun and to jump on trampolines. Now, at Jumpland, there is a big inflatable ball that you can go inside of. It's about 3 by 3 feet and you can brace yourself against it and roll around. I was waiting for that to open up for maybe 45 minutes, but I was having fun with my brother, who also came, so I forgot to notify the others that I wanted a go.

Enter the entitled woman of this story, we'll call her Lauren, for privacy and I don't know her real name. She's in her mid-30s or early-40s. She's walking over to us with her son, who's about two or three years old, and very small. She starts conversing with us about her son.

"My son has been waiting for thirty minutes and nobody has been letting him in the ball!"

Now, we've been setting up a sort of waiting list so everyone would get a turn. We were never asked by this child for a turn. We had previously agreed that a kid maybe seven years old would go on, and I would go on after him. We tried to explain that to Lauren, but she kept repeating that "her son had been waiting for thirty minutes" and that "we should give him a turn."

The kid that was about seven, we'll call him Eric, had been waiting for maybe 15 minutes and had just gotten on when Lauren had stridden up to us about her child, who wouldn't've even fit in the ball and maybe would've even gotten hurt. We explained that Eric had been waiting for a while too, and he was already in the ball for maybe 15 seconds. Lauren brought up again, you guessed it, how her son had been waiting for half an hour.

We kept explaining to her that Eric had already gotten on, and when she kept refusing to let Eric stay in, Eric finally agreed to her outlandish demand and gotten out. The others and I, being the kind Boy Scouts that we are, helped this two-ish year old kid in. As we guessed, he was way too small for it and wasn't able to brace himself. We then left him alone and left the area.

So, with everything being said, what should I have done differently in this situation, because I am very frustrated with this woman's entitlement.

Posted Apr 8, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

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