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Friends sister thinks she's entitled to stuff.

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u/HattieSock

I'm browsing FB and notice a friends sister had tagged me in a comment. Turns out its for a raffle for a local school charity and shes bought a few tickets and wants others to buy them too. Fair enough.

A few days later I notice that my feed is taken up with her making post after post about how she really wishes she could win the hot tub that is first place prize because it would really benefit her daughter (she was born a couple of months early. she has issues with hearing but aside from that is fine) and how awful it is that she just cant afford something like that and nothing ever goes their way.

They have two cars, satellite TV, just had a wedding at a fancy country hotel, etc etc. To me these things are luxuries not essentials. She lives in a modest house and her husband has a decent job.

The day before the raffle is drawn she makes a giant post about how she's really desperate to win this hot tub and she doesn't know what shell do if she doesn't win it and is implying everyone she knows to donate the hot tub to her should they win.

The day of the raffle arrives and lo and behold she wins the hot tub. She makes a log post about how grateful she is and that the angels are looking down on her and her daughter will be so happy but its not as big as they need it to be and the one she was looking at on a website is much better and she really wishes it was that one instead. Urgh! She implores her friends to ask the organisers to swap the hot tub for a better one.

An organiser replies and says that it was donated and if she got in touch with the company they would upgrade it for the difference in price. She argues that as the mother of a disabled child she can't afford it and was hoping the organisers would use some of the funds from the raffle to get the upgrade. they decline. Oh well.

A few months later she makes a post that she has a hot tub for sale for xxx. The organisers of the raffle spot the post and comment that the hot tub didn't cost that much brand new and they were disappointed that she was selling it after begging people to have it. She justifies the price by saying she has a disabled child and they need the cash more and that its too big to keep on their property and it's more of an inconvenience and they've never used it anyway.

Someone offers her the price and they arrange a time for collection and they buyer agrees. She then asks him if there's anyway he would just give her the money and let her keep the hot tub because it's vital to her disabled child's welfare that she have a hot tub.