rSlash - r/Entitledparents Karen Thinks She Owns My Pool

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

0:00 Intro 0:09 My pool 2:31 My house 6:29 Condom 7:28 Unhinged 9:57 Birthday dinner 11:35 Apartment inspection 13:43 Fix my major Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and they're straight up trash. They have three broken down cars in their front yard that the dad is, quote, working on. They blast music on their outdoor speakers at midnight. They leave trash, beer cans, pizza boxes, cigar wrappers in the woods behind my house, just past my property line. I got I got woken up this morning by a notification that there was movement in my backyard. I checked my camera and there were six kids that I didn't recognize swimming in my pool, playing games, dunking on my basketball hoop. Yes, they damaged it. I called the police non-emergency number.

The cop showed up and took the kids home. They were too young to charge. About an hour later, I had loud knocks on my door. It was the mom who just moved in. She told me that I shouldn't have a pool if I didn't want to be. everyone who sees it to jump in. She told me, not everyone can afford a pool, so I need to share. Like, if I knew her and her kids, if we were friends, I would probably be okay with them swimming, but some random kids swimming in my pool is a legal liability for me. Yes, O.P. is correct about that.

That is, in my opinion, one of the craziest things about the American legal system is if you have a swimming pool and someone breaks into your yard, trespasses on your property, and swims in your pool, drowns, you could be liable. I will admit that the logic behind that law was initially sound. Like, let's suppose you have, I don't know, an old playground on your property. And it's way out of repair and there's like rusty pipes all over the place. And some kid sees the playground and goes and plays on it and then impales themselves on the rusty pipe and dies. Yeah, okay, in that case, you should be liable in some regard because you're not taking care of your property. But Unfortunately, pools got looped into this law, so it's really unfair for pool owners, in my opinion.

I think it's called attractive nuisance law or something like that. Our next Reddit post is from Much Blacksmith. So we have this neighbor with a small child, about the same size as my three-year-old, so I'm assuming he's about three as well. It's happened twice, where this boy escapes and is running barefoot and free across everyone's yards. The mom just follows, saying, no, you need to come home. Stop running for mommy. laughing like it's a game. Not speaking in any kind of assertive tone, like she's accidentally encouraging this game the child is playing. So for the third time, today this child comes out of

nowhere, no mom in sight, while me and my three-year-old are outside. And I figured he just wanted to play with my child, but instead he just runs around grabbing things, trying to get into the toy chest and hopping on our toy car thing. After about three minutes, I asked him, hey, does your mom know you're here, and he says no. Then I hear his mom calling him, and she comes from the opposite direction this kid came from. She walks across our yard and says, come on, buddy, this isn't your stuff, let's go. And the kid is just not listening and running around. And my child is watching trying to play with this kid, but he doesn't care about that either. I step back and let the mom try to get her kid. She walks closer and says the same thing. Come on, buddy, let's go home. Then this child starts walking up the

stairs to my front door right in front of his mom, within arm's reach of her. But she's still just standing there, talking to this three-year-old while he's smiling, not caring about her at all. And me, naively thinking that she would stop him or grab him before he got so far, but I was wrong. This child opens the door and just walked right into my house. And the mom immediately looks at me like she's shocked, hand over her mouth, and doesn't know what to do. Our dog, starts going crazy. He left the door open, so now I'm freaking out that my dog is gonna jump on this kid or bolt. I run in there after this child, now leaving my three-year-old outside unattended, I realized. And now the kid is smiling at me, opening cabinets in my kitchen, and I say,

Hey, I've got a sleeping baby in that room right there. We have to go back outside to mommy, and he starts dodging me and running around. So now I'm chasing this little boy around my tiny house trying to hurt him out the door. But now I'm thinking, how is this okay? I'm about to grab this kid and carry him outside. What if the kid screams or I heard him somehow trying to get him back outside? I'm extremely uncomfortable at this point. Eventually, he runs out the door when he had nowhere else to go. I walk outside and the mom says, he just wanted to see what your house looked like, I guess, and laughs. And then her kid ran into the next neighbor's yard with this mom trailing behind still saying, come on buddy, it's time to go back home in the nicest way possible.

This woman is not teaching her kid boundaries at all. I can't imagine my three-year-old ever doing that, but I would be physically grabbing my kid to get them out of someone's yard, not trying to talk them out of it, and I definitely wouldn't be letting some random woman chase my kid around her house while I stood there watching. I guess I'm asking for the purpose of doing better next time. I'm not sure if this child is special needs or something,

Or if he's just not being parented, what would you have done? Or how do I tell the mom to grab her kid before he walks into people's houses? Yeah, it's like one of those things where it's so common sense to grab the kid before he goes into someone's house that you just automatically assume someone's going to do it. So when they don't, it's shocking and also too late. Very weird behavior. Especially once your dog started barking, you'd think that would send off alarm bells in her head and she would dash inside and grab the kid, but instead she, what, just sat there on your front porch

waiting for you to come out with her kid, hoping that it didn't get bitten? What a weird mother. Our next credit posted from Busy Regrets. I work as a cashier in a small supermarket. Tonight I was working the evening shift, and it was just me and one other co-worker on shift. A woman came in with her young daughter, and when they came over to pay, she started complaining to me that her daughter asked what a condom was when she saw them in the aisles. She yelled at me that it was inappropriate and we shouldn't sell products like that in normal shops where kids could see them and that I should be ashamed of myself. I told her it was her responsibility to not let her daughter see those things that she doesn't want her to see. She continued complaining at me because she needed to go down that aisle and her kids shouldn't have to see those things.

And I just told her that what the shop sells has nothing to do with me. She just glared at me while I scanned her shopping and then stormed out. Do not work in customer service. You have to deal with some really insane people. It's a shame that this lady's parents didn't use a condom. Our next Reddit post is from Nine Witchercoda. I work at a small private daycare and we had this one kid, Brody. He's four years old and honestly one of the sweetest kids in my group.

His parents, though, are a whole different story. And I've been biting my tongue for months. But last week, they finally did something so completely over the line that I have to talk about it somewhere. Brody's mom has always been the type to hover. She would show up 20 minutes before pickup and just stand outside the glass door watching us, which is fine technically, but she'd also send four or five messages a day asking if Brody ate a snack, if he napped, if anyone touched him wrong, if we washed his specific cup the specific way she showed us. Normal concern taken to a completely different level.

But her husband is somehow worse. Two weeks ago, we had a little spring showcase, just kids singing a few songs and doing a craft for the parents. Nothing big. Every single kid got a small ribbon just for participating. Same ribbon, same color, just a little keepsake. After it was over, the entitled dad walked straight up to our director and said loudly, in front of like eight other families,

that Brody should have gotten a different ribbon because he was clearly the most engaged, and the other kids were just standing there. The director explained that it was just a participation token for every child, and the entitled dad actually said, So you're telling me my son gets the same thing as the kid who picked his nose the whole time? Out loud, in front of everyone, including the mom of the nose-picking kid who was standing literally two feet away. That mom looked like she wanted to dissolve into the... the floor, and I felt so bad for her. The entitled mom then jumped in and said the showcase was

poorly organized, and that Brody had been practicing his song at home for two weeks and deserved recognition beyond what the other kids who clearly didn't prepare got. The director stayed calm, but I could see it in her face. After they left, three other parents came up to her just to apologize on their behalf, which honestly says everything. I don't know how much longer I can watch this without saying something to someone, because Brody is going to grow up thinking this is how the world works, and that genuinely worries me more than anything his parents do to us. I don't know, man, I think the ability to sing a song while also picking your nose shows incredible multitasking talent. Maybe that kid should have gotten the ribbon. Our next Reddit post is from

Kiss and Kish. So I'm a 22-year-old woman, and my boyfriend turned 23 last weekend, and we went to this small Italian place that's first come, first serve. It's one of the those cozy spots where the tables are way too close together, so you can basically hear every conversation around you. Anyway, we finally get a table after waiting 30 minutes, order a bottle of wine, and this family walks in with mom, dad, two kids, and a teenage boy who looks like he'd rather be anywhere else. The hostess tells them it'll be a 25-minute wait. The mom immediately starts complaining that her kids are hungry, that it's ridiculous people are taking up big tables when they're just couples. Guess who she points at? Yep, us. She comes over, leans on our table, and goes,

You two don't mind moving so my family can sit, right? You can wait a bit longer, you're young. I literally thought she was joking. My boyfriend laughed awkwardly and said, Uh, actually it's my birthday. She goes, then you should be gentleman enough to offer your seat to a mother with hungry children. The waitress stepped in and told her, she can't ask people to take. give up tables. The mom rolled her eyes, huffed off, and whispered loud enough for us to hear. People these days had no respect. Her husband looked mortified. The rest of the night, she kept glaring over like we'd personally ruined her evening. So yeah, happy birthday, babe. Here's a free side of audacity. I don't know, lady. If your kids are so hungry that they can't survive

a 25-minute wait, then that just sounds like bad parenting. Our next Reddit post is from Jotero. My boyfriend's mom showed up to my apartment to inspect it before deciding if he's allowed to move in with me. So my boyfriend, Jake and I have been together for almost two years, and we recently decided he's going to move into my apartment. My apartment, that I pay for, that I've lived in a loan for three years. Jake is 26 years old. I found out last Thursday when my neighbor texted me saying there was a woman in the hallway taking pictures of the building. entrance and asking other tenants questions about noise levels and what kind of people live here. I came home on my lunch break and she was literally standing in my hallway with a notepad.

His mom introduced herself very warmly, said that Jake had mentioned the move and she just wanted to see where her son would be living before things got too far along. She asked me if she could come inside to check the layout. I said no. She looked genuinely surprised, like that was a lot. an unreasonable response. She then told me she had some concerns about the neighborhood and wanted to discuss house rules in case Jake moves in, including whether I'd be okay with her having a spare key for visits. I told her this wasn't something we were going to discuss at my front door without Jake

present, and that showing up unannounced to evaluate my home was not something I was comfortable with. She left, but texted Jake that I was hostile and that she thinks we're rushing things. Jake apologized and said she does stuff like this, but he looked genuinely embarrassed. I like him a lot, but the idea that his mom sees my home as a space that she gets veto power over is making me rethink the whole timeline of this move, honestly. Well, O.P., I don't think you should be too harsh on Jake necessarily. It's not his fault that he has a crazy mom. What matters is how he responds to that, right?

If he's like, I don't know, man, my mom makes some good points, then yeah, dump them. 26 is a bit too old to still be attached to the umbilical cord. Our next Reddit post is from Dipper to Mabel. I'm a 21-year-old woman, a junior in college living on campus. My mom has always been the kind of parent who treats my life like a group project that she's leading. When I picked my major, psychology, she smiled and said she was supportive, but she never stopped making little digs like, so you're going to be poor, or that's not a real career. I usually ignore it. Last week, I got an email from my academic advisor asking if I could stop by because there was

confusion about my course plan. I go in thinking it's about a prerequisite. Nope. My advisor says that my mom called the department office and left a voicemail about how I'm lost and emotionally unstable and that I was changing majors to something useless, and I needed help getting back on track. She also asked that they could send her my grades because she pays for everything. She doesn't. I have loans and a part-time job. My advisor looked uncomfortable and basically told me they shut her down, but they wanted to make sure that I'm safe and not being forced into anything. I wanted to melt into the carpet. Like, imagine your mom pitching you as a crisis case to your school. I called my mom after and asked what the hell she was thinking. She immediately went into

this calm voice she uses when she's trying to sound reasonable and said she was just advocating. Then she admitted she also emailed one of my professors to ask why I got a B on a paper, because she knows I'm smarter than that. I told her she crossed a massive line, and I'm an adult. She started crying and said that I'm ungrateful and that she's the only person who actually cares about your future. She then tried to flip it on me, saying my advisor probably thinks that she's a bad mother now and that I should call them to clarify that she meant well. When I said no, my mom got sharp and said that if I keep pushing her away, don't come crying when you fail out. I haven't slept right since. Part of me feels guilty because she's convinced she's helping.

But I also feel like she's tried to take control of my life by embarrassing me into compliance. Am I wrong for telling her she's on an info diet from now on? Well, O.P., despite all your mom's craziness, she is right about one thing. Your advisor definitely does think that she's a bad mother now. That was our slash entitled parents. And if you like this content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day. Advertising on Spotify with audio and display ads helps brands turn attention into results. Download the 2026 performance playbook and discover why Spotify belongs in your media plan.