spoiled friends

does anyone else have a friend who always seems to be edging them out in almost every situation? my friend gets his parents to buy him the most extravagant gifts for absolutely no reason. and i couldn't hate on him if they were just handing them over without his asking for them. but he nags the shit out of them until they give in.
when we were 14-15 everyone was getting 4 wheelers(ATV's) i was saving for a used yamaha warrior i had seen at a local place, i even got a paper route at 4:30 am every morning to save for it. then my friends parents go out and buy him a brand new Warrior with 0 miles on it while i'm still saving for mine. Then when we start getting our own cars and all i saved up for a used 1995 maxima and maybe a month after i get it his parents bought him a brand new fully loaded(-navi) Acura 3.2CL Type S. (which carried a price tag of $31,000.)
now we're all getting into motorcycles. my other buddy just got a used suzuki 600 something and i'm saving for an SV650S. My spoiled friend gets his parents to get him(for a first bike, mind you) a brand new Buell Firebolt XB9R(900cc). I remember when he first brought up the idea of a motorcycle to his parents, his dad didn't talk to him for the rest of the day, because he foresaw the nagging about to begin. and this continued on a daily basis for about a month or two til they gave in to buy him a new XB12R. see, he wanted an XB9R(which is still a sick ass bike) but they were all spoken for until into 2005. so he manages to convince his parents that he can learn on a 1200 just the same. He picks it up this Saturday.
:banghead: :banghead:

yeah i know, i'm jealous, but can i catch a break too please? shit.

totally the parents fault

He will wake up and smell the roses one day. And you can be there to point and laugh. :)

totally the parents fault


Yeah, I hate spoiled kids.
I too, have had to work my ass off for anything I wanted. My family struggled to make ends meet when we moved to America, so we never had any money to buy extra goodies with. But it taught me to work hard and respect and take care of my things once I was on my own.

this is the bike he's picking up, for those who don't know. he's getting this exact model and color scheme.
http://a1276.g.akamai.net/7/1276/1354/50e6fbba67dc84/www.buell.com/images/products/motorcycles/firebolt/12r/views/view1_color1_large.jpg
http://a1276.g.akamai.net/7/1276/1354/e0872f71aa198b/www.buell.com/images/products/motorcycles/firebolt/12r/views/view2_color1_large.jpg

Harley-Davidson sure makes one hell of a sport bike.

Wow, it looks pretty expensive!
I want one too!! :)

Well, if he's getting a 1200 cc bike to learn to ride on, then just wait a few weeks. If fate proves me correct, he'll be splattered on a car like a bug on a windshield. You can then have pride in yourself that you have a fully functional brain while his puny materialistic brain is lying in pieces in the road and splattered on a windshield. :biggrin:

that would be terrible, he is my friend. i'm predicting/hoping that he dumps it trying to back up or something.

that would be terrible, he is my friend. i'm predicting/hoping that he dumps it trying to back up or something.

Just a possible scenario. Though I wouldn't past anyone that gets a 1200 to learn on to lay it down at least once while still learning. The brain thing is pretty terrible, though. I've seen it a few times too. My grandma and grandpa own a wrecker service and I often ride with them during the weekends I'm not busy. I've seen quite a few things that would make a person cringe.

yeah i told him he should get a used bike to learn on and then get his buell later when he's more comfortable on a bike, but he's stubborn. he's not the type of kid to try going 100 on his first day out, though. I think any incidents will be relatively minor.

yeah i told him he should get a used bike to learn on and then get his buell later when he's more comfortable on a bike, but he's stubborn. he's not the type of kid to try going 100 on his first day out, though. I think any incidents will be relatively minor.

Once you get to a certain speed, it starts to scare the crap out of you no matter who you are. I'd predict the first laydown to be in a parking lot either practicing or parking. I'm just a wee bit stubborn myself (Ok, really stubborn), so I end up doing the same thing, just different objects instead of cars.

The parents are morons.

I don't know many spoilt kids. I just know some people who have rich f*kin' parents. But they don't always get what they want.

He'll only learn the value of a dollar when he hits rock bottom. You on the other hand have learned fiscal responsibility. You appreciate your belongings more than he ever will because you earned them. It'll all catch up to him one day and on that day, you don't want to be around.

~THT

As a reformed former spoiled kid, I reserve comment...

spoiled children should be ebaten to death and then resurrected only to endure even more excrutiating (sp?) pain of non-stop kicks to their balls (or titty twisties of they are females)

wow

I don't know many spoilt kids. I just know some people who have rich f*kin' parents. But they don't always get what they want.
see that's the thing. this isn't a rich family. His parents work very hrad for the things they have. They own and operate a deli in the town they live in and his father does construction when he's not at the Deli. his dad probably puts in about 60 hours a week if not more between both jobs.

it goes a little beyond jealousy to the point where i'm kind of offended/disgusted at the way he exploits his parents. think of all the nice things they could have for themselves if they weren't spending every spare dime trying to appease their son all the time.

read my previous post as an idea how to take care of the child exploiter...

Quick, buy a new playstation or something!

read my previous post as an idea how to take care of the child exploiter...
the ultimate revenge will be when he has a child and it turns out just like him and drives him into the poor house. then we can go with your idea just to reinforce the fact of the matter.

well, considering the bike they bought him, I don't think that he'll have time to figure things out himself...

Former spoiled kid here......when he hits rock bottom..he'll wake up.....TRUST ME....it sucks ass, but its a huge eye-opener.

He is going to learn. I am in the poor house because I did spoiled my best friend to death. If she wants somethin she has got it. But I get the same back. The only way I am spoiled must be that I learned to cook at young age.

Honestly, being "spoiled" is great, AS LONG as you wake up at some point and realize what's REALLY important in life. I don't know if it's having to hit rock bottom so much as it's simply growing the fuck up. Then you have your fast bike, your *cough* Acura :biggrin: AND the maturity, attitude and wisdom it takes to function properly in a civilized society. Parents love to provide for their children...it's up to the children to prove they were worth it in the end. I love buying gifts for my parents now. Makes me feel good to make them happy. Some people, however, never stop looking for handouts...

I was spoiled, but I'm an only child and never to the degree of this kid. He has no appreciation for anything it sounds like, and doesn't know the value of a dollar. That's one thing my parents taught me. This kid has his parents whipped.

in the end your the one whos gonna manage on your own and make something of your self where as he gets screwed in the future no know shit to do

I was spoiled, but I'm an only child and never to the degree of this kid. He has no appreciation for anything it sounds like, and doesn't know the value of a dollar. That's one thing my parents taught me. This kid has his parents whipped.
hit the nail on the head. i only listed the big stuff they bought him. he's got lether sofa's in his bedroom, big screen tv, surround sound, XBox,PS2, XM radio in his car. they bought him a cat-back exhaust and lowering springs for his car(which was $$$ cuz of the dual mufflers), his parents even gave him $20 a week for gas for his car for the first 6-12 months he had it. And his Dad just bought him a $400 helmet and a $350 Riding jacket on top of the bike itself. i swear it just goes on and on... it's maddening trying to work to buy myself this shit, and then when i'm almost within reach of my goal, his parent just plunk down whatever money he needs to get it for himself.

he brought his bike by my house friday, cuz he got it early, and he didn't get black, he went with the red one in a last minute decision because it matched his acura. As beautiful as the bike is, I just wanted to lay my foot into the gas tank and knock the damn thing over. it's all good though, i'll have a bike of my own in a month or so if all goes as planned, and as you guys said i'll have the satisfaction that goes along with working hard, making sacrifices and being determined enough to achieve my goals.

damn foos spoiled as hell

the least he could do is find a job to cover some of the crap

Gah!!! Shame on the kids father for not putting his foot down, the guy has problems if he doesn't know how to say no.

well this frend of mine iz da same as yourz ........ i saved for a PS2(PlayStation 2) n he didnt even knwo wht it waz then he saw mine.......i told him more....the next week he got a x box,PS2,Game Cube.........i mean WTF..........and yea now i searched the web for cheap guitars n m saving....i tell him i`ll get one.....suddenly he gets an Yamaha`s orignal electric guitar......his parents buy him everthing...man he iz so damn spoiled.....he even expects us to treat him lyk a king.....n our master n commander.....wht we rnt his slaves....n when we dun.....he somehow takes revenge

boy do i know how that is....my friend victor is fucking spoiled as hell...
his 1st car was a 2001 V6 Mustang...brand new when he was 16 mind you.....crashes it into a house 4 months after owning it. after that he gets a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix SE.....the guy gets 15" subs in the trunk...they get stolen, he gets new ones...car was all hooked up with audio stuff....now like 3 weeks ago, he traded that in for a 2003 Mustang GT with a 5spd transmission........all because his dad owns his own business and gets everything for him. Victor's room is way bigger than his dad's and it seems like it could be like a den or something, because it's huge! he gets everything handed to him on a silver platter including his brand new pure bred Blue PitBull named Kato......:rolleyes:...I don't even think that he has a job or anything either...meanwhile i'm busting my ass at a supermarket so that i can get a used 240SX....i know how it is man....boy do i know:disappoin

y does he always try to 1up u

I got one for you. My buddy Jon wants a 84 Monte Carlo, his parents sell their 4 wheeler, and their 3 dirtbikes, buy him one, and then his dad buys one for himself. Jon likes his dads more so his dad gives it to him. Then Jon doesnt want the Monte at all so his dad takes it back. But then Jon wants an 87 Olds 442. His dad sells his BMW for it. Mind you that Jon has no idea what 442 and at the time he prolly didnt even know what "Olds" meant. He just wanted the car cause one of his friends told him it was nice. So now he has his 442 and thinks its the faster car in the world(Im not personally a fan of olds's, i dont think its very nice) and he has no idea about it at all. He actually knows nothing about cars, he just tells his dad whats wrong and then his dad looks at it, then they call someone. I told him he should get a Boss 302, he had no idea what it was. I told him AMCs are nice, he says he likes other movie theaters better(AMC is a chain of theaters). In fact, he is so spoiled he didnt know how to used a microwave. He has to do no work around the house, i dont think hes ever washed a dish, mowed a lawn or anything. Of course when its time to open his pool, he doesnt do that. His mom still cleans his room, he works two jobs, does it go to his car?...no, college?...no, in fact he doesnt even pay for his own fucking gas.

ya i've got friends like that. it sucks for me. oh well.

Nice ride, but too bad he will probally crash it. Shit, I was paying rent and working a full time job at 13/14.
Bike on my list---Raptor 660. Orginally for about 6 yrs I wanted the Warrior, until I researched the Raptor.......

this kid is an asshole

he may be spoiled, but think of it this way. He will never truly appreciate the things he has. The ones that work and buy their own shit, are the only ones that truly enjoy what they got b/c they went through the labor and work hard to get what they want. I remembered when I bought a dreamcast and downloaded free games over the Internet. None of em were fun, I'd literaly download em, burn em, play them once and then it'd collect dust. I burned lke 34 games but none of em stuck. Probably b/c I didn't pay for em and it just wasn't there, the excitement wasn't there.

true but theres a limit on how much u can take this crap especially when they come over to your home and flash it in your face every single fuckin time

true but theres a limit on how much u can take this crap especially when they come over to your home and flash it in your face every single fuckin time
dude, all this kid talks about is his fuckin buell. we were sitting around hangin out one night and he must been like "Hey look at this" like 100 times trying to show me all the shit he wants to get for his bike out of the Buell catalog. the worst part is that he'll get it all too.

oh, and he already laid his bike down. he was trying to back it into his garage and he got thrown off balance and couldn't hold the bike up by himself. So he had to hop off the side and lower it to the ground slowly by the handlebar. he has a very small ding in the gas tank and a scratched lens on his blinker.

There is a serious void in this kid's life that's being filled with toys that provide only a TEMPORARY happieness....the void being the lack of attention he should have been getting from his parents. Perhaps they are too busy with work or their own agenda to address their own kid's needs, so at some point they gave him something to get him out of their hair, he wanted more, they gave in, and it has now snowballed into what is going on today.

People like him learn how to love things, but rarely learn how to love or care about other people. They are also the most insecure people, usually go thru friends like we go thru toilet paper, and never really learn how to be independent individuals. I know of several such people. They are miserable.

As for YOU: life is too short to be worrying about what your friend has or is doing. You work hard, you save up for your stuff, and in the end you have learned the value and reward of hard work. You will succeed in life if you concern yourself only with what's important for YOU and work toward your own goals. Worrying about what others are doing or getting only makes you miserable and gets you nowhere.

At some point everyone realizes (hopefully) that toys, designer clothing, big cars, big houses, etc. mean nothing when it comes down to who YOU are as a person. I have had friends who "have everything and then some" but they were such selfish miserable pricks and focused only what they had and what I didn't have, I couldn't stand to be around them.

Aside from that, material things do absolutely NOTHING to mend broken hearts, cure diseases, help you out in times of trouble, or prevent death.

It seems that society in general has turned life into a huge pissing contest of who has more or not.

To me true happiness comes from accepting and being content with your life NOW. Of course it does not hurt to make improvements, but the improvements should be own spirtual welfare, not because so-n-so 1UPed you. Success is being able to manage what you have to work with now, not obtaining wealth. Success is also taking care of yourself, making the bills on time, and maintaining good relations with the people in your life.

This kid sounds like a failure time bomb waiting to explode. You (hopefully) are someone who can succceed in life if you focus on your own agenda and dont concern yourself with what miserable people around you are doing.

already

how long has he had the bike

well said Kat.
i don't try to show my resentment day to day, i just posted here to vent. it's better to do it here than to inadvertantly blow up and curse my friend out.


already

how long has he had the bike

a little more than a week

*this is tyuor conscience speaking*
.....kill him.....take the bike.....kill the parents also.....jk!