is my friend being spoiled? 10 points!?

[dawn]

So i went on Facebook and my friend broke both of her wrists. She keeps getting all these sympathy messages and now everyone she knows is trying to put money together to buy her an iPad mini so she can read. -_-

Honestly, 2 years ago when I broke my arm my parents got pissed because of the hospital bills and the fact i couldn't babysit and almost no one gave me HUGE amounts of sympathy and certainly no one bought and an iPad mini just so i can read for those 4-6 weeks...

So my question his do you think she is being spoiled?

[Person]

Everybody is just being nice but I have to admit that is a bit too much... lol. Yeah life is unfair.

[455]

Apparently, people like her better than they like you.
Just an FYI, Skippy, it's a lot harder to do things with two broken wrists than one broken arem.

[TheRealNumberNine]

Their is someone near my area who keeps getting migrains. He has to get some type of head surgery (it is simple and not that dangerous or high risk) and he was fine after the procedure. He said he wanted tickets to an nba game, but he said that it would only be worth going to if he got front row seats. So sure enough, people all put it money for him to get his whole family front row seats. Like WTF. How greedy do you have to be to say you only want tickets to a basketball game if you get to sit in the first row?

[Kirsty]

Definitely she is taking advantage of breaking her wrists

[StarSwinger]

That would depend on how she reacts to receiving the iPad mini. If she is appreciative of it, then she is not spoiled. If she says it's not good enough, then she is spoiled. Being spoiled has to do more with the person's actions than the actual material things. I have met people who would be considered to be poor by government standards who I consider to be spoiled because they don't care how their actions affect those around them and their parents let them (e.g. a teenager charging his dad's card to the limit on online gaming, the dad can't afford to pay and punishes the teen, but the mother says it's o.k., gets mad at the father for punishing the boy and lifts the boy's punishment; the boy never apologizes to his dad and pulls more stunts later, this is a spoiled teen). In the case you describe simply receiving an iPad mini does not make a person spoiled. Again it is how she reacts.