Entitle-whosit?

I work with a nutcase. She's in her mid-60s and is a lawyer. We're a non-profit legal clinic. In her 30+ year career she's never worked in free legal services. She drives a big Lexus and lives in the Palisades. Our clients live 6 people-to-a-one-room-apartment in gang-ridden, drug-infested part of the inner-city. They ride the bus... when they can afford the fare.

Our parking lot at work is, maybe, 30 yards long. If you parked in the farthest corner, it would take you no more than 45 seconds to walk from your car to the office. Yet every morning, this women "invents" a parking space for herself. She just can't handle not being right by the door.

Maybe she's afraid she'll fall and break her hip. Old people do that you know. Or she's afraid of all the poor people around, you know, it being legal aid an all. (In which case she may want to ditch the gawdy jewelry and $70,000 automobile!)

Why is it that the rich -- and she is rich, this is a second career for her and her husband has $$$ too -- seem to feel entitled to so much more than the so-called "Welfare Queens" of Ronald Reagan's America?