For my anime club activity a few weeks ago I had a button maker and I had the kids make their own buttons. I printed out numerous anime pictures they could choose from, some kids printed out their own pictures and others drew their own button designs. Then they cut out the circles handed them to me and I pressed them into the button maker. After the end of it I had blisters on my hands from all the buttons.
I must have made a 100 buttons for all the 20-30 kids that showed up. They all wanted several buttons. I found out after an hour into it that I was running out of the button backs, when I had only about 6-7 left I told the group that I could only make buttons for those who did not have any or only had one.
There was a girl (not the girl pictured) who was pressed next to me and had five buttons but insisted on more. She pleaded with me for more buttons and I explained to her that I could not make any more for her since I was running out and some people had not gotten any buttons. She continued whining. I explained again: "It's not fair for me to make you more buttons when some people don't have any buttons and you have five already." This did not seem to make logical sense to her and she pressed right up on me in my face and got aggressively whiny begging me for more. After 4-5 times of telling her "no" she walked off in a huff and got angry, completely forgetting all the 5 buttons I had made for her before. The week afterwards she gave me cold silence.
I understand that this is typical "me", self-gratifying adolescent behavior. But it still did not ease my annoyance. This girl is going to be disappointed in life when she discovers she doesn't get everything she wants.
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