Entitled dad tries to force a stranger to give his Nintendo Switch to his 6-year-old daughter, but the gamer refuses: ‘How is it my job to entertain your child?’

Author image for Jesse Kessenheimer
Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 12, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

To a gamer, video games are sacred. So you better believe that this gamer in the hospital waiting room wasn't about to give his precious Nintendo Switch to the random 5-year-old girl sitting next to him with Cheeto fingers and a bad attitude. However, an entitled dad thought otherwise and tried to guilt-trip the gamer into giving up his game to the girl, as if it was his responsibility to keep the unruly child entertained while they waited in public. 

Sorry, buddy, but you should have brought your own entertainment for your kid if she's not capable of sitting still for 15 minutes on her own. 

Advertisement

  • It's never a stranger's responsibility to enrich a stranger's child. While some folks love interacting with children in public, unprovoked acts of parenting are not the responsibility of the public, especially when it involves relinquishing some expensive, precious, gaming cargo. Just because the Nintendo Switch looks like a kid's gaming device doesn't mean it's for children. With a price tag nearing $400, no gamer would ever consider handing their game to a kid they don't know.

  • Cheezburger Image 10552842496
    via Umkeher

    Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

  • Entitled dad tries to demand I let his daughter play on my switch
    via General_Locksmith512
  • I (23M) had a doctor's appointment earlier today and I took my Switch because I knew I'd be waiting for a while.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • So I was sitting in the waiting room and after a while a dad with a little girl (probably 5/6yrs old) walk in and sit on a couch across the room.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • A few minutes pass and the little girl gets up and sits on the armchair next to the one I'm sitting, and starts leaning over to watch my game.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • I was fine with that because she wasn't doing anything at first, she was just watching, though I thought it was kinda weird that the dad didn't do anything and just let his daughter sit next to a random guy.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • Anyway I didn't do anything I just kept playing and let her watch.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • Cheezburger Image 10552842752
    via Slatan

    Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

  • But then she reached out and tried to grab my Switch so I pulled away and looked at the dad and he was just watching like nothing happened.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • Im pretty shy so interacting with people in awkward scenarios like that is a challenge, but I called him and said "hey, your daughter just tried to grab my game, can you ask her to not do that please?".
    via General_Locksmith512
  • And his response was just... "let her play, what's the problem?".
    via General_Locksmith512
  • I let my gf's brother play with my stuff all the time but I don't know this kid and given her attitude I couldn't trust that she wouldn't break it or something like that.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • So I said "no, she can watch but not play." And bro got mad and said something in the lines of "I should let her play because she's bored and I'm a grown man and she's a little kid
    via General_Locksmith512
  • so I should let her have it".
    via General_Locksmith512
  • I just said no again and moved to a different seat and kept ignoring them until the doctor called me in.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • Bruh. I thought people like this were internet skits.
    via General_Locksmith512
  • Excellent_Ad1132. A response to this is "How is it my job to entertain your child. You should have brought something for her to do. You can't make your problem, mine."
    via Excellent_Ad1132
  • oXSirMaverickXo Yeah, this happens. They get pretty bold, too. I had a very weird encounter with a father and his teenage daughter in a coffee shop. It wasn't even a handheld. It was a Lenovo laptop, I was editing pictures.
    via oXSirMaverickXo
  • RandoBoomer ⚫ A woman approached my great-nephew (aged 5) telling him he "needed to share" his switch her kid. Didn't even ask my nephew - went straight to the kid.
    via RandoBoomer
  • Snoo58504. Tell him his job is to keep his kids occupied not your. His lack of preparation is not your problem.
    via Snoo58504
  • kasiagabrielle "She's bored? , one of her parents should entertain her."
    via kasiagabrielle

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

family drama gamer relatable memes kids nintendo switch gamers video game parenting gaming memes video games nintendo parents children
Scroll Down For The Next Article