littlebrowndog
I am one of the first to be bothered by that sense of entitlement, but in this situation as described I see a few too many unknowns and a mitigating factor or two. First, when I have been the one with the misfortune of my car breaking down and I have called AAA the first question they have asked is “Are you someplace safe?” I cannot imagine them telling me to wait in my broken down car in the middle of an intersection, nor can I imagine them advising me to get out in the intersection to direct traffic around my car. Second, I know way too many people just scraping by with minimum wage jobs who have been told that one more absence or late arrival will result in firing. I figure the person did at least take responsibility to the extent they called a tow truck. Me personally I am far from feeling entitled and I would feel awful if my dead car was delaying others but I would view it as too dangerous to sit inside or get out in the middle of moving traffic and try to direct traffic, and at nearly 60,I am quite sure I could not push my car to the side. One might conversely ask where were all the community minded helpful people who could have together pushed the car off to the side? Anyhow, too many possibilities for me to ascribe it to entitlement with any degree of certainty.