Hello people of reddit! I thought i share a story with you about someone i know personally who is quite entitled and a total A-hole. I called him a neckbeard but after someone point out that this can be a entitled people story after someone told me that it could work as a entiled people story, at this point i do agree with him. I made changes to this story a little bit to reflect the events that happened and what has happened now.

Backstory: I, Male, have been a long time fan of the Japanese Manga Yugioh since I was a kid, since i was 5 (25 now). I had a deck and  the original duel disk from the DM series (Duel Monsters) and i was a big fan of the show. Over time i lost cards and eventually gave my duel disk to goodwill (they are rare and very collectable now) and lost track of the series and did my own thing.

In 2018 after i got my first paid job, i started to dig back into the TCG (Trading Card Game) after finding a bunch of cards that a old high school classmate of mine gave me. I learned that there was a card shop that opened up in the town where i worked and i went and met the owners. It was a father and son shop and they primarily support MTG (Magic The Gathering). They said they were trying to make a Yugioh tournament and are trying to find players. I said that i would be interested if they did form one, and they were happy to hear that.

I stopped by time to time to buy cards and to have the occasional conversation. One day they told me that they made tournament dates. Back then it was Fridays and Sundays, but the problem was i worked night shifts from 2:30 pm to 11 pm. So it didn't work out, still i got a new position in the workplace in which i was able to go both days. This was the time i met the subject of this story.

Sorry for the long and boring introduction, onto the real story at hand. Names changed for obvious reasons.  Here is the cast, there is:

Me: OP

Jerry: not real name but changed to keep his identity private

Store owner

I met Jerry on my third tournament, on a Friday. We got along at first, but i then saw what he was truly like. The guy was a total jerk. At the time was playing just a mix of random cards and i slowly started to make fairly decent decks to competitive decks and slowlystsrting to get into the current meta. But in Jerry's case, he would always play the same deck every single time he came to the store. Whenever he'd win a round he would gloat to his opponent and when he loses he would have a fit. He was a quite the bully and you can tell that some people who knew him was quite annoyed by his behavior.

There would times when i would buy booster boxes (boxes of 24 card packs ranging from 5 to 9 cards per pack), and sort out the high rarities (ultra rares and secret rares) and the commons apart and he would invite himself to pick through my piles and choose what he wanted to trade for. This bugged me greatly and i did not appreciate him going in to my card piles and helping himself.

The way trading works is that we would trade for equal value of a card or cards. If i pick cards that have a value of 30 dollars, the person being traded with with pick cards that are up to or equal in value. This can be any number of cards as long as it equals what i picked out. When he would do that unexpectedly, it shocked me because i hadn't found the value of what i pulled yet. There would even be times where he would open the card packs with me when i didn't give him permission.

Whenever i buy boxes and he does that all the time and it made my blood boil. There was one set i bought and he started opening packs, once said:

Jerry: "this box sucks dude, why do you even buy these?"

It pissed me off. Coming from a guy that never played anything else but the same deck every is just insulting to me. At that point i confronted him and said to him:

Me: "look, just stop. I bought these boxes, not you. I need time to look through what i got and then decide if i want to trade them or not"

He took the hint and left me alone. Since then he was still as toxic as ever. There was even a kid who would join us on sundays now and then and he would be mean to him. I played the kid before and he was a good kid and didn't deserve that sort of treatment.

Now to the good part, the part you're probably waiting for. On a sunday tournament, there was just six of us playing at first, sundays always has less people then. Jerry came in late to sign up. On sundays you have to sign up by 10:00 am. We all were just about to play when we heard this exchange:

Store owner: no, you can't have a winning Bye.

For context, during a tournament, if there is an odd number of people, someone is bound to not have an opponent. The person who isn't matched up with someone gets an automatic win, known as a Bye. If you show up late, you get a Losing Bye. Jerry was determined to get a winning bye because we had a leaderboard for a finals tournament and he must have been too determined to make it to the top 8 players.

The exchange continued:

Jerry: "come on, how about i buy one?"

Store owner: "No, you cannot. Those are the rules"

Jerry got his OTS pack (a pack of three cards that you get upon entry) and opened it. We all can hear him say

Jerry: "Fuck this place"

There was something he said to the owner which we didn't catch, but by how the owner reacted, we knew it wasn't good. They argued for a few minutes and all we could do was shuffle and hands and just listen. I dont remember what they said, but i do remember that the owner was angry when he said his final piece:

Store owner: "I don't ever want to see you in here again! Get out!"

Jerry left in a rage and we just sat there quietly, looking at eachother. From what I was told by the owner about it like a year or so later, he mentioned that Jerry called him racist to asians. That didn't make any sense because i have met the owners wife and she is a Filipino woman.

owner came over with some opened booster boxes that still had some packs in them.

Store owner: "i am very sorry that you guys have to witness that, i apologize. As a token for understanding, you guys can choose up to five packs on the house. I insist"

I picked my five packs and put them in my backpack till after the round was over. One that day forth, we never saw Jerry at the shop again. I never seen him at all since that was the only shop i went to. I know there was several other places where he can still play at. But i was glad i didn't have to tell him to leave me alone anymore.

EDIT TO ADD: I just remembered the other day another thing Jerry tried to. Thought it easier this way then to post in the comments.

Back when the OTS 11 packs came out (referr up above to what an OTS Pack is), I managed to pull an Ultimate Rare. Ultimate Rares now are fairly different then earlier ones. The newer Ultimate Rares have the background pressed down and the monster lifted up, so it looked like that the monster was just a sticker put on the card. It was kinda neat. The Ultimate Rare i pulled was Sky Striker Ace- Kaina. I sleeved it and put in a binder that i put all the cards i wanted to sell.

One day, and this was before he got banned, Jerry just helped himself to my binders without asking and saw the Kaina in the slot. He took it out and slammed it in front of me and slammed his binder next to it. This was our exchange:

Jerry: I want that! Here my trades!

Me: I'm sorry, jerry. But that card is not for trade, it is for sale.

Jerry: i dont have any money on me, dude. Just pick what you want and we have a deal.

I just put the card back in my binder and told him straight up:

Me: im sorry, but you have nothing i want to trade for. And this card is for sale if you want to buy it off me.

Of course he refused and he was committed to get the card from me. Now every tournament we attended together, he would go:

Jerry: OP, give me that Kaina.

I would always decline.  I did end up selling it on Ebay a few weeks later. And to everyone who plays or used to play yugioh, yes...he always played Sky Strikers