“A few in our community began to sneak around stealing, and demanding stuff because they made no provision for the aftermath..”
My wife would call those people, the Entitled Ones. Ones who think/feel that they are entitled to whatever the rest of us have inspite of their previous behaviors.
You both saw through my words, I was trying to avoid having to identify who most of these perpetrators were.. I knew those reading it would probably understand, without being told.. :) .. HA!