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A spoiled child is someone who exhibits behavioral problems from being overindulged by their parents or other caregivers. You probably knew a kid like this in school: they couldn’t handle hearing ‘no’; would be a sore loser at whatever, be it a game, a test, a bet; and act like the entire world revolved around them.
Much of this delusional entitlement continues way into their adult lives, making them not the most likeable person in the room. But there are things in life called reality checks that put even the most spoiled of us in our place.
So when someone asked people on Reddit “What was the best moment you've seen where the real world hit a spoiled rich kid?” the stories started pouring in one by one. 15.6k comments later, we have some of the most entertaining cases where people who believe we owe them the world were forced to have a cold shower and wake up.
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#1
Saw a college guy with a ridiculously expensive car (can't remember the model) rear-end this woman who drove an absolute beater. Her car was definitely totalled and his wasn't looking that hot either. He got out and started screaming at this woman. She was in tears. He kept telling her that she was going to pay for this.
When the cops came, I saw each of them give their statements. After that, me and like 10 people came forward and gave our witness statements. It sounded like each and every one of us put complete fault on him (which was the truth). When the cops went back to him, I saw his face just sink. He probably told them it was her fault and just found out that two handfuls of people just confirmed that he's full of s**t.
I've never seen that many witnesses stick around for a simple traffic accident. I think the other people felt the same way I did: that kid was a douche and should be punished for what he did.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
In most states the person who rear ends another is automatically at fault for not leaving enough space to brake properly
Nicolas Schirvel 4 years ago (edited)
Last year i had to manage an accident between a train and a brand new lamborghini (I'm a trainswitch team manager and we also manage that type of incident) The lambo driver was a 18yo a**hole who got his licence 2 days prior... He tried to bride the cops to put the blame on the train company... The accident took place in a middle of the train tracks, 12km away from the nearest Railroad Crossing and 300m away from the nearest road...
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Good for the people who saw it and told the police the truth 2 thumbs up!
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#2
I saw Justin Bieber throw a fit and end up not getting what he wanted.
We have quarterly teambuilding exercises at my company where you basically go and play minigolf or some other activity capped at $25/person. Sometime between 2009 and 2011 (I really can't remember exactly) my group just decided to go for a fancy lunch in Downtown Portland. After lunch we took one of our coworkers to the semi-famous Nike store which was a couple of blocks away and that was the day Justin Bieber happened to show up.
When he and his entourage arrived he said something somewhat loudly along the lines of "Y'all are going to have to leave for a bit 'cause I'm here to do some shopping" and some of his people acted like they were going to try and politely force the already-present customers out of the store so Bieber could shop alone but the Nike employees even more politely told him that was not possible. At that point Bieber lost it-I mean he threw a total tantrum because they wouldn't shut down the store for him. The tantrum didn't work and he and his folks left in a huff.
That's really my only "celebrity in the wild" encounter and it's freaking lame.
Jjkb Hgg 4 years ago
Well he was a newly rich and famous teenager back then. How much maturity can you expect from a filthy rich 16 year old?
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Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
I've never been a fan of him, but you have to understand this was the 2009 to 2011 version of him...which made him 15-17 at the time. He has definitely matured since then, and I don't blame him for the way he used to be. Give a teenager millions of dollars and a bunch of adults "looking out" for them without their best interests in mind, and what do you expect? Of course he was gonna go wild. It's a machine and this happens to most of the young pop stars at some point, just glad to see he has his life on track
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
Why can other rich kids, some richer than him, act like they have some sense, then? This age excuse does not hold water. There are PLENTY of wealthy teens that do not have this complex or this bratty behavior.
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Eppe 4 years ago
He seems like an unpleasant person. But perhaps he never had a chance with so many people exploiting his marketability from such a young age.
Eithne Griffiths 4 years ago
I know his cousin that lives in Ontario..In Poverty. You would think he would send cast offs to him.
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#3
I grew up with rich kids and still keep in touch with a few of them. One guy's father owned the most prestigious law firm in town. He said his life changed the moment he called his father from jail, the second time it happened. His father said "Well, sorry to hear you got arrested, good luck", then hung up.
He said getting locked back into his cell was the singular moment that completely turned his life around.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
That is really tough love, and I'm glad the son learned from it. Sometimes, one needs some kind of a slap of reality to wake-up and grow-up.
Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
I like the one I read, the spoiled kid called, dad ask what did he do and the kid says 'nothing', and dad says 'good, tell them that and to let you go' and hung up.
Brian Brown 4 years ago
I feel that this guy is a much better person for the actions of his father and his ability to understand where he was coming from...
Katherine Heasley 4 years ago
His dad knew that if he got the kid out of jail for a second time, he'd be getting them out of jail forever.
It’s no secret that part of the problem with spoiled kids is nothing else but their very own loving parents. So to find out how parents spoil their children and what happens when they encounter a reality check, Bored Panda reached out to Lynn How, the author of “Positive Young Minds” who specializes in supporting parents, teachers, and children navigating through mental health issues and prevention.
“As an only child, I’ve often considered that perhaps I was a bit spoilt and whether this was inevitable due to my parents having extra time and extra finances to spend on only me,” she recounted.
“However, in my situation, I didn’t get everything I wanted and for example, I was asked to choose between horse riding and flute lessons and I was certainly not allowed a pony!”
#4
I teach at a public high school, though it's in a fairly nice area. Because we serve a number of nearby towns, we have a diverse population ranging from poor to very wealthy.
The lunch monitor told me that on the first day last year, a freshman girl sat at her table and ate nothing for the period. At the end of the period, she came up to him and complained that "no one came to take her order."
Floofy Samoyed 4 years ago (edited)
Take a deep breath.I have to break some have to break some bad news to you.
May 4 years ago
This makes no sense. 1 - she's a freshman, so unless she's been homeschooled up until now she would have had lunch at a school before, and 2 - it wouldn't have taken her until the end of the period to have seen that nobody was taking orders from any table, and to have observed how the system worked. I call BS on this one
Sarcastic Cow 4 years ago (edited)
This poor girl didn´t have eyes? Or she just refused use them to see what other kids do?
ElenaK 4 years ago
Maybe she did but thought herself superior enough to have someone there. Who knows?
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#5
Me and my sister grew up fairly well off. When my sister went off to college, my parents made her work a job for spending money. My mom got a furious call from my sister yelling that some people were taking money out of her pay check, and that she was going to call them, and get her money back.
It was state/fed taxes.
My mom just said “Good luck with that, and welcome to the real world!”
Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
No. Mum is definetly not OK. She have raised a child who has no clue how society works because no one has told her how society works.
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Even if parents fail to mention and teach about taxes how does one becomes old enough to attend college and have no idea about taxes? Do they not talk with people? Do they not read/watch news? How are you 17 - 18 years old and have no clue what taxes are?
Honu 4 years ago
Yep. I don't think my parents ever sat me down to explain stuff like taxes, but I knew about that before I got my first job as a teenager. It's a thing people talk about in real life, on TV. It's not a mystery. I do get the feeling, though, that my generation was expected to hang out and talk with grown ups more.
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Ms LaDonna 4 years ago
It always amazes me that people don't teach their kids about life, taxes, just the basic stuff.
Maggie Dinzler Shaw 4 years ago
The university I attended (Adelphi) was a rich girl's school before WWII. They used top make all the elementary education majors work in a factory so they would experience what normal people lived like.
SlartyBlartFast 4 years ago (edited)
Fault on the parents who failed to teach their offspring that there is money and there is also taxes
#6
Here's a switch....highly successful local doctor/politician expects son to attend medical school and become doctor. Son opts out, gets job with new company called Costco, pumping gas. He's been with that company ever since, just his regular pay raises and bonus checks give him a good life. He just didn't want the high stress life his dad had.
Kari Panda 4 years ago
I completely understand. I want (and have) a decent job, but I wouldn’t want to be one of the bigwigs. I work to live, not the other way around.
Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
Good for him! Bet he's happier for it. My neighbor got let go from his high stress office job three years shy of retirement. He went and worked for a big box hardware store for those three years, and said it turned out to be such a relief.
Don't Look 4 years ago
I get it…. But what’s the big deal… I mean… I like it…. But…. It’s pretty normal right?
Tarryn Louise 4 years ago
I personally couldn't be a doctor/surgeon. Perhaps a general doctor with day to day appointments, but definitely not the sort that are on call and get woken up to go perform surgery at 2am after working 36 hours straight.
#7
Dad buys a rich kid a Mercedes. It was pinkish (Salmon colored) so the kid [complained] about it. Dad took to away, sold it, and never bought him another car.
Rich brat had to buy his own.
Sue Hazlewood 4 years ago
Um, Dad (and presumably Mum) helped make him like that I'm afraid
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Trillian 4 years ago (edited)
That was pretty ungrateful but then who buys a salmon colored car??? Why do they even make them in this color? I am pretty sure that only comes on special request and then again, why choose such an (butt ugly) unusual color for a gift? I would understand it if it was the case of a used car from non rich parents just getting the best deal for the money and color just not being high priority.
Troux 4 years ago
A color like that for a guy seems like a deliberate choice, as if the dad was purposely trying to lure him into this scenario/lesson. I don't know how bad the kid complained, but that color is likely to get a response from most people.
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
When I was a kid I had to take this medicine that, smelled and tasted horrible, it came in dark glass bottle with metal pink colored cap. That cap and that car looks like made from same material and using same color. I wouldn't be able to drive that car since to this day looking at that metallic pink makes me gag, just like it did when I had to take that medicine over 25 years ago.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
Yuck that is an ugly color. I feel like this was a setup by the dad, deliberately to get a reaction and then punish.
Lynn said that in her experience as an educator, she has met various children who she would consider to be ‘spoilt.’ “Traits that have led to this conclusion include parents giving in to demands in order to avoid a tantrum, rather than simply saying ‘no.’”
#8
About 10 years ago I was having a pint with a friend of mine. His family s**t gold I swear. I mentioned I was struggling with rent and bills while in College and he just said "get your mum to pay for it then mate?". She's disabled and we've never had real money.
He instantly realized what he said and did feel bad about it. I think it was the first time he really understood that not everyone has their parents to lean on financially.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Once when I was a young woman, I needed to borrow money from my grandfather—it wasn’t a lot for him, but I was living from paycheck to paycheck and I didn’t have enough to see me through the month. Once I was back on my feet, I began paying him back $5.00-10.00 as I could until I paid it all back—he told me I didn’t need to, but I told him I did need to because he was my back-up plan in the future as well. I think he really respected me for that.
Tarryn Louise 4 years ago
I have a similar story, I have never ever gotten money from any family my entire life. Myself and my partner were saving for a home deposit and were close to having the amount we needed to start looking for our home. We got word from the real estate that in 3 months the rent was set to increase by an extra $150 per WEEK. I got on Facebook and had a rant about our real estate and how we are struggling already to put money away but now we needed to come up with 5 grand in 3 months.... which on our pay with 3 kids was next to impossible.... 6 months MAYBY but 3 months? ugh... anyway so this story doesn't drag out more my Nan came to our rescue, demanded my bank details and put 5 grand in my account. We are now happily in our new home and our mortgage is less that our original rent cost. I have asked her multiple times for her bank details and she just won't give them to me. I am putting money away in a separate account so I can give it to her if I ever get to see her in person again.
Load More Replies... MauKini 4 years ago
My husband works in the media. One day they were shooting with the wife of a well known german footballer. She overheard a conversation during break between my husband and his colleague about how smal our appartments were (obviously because we cant afford a bigger one...). she suggested buying a house.
deanna woods 4 years ago
It seems like the friend learned something and that's what's important. I know a woman with children whose husband works for her father and her father bought their house. Her father is a funeral director.
Viviane 4 years ago (edited)
Knowing me, I would have felt annoyed, but then had a chat because the rich person seemed open to dialogue. If the person persisted in making idiotic statements, I'd certainly lose patience with them. I find a chat works well most times. I've had to apologize to a few people myself in the past.
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Oh I have one!
I used to work at Starbucks and there was a girl that was just newly hired and in training. Mind you she was 20 years old and her parents made her get a job. She grew up in a very wealthy family.
On her first or second day, I had instructed her to do the dishes to help catch us up for closing. She looked at me with these lost eyes and told me she doesnt know how. Apparently she grew up with house maids and literally has never cleaned a dish in her entire life. I had to teach her step by step how to clean a dish.
Pikachu Lulu P.L. 4 years ago
yeah and at least she wasn't bratty and like eww no you do it! and she just asked for help
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B-b-bird 4 years ago
I respect her parents for making her see real world. She would be really in trouble further in life
May 4 years ago
I've known people (mostly men) who didn't know how to do the most basic tasks, not because they had maids, but because they had parents (mostly mothers) who did everything for them
Burs 4 years ago
Basically unpaid maids. I lived with an idiot that was 30+ and didn’t know how to do the laundry, clean or even sew a button. He wanted me to do those things for him. I was like “I can teach you how to do them but I am not your mother”. He simply drove to his mum for her to do his laundry. Pathetic.
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JayWantsACat 4 years ago
It seems like she didn't complain and just needed to be shown how...like we all did at first.
Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
I don't think she belongs on this list at all. She wasn't a d i c k , stuck up, or entitled at all. She just genuinely didn't know how to do it. But wanted help learning. She definitely does not go here.
Isle_of_stressed_pilots 4 years ago
But she didn't exactly complain lol. Seems to me that she was willing to learn
#10
I was one of those spoiled rich kids, and let me tell you, it leaves you with no social awareness. One of my best friends in High School once brought me to his home. I had to open my fat mouth and call his home trash-filled due to his step-father's tendency to horde. His mother was within and politely asked for me to never visit again. I lost a good friend that day and have regretted it ever since.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago (edited)
Rich people can and do hoard too. It is a mental illness. And I think all teenagers say stupid stuff before getting to be self aware.
Monday 4 years ago
As a former teenager myself I can confirm, many many stupid things were said.
Load More Replies... Jo Firth 4 years ago
To be fair - he wasn't addressing the issue of hoarding, he was passing a judgment. Big difference which he realised.
Load More Replies... Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Depends how you phrased it, but surely she had to realise that hoarding needs fixing?
Sasy 4 years ago
I hope that you can reach out to that person and they will understand that you were a child and made a mistake, as should the Mother. You do not have to be wealthy to be a jerk, there are plenty of kids from all walks of life that tease and bully kids that seem to have less than, you deserve to be forgiven.
“We all need to pick our battles with our children but giving in to them every time will lead to trouble (especially as their demands will increase along with the size of the strop as they age).” Moreover, “parents with plenty of financial means but little actual time can sometimes inadvertently spoil their children. Their children would benefit more from time with their parents rather than the material things being provided.”
#11
Freshman year of college - the guy across the hall from me is a spoiled rich kid from a big southern city. Old money clearly coming out his a**. A couple of weeks into the second semester he and a buddy found a checkbook on the sidewalk. Stupid f***ers decided to write themselves a check and cash it in the bank that the account is in. The teller immediately called the cops and they both got arrested.
We talked the night he got arrested and he laughed and said his dad would "take care of it" and everything would be fine. That weekend we met his dad as they moved everything out of the dorms since his dumb a** got expelled. Guess daddy didn't take care of it.
Eslamala 4 years ago
They don't. And even worse, the moronic parents "grow tired of their spoiled kids" ans "decide to teach them a lesson" when they've enabled their idiocy until adulthood and failed to teach them basic shït like cleaning up after themselves.
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Kona Pake 4 years ago
While in the Air Force, an airman I worked with got busted with drugs. He was going to get dishonorably discharge, but before that could happen, his daddy from some southern state, called his state senator who while visiting the base, took the airmen Home to daddy. I never saw him again.
SlartyBlartFast 4 years ago
When you are so rich you have money coming out of your a** (per article) and you are still greedy as f**k
#12
While working as an EMT on the ambulance for probably the richest area in San Diego County, a judge had ordered a 15 year old resident of the area to do community service for vandalism he had committed. The community service was to report to the nearest fire department every saturday for a month and clean whatever the fire chief wanted him to clean for a few hours. He shows up the first day and the chief asks him to go ahead and polish the chrome parts of the fire engine. They take the kid downstairs to the apparatus bay and give him the spray chrome polish and some rags. An hour or so later we checked in on him surreptitiously from a second story window and he was just standing there staring at the spray bottle in one hand and the rag in the other. When we asked him why he hadn't started he claimed he had never cleaned anything in his life before and he 'didn't want to mess up' the fire engine. We gave him a short tutorial and over the next month he probably learned a more useful life skill than any other up to that point.
Monday 4 years ago
Honestly I'd be a bit hesitant of polishing the chrome parts too out of fear of doing something wrong....but I'd probably have the common sense to ask for specific instructions rather than just standing there.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
That's a good instinct, as chrome polish can be rather tough on painted surfaces.
Load More Replies... Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
I wouldn't expect anyone under the age of 30 to automatically know how to polish chrome. It's not on cars or bikes anymore, when are they going to come across it?
The Frenchiest Fry 4 years ago
At least he was trying to do the right thing instead of slacking off and relying on his wealth to get him out of it
James Mills 4 years ago (edited)
guess they forgot to include a picture in this one. i'd suggest a fire truck.
Big Blue Cat 4 years ago
Community service reminds me of a teenage girl picking up trash in the area where I used to live 3 years back. I don't know the story, but I assume she had to do it as punishment. Definitely not voluntarily. Her clothes and make-up looked like she was heading to a club, totally unappropriate for the terrible wet / snow weather. She had this stick to collect the trash, she was walking back and forth of 10 meters strip of a walkway and she was soooo careful to pick everything up from as far she could reach, like she was going to get plague if she went too close. I swear she only managed to pick up like three pieces per day.
#13
When I was little, my daddy owned an exotic pet shop in Texas. A college girl comes in and tells him that she needs a sloth so her sorority can win a contest they were having to get the weirdest animal.
My dad says, "No, you don't want a sloth, it will destroy everything" but she insisted and said her daddy owned the city and would have him shut down if he didn't get her the sloth. So he told her to come back the next day.
So he talked to a lawyer and they drew up a long agreement saying he wasn't responsible for any damages, blah blah, and made her sign it and told her if she brought the sloth back, she'd have to pay shipping for it back to brazil or wherever it came from.
So the sloth comes in and the girls come get it, and they're so excited, because they're gonna win.
The next day, she comes in crying. It had shredded her clothes, carpets, wallpaper, beds, furniture, everything. She tried to get my dad's shop to pay for the damages, tried not to pay the shipping going back, but she'd signed the contract. She tried to use her daddy about that, too, and mine said he could come down and see a copy of the agreement if he wanted.
welp.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Poor *wild caught* sloth by the sounds of it
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Sarcastic Cow 4 years ago (edited)
Well, in this story you´re the a**holes too. Exotic pet shop - poor animals who belongs in the wild are abused just for what? Eccentricity?
Brittany 4 years ago
I'm sure this was over 20 years ago, people didn't see it that way. I don't disagree, though!
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Mevrouw Madelief 4 years ago
Everyone involved in this mess is a major Ahole, except the sloth, the poor thing
Monday 4 years ago
The person telling the story isn't at fault either...the dad owned the shop not them.
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K. Lange 4 years ago
can this be true? A pet shop sells animals who are caught in the wild on another continent for profit? That would be ridiculous!
Not Proud British 4 years ago
This is just animal abuse. Someone tell me you cannot just hire or buy sloths in the US?
Having said that, Lynn explained that on the other end of the spectrum,” it is also possible to ‘spoil’ children with too much time and attention. For example, if you spend all of your time playing with your child, they will not learn how to entertain themselves, become resilient or solve problems without adult intervention. I have heard the term ‘helicopter parenting’ to describe this.”
#14
Somewhat distant relative spent all of his university years and twenties partying hard with the ~100-120K allowance his rich company owning father gave him each year. He'd travel the world each year going to Bali, Thailand, Europe, every year Oktoberfest, just rampaging.
At 32 or so he decided to settle an upscale ski resort area of the US and open a business with his hot gold digger fiance. When he went to transfer his money to his US bank account he noticed it only came to a few thousand dollars. He angrily asked the bank worker why she hadn't transferred the entire amount only to be told that that was the entire amount. His father had cut him off without saying anything and he just hadn't noticed.
Absolute flatline.
May 4 years ago
Horrible parenting - first for the enormous allowance with no strings, and then for cutting off the funds without informing the son. The father is the one who spoiled him - can't be surprised when the result is a spoiled son.
D S 4 years ago
We don´t know if he wasnt warned before though, although I do agree with you on everything else.
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Momma Jess 4 years ago
My sisters are 35 and 46, and though we weren't as poor as I was led to believe growing up I would say my parents are lower middle class ish (maybe upper lower class? Lol) and though I haven't been on speaking terms with any of them for almost two years I will guarantee you the 35 year old at least still gets money from mom and dad. Last time I checked mom and dad were paying most of her and her husband's bills, although there can't be too many bills when a family friend just buys a house and lets you live there. (Spoiler alert, I was always the selfish irresponsible one...I'm the youngest at 33...)
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Pernille Dyre 4 years ago
Somehow these rich parents expect their children to learn everything by them self. How about parenting?
Blarrg 4 years ago
I agree it's poor parenting, but I hesitate to refer to 32-year-olds as children. At some point grow up and take responsibility for your life, regardless of what your parents taught or failed to teach you.
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BigFish Artwire 4 years ago
I find it quite sexist when any woman married or dating a rich man gets called gold digger. It also assumes that there's nothing interesting or nice about that man except for his money.
Monday 4 years ago
We have no information suggesting she ISN'T a gold-digger though. Just like we have no information that there was anything interesting or nice about our man in the story. Besides, gold-digger isn't a gendered term, men can be gold-diggers too.
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#15
Rich kid in high school whose parents bought him new cars every time he wrecked one, let him throw wild parties at their lake house etc. He was asking why I didn’t show up to a particular party. You know, the whole “Don’t be a pussy” routine. I told him my parents had said no, I couldn’t go. He laughed and made a comment about my parents being overly strict. I just said earnestly, “Naw man, they’re not mean, they just care about me.” He laughed, but I definitely saw a flash of understanding in his eyes before that.
Cori 4 years ago
That's the other side of the dysfunctional coin with rich kids. Their parents don't have time for them so they try to replace quality time and affection with money, privilege and an incredibly lax (or none existent) set of rules. Unfortunately, for these kids, those things are not interchangeable.
Anita Pickle 4 years ago
I never understood "don't be a pussy". You would think they would say "don't be a ball/testicle". Women have babies and then get along just fine after, but if you barely graze a man's testicle he falls to his knees.
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
uh... words goes back centuries. shortened term. Long before anyone would refer to a vagina in public as a pussy. Definition of pusillanimous : lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity
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I had a roommate my freshman year of college that came from an incredibly rich oil family from the Middle East. I remember him having the hardest time adjusting to not having someone else prepare him food. I remember waking up one morning and going to the kitchen and seeing him try to eat eggs and toast he had just prepared himself. He asked me how I normally prepare fried eggs because his tasted really crunchy. Turns out he had just cracked the egg whole into the pan and prepared it shell and all. I couldn’t stop laughing but felt really bad for the dude.
Burs 4 years ago
Not need to be rich but it can also be spoiled. I loved my grandpa a lot but in that sense he was useless. He went from mum cooking to wife cooking so he never learned the very basics. I get that it was another time but not learning the very basics is stupid. Once my grandma was away (in the hospital maybe?) and he couldn’t eat because he didn’t even knew how to fry an egg. He tried to make coffee and put the powder inside and the coffee maker in the stove but didn’t think about putting water. Obviously it didn’t magically become coffee, just burned powder.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Lots of old Russian men who survive on frozen pelmeni and tvorog ( like cottage cheese) because they literally have no idea how to feed themselves. It's deeply sad
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SuperChicken 4 years ago
Cooking is not for everybody. I know someone, who is by all means not rich, but cannot cook for the life of her. You can give her all the details, step-by-step, and she still has a way of messing it up big time. I will not hold not knowing how to cook against anybody. One thing about this guy, though - at least, he's trying to learn. I'll give him that.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
It depends on chicken breed and the diet they eat what color the yolks are. You can feed supplements to darken the color.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Most of these are the result of poor parenting. Your job as a parent is to teach your kids to get along without you, NOT to spoil you, then leave you high and dry.
Rissie 4 years ago
I'm just wondering about that picture. How did anyone manage to burn an otherwise still totally raw egg. I love my fried eggs and this looks yuk.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
A lot of Middle Eastern men don't need to be rich to be clueless about cooking, because it's viewed as women's work. But you have to be really clueless not to even have WATCHED other people cook.
She continued: “All these issues have a common theme; you are making a rod for your own back! Furthermore, teenagers who have been spoilt can be more prone to mental health concerns such as depression and excessive self-absorption. Sometimes parents can see where this path is heading but they feel it is too late to reverse the issue.”
#17
Friend of a friend totalled his brand new luxury car by driving 2-3x the speed limit drunk, plowed into some metal railings, and destroyed the front of several storefronts in a plaza. Fortunately this was the early hours of the morning and nobody was around to get hurt. He got out of his car and decided to just walk it off as he didn't care about the several hundred thousand dollars that the car cost. Cops found him, arrested him, shocked pikachu face when he realized that you can't bribe the cops as easily in Canada, got deported because he was on a student visa.
Trans raccoon 4 years ago
Ya that happens a lot here in Quebec,rich kid goes to collage,gets drunk,gets deported
James Mills 4 years ago
didn't realise rich kids even knew how to make a collage.
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Troux 4 years ago (edited)
It's an unfortunately long list. Edited for pertinent news story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58334979
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Justine Burke 4 years ago
Went to university in Canada (I'm from Canada) and the number of rich spoiled kids from other countries who come here and pull this s**t is ridiculous. I slapped a guy in the face before, because he and his rich friends thought it was okay to harass the girls in the cafeteria and grab them when they ignored their cat calling. Some people are not raised to give an ounce of respect to others.
#18
While working in a casino here in Las Vegas, a herd of girls came to my window, & one proceeded to tell me about her great birthday party itinerary that her dad had paid for. For her 18th birthday. With no adult in the party. Just a bunch of teenaged girls, out in Vegas.
Where none of them could do anything because none of them were 21. I couldn't even check them into their reservation. They start yelling & screaming at me, I calmly call security - and security tells them they can either "go play in the arcade" or leave & try to find a hotel off the Strip that will take them in w/out being 21. The anger turns to tears, the security guard is unmoved.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I'm sorry but if you can serve in the military at 18 and die you should be able to rent a hotel room
Burs 4 years ago
Yeah. It’s weird how in USA you can kill and drive but not have a beer or be seen as an adult. Same in Europe with being 16 and being able to work but not being able to vote. Either minors are too irresponsible to do both or they should be able to do both things.
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May 4 years ago
Didn't know you had to be 21 to get a hotel room in the US. Or is it a Vegas thing?
Troux 4 years ago
It's a casino thing. A huge part of their business is being able to fling alcohol as quickly and easily as possible (poor decision-making skills is at the core of casino success). This is much more convenient when the IDs have already been checked at the door.
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Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago
You think 18 year olds need chaperones for a birthday party, but not in the trenches in Iraq?
Floofy Samoyed 4 years ago
Ha. Who thinks the dad knew this and just wanted to leave them in Vegas so he could relax?
Eslamala 4 years ago (edited)
At 18 you ARE AN ADULT. You people are the only country with double standards as to what an adult is. You can be sentenced to death at 18, but you can't buy a beer? Ridiculous.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Plenty of countries have staggered ages as to what an adult is. Russia is pushing through a law now banning the sale of hard liquor to people under 21.
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At a Starbucks and she thought apparently people gave her parents free drinks and such for her all these years. Like the cashier told her the total and she said, " Wait I don't get it for free?" She never realized her parents swiping their cards all those years was paying for her things I guess.
Francesca Annoni 4 years ago
My 5 y.o son knows how money and card works.. in a very simplified way but knows that when we go to a shop we have to pay before taking the goods home..
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Hello Dolly 4 years ago
The only thing I can think here is maybe her parents owned a Starbucks. I know a family that owns a restaurant and the kids always eat there free. They still don’t comprehend yet that their family doesn’t own all the same kind of that restaurant.
Tara Perillo 4 years ago
This was my thinking too. My in-laws own several sandwich shops, and while we could get free food and drinks there, I still pay every time. I have a 6 year old and I don't want him thinking that we can get things for free.
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Sky Render 4 years ago
Sadly this can happen to people of any level of wealth. Parents, don't shelter your children from the truths of life, no matter how basic!
Paul Wynne 4 years ago
Time to eat the rich. There's 330 Million of us and about 10,000 if them. We can take them easily.
#20
Rich scummy injury lawyer’s kid was in my class in HS. Goes to college (mid size school in the Midwest) and gets plastered drunk (parents bought him and his friends alcohol since freshman year so nothing new) and RA says he has to write him up for alcohol in the dorms. Punches 2 RAs, then gets cops called on him and knocks a cop’s tooth out. Long story short his parents have to drive back 6-7 hours after one day to get him and he’s not even allowed to leave the state until his hearing. Last I heard he’s working at a fast food establishment.
K. Anderson 4 years ago
Injury lawyer buying kids alcohol. Sounds like a dumb lawyer from a liability standpoint
earringnut 4 years ago
14 year old getting drunk weekly = a 15 year old alcoholic
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Dirk Daring 4 years ago
Hot Take: People who don't actually parent their children, don't teach them actual life skills or personal responsibility, and let them grow up into sh**ty adults are worse than helicopter parents.
Muff_Fluff 4 years ago (edited)
I LIVE for boxed water (see guy holding something in the pic?)
#21
Lawyer here, so details will be sparse, but I've dealt with this a loooot. Rich parents have rich spoiled sh***y kid. But where this gets real brutal is when they're immigrants, and the kid isn't a citizen yet. Dealt with one guy who figured it didn't matter if he was drunk and on drugs and driving, because his parents had enough money to buy him a new Very Expensive car if he smashed it. Well, he didn't smash it, just got charged with dangerous driving, flight from police, and various other nasty things. The look on everyone's faces when I explained deportation was at stake was the moment they realized they could actually face real consequences that they couldn't buy their way out of. Well, they tried anyway. Didn't like my telling them their chances sucked, so they went to someone who charges way more and still lost. I expect Junior is overseas now trying to figure his s**t out.
D S 4 years ago (edited)
We had two douchebags try to murder a kid and obviously no one took their diplomatic immunity away. They certainly wont face consequences... They´re accused of attempted murder but their country refused to lift immunity and have them face the law as they should have. I certainly hope we stop giving diplomatic immunity to this type of "children"... https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/portugals-government-sends-letter-to-iraq-over-twins-accused-of-attempted-murder/46754
Pryjmaty 4 years ago
I read the article. That is absolutely HORRIBLE!!! With Iraq not taking away diplomatic immunity, they were basically giving those boys a license to commit illegal acts and letting them know their government would protect them.
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SuperChicken 4 years ago (edited)
Oh, my goodness. I don't know about all the laws from other countries, whatever it is that they could do in their country, they probably thought they could do the same. I'm sure that harsh slap of reality is very painful. I also heard that sometimes, once a person or persons is/are deported, they're also blacklisted and, therefore, not allowed to return to the country not even as a tourist.
Greg Hoggarth 4 years ago
Why is it surprising or worth comment that they went with someone who charged way more who said what they wanted to hear and would have been confident of a win? If money was not really an object to you, would you do any differently?
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It depends on how you market yourself as an attorney. If you are proud of your 90% successful defense rate, you are probably so 'good' because you selectively represent people who actually have a chance.
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Spoiled rich kid showed up to school in a $325,000 sports car. He was showing off, lost control of the car, and drove it through a brick wall and totalled it.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
They need that law that restricts legal engine capacity/cc for cars and bikes until the driver is a certain age. Not ageist, just common sense. Cars are high velocity really heavy machinery, learn to handle a low/standard powered vehicle first
Troux 4 years ago
*Insert comment about infringing on my freedom, written with the blood of pedestrians*
Load More Replies... Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Rich adults do this too, often with cars that are rented or on finance
Monday 4 years ago
Not so rich adults do this too with cars that won't be paid off for years...
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Whispurr And Artemis and Peppa 4 years ago
I read that in Hermione's voice from that Harry Potter scene.
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One of my college roommates was very rich growing up. I didn't realized just how rich until I had to explain to her what a coupon was in very extensive detail. On multiple occasions she bragged that she wasn't even interested in her major (philosophy), or college in general, but she was at uni because her parents were requiring her to get a degree, any degree, in order to get access to her trust fund. I don't remember ever seeing her go to class and she eventually got expelled sophomore year over academic dishonesty. I guess this was the last straw for her parents because they cut her off pretty soon after that.
This actually served as a wake up call. She somehow managed to get a public health degree at a different school in spite of the academic dishonesty listed on her transcript. She's doing pretty well for herself these days. We've kept in touch and last we talked she was considering grad school.
SuperChicken 4 years ago (edited)
Exactly. Learned from her mistakes and I'm sure has also been learning how to be self-reliant. Good for her.
Load More Replies... K. Anderson 4 years ago
People set their kids up for failure. I had a friend who was socially unprepared for work & who dad had to supplement her income for her to live. He would pay her car insurance & a few other bills. In college she would spend money like crazy & as an adult she lived paycheck to paycheck. It was funny as I could tell she was jealous I had so much disposable income. My parents helped me but definitely did not pay my bills. That’s how I learned to work & save.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Hey, those are pics of food stamps, in PA they came in a booklet of $65, and you can’t tear it up loosely, only the $1 are are allowed single use, man memories
Karen Fox 4 years ago
Thank you! If I was the only one who knew this -I was gonna feel not only like maybe I have been poorer than those on here But REALLY old too lol
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Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
Sh*ty [arents. They punished their daughter for because ... they were sh*ty parents who spoilt her to begin with!
Shine Caramia 4 years ago
This is kind of an unfair position to put your kid in. If your kid doesn't want to go to college, threatening to cut off financial support won't change their mind.
De Gueb 4 years ago
In my 20's I did worked for the business that had clubs, bars restaurants etc. The sons of the owner are about the same age as me, lived their mums house. They had a play room, with pool table, bar, and a big Mitsubishi retro projector TV (it was the 80s), The remote broke and while I was trying to get a new one they would call the maid from downstairs to change channels/volume. very sad, they treated her like dirt. One kid ended up in rehab several times, I think his working at a burger king. The other ruined the business. Up side was I looked a bit like one of the 2 brothers, Steve, and drove a jeep with the logo of the club so some birds thought I was Steve. Part of my deal was that I could live in a little staff house on the fathers property. It was independent and had its own little pool and lovely views. You should have seen there faces after I boned them a few times back at the house and then saw me with Steve LOL!!
#24
Local rich kid had his SUV parked in a no parking area at a club, tow truck shows up to tow it away and the kid goes ballistic “do you know who my dad is” etc. to the driver. After a minute or two of this the passenger gets out of the tow truck and is a full patch Hell’s Angel. The biker “politely” tells him it doesn’t matter who he thinks his family is and the SUV is towed away.
Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
Another friend owned a dairy. Had 2 guys with baskets of food. Once rung up and bagged, they refused to pay and started to head to the door. They didn't know 4 gang members were in the shop down the back, who then blocked the door. 2 very red faced guys paid and ran like hell up the road. 😂
Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
A friend couldn't get a female tenant out who hadn't paid rent for 3 months. He hired 3 gang members who knocked on the door and politely told the girl she had one hour to vacate. They stood outside. Her friends turned up and she was gone within the hour. Friend wished he had done it sooner.
#25
I went to school with a kid who always had a new fancy car or truck because his dad owned one of the biggest construction companies in the area. This kid was a major douche and double/triple parked his big trucks all the time. Once he got some sort of fast fancy car and went over 110 mph and was getting chased by state police. He had friends in the car that were telling him to stop and slow down but he wouldn’t. I believe he was also drunk. BUUUT he ended up crashing into a business doing a ton of damage. He got hit with 3-4 felonies. Driving over 100 mph is a crime in most states and he got multiple kidnapping charges because the passengers were freaking out. Dude never came back to school and I have no clue what he’s doing now.
Floofy Samoyed 4 years ago
Well now he's a douche bag with a criminal record , no friends and no car and (I'm guessing) an incomplete education
I Just Changed My Name 4 years ago
So glad the cops recognized that the passengers weren't in on is disgusting behavior.
JayWantsACat 4 years ago
The hilarious part is him not listening to his friends to stop, and presumably instead of them testifying in his defense, they (Im sure very willingly) testified against (or not at all) to both avoid charges themselves and because he didn't listen about stopping, which they are then considered kidnapped.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I knew a guy in high school that kept getting away with stuff because his dad was a judge... His father finally put his foot down and said next time he was on his own... well, next time, since his dad wasn't going to "fix it" he decided to try to outrun the cops. He ended up crashing into some gas pumps going well over 100 mph and killed himself and caused serious damage to his passenger.
Burs 4 years ago
Probably no. We all know that rich people barely ever get punished. The other day here a football player got arrested driving while being super drunk. It wasn’t even the first time. He got away with a ridiculous fine.
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#26
Acquaintance in college got pulled over in Baltimore transporting an ungodly amount of weed from New York to campus (DC area). Clearly intent to distribute. He called his mom, an attorney in California, begging for help. She said she’d get back to him when her offices opened on Monday. So hot shot spent the weekend in Baltimore city jail. I think he just got less dumb about his behavior. Successful business owner now.
Nathan Dennis 4 years ago
Yeea Baltimore's real sketchy, don't mess around there
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
One quibble. He was actually transporting a godly amount of weed. An ungodly amount would be none.
#27
I knew this rich kid from high school that went off to college and partied every single night. His parents found out that he was failing basically all of his classes, so they secretly drove up early one Saturday morning with the spare set of keys to the car they had bought him and just drove off with the car.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
Likely a total lack of communication to begin with
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Only works when the title is in their name. Otherwise the kid could report the parents for vehicle theft.
#28
No joke here. Back in high school(90's) this kid got a brand new Chevy Camaro. I had an old a** 80's Pontiac Phoenix that had the straight six. It was by far not a racing car but this tool was just looking to brag at what he got compared to the busted cars we got. About 2 days later, while we were waiting at a stop light this idiot tries to race us as I am in my car and I pull up with my friends. He does starts by revving it really loud and tries to do a burnout. Mind you the light was red and the roads were not wet. So he managed to get a tiny burnout going, some smoke and what not...When his tires did catch traction, he went barreling into the intersection and smashed the car of the wife of one of the VERY FEW cops in my small city. Needless to say, that didn't work out for him very well.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Based on the dry-road "tiny burnout" and assuming a 3rd-gen Camaro (thru '92) relatively conservatively optioned for a kid with an LH0 V6, he only had 140hp, to the LH7 V6 (the Phoenix never had the slant-6) in your Phoenix at 135hp. You'd have been neck-and-neck everything else being equal.
Zsolt Hegedűs 4 years ago
You got a car in high school? I'm almost 40 and I still didn't have my own car ever. Why does a high schooler needs a car anyway?
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
and everyone clapped until they did a reshoot on the Back to the Future set.
#29
I went to a very rich, predominantly white Catholic high school. One moment I remember was the wind absolutely being taken out of a girls sails when I explained to her why our school dominated the area's skiing, golf, and equestrian competitions, but never anything else. For a lot of kids in that school, the moment they learned they were rich was the moment they learned that most girls don't have their own horses growing up.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
It really depends. I grew up in a very rural area and plenty of people had horses cause it was mainly farms and you can throw an horse out with the dairy cows. Lots of kids did pony club, 4H and stuff but most of the horses were the 2-5 hundred dollar ex racers or sale horses. And you can always get free horses if you look and are willing to put in the work. Had a couple of those in my life too. The 29 year old free mare with cushings was one of the best trail horses ever and even did therapeutic riding for a disabled child. She did look funny at shows a couple times when I only got her half clipped though and one side was short and sleek and the other side looked like Chewbacca.
Kate 4 years ago
That's an infinitesimally small percentage of the population, though. Yes, you can find free horses, but how're you gonna feed it? For that matter, where are you gonna keep it, on the balcony?
Load More Replies... Karen Fox 4 years ago (edited)
I live in Indiana (U.S)grew up in Kentucky...the rich kid private schools ALWAYS have the best football & basketball teams- because they poach the talent from inner city schools and the farm kids from the rural ones- full scholarships are NOT just for post secondary schools! I know of parents who have force fed their kids sports because they knew they had no other way to assure that they could attend quality high schools... its a very sad statement in soooo many ways!
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
What country is this from? I can't picture an American Catholic high school that has equestrian competitions and not future NCAA basketball superstars.
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
My4-H was astounded when i registered Twin, Yes, Twin Percheron Mares in the Fair. I helped them come out(With Dad's help of course) cleaned them and it took every ounce of my strength to get them stood up stably so they could nurse! Everybody thought dad was rich because of that!
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
I am really, really tired of people assuming that everything associated with horses is expensive! There are, like any sport, there are tons of levels at which to enjoy it.
#30
Knew a rich kid whose parents bought a car for and he treated it like absolute garbage. Purposely driving it really hard and generally abusing it, confident in the notion that his parents would buy him the one he wanted after he destroyed the one they got him. Well they didn't buy him another one, ever. He rode the city bus and bummed rides off of friends after that. He was the most entitled f***er I'd ever met, if he was over at your house he would just help himself to whatever was in the fridge like it was some sort of paid buffet.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
Yes, quite a lot of these stories sound like the parents were expecting the kids to educate themselves.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Why wouldn't you throw a douchebag out on the first sign of douchebaggery?
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
Someone gets into my fridge without prior permission (for my food, not for drinks they may be chilling) and they are out. Period. You don't mess with peoples food.
#31
In a country with high alcohol taxation. Rich kids enter pub, like 10-12 of them, throw card at bartender, demanding shots. "What would y'all like?" "Whatever lol, dad is paying lmao." Bartender pours double J.W. Blues for all the brats and some randoms that they treated. Brat with card had tears in his eyes when the tab came in. "Dad's going to kill me.." I did enjoy the free whisky though.
oddkiddo 4 years ago
I don't get it.. I tried googling it, but it only comes up with bottles around $ 150 - 200. Is that considered expensive in america?
Jose Antonio 4 years ago
well...I think We found the wayyyyy "out of touch" rich person....
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#32
I went to community college in a very rich section of NJ. I was there because it was the only school I could afford at the time. Many of the kids there were there because their parents refused to pay full price at private schools when their kids had no idea what they wanted to do in life. However, the rich kids still drove M series BMWs, AMG Mercedes, RS Audi’s, big fancy pickup trucks, etc., and never paid for any of their own stuff.
In one of my classes a girl, who was 23 I believe, was complaining loudly that her daddy wouldn’t pay for her third manicure that month, and how she had it really rough that she had to pay for it herself.
Cue me and several other self-supporting students in the class explaining to her how the real world works for those of us not born with a silver spoon in our mouths. She was legitimately shocked to learn that some students pay their own tuition, rent, car insurance, phone bills, food costs, and yes, manicures too.
#33
Administration and faculty at a university refused a substantial offer of endowment money from a couple that wanted their son enrolled as an art major.
Their son couldn't meet the minimum scholastic entrance requirements and he had little aptitude for art. Still, with their millions, he thought money would buy his way to an "easy degree" as an art major.
He was dumbfounded to receive a notice of non-admittance.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
There was some sort of scandal a few years ago in the US where it was exposed that some celebrities bought their kids acces to schools. https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-among-stars-who-paid-bribes-to-get-kid-athletes-into-elite-colleges
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#34
I'm trying to be a better man and not take delight in anyone's misfortune but... Rich kid in my high school totalled his pickup truck. Got pissed when parents wouldn't replace it, so purposefully crashed his twin brother's pickup truck cause if he couldn't have one neither could the brother... not to mention all the legal stuff that I'm sure was fall out from doing that. Anyways, kid disappeared. I assumed he went to jail or some equivalent. Found out recently that no, he didn't actually, his parents literally disowned him, like with the paperwork and everything and sent him on his way to fend for himself. And I have no idea how life turned out.
Monday 4 years ago
I'm curious as to whether the twin brother was a decent kid or also an entitled rich ass. That would really give us an insight into whether it was crappy parenting or a crappy personality that created rich kid 1.
LOttawa 4 years ago
According to the reddit post, both brothers were like night and day.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
The parents wanted to teach him lessons. The kid wasn't willing to learn. So the parents send him to the college of life. I blame the kid.
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Mark Melton 4 years ago
Some kids are just born, " Bad Seeds". Nothing the parents did wrong, just some people are born "bad".
Rebekah Krause 4 years ago
What is the paperwork to legally “disown” a kid. Either he’s under 18 and that’s child abandonment and illegal, or he’s over 18 and no paperwork necessary...
Kye 4 years ago
There is actually a process I think called "person in need of supervision" or "ungovernable youth" something like that. Basically it is the parents turning the out of control child over to the state.
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My best moment was when I got hired by a pair of Woodside, CA parents to transition their horrible 18 year old into the realities of "real life", something that evaded both of them. My first action was to take away his platinum, limitless, credit cards. He threw a tantrum that lasted several days. "Where am I going to get money? " Get a job. "My parents will fire you." They didn't. When he realized that boundaries & budgets had been set in stone, and that he not only had to pay the bills, the rent, but taxes too, he headed straight to college to wait out the next 4 years. He is still a little jerk, but at least he has a job and an education now.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Totally the parents' fault. Set boundaries young and this won't be an issue. The kid was confused why the rules changed all of a sudden and I can't say I really blame him.
Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
The fact the parents had to hire someone to set boudaries shows how shitty their parenting is.
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
How out of touch with reality are those parents that they hire someone to teach their kid how life works?
Kari Panda 4 years ago
That was my question, too. I mean, what kind of job is that even? Baby sitter? Life coach? This seems so surreal.
Load More Replies... Nicolas Schirvel 4 years ago
In psychology, it's called "Late education by proxy"... And it's consider a pathology by some specialist of the field.
#36
I knew one who apparently couldn't fathom how people live on a budget.
We used to hang out a lot at her insistence but she liked to eat at expensive places whereas I'd have no issue having my meals somewhere cheaper.
However, she kept pouting and insisting I stay. I said I couldn't unless she wanted to spot me. She didn't.
I then walked her through the math and showed her that the cost of my meals with her, everyday, totaled my entire wage for the month.
She didn't stop pouting but from then on I could eat by myself in peace.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
I had a rich housemate at college who refused to do housework since “we have a maid to do that back home’. The rest of us started to just wash our own dishes and take them back to our rooms until the next meal. He realised he had to do something when all his filthy dishes started to pile up. His family sent a fat cheque every month but he never shared it about - despite him having no qualms about helping himself to everyone else’s food. Entitled arsehole.
#37
I used to live in Paradise before it was destroyed by the fire, just like every town there are some rich people here. Most the rich people who went to my school were very humble about their parents income, except for this one kid named Daniel. Daniel's parents were insanely rich and his dad was an HR at PG&E and he would not keep his mouth shut about it. He somehow managed to brag about money in every single conversation. About one month before the town was destroyed Daniel started bragging about how his parents spent a ton of money on a new mansion in Magalia (a town north of Paradise). He said his parents had sold their houses in San Francisco and New Jersey to be able to afford it. Fast forward to November and his new house is burned down along with the rest of the town. His parents had a small amount of money left so they rented a small apartment in Sacramento. His dad was laid off from PG&E in February and Daniel is currently living a middle class life in Denver.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
And PG and E whose poor line maintenance ( because they value shareholder profits over capital investment) started the damned fire continues to make money hand over fist
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
PG&E for those of you not from California, is the Pacific Gas & Electric Company...
Load More Replies... Random Anon 4 years ago (edited)
For someone in infrastructure and utilities, I'm surprised the dad did not get fire insurance for a property he has invested so heavily on. Hell I insure my tiny shabby looking office just in case. At least I could still cover payroll with the claims.
ThoughtsAreNotFacts 4 years ago
PGE's lack of maintenance/disregard for power line upkeep has cost lives, homes, entire towns! Not to mention their preemptive "power outages" during the peak of summer leading to panic buying and chaos. Lived in the Bay Area of 7 years and fire season 2019 was my "nope, I'll take ice storms over this crap" moment... Back to the East coast where I belong
#38
She would take days off of school to go on shopping trips with her rich Mother. When the recession hit, it was discovered her mother's business partner was embezzling for years, and consequently, the mansion she grew up in was on the depressed real-estate market for years.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I honestly don't see the problem with a day off from school every now and then to hang with a parent or do an activity. I used to get off for horse shows sometimes and like half my class would always disappear at fair time
lenka 4 years ago
Yeah, we were really poor and I sometimes took a random day off just to spend quality time with mum. Our version of 'shopping' however was to the bakery and we would choose a pastry - which was actually a pretty big deal because we were genuinely really poor and couldnt afford treats like that.
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I had a kid in my senior class of high school who was an absolute f***ing a-hole. His dad owned a construction company, and they had contracts with our city so they did very well for themselves. He was always talking down to anyone he wanted, but also he got his a** kicked a few times cause of it. Well he never did school work, was always getting kicked out of class for being a disturbance etc. His dad one day came to the school, walked into his classroom and berated the f***ing s**t out of him because the counselor told him that he had absolutely no way of graduating, and needed to enroll in a secondary school. He took his car keys, his phone, and all the allowance he had given him minus money for the bus. He left school a couple weeks later, and I believe he moved.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Parents seemed to have done a piss-poor job of giving him any life skills
opinionated biatch 4 years ago
Most times but not always - some people are born jerks
Load More Replies... Sky Render 4 years ago
Sometimes I think the parents need to be punished just as much as the kids. I mean come on, who taught them that this kind of behavior was okay? Because it wasn't the Rich Kid Goblins under their beds!
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Well in this case maybe in the home setting is best, yes he’s an ass, but doing it publicly might either be worse off, or hopefully it’s a wake up call
#40
Friend in high school had two parents with pretty good jobs. She had a lot of name brand clothes, bags etc. She got a big solo trip abroad once a year. Her dad would buy the plane ticket and her mom would upgrade her to business class. I once invited her to come on a family vacation with me to Disneyworld. Note that this is a huge deal because we live so far away it takes 20+ hours and multiple airplanes to get there. She said "No thanks, it's really far away and I can't spend that long in economy class." Last time I invited her anywhere. She was all set to go to a really prestigious, expensive university in Switzerland too, paid for by both her parents. Then her mom died. Her newly single-income household wasn't poor by any means, but all the little luxuries just weren't there anymore. She still gets her big trip abroad (barely), but it's only ever economy class now. She didn't get to Swiss university because her dad couldn't pay for it on his own.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Kinda shocking mom had no life insurance, retirement,etc that goes to a beneficiary. Most people I know ( including me) are worth more dead than alive.
lenka 4 years ago
That was my first thought too. My husband and I are both worth more dead than alive. We are insured enough to ensure the surviving spouse and the kids can maintain at least the current standard of living.
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#41
I dated a girl in college who told me a story about her first day in public school. She had been to expensive private schools and finishing schools as a child. Then they moved her sophomore year of high school. She went to the local high school which was actually a decent mix of rich and poor kids with a big heap of middle class kids. So it was a school where students actually got a good social education. Her first day there she was terrified of black and Hispanic kids and ate her lunch in the bathroom. Eventually she found friends from the same social class as her and it got easier for her. But for the first few weeks she really had to learn what it was like to be around people that didnt have a maid and a driver.
#42
One of my college roommates told his parents the trip we were planning (that they were paying for) was 400$ more expensive than it was so he could buy a really nice bong. In addition, they basically paid for everything he wanted - he had their credit card and ordered food on it at least once daily. He also would make 50$ purchases off the card pretty regularly.
Long story short they found out he lied about the cost of the trip. For whatever reason they still paid and let him go, but after the trip he could not use their card anymore. This dude acted like he lived the hardest life of all time afterwards, but eventually sucked it up. He actually acts way less entitled now, it ended up having a lasting positive effect for him (even though he wouldn’t admit it).
What do you think ?
Troux 4 years ago
Seriously. The kids thought that mommy and daddy's money could buy them out of life responsibilities because mommy and daddy thought that money could buy them out of parenting responsibilities.
Load More Replies... Floofy Samoyed 4 years ago
Some of these aren't so much the kids' fault as the parents'. Teach them some basic skills (e.g. cleaning dishes) before you force them to get a job
Lovin' Life 4 years ago
Parents need a lesson in parenting. Children should be taught basic life skills from a young age. Having money doesn't give you the right to be lazy, but it does. Just because you have a wealthy financial status now doesn't mean you cant lose it all in the blink of an eye. You can't buy love and respect from your children. You learn to love and to be respectful. The kids aren't totally to blame. It's the enabling parents.
Sasy 4 years ago
I am shocked, so shocked by this whole post, I do not care how much money they did or didn't have, I am just floored that none of these kids apparently ever watched television, not ever, because some of these things would take one or two episodes of any high school or college aged family drama to have episodes on all these things, oh the humanity "clutches my pearls" see I watch enough TV to know that is an expression :P
PK Winters 4 years ago
I just was told by my daughter that her friends thought we were rich because I kept the house clean and did not have junk in the yard. We would save up money every week so my girls and their friends could have a pizza party every weekend (found a place that served pizza cheep, back in the 70's) My girls didn't realise we were on flood stamps.Its funny how people decide who is rich. Thinking back I guess I was rich, in love but definitely not money.
deanna woods 4 years ago
So many of these stories are just failures on the parents' part. You can't send your child into the world with no world knowledge and expect them to learn it on their own. My classmates made fun of the fact that I was a senior in high school and had a bed time. My parents keeping me in line prepared for situations that I would need to make important decisions about. My senior year, I got invited to a graduation party at a classmates house. At some point, their parents brought out alcohol. I knew I didn't need to be at the party at that point so I went home. Had my parents not taught me that some situations are not appropriate, I probably would have stayed and drank with everyone else.
Pheebs 4 years ago
The stories about teenagers being given expensive cars and wrecking them really annoy me. Even with less well off people, giving your new-to-driving teen a brand new, fast sports car is asking for trouble. Most of these people are lucky to not have died, or killed someone else. When I was in HS, one of my classmates was given a brand new mustang the day he got his license. 4 days later he decided to take a joy ride on the highway at excessive speeds and ended up killing himself. 16 years old and dead because of a lack of sense all round in that family.
Eslamala 4 years ago
A 16 y/o who doesn't know speed limits shouldn't be driving. It's not the parent's fault the kid was an idiot.
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Ivana 4 years ago
I have one rich friend, we have actually been good friends for a number of years and I never thought much about her finances. She owns about one trash bag worth of clothing and I constantly lend her things because she always arrives woefully unprepared. To be clear, she never asks for anything, she is more than willing to suffer in silence but I throw jackets or sweaters at her when we go camping or is she sleeps over. Fast forward a few years and I am planning a birthday party in the Keys and she says, "It is going to be amazing, I will sail our yacht up so we can go sailing too." 5 years of friendship and not one sign that her family was loaded. Opposite of the article but good to know some rich kids turn out humble and independent.
Eslamala 4 years ago
Shïtty parents spoiling and ruining their kids until adulthood, then having the audacity to "get tired of their behavior" (which they enabled), and "teaching them a lesson" after they've failed to teach them basic shït about life or how the world works. These type of people should never become parents. They are the reason we're surrounded by idiots.
Monday 4 years ago
These types of people were often raised by parents who shouldn't have had children either. If you're going to put all the blame on the parent and none on the child because of how the child was raised, then you also have to consider how the parent was raised. If Jack has a son, Paul, who he spoils rotten and then Paul has a son, Richard, who he spoils rotten then is it Paul's fault that Richard is a d**k, or is it Jack's fault for starting the cycle?
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Alex Luiz 4 years ago
There are a lot of articles out at the moment slagging off wealthy people. Rich or poor, no one can help what they were born into and no one deserves to be judged because of how they experienced early life. Also, many of us don't think to question their upbringing until adulthood - it takes open - mindedness and effort and not everyone has the initiative to do it. What's scary is the kids of those in power are growing up without realising the way most of us live. Isn't it better to help people fill in their gaps rather than tearing them apart for it?
Troux 4 years ago
Seriously. The kids thought that mommy and daddy's money could buy them out of life responsibilities because mommy and daddy thought that money could buy them out of parenting responsibilities.
Load More Replies... Floofy Samoyed 4 years ago
Some of these aren't so much the kids' fault as the parents'. Teach them some basic skills (e.g. cleaning dishes) before you force them to get a job
Lovin' Life 4 years ago
Parents need a lesson in parenting. Children should be taught basic life skills from a young age. Having money doesn't give you the right to be lazy, but it does. Just because you have a wealthy financial status now doesn't mean you cant lose it all in the blink of an eye. You can't buy love and respect from your children. You learn to love and to be respectful. The kids aren't totally to blame. It's the enabling parents.
Sasy 4 years ago
I am shocked, so shocked by this whole post, I do not care how much money they did or didn't have, I am just floored that none of these kids apparently ever watched television, not ever, because some of these things would take one or two episodes of any high school or college aged family drama to have episodes on all these things, oh the humanity "clutches my pearls" see I watch enough TV to know that is an expression :P
PK Winters 4 years ago
I just was told by my daughter that her friends thought we were rich because I kept the house clean and did not have junk in the yard. We would save up money every week so my girls and their friends could have a pizza party every weekend (found a place that served pizza cheep, back in the 70's) My girls didn't realise we were on flood stamps.Its funny how people decide who is rich. Thinking back I guess I was rich, in love but definitely not money.
deanna woods 4 years ago
So many of these stories are just failures on the parents' part. You can't send your child into the world with no world knowledge and expect them to learn it on their own. My classmates made fun of the fact that I was a senior in high school and had a bed time. My parents keeping me in line prepared for situations that I would need to make important decisions about. My senior year, I got invited to a graduation party at a classmates house. At some point, their parents brought out alcohol. I knew I didn't need to be at the party at that point so I went home. Had my parents not taught me that some situations are not appropriate, I probably would have stayed and drank with everyone else.
Pheebs 4 years ago
The stories about teenagers being given expensive cars and wrecking them really annoy me. Even with less well off people, giving your new-to-driving teen a brand new, fast sports car is asking for trouble. Most of these people are lucky to not have died, or killed someone else. When I was in HS, one of my classmates was given a brand new mustang the day he got his license. 4 days later he decided to take a joy ride on the highway at excessive speeds and ended up killing himself. 16 years old and dead because of a lack of sense all round in that family.
Eslamala 4 years ago
A 16 y/o who doesn't know speed limits shouldn't be driving. It's not the parent's fault the kid was an idiot.
Load More Replies... Ivana 4 years ago
I have one rich friend, we have actually been good friends for a number of years and I never thought much about her finances. She owns about one trash bag worth of clothing and I constantly lend her things because she always arrives woefully unprepared. To be clear, she never asks for anything, she is more than willing to suffer in silence but I throw jackets or sweaters at her when we go camping or is she sleeps over. Fast forward a few years and I am planning a birthday party in the Keys and she says, "It is going to be amazing, I will sail our yacht up so we can go sailing too." 5 years of friendship and not one sign that her family was loaded. Opposite of the article but good to know some rich kids turn out humble and independent.
Eslamala 4 years ago
Shïtty parents spoiling and ruining their kids until adulthood, then having the audacity to "get tired of their behavior" (which they enabled), and "teaching them a lesson" after they've failed to teach them basic shït about life or how the world works. These type of people should never become parents. They are the reason we're surrounded by idiots.
Monday 4 years ago
These types of people were often raised by parents who shouldn't have had children either. If you're going to put all the blame on the parent and none on the child because of how the child was raised, then you also have to consider how the parent was raised. If Jack has a son, Paul, who he spoils rotten and then Paul has a son, Richard, who he spoils rotten then is it Paul's fault that Richard is a d**k, or is it Jack's fault for starting the cycle?
Load More Replies... Alex Luiz 4 years ago
There are a lot of articles out at the moment slagging off wealthy people. Rich or poor, no one can help what they were born into and no one deserves to be judged because of how they experienced early life. Also, many of us don't think to question their upbringing until adulthood - it takes open - mindedness and effort and not everyone has the initiative to do it. What's scary is the kids of those in power are growing up without realising the way most of us live. Isn't it better to help people fill in their gaps rather than tearing them apart for it?
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