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30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Oakwood2317 Report

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306points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Your story is not lame, JB is.

192points

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

picksandchooses , Tom Blackout Report

Final score:

264points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Good of the dad, lesson learned.

206points

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!”

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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."

Gneissisnice , Jonathan Borba Report

Final score:

241points

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Floofy Samoyed 3 years ago (edited)

Take a deep breath.I have to break some have to break some bad news to you.

82points

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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!”

[deleted] , Kelly Sikkema Report

Final score:

238points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Mum is ok!

62points

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.

theoriginalalexa Report

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237points

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beastmachine. 3 years ago

Well at least he is working hard

45points

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

BrilliantWeb , Philip Myrtorp Report

Final score:

224points

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Jihana 3 years ago

Well done, Dad!

83points

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.’”

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

aj_ramone , Artem Beliaikin Report

Final score:

204points

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Mary Rose Kent 3 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.

94points

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

rubbermbn , Izz R Report

Final score:

194points

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Jody Brown 3 years ago

That was your good deed for the day.

93points

#10

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

ApolloAbove , taiyo_rawle Report

Final score:

191points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

At least he knows he was wrong.

103points

sarcasm_hurts , RikkisRefuge Other Report

“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

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Final score:

169points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Don't these kids receive any life lessons from their parents?

50points

#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.

krintix Report

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167points

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Eslamala 3 years ago

At least he realized how clueless he was, and also that him messing up would have consequences.

105points

pastfuturewriter , Sophia Müller Report

#13

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Final score:

166points

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Samantha Lomb 3 years ago

Poor sloth

315points

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

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

_TheOneYouTrust_ , Simon English Report

Final score:

156points

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May 3 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.

202points

#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.

moby323 Report

Final score:

150points

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Bobert Robertson 3 years ago

Low blow, but deservedly so

53points

#16

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Mp10e , Scott Eckersley Report

Final score:

144points

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Burs 3 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.

41points

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

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

wwcharl , Roberto Nickson Report

Final score:

128points

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Trans raccoon 3 years ago

Ya that happens a lot here in Quebec,rich kid goes to collage,gets drunk,gets deported

32points

#18

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

janefromvegas , Mike Boening Report

Final score:

123points

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Samantha Lomb 3 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

248points

Burs 3 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.

48points

NsG 3 years ago

You can legally work at 13, but I'm not sure I'd trust the average 13 year old to make an informed voting decision. Having said that, I'm not sure I trust many 40 year olds to make an informed voting decision either, so you have a point.

26points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

Until you're 18 though, you are limited on the hours you can work, and they should probably raise the voting age too, or just straight up ban people from voting who get their cues from Facebook.

4points

Pheebs 3 years ago

Depends on the hotel and location. Plenty of hotels in my area will allow a person who is 18 to get a room, but they don’t always allow someone not there to give the card on record. I would imagine the main issue in this story is the gambling aspect. The poster says they worked in a casino, so I’d imagine they want to keep liability down.

6points

Beth L 3 years ago

I suspect it might have more to do with the person who paid for the room not being present in the party. Also, if the group was all the same age, there were probably some that weren't 18 yet and didn't have a parent with them.

4points

Beth Dezarn 3 years ago

If they had a Military ID they'd have let them check in.

3points

Lynne Harbison 3 years ago

And in New Zealand, you can get married aged 16 with parents permission.

0points

Kim Kermes 3 years ago

We who joined the military at 28 or 19 are usually a LITTLE bit more responsible than the average bear. Under 21, kids are more likely to trash the room and Mommie and Daddie likely to be difficult about paying.

0points

ApexScavenger 3 years ago

Very silly. I started working at 14 (with parental waiver signed) and bought a car at 16 yet I couldn't rent a room until 21 or rent a car until 25!

0points

Just JoLynn 3 years ago

I'd like to know when this happened, I've stayed in hotels on the strip in Vegas when I was under 21 and never had a problem checking in.

0points

Happi doggi 3 years ago

Yea, you definitely should

0points

NsG 3 years ago

I agree. Unless it's a way of getting around the minibar, cant drink til 21 rules?

-2points

Sasy 3 years ago

21 does not make sense for an international tourist destination, I completely understand the non drinking and not gambling, but checking into the hotel that was apparently paid for by her parent seems strange. People travel the world before 21.

14points

May 3 years ago

Didn't know you had to be 21 to get a hotel room in the US. Or is it a Vegas thing?

9points

Troux 3 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.

7points

Valisbourne Spiritforge 3 years ago

Got to be a Vegas thing. Or a new thing. I checked into plenty of hotels when I was 18

6points

KittyMommy 3 years ago

It depends on the hotel. Self defense on their part, too many kids renting rooms and the destroying the room, or annoying other guests. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida I want to say the minimum age for a lot of hotels is 26 - same reason. Young, drunk idiots doing idiot things. Made a lot of hotels make age restriction rules to minimize problems

0points

Jeremy 3 years ago

Big Vegas resorts are at their core casinos that have rooms, not a hotel with a casino. If you can't waste money there than you are just taking up space they could sell to someone who will gamble and drink

3points

Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 3 years ago

You think 18 year olds need chaperones for a birthday party, but not in the trenches in Iraq?

1point

James Mills 3 years ago

lmao America is so weird.

1point

De Gueb 3 years ago

You can't rent a hotel at 18 in usa or just casino hotel?

1point

Gabby M 3 years ago

You can't enter a casino if you're under 21.

1point

Bexxxxx 3 years ago

In Canada it’s 18/19 depending on province 😂 oh America

0points

Floofy Samoyed 3 years ago

Ha. Who thinks the dad knew this and just wanted to leave them in Vegas so he could relax?

0points

Eslamala 3 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.

-1point

Samantha Lomb 3 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.

2points

#19

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Sickofitblonde Report

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119points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

She was 5 yo?

80points

#20

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

[deleted] , Jacob Bentzinger Report

Final score:

116points

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K. Anderson 3 years ago

Injury lawyer buying kids alcohol. Sounds like a dumb lawyer from a liability standpoint

75points

#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.

user/varsil Report

Final score:

111points

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D S 3 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

54points

#22

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Galemianah , Raul Varzar Report

Final score:

106points

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Adam C 3 years ago

Daddy got him a new one next day

37points

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#23

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

__justbecause Report

Final score:

105points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

This is a good ending. She grew up!

61points

#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.

war_machine1980 Report

Final score:

103points

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Lynne Harbison 3 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. 😂

3points

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#25

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

gomugomunorocket42 , Obi Onyeador Report

Final score:

92points

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Floofy Samoyed 3 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

33points

#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.

pivazena Report

Final score:

89points

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K. Anderson 3 years ago

Baltimore ain’t a joke

10points

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#27

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

jonahvsthewhale , Roland Denes Report

Final score:

81points

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Sarcastic Cow 3 years ago (edited)

´Sneaky parent kit´- when communication fails.

31points

#28

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Xercister Report

Final score:

78points

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beastmachine. 3 years ago

Oopsie doopsie

23points

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#29

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Satyrane , Luisa Peter Report

Final score:

70points

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Samantha Lomb 3 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.

38points

#30

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

Ajj360 , Andre Tan Report

Final score:

61points

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Helwin 3 years ago

Maybe the parents should have done some parenting before, idk...

35points

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#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.

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Final score:

24points

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Sarcastic Cow 3 years ago (edited)

What an elegant suicide.

12points

#32

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

nava271 , Kris Atomic Report

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23points

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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago

Those students clip their own nails.

9points

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#33

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

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22points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Does this happen a lot in the USA?

0points

#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.

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21points

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Monday 3 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.

13points

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#35

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

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18points

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Samantha Lomb 3 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.

29points

#36

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

paganbreed , Sharon McCutcheon Report

Final score:

18points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Pouting? goodness gracious me. Ditch the girl, she is not a friend.

18points

#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.

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18points

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Samantha Lomb 3 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

13points

#38

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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.

BrassTact , Jacek Dylag Report

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17points

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Samantha Lomb 3 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

15points

#39

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.

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15points

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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago

Parents seemed to have done a piss-poor job of giving him any life skills

8points

#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.

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15points

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Samantha Lomb 3 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.

18points

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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.

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15points

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beastmachine. 3 years ago

How is this level of social isolation even possible?

9points

#42

30 People Are Sharing The Best Moments When Rich Kids Were Hit By The Real World 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).

peteski99 , Emil Kalibradov Report

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13points

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Monday 3 years ago

They probably still paid for the trip because it was a group thing. They didn't want to disappoint the other people who were probably really excited to go.

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Olamide Felix 3 years ago

This article must be titled 'parenting fails'.

35points

Troux 3 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.

15points

Floofy Samoyed 3 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

18points

Lovin' Life 3 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.

10points

Sasy 3 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

5points

PK Winters 3 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.

3points

AndThenICommented 3 years ago

This 💕

0points

deanna woods 3 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.

2points

Pheebs 3 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.

2points

Eslamala 3 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.

0points

Ivana 3 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.

2points

Eslamala 3 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.

2points

Monday 3 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?

2points

Alex Luiz 3 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?

1point

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

It's great how many rich parents who have tried to provide a "good" life for their kids, have finally woken up and done something about it when they finally realised that their kid turned out to be (surprise surprise!) a spoilt brat!

1point

L Johnson 1 year ago

Like others have said in the past...couldn't we...shouldn't we...have a TEST to become a parent??? The parents are at fault but they "blame" privilege. Well, who gave it to them??

0points

ejfs 3 years ago

I don't know if "my" rich kid ever discovered reality, but she once took a weekend trip to NYC (from Europe) to do some shopping. She had to buy 7 extra suitcases to bring it all back home....

0points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

It really should be MUCH more difficult to reproduce.

0points

Al Christensen 3 years ago

My story of a rich kid is sad. I didn't know anyone else who was going to the same state university, so I was randomly assigned a dormitory roommate. This guy was the son of the president of a small town bank. He had a closet full of clothes, a big audio system and a brand new sports car. But he was a horrible student. He was failing all his classes, including some remedial classes that were simpler than high school. It wasn't because he goofed off. He just couldn't comprehend it. Looking back, I imagine he had a serious learning disability. He shared that he was the younger of two sons and that his parents doted on his golden boy brother. He was gone after the first semester.

0points

Cori 3 years ago

We are poor. Not desperately poor, but more of a 'our needs are met, but very few of our wants' kind of poor. Part of the reason we're poor is because I've put raising my kids in their formative years as my biggest priority. I put a lot of work into it and am proud to say I have two compassionate, polite, well adjusted little boys who genuinely seem quite happy without being the least bit spoiled. If you're going to put more humans into this overpopulated world, you need to do your damnedest to make sure they are quality humans who make the world around them a better place. Clearly popping out kids and just throwing money at them is NOT the way to create quality humans.

0points

Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago (edited)

2 funny rich people stories: I worked for a supermarket meat dept 30 years ago. A lady in full length fur coat, dripping in jewelry asks me where the burgers are I explained the patty machine is broken(like the big sign says) and we only have regular ground beef. She stood there flummoxed and asked me "whatever would the housekeeper feed the children b/c monday is hamburger day." I explained she could buy a package of regular ground beef and I thought the housekeeper could probably hand form the burgers. She had a fit! It was like she didn't know that you could make burgers that weren't bought already formed. The other was way back when I was about 18. I was invited to a party with a friend who had moved to a very rich town for a job. This really spoiled girl told me her dad had bought her a brand new diesel VW Rabbit for college so she could learn how to be economical. argh.

0points

AndThenICommented 3 years ago

Some of these are cute - like not knowing how to cook, wash dishes, or to buy coffee - but the others desperately scare me. I want to be successful in life (like really successful) but I gotta say the culture just seems to be get worse the higher up one goes. Even if I raise my kiddo to understand, I have to worry about the influence of an entire community undoing all those lessons.

0points

Kaori Panda 3 years ago

how is that cute?

1point

Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 3 years ago

I feel really bad for these kids...

0points

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Olamide Felix 3 years ago

This article must be titled 'parenting fails'.

35points

Troux 3 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.

15points

Floofy Samoyed 3 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

18points

Lovin' Life 3 years ago

10points

Sasy 3 years ago

5points

PK Winters 3 years ago

3points

AndThenICommented 3 years ago

This 💕

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deanna woods 3 years ago

2points

Pheebs 3 years ago

2points

Eslamala 3 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.

0points

Ivana 3 years ago

2points

Eslamala 3 years ago

2points

Monday 3 years ago

2points

Alex Luiz 3 years ago

1point

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

1point

L Johnson 1 year ago

Like others have said in the past...couldn't we...shouldn't we...have a TEST to become a parent??? The parents are at fault but they "blame" privilege. Well, who gave it to them??

0points

ejfs 3 years ago

I don't know if "my" rich kid ever discovered reality, but she once took a weekend trip to NYC (from Europe) to do some shopping. She had to buy 7 extra suitcases to bring it all back home....

0points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

It really should be MUCH more difficult to reproduce.

0points

Al Christensen 3 years ago

0points

Cori 3 years ago

0points

Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago (edited)

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AndThenICommented 3 years ago

0points

Kaori Panda 3 years ago

how is that cute?

1point