Became friends when I was very young with a prestigious lawyer. Came home on leave and we met for drinks. He decided to take me to a pvt club. While there he ordered us both drinks for 3-5 rounds. In the middle of telling a story he gets a call and steps out. After a few minutes he text. He told me he had to run to run back to the office and that he would get me next time. I ask for the bill nervously as there was no price next to the drinks he ordered. He became very surprised when he had to come back to pay. He couldn’t fathom that a private in the army couldn’t pay a 4300 dollar bar tab.

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3 to 5 rounds for two people is 6 to 10 drinks, right? Neglecting tips and tax, that works out to $430 to $716 per drink. How is that possible? Did every drink contain liquid gold?

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I work in automotive repair.

I had a woman come in a few years ago who said her windshield wipers weren’t working. This was directly after a snow storm. I’ve been around the block enough times to already have an idea: she tried to run the wipers to clear a foot of snow and ice instead of brushing most of it off and freeing the blades first. That overloads the wiper motor, or some part and breaks something, or just tears the rubber on the blade itself.

So we check it out, yep… the wiper linkage came apart, that connects the electric motor that moves everything to the actual arms that wipe, and keeps them in sync.

I told her the situation and she was exasperated. She asked how this happened and how to avoid it… I was like well you really gotta brush the snow off and make sure the blades aren’t frozen to the glass before you turn them on.

She honestly looked at me, made an “ugggh” sound, and said, “Like… with my hands??” I said yes, or a brush or something. She said, “god damn it, this is something the help should really be taking care of, I shouldn’t have to deal with this b******t.”

Then while we fixed the wiper linkage, she was outside yelling at someone on her cell phone.

I will remember this event for the rest of my life.

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Will probably get lost in the sauce- but worked at a small family owned pizza place. The owner would routinely be late with our checks. When he stsrted having marital problems, it got really bad. (like supposed to be paid on Friday, not getting our checks until Tuesday). During one of these occurrences, where employees kept calling him, and he finally showed up, he said to me "You know my son asked why everyone kept calling. He said they know they're going to get paid, why do they care when you drop off the checks?" And he thought that was so smart. I was shocked. We all made minimum wage. We all lived paycheck to paycheck.

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I have been free from living paycheck to paycheck for years - but whenever i think about it... it still feels like coming up up for air after being underwater a little too long. People around me saying - 'Its payday on Friday, finally I can...' , Yeah, I remember 'holding out till Friday' and maybe writing checks for essentials the day before!

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Many years ago, I was living in Philadelphia. I had a very nice colleague at the office, a young woman from a very privileged family. She’d lived all her life downtown (at least when she wasn’t summering in Bar Harbor or spending weekends at their place in Bryn Mawr).

One weekend, we were going to meet for lunch. We spoke on the phone and I said I‘d see her soon. I was out in West Philadelphia, so I grabbed the subway and got off a block from her apartment.

”You got here so quickly!”

”Yes—I took the subway.”

”Now, don’t tease me; there’s no subway here; we’re not in New York…”

I had to walk her over one block, show her the stop, and even go down to the ticket level, at the subway one block from the place she’d lived for 30 years. I probably could have just told her I’d teleported….

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Had a friend group that lasted about a decade, two of us were low-income (I was lower middle-class, the other was in borderline poverty) and the others came from extremely wealthy families. One day we were talking about income and I mentioned that anyone who made above 100k was rich in my eyes, and one friend laughed at me and said yeah but all of us here make over 100k. I had to stop in stare in absolute shock. My family collectively barely made half of that. I realized then how much privilege she had that she was completely unaware of and just assumed that everyone else had the same luxuries that she did.

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I worked as a landscaper for a client who spent $175,000 on our services every year. He was remodeling part of his house for shits n giggs and it was estimated to cost about $2 million to renovate. He talked to me about how easy young people have it these days because we all have cars, TVs, and cell phones. He was lamenting how “no one wants to work anymore” and how young people just expect everything these days. I was happy to get a brief moment to explain to him how the basic necessities (housing, food, healthcare, education) are becoming unattainable for people, especially in large west coast cities, despite TVs and phones being cheap these days.

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I was making about $65k at a corporate job, and was chatting with one of the C-suite executives one day. I mentioned that there was a specific property that I was day dreaming about buying - until I found out it was listed at $1.3M. She told me I should just “go for it! Money isn’t everything!”

I was so floored I didn’t even try to explain to her why that was entirely financially infeasible.

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F*****g delusional little piggie banks they are for Apple.

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The CEO of my last job won the lottery, a lot of money. She is already rich while rest of the people in the office struggle to pay rent. She was complaining everyday how stressful it was to win money and how she hopes it never happens again while having her big winning check on the wall in her office. She came to me with a purse with holes in it “ a gift for you! I don’t want it any longer but I’m sure you do”. She meant her trash was good enough for me. I told her to gtfo and I left my job that day.

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“I pay you enough that your wife shouldn’t have to work.” I was making, in 2016, the same as what he made in 1983. I showed him an inflation calculator that said the $50k he made in ‘83, was the equivalent of $117k in ‘16.

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I dated the daugther of a (non-Russian) oligarch for 2 years.

Oh boy she was very smart and studying at a top university, but totally oblivious how her family became so rich.

Like "friends" of her father would always gift them ridiculous stuff like $250k horses and when his kids would get married they got set up with real estate worth millions as wedding gifts.

After I pointed out that these are obviously low key bribes she just thought for 2 seconds and then went "oh..."

But well, she grew up behind the high walls of guarded mansions. Had a driver that transfered her to school etc.

Just different world.

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I was visiting a friend in LA. I lived in Oklahoma City at the time. Her roommate asked “What’s it like being around civilization?” I laughed and realized she was serious. She thought Oklahoma was like in the old western movies. Astonished that we too have Whole Foods and sky scrapers.

I then learned that many people who live on either coast see “flyover” country this way. Lots of assumptions about middle America that are so out of touch.

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I had a boss try to give me a hard time for taking most of my vacations as a day or two here and there, on a Saturday. They can't force me to take my vacation as a lump sum but apparently their accountant was complaining at the extra work. I explained I was using it to visit family on birthdays and such. She tried to say "well wouldn't it be nicer to take a week at a time? That way you can actually fly somewhere warm!" I just stared at her and said "...the vacation pay just reimburses me for the wages lost. How am I going to pay for the flight, the hotel and literally anything else? You pay me minimum wage." She just stared at me in shock and eventually dropped it.

She and the other boss, that exact same day, had been discussing getting a SECOND cottage each in front of the rest of us peasants.

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Years ago, I got a job as a waitress in a new "fine dining" restaurant opening in my town soon. (Find dining is in quotes, because it was envisioned to be fancy food and service but without the hoity-toity parts like dress codes because it was also a college town with a big "townie" population). Prior to opening, we did a number of trainings on proper service (how to set tables, proper wine service... stuff like that... and stuff I'd not learned as a server at a busy 24 hour diner in a college town).

I was in my early 20s, as was the majority of the staff. I asked a question about the wine service protocol, and a girl training with me scoffed and said, "Ugh, haven't you ever gone out for dinner with your family?" and then looked at all the other folks training with us like she'd just put me in my place.

I was halfway through, "Not to anywhere fancier than an Outback or Olive Garden because my family couldn't afford it... damn..." when the manager stepped in and schooled her that not everyone can afford fine dining and that me asking for clarification on something I hadn't had the chance to experience was legit. And everyone else looked at her like, "what a snob..."

She still eye rolled at me. At then got mad later when I performed better and got the good shifts, lol. She didn't last long.

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My boss's wife is the child of a millionaire who married an "heir to the throne" of a multi-million dollar a year organization where I was working for $10 an hour.

**Her**: "You - where are you planning on taking your honeymoon when you get married?"

**Me**: "I dunno, a week on the beach or maybe a quiet cabin in the mountains."

**Her**: "Pfff. No one will ever marry you if you refuse to take them to Hawaii for a honeymoon!".

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My supervisor, immediately after letting me go, suggested that I would be so much happier now that I didn't have to commute every morning, and that I should take a few months off going on fun trips! She really thought I worked for fun. If I hadn't still been living at home, I would have been unable to pay rent starting next month. I found out later on that she was a trust fund baby and her brother (executor) forced her to work in order to collect her trust payments or whatever they're called, because she was such a spoiled brat when she started collecting from the trust.

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A friend of mine tried to deny that his family was wealthy the first time he brought me over to his house - a two-story, five bed, three bath house, with a garage that could hold three cars and a rather sizeable RV, which sat on the shore of a small artificial lake that it had its own boat dock on.

I very bluntly had to tell him that while I was in no way judging him for it, it was a tad difficult to take him downplaying his family's wealth seriously when standing in a garage that could comfortably fit half of my family's entire house.

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I had a friend in high school that lived in a mansion and the only reason he went to the public high school was because he wanted to have "real" friends. I felt pity for him; despite having every material good he wanted, he was so lonely. And all the years I knew him, I never met his parents - the butler, his personal maid, the family chef, the driver, etc., yes, but how sad for him to not feel loved and cared about. His preference was to do homework at my house, in my tiny room or in the living room, and to eat whatever my mom attempted to make for dinner, (she was not a good cook). .

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Had a friend who was veryyyyyy insistent on the idea that all debt is bad debt and thus should be avoided. I would always try to counter argue that what if someone were in need of a car to get to work and make more money, but due to a lack of transportation, they didn’t yet have that money to pay for the car. They always would insist that if you are in debt you weren’t working hard enough or you should have saved more. Same friend always is complaining about how tiring their job is, even when its <20 hours a week. (Don’t get me wrong, that can be tiring, but what happened to this save money mentality?) Always been upset that they never changed their mind
Edit: Also remember them saying to just have your parents take you to work when they can. News flash, not everybody comes from a background where parents are involved or have enough time to help out.

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My boss cut all our hours in half in order to gain the covid supplemental payments then bragged that he didnt make a loss. (You were supposed to be making a loss to be eligible for the supplemental payment.) (We are an essential service) We all lost half our wage a week for him to do this. I, as a manager still had to do my full job in less hours. When he brought it up very casually because hes so out of touch with us who need our wage to survive, i very flatly let him know i was literally losing my hair due to the financial stress. ‘Really!?’ ‘Yes. I work hard to ensure i have a job but this was completely out of my control. Theres nothing I can do. I cant get a second job in this climate. It was very stressful’

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A lot of companies that abused the COVID Payment Schemes in the UK were hunted down for it later. No better than War Profiteers these scumbags!

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I used to work in a cafeteria of a tech building. I was chatting with one of the lowest level staff about how bank cards had come out with tap option. He and I were both avoiding getting it added to our banking plans because the limit was $100 and we were worried about how easy it would be for someone to empty our accounts before we even knew our cards were missing.

We were both making minimum wage, living paycheck to paycheck and every penny was essential.

The CEO heard us talking and asked what about and I said "oh just about the new tap option and how the daily limit is $100 so we don't want it for fear that someone could steal our money!" And this guy laughed and said "it's only $100! That's nothing!" And HIS employee just looked annoyed and stayed quiet but *I* was not his employee so I said "$100 is more than either of us makes in a full day's work and would be a huge loss, even if the bank was able to get us our money back within a week we would have to go without something, most likely food." And he looked at both of us and had the decency to look ashamed before he paid for his lunch and walked away.

He tipped a bit better after that, but I doubt his low level employees saw an extra penny! My friend who worked there didn't last even a whole year! Then he found a job that would pay him a livable wage for his education and skill set and left for greener pastures. There was A LOT of employee turnover at that company! And just generally a lot of out of touch high level staff that didn't treat us peasants very well.

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I don’t know about *heard*, but I can share the most out of touch thing I saw.

Years and years ago I worked for a digital marketing company that was very much in that awkward teenage stage of wanting to act like a startup but getting a little too big for that. The CEO was a nice guy, very tech bro-y but seemed committed.

One day I was working late and saw a piece of paper in the office cafeteria. Said CEO had been on honeymoon recently. Now remember this was startup culture. Lots of hustle, work as late as you need to get things done but here’s this cool ping pong table—that kind of vibe.

This piece of paper was a bill. For his honeymoon trip. His honeymoon was a safari to Africa. *It cost more than my entirely yearly salary.*

I remember being totally stunned. I had no idea he was so deeply out of touch with his employees that he was going on 5-figure African freaking safaris while encouraging all of us to put in unpaid overtime. I remember hovering there for a while, wondering if I should try and take a pic to post anonymously or something.

Ended up just leaving it. I was one of the only people left in the building and scared of retaliation. It was gone in the morning.

I’ve never forgotten it. All the c-suite b******t about us being a team and a family was MUCH funnier after that.

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I was talking to a very rich client about houses, and she said: how can someone have only one bathroom in their house? I’m constantly explaining to her what it’s like to be middle class.

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My family home has 2.5 baths (my father built it in the 90s). To be fair, there were two apartments in the house before my parents stopped renting one out, and it's a decent situation for five people.

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I had just gotten my first teaching job fresh out of university - moved cities, rented an apartment on my own, and student loan payments were coming up. A mistake was made and I didn’t get paid for the first few weeks. I approached the principal to ask if she knew who I could contact to get it fixed. Her response: “Oh well, think of it as forced savings.” I had no savings. Rent was due. She knew I had just moved. I remember thinking, wtf?, but I didn’t say anything. At the time, I didn’t want her to think I was rude.

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"Are you serious!?" is a perfectly acceptable go to in such circumstances?

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I went to high school with a girl who once said “Did you know some people don’t have dishwashers?”

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There’s a good excuse for that now, we’re ecological, not poor. Gas lighting myself.

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A friend of mine had a new girlfriend i was meeting for the first time. My friend is really rich, but this girl.. she casually started talking about how she was flying out to NYC that weekend on a private plane with her mom to go shopping. Just a regular weekend flying from Atl to NYC on the private jet to buy some shoes.

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I really couldn’t live like that, yeah I’d like the money but to hopefully do better things with it, like helpful things.

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My aunt was complaining about how she’s had to start clipping and painting her own toenails to save money and may have to sell one of her three luxury cars or her motorcycle because “times are tough” I was on food stamps at the time, and my car was broken down and we couldn’t afford repairs. She knew all of this and still acted like we were in the same situation as each other. I just stopped talking to her all together. I haven’t seen her or spoken to her since and that was 10 years ago.

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I used to work in a QA department with two teams, each 7 people. At this company, it was HEAVILY encouraged to work through lunch (you’d be docked an hour pay even as a salaried employee if you left) so we did. This was among other insanely overbearing rules. Anyway.

One day, investors are visiting to check out our company. Our HR is giving them a tour, this happens to be during our lunch. When giving his speech about the lab, in front of all of us, he goes, “while we’re out for lunch sitting down at a restaurant, enjoying our meals, these guys are in here testing 24/7.” I was literally in shock. My coworker and I just stared at each other in horror.

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My manager was telling me about something that happens to your toilet when you don’t use it for awhile and said “you know when you’re on vacation for longer than a week?” And I just looked at her and said no. I think she realized that someone getting paid as little as me has never been privileged enough for long of a vacation by the look on my face.

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Owner of the restaurant told a coworker she didn’t have to go furniture shopping when she moved, just come over and look through her stuff as she was moving soon. Coworker awkwardly went and looked, didn’t see anything she liked but she needed lamps so said she would take two. Asked coworker how much she wanted to pay for them, coworker asked how much she wanted to charge (she was thinking $20-$50). Owner looked her dead in the face and said $600. 💀

Forgot to add- her daddy bought her the restaurant.

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Uggh! My last two beds combined cost less than that!

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My ex-friend was bragging about using their covid stimulus check to buy a cartier love bracelet during the height of covid. this is a person who lives on the upper east side in manhattan, has never kept a real job and has 100% of their bills paid for by their parents.

meanwhile, my industry was completely shut down with covid and i’m still climbing out of the debt i accumulated to try to get by almost 4 years later.

when i saw them write that s**t online, i quote retweeted them verbally EVISCERATING them and then i blocked them and haven’t spoken to them since.

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My friend was thinking of switching careers. “I’m happy to take a pay cut, as long as I can still afford to rent a three-bedroom,” she said. She lives in San Francisco. The extra two rooms were for her home office and her cats. “I’d even be fine taking something that paid as low as $125k for a while until something better opens up.”.

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Tried explaining to my boss that my long haul truck driving husband slept in his truck. He kept asking about hotels he might sleep at when he's traveling cross country. I'm like no, he has a bed...in the cab...this went on for a bit before he realized.

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I was working as a tour guide at a museum and a visitor asked if I had visited a remote location we had an exhibit about. I said I hadn’t but would love to someday. He recommended I “take a sabbatical” to make the trip.

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A friend of mine (who really isn't a bad guy, just a bit sheltered), once talked to me about how he is very good with money. Bro gets gifted tens of thousands of euros every year by his relatives as birthday gifts etc.

"I just don't spend much". Dude almost makes above average earnings just from bday presents, and lives in a house owned by his parents, who pay all of his bills.

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i asked her what she was up to once, she was flipping through Vogue and she answered “shopping” so i guess she was rich rich.

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Being educated in wine doesn't nessessarily need lots of money. We used to hold a wine tastings were everyone bought a cheap bottle (something 6-9€) and googled a bit about it to teach the others. Then we drank from cheap Ikea wine glasses and pretended to find all the different taste aspects out of them. My basis of choosing my wine was mostly pretty bottle.

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I was a teacher making $35k before taxes, and one of my students' parents was a stay-at-home wife whose husband made over a million dollars a year as an energy company CEO. She came in one afternoon and told me about how stressed she was over renovating their home's 3,000 sf BASEMENT...a basement that was 3x as large as my entire home. In my effort to connect with her, I told her I was so sorry and that I was also dealing with some stress, having to replace all the exterior plumbing of my house. I added that I was grateful that my tax return would cover most of it. Her response: "Oh honey, be glad you even GET a tax return. We haven't gotten ANYTHING back for 20 years!" All I could say was "Well that's one way to look at it.".

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I was visiting my aunt. she and her husband both had very good jobs. she kept her bills pinned to a bulletin board so she would remember to pay them. I says to her "Auntie, your car payments alone are more than we make in an entire month and we are supporting 2 kids on it". She looked at me stunned with her mouth open- "How do your kids LIVE?".

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My ex genuinely said “Even if you earn £125,000. That’s not really a lot of money and can’t get you far”.

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Oddly, the idea of making 125k doesn't thrill me with the prospect of being able to buy better things, it thrills me with the prospect of buying more tools, to better fix the things I already have.

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Knew a guy sophomore year of college. He grew up in the hills outside of San Francisco. Like the boogie boogie part of it. His family had the cyber truck on pre-order the day it dropped.

When we went out to eat one day he asks "So who's paying this time?" My friends and I all stared at him like wtf? He went on to explain him and his friends would take turns paying the bill whenever they went out cause it was practically every night. He talked about his friends doing coke in HS at all the parties their parents let them throw.

On another occasion we were out and about and passed by a trailer park. He he started asking questions about it and the rest of us were confused. Turns out he thought trailer parks were just in movies. He was shocked anyone actually lived there.

On multiple occasions he tried to convince us we grew up rich (we didn't) and we always argued back he knows nothing.

He was just in school for the experience. Ended up getting a 0.0 GPA because he never showed up to classes. He stayed in the area, bought a 4 bedroom house, rented it to 6 friends having them stay 2 to a room. He disappeared to go traveling and turns out one of the roommates opened one of the bills for the house and he was overcharging each person by at least $200. They ofc got mad and wanted to break the lease. He threatened to sue anyone that did.

Never saw him again but definitely the most oblivious person I ever met.

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Cousin married a guy who made quote a bit of dough. Their daughter was turning 16, and she was telling my other cousin (i.e. her sister) that they were deciding what expensive car to buy the girl. Her sister suggested they get her a modestly-priced used car isn't of a new, expensive car. She said, straight-faced: "We're not ANIMALS!", as if buying their daughter a used car would make them so. Overall, she was known to be very vain. Years later, her husband divorced her because she cheated on him, and she couldn't afford to move into her own place, so she moved in with her sister and sister's husband.

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If buying an used the car as a present means you are an animal, I don't even want to imagine what would that make most people. I would probably fall into category of some sort of single-cell organism.

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My rich dad (I grew up with my poor mom) was appalled that I didn't even consider to pay for every person at my wedding to have their own Uber/Taxi to insure they get home safely. It was a dry wedding in my mother in laws backyard.

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I was working in a grocery store years ago as a cashier. I rang up some organic fruit that was a really good price. I said something to the customer about the price being nearly the same as the regular fruit, she said “really? I never look at the prices”.

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The new Prime Minister, a former caretaker CEO who owns 7 homes, including a $5m beach house, said that a weekly grocery bill for a family is about $60. 


I guess that might be what your weekly grocery bill is if you eat every meal at a restaurant.


One of his MPs said that every now and again he likes to take the shopping list off his wife and go to the supermarket for a reminder of how the everyday people live. .

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