Worked with this kid who was a good kid, but completely disconnected from financial reality for most people. He’d just moved out west from another state and was trying to get on like a “normal” adult.

He went to buy a new car and was shocked that they couldn’t just bill his dad for it, since they didn’t know him.

He ordered a bottle of wine at a restaurant and the sommelier said “certainly, sir.” Then the sommelier whispered “just for your knowledge, sir, the bottle is $700.”

He looked straight at him and asked “is that a lot?”

The sommelier honestly didn’t know how to answer.

Good kid, and he got a lot better, but he just didn’t know. Once he casually told his mom he needed some help with bills and she deposited $20,000 into his account.

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From a parents pov, they did everything to give their child a good life, but on the other hand, being disconnected from reality is also not the way.

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I've seen this Aussie guy in a Thai pub on Koh Samui, he wanted to show bar girls that he's rich and lit up his cigarette using a burning 1,000 baht bill. He probably did not know how Thais love their King, and that the King just recently died, and his face is on the bill. The rich kid got his but kicked so hard. Sorry for my English, but hopefully you can understand what I mean.

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Read the room, dude. Correction, just don't try to show your wealth by burning things, no one cares anyway.

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I worked at a Starbucks and we hired a new guy, who I was training. At one point, I had to show him how to clean the restrooms. I grab the bleach, and hand him a pair of gloves and he looks at me in disgust and says, "we don't have a *maid* to clean the bathrooms??"

He quit the next day lol.

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I would have loved to tell him: You ARE the maid, son.

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Probably too late to the party here but I ended up at one of those fancy private universities. Coming from a small Ohio town, it resulted in a lot of “culture shock”. One of the most memorable moments was when I was eating breakfast at one of the campus restaurants super early before I opened the store I worked at and there was a girl at a table with her friend just completely broken down sobbing. She was basically incomprehensible and I immediately thought she must have lost a family member and my heart broke for her...until, through rolling tears. She managed to croak out “it’s just not f..f..faiiiir!! I asked for a Mercedes and he got me a ..a...BMWwwwww.” Then just breaks into guttural sobs.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping my paycheck can cover an overdue oil change on my 1998 Plymouth neon 😂.

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Meanwhile, I'm trying to contemplate how a university student can afford a car in the first place.

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One of my friend's friend ended up paying for a night out food and entertainment. He’d go up before we got the bill and just pay. No matter how much we argued with him and tried to pay him back wouldn’t take it nice dude mad baller rich.

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Sounds like a great guy.

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When I was a kid I got bullied a lot by this one kid named Miguel growing up. His family was a lot better off and spoiled him, buying him the latest shoes, Starter jackets, video games, etc. He was always showing it off and especially liked to rub it into my face.

My parents both worked two jobs to try and provide a decent life for me growing up, but money was tight. Most of my clothes I either got from the thrift store or they were hand-me-downs from my older cousins. I remember one day my parents decided to treat me and take me to the Nike outlet and get a pair a brand new sneakers. This was the first pair of shoes I had in a long time that were *all mine* and never worn by anyone else.

I remember being so excited to wear them to school and walked into the classroom with a big smile that day. Miguel takes one look at my shoes and says, "Nice new, old shoes. I had a pair of those last year when they were cool." With a few words he completely crushed the happiness high I was riding and brought me down instantly.

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Aw man. I remember how lines like that used to affect me. Damn kids, man.

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I work at a country club and on the 4th of July (while I was working) a little girl asked why we were closing at 7 instead of staying open all night. I told her I wanted to get to do sparklers and fireworks with my family too!

She thought about it, looked back at me and said “but... but y’all aren’t real people?”

I just had to laugh and inform her I was indeed real and all my coworkers weren’t just the slaves of the country club. Wild man.

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Kinda understandable when it's a little girl, but people way too often carry this mindset well into their adult / elderly years.

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One of my college classmates wrecked his Range Rover over winter break and came back in an Aston Martin.

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i think that new drivers shouldent have new cars. just saves money in the long run, although clearly not an issue for this dude

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Went to school with a crazy rich kid, his parents divorced and each decided to buy his love. Mommy owned a real estate agency, so she got him a license and spoon fed him enough sales for a 6 figure income. The dad then BOUGHT HIM A MAGAZINE. Yes, the dad bought a magazine for his 24 year old son to "run". Worked about as well as you'd imagine.

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OH MY I want a magazine. BRB, playing the lottery.

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This case isn't too bad, and its a bit funny. I became friends with a kid who's family was really well off. He was a really nice bloke, but a bit sheltered and University was the first time he really had any independence, but he had very little sense of what the value of a dollar really was since his folks got him what he usually wanted, compared to what normal people would spend.

There was one particular time he wanted us to eat at a resturant, and he assured us "its really good!", so we all rocked up to this place and the price for main courses started at $40 to $60, which as poor Uni students we couldnt afford, but when he realised this he was so embarrassed he got his folks to pay for it. He's finally wised up a few years later once he got more independence away from his family and made his own money, and remains one of the best blokes I know.

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At least he learned quickly and remained a good guy.

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Rich kid I know brought $1000 to the book fair in elementary school yea $1000 that’s not a typo

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"It's just as well you brought $1,000. I'm selling this copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar for $950. It's tattered and falling apart because it's a first edition, not because as a child I could not take care of anything. That stain is from the sweat of the author. It isn't chicken soup at all. Pleasure doing business with you."

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I come from a low-middle income family. I was friends with someone who received a red envelope (Chinese tradition) with easily over a thousand dollars inside, and he still complained about not being able to afford x and y. I'd be lucky to even have a proper meal everyday consistently..

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Red envelopes are the best on lunar new year, definitely was never 1,000 in there but 20 was still exciting.

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This girl would always brag about how she’s been to every continent except Antarctica and that she’s visited so many countries

Then she wondered why people called her the rich kid and insisted she wasn’t rich.

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"Well but I've never been to Antarctica, where all the really rich people go"

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Dunno if it qualifies as rich kid syndrome but when I got out of the Navy I decided to use my GI bill at one of the Penn State satellites. I was sitting in the cafeteria drinking coffee and typing up a paper when a girl sits down across from me and opens her backpack. She pulls out a sandwich bag and looks at it in disgust then looks me dead in the eye and says "I don't even know why I bother my mother never cuts off the crust". I let out one of those high pitched short laughs like is this girl for real? Oblivious to the tone of it she says "I know right" then asks me if I want it . I looked around thinking I was getting pranked or something cause this s**t is too stereotypical to be real and I just assumed I was being filmed. She shook it at me and gave me a "well?" look. So I said f**k it and took the sandwich, she then pulled out her student ID card and bought a c**p ton of french fries. That sandwich was awesome, I think the bread was homemade and it was stacked like a Dagwood. It had all kinds of expensive looking meats and Dijon mustard, serious gourmet s**t. I know this girls mother will never see this but I just wanna say someone appreciated that sandwich.

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Dude, my mom put so much love into our school lunches that I would eat every bit even if I didn’t like it or want it. I would feel immense guilt if I had to toss something like a crushed sandwich, so I rarely did. I felt like it was throwing out my mother’s love for me.

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My fiance's cousin. He managed to crash 4 cars while still in high school because his father would replace them. When he moved onto college, he got kicked out of several apartments for owning a dog when they weren't permitted. He told me he didn't care though, since his father also funded his continuous stream of new housing.

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Maybe just buy him an apartment if money's no problem?

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In middle school we were asked to draw our homes for some assignment and hand it in at the end of class. A popular, extremely wealthy kid that sat behind me raised his hand and smugly asked the teacher for another sheet of paper because he couldn’t draw it all on one page. His friends just snickered but I was cringing.
Even at 12 I remember thinking it was such a snobby thing to say.

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I remember in 1st grade we had this assignment and a kid raised his hand and asked “what if we have two houses?” I remember thinking how lucky he was to be rich enough to have two houses! It wasn’t until years later that I realized that his parents were divorced.

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I wouldn’t say rich kid but definitely spoiled brat who thought he was rich. Befriended him in 5th grade over our interest in the Yugioh trading card game. First time I hung out at his place I noticed just how littered with stuff his room was. Some even unopened.

I showed him some rare card that I had recently pulled from a pack. He got super jealous and angry that I wouldn’t trade or sell it to him. He immediately got up and walked over to the family computer and booted up a site where you could buy cards and various other toys and such.

Completely ignoring having me over he’s now on an online shopping spree adding stuff to the cart. After adding a few things he yells “where’s the credit card?” and immediately his older sister comes running up the stairs to yell “Kyle, mom said no more buying stuff online!” And closes the website and shuts off the computer. Kyle then proceeds to have a crying tantrum on the floor and I’m just standing there over him in shock at what’s happening and how he’s acting. I slowly stopped hanging out with him until completely avoiding him as his temperament got worse.

Kid wasn’t even rich either if I remember correctly both of his parents were cops.

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That's not rich kid syndrome per se, but something else. Insecurity he's trying to compensate?

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Someone’s sister got $600 shoes so the parents got the other kid shoes of the same price to stop their complaining
Edit: it was a birthday present for the first kid i should’ve said that.

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$600??!! Damn, I'd keep 500 n spend the rest on knock offa

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So my best friend's wife teaches at a ritzy 40k per year private school. As in, $40,000 a year for elementary and middle school (I think the HS is like 50k+). Well, she teaches 7th or 8th grade, I can't remember, and she said she always goes around the class after the summer break and ask them what they did over the summer and she particularly remembers one kid complaining about how much his summer sucked because he was stuck on his parent's yacht all summer and they didn't even take it to anywhere cool, just Italy.

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I can understand this one. I would hate to get "stranded" on a boat or a ship for days. A small rowboat for a couple of hours, that's all right. The bigger the vehicle the less appealing the travel. Spending my entire vacation on a yacht would be a nightmare.

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Knew this one guy at my college who didn't understand why everybody is so worked up about student loans. I remember him saying something along the lines of "why don't people just pay the tuition upfront." He was also quite sheltered.

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That’s not his fault. Whomever raised him should have had him volunteering, paying it forward, living on a budget and overall being exposed to the real world.

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This kid back in high school was whining (I mean literally whimpering) that he had to wait something like 6 weeks for his custom built BMW to come over from Germany.

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God that's terrible. I can't imagine his pain

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My friend literally throws away his change because he hates holding coins. Doesn't matter if its 99 cents he'll throw it away. That s**t adds up.

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This reminds me of when I was in year 7. So many other year 7-8s would hang around outside the canteen/tuckshop to collect the 5c & 10c coins older students threw down when they got change. The older kids thought it was so funny how desperate the 'scabs' were. Of course there were never any gold coins on offer.

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My mom's friend used to buy new clothes each season and throw out the old ones. She had to be taught by her husband to save them for the next year.

Edit: This happened way back in the '50's. Her family was very rich, and he was just a normal guy.

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That's when you buy clothes for the kick, not because you actually like them. I have t-shirts that are older than many of you (i.e. 30 years old ones), and I love them still.

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I've posted this before, and I need to say first off the bat that this is about my best friend and she is the best person I know; ie not normally "rich kid" or anything.

I was complaining about how I was short on money one month (just couldn't go out to eat) because I had to pay rent and pay for tag renewal all in the same paycheck. She looked at me, super seriously, and was like "don't worry they send you those in the mail for free!"

After a long discussion she learned that in fact, her mom had been paying for her new tags every year.

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I work for a dentist and her son is a spoiled brat. He was at the office one day because she had to bring him to an appointment later that day. He got bored and went out wandering around some of the local shops. He came back a little while later and without any preamble walked up to her and said "give me $80". She asked him what it was for and he just repeated himself and she gave it to him.

Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. I'll answer a few questions if I can. So the kid is 19 years old, he was 17 at the time of this incident. The father is in the picture but my boss (the dentist) is the main breadwinner and disciplinarian of the family. The husband is more like another child and just works here and there and lives off her money. She tries to act tough and instill certain morals and values in her kids but then turns around and caves to all of their demands. For example, her twin daughters are going to university next year and instead of staying in a dorm they demanded a two bedroom two bathroom apartment. They refused to share a bedroom or even a bathroom. At first she told them absolutely not but they whined and complained and she caved. This will be a 2 bed 2 bath apartment in Toronto by the way where rent prices are through the roof. My boss is very much about appearances and from a young age got her kids accustomed to a privileged lifestyle. She created monsters.

Edit 2: Yes, they are totally like Jean Ralphio and Mona Lisa Sapperstein.

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A guy looked at my $2,000 beater car in college and commented that it must've been really cheap and guessed $15,000.

**edit:** For anyone curious it was a Kia Rio 2005 with 120k miles on it.

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I'm damn proud of my old "cheap" looking car! It's been paid off for years, runs great. If someone tried to shame me for my car, I'd laugh in their face, then tear them a new one.

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Went to a destination wedding in Mexico resort. Rich kids rented a golf cart, tore through the streets and flipped the cart (injuring people and causing a huge commotion and traffic jam).

A Mexican lady comes out and begins to scold them for their behavior. "You wouldn't act this way at home!"

Rich kid responds, "I promise you we do."



It was the earnestness of his reply that got me.


Edit: he really believed he was placating her with that response. There's gotta be a German word for something being funny because the other party is aloof to their own behavior.

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Gegenignoranzkomik. I just made that one up.

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I knew a girl whose allowance was $90 a day. She got into trouble so they cut it to $90 a week.

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90 a day?!?! That's 630 a week which is 32,850 dollars a uear

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Apparently there was this 15 year old girl who was going on an exotic vacation to some pacific island or something. But her favorite show was on tv the day of their flight, and she really wanted to see it. Her parents delayed the flight so that she could watch an episode of her favorite show.

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If they were going on a private jet, this kind of makes sense. Aren't private jets able to leave when they want? Can any super rich people or people with experience with private jets answer this for me?

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