I worked at an upmarket boarding school for a while, living in the girls dormitory as a dorm matron. One of the girls was (we suspected) the daughter of a Russian oligarch and was obscenely wealthy and badly behaved.
One of the biggest social events of the school year was a winter ball, and the girls had their dresses planned months in advance. The oligarch’s daughter had a designer gold dress that she told everyone who would listen about how it cost 6k. Bear in mind she was just barely 14.
Anyway a couple weeks before the ball she did something truly heinous, and I ended up grounding her from attending the ball. Oh boy, the tantrums and attempted manipulations the next two weeks were absolutely bonkers, but I’m not budging.
She ended up cutting the dress into ribbons and throwing it in the dumpster in order to “punish me”. Unfortunately for her I’m not her real mum and didn’t pay for it so I didn’t care.
Now he’s 50 and has no prospects. But still refuses to just work. Every time I feel sad about not having enough income to realistically retire, I remind myself I could always be him, 50 years old with a 30 year gap on my resume. At least I’m TRYING.
The teacher asked if any of the kids had questions after we finished the book. The first question was “is this about public schools?” The children were 8 years old.
I put a “change drawer” in the hallway outside her room, and we threw an end of year party with the funds. One can hope it taught her that even coins have value, too, but I doubt she changed her ways entirely.
He was actually quite a nice bloke, but he regularly came out with things that only a rich kid could say.
He once tried to be relatable by mentioning how annoying it was when you didn’t realize your cleaner or gardener were in the house and how awkward it was.
Like, brother, most people just clean their own homes.
As I said, he was quite a nice bloke, he wasn’t being malicious but he was just so sheltered from what the average person has to go through.
Everything was fine up until one girl pulled out the question, “What was the worst thing you have experienced, and how did you handle it?” So accountants at the table were going in turns to talk about different things, passings of parents/spouses, addiction, sickness, divorces…..etc, and I kid you not, this 21 year old Kyle said this when it was his turn, “Yeah my dad is a pilot and my mom is a surgeon and I’m a lonely child. So on my birthday, I usually travel the world, and one time, when I were in Japan, I tried Kobe Beef for the first time, and it was amazing. When I went back to the US, I had an argument with a restaurant owner because they were also serving kobe beef but I knew he was scamming the customers because actual Kobe Beef is not legitimate unless they are prepared in Japan. They kicked me out of the restaurant and I was never kicked out from anywhere.”
Everyone was quite and speechless, and one lady said she is not in the mood to continue the game after he was done lol.
I was talking to a colleague who is also from another country and told her I wasn’t going home for Christmas. A flight to my home country for Christmas would’ve been like $1500usd. Just too much for me to spend right now. First Christmas without my family. My colleague was confused and asked why my family didn’t all just fly out here then lol
Not sure if this fits this question entirely (maybe more so just entitled here but still want to share) — We are currently on vacation in Mazunte, Mexico and one of the nights we went out to dinner, a huge American family came in from Michigan and just started being obnoxious. They were so loud, rude to the waitress, and just annoying — the grandparents (or maybe parents) were basically fighting the whole time, so it just helps paint a good picture of what was going on in a tiny restaurant and their party of about 17. One of the younger girls (maybe mid to late twenties) was just saying the craziest s**t the whole dinner. One of which included her stating that anytime she goes out with family (and they are paying) that she makes sure to order the most expensive things on the menu. Fast forward to her needing the bathroom — we had seen someone else go and we knew you needed a key and the bathroom was around the corner, I tried telling her but she either didn’t hear me — or chose to ignore me — she got up— kind of poked around a little bit and then opened a random closet. We saw her disappear into it and we through for SURE she would come out quickly because we knew she would have to realize quickly that she wasn’t in the bathroom. Unfortunately not the case — this girl stayed in there for a good amount of time — made some loud noises falling over miscellaneous metal material / typical shed things and came out a bit later. She came out unfazed. When another member of her party quickly asked where the bathroom was — she clearly stated you needed a key and told them it was around the corner. At this moment we were pretty sure she used the bathroom in this shed.
The audacity of this girl. She knew exactly where the bathroom was and just completely disrespected and intentionally disregarded using the actual restroom knowing where it actually was.
We quickly ate our meal and got up to leave, but I we just needed confirmation that what we thought happened happened — so I went into the shed and sure enough — she went to the bathroom on the floor. We were just in shock — I came out and just stared at her. She wouldn’t even look our way.
We couldn’t believe it. Can’t even imagine what type of person would do something like that as a visitor to another country while she knew she did something terrible and wasn’t bothered a bit.
We informed the owner as we paid and pointed her out in front of the entire restaurant and her whole family.
Literally insane.
Not sure if this is worse case… but… actually a rich kid being nice.
In college, there was a Saudi Arabian kid who’s father bought him a new Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV. Paid in full.
I was casual friends with him and his roommate.
His roommate was a year behind him, and just an average dude from the US.
He graduated and is in process of moving back to Saudi Arabia, to work at his father’s company.
He just handed the keys to his roommate and gave him the Jeep, signed the title over to him. The roommate didn’t have a car.
He said his roommate was a good friend to him and wanted to give him a goodbye present.
The roommate drove that Jeep until he couldn’t drive it anymore, many years.
At one point he was saving up for his dream car and his sister in law had bought an expensive one but gave it to him for free and bought another because the one she bought was the wrong colour.
My cousin drove it whilst waiting to save up for the one he wanted.
This is when Apple Watches first came out and he had one so it was somewhat of a big deal to have said watch. I asked how he liked it one day and he said had never recharged it after it died the first time. He followed by then saying he was literally just wearing it to be fashionable.
Most customers were rich, but most were nice.
I remember this one kid, who was a prick.
Whilst I was carrying a stack of plates from another table, the kid asks me to take his empty soda glass.
Whilst taking the glass, I drop all of the heavy plates. Kid and his whole family start laughing at me whilst I go get a broom.
Please don’t be an a*****e st restaurants 🙏
That school had so many spoiled rich morons who cried about how hard their lives were while being general teenage a******s. It was kinda startling after coming from a HS in a poorer district where kids were just… normal kids. Idk.
An international student at my university had never been exposed* to even the _idea_ of porn. When he was informed of its existence, he bought three more computer monitors so he could take in as much “content” he’d missed out on as possible while simultaneously doing his homework, gaming, and/or watching (non-porn) movies. He wasn’t even jerking off to it, just immersing himself in the experience.
And the aftermath? None. He absorbed it and continued being the same cheery, respectful, accepting guy. After graduation he returned to his home country and inherited a hazily-defined company worth more money than god.
*He was _horrifically_ sheltered growing up: When asked if his family had a house or apartment, he replied that the closest translation he could find was “compound”, and that he’d only left for weddings and funerals.
Young fellow I know. Brought up playing violin, piano, organ. Had house in the Scottish Borders as well as 2-storey (!) London (!!) flat/condo. Went Cambridge. Completely self-absorbed and unable to empathise with anyone not a literal Earl or Marquess. Calls coaches/buses “prole mobiles” with complete seriousness and a pissy smirk. At least he isn’t shy and enjoys his wealth lol
“Kennedy later claimed that his only experience of the Great Depression came from what he read in books while attending Harvard University. For John, this privileged childhood was interrupted repeatedly by chronic bouts of illness.”
• kid crashed his brand new mustang convertible on a Friday and drove to school in a new one on Monday
I unfortunately knew a guy who would insist that all women were vain harpies that had to be bought into any kind of relationship, or at least be impressed with how much wealth, expensive toys (he liked to take his parents boat out), and consumerist c**p you have. He was convinced any woman he wanted to talk to would only give him the time of day if she thought she might get a lot of value outta him. He was also incredibly bigoted and racist, and painfully loud-mouthed and unconcerned with social norms. He never got a girlfriend as long as I knew him. I wonder why.
ETA: Let me be clear. On at least 2 occasions I was at a fairly big party, with guests including this guy and several women, and he would preach to the whole group, including them, about how materialistic and evil women are. It was surreal to watch
Not me, but my cousin. She goes to UBC and she said there are so many rich Indian kids there. A guy she was friends with casually gave her a 100 dollar bill as repayment for her buying him food. She stared at him like he was crazy and said she didn’t have the change to give back to him. He told her to take it anyway, since he could always ask his parents for more.
Imagine being so rich you handle 100 dollars bills like they’re nothing special.
Roomate at unis parents were millionaires. She had the heating on 24/7. Full blast, 24/7. It didn’t have a thermometer like modern ones it’s just on or off on a timer. She regulated the temp by opening her window. She lived on the ground floor so if you turned the heating off she just walked out and turned it on again.
I had to wear tank tops and shorts in my room in winter. Highest temp recorded was 28c in winter when normal is 20-21. Our gas bill (and this was 2010 or so when it was way cheaper) was £2000 for the year for a 2 bed house with a converted living room into a 3 bed. 900sq ft or so. She refused to pay and moved out. I sent her parents the bill and they quite literally paid without question and apologised. Bill was in my name and I had 5k a YEAR to live off. For comparison our rent was £250 a month. So my split of gas alone was HALF my rent. Not including tax or electricity. Just gas. Previous flat I paid about £10 a month in gas.
To make it worse she lived alone there 5 out of the 12 months as the other two roommates went home and her family lived abroad. So per month I was there it was almost as much as my rent.
Living overseas so daughter attends international school. Daughter (8) tells friend she forgot her backpack. Friend says “can’t your nanny just bring it?”.
Knew a girl who wouldn’t wear the same outfit twice. She would spend thousands a month on designer clothes that she would literally wear for 6 hours then give away. At least she didn’t throw them out! I got some nice clothes out of it! But damn! Really?
Be me: rich kid
In summertime water fight
Introduce *hose*
Fellow rich kid: “I’m not allowed to get wet”
One of the biggest social events of the school year was a winter ball, and the girls had their dresses planned months in advance. The oligarch's daughter had a designer gold dress that she told everyone who would listen about how it cost 6k. Bear in mind she was just barely 14.
Anyway a couple weeks before the ball she did something truly heinous, and I ended up grounding her from attending the ball. Oh boy, the tantrums and attempted manipulations the next two weeks were absolutely bonkers, but I'm not budging.
She ended up cutting the dress into ribbons and throwing it in the dumpster in order to "punish me". Unfortunately for her I'm not her real mum and didn't pay for it so I didn't care.
Now he's 50 and has no prospects. But still refuses to just work. Every time I feel sad about not having enough income to realistically retire, I remind myself I could always be him, 50 years old with a 30 year gap on my resume. At least I'm TRYING.
The teacher asked if any of the kids had questions after we finished the book. The first question was “is this about public schools?” The children were 8 years old.
I put a "change drawer" in the hallway outside her room, and we threw an end of year party with the funds. One can hope it taught her that even coins have value, too, but I doubt she changed her ways entirely.
He was actually quite a nice bloke, but he regularly came out with things that only a rich kid could say.
He once tried to be relatable by mentioning how annoying it was when you didn't realize your cleaner or gardener were in the house and how awkward it was.
Like, brother, most people just clean their own homes.
As I said, he was quite a nice bloke, he wasn't being malicious but he was just so sheltered from what the average person has to go through.
Everything was fine up until one girl pulled out the question, “What was the worst thing you have experienced, and how did you handle it?” So accountants at the table were going in turns to talk about different things, passings of parents/spouses, addiction, sickness, divorces…..etc, and I kid you not, this 21 year old Kyle said this when it was his turn, “Yeah my dad is a pilot and my mom is a surgeon and I’m a lonely child. So on my birthday, I usually travel the world, and one time, when I were in Japan, I tried Kobe Beef for the first time, and it was amazing. When I went back to the US, I had an argument with a restaurant owner because they were also serving kobe beef but I knew he was scamming the customers because actual Kobe Beef is not legitimate unless they are prepared in Japan. They kicked me out of the restaurant and I was never kicked out from anywhere.”
Everyone was quite and speechless, and one lady said she is not in the mood to continue the game after he was done lol.
I was talking to a colleague who is also from another country and told her I wasn't going home for Christmas. A flight to my home country for Christmas would've been like $1500usd. Just too much for me to spend right now. First Christmas without my family. My colleague was confused and asked why my family didn't all just fly out here then lol
Not sure if this fits this question entirely (maybe more so just entitled here but still want to share) — We are currently on vacation in Mazunte, Mexico and one of the nights we went out to dinner, a huge American family came in from Michigan and just started being obnoxious. They were so loud, rude to the waitress, and just annoying — the grandparents (or maybe parents) were basically fighting the whole time, so it just helps paint a good picture of what was going on in a tiny restaurant and their party of about 17. One of the younger girls (maybe mid to late twenties) was just saying the craziest s**t the whole dinner. One of which included her stating that anytime she goes out with family (and they are paying) that she makes sure to order the most expensive things on the menu. Fast forward to her needing the bathroom — we had seen someone else go and we knew you needed a key and the bathroom was around the corner, I tried telling her but she either didn’t hear me — or chose to ignore me — she got up— kind of poked around a little bit and then opened a random closet. We saw her disappear into it and we through for SURE she would come out quickly because we knew she would have to realize quickly that she wasn’t in the bathroom. Unfortunately not the case — this girl stayed in there for a good amount of time — made some loud noises falling over miscellaneous metal material / typical shed things and came out a bit later. She came out unfazed. When another member of her party quickly asked where the bathroom was — she clearly stated you needed a key and told them it was around the corner. At this moment we were pretty sure she used the bathroom in this shed.
The audacity of this girl. She knew exactly where the bathroom was and just completely disrespected and intentionally disregarded using the actual restroom knowing where it actually was.
We quickly ate our meal and got up to leave, but I we just needed confirmation that what we thought happened happened — so I went into the shed and sure enough — she went to the bathroom on the floor. We were just in shock — I came out and just stared at her. She wouldn’t even look our way.
We couldn’t believe it. Can’t even imagine what type of person would do something like that as a visitor to another country while she knew she did something terrible and wasn’t bothered a bit.
We informed the owner as we paid and pointed her out in front of the entire restaurant and her whole family.
Literally insane.
Not sure if this is worse case... but... actually a rich kid being nice.
In college, there was a Saudi Arabian kid who's father bought him a new Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV. Paid in full.
I was casual friends with him and his roommate.
His roommate was a year behind him, and just an average dude from the US.
He graduated and is in process of moving back to Saudi Arabia, to work at his father's company.
He just handed the keys to his roommate and gave him the Jeep, signed the title over to him. The roommate didn't have a car.
He said his roommate was a good friend to him and wanted to give him a goodbye present.
The roommate drove that Jeep until he couldn't drive it anymore, many years.
At one point he was saving up for his dream car and his sister in law had bought an expensive one but gave it to him for free and bought another because the one she bought was the wrong colour.
My cousin drove it whilst waiting to save up for the one he wanted.
This is when Apple Watches first came out and he had one so it was somewhat of a big deal to have said watch. I asked how he liked it one day and he said had never recharged it after it died the first time. He followed by then saying he was literally just wearing it to be fashionable.
Most customers were rich, but most were nice.
I remember this one kid, who was a prick.
Whilst I was carrying a stack of plates from another table, the kid asks me to take his empty soda glass.
Whilst taking the glass, I drop all of the heavy plates. Kid and his whole family start laughing at me whilst I go get a broom.
Please don’t be an a*****e st restaurants 🙏
That school had so many spoiled rich morons who cried about how hard their lives were while being general teenage a******s. It was kinda startling after coming from a HS in a poorer district where kids were just... normal kids. Idk.
An international student at my university had never been exposed* to even the _idea_ of porn. When he was informed of its existence, he bought three more computer monitors so he could take in as much “content” he’d missed out on as possible while simultaneously doing his homework, gaming, and/or watching (non-porn) movies. He wasn’t even jerking off to it, just immersing himself in the experience.
And the aftermath? None. He absorbed it and continued being the same cheery, respectful, accepting guy. After graduation he returned to his home country and inherited a hazily-defined company worth more money than god.
*He was _horrifically_ sheltered growing up: When asked if his family had a house or apartment, he replied that the closest translation he could find was “compound”, and that he’d only left for weddings and funerals.
Young fellow I know. Brought up playing violin, piano, organ. Had house in the Scottish Borders as well as 2-storey (!) London (!!) flat/condo. Went Cambridge. Completely self-absorbed and unable to empathise with anyone not a literal Earl or Marquess. Calls coaches/buses "prole mobiles" with complete seriousness and a pissy smirk. At least he isn't shy and enjoys his wealth lol
"Kennedy later claimed that his only experience of the Great Depression came from what he read in books while attending Harvard University. For John, this privileged childhood was interrupted repeatedly by chronic bouts of illness."
• kid crashed his brand new mustang convertible on a Friday and drove to school in a new one on Monday
I unfortunately knew a guy who would insist that all women were vain harpies that had to be bought into any kind of relationship, or at least be impressed with how much wealth, expensive toys (he liked to take his parents boat out), and consumerist c**p you have. He was convinced any woman he wanted to talk to would only give him the time of day if she thought she might get a lot of value outta him. He was also incredibly bigoted and racist, and painfully loud-mouthed and unconcerned with social norms. He never got a girlfriend as long as I knew him. I wonder why.
ETA: Let me be clear. On at least 2 occasions I was at a fairly big party, with guests including this guy and several women, and he would preach to the whole group, including them, about how materialistic and evil women are. It was surreal to watch
Not me, but my cousin. She goes to UBC and she said there are so many rich Indian kids there. A guy she was friends with casually gave her a 100 dollar bill as repayment for her buying him food. She stared at him like he was crazy and said she didn’t have the change to give back to him. He told her to take it anyway, since he could always ask his parents for more.
Imagine being so rich you handle 100 dollars bills like they’re nothing special.
Roomate at unis parents were millionaires. She had the heating on 24/7. Full blast, 24/7. It didn’t have a thermometer like modern ones it’s just on or off on a timer. She regulated the temp by opening her window. She lived on the ground floor so if you turned the heating off she just walked out and turned it on again.
I had to wear tank tops and shorts in my room in winter. Highest temp recorded was 28c in winter when normal is 20-21. Our gas bill (and this was 2010 or so when it was way cheaper) was £2000 for the year for a 2 bed house with a converted living room into a 3 bed. 900sq ft or so. She refused to pay and moved out. I sent her parents the bill and they quite literally paid without question and apologised. Bill was in my name and I had 5k a YEAR to live off. For comparison our rent was £250 a month. So my split of gas alone was HALF my rent. Not including tax or electricity. Just gas. Previous flat I paid about £10 a month in gas.
To make it worse she lived alone there 5 out of the 12 months as the other two roommates went home and her family lived abroad. So per month I was there it was almost as much as my rent.
Living overseas so daughter attends international school. Daughter (8) tells friend she forgot her backpack. Friend says “can’t your nanny just bring it?”.
Knew a girl who wouldn't wear the same outfit twice. She would spend thousands a month on designer clothes that she would literally wear for 6 hours then give away. At least she didn't throw them out! I got some nice clothes out of it! But damn! Really?
Be me: rich kid
In summertime water fight
Introduce *hose*
Fellow rich kid: "I'm not allowed to get wet"
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