3. The people who casually sent an entire jet back home for BBQ:
"My friend is a commercial pilot and works for a large company that has a 'flight department' consisting of several jets and turboprop airplanes. The owner's kids, and a group of their friends, were granted permission to take one of the jets from the central part of the US to the Bahamas. Upon arriving in the Bahamas they were meeting other friends and getting on a very, very large yacht for a week. They realized the yacht was equipped with fine dining food, not the type of food they liked (junk food). They ordered the pilots to fly back through US Customs and to their hometown in the Midwest. Once there, they had to pick up multiple sides of BBQ ribs, burgers, hot dogs, soda, beer, and piles of other junk food and fly back to the Bahamas — and do so within a timeframe that still allowed them to leave with the yacht on time. It costs roughly $5,000 an hour to operate the jet they were using. And it never even struck the owners as something extreme."
5. The terrible story of Twin A:
"Twins in high school.
[On their] birthday, I think it was 17, they get matching pickup trucks. Like the suped-up larger than life cool as f*ck looking black ones.
Twin A is the brat, and smashes his in some remarkable timeframe, I want to say same day. It was crazy though.
Parents decide not to get him another one (though I'm sure insurance probably covered it even if it was his fault), but regardless he is going to learn a lesson.
The lesson?
Takes Twin B's truck (he's the responsible one) and crash it ON PURPOSE.
If he can't have one, neither can his brother.
So much recklessness, spite, and downright illegal in what he did."
12. The roommate who thought parents were just laptop dispensers:
"My parents bought me a laptop for my 18th birthday. It was absolutely unheard of in my family to receive gifts as expensive or technological. I cried when my mom handed me it. I was meant to be moving away for university and both my mom and dad had saved up 6 months wage between them to afford it for me. We all hugged and cried and it was extremely meaningful and emotional. I went off to university.
I was in the dorms one night when my dorm mate, who was a rich white boy from Long Island, brings back like two drunk girls and another friend. They start drinking and rolling up weed in the dorm, which I was fine with, it was university etc. I go to the bathroom down the hall, and when I get back, one of the drunk girls has opened my laptop and is trying to log in.
I approach her and I'm like, 'Hey that's my laptop, not (roommate's). I don't mind you using it, I guess, but let me just log you in to the guest account.' She goes to move the laptop off her lap toward me, and knocks an open bottle of wine onto it, the entire laptop being flooded with wine.
She goes, 'Oh! sorry!' And I'm like what the f*ck, dude? Get a f*cking towel! Put it upside down! I'm FREAKING the f*ck out!!!!! I can't believe it's happening. My roommate starts telling me to chill the f*ck out and asks, 'Can't you just get a new one, dude?'
I start patting down the laptop and I ask them, please, if it doesn't work, can you help me replace it? I need it for my classes, etc. They start laughing at me! Saying, 'Why can't your parents get a new one for you?'
It took two weeks of demanding them to buy me a new one before they reluctantly did as I had to explain to the dorm manager my situation... Luckily he was sympathetic as f*ck and helped me arrange for a replacement."
14. The kid who worked a whole month:
"This one is kinda mild, I guess, but goes to show how clueless wealthy kids can be, completely unaware of the disparity between them and average-income people.
Anyway, he picked me up in a new $85,000 sports car one day. The newest Corvette special edition model, fresh off the line. I said, holy sh*t, dude, your car is incredible. He said he wished everyone knew he had to work a full month with his grandfather and earned it himself."
15. The person who thought car registrations just magically renewed:
"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; i.e. 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."
16. The kid who had no frame of reference for wine prices:
"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?'"
