What is your best “out of touch rich kids” story?
Posted by Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 436 comments
Had a rough day and I’m looking for a good laugh, so I want to hear your best and funniest stories of rich kids being out of touch.
Im talking probably related to the rich family in saltburn, lives in a country manor, allowance from mummy and daddy, took a very expensive gap year and is surprised you didnt, offended when you point out theyre rich and probably says how their parents just work harder than yours, multiple holidays abroad a year rich kid stories!
Bonus points as well of its a rich kid who loves pretending to be poor and dresses like theyre from skins since its “so aesthetic”
Cant wait to read them
Sufficient-Basil9006@reddit
In a Waitrose once (first shop I saw when stopping to get a snack) - teenage boy having to be told by the cashier why bank cards ask for your pin sometimes. He says with deadpan delivery "Oh I didn't know, the butler normally manages domestic tasks." ie. buying food.
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
I forget butlers are a thing outside of movies. The concept of having a butler feels so unreal to me 😭
Chevalitron@reddit
In the old days they had a huge staff all with assigned roles. Now due to minimum wage laws only the truly stupendously rich can afford that, so the merely rich have foisted all the combined duties onto the poor butler as the last surviving full time servant, who now acts as a live-in carer for the wealthy.
CyberKillua@reddit
I think labelling them as "full time servants" would make it sound like they don't choose to do so... Even though these amazing butlers have to go through rigorous training to become one...
Chevalitron@reddit
No because if that was the case I'd have said "full time slaves".
bacon_cake@reddit
To be honest even a lot of wealthy people don't have actual butlers. I've worked with plenty of UHNWIs that have family offices, some have PAs, some even have chefs. But I don't think I've ever met one with a proper butler butler, except maybe some of the old ones who had full-time carers.
remainsofthegrapes@reddit
From what I recall they came back into fashion briefly after Downton Abbey, I remember an article saying that there was a huge increase in demand for butlers overseas in places like China.
OneRandomTeaDrinker@reddit
I read that female butlers are in demand in places such as Saudi and Dubai so that the women of the family can be comfortably alone with them without having to cover up etc.
PrettyGazelle@reddit
You know you don't have to give an excuse for being in Waitrose, it's a perfectly normal shop and some of it is very cheap.
infieldcookie@reddit
The thought of never going to the shop before blows my mind. Even just to get some sweets or something.
Aardvark_Man@reddit
It'd be weird being ultra-rich, and feeling like a biscuit, and just having someone else pop down.
Like uber eats, but way more expensive and classy.
outsider247@reddit
For them it's probably normal?
Eyupmeduck1989@reddit
Rishi Sunak is that you
pointsofellie@reddit
No he wasn't rich, he didn't have Sky.
Ashrod63@reddit
Based on my knowledge from period dramas, if your butler's buying the food either:
You've lost most of your staff and are not as rich as you once were
You're new money and trying to look fancy but don't have a clue what the title means
That kid dresses in red spandex with a man dressed up as a bat every night
Maleficent-Drive4056@reddit
I hate when the airline asks if I packed my own bags and I have to admit my family can no longer afford a butler.
naivety_is_innocence@reddit
things overheard in a waitrose:
"Mummy, what's that strange fruit next to the kumquat?"
"That's an apple, dear."
Gallusbizzim@reddit
I'm going to say this when it asks for my pin and I've forgotten. Right enough, I'm broad Glaswegian.
BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit
I once overheard someone at university complaining on the phone to his mother that the maid had packed the wrong dinner jacket when she was packing his bags for term.
pajamakitten@reddit
Kid went to Dulwich College. He was shocked that I had never heard of it and that I did not go to private school myself. He also tried to act as if his private school was rougher than the all boys state school I went to that is in one of the most deprived areas of the south.
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
I see rich kids trying to act as is private school is really rough all the time, I cannot believe theyre being serious.
Pieboy8@reddit
To be fair to the private school kids. They have a reputation for sexual abuse so whilst Jordan won't stab you behind the bins for looking at him the wrong way you might get buggered by Tarquin and the nephews of some Saudi Prince.
IronSkywalker@reddit
I went to private school, can confirm how rough it was. Someone got pushed over once!
Ok-Muffin-3864@reddit
Hey I went to Dulwich College… rough as anything. Sitting in English one day and the teacher asks, “What comes at the end of a sentence?” Kid at the back shouts, “an appeal!”
*didn’t actually go to Dulwich, I went to Eton
Infinitethoughts022@reddit
"An appeal" thats a good one!!! 😂
Matt_Moto_93@reddit
I’ve heard Eton is quite a mess.
critterwol@reddit
Different kind of rough.
DameKumquat@reddit
It does depend. When I was in juniors my girls private school shared buses with the next door boys school. No seatbelt rules in the 80s so it was often carnage at the back where the older kids were. Lots of fights and on one occasion a sixth form lad knifed a third year in the head.
Driver pulled over, punched the older kid, dragged him down the aisle by the collar (we all kicked him as he went past), and left him on the hard shoulder of the A road, then patched up other kid - he got off at my stop so my mum took him home and then to hospital.
That was kept out of the news, though my school having prefects using chains and knuckledusters to keep order did make the papers. And the ice cream man selling the older kids weed and coke.
My girls boarding school was mostly trauma from home - we had a full time school psychiatrist, an anorexia epidemic, self-harm everywhere, at least five girls I knew were sent there by relatives to stop them being abused at home - and house staff would help them get 'invited' to stay with friends during the holidays. Being the kids of foreign politicians had issues - one girl's dad got another's dad murdered, a friend said her holiday was good until the coup in Pakistan when they had to flee to a distant uncle's house in the jungle and then it was really boring in between the shooting. Another family had to flee their country by Land Rover and for three weeks everyone assumed the parents were dead - in fact they'd run out of fuel in Kurdistan and it took that long to get to a phone. Etc.
Boys schools were similar but unlike girls, they tended to have sex in the dorms. Not always consensual, sadly.
Whollie@reddit
An old friend went to an all girls boarding school. This chimes with her experience certainly in terms of the eating disorders and the need for psychiatric care.
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
You realise everyone else has the same issues, but they don’t have a school psychologist, they have a 2 year waiting list for CAMHS?
RoundPeanut606@reddit
It’s almost like being really rich and powerful turns you into an absolute c*nt to your kids who grow up to repeat the cycle with theirs. And also shit all over the people they either represent in their governments or working under them at their massive corporations.
UseADifferentVolcano@reddit
I have a friend who went to multiple private schools as his parents moved around. He would get bullied the shit out of each time he was the new kid apparently. One time they hung him out a third floor window by his ankles.
From what I've heard they're not rough per se they're just full of cnuts who know they will never face consequences.
RiceeeChrispies@reddit
didn’t have to play soggy biscuit in state school
Sixforsilver7for@reddit
It's rough in the sense that there are a lot of allegations of SA being committed by the students.
gilestowler@reddit
My parents had ideas about me moving up through the class system and made me sit an entrance exam for Dulwich College. But they would only have been able to afford it if I got a scholartship (the scholarships back then were awarded based on the entrance exam). I got in but didn't get the scholarship, so that was that. But I was secretly pretty glad. As an 11 year old kid from a semi detached 3 bedroom house in Croydon that place was a bit intimidating. It's just a completely different world. I do sometimes wonder how I would have turned out if I had got the scholarship. How much would I have been different because of my environment?
Mediocre-Struggle641@reddit
this essay
It's a long read. But I suspect it confirms what you already know. You'd still be you, but they would still be them.
Silver_Extent_7279@reddit
Most likely you wouldn't have grown up happy as you would have been singled out and treated differently.
gggggenegenie@reddit
Dulwich College is as rough as a coat of gloss paint. 😂
pajamakitten@reddit
This guy was. Nice guy by all means but was less street smart and more Sesame Street smart. He could not understand why waving his brand new iPhone and talking about it in a rough neighbourhood in the dark was a bad idea.
TheMegaCity@reddit
Didn't man of the people Nigel Fartage go to Dulwich College?
brideofgibbs@reddit
Yes, and he’s still that bad at public speaking & debate
guzidi@reddit
Little Morpheus cried into his pillow all night in the boarding room. And then the older kids touched him.
That does sound rough
prelude_to_nowhere@reddit
Probably rougher in the sense that bumming was probably rife in his school.
OneRandomTeaDrinker@reddit
Went to uni with a fairly nice girl who was very rich. Her parents had tried very hard to make her functional, so she worked about 20hrs/week and her parents matched what she earned so that she didn’t have to take out a student loan but still had a good work ethic, which I thought was quite a nice thing to do for your child if you’re stinking rich.
However. She also had a 12yo brother. She thought it was totally normal that her parents had retired early and moved to the Caribbean, leaving her poor brother at boarding school. He stayed with his nan during school holidays and saw them two or three times a year. I expressed sympathy for her brother and frankly for her too cos I’d have been upset to have my parents move 5,000 miles away at 18. She defended that it was totally normal and she quite liked it because they’d sometimes pay for her flights out there as a treat. Reminds me of the bit in Saltburn, “I have two children” “Oh that’s nice” “Why would that be nice?”.
On a slightly milder note, I went to school with some rich kids. State school but it was a posh grammar school, so it was 80% kids whose rich parents had had them tutored to get in and 20% kids like me who passed the exam without any particular parental scheming. One girl was bought a brand new Audi Q3 when she passed her driving test. Not even as a birthday present or something. Getting a banger for your 18th is one thing, getting a 30k car just because is crazy. She was applying to unis in London because her dad kept a flat there for when he had to go on business trips so she could just stay in her dad’s flat. Bonkers.
KawaiiBunBun097@reddit
My colleague asked if I would lend him some money because he didn't realise it was another week before we got paid. He had taken out a payday loan because he wanted to have lobster thermidor, but the repayment was now due and he didn't want to be hit with a penalty. He doesn't want to ask his dad and mummy for help as he was already in enough trouble for not having money to attend some dinner at the private school where all of his family had attended. His dad was some trustee or prominent member of the alumni society for the school and would be guest speaking. You are expected to wear the school's current blazer to these events. My colleague said the blazers change every few years and he was expected to buy a new one each time to attend. In any case, he was raiding the office fridge for "forgotten" food as he couldn't even afford groceries.
trainers95@reddit
Lad in my halls first year of uni said to me ‘I’ve put the bread in the toaster, how do you make it go down?’
louilou96@reddit
Discussing looking at flats, when one girl said "I need to calculate my budget including bills" the posh girl said "you're parents set a budget? harsh!"
crgoodw@reddit
We have a distant acquaintance (used to be friends, but have absolutely lost touch) who came from proper wealth - Dad had multiple UK and European properties, a boat, and didn't work due to passive family trust income etc.
He used to turn up randomly at our house to stay for weeks on end. He was vegan, and fully expected us to stock vegan snacks for him in our fridge at cost to ourselves. We did - we were friends after all - only for him to turn his nose up to the expensive Alpro choccy deserts we bought, because he was 'avoiding refined sugar'. He would stay for weeks and weeks - there would be no end date offered, until he would just decide to move on. Never contributed a penny but paid us in 6-pages-of-A4 poems about 'undulating curves' and 'explosive force of nature coming forth from my loins'.
One of the final times he did stay with us, his dad called midway through his visit to tell him he had found him an opportunity to intern at a London wealth manager - he would sort him out with a flat and all costs. He refused, saying he didn't really feel like it, thanks, and then went out to do yoga for 2 hours in the garden.
At the time, I was just breaking into my finance career, which was a really cutthroat environment where I didn't fit in because I was working class and didn't have an economics degree. I was so furious with him.
Oh, he also left every fucking cupboard door open - I used to follow him around, shutting cupboards left and right, every fucking day.
happygoodbird@reddit
That's at least 50% on you for being an absolute pushover.
blewawei@reddit
Sounds like Bertie Wooster
critterwol@reddit
Sounds like what we used to call ethno-yahs. Floating around like hippies in Nepalese clothes, being all spiritual and vegan and asking where you went skiing in the February half-term.
pajamakitten@reddit
Fruit, nuts, Nakd bars (Lidl knock-off are fine). There. I am vegan and would have been happy with that. I would never ask for those though.
DisagreeableRunt@reddit
The poor thing must have felt like he was scavenging for food.
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
How the fuck did you cope with that?? I think my blood wouldve actually been boiling.i’d probably have snapped at the Alpro thing
crgoodw@reddit
He tried my patience, he really did. He didn't stay long that last time - he probably caught on with all my furious cupboard slamming.
I ate the Alpro in the end. I remember being really cross because they tasted a bit shit and cost a lot at the time (vegan options not being so wildly available).
nikadi@reddit
Completely out of touch friend of mine as a teen/young adult. There were three of us close friends, two of us with low earning working class parents, our holidays consisting of eurocamp and similar if we got them at all. Rich Kids Dad was a senior civil servant, retired in his early 50s on an amazing pension, took on a job as he got bored so still earning well.
One conversation we were discussing our family holidays when we were around 16/17, my parents were taking us on a plane for the third time (canary islands again for ten days, cheap and cheerful because we always flew on Christmas day or new years eve!), other friend was going to France on the eurotunnel and Rich Friend started lamenting how Daddy couldn't afford to take her, her two siblings and all of their partners to Japan for 3 weeks and so they could only go for just over two.
Shes still a friend 20 years later, absolutely lovely but still utterly head in the clouds about money as parents have always helped when before she's even had a chance to struggle.
TheAlbertBrennerman@reddit
People on lower wages work harder than those on high.
dmmeurpotatoes@reddit
I had a super-rich flatmate during my first year at a very good uni.
She put bread in the microwave and complained that it hadn't come out toasted.
Apparently she had literally never made toast before.
liseusester@reddit
I loved it at uni when people asked where I had come from because then they'd try and guess which of the private schools in the city and surrounding area I had been to. Eventually they'd run out, I'd name my (Catholic, state school) school and they'd try and work out if they had heard of it. They used to get such a funny look on their face when I said it was a state school. One even said "oh well, well done on being here!" as if I were a dog that had just done a fun little trick.
TheoryParticular7511@reddit
Good trick l, you papist bastard 😄
flowering_sun_star@reddit
I reckon it stems from an assumption that anyone of any quality will have been to one of the couple of dozen private schools that they recognise. So they see someone in the same situation as them, and of course you're someone of similar quality. So they'll recognise the answer you give.
'High school in the middle of Suffolk' never crossed their mind as a possibility, and their interest in you rapidly wanes.
Naive_Community8704@reddit
I remember going into Asda with a uni friend who was privately educated - she said as we walked through the door ‘this place literally reeks of poverty’ 😂
InternationalRide5@reddit
She's right.
I shopped in KwikSave growing up, and that was upmarket compared to Asda.
ConstantineGSB@reddit
Posh sounding girl started a new job at a restaurant I was working at, maybe like 18-19 years old ish.
The kitchen ported made the observation "fucking hell bab, I bet you're minted, you sound posh as fuck".
Without missing a beat she pipes back "We're not even rich, we only own 1 horse".
It wasn't sarcasm though, she legitimately didn't class someone as being rich until they owned multiple horses....
double-happiness@reddit
I went to Edinburgh uni., and I got somewhat pally with one of the many privately-educated southern kids, but when I told him about my background (grew up poor, single mother) he started crying 🤣
ZombieFrankSinatra@reddit
Waiting by the toilets at Bongo for my female flatmate to come out.
3 yah's walking in.
"Daddy only gave me 7k this month"
"Oh my god, that's like proper grim"
benjaminchang1@reddit
I've never been impoverished, but in terms of income, I'm considered fairly poor. My friend is from an affluent background and went to prep school; we both have disabilities.
I think we were both surprised at how different being disabled is when you have money versus when you don't.
aintnogodordemon@reddit
I suppose at least he had some empathy...
SixCardRoulette@reddit
Might just have been sad he'd wasted precious networking time talking to someone with no connections
WrackspurtsNargles@reddit
I went to Durham, and in freshers week there was a girl who asked what school you went to when she first met you. If she hadn't heard of it she never spoke to you again.
critterwol@reddit
Edinburgh Uni had a lot of them when I was there. Luckily after Freshers week and a few months in I managed to avoid most of them. "Tarquin, are you going to Val d'Isere or Chamonix this weekend?"
Tiny_Brother8879@reddit
Stop this is hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Turdoggen@reddit
One of the girls in my circle dead set looked me in the eyes and told me that her friends who were in their early 20s had managed to buy a house because they gave up drinking...
I'm like no they didn't afford a 1.5 million dollar house on a $20 per hour salary at 22 from the money they saved from not drinking.
She couldn't understand that even if they'd saved every penny from their entire working lives it would barely put a dent into the down-payment you'd need to afford a place like that, let alone affording the mortgage afterwards.
Imaginary_Moose_2384@reddit
Was at a posh party where they'd got a free bar and staff in the garden, I only knew the host and was the only one who didn't get the 'black tie' memo...
Ended up talking to a guy who was trying to defend fox hunting (really not fighting any stereotypes...). He was in tears explaining how they had to hunt them because once they tried putting out poison and he poisoned his own dog who died from it. Clearly prancing about in fancy dress on horseback torturing foxes with hounds was the only answer. He was such a drunken state I hadn't the heart to push too hard about maybe spending some of the family wealth on a functioning fucking hen coop might be a better solution!
Moved on tried talking to a guy by himself at the bar who explained he couldn't talk to anyone else there as everyone else was beneath him as only he did economics at LSE. I left him to it.
Bonus: at the same party there was a hot tub where apparently multiple people were sick partying in it and we found a used sanitary pad in the ornamental fountain next to it the next morning.
InternationalRide5@reddit
That is absolutely shocking.
Don't the staff clean the fountain overnight?
lostneedausername@reddit
Adjacent - they were the parents of kids that would probably become this and probably were this as kids.
Amongst other things at a job I used to sell/fit school uniforms. Everything from your local school to very expensive private schools. The kind where the blazers are deeply impractical and so uncomfortable I felt bad for the kids, but the school wanted to keep them for the heritage and such.
This family voiced they were very pleased with my customer service and thanked me for helping them with the task of basically being their personal shopper for hours. They were bad mouthing public schools as churning out riff raff and worse. They said to the the kids and other adults that they were in part paying for this school so they'd not be like that and said this way they'd be more like the lovely girl helping them (me), rather than if they sent them to such and such a school (I went to that public school). They asked if I was in such and such house of this private school, I said no. They assumed I went to a very expensive private school at first, they then ask which house I was from in an even more expensive private school. I replied I didn't go there. They asked where I went, to which I replied (name of public school they had bashed in front of me). Oh how faces faltered and paled.
They said sorry in some round about way, but I don't think they'd have walked away maybe learning something because the person who's qualities they praised and thought must be from a private school actually came from a public school they bashed as turning out 'riff raff' mostly. Especially given they said I was a rarity as they scrambled.
PullAndTwist@reddit
I think you mean a state school not a public school. A public school is a private school - normally one of the more prestigious ones.
lostneedausername@reddit
Oh wow TIL? Myself and my colleagues used these terms and so did our customers. If it's regional use it's still factually incorrect, wow!
togtogtog@reddit
It's the whole of the UK.
In other countries, like the USA or Australia, they use 'public school' to mean a state funded school.
lostneedausername@reddit
Not where I live, as I said.
Why downvote me for not knowing that given what you read.
togtogtog@reddit
I didn't downvote you! I gave you an upvote! Why on earth would I downvote you for your comment?
lostneedausername@reddit
That's what I wondered! Sorry for the misunderstanding - came here very soon after you replied, and that tends to mean it was them.
togtogtog@reddit
The algorithm sometimes makes your votes down or up a bit anyway - if you refresh your screen you often just see a different number.
simmeh-chan@reddit
Not in Scotland.
onionsofwar@reddit
I think it is the other way around in Scotland too.
Personal-Listen-4941@reddit
It’s a creeping Americanism. In America ‘Public School’ is what we’d think of as state schools, so as a lot of British kids watch US media centred around schools, they pick up the term.
lostneedausername@reddit
That makes sense! It's wild to think I was using it as as a pretty young person surrounded by customers using it, even my bosses using it.
Grimdotdotdot@reddit
In Upper School (we had a three-tier system where I grew up) we qualified for a county under 18s rugby tournament and out first match was against a private boy's school. We'd never played against them and were well up for doing some punishment to the spoilt little twats, as our forwards (including me) were fucking huge.
Game day arrives, and it's ripping down with rain. They were late onto the pitch, and we joked that it was because they didn't want the rain to ruin their fancy haircuts (I think they had some mechanical trouble with their bus, but why let the truth get in the way of anything?)
Anyway, we finally kick off and - long story short - they fucking battered us. Like, holy shit, they weren't just in a different league, they were basically playing a different sport.
Punish them? We couldn't even catch up with them 🤣
TheoryParticular7511@reddit
Yeah, I am from Australia. We played GPS (kinda like less expensive public schools) as warm ups before the season started. Getting grinning rich cunts jumping on your face was kind of part of it.
__Obelisk__@reddit
Yeah, same sort of thing happened to me (prop forward 😭) but we surprisingly managed to beat Harrow and MT a few times in year 10/11
MarwoodChap@reddit
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?
harshil9@reddit
I live near Harrow but obviously didn't go to Harrow School. We were pretty good and won most of our games. Played once against Harrow and got absolutely smacked. Think the opening batsmen went the full 20 overs and made 180 runs. And then we were out for 30.
MarwoodChap@reddit
I played rugby against Durham school. Same sort of thing. They steamrollered us.
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
Had the opposite at our school in West Wales, a touring private school rocked up and got battered - quite literally, they were drinking at half time.
aintnogodordemon@reddit
Oh yeah, the sports facilities at private schools (especially all boys private schools) are fucking insane. Combine that with the better nutrition, coaching, consistency of coaching etc.
4321zxcvb@reddit
Ha ha yes. Long time ago when rugby was still amateur our school team use to play the third team of the local private school. Not only could they field 3 teams (we struggled with players for 1) their ‘P.E master’ was a still playing rugby for England.
citruspers2929@reddit
One of my first days ever teaching in a boarding school. Rugby training for the new lads.
“Hi mate, where are you from?”
“I’m from inner city Birmingham.” (This boy is on a full scholarship.
“Oh that’s interesting. I’m from the inner city too, have you heard of Kensington?”
InternationalRide5@reddit
Kensington's so rough it's got a lock named after it! :)
ElonH@reddit
Not mine, but a friend of my mums was a teacher at a private international school.
On the year 4 residential. So just 2 nights away one of the kids couldn't sleep so phoned reception to ask for a masseuse.
Also had one at scout camp once. Went up to the front for breakfast and asked where the egg station was.
ResplendentBear@reddit
Early 2000s. Bath. A university which tended to attract the very posh who weren't quite bright enough for Oxbridge (and me).
Two girls excited to see each other in a nightclub after their expensive Easter holidays.
"Oh my god you're so tanned!"
"I know, I look like a n*!"
Just the sheer cluelessness of it.
Angel_Terreur@reddit
Oh my godddd. How did people react?
HeftyClick6704@reddit
Considering it was far more acceptable in the early 2000s.. why would people react to it?
You can't apply modern lense to historic situations.
Angel_Terreur@reddit
Silence baldie
ResplendentBear@reddit
Laughed. It was a different time, and well, they were out of touch rich kids.
HeftyClick6704@reddit
In the early 2000s it was not as offensive as it is today. You'd still get into trouble if a teacher or professor heard you say it, but between pupils it was pretty much acceptable.
You need to view it from that context.
Aggressive-Gazelle56@reddit
What do u think those two girls are up to now? Hypothetically
winch25@reddit
I reckon they've joined the Nottingham Knockers.
Sea-Cranberry-2@reddit
fucking bastards, keep coming to my mums village
Ok_Music253@reddit
I thought the Hooters there had shut...
Shmiggles@reddit
https://youtu.be/JP8fqSdE5RA
ResplendentBear@reddit
I imagine married, had 3-4 kids. Either no longer working or doing something in PR or marketing.
The less offensive one I knew quite well, and I last saw in Clapham, when that had basically become the Bath year 5 halls.
TheHomesteadTurkey@reddit
Upper middle management at a company that doesn't need to exist. Probably got offshore money somewhere.
blowthebloodydoors@reddit
Sounds like some good lasses you’d enjoy a night out with
FabianTIR@reddit
Jesus fucking Christ
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
Oh my god I suspected something from Bath alone being mentioned, I ised to go to college there but I was t expecting that 😭😭 thats insane 😭
sotd1999@reddit
I went to college two hours away from my hometown, so would regularly stay with friends who lived much closer to college (and drove, as i didn't). I always paid my way: paying for dinners once/twice a week, picking up the bar tab on the evenings I was with them etc. Kid I stayed with the most lived in a humongous house, plenty of land, properly had his lifestyle (new car, lots of expensive guitars, watches) bankrolled by mum and dad.
Anyway, one morning, the mum came downstairs and pulled me to the side and said "I think you should be paying for *son*s petrol". Bare in mind, i was covering the parking at college everyday (c. £15), groceries and other adhoc expenses AND *son* was attending the same college as me.
It just really struck me as an odd thing to request from a barely 18 y/o who worked part-time in a sports shop and who was already paying for food shops and dinners for the family. They also knew I came from a single-parent household, was paying rent and also paid my way with other friends during the week.
I kindly disagreed that it was something i should be contributing to and we never spoke of it again. There was definitely looks, though.
This was about the same time the family had got offered £1m PER ACRE for the property and land. They owned 18 acres. £18 million pound. They wanted me to pay £20 for a tank of petrol.
LandofGreenGinger62@reddit
How do you think they stayed that rich..?
Back in the day, I used to help with door-to-door collecting for a charity my mum supported. We lived in a normal area near a leafy rich suburb with big houses, but we never collected there, because my mum said (from cold hard experience) it simply wasn't worth it for what we'd get from them. The rule of thumb was, the poorer the area, the more people who gave...
sotd1999@reddit
Totally agree, it was my first first-hand experience of that level of...greed? Can I call it that? Selfishness? Entitlement? Something like that.
Couldn't agree more on the last comment. The older I get, the more I understand it.
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
My ex’s boss thought train crashes were terrible because first class is usually at the front so the best people got the worst of it.
bowak@reddit
It's true.
Every time an Avanti arrives at Euston they just scrap it as it's now used. No one knows how trains somehow make it up north to begin with.
60sstuff@reddit
About a year ago I went onto a few days photography course. At the time I was using a £30 very basic film camera. Anyway so over the few days of the course I’m talking to this guy and he is telling me he has signed up for a whole 6 week course at the same place. Then he’s telling me about his camera. Which is a massive Sony DSLR with two great big lenses. So I would say all in all this guy has probably spent like £3000 already on all this and the course etc. So I’m asking him about the 6 week course and he says “Yh it’s so I can find out if I like photography or not”. He must have spent near to £3000 and had kit someone who has been doing it for maybe 3 years would have. Madness
ComprehensiveApple14@reddit
Won't be the best one you get here, and its not so much a kid as an adult but hey, you get a story. I was travelling back from the US to the UK in the early 2000s and they were overbooked, I was travelling alone and not in a rush so I was happy to go on the overbook list, they stuck me on the night flight in first class for free. Noice. I was a student at the time and barely had a tenner to my name. It was Delta and some time ago but to me yeah totally not worth paying for even if I could but still, noice.
I get say next to this absolutely lovely woman, and I mean that even in the context of this story who I think noticed a single nerdy looking guy travelling alone in 1st class to mean I was class. Their understandable mistake. They lean over and start telling me umprompted if I have a saferoom.
I'm slightly concussed by this and think she means on the plane and just sort of fumble a "are you worried for your safety on the plane?" before she laughs and says she means at home, then launches into how she's just spend £40k on installing a saferoom. Fascinating stuff, converting a pantry into a full on shelter so on but I'm mildly perplexed at how we got here, it's a hell of an icebreaker.
Eventually I sort of ending up asking the same question I asked before "What has you worried enough to build a safehouse?" Maybe I missed something, maybe Mr Blobby got out of prison or something since I was in the states.
"Oh well, not really so much, it's just we had one in south Africa (which is a whole other kettle of fish) and you know I just feel naked without one"
We all need our emotional support bunkers against the end of the world. I promptly decided she was on the money but since I have no money I just bought an extra duvet from ASDA. Basically the same thing.
BenFranklinsCat@reddit
I think rich people invest in bunkers and safe rooms because it's impossible to be completely oblivious on every level to what has happened to the rich at various points in history.
colei_canis@reddit
I always think the oligarchs who think they’ll survive for years in luxury bunkers are delusional. No bunker can keep out literal millions of people with nothing to lose and every reason to want your head on a spike above the Bastille.
lost_send_berries@reddit
They don't need to be impossible to eat, just more difficult than the next richest person.
ume-shu@reddit
Let them stay in their bunker, just dont let them out again.
Forsaken-Original-28@reddit
That's not a rich person thing, that's a South African thing. Completely different mindset in terms of safety, being broken into is a very real worry there
hopefulrefuse1974@reddit
Lived here all my life and I don't have a safe room. I've been broken into twice. It sucked. Both times.
ready_steady_gtfo@reddit
Yep pretty standard in poor parts of SA to have a safe room or the wonderfully named 'rape gate' separating the corridor with bedrooms from the rest of the house.
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
This made me cackle, I think having a safe room is something you can only get away woth if youre rich. If youre poor and have one people act like youre loony, so I guess we’re just expected to fend for ourselves
Infinitethoughts022@reddit
Ha, now im thinking of the Jodie Foster film Safe Room i think its called i could google it but im too lazy, suffice to say, i didnt know she was rich to have a safe room lol
Public-Guidance-9560@reddit
I have a safe, in a room. Does that count?
ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit
Does the safe open and you're aware of the contents? If not, I feel an excellent but ultimately disappointing thread in the post.
ComprehensiveApple14@reddit
Yeah that's how I felt about it too. The woman was lovely but you can feel the gulf of our financial realities clash when someone's casual opener is cheeky spend of more than my yearly wage on what was basically "end-of-the-world room for funsies"
Busy-Statistician573@reddit
This was a journey
But the Mr Blobby hon mention sent me over the edge 😂😂
pajamakitten@reddit
The country would be on lockdown if that happened, especially after what happened last time.
gitsuns@reddit
If she concussed you I think maybe do need a safe room
Cyb3rd31ic_Citiz3n@reddit
There was no woman. There was no delta flight. He was lying unconscious in his pantry next to a dented tin of beans.
ComprehensiveApple14@reddit
Well yeah, that's what the duvet is for, gotta have some padding.
Indifferent_Jackdaw@reddit
Was it Prue Leith?
Darkhumor4u@reddit
I have never heard of anybody in South Africa, having a safe room. Guess they do exist. I think she's a tad paranoid?
qualitycancer@reddit
First year accom. Their violin under their bed was worth £17,000
Wide-Affect-1616@reddit
At uni, some friends from average backgrounds were having problems paying living costs. One acquaintance from a rich background said in all seriousness, "can't they just call their fathers and use their credit cards?"
It was like a line from Common People.
Abbiethedog@reddit
Hello! Checking in from the States here. We had something similar under the reign of King Don First of his name. When the government shut down due to Jack-assery of their doing, a reporter asked the Treasury Secretary what government personnel should do since they weren’t getting a paycheck. He suggested they might have to sell some of their artworks to get through.
mustbethedragon@reddit
I watched part of a tutorial on managing housing finances for college. The guy berated parents for putting their kids in dorms or apartments. He said it was a huge blunder that lost money. His recommendation was to buy a house for each kid when they start college. They use it until they graduate and can then rent it out for some income.
Dude. I can't even buy myself a house, let alone three more for my kids.
jiggjuggj0gg@reddit
I went to a uni in the UK where this happened a lot.
The worst thing was, often they would buy a bigger house/flat, move in their friends, and charge them the rent to cover the entire mortgage. So not only did the little Prince/princess live for free, the parents didn’t have to pay the mortgage.
I have a friend this happened to and they were absolutely livid when they found out, meanwhile the rich kid couldn’t understand the issue.
Scrubbuh@reddit
People will hear stories like this and tell you to your face that the ultra wealthy don't drive up house prices.
daxamiteuk@reddit
When I lived in the USA, an American friend of mine did exactly that . His dad bought him an apartment, and then when he finished his PhD they rented it out. I don’t know if he paid his dad anything for it.
SixCardRoulette@reddit
Marie Antoinette never actually said "let them eat cake", but this fucker pretty much did, huh?
blozzerg@reddit
I knew a wealthy Chinese girl like this at my friends uni. Dad would pay all fees and accommodation and give her £4000 a term to spend, would plough through it fairly quickly so she’d have to call up to ask for more. That was their idea of budgeting. Her dad was the director of the Chinese equivalent of British Gas or something.
If she wanted to go out but nobody else did, she’d bribe them and pay for them all night, would pay the bouncers to skip queues etc.
Interceptor@reddit
I used to go out with a woman who was lovely, really nice, but came from a fairly privileged background. Not super rich, but like, her dad owned a big marina, big house in the US and so on. I was living in London after graduating and I remember her and some friends asking me to come out for a night. I didn't have any money so couldn't, and I remember this conversation about 'cant you extend a loan?', 'cant you borrow a few hundred from your parents?', and being like "no, parents are also poor". This whole group of people just couldn't understand that 'having no money' really meant 'having no money'. It was a really eye-opener to me.
sympathetic_earlobe@reddit
This thread is making me depressed
EggYuk@reddit
Decades ago in my first week as a student...
Talking to a rich kid, privately educated. He says, "Wait...you grew up on actual council estate!? With, like, poor people? But you're so normal!"
Clint_Poppie@reddit
Same situation. First week at uni. I'm talking to a rich girl from Havant. I mention I grew up on an estate. And she replies..."oh really ? Whose?"
Erewash@reddit
That’s a notorious Prince Phillip gaffe. When visiting some facility for deprived kids: ‘Really? I grew up on an estate as well.’
AnOtherGuy1234567@reddit
Although apparently the press used to make them up or people he met would tell the press made up quotes. One of his bodyguards saw an article about him making a gaffe the day before and said to Philip something like.
To which Philip replied;
And he just let it ran unopposed.
Unfair-Ad-9479@reddit
Sorry, “rich girl” and “Havant” have never been in the same sentence
Clint_Poppie@reddit
Hayling Island. Not Havant. My bad
DonnatellaVesacHE@reddit
This place is a shit hole. Where did you grow up, to make that posh, Blackpool?
Mashm4n@reddit
I resent that 😐
Wooks81@reddit
I thought this!! 😂😂
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Yeah I was gonna say what a shithole
ynvoid@reddit
It's funny, because Havant joins onto Leigh Park, which is (or was) the second largest council estate in Europe.
vegan_voorhees@reddit
I grew up in nearby Waterlooville and never thought of Havant as much of anything?
moatec@reddit
Rich girl from Havant 😂😂😂 Havant is a dump
sihasihasi@reddit
Havant is a shit hole. Just saying.
amannotcalledbob@reddit
Did she come from Greece? Did she have a thirst for knowledge?
killer_giraffe1984@reddit
She studied Sculpture at St Martin's College
WingNo4666@reddit
That’s where I caught her eye
BUNT7@reddit
Bloody Common People up to no good.
mach4UK@reddit
I want to live as common people do
Maleficent-Drive4056@reddit
Apparently some people think ifs “she had a First from Norwich” lol
Snoot_Booper_101@reddit
That's actually hilarious
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
This made me audibly gasp oh my godd😭 that LITERALLY sounds like something out of a skit
U9365@reddit
I've had rather the opposite - a long time ago now early 1980's.
Got into a conversation at Uni with some fellow students - in a queue I think it was for some event.
Eventually the theme moved to where we went to School. I was educated privately at one of the well known ones and when I said where, there was a long silence as the rest suddenly realised that they had been having a perfectly normal friendly conversation with someone who they had previously regarded as being one of the enemy/rich/posh/toff section of the population, and they likewise could not believe how normal I was!
DameKumquat@reddit
I was an expat brat so unexpectedly ended up at a posh boarding school, and then an Oxbridge college. First week, name/subject/where do you come from? I mentioned the town.
Guy from the town perks up and starts quizzing me about which school, eventually going "It wasn't X, was it?" I admitted it was. "I broke in there, once!"
Had many, many conversations over the years about how amazingly normal I am (well, normal as opposed to posh or rich...)
But one from school was two girls taking their maids and housekeepers for granted, and someone else trying to point out that that's incredibly privileged even by our school standards.
"But we're from Thailand and Hong Kong, and everyone has servants!"
Someone retorted, quick as a flash, "Do the servants have servants?" Did not compute.
Then there was the time someone asked why didn't I get any stocks or shares for my birthday? I was 12 or 13 so didn't understand, and asked my parents... They had failed to provide me with any godfathers at all, let alone ones who would buy me a couple grand of shares each year!
tiptoe_only@reddit
Don't be so silly! Servants aren't people!
DameKumquat@reddit
In a similar vein:
"Do you go to [name of famous nightclub]?"
"Oh, no-one goes there any more! It's far too crowded."
pajamakitten@reddit
Kind of reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy one town over when he found out where I went to school:
"I went to X School."
"Didn't your football team get banned for a while because of antisocial behaviour?"
"Yeah, sounds about right for us."
Cuznatch@reddit
Ha, I had a similar experience to that guy once. A friend's mum worked at a private school and had a key for the outdoor pool. Sometimes we'd sneak the key out and go swimming there in the holidays. At 17/18 I became friends with a group of private school educated kids, and half of them went to that school, and it came out that I'd swam in their pool without a costume on several occasions after a game of never have I ever.
DameKumquat@reddit
He said they'd climbed halfway up to an open window when the security guard's dog caught them, so they ran away. I told him the guard was very amenable to bribery with money or drugs!
I hear there's a lot more security, nowadays.
p0tatochip@reddit
Us expat brats are a different breed to public school kids; IMHO I think we're generally more down to earth and "normal" but that might just be my own biases
DameKumquat@reddit
It varies - the ones who grew up in expat communities around the world, especially the diplomatic or senior Forces or banking ones, are very out of touch.
School did split by how much money people had, which at school age didn't necessarily correlate with how much your parents had. But over the next decade it became more and more obvious - Daddy might not want to spoil his teenager but would 'help with the deposit' for a house for a 25yo, aka pay 3/4 of the house so they only needed a 20% mortgage...
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
Yeah, that was it mate 👍
Fair_Effect4532@reddit
i had no idea council estate is an actual thing. I needed several explanations when I moved to the UK tho. Interesting to see that some countries have things like that. I sounded tone deaf and first they laughed and then it sank in with our group of friends that I do indeed need an explanation 😅 and I did ask this exact question from someone. It was tbh a cultural shock not necessarily being out of touch on my end 😆
SealBSmith@reddit
School of life my friend.
Jezza0692@reddit
Bruh 😂
Tsukidaisy@reddit
I went to uni with a girl whose parents own a luxury cruise travel agency. I remember her showing us photos of her house I actually thought she was joking, just absolutely insane display of wealth.
She got really confused when I'd gone to Florida during Easter break bc I'm from a council estate so she genuinely couldn't comprehend that my family could afford something like that like I genuinely think she thought it was like a victorian slum situation and working class people would never dream of going on a nice holiday.
Working_Document_541@reddit
"I'm sorry I can't serve you alcohol as you have been drinking" "What? How do you know I'm drunk?" "Simple I can smell it on your breath, and through your behaviour" (He has his friends had been causing issues as they walked down the store.) He goes bright red then purple proceeds to berate me, if I hadn't refused before he certainly wasn't going to get it now. His friends all laugh. "Do you know who my father is?" "No, do you?" Epileptic with indignation at being told no he doesn't hear me "my father is a top lawyer in London, he will have your job, he will sue Tesco" I shrug and say "Ok" and I put the beer to one side and continue to ignore him as he's shouting and swearing at me as I tender the rest of the queue. The manager comes running down the store and bodily throws him out..
TipiElle@reddit
I think you may mean 'apoplectic'
Ok_Monitor_7897@reddit
Works quite nicely as is I think 🤣
Butter_the_Toast@reddit
Had a stereotypical spoiled out of touch rich girl in the next flat over in my halls when I was a fresher, nice person but some of the stuff she spouted was pure comedy value
Asking why the cleaner wasn't doing her laundry but was doing othwr people's, spoiler, we were all doing our own. That was a personal highlight.
MarwoodChap@reddit
I shared a flat my first year at uni with a girl like this. I had to teach her how to use a washing machine and iron clothes. Apparently her parents thought it would be good for her to go somewhere “normal” for a few years, but didn’t think it was important to actually prepare her to be self sufficient.
chocolatefeckers@reddit
Yes, it is very funny, but also a massive parental failing.
pootler@reddit
My room in halls was opposite the laundry. Well into the first term – we're talking eight or nine week – after we all moved into halls, a fellow first-year student knocked on my door and asked me to show her how the machines worked. I asked how she'd managed to go so long without ever having to wash any clothes. Had she been taking them home? No, she lived too far away for that.
Apparently, her wardrobe was so expansive that she'd been able to wear a clean outfit pretty much every day since arriving at uni. And her mum or the housekeeper had always done her laundry, so she didn't have even a hint of a clue where to start.
She wasn't staggeringly rich. But 'housekeeper' and 'enough clean clothes to last at least eight weeks' seemed so alien to me at the time that she might as well have been the Queen of England.
guzidi@reddit
Well unfortunately they just used you for that, for completely free as well. So i hope you at least boned the rich girl
b-roc@reddit
My Indian Prince friend (wasn't really a Prince, just rich) asked the reception in our halls of residence why no one had been making his bed for him.
SwimmingOdd3228@reddit
Probably not rich if he is living in halls
b-roc@reddit
A) it was his first year and he wanted to make friends B) he was a cheap fucker
universe_from_above@reddit
My town here in Germany opened a university campus around the year 2000 (like a depandance from a bigger university) and they had a program where students from India came here. Naturally, this attracts the wealthier families.
So, these students arrive and pretty soon an announcement is put into the local newspaper that the university is looking for people who show them how to clean their apartments and how to cook. Two weeks later, another announcement is made that they are looking for men who can show these students how to do household chores.
It turned out that noone had considered that these students might come from a culture where the boys were expected not to do these things and they were absolutely unprepared for student life as we know it. They even expected there female co-students to clean and cook for them. Apparently, everyone got a good reality check and most of the students were able to adapt.
sympathetic_earlobe@reddit
This is so cringe worthy, I don't think I can keep reading these.
Marshmallowmind2@reddit
😂 Oh this made me chuckle!! Thank you
AnOtherGuy1234567@reddit
As a kid one of the other guys at me dads work threw a Saturday BBQ type party and one of the girls there couldn't believe that we didn't have a ball room.
Berookes@reddit
Rich kid ended up in the cheapest halls at uni, first night he asked what time the chefs come to cook dinner
baddymcbadface@reddit
Speaking to a posh guy who did "teach before you earn", where you graduate uni then do a couple of years teaching before starting your real career.
"I wanted a rough school, I wanted black boys to throw chairs at me".
mincepryshkin-@reddit
I can't even be mad, that line is hilarious.
jackvill@reddit
This made me chuckle
pmcfox@reddit
I work in auction houses which are rich people magnets, a very posh girl I worked with used to sometimes have her even posher mum come in and do little bits of temp work for us because she was bored at home and liked to shop in our sales. After one auction I noticed her mum had bought a harpsichord so I mentioned it to her, her response was "Ugh, I can't believe she bought another harpsichord", when I asked her how many harpsichords they have she counted up in her head and then replied "Seven" 😆
sofiacoppolasmuse@reddit
im so poor idek what a harpsichord is
Fluid-Set-2674@reddit
Hilarious!
infieldcookie@reddit
When I was struggling financially at uni someone asked why I didn’t “just dip into my savings” to pay for things. This from a guy who didn’t even need to take out a student loan. I’m sure there are way better stories but it floored me at the time. I was counting pennies at the supermarket!
benjaminchang1@reddit
Some people at uni think you're lucky to get the maximum maintenance loan amount, but it actually just means your parents have a low income (under £23,000 for my parents).
The people who really get screwed over are those whose parents earn over £25,000 but aren't exactly affluent, and/or have other kids.
infieldcookie@reddit
Yeah I got the minimum loan during my undergrad but no parental help, I got by because my rent was ridiculously cheap and I worked when I could. I then spent all the money I had left to pay for my masters (couldn’t get a loan for it). In retrospect not the best financial decision but I enjoyed the course at least.
mushylilpea@reddit
I used to be very good friends with a guy at university, he was Brit who had been privately educated at top schools in Shanghai, New York etc. His dad was very senior at one of the world's biggest multinational companies.
We started looking for a place to live together for our second year of university, and he asked if we should look for somewhere with a spare room in case anyone wanted to stay... And I said sure, if he wanted to pay for it. He also thought all terraced houses were social housing.
esper_wing@reddit
I once went for coffee with a girl who described an £80k salary as an "average to low" income.
ZoNeS_v2@reddit
It's probably not 'out of touch' but was certainly eye-opening for me, the poor.
I was travelling through china (I wasn't rich. My gran left me a few grand specifically to do this). I met a couple of super rich boys from Oxford. Very posh, very rich, but also fucking hilarious to spend time with. They could almost drink me under the table.
We got talking about school-age games. Playground stuff, like kiss chase, spin the bottle and such.
They mentioned one called 'Soggy Biscuit'.....
Yeah, my innocent mind was shattered that night.
Rich people play different games.
frozzyfroz0404@reddit
Went on a date where I described a night out that ended with lots of my friends sneaking up to my room to not wake my family and queuing for the toilet bc the local maccies was drive thru only. He replied with a LOT of confusion asking “why didn’t they just use the downstairs toilet?”
Sir I’m lucky to even have an UPSTAIRS living in a council estate in London. He spent the whole date bragging about his parents jobs and connections/opportunities while insisting he’s “not posh”
Moppy6686@reddit
I got drunk and high at a hostel in Jamaica with a rich Australian kid who started hysterically crying about his grandfather who owned the biggest logging company in Asia that cut down the forests where orangutans lived essentially causing them to become an endangered species 🙄
holytriplem@reddit
Well there was this guy who was talking about how his parents sacrificed a Sky subscription so he could go to private school...
benjaminchang1@reddit
This is gold.
On a side note, my parents somehow always had Sky even though they had such a low income at one point that our household didn't particularly feel the 2008 recession. I'd never describe my situation as impoverished, just low income.
Scrubbuh@reddit
He also had working class friends! Well, not working class.
Maleficent-Drive4056@reddit
I think this isn’t so bad! A friend of mine went to a private school from an average income background. Her parents sacrificed family holidays, nice car, meals out etc to afford the school fees. TBH our local state school was one of the best in the country so I don’t know why they bothered, but I admired the effort.
sympathetic_earlobe@reddit
Poor guy. They obviously didn't have the social connections to have an illegal box rigged up for £50. That's so sad.
hhfugrr3@reddit
Poor old Rishi 🤣
snarkycrumpet@reddit
he really knows what it is to struggle
HomerunHarry@reddit
On an altar? With robes?
anstdo@reddit
After a night out, was walking back with my mate and a really drunk dude joined us. He was around 20/21, told us that the most frustrating thing about Covid was the fact he couldn’t go on spontaneous holidays, we said well how can you afford all those holidays. He told us his family owned a private jet, and he was mad at the government for lockdown as he missed flying in it
bacon_cake@reddit
I know a wealthy person who was the opposite of this - quite nervous about COVID and wanted to isolate, but still wanted the convenience . So they bought the penthouse apartment of a big tower in a big city for $12m and basically lived on deliveries for a year.
smidgit@reddit
Ah see I knew a girl who was rich with dual nationality, so when she cried hysterically on zoom quiz night that her mental health was crashing because her hot yoga studio had shut for Covid, she was back on 2 days later as daddy had arranged for her to fly back to family in India where the one she went to there was still open.
At the end of it all we met back up and she shouted at us because we didn’t understand how hard lockdown had been for her, meanwhile 3 of our friends had been let go, one of them hadn’t been able to see her family since the lockdowns started, and another had lost her one remaining grandparent.
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
He invited himself into your group iust to whinge about that?? What??
anstdo@reddit
Nah there was conversation before it and would’ve just got onto Covid as this was 2022ish time. Walked with us for about 30 mins then got a taxi. Was a really weird guy, obviously had taken a lot of drugs, very posh accent, insanely cocky (genuinely never seen anything like it) and was dressed up, even though none of the nightclubs around that area warrant dressing like that
anstdo@reddit
Would like to add, it was believable because where I live is about 20/25 minutes from one of the most expensive neighbourhood in the UK/the world (Sandbanks). Think he did say he was down to visit family or something and lived somewhere else though
UpstairsMaybe3396@reddit
Guy from London went to harrow, freshers week at Leeds University. I said oh I'm from Newcastle. He said incredulously Newcastle God didn't think there was anywhere north of Leeds. We were doing a geography degree...
Atomlad360@reddit
Overheard my boss saying "My son crashed his car on the way back from Glasto, so we had to pop out yesterday to quickly get him a new one"
bacon_cake@reddit
Ah! I encountered something similar recently, an incredibly wealthy friend of a friend wondering why people have so much trouble hiring tradespeople to come do work, "There are these amazing apps where you just put in what you need doing and somebody turns up pretty much the next day and just does it, marvellous!"
Yeah it's amazing how you can get people to do things when you accept bids from anyone all over the country and can shop without attention to price.
Tatler-Jack@reddit
Went to law school and a housemate had a new Bentley sports. When we were arranging house duties, I mentioned about keeping the porch clean. He told his friends it was unreasonable to be cleaning someone else's Porsche.
Bbew_Mot@reddit
My brother mentioned that there was a rich kid in his sixth form who suggested that health care shouldn't be free. I think he was quite swiftly shouted down!
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
What is it with people who have enough money to never have to worry about that whore always so desperate to take away other people amenities
himit@reddit
My cousin once said "I think they should ban shops like Iceland, so that people can't live off benefits and get off them"
I think the idea is that people are only on benefits because they're lazy and if life on benefits became unaffordable they'd have sufficient motivation to get a job. Shockingly ignorant.
Western-Mall5505@reddit
I'm confused how does getting rid of Iceland get people off benefits.🤣
Is Aldi allowed to stay open.
himit@reddit
tbf this was 2008, so before aldi/lidl were ubiquitous
Western-Mall5505@reddit
My family has been shopping at Aldi since the 90s, I keep forgetting not everyone had one till the 2010s.
pajamakitten@reddit
Turn they wonder why shoplifting increases.
PPJ87@reddit
Is your cousin the current Chancellor by any chance?
Ok_Music253@reddit
Do only people on benefits shop at Iceland? 😱
bumlove@reddit
Because they genuinely believe money and hard work are directly correlated, ignoring things like some forms of work are insanely underpaid, life circumstances can screw you over before you’ve had a chance and not everyone is born with good health or in a good environment. I’m not even going to get into how much a job contributes to making the world a better place and how much compensation it receives in return, that’s something I could rant about for hours and it would just leave me in a bad mood.
Imperator_Helvetica@reddit
Er.. did you mean 'who are' in that post, because 'whore' gives it different connotations!
vegan_voorhees@reddit
A guy I worked with - in his 40s - couldn't understand what the problem was just throwing away expensive brand new items he didn't want. Literal wrapped/sealed high-end appliances he 'didn't need' and wouldn't think about donating or giving away because he 'didn't do' charity shops.
I found out a while later his parents bought his houses (plural) for him and he had zero appreciation for the value of things.
StopTheTrickle@reddit
As a radiography student we once had a junior doctor come into our staffroom with a tin of beans and a can opener
"Does anyone know how to use one of these? I've never seen a tin without a ring pull"
LandofGreenGinger62@reddit
Not my story, but a friend's, from some years back, he was working as a tutor, got a job coaching some oligarch's teenaged son to try and get him into a decent uni. There was a heatwave, something like the recent one, and similar stories on the news about folks going down with heatstroke and pensioners badly affected. Oligarch Jr said, quite seriously "But why don't they just turn on the air conditioning??" And this was back in the day, when it was even less available than now... And when my friend tried to tell him how most of us live people without aircon, he absolutely refused to believe it...
BocaSeniorsWsM@reddit
I had a friend of a friend, who was the son of a property magnate, ask me "where did I summer?" Err....
LifeproofPolly@reddit
Yes! I had "Where do you winter?" as the first question from a stranger at a wedding. Woo boy that was a fun chat
mawarup@reddit
If we're being honest, the purpose of these questions is to identify you as 'the other' and alienate you. Even among rich circles, there are plenty of families who don't have the liquid cash or free time to spend months abroad on a lark. Some of their boarding school mates will have been in this situation; the concept of not going abroad for months isn't alien to them. They're not out of touch, they're telling you they only consider people human if they have a holiday home on the fucking Amalfi coast.
MissingScore777@reddit
Their family didn't own much land, they only owned part of the Black Forest in Germany.
Turneroff@reddit
Was it a gateau’d community?
iridescentblip@reddit
Unsung brilliance right here.
Trebus@reddit
I've heard Kirsch puns before...
TwoPintsYouPrick@reddit
Some would say it’s the cherry on top of this thread..
Wickpick@reddit
Nah, pretty run down, bit of a ghetteaux in fact
Cyb3rd31ic_Citiz3n@reddit
Bravo 👏
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
My old boss: “It was the darndest thing, there I was heli-skiing in Argentina and I realised we were on some land my grandfather had owned!”
anstdo@reddit
Jesus 🤣🤣 I knew someone who told us he didn’t get much from his granddads inheritance, now buying a house (outright) in central London 🤣
DisagreeableRunt@reddit
Could be relative I suppose. £5m wouldn't be 'much' from a billion quid estate!
suzienewshoes@reddit
Had a rich "farmer" (landowner) who was a friend of my then-boyfriend tell me he was, word for word, better than me because he was rich and I was working class northern. He said it was the natural order, and the first time in my life someone had said the quiet part out loud to my face. I was at uni studying law at the time, the first in my family to go to uni, whereas he was at Cirencester on daddy's money. This was on NYE at a pub lock in.
I took great pleasure in my lesser, working class brain and mouth tearing him to absolute shreds. He cried, which I wouldn't normally be proud of but fuck that guy. I spent a very happy NY ringing in the bells in the kitchen chatting shit about privileged rich kids with the chef.
CaptainVXR@reddit
Quite how some rural inbred thought that he'd win an argument with someone studying law, I have no idea! He absolutely deserved to cry like the spoiled little baby he is.
BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit
Oh, I have lots from university.
There was the girl who only realised at the end of Freshers week that the bathroom in her accommodation block was shared with other people. She found out because she thought I was "stealing her shower".she genuinely had thought that the whole staircase was for her, and had apparently asked at reception why the other doors were locked.
There was the boy who told me "People think it is great having so many houses, but you have to pay a lot of cleaners".
There was the boy who thought he was working class because he only went to a minor public school and his mother had worked in a shop (she owned the shop).
There was the friend who tried to explain to me that I would be much better off financially if I just got my parents to buy me a flat in London instead of rentiing, and was flabbergasted to hear that my parents didn't have that sort of money lying around.
There was the person who turned up a wedding in Yorkshire some years later and announced themselves with "I have never been this far North before. It is surprisingly alright, isn't it?"
Cultural-Ambition211@reddit
To be fair, I’ve heard it’s well grim up north.
PsychologicalNote612@reddit
It is, and anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is just hoping to lure you to the Moors and steal your Rolex to buy even more sheep.
RightArmOfZebrowski@reddit
Excuse me, but i'll have you know that ferrets and whippets aren't cheap either.
pajamakitten@reddit
"It is now we defeated the White Walkers."
DrunkenPangolin@reddit
That's just out of touch southerners
paradeoxy1@reddit
Speedbird223@reddit
I have a friend who described anything past the top of the Circle Line as “the North” 🤣
WrackspurtsNargles@reddit
I went to a public school as a teen, and so many of the kids were wildy out of touch about how much money people actually have. Had a few kids not understand why I didn't get given money every time I went out with friends, why I hadn't been on holiday in years and why my parents drove a 10yr old car. It was so hard to explain to them that school fees basically used up all the cash. One of my friends was on full scholarship and she never said yes to going to birthday parties and going to people's houses because she didn"t want to have to invite them back to hers as she lived in a small terraced house.
There was a school trip to the US that cost 2k (back in 2007). I couldn't go. One of my friends was so confused why my parents couldn't just cough up the money and why weren't they allowing me to go? I asked her how much money she thought most people just had lying around in their bank accounts. She said "I don't know, like a million?".
Same girl recently published a blog about how to become a travel blogger and earn money from it. The first step was asking your parents for a loan or using your trust fund to fund the first year of travels so you'd have something to write about.
West-Cabinet-2169@reddit
My sister-in-law "doesn't do coins". Frequently I would find receipts and change hurled into the bottom of a shopping bag. She's still not going with coins. Notes she's improved.
She once was driving one of my in-law's cars. The car ran out of petrol, so she just leaves the car and continues on foot. It wasn't until later my FIL asks her where the car is... he had to go find the car in his car and take a xan of petrol... I fell over laughing the first time my partner told me this one.
tiptoe_only@reddit
I met someone who didn't do coins. She was pals with the sister of a guy I was dating and invited us all back to her flat after an evening out. She apologised that it was only a flat. Daddy was having the house he'd bought her refurbished and he'd got her this flat to live in for a few months while the work was being done. Then he'd most likely sell it on.
Anyway, we got there and the first thing she did was throw her change from the bar we'd been at into a dish on the table by the front door, which was already full of coins. As we moved through the flat I kept seeing more heaps of coins everywhere I looked; they must have added up to hundreds of pounds and several were next to bunches of shopping bags from posh shops. I asked about it and she said "I don't like carrying coins. They're heavy and they get in the way." So what happens to all the coins in the flat? "Oh, the cleaner sorts those out. I don't know what she does with them. She hasn't been in yet today." Turned out all this was just from one day - multiple shopping trips, meals out, whatever else she got up to. And it was clear she didn't give a toss what the cleaner was doing with all this money. She didn't need it herself, obviously.
VirtualPlenty1803@reddit
Scratched his dads 200k boat at the lake house we were staying at and shrugged it off, said dad would get another one or wouldn’t care
JasonM2244@reddit
A girl at uni was absolutely shocked that I’d never been skiing and assumed it was something that everyone does
Maleficent_Set6014@reddit
None of mine are super rich people, but people richer than me. Grew up very working class on a council estate, the local secondary school was luckily very good and lots of kids travelled from nicer places to go there. In sixth form there was a discussion in class about the new benefit that was coming in (only a thing briefly in the early 2000s) for kids to stay in education post 16 if their parents earned a low wage, one of my classmates commented “but whose parents earn less than 30k, you can’t live on that”. Whilst I was disappointed to hear that I would be two months too old to claim it and would need to continue working the 16hour a week part time job I had.
At uni, one of my housemates was fairly rich and very spoilt. I witnessed her have a meltdown on the phone to her mum a week before Christmas because her GHDs had broken and her mum had told her she couldn’t have a new pair because they had already bought her presents. I had never heard anyone speak to their parents the way she did, called her mum a load of names, asked her mum “who do you think you’re talking to” and insisted on being able to speak to daddy. Daddy called her back, calmed her down, and the next morning a brand new set of GHDs were delivered.
Went to the same housemates house once during the holidays for a night out, her bedroom was huge, en suite bathroom, walk in closet. It used to be her parents’ bedroom but she wanted it, so they swapped with her. Whilst she was away at uni all year this massive master suite was left empty and her parents and younger brother occupied normal sized bedrooms with a shared bathroom, because that was her room.
We didn’t stay friends after uni.
tiptoe_only@reddit
I was at uni with someone like that. Her parents gave her a very generous living allowance which she'd blow on nights out, weed, designer clothing and fancy lighting for her bedroom and then she'd scream abuse at her parents down the phone until they sent extra money. They always did.
EyeAlternative1664@reddit
Do they have to be kids? I have pals who still like to claim to be working class, despite owning around 4mil in property in East London.
paradeofgrafters@reddit
Posh girl living away from home for the first time, asks her Incredibly salt-of-the-earth housemate "Do they sell baked beans at the supermarket?" - he lost it on her! Apparently that was the silver-spoon-straw that broke his working class back 😂
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
😭😭😭😭. I wouldve been nasty enough to just say no and see how long I could convince her of it
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Baked bean shop innit
pajamakitten@reddit
Which one? Beans R Us? To Bean Or Not To Bean? Bean To The Shop?
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
I'm quite partial to sainsbeans if I'm being honest.
therayman@reddit
The beangrocer.
paradeofgrafters@reddit
Ah, he was far too lovely! From a small village in North Wales - he'd never known anything like it!
Talinia@reddit
Its a banana Michael, what could it cost?
therealtinsdale@reddit
10$?
Impressive_Stand_416@reddit
Should’ve told her to go to the butchers aha
critterwol@reddit
I once met a friend of a friend who was very rich and very old money. Living off his trust fund. He was moaning about driving and how he can only drive about an hour at a time because he "just gets so tired" he has to stop and rest. He wasn't ill, he was fucking lazy. He was blown away I drove 3 hours to visit his him/his mates, in one go.
East_Good_2315@reddit
On a training exercise for officers. A Middle Eastern trainee, son of some oil tycoon, decided to bury a GPMG because he didn’t want to carry it any longer and said he’d buy a new one at the end. 😂
PoinkPoinkPoink@reddit
I have a distant cousin I don’t see very often (like twice/3x in my life). They are extremely well off with “new money” as their dad (my uncle) has worked very hard and has built a huge amount of wealth when he was a young man. His 4 kids were born into the wealth, private school etc the best that could be offered to them. I met the eldest (about 3 years my junior) at a family funeral about 15 years ago. She asked me, by way of small talk, what my horse was called. Such an earnest question asked with all the confidence of someone who has never been around a povvo before.
AlteranCheesecake420@reddit
This was probably 15 years ago, I was in Southampton popped into my bank. A lad went up to the teller in a very posh accent said I can’t withdraw any money from my account. Teller looks at his account and replies yeah you’ve got no money in your account. He replies saying “no money” the way he said it sounded like it’s a whole new word to him he was definitely confused what no money meant
IssacHunt89@reddit
Tim nice but dim
Appropriate-Tap6976@reddit
On a train from Sussex to London, overheard a ‘Gel’ remark as we passed some allotments, “OMG, a shanty town, imagine like, having to live THERE”. No irony stocked or supplied.
MikyoM@reddit
i dont remember what my exact wording was, but I was discussing my workplace only providing statutory minimum pension contribution and how that was bad so it was one of the things I was looking at when job searching to swap jobs -
Then they hit me with the - why would you think about your pension when people usually live off their Investments....
Oh boy...I mean I would love to live off my investments.....once I get out of debt and become rich?
I get some people might inherit a house and be able to rent it, even then thats probably not enough to live off.
ZeroFrogsHere@reddit
In uni my friend asked me what I was doing over summer.
I said "working".
She said "why would you want to waste your summer working??? Don't you want to travel and stuff??"
To this day I can't believe she thought it was a CHOICE to spend my summer working. I needed money for food and bills like damn😭
Dangerous-Pair7826@reddit
I am the father of a swiss taught child, who spent most of their life on the cote d’ azur, I only found out about tgem when they were 26…….. we met once and you would think we would get close (as a parent I’d love to) but I fear I am just one of mummies old bits of rough and not quite good enough to be daddy
Budget-Swan-6416@reddit
I used to be a criminal barrister. One week, I had a university student who was clearly from a rich family shadowing me. During a break in our trial, I was chatting to my opponent who was a woman who was older and considerably more experienced than I was.
The student asked whether she would be applying to become a judge before pausing and asking, “Are women allowed to be judges?” I thought I was beyond shocking at that point in my career but he managed it.
_kar00n@reddit
There was a guy in my school who was excited to be able to be on the plane with other people like in films
SwimmingOdd3228@reddit
Dare I say I think many average working class kids now are out of touch too. Weekly food delivery or even more, and finance cars and assuming they deserve management jobs just for getting a degree in a random non vocational subject straight out of uni
SwimmingOdd3228@reddit
Had an accountant in our team. Very very talented and hard working, no doubt and deserved to be there but did pretend to come from hardship at the same time mum's a dentist and dad's a banker. Come on mate you did work hard and are talented but you're not from the council estate
honestlyVERYhonest@reddit
A friend of mine is currently going through an emotional meltdown because she's only being left with her fully paid house in Kent and £800,000 in savings. Her mum was meant to leave her the £5m property in Fitzrovia, but she's selling all her UK assets.
Her mum is also being a bitch about the sale of a property in France she part owns that has been sold, but for tax efficiency she's only getting £60k of the proceeds per year for the next ten years.
phatboi23@reddit
oh how will they ever manage.
god that'd infuriate the fuck outta me.
CoolExtreme7@reddit
It's actually unfathomable to be upset over that holy shit.
honestlyVERYhonest@reddit
Imagine being me trying to 'console' her... its a difficult mix of being there for her as a friend, and wanting to tell her to shut the utter fuvk up.
hhfugrr3@reddit
Poor girl, I hope she can find a way through these difficult times. Thoughts and prayers.
Western-Mall5505@reddit
Tell her I will swap lives with her
ExperienceNo2543@reddit
I’d cry with gratitude if I was given £1000 of that
CrocusBlue@reddit
Distinctly remember a girl on my floor who was from the same home city as me. We had a Henry hoover in the under sink kitchen cupboard for communal use for rooms - to fit, the metal pole/tubing was obvs pulled apart. She wanted to hoover her room and, bless her, asked me to show her how to put it together because 'usually the maid does it'.
So close... Yet worlds apart.
Three separate fellows students I had to stop putting metal in the microwave but tbh I wouldn't solely put that down to wealthy backgrounds, some of them just had no common sense.
tiptoe_only@reddit
My ex lived with a girl like that at uni. She'd never made her own cup of tea in her life and he had to stop her putting teabags directly into the kettle.
trouser_mouse@reddit
I hope you left the cupboard door open so Henry could see out with his little face :)
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
Knowing my dimbass I’d probably puzzle over a hoover I’m not used to. But thats me being a twit not rich
CrocusBlue@reddit
It's literally three parts to put it together 😭
BestMathematician752@reddit
At a girlfriends house in Henley on Thames and she comes out with “My parents would like to know how much land your parents own”.
Apparently a 3 bedroom semi in Bracknell was not the answer they were looking for…
EchoFourSix@reddit
Back when I was doing an industrial placement year I was chatting with the other 2 placement students on what we'd been doing over the summer. I said I'd been working and volunteering, the other dude said he'd also been working, then the third guy pipes up and says he'd just come back from Norway after borrowing his dad's yacht. Without batting an eyelid!
Simbooptendo@reddit
My friend (with rich parents) had never heard of Eurocamp. Or even gone camping I think
gogybo@reddit
I've barely heard of Eurocamp tbf and I grew up on a council estate. My parents were the types who would save up for four years to afford a beach holiday in Alicante or some such place so we never did the whole camping thing.
RogeredSterling@reddit
Eurocamp is decidedly middle class now. Even middle middle.
Fucking expensive.
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
Rich kid camping is staying in a slightly smaller more rural summer home
chemical-realm@reddit
I wanna live with common people like you......
Well, what else could i do?
I said "I'll see what i can do"
Rent a flat above some shops, cut your hair, get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school......
redseaaquamarine@reddit
One of my fellow students and housemates wailing that she had reached her limit and couldn't get any money out of the Coutts bank account her father had set up for her that year.
DarknessIsFleeting@reddit
So this is a weird one. I had a friend of a friend at university who was really rich and Indian. He came to the UK for university and he had lived in India with a house full of servants up until this point. I have a few stories about this guy.
He used to buy new clothes, instead of doing laundry. He used to visit brothels regularly, he thought prostitutes were a great idea. The worst one, from my point of view, was the state of his bedroom. How can the bedroom possibly be worse than prostitutes? I will tell you.
He had lived his entire life with servants picking up after him. He did not clean his own room. I am no clean freak, far from it, but his room was genuinely offensive to me. It smelled so bad. I only went in there once and it took me several seconds to muster enough psychological fortitude to cross the threshold. He refused to do any dishes so he figured out how to avoid doing them. He purchased a box of disposable forks and then would buy microwave ready meals and eat them in his room out of the container. No dishes. The issue was he didn't clean his room at all. The source of this smell was the 6 months of ready meal containers piled up in the corner. They had turned absolutely rancid and the whole room stank of rotting food.
I was 19 years old and a rugby lad. I wasn't sensitive to bad smells. My house keeping and hygiene at the time we're far from perfect. This guy was totally different. The smell and the flies didn't seem to bother him.
Weird-Category-3503@reddit
When at university an overseas student was making an oven pizza, he put the whole thing in the oven including the plastic packaging and styrofoam base.
We also had to teach the same student to wash up dirty plates ect by hand. As is family cook would do all of this.
His parent bought him a top of the range BMW 3 Series during his final year so he had a little run around car for the city.
Witnessed another girl put raw pasta in the over then wondered why it didn’t cook properly.
Darkerscr@reddit
'When I was younger we didnt have rollerblades... but we have horses'
Little_Pink@reddit
Growing up in the countryside meant kids in the village either went to the local comp or a mega posh school. Nothing in between.
At the weekend I once had to sit through a mini red talk about how private schools are actually tougher than regular schools because “we can actually afford drugs unlike you lot”
Responsible_Swan926@reddit
Not actuslly a posh thing - guy grew up with one of those working class mums who did absolutely everything. He'd never made a cup of tea.
About a month in he arrived in the room proudly holding aloft a plate - "Lads - toast!"
aredditusername69@reddit
Hah, I loved with a lad like that at Uni. He grew up in a council house in Southall but was completely clueless about life as his mum had always done absolutely everything for him (only child in an Indian household). Usually he'd go home every other weekend and come home with Tupperware boxes full of grub for the next two weeks. First time he tried to cook for himself he boiled pasta for an hour.
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
I walked in on my mate from Bridgend just as he was about to put a saucepan full of pasta and water into the oven.
MarwoodChap@reddit
I had a girlfriend at school whose dad didn’t know how he liked his tea. Drank it all the time but he’d never made a cup. His mam did it, and then his wife.
Historical_Project86@reddit
I'm sure there are lots of good stories about kids who are seriously rich, but I don't have any. I do know a guy though, who is doing very well for himself, sent his kids to private schools, all that sort of thing. This could also be an ideal post in support of "money breeds success" type scenarios. Anyway, the daughter was in Uni, a few years ago now (reading medicine, can't wait to start earning the big bucks in private healthcare), and she was back for the holidays. It's such a small detail, people maybe don't give it a second thought these days, but it was the way she talked about her time in Uni. "We didn't have anything to eat in the flat, so we just Uber'ed some pizza". To me that was so telling, and so normal for her. I just looked puzzled, like you're a student, what do you mean?
And yes, the parents believe that they worked hard for everything they have, no luck involved of course. They're nice people, just with that typical attitude. The son has his rent and everything paid to go to Uni in central London. I'm not unhappy for them, shall we say, not one bit, there is no jealousy here. I just find it fascinating.
False_Chemical_9768@reddit
She came from Greece. She had a thirst for knowledge
Firm_Match_8945@reddit
Not a rich kids story but a rich private school parent’s story. For context my kids go to a private school but we get significant financial assistance. One day I was talking to group of mums talking about their summer holiday plans. One piped up how they were struggling to find a decent holiday because they only had a 10k budget and you can’t possibly find any nice holidays at that price. All the other mums in strong agreement. Stopped meeting them after that.
ArmNarrow1527@reddit
I chime in, from the otherside of the coin.
I was about 13 or so, had a friend come over for dinner. Friend was from a council estate, but largely irrelevant. We didn’t generally do fancy dinner that often, mostly ate in the kitchen when anyone in the immediate family were around, but when we had guests over, we got the nice plates out and used the dining room.
I give her the lowdown on how to use the cutlery, but half way through the dinner, she asks what to do with the side plate. I said you can use it to butter your bread. She thought that was so funny, having a separate plate for bread.
Thought the cook was my grandmother, and the guy serving us was my grandfather… it was so lovely. It was a good dose of reality for me, and she thought it was hysterical.
We are still excellent friends to this day, and we still talk about it. He’s so posh he has side plates etc.. Anyone else use side plates?
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
Feel a bit bad because she was lovely, but made friends with a very posh girl while travelling. We were talking about wine one night and she said “My dad’s got a wine cellar, but I can never remember where it is.”
Glad_Independence874@reddit
Well not a kid. I am a person of the world I am not book smart, but I am very street smart. I had an abcess to my thigh not sure how it got there I am not and never have been a drug user and I am skinny. So I went to my GP who rang it through for surgery- IVDU? Whats IVDU? I just said no. He said what is it? I had to explain meant intervenous drug user. Then he said where we where and there was none of that in this area. Yeah there was just because it is posh doesnt mean there is no drug use.
Degausser1203@reddit
Interesting that a lot of these anecdotes are from uni. Basically the first - and last? - time a lot of us are going to encounter these sorts of people.
Anyway, lad in our halls was very posh, incredibly arrogant. Proudly proclaimed that if you didn't go to private school then you're not properly educated - saying it to a room full of state educated kids. Believe me when I say that bro wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
As an aside, towards the end of first year his (also posh) mates secretly put a camera in his room. A video then went around halls of him tumping some girl and demanding that she say "Posh boys do it best".
Boudica195@reddit
At uni I was asked where cheese should be stored
trouser_mouse@reddit
The cheese cellar
cleotorres@reddit
In one of my previous jobs we had a really lovely external it consultant who was installing a new system. Young guy, very posh accent, but seemingly very down to earth.
When the weather was very hot one of my other colleagues mentioned that in school they were allowed to have a water fight in the playground by the teachers. The IT guy joined in with a comment that when it was hot in the summer their headmaster allowed them to go swimming in the boating lake of the school. When we asked him about the boating lake thing it turned out he went to a very exclusive private school for very rich people. When googling him we discovered his parents were serious old money.
Also turned out that he wasn’t working for the IT company, but that it was his own start up. Something he sold off later for millions to another software company.
Rough-Army-6424@reddit
First week of Uni he turned up in a brand new Porsche Cayenne and within 2 weeks he ditched it whilst drink driving. He didn’t get caught as he ran home from the scene and his car was registered at his home address in a different county. Sure enough he phoned daddy who dropped him off another fucking Cayenne. His Dad then drive away in his Lamborghini without barely saying a word to his son.
His solution to the burden of being a parent was to chuck money and lavish gifts at his son and doing the minimal amount of parenting possible. It sounds like a sad story but honestly this guy was the biggest cunt I’ve ever met in my life.
IanS_Photo@reddit
Once when walking around Durham, I overheard a girl complain her Dad only bought her the basic Vollswagon Golf instead of the GTi for her 21st Birthday.
charlottie22@reddit
On top deck of a bus in London with two posh teen boys in front of me. One of them turns to his friend and asks ‘so do you just tell the driver where you need to go and he drops you there’?
mooncat333@reddit
My now husband and I were very excited when we managed to buy our first house after years of saving for a deposit, living with parents etc. I was talking about it at work and one young guy in my team innocently asked how many acres it had. I don't know Jamie, 0.01?
PippyHooligan@reddit
Girl I used to work with:
"You've never been skiing?! Even as a child?! Your parents never took you?! Even once a year?!"
DevilsAdvocate1662@reddit
My parents are rich, absolutely no debt and their accountant recently told them they have to start spending their money otherwise they'll get taxed like hell on it.
The nice thing is, they have never acted rich, they still shop at Lidl and Aldi, and don't dress up for anything except special occasions. They're just very smart with their money and don't buy frivolous things.
Thankfully it's a trait I've inherited. Bit that annoys me though, I see my friends wasting their money all the time, like tattoos or smoking or frequently going out drinking. Like, how about putting that money into a high interest account or an ISA instead.
But they never listen to me, they think that because my parents, and by extension me, have money, that I somehow have no idea how to manage my own money. Likes yes I had help buying my first house, but I was smart enough with my own investments that I've been able to buy a second house by myself.
How does that mean I have no idea how to manage money?
Late-Champion8678@reddit
At uni:
Had one rich girl scream at her parents who lived abroad that she would not be seen in a car older than 12 months (“WHAT IF IT BREAKS DOWN?!!”)
Had a rich Arab boy ask me why I didn’t share the food I cooked because in his country, the cook was Nigerian and the food was always amazing. 😬. We became somewhat friendly after I ripped him in polite new one and I taught him to cook basic dishes but still refused to cook for him.
Daughter of Nigerian government officials (ie corrupt thieves) getting married, upset that the more middle class of our circle were not prepared to spend thousands on wedding attire or spend the thousands to attend her destination hen do (Barbados) and then wedding in Nigeria.
She hadn’t realised she hadn’t actually invited some of us and I had RSVP’d no as I also couldn’t afford it. Still, she bitched and moaned about how classless we were.
Rich boy with household staff, trying SO hard to be independent. Eventually did ask how to use the washing machines correctly, how to boil eggs, rice, pasta. Taught him basic sauces and how to cook chicken that didn’t give him diarrhoea.
Rich boy reprimanded for trying to bribe á lecturer to pass his classes. Eventually stopped attending class because he started harassing others to do his work and exams.
Old_Roof@reddit
A good friend of mine has another, very wealthy friend whose dad was a multi millionaire. This rich young lad to be fair to him was a very nice, level headed & generous fella.
A few years back as a birthday present to my friend, this rich lad had a weekend paid for him to record an acoustic demo in a very expensive, well known music studio in Manchester. My friend asked for my help in the recording as I’m a reasonably decent guitarist. The music style was pretty terrible (I’d say a cross between mcfly and country music) but there’s me with an opportunity to play guitar in a well known studio for free & to help my mate out.
So we both get picked up in his brand new Range Rover (he’d got bored of the Porsche) and driven over to Manchester. We arrive and start unpacking our stuff & making ourselves comfortable. Somebody suggests getting the brews in. I shit you not - Johnny Marr is in the kitchen area making a brew. He’d been recording or producing there that same week apparently. I’m just stood there in pure shock & awe waiting for him to use the kettle. The rich kid starts talking to him straight away, being very friendly but kind of strangely - then asked him something like where was the best place to charge his phone up. Turns out he thought he was the cleaner!
Now I know it’s probably more of a generational thing rather than a rich kid out of touch thing but it always cracks me up.
Indifferent_Jackdaw@reddit
I went to school with a girl whose Dad was a Irish folk musician, not making a fortune but a reasonable living. Complete head in the air kind of fella, would come home from festivals and gigs talking this or that person who he'd met and his kids would be "Dad that was Slash from Guns and Roses"
lazenbaby@reddit
I did a lot of public speaking competitions which meant I was around lots of private school kids... The most unhinged one was one of them complained about me to the judges for lying in my talk because I mentioned I had a job. He was convinced you couldn't have a job and also be in high school. He just couldn't understand the concept of doing both.
redrabbit1984@reddit
About 8 years ago I worked with a guy who wasnt that posh, but he was from a good background if you know what I mean. He was 28, lived at home and his Mum used to make his lunch for him everyday
One day I was talking generally to some work people and said "It's been an expensive month as I've just had to pay £300 for a new washing machine"
This guy said "why did you have to pay though"
Me: "what? It's my washing machine - who else will pay?"
Him: I don't know ...
....
He was basically just unaware or at least had never thought about the fact that people have to buy their own household electrical items, water bills, council tax etc..
It was quite funny as others in the office heard and he was lightly teased for a while about it
duthinkhesaurus@reddit
Girl didn't understand maternity pay - 'why doesn't the daddy just earn more' - she is a teacher too.
Screaming_lambs@reddit
I don't have a story to contribute (enjoying reading all of these those) I didn't go to uni so never encountered any rich kids when I was that age.
craftyorca135@reddit
I once told someone to 'Just go and get a VR headset.'
Still feel bad about how heartless that came across as. His reply hit me hard.
StrawbFroggo@reddit
That's vile, either way they get paid so why should it matter if your parents pay or you pay. Early in my relationship with my BF I asked why he doesn't want to learn how to drive and he basically said he couldn't afford it (my parents paid for my lessons and everything included.) I've done some other stuff like being confused on why everyone doesn't have ID as everyone should have a passport. I'm fully aware I'm privileged I just sometimes miss the obvious.
craftyorca135@reddit
I do try to think of others, but it's hard when you haven't been in that situation. I get teary when watching rich house poor house. That gets me at how badly some people live. I feel like a spoilt brat sometimes.
StrawbFroggo@reddit
I'm also autistic so some things are just genuinely lost on me. But I do feel so much like a spoiled brat at times, like my christmas/birthdays are so different to my boyfriends. I get bigger/more gifts and this year he was flabbergasted that my mum would pay for us to stay in a Hilton in York as a present.
I have a younger sibling who may turn out more spoiled than me. For two years he's went on two trips abroad. He was also not happy when he wasn't allowed to go on the school's skiing trip which is ridiculously overpriced. He asks for multiple new football strips when it's Christmas or his birthday.
Recently me and my bf watched a tik tok of trendy toys from the 2000s and I had a lot of them and he was confused as to why I had so many.
craftyorca135@reddit
I get so much at Christmas. Like the tree is swamped in presents. My mum loves buying stuff for us, and actually so do I. A school skiing trip was also off limits for me cos it was so expensive. Good job I didn't want to go. Me and you sound so similar.
StrawbFroggo@reddit
Yea I didn't want to go either, I asked once before I got to that school and it was a straight no. My mum does too, to be fair though she will buy some of out presents way in advance if they're on offer or on sale. I went on other school trips that weren't as expensive. My brother plays football which can be expensive, I played an instrument. Our mum also put us in swimming, I took it further than my brother but that was another expense other children may not of had. My grandparents are also quietly well off too, like name brand stuff always and my grandma has given all four grandchildren money to put into savings. We also have a cat and I got a hamster when I was younger on a whim. We just went and got her, didn't even tell my dad.
Glittering-Gur5513@reddit
"Why would anyone who tested positive for COVID go out for any reason other than hospital? Even with a mask. Why would you risk others' health like that?"
Bish forgot about jobs.
kotare78@reddit
I was seeing a girl who was from a well off family for a while. Summer trips to barbardos, winter in Switzerland and all that. I grew up in a single parent family on a Manchester Council estate which they were utterly facinated with, they treated me like I was a strange curiosity. Her Dad bought her a flat in Richmond Park while she was at Uni. I ended up breaking up with her because she was a neurotic spoilt pyscho.
NoLove_NoHope@reddit
My partner works in the insurance industry and used to mentor this one grad who was from a working class background up north.
Anyway, they’re having their monthly catch up and the grad tells him about on of the girls on the grad scheme who was in absolute bits because her father could “only” give her enough to buy a flat as his company wasn’t doing so well at the time. Apparently this was world ending because he gave enough to her siblings to buy houses.
Unfortunately for her, she had to slum it and buy a flat in Stockwell or Elephant and Castle I believe. This was around 2017, so she still would’ve spent a good £200-300k. You absolutely could buy a house with that money in London, but somewhere a little further out than where she wanted to be.
My partner and his mentee often bonded over experiences like this as it seems that some people working in the insurance industry and scarily out of touch.
bluesam3@reddit
A friend of mine works in insurance. His annual expense allowance for buying drinks for clients is higher than my salary.
Katena789@reddit
I don't think you could buy a flat in E&C or Stockwell for 300k in 2017- if so, it would have been a proper rough dump
NoLove_NoHope@reddit
Yeah you're probably right tbh, makes the whole thing even more egregious. I guess time made me more generous towards her.
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
Oh wow, that theres a real travest i really cant imagine how she wouldve survived that. I really want to be part of the world where Id be able to have that issue
Speedbird223@reddit
I’m probably on the wrong end of a couple of these. Time for some self owns…
1) I went to a small prep school and when I was about 10 the top three years all went to France for a week. It was maybe 30 students and a gaggle of teachers including the headmaster and headmistress. A large farmhouse place was rented with big dormitories and there was a rotation for clean up duty. I was put on washing up duty and clearly had no idea what I was doing…one of the teachers asked and my response was, ”I never got that lesson in the Cub Scouts”. 🥴
Apparently this was the most hilarious thing they’d ever heard because legitimately 15yrs later I ran into them at a social event and they recalled the same story.
2) I’d grown up with Agas and when I was at University I lived ins house (after halls of residence) with a few others. I tossed a frozen pizza in the oven and about 20mins later one of my housemates shouted asking why did I leave a frozen pizza in the oven. I’d forgotten that I needed to preheat the oven…(since Agas are always on)
Speedbird223@reddit
I went to boarding school and a good friend of mine was from serious cash. In Upper 6th you could request permission to keep your car at school, I had one and so did my friend. He was from Asia and he, his elder brother and sister had a rather nice Kensington townhouse that had limited parking space but he and his brother had ordered a fleet of new cars. His solution was to have his friends get permission to have a car at school and give them one fully paid for and insured. He even gave a credit card to each car’s “guardian” to pay for petrol….The only proviso was you had to switch the car if he wanted that particular one for say the day or the weekend or whatever.
This was early 2000s and his preferred car was a BMW M5, also in the rotation was a Porsche 911 Turbo, a Ferrari 355 (that he’d learned to drive on) and a Mercedes CL55 AMG. For certain social events (and I’m aware of the pretentious nature of this sentence) such as the Henley Regatta we’d show up in convoy in his fleet of cars like something out of a bad film. It was a quite absurd chapter from my boarding school experience and despite what it sounds like from the above he was a really good guy and staff and other students alike always had a lot of respect.
wickedwix@reddit
My cousins were brought up upper middle class, I was brought up working class.
An example of them being out of touch is I mentioned about how I, as a 17 year old, had to go job centre because I was signing on for JSA while I looked for part-time work, and my cousins had never heard of JSA and didn't understand why I'd need it or even why I needed a job while in college (EMA had been scrapped the year previously and I was struggling with affording the bus and lunch everyday, is why)
mustbethedragon@reddit
My daughter is a nanny for a wealthy family. One of the first questions the kids asked her was how many cars their garage could hold. They were confused when she told them we don't have a garage. Or even a driveway.
jprocter15@reddit
A kid at my school brought in £200 gold tip pens in a fancy case that looked like it was for a gun. They were promptly nicked.
He also used to talk about his grandfather's private suite in some hospital in America and how private healthcare was so much better than the NHS
simmeh-chan@reddit
Went to private school and some of the kids who had been there since primary school couldn’t understand my perfectly polite working class Glaswegian accent. Things like “cannae” and “piece” just didn’t compute to them.
PooCube@reddit
Met a friend of a friend a few weeks ago, conversation ensued and it turned to bills and I brought up how council tax is crippling my bank account every year. He had absolutely no idea what council tax even was, let alone that people had to pay it. He even commented that he thought because council workers wear orange and clean verges he thought they were on community service
destria@reddit
They weren't even particularly rich, just middle class and sheltered. We were going somewhere and I asked where it was safe to park and how I'd bring my wheel lock, and she went, "Isn't everywhere safe? How could they steal your car without the keys?"
pickindim_kmet@reddit
Back in secondary school we had a kid that kind of attached himself to us. We were a bunch of lads who enjoyed playing football in the mud and not much else.
As he didn't have many friends we invited him along on the weekend to play. He brought along a brand new £35 ball (top of the range, back when a ball was like £3), spotlessly white tennis outfit to play in, and a boomerang from his family holiday to Australia.
Within half an hour the ball is stuck up a tree, he's climbing it ripping his tennis shorts on the branches and his boomerang didn't come back. He was livid to say the least.
onionsofwar@reddit
Quite a few poshos at my arty uni. One was royalty and I remember her using the library (likely a one-off desperate situation that called for rubbing shoulders with the plebs to hit a deadline). She wasn't used to navigating on her own and was stuck trying to exit through the entrance and barriers kept beeping and blocking her. Pure rabbit in the headlights look in her eyes.
Also remember a friend of a friend visiting another friend's place. This one technically not posh but rich (international student), just didn't grasp that it was cold because of not putting on heating because of the skintness of studenthood (did everyone just not use their heating?) She was laughing "why do you have it so cold?" thinking they'd decided to turn up the aircon in winter and then wear coats indoors.
Jacxy11@reddit
Had a rich housemate from Kashmir in uni days. He had called his mum and told her that he misses home food. The mum somehow managed to cook some food and canned and posted them over. He was so excited when they arrived and was nice and told me I should try them. I was in my room when he meekly came knocking and asked me how to open the cans. I said with a can opener. He asked me what a can opener is. I gave it to him and he looked even more confused. I had to open it for him.
The same 20 year old man once cried out for help in the kitchen because he broke a dozen of eggs onto the kitchen table and doesn’t know how to clean up because ‘the more I wipe them the dirtier it gets everywhere!’
K0NlNG@reddit
Offered my new Rich housemate to pick him up some groceries from Tesco’s as I was about to get a shop and he had just moved in without any groceries.
He reacted shocked and offended and said “Eww Who do you take me for? Only poor people shop at Tesco’s I only shop at Waitrose”.
We did not get along ever since, I’m certain he remains offended till this day.
glitterkenny@reddit
Grew up poor, got into a good uni. Anxiously attended a freshers' event, quickly realised I was well out of my depth. An American student dripping in designer gear told me off for being an "elitist" because I'd responded "that seems very silly of them" to a crack about fucking Alabama or something. He was the son of a diplomat. I couldn't afford the bloody bus fare home 😆
It set the tone for a baffling, horrible 3 years but all is well now, and I'm definitely not impressed with prestige these days
MadamKitsune@reddit
I was in a student house share with a Daddy's Little Princess type. She couldn't understand how we could regularly be short of money and had never cooked or even made a brew for herself before. After a few near misses that involved opening all the windows to clear the smoke we started taking it in turns to talk her through making food without it turning into an arson investigation.
And I worked with a woman from another country who kept telling us to do things she was perfectly capable of doing herself (like dialling her desk phone and then handing it to her) and then backtracking with the words "Back home I'd have the maid to do it."
Pauczan@reddit
Sweet jesus, even if 5% of these stories are true, this country is so fooked up.
ICanDanceIfIWantToo@reddit
When I was a poor student (and yes it means academically as well as financially), I shared a house with the daughter of a famous "rock star".
We didn't know her before she moved in, but suspicions were raised on the day she moved in when she pulled up in a mercedes. It looked perfect sat next to the shitty bikes we used to get around on.
TNTiger_@reddit
Not British actually, but in England- Italian yearmate got confused as to why British people didn't have maids. Seems to believe everyone in Italy had them too.
p0tatochip@reddit
I once saw an interview with Ian Duncan Smith, while he was implementing Universal Credit, saying he knew what it was like to be poor because he had to sell some shares to buy his first flat.
vbanksy@reddit
The girl who constantly went on about how poor her family were. She would shoehorn it into every conversation. (“My family make lasagna with extra pasta because it’s the cheap part and we’re poor”.) They were not rich but had four kids through ivf, a five bed house in the midlands and a second home in Cyprus.
RemarkableError1644@reddit
Had a roommate who grew up with maids and cleaners so in his early 20’s he didn’t know the basics of living alone. Dude didn’t change his bedsheets for 6 months and I’m fairly certain it’s because he couldn’t work the washing machine. Anyway, his bedroom was basically its own ecosystem around 1 year in. He was out in a date and phoned me to ask if I’d clean his room because he wanted to bring this girl home and didn’t want to clean it. Got a swift “fuck off” from me.
Tnh7194@reddit
89% of these are made up
Paper182186902@reddit
First day in my uni accommodation my housemate came in my room to see it and said “where’s all your stuff?”. She was aghast at my plain room and lack of decor. All I had was what I’d managed to scour from charity that I could lug onto the train, so basically some bedding and a big cushion. I bought a pot noodle from the corner shop as my first meal and realised I didn’t even have a fork to eat it with.
Goblin_Deez_@reddit
Young posh sociology teacher I had in college talking to the class;
‘No one ever likes to think they hold racist views, but how would you react if your daughter was dating a black person?’
He said it like it was the most shocking thing in the world
benketeke@reddit
From uni. Having the bed they always slept in moved into the student accommodation for plebs.
Ambitious_Jelly3473@reddit
I went to a normal comp and 6th Form, where I took up rugby. Became good mates with most of the rugby lads, many of whom had come to 6th Form from the local private school. Ended up attending quite a few social events and meeting their wider friend circle.
Talking to a guy at one party and we got onto the subject of cars. My first was a VW Polo, handed down from my Dad. His was a brand spanking Golf GTI, fully specced with all the extras. He loved that car and was absolutely fuming because, for his 18th birthday, his parents had taken it off him and replaced it with a brand new BMW 530i, that they felt was more in keeping with their social status.
The amount of those kids who went backwards through hedges in Z3's, SLK's and the like was insane. Just a stream of expensive new motors, replacing expensive written off motors.
Chelz91@reddit
I have many, went to uni with some very interesting characters… one of the unfavourable royals was there at the same time as me but alas our social circles didn’t overlap. Made friends with a Chinese girl who needed to fly home but fucked up her flight as she had no clue how to do stuff herself and poor concept of money. Booked a flight from Birmingham intl back to Shanghai where she was from. She booked a mini cab to drive her to the airport (was upset it wasn’t a luxury car driving her - the cab was an Audi not a Mercedes which was what she preferred)… taxi drive was £400… halfway through the journey she realised she forgot her comfort teddy and made the cabby bring her back to London to pick it up and then drive her back to the airport (I feel like she missed the flight and had to get economy or something and cried about it). Think she ended up spending like £700 on the taxi in the end of my memory serves properly. When she came back from the trip she gifted a few of us bags (brand new and authentic - I was given a celine mini luggage which I still have) because her mum bought them and they were “ugly”.
springsomnia@reddit
I was a scholarship kid at a private school and have a lot of these kinds of stories… but my favourite will always be one kid asking me “what feeder did you go to?” - he wanted to know what prep school I went to when I went to the regular town CofE. “Feeder” was referring to the feeder prep school rich parents put their kids in so they can get into the country’s top private schools. This kid naturally assumed everyone went to this kind of primary school.
intangible-tangerine@reddit
Being told that a mutual friend was actually a povo because her parents 'don't own much land'
Sea-Possession-1208@reddit
Im so unclassy i don't even know what a povo is
Jezza0692@reddit
It's Aussie slang for poor person
Ok_Music253@reddit
Rich person slang for poverty I think, which I assume they think the working class live in.
Western-Mall5505@reddit
Same
ohsaycanyourock@reddit
My university housemate grew up going to a very expensive boarding school and was suitably out of touch. She would tell me about her exotic travels and say things like 'you've never been on safari in Africa??' (my family was so poor that camping in a field was a treat haha) Also she didn't know how to use a washing machine at first because the maids had always done it for her.
She was absolutely lovely though, she had a car and we often went on little trips, and we could talk for hours and hours. I hope she's doing well!
venomsnake2222@reddit
Went on a holiday with mates from college before we all started uni. It was at a particularly notorious campsite outside of Newquay and one of my friends invited his posh mate to make up the numbers as someone dropped out last minute. Half of the week was babysitting him as he just went mental with actually being able to be himself and the other half was just explaining how life worked for normal people. It was weirdly satisfying to see him change throughout the week (and also to pay for rounds which were a foreign concept). He kept mentioning he would 'go to Oxford' like it was a given and if it all went wrong he'd just work for his dad. One particular highlight was where he and I went to the wash station to wash up that night's dinner plates. The look of absolute intrigue on his face as I washed plates and handed them to him made me realise he had never washed or dried up by hand and therefore I had to teach him. On the way back he said "I can't believe how much I learnt this week!". Never saw him again but I hope he took away some sort of new perspective.
C0nnectionTerminat3d@reddit
When i was a kid i was living on the poverty line whilst my then friend was extremely rich in comparison. she had two houses, multiple holidays a year, multiple hundreds of £ as birthday/christmas money every year etc. She wanted to go out somewhere basically every month; usually shopping and obviously being a 12-13 year old girl you want to do everything with your friends so for the first couple times i said yes and managed to convince my mum to lend me £10 each time to buy myself something small like a nail polish set or cheap t shirt.
Anyway, these trips began to pick up more often and would become more “adventurous” so to say; it went from just shopping to shopping and a restaurant, and then crazy golf or bowling afterwards. I had to explain to her that i cannot afford to do all that and at first she said okay that’s fine (as in, it’s fine if you don’t come along) but because she proposed to do these things every single time she wanted to spend time with her friends, she got annoyed that i had “stopped hanging out with her”.
I tried to explain further that i couldn’t afford it all and that i would have to choose to do shopping or golf or bowling or the restaurant with her, and she counteracted with “just do more chores, why don’t you help around the house more?” and i think i literally just stared at her for a good 5-10 seconds to see if she was actually being serious. I had to explain to her that i don’t earn money for chores and furthermore, that money doesn’t magically appear if i do a chore, because my mum couldn’t afford to pay me for chores - i did them for free.
She never grasped that concept and we haven’t spoken since.
Bonus little story; there was a time where me and 3 friends, one of which being her, all went to a restaurant together but i couldn’t afford a meal so i sat there and watched all of them eat and none of them offer me anything. I asked if i could have one of their free sides or a slice of pizza and all 3 said no. The waiter i think noticed and offered me a free cola, i will never forget about him.
liseusester@reddit
When I was at university (Warwick) I took a critical cultural theory module and we were discussing Raymond Williams' ideas about culture and education. Our seminar leader asked us all to put our hands up. We then had to put one down if we had gone to a fee paying school, another if either of our parents had gone to one, down if a parent had been to university and so on. By the end of four or five questions, I still had both hands up because both my parents left school after O Levels and went to train as nurses. One other person in the room had one hand still up (dad went to university).
Sitting next to me was a friend, in fact someone I was going to be living with the next year and she looked completely befuzzled. "But how," she exclaimed, "did you make it here???" Her tone indicated that she thought I'd achieved something staggering and whilst I definitely felt very out of place at university a lot of the time, I had grown up in generally nice surroundings with parents who cared about education, but who hadn't had the opportunity to get much of it. I never quite managed to convince her that my perfectly good comprehensive schools had done their job and I'd passed the same exams she had, it was just that one of them wasn't Latin.
Though she doesn't quite beat the person I bumped into at the train station waiting for the train to London who was complaining that "papa has insisted on flying in from Geneva just so we can go to Courts" and asked if that was why I was going to town. I was going to see a friend in a scummy house share in Seven Sisters.
Pootles13@reddit
I went to a huge college that also had quite a few people who’d come from public and private schools as our college just had more types of a-levels on offer. A few of my close friends there came from old money backgrounds but were honestly so bloody nice and down to earth, like at first going to their houses was a shock…like pools, badminton courts, vast woodlands and lands kind shock - but that quickly wore off and I felt comfortable going round theirs to hang out/study and they’d also come round my council house, no big deal. UNTIL one of my mates bought a car (old money, so obvs it was a second hand banger for no discernible reason) and whilst me and a few of our mates were checking it out, her mum came over and said ‘Redditor, can you please tell my daughter she needs a proper car alarm, you know how easy to break into cars’..and I stared at her like, no, no I do not, then she said ‘your from a council estate, you know these things, how would you break into it?’. God bless her, she genuinely didn’t think she was being offensive, and when my Dad came by later to pick me up, she asked him the same thing 😂
She apologised profusely the next time I saw her, but then sort of fucked it up by saying that shopping at Primark was one of her ‘favourite hobbies’ 🫠
Flammulated-Owl@reddit
I worked for a wealthy family (somewhat known) over in the US. We had been in the Bahamas and then to Busch Gardens (theme park) for a couple days and then to Colonial Williamsburg where they have actors dressed and living the parts of people from that era. During our visit to the slave house, the youngest girl (12) got upset at the story from this “slave” that she hadn’t seen her son in 6 months. She actually thought it was real. Somehow missing the previous few days of riding rollercoasters and water slides down the road. I had to sneak away and was roaring with laughter. Family of miserable morons.
NoCommission3204@reddit
My first girlfriend was rich. I had to explain the concept of a second hand car to her. She was very bright and is now a paediatrician, but it had never occurred to her that some people, or as i explained to in the early 1990s, most people, will never have a brand new car.
WatchingTellyNow@reddit
Well, there I was, at St Martin's College... 🤭
Darkgreenbirdofprey@reddit
I'm a teacher in an extremely deprived area.
I have a good friend that teaches in a private school. He was once describing one of the issues that a pupil faced when coming to school one Monday: Dad did doughnuts in the Lamborghini with him in the back.
The worst part is, my mate was saying it sincerely. As in, poor Rupert. Poor poor Rupert.
lives_ironically@reddit
I work with international students. Tuition fees became due, and one student defaulted because he'd never learned to cook and had accidentally spent up to £60 per day on restaurant meals. That's 16 Tesco meal deals every day.
Prestigious-Baby2776@reddit
dated a girl and she was trying to buy a plane ticket to milan (for fashion week…. of course). she frustratedly went “ugh i can’t find anything under £800!” i was like uh surely there are cheaper flight to milan, where are you looking?
she replies “British airways first class?” …… mf did you not think of trying easyjet or something????? didn’t even cross her mind.
BenFranklinsCat@reddit
I have a friend who still doesn't understand why I keep saying he's rich, he's not rich, his family don't have much money ...
This man once referred to Rupert Murdoch as "Uncle Rupert".
little-billie@reddit
It’s not outrageous but my best friend is a generational millionaire whereas I’m from a crime laden council estate family…most recently my bestie was completely blank when I mentioned some shops I’d gotten some soft furnishings from (B&M, The Range, Dunelm). She had no idea what any of them were. So funny to us both, we were belly laughing at the ludicrousness.
hhfugrr3@reddit
I dealt with a 20 year old who was going to get banned from driving. He thought he was very clever by buying a new Lamborghini from abroad so police wouldn't be able to check who owned it and thus that he was likely to be driving it. I had to point out that he was still a 20 year old driving a car worth about the same as a house so police might twig it was him anyway!!
OwieMustDie@reddit
Kid i used to work with was upset that he had to share his £600000 flat, which his parents bought, with his sister.
Wide_Appearance5680@reddit
Acquaintance of mine when we were in medical school in Manchester was paired with a very posh girl for ward placements in Blackburn. One of the nurses was teasing this girl about her accent and saying that now she was living and working up north she'd be talking like them in no time.
"Oh no," this girl replied, "daddy says I'm not allowed to come home with an accent because he's spent far too much on my education for that."
Froomian@reddit
When I was an undergraduate student I was in the cafeteria one day talking to my friend about our summer holiday jobs we had lined up: I was going to be working in a shoe shop and he had something similar lined up. This posh girl interrupted us to say, ‘why on earth do you want to work in a shoe shop all summer? I am going travelling around Asia.’
chris_567295@reddit
Bloke called Rishi down the road, always winging about not having Sky TV.
Ihavenoidea5412@reddit
Got into a car crash with my rich friend. Next day I had whip lash & a slipped disk, she had a new Audi A3
Vurbetan@reddit
I don't have many tbh, though a friend of mine when we were about 17/18 or so asked me "how can your parents not have savings?"
His family were middle class. His Dad was an aerospace engineer, and had been for about 40 years at this point. I saw a statement of one of their savings accounts on the dinner table one afternoon. Well over a million.
On the other hand, both of my parents were disabled and were at school in the 60s and 70s. Much of the social opinion of disabled people at the time was "they can't really do stuff". They really struggled to find decent paying jobs. Even with them both earning DLA, we really struggled. Then Dad left and we struggled more for a bit. Mum often went hungry.
It really fucked me off and I ranted at him (in earshot of his parents) for about 20 minutes. They only told me off because I told him he needs to take the silver spoon out of his arse and stop being a prick - both of his parents came from very meager, working class families so understood the hardships we went through.
He's still a bit of a prick, but he's alright.
mronion82@reddit
A Nigerian 'princess' at boarding school sitting down and refusing to move on a walk that was part of a Duke of Edinburgh Award, trying to call her dad so he could send a helicopter to pick her up.
Kind_Shift_8121@reddit
My posh friend asked to meet with me (not posh). He wanted to ask if I would lend him some money as his trust fund had dried up. He promised that he would pay me back with his inheritance when his mum passes away (she was in her early 60s).
I suggested that instead he might want to consider giving work a try.
pburgess22@reddit
Guy joined our company straight out of uni. Was from a massively wealthy family in Russia. After several weeks he came in and complained that his bin bags weren't being taken away. We said If your bin is out by the road they should be taking it. He then said no the bin bags were in his kitchen and they should be coming in to take them away....
We explained that's not how it works in the UK for an average house. His solution was to then hire a cleaner to take the bin bags out to the bins for him...
bowak@reddit
I knew some posh rich kids and a rich kid at uni. Sat in the pub once with another friend and 3 of the richies and they were discussing the cars they were hoping to get from daddy for their 21sts with the discussion centered around whether a Merc or BMW would be the best choice. Me and my non-rich mate were a bit baffled by how they saw this as just something to be expected, but so far just normal rich/very well off people stuff and nothing particularly noteworthy.
Their conversation then turned to skiing and where each family went for winter. They all had family apartments or chalets in various bits of the Alps either owned outright or part-owned by sets of siblings.
Where it went wtf was when the non-posh rich kid left the two remaining pretty much instantly had an 'omg can you believe she skis' talk which was the first time I'd ever seen the old money disdain for new money out in the open like that. It made me think much less of them and that it is possible to get literally spoiled rotten.
Several_Show937@reddit
Worked in a warehouse, helped "train" a guy from dubai. No joke, moved two boxes, broke into a sweat, sat down and whined about having had sevants. Never found out his backstory as he didn't last much longer though, shockingly.
txakori@reddit
I’m a council estate lad who went to a state grammar after tutoring became a thing. Where would you like to begin?
Harrry-Otter@reddit
Some Greek girl from Uni. Her dad was very well off but she wanted to see what life was like for poor people. Went to a supermarket with her once and she treated it like a safari.
Kilbykins@reddit
Did she study sculpture by chance?
Civil-Fan-3586@reddit
No, that was in St. Martin's college 😂
Active-Strawberry-37@reddit
That’s for art
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
I do the same thing in reverse, I go to waitrose and treat it like an exhibit of old privelaged rich people complaining about kids these days
Bbew_Mot@reddit
You should have asked her to rent a flat above a shop, cut her hair and get a job, smoke some fags and play some pool!
FootballIsRubbish@reddit
Did she have a thirst for knowledge by any chance?
ClarifyingMe@reddit
I don't know if it's funny but in university 1st year one of them suddenly asked me my A level results. When he found out I got 1 B and that I had maintenance loan, he went on a long rant about how unfair it was that he didn't get any and that his poor grandmother was paying for his accommodation fees.
I just stood there listening as I thought about how I knew none of my grandparents. And the remaining living one I only met once as a toddler (since passed).
Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha.
Does it make it funny if I add the haha's?
Kitchen_Coyote_1524@reddit (OP)
Oh god thats so out of touch, and such a nonsensical thing to even say in the first place. I bet he was looking for a reason to rant about how the world is so unfair to him
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