Patricia Grisafi
Have you ever met someone REALLY rich?
They have a whole different set of problems that can sometimes be hard to understand. They don’t even have to be obnoxious about their wealth—although some obviously are—to come across as being woefully unaware of their “rich kid issues.”
On Reddit, people are sharing the craziest examples of “rich kid issues” they’ve encountered
And lots of these issues strangely enough have to deal with cars.
1. This Pool Doesn’t Generate Waves
“I grew up attending a private school in a developing country so a lot of my classmates were in the 1% of the country. Whenever we’d be swimming in the school pool one friend of ours, in particular, would always remark that swimming is more fun if the pool has a current or waves. To which I had no idea what he was talking about and generally thought he was just being imaginative. One day he invited me over to his house for swimming and… He had a 50-foot indoor pool that generated a current/waves. He wasn’t lying. They are a lot more fun.”
— huazzy
2. $1400 For The Weekend
“My college roommate’s mom gave him fucking $1400 ‘for the weekend’ just randomly. He blew through the whole thing by Saturday asked his mom for more money and was screaming at her because ‘she promised $1400 for the weekend’ and he spent most of what she gave him on Friday which isn’t a part of the weekend.”
3. Forgot To Pay The Employees
“Knew a trust fund girl whose dad gave her the money to start a company. She lost it when she went on vacation for 6 months and forgot she was supposed to pay her employees all the time. She assumed they would not get paid for 6 months and be there when she got back. I quizzed her on this for a few min and it was clear she had no idea what a job was.”
4. Changing Grades
“Look up Corona del Mar high school cheating scandal, happened at my school. Parents paid around 50k a piece to have a tutor bug the school computers and change students’ grades, they all lawyered up big time when it came out and all the kids got off free and all made it into their top three schools. Edit: I would also like to add that this made the news, and all the parents whined that their children were innocent and ‘just had a bad tutor.’ Had a girl I went to school with a total of four brand new cars (think Range Rover, Escalade, etc) I was also in a class with this girl when the teacher handed out papers that needed to be signed by a parent, and she signed it herself and tried to turn it in the same period as it was handed out and freaked out when the teacher wouldn’t accept it.”
— pipsdips
5. Ugh, She Only Got A Mercedes
“Girl I went to high school with got a Mercedes for her 16th birthday. Bitched and moaned about the fact that she didn’t get a Lexus, because her name was Lexi and she thought it would be ‘sooooo cool!’ for Lexi to drive a Lexus with a custom license plate saying ‘Lexi.’ Her parents did cave and buy her a Lexus for her 17th birthday.”
6. Flying to London For A Shopping Spree
“A friend I met at Uni flew from Auckland to London for a week to go shopping. Clothes were cheaper in London, so to him, it made sense. His parents were from Singapore and had no idea just how much cheaper cars were in New Zealand. So when he said he needed $70k for a Toyota Corolla they gave him the money and he bought a used BMW M3. When he went home for the summer he asked if I could mind the car for him – given his Dad had pretty much cut him off at that point he just said I had to pay for insurance on it and I could treat it like my own. But as a 19yo sharing a flat and barely getting by there was no way I could cover the cost of insurance – let alone petrol.”
— Timinime
7. Crashed Car, Told Tow Guy To Keep It
“A Saudi guy in the UK got in a crash, with light damage to one side of brand new Mercedes. He called for one of his assistants to come to get him, even though the car was fully driveable. My friend rolled up on a call with his tow truck and asked the guy where he wanted the Merc towed. The guy gave him the keys and said ‘Keep it; I don’t want it.'”
— Aiku
8. Bought An Apartment With Dad’s Money
“I use to have a friend who would constantly say, ‘I love when my dad gives me money.’ and ‘If I ask for a certain amount of money my parents always give me $50 extra.’ This girl then bought an apartment boasting about it on Facebook and how proud she was of herself how at 23 she was able to afford a home at such a young age all on her own. Still makes me want to face plant into a pile of jagged rocks.”
9. A Surprise BMW
“A girl in my school was ‘surprised’ by her parents in the school’s parking lot with a new BMW. A freaking BMW. Everyone who is out is basically watching this go down and she starts crying. At first, we are all thinking it’s because she’s so happy but then she runs back into the school. Apparently, they were supposed to show up earlier (I’m assuming when there would be more students to witness the surprise). I felt bad for Dad because he looked totally embarrassed and sad about it. You know in his head he’s like, ‘I created this monster.'”
10. Burned Down The House, Had It Fixed Immediately
“Dad bought his college-aged daughter a house in a VERY nice neighborhood so that she and her friends could live rent-free while they attended university. He remodeled the entire house. In all, he probably spent close to $2 million. Two weeks after moving in, they left a candle burning while they went to the store to get snacks for a football game. Came home and the house was on fire. A month later, it was good news for them to move back in.”
11. A Lamborghini For Each Parent
“Not exactly ‘rich kid syndrome,’ but there was this family that had two children who attended the elementary school that was connected to my middle school. Every day the two parents would leave the house and drive separately to pick up their two kids before returning home. I should mention at this point that they each drove a Lamborghini, one black and one orange, back-to-back in the pick-up line to get their kids from elementary school. At first, I thought they were just being showy, but then I realized that they were two-seaters, so this was really the only way to do it.”
12. Gifting Guitars
“My personal favorite was in college – kid down the hall from me bought a brand new Fender Stratocaster and played with it for a day and got bored and sold it to my case and all for $20. I still have it and play it fifteen years later. It’s a great guitar.”
13. Tipping The Librarian
“First day as a librarian in a private school. Help a 7-year-old with the printer. He offers to tip me.”
14. Angry About Used Parts
“There was this rich kid in our class who was literally disgusted by us- buying used stuff (like computer parts) on eBay. Once during a conversation, I said I bought an eBay memory module for my pc and said to me that I should have a little dignity, and if I buy used stuff I should keep it to myself.”
15. The Compromise Was The Bahamas
“I was in a theology class where we were talking about compromises.
Teacher: What are some compromises your parents have made?
Very rich girl: My mom wanted to go to Hawaii and my dad wanted to go to Mexico so we went to the Bahamas instead.”
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