Sometimes, rich people will say things, and you're just there like:
With this in mind, Reddit user u/Always_Wandering_ recently asked, "What’s the most out-of-touch thing a rich person has said to you?" Here are some of the most ridiculous things they shared.
1. "'Isn't it funny we are the same age, but my dad bought me a condo, and you have to work two jobs?'"
2. "Me: 'Yeah, I love flying. I have a nice flight sim setup at home. Wish I could do it for real.' Owner of the company: 'Yeah, the real thing is so much better. You should buy a plane. I love taking mine out for trips.' Me: 'You sign my checks.'"
—u/Jefe_Bezos
3. "I was working at a car dealership and saw the owner pull up in a $250k Porsche GT3. Told him how much I loved the car and dreamt of owning one someday. The owner looked at me confused and said, 'What do you mean? We sell them right here, you know?' Totally blew my mind that he didn't realize his employees couldn't afford the cars they were selling."
—u/tbh3900
4. "One of my former coworkers grew up in a wealthy family and married into more wealth, but they decided she should work anyway. She was outside her car crying one day, waiting for her husband to pick her up, saying she couldn’t drive her car because a light was on. My buddy looked — it was a low tire pressure light. He asked if she wanted help filling up the tire. Her sobbing response was, 'This is a Mercedes! You can’t just put air in the tire!!'"
"To everyone wondering why she would cry about a tire pressure light, I think that was the second time the light came on in three months, so she didn't think it was safe or reliable anymore and traded it in soon after (I believe the next one was a Lexus). She was also very much the type of person who would cry because she had to wait 30 minutes to get picked up while everyone else could go home."
—u/scmillion
5. "In college, I made most of my money cleaning and tutoring for rich families. Here are the highlights. 'It's so much more convenient to have a sauna in your house.' 'We ordered our wallpaper from Europe. It's the only way to go.' 'I just bought the empty lot next to ours so we won't have neighbors.' And my personal favorite... Rich person's kid: 'Gosh, I can't find any babysitting jobs. They've been taken by the 1%.' Rich parent: 'Honey, you are the 1%.'"
—u/bombasticfox
6. "'You've never been to Disney? Did your parents not love you or something?' Bitch, my parents were raising three kids working two jobs on poverty wages."
—u/max-peck
7. "They lived in Boston, and we were talking about how small condos are there. They were lamenting that they had no space and, as a result, they had to buy another condo (this was Beacon Hill) because they ran out of space to store their Persian rugs."
—u/SsurebreC
8. "Built a house that cost over $3 million for a couple. After the neighbors built their home, we're talking, and the wife says, 'That little house is so dinky. We have a joke going that we call it "the help's house."' Now, this is still a 750k–1 mil home, no less. It just struck me as not very grounded. 🤣"
9. "My boss is an attorney. A client who was filling out her financial statement for a divorce realized that she had forgotten to include her student loans on the report. Laughing somewhat ruefully, she said, 'I can't believe I forgot to include that.' And in a bright, sunny voice, my boss laughed and said, 'I sometimes forget that I own a boat!' The client and I quietly locked eyes with a shared understanding of how out of touch that was."
10. "l worked for Medicaid. The big bugs at the state government level had a 'poverty exercise' where they had to try to budget at the poverty level and live on it for three days. 'My, that was SO difficult!' No sh*t, pal — that whole idea pissed me off so bad."
—u/Nanatomany44
11. “'I have no hair on my body! You should have your husband take you to get laser hair removal! It only cost me $10,000.' Maybe in my dreams. She was the mayor's daughter, and I was catering her dog's birthday party."
—u/Open-Ad-189
12. "I dated a rich guy who loved my authenticity, and he would pick me up in one of his dad's cool collector cars and take me to record stores. When I went to visit him, I showed up in my grandpa's old Ford F-150 truck. He asked me why I drove around in that thing. I shrugged and said, 'Because I'm poor.' And he said, 'No, you're not.' It was like I ruined his whole hipster aesthetic, and he realized I wasn't grunge."
13. "Boss: 'My wife and I decided that you and your wife should join us in the Caribbean. I'll pay for everything.' Me: 'We appreciate the offer, but we won't be able to afford it.' Boss: 'Why?' Me: 'I'd have to hire someone to watch the kids.' Boss: 'What? Surely your nanny can handle that!'"
—u/nobody2u
14. "I was talking to my manager about a mistake on a check. Me: 'This isn't even enough to cover my daughter's daycare for the month.' Her: 'Well, what did you do with the money you were just paid?' Ma'am. Food, rent, electricity, and car payment. Boom, check gone."
—u/Lvsucknuts69
15. “'Money has been tight, so we have to wait a couple more weeks before we break ground on the new air-conditioned stable for the horses.'”
16. "I worked for a very wealthy lady. Her son graduated college (with some useless degree), and she put him to work answering phones. She also bought him a car. 'Can you believe it? I told her I wanted a blue car.' She didn't get him a blue car, so he asked her to paint it. She refused. I could see his naivete as he spoke since he truly thought this was something I could relate to. Sorry, kiddo, I had to work at Chuck E. Cheese as a teenager to be able to afford to buy a piece of crap that overheated if I drove for longer than 20 minutes."
17. "I live in southern Spain, and here, it's so hot during summer months that you can't even get out of your house until 9–10 p.m. Many people (including me) can't even afford to have air conditioners in their houses, and they just survive the hot temperatures inside as they can, usually spending the days sweaty and tired. A friend of mine lives in a huge house (one of the hugest I've ever seen), with many rooms and an air conditioner in each one of them. A few days ago, he started complaining about how tired he was from having to take such a long walk at night to turn off all the air conditioners in the house. That day, I had to take four showers to feel just a bit refreshed, and I recognized I felt violence taking up control of my body while he was speaking."
18. "I was venting to a schoolmate about not being able to have a car. She said, 'Why don’t you just ask your mom?' It literally broke my brain. Like yeah, why didn’t I think of that?"
—u/batphomet_
19. "Long ago, when I was a server in a country club, I was very new to properly opening wine bottles. As I was using my key to take off the foil, I gashed the webbing on my hand badly. There was a husband and wife at the table. I put down the bottle and was about to leave when he said, 'Who told you to stop pouring?!' I picked it up and poured the wine, dribbling blood all over the white tablecloth. Went outside, had a smoke, and thought about my life."
20. "Met a guy on a backpacking trip who said he couldn't understand why all these backpackers stayed in hostels when there are so many hotels around. I pointed out that most of us have budgets, and hostels are cheaper. The thought had just never occurred to him that we can't all afford that. Same thing with restaurants. He just never considered that nicer places aren't in everyone's budget."
21. "My CEO's daughter was talking to me and now lives in the UK. She bought a place in London. I mentioned I have some family there that I've always been interested in visiting, and I hoped to see it one day. Her response? 'Just go. It's as easy as buying a plane ticket.' She had no idea why I hadn't gone yet."
—u/Snoochey