“My Jaw Has Never Hit The Ground Faster:” 39 Times Out-Of-Touch People Got Shamed Online

Over a decade ago I drove a yellow cab for a living. I picked up a well off gentleman and took him to the local country club. He was surprised that I wasn’t interested in joining when the club charged most of my yearly salary to join. According to him it was only $50,000 to start. When we got there, he tried to negotiate a lower fare.

“I don’t understand why people are poor. There is so much opportunity.”
- My brother, who is an Ivy educated doctor and MD PHD.

My wife and I had a stillbirth. 


A friend of Mine's baby was a little irritable and so my friend turned to us and said 'are you sure you want kids?'


Also got a comment from a work colleague; 'It's all for the best'.

A white guy once told me he could relate to experiences of racism because he used to have long hair and a beard and people thought he was up to no good.

A friend of mine once said you can’t have a real wedding for less that 40k.

I was in a restroom once and overheard a group of girls at the sinks. One girl says she wanted to buy a leather jacket but was going to wait because it's a big purchase. This other girl responds immediately with "You should just go to Turkey to get a leather jacket!". There's a pause, and then the first girl says "Are...are leather jackets less expensive there?" The 2nd girl takes a second to consider what was just asked...then dismisses it with "You should just go to Turkey for the vibes and then pick up a jacket while you're there!"

2 weeks after I (29F) found out I was pregnant with my first child my husband (30M) was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with mets to the peritoneum. 5 year survival rate is 5%.

When breaking this news to my boss she said “Oh you shouldn’t be sad, you should be happy that there’s still a chance!”
My jaw has never hit the ground faster.

"At least you know you can get pregnant" - ER doctor to me, whilst I was bleeding from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and about to have emergency surgery.

When my mom passed away, my paternal grand father told me “don’t worry, you won’t even miss her because daughters always prefer their fathers” … my blood still boils when I remember that….

For context, this is when I just finished uni and started my first full-time job.
This person asked “How much do you earn?” I replied ‘around $50-60k’

And then he responded ‘is that for a week or fortnightly?’

You can only guess what sort of spending he is on a week.

« Why don’t you ask your father to pay for it? »
I was working in a French private school with out of touch teenagers from wealthy families.
EACH year, they’d do a school trip either to Asia or North America.
One of my student just couldn’t afford it, the trip was so expensive. And the others couldn’t understand WHY. Like… can’t the parents pay for it, as theirs do ? They were nice kids, but sincerely could not understand that not everyone was as privileged as them.

An aunt of mine told my mum just weeks after my dad died "Sure you can always find someone else" 


I knew this aunt never got on with my dad but I still found it heartless.

My washer and dryer broke. I was complaining about having to go to the laundry matt to the doctor I work for. She replied with “why are you stressed, you just drop off your clothes, they wash it and will even will fold it for you!” She pays for the laundry service there. I obviously have to use the coin machines and wait while I do it myself.

Vaccines cause autism and should be avoided.

I was visiting my girlfriend's family in California in 2012-2013. Fuel was super expensive - like pushing $5 / gal, but in 2012 dollars.

Her dad said something like "I don't understand why people don't just fill up the tank. It's so much more effort to come back later!"

I believe you, that you don't understand. You own a commercial real estate business that owns over $100,000,000 of property. You retired at 52. Your parents are old money and were social elite at Stanford. It makes total sense that you have never had to choose between eating for a week and putting 10 gallons of fuel in your tank.

My boss, who owns the company and gains around £3 million a year, once took me out on a job with him and when I said I was going to get lunch he said " I don't know how much it costs, but get yourself something from McDonalds" and handed me a £50 note.

My father-in-law, who was born in 1953, told me it would have been wise to invest in apple in the 80’s. That way I would be rich now.

I was born in 1995.

He’s a retired doctor with more money than God and lives in a massive house and buys his cars outright with cash. And has a $1,250,000 boat.

He also asked, “Are you guys maxing out your 401k’s?” To which I replied, “No, we can’t” and he couldn’t understand that we couldn’t budget in such a way to max them out without missing rent payments.

"You're having trouble getting a job? Well, make sure your resume is printed on the nice paper, it really helps!".

Ordered a taxi to drive them to the gym next door.