“My Jaw Has Never Hit The Ground Faster:” 50 Times Out-Of-Touch People Got Shamed Online

"You can't be African, you look white" said by a European dude, who was a tourist in my home country, in Africa!

“I mean it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?”

When a teacher said to me, "You're not slow like these others. It's hard to believe you grew up poor. It's almost like you're white!" I think I was 10.

One person I know does not understand why poor people cant go on holiday and said "why don't they just choose a cheap destination?"

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 was leaving a job site (residential renovation) one day, loading up my tools into my big military style backpack because I was riding my 2007 CBR600RR, when this slick black BMW rolled up the driveway.

The mom was driving and her son was in the passenger seat but I had heard from my boss that the BMW belonged to the kid, he just couldn’t drive yet.

Anyways they parked and he came running up to me, gushing about my bike, then he says “Man, that is SICK, how did you get your parents to buy you one?? They’d never get me one!”

I told him I worked my a*s off and bought it all on my own. I’ll never forget how he looked me dead in the eyes and said “oh man that really sucks, I hope I never have to do that”

Really made me realize that some people are playing a completely different game than the rest of us.

“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!"

My truck needed an oil change which i do myself for the cost of about 35$ and maybe 20 minutes of my time and the girl i was seeing at the time said "Just get another car when the light pops up." also the same gal who said I was stupid for paying my phone bill " Why do you pay that." Because I want to use my phone I said. She responds. "Thats stupid just make your parents pay that." My parents could barely pay for their loaf of bread lmfao guess her parents helped her out a bit too much good for them and her but I think it sure f****d up her mentality. She was blonde and pretty on the outside but oh so ugly on the inside (figuratively).

**Avocado toast is the reason millennials can't afford houses** - example of how out of touch wealthy folks can be with the realities and struggles of everyday life for the rest of us.

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.

This one time my shrink suggested that I approach strange women on the bus and tell them they smell nice. I... I just don't even. Is there anywhere where this wouldn't be creepy AF?