50 Ridiculous Things People Have Overheard The Rich Say In Public

A very wealthy longtime Episcopal church member stood up at "the annual parish meeting" and spoke her mind after the Rector announced an $11 million capital funds drive to take place over 3 years.

She said, for all to hear: "I don't come to church to hear about miscellaneous matters that detract from our focus on worship. I'll simply give you a check for the amount and let's move on with it.".

I run a higher end store that sells lighting and ceiling fans, etc.

I once had a customer roll up in her brand new Jaguar F-Pace and get quite upset when we didn't have multiple of the $2800 lights in stock that she wanted. A simple web search would have told her that we are a showroom and these items are 'order only'.

She proceeded to get extremely huffy and ask how her dogs were going to see to get into bed and a manager needed to 'fix this right now'.

Trying to keep my composure, I explained I was the manager and asked for a bit more information.

Turns out this lady had a separate house built for her Cavalier King Charles Spaniels on her property complete with televisions, beds and a person to care for them after 8pm when she was done with spending time with them.

She eventually ordered the lights and brought one of the dogs into the showroom when she came to collect her goods. It was the most unsoscialised dog I have ever seen and yapped loudly the entire time, disrupting my other customers and snapping at a child who tried to pat it.

She was gobsmacked when I explained due to the fragile nature of many of our displays we had a 'no dogs' policy.

She still bought her little hellhounds nearly $6000 worth of crystal chandeliers for their house.

Her story regularly gets retold when we have entitled customers to make ourselves feel better. She is our 'It could be worse...' story.

I don't think she was rich so much as very comfortably middle class, but my former boss once told me I should just "hire a car" so I could get to work faster and without the worry of contracting COVID on public transport.

I was in my early twenties and she was paying me minimum wage. What on earth made her think a hire car would be in any way economical?

She got very defensive when I politely pointed out it would cost me £600/month (not counting the fuel costs for a 40 mile round trip each day!) and therefore out of my budget.

Not one or two things, but many. One of my friends comes from an upper middle class background and has confused philosophies. He will never outright say that the poor deserve to suffer, but says that subsidized/public health, education, day care, shelter, food, etc. are what is ruining our nation. This in a country where less than 5% of the population even qualifies to file income tax (file, not pay, only 1.5% actually pays any income tax) and where more than 40% of the population is regarded to be one crisis away from abject poverty and starvation.

There was a guy on a forum I frequented years ago who clearly grew up rich and once said he didn't have sympathy for anyone who didn't always have $20k on hand to cover emergency expenses. It's wild, he genuinely thought that everyone should be able to easily save that much.

Just last week I was at home with my GF and she invited a friend of hers for a coffee.

The guy has a pretty rich GF and he was telling us some aneddote.

Basically the girl has a dog which hasn't yet learned that he can't p*o inside the house. The girl has also a maid and a butler, both filipinos: one of them is totally disgusted by dogs' p*o.

Nevertheless, the girl, her BF and the butler literally force her to collect the aforementioned p*o.

And this guy, sipping coffee and almost peeing himself from the laughs, was telling us how fun it was to hear her struggling to collect the p*o while hearing the maid retching (eventually throwing up in the toilet).

Me and my GF felt a mixture of disgust, cringe and realization that money make some people really unsensitive.

I had a co-worker who worked for the social aspect. She didn't need the money. When she found out how much money I had in my savings (3 figures), she said "What do you do with all your money?" I said "That IS all my money." She just stared at me.

My doctor told me that I should get private lessons at the gym since public lessons aren't allowed with our restrictions. She said "what else are you going to spend your money on?"

I told her I rent, food, phone plan, meds, and a bus card is more than my wage.

Poor people should just get a job.

Youtubers working fast food for the “fun” of it.

Bragging about how they don’t want o donate a $1 for a local charity because they already donated $10,000 to another.

An old boss looking at buying a new car. "I thought it'd be around $180-200,000 but when I found out it was $250,000 I had a bit harder time justifying it"

Or when talking about the resort he was building in Thailand.

“Pull it from your savings.” What savings!?

Anything Ben Shapiro says. He does not understand working class Americans.

"Sell it to *who*, Ben?! Sell it to WHO?!"

Also upper middle class kids who think it's easy to move cities or internationally, or travel in general.

Growing up we were so goddamned poor. So poor. It's awful and to this day I am a bit of a miser, and fairly insecure about presentation and lifestyle. I strongly suspect the reason I can't date is I can't afford to not live with roommates. Stop telling poor people to "get your s**t together" as adults. We're f*****g trying you knobs!

I work at a private school and they give each student their own iPad when they enter pre k and use them all the way up to 6th grade.

One of my fourth graders who had been there since pre k told me that she thought everyone in the world is just given an iPad when they are born.

"If you don't like your job, go find another instead of b******g about it."

Well gee, it's as if I never thought about finding a new job in the first place. The worst part was this was said by a person that didn't even work.

When I first met my GF's aunt, we were chillin' in her giant house, giant kitchen, freshly renovated with all the trimmings. Beautiful place. I look over and notice she's got these real tall s**g rugs in a couple of the rooms and I ask her how she vacuums the things because, well inquiring minds want to know! She replies with "Well first of all...you're assuming I clean my own house..."

Then I knew, ok we're on that level. All she had to do was say it any other way that sounded less pompous.

Not me, but a friend of mine is a surg tech in a hospital and he once overheard two doctors talking to each other. One was trying to decide if he wanted to buy a Tesla Model X (the most expensive one iirc) and the other doctor already owned two. Trying to sell his colleague on getting one, the Tesla-owning doctor said "they're so safe! I don't understand why everyone doesn't own one!" Completely forgetting that he was talking about a $100k car.

Many, many cases from the Philippines from when the country was hit ***hard*** by the pandemic last year (and it continues to struggle today)

One example is Manny Pacquaio's wife [posting pictures](https://www.preview.ph/fashion/jinkee-pacquiao-designer-bikes-hermes-louis-vuitton-a00300-20200709) of her Louis Vuitton and Hermes designer... *bicycles*(?)

People are starving from businesses being shut down, many are dying from coronavirus, and this *senator's* wife is showing off her ludicrous luxury c**p.

"Who thinks fresh flowers are a waste of money? I LOVE buying tons of fresh flowers all the time!".

That because of a fire in their own private condo they were forced to live in a FEMA trailer like people after hurricanes. Problem: This woman had an apartment rented (funded by insurance) in the most expensive apartment complex in the city but it was apparently the equivalent of FEMA trailer. My jaw literally dropped and I’ve never forgotten that and it still makes my skin crawl especially after surviving and helping out with Hurricane Floyd in my hometown seeing people lose everything and fleeing Katrina from college.

During the first bit of the pandemic when everyone was baking bread and there was a shortage of yeast, my mum scoffed and said: "what idiots, panicking about yeast! Just put the bowl in the yard under a blooming tree! Honestly, people these days are so out of touch..."

It never once occurred to her that not everyone has a huge yard full of blooming trees.

(We aren't rich, not even close, but she's been taken care of her entire life and has never had to work a single day. She still lives in the house she was born in, and is really out of touch with reality.).