If you thought snobbery was reserved for wine tastings and fancy cars, think again. Even the size of one’s trailer (as in, a trailer in a trailer park) can cause someone to turn their nose up at you. People are endlessly creative when coming up with niche reasons to act like they are better than someone else.
Someone asked “What’s the strangest snobbery you’ve encountered?” and netizens shared their most bizarre stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the most truly unhinged examples and be sure to add your own tales to the comments section down below.
#41
A neighbor asked my boyfriends mother, "why can't your son find a white girlfriend?"
She had no reservations at asking, not thinking at all, how rude it was.
She had no reservations at asking, not thinking at all, how rude it was.
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10points
#42
My mom is snobby about 2 things: Heinz ketchup and aluminum foil. She keeps her own name brand foil in her car, just in case. It's because she doesn't like when people tear it "wrong" or when it gets crinkled up in the container. She will not use anything different than Heinz ketchup.
Those are her demands and will always make time to criticize foil or ketchup.
Those are her demands and will always make time to criticize foil or ketchup.
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#43
I’m gen X, and was over at the house of a friend, gen Z, helping her with cooking prior to the delivery of her 3rd child. She had a few other friends over that were her age too. One of them commented on her Mrs. Meyer’s hand soap container. You know Mrs Meyer’s has blah blah blah in it, right? She responds, oh yes, we won’t use it anymore because of that. I just keep the container and refill it with blah, blah, blah, to which the other person nodded in agreement.
Y’all…it’s hand soap.
Y’all…it’s hand soap.
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#44
I once went to a posh glass shop and asked for a set of glasses from a brand called d'Arque. The gentleman who served me gave me a withering look when i mis-pronounced the name, then sarcastically corrected me, followed by an even more sarcastic "we don't do that brand Sir"
Ouch.
Ouch.
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#45
My MIL told me one of the flowers (pink tulips—in a bouquet with white and pink roses and greenery for a spring wedding) I chose for my wedding bouquet would be ugly. I was only telling her so she could chose her corsage in context. She chose a color and flower (purple orchids) that were not in any of the other wedding flowers.
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#46
There was this woman who stopped our family from leaving a restaurant, who insisted on asking my mother, "What do you DO in my fair city?... But what do you *do?*"
I don't remember the entire back and forth that happened in that conversation, but it closed with my mom informing her that we had to leave so she could bury her brother.
"Oh, you have fun with that!"
And that's on Small Town, USA.
I don't remember the entire back and forth that happened in that conversation, but it closed with my mom informing her that we had to leave so she could bury her brother.
"Oh, you have fun with that!"
And that's on Small Town, USA.
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1point