55 Times Rich People Showed How Far From Reality They Are

For me it was when I was a kid, maybe 5th grade. I was talking to a classmate of mine about how I was annoyed that my father and brother were using the bathroom all morning and I had to wait. We only had a one-bath little apartment in a duplex. And I had a pretty awesome childhood. I have very little complaints.

He goes “You don’t have your own bathroom?” In a very perplexed tone, as though the thought of having just one bathroom for a family was insane.

Yeah… His family sells yachts. They were loaded.

I was once invited to a dinner party at a fancy steak house with several extremely wealthy guys (50 million+). At the end of the meal — which had to have cost in the thousands — the rich guys were quite literally fighting over the bill because each on wanted to be the one who paid it. It took me forever to realize they wanted to pay it to get points and mikes on their credit cards. I think me and 99% of the people in the world have fought NOT to be the one to pay the bill.

Someone I was friends with in college blew through his entire trust fund before he even graduated. His parents cut him off, due in part to his financial irresponsibility, among other things. He couldn't hold down a job because he was unreliable af, would go on benders and miss work and quit or get fired. He had the nerve to ask people in our circle to lend him money. He paid it back sometimes, but often times he didn't. 


Then he acted shocked when everyone cut him off.

My brother in law married into a very wealthy family. His wife's parents live in another state. They rent an apartment in our city for $6500 a month and they only use it for maybe 4-5 weeks out of the year. They bought all new furniture for it and the closets are filled with clothes they only wear when they're visiting.

Flying private. Arrive 1 minute before takeoff; pull up next to the plane to load luggage; they valet park the car; no security lines; land and a driver pulls up next to the jet; driver drives all around; then repeat.

LOL, trustafarian board member shocked the median income of our clientele was $54k/year. He paid more than that each year to send his kids to grade school-each. Very nice man, just very financially fortunate.

My husband and I belong to a health club and we go almost daily to use the hot tub. We have gotten to know some of the regulars;

- one couple has a daughter who married an investor in a Michelin starred restaurant and were complaining (in a good natured way) that they were never invited to their daughter and SIL’s private dinner they hold every year at the famous-in-these-parts restaurant.

- The same couple has a son who married into the family of a cofounder of a well known AI tech company. I met the cofounder at one of their dinners and he was so down to earth. He said he was thinking of replacing their tennis courts with a pickle ball court then decided to just add a pickle ball court and have both.

- the husband part of another couple has been into jewelry making. We asked him if he travels to find gems. He said the have several mines across the desert that he sources for gems?? I didn’t know owning mines was a thing.

My cousin is very wealthy. She told me one day that she was worried about running out of money about a week later she said she booked a week long cruise for $250k. I don’t know how much money she has but our definition of running out of money is vastly different.

My dad was doing work for a client and asked if they had plans for the weekend. He said tonight they where having dinner with friends in New York City (we live in Illinois) So reasonable response dad said hope you have a good weekend in NYC then.

Client "Oh no we will be back by tonight"

They where just taking one of their companies planes to have dinner. This was in the 80s.

A friend of mine, went to a regular restaurant as a child and asked to see the dessert cart.

When I worked in glossier an 8 year old girl walked around the shop with me adding 100s of £ worth of product to her basket and I played along thinking it was all for funsies. Her total got to £1500, I told her, she goes one moment let me get my dad, dad comes over and asks how much, I show and he tapped his card like it was a tenner 😭😭😭.

Classmate in college (in the U.S., we were both American) had never even heard of the FAFSA.

My boomer father in law bemoaning wealth taxes despite owning 10 homes.

Driving vehicles with over 250k miles so the dont look rich.

I was at the vet, and this tall classy couple was there with their matching yorkies……. And even though nothing specific happened, I felt like my dogs, husband and I had just crawled out from under a rock.