30 Rich Kids That Don’t Know How The Real World Actually Works

Worked with this kid who was a good kid, but completely disconnected from financial reality for most people. He’d just moved out west from another state and was trying to get on like a “normal” adult.

He went to buy a new car and was shocked that they couldn’t just bill his dad for it, since they didn’t know him.

He ordered a bottle of wine at a restaurant and the sommelier said “certainly, sir.” Then the sommelier whispered “just for your knowledge, sir, the bottle is $700.”

He looked straight at him and asked “is that a lot?”

The sommelier honestly didn’t know how to answer.

Good kid, and he got a lot better, but he just didn’t know. Once he casually told his mom he needed some help with bills and she deposited $20,000 into his account.

I've seen this Aussie guy in a Thai pub on Koh Samui, he wanted to show bar girls that he's rich and lit up his cigarette using a burning 1,000 baht bill. He probably did not know how Thais love their King, and that the King just recently died, and his face is on the bill. The rich kid got his but kicked so hard. Sorry for my English, but hopefully you can understand what I mean.

I worked at a Starbucks and we hired a new guy, who I was training. At one point, I had to show him how to clean the restrooms. I grab the bleach, and hand him a pair of gloves and he looks at me in disgust and says, "we don't have a *maid* to clean the bathrooms??"

He quit the next day lol.

One of my friend's friend ended up paying for a night out food and entertainment. He’d go up before we got the bill and just pay. No matter how much we argued with him and tried to pay him back wouldn’t take it nice dude mad baller rich.

Probably too late to the party here but I ended up at one of those fancy private universities. Coming from a small Ohio town, it resulted in a lot of “culture shock”. One of the most memorable moments was when I was eating breakfast at one of the campus restaurants super early before I opened the store I worked at and there was a girl at a table with her friend just completely broken down sobbing. She was basically incomprehensible and I immediately thought she must have lost a family member and my heart broke for her...until, through rolling tears. She managed to croak out “it’s just not f..f..faiiiir!! I asked for a Mercedes and he got me a ..a...BMWwwwww.” Then just breaks into guttural sobs.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping my paycheck can cover an overdue oil change on my 1998 Plymouth neon 😂.

I work at a country club and on the 4th of July (while I was working) a little girl asked why we were closing at 7 instead of staying open all night. I told her I wanted to get to do sparklers and fireworks with my family too!

She thought about it, looked back at me and said “but... but y’all aren’t real people?”

I just had to laugh and inform her I was indeed real and all my coworkers weren’t just the slaves of the country club. Wild man.

Went to school with a crazy rich kid, his parents divorced and each decided to buy his love. Mommy owned a real estate agency, so she got him a license and spoon fed him enough sales for a 6 figure income. The dad then BOUGHT HIM A MAGAZINE. Yes, the dad bought a magazine for his 24 year old son to "run". Worked about as well as you'd imagine.

When I was a kid I got bullied a lot by this one kid named Miguel growing up. His family was a lot better off and spoiled him, buying him the latest shoes, Starter jackets, video games, etc. He was always showing it off and especially liked to rub it into my face.

My parents both worked two jobs to try and provide a decent life for me growing up, but money was tight. Most of my clothes I either got from the thrift store or they were hand-me-downs from my older cousins. I remember one day my parents decided to treat me and take me to the Nike outlet and get a pair a brand new sneakers. This was the first pair of shoes I had in a long time that were *all mine* and never worn by anyone else.

I remember being so excited to wear them to school and walked into the classroom with a big smile that day. Miguel takes one look at my shoes and says, "Nice new, old shoes. I had a pair of those last year when they were cool." With a few words he completely crushed the happiness high I was riding and brought me down instantly.

One of my college classmates wrecked his Range Rover over winter break and came back in an Aston Martin.

This case isn't too bad, and its a bit funny. I became friends with a kid who's family was really well off. He was a really nice bloke, but a bit sheltered and University was the first time he really had any independence, but he had very little sense of what the value of a dollar really was since his folks got him what he usually wanted, compared to what normal people would spend.

There was one particular time he wanted us to eat at a resturant, and he assured us "its really good!", so we all rocked up to this place and the price for main courses started at $40 to $60, which as poor Uni students we couldnt afford, but when he realised this he was so embarrassed he got his folks to pay for it. He's finally wised up a few years later once he got more independence away from his family and made his own money, and remains one of the best blokes I know.

Rich kid I know brought $1000 to the book fair in elementary school yea $1000 that’s not a typo

Dunno if it qualifies as rich kid syndrome but when I got out of the Navy I decided to use my GI bill at one of the Penn State satellites. I was sitting in the cafeteria drinking coffee and typing up a paper when a girl sits down across from me and opens her backpack. She pulls out a sandwich bag and looks at it in disgust then looks me dead in the eye and says "I don't even know why I bother my mother never cuts off the crust". I let out one of those high pitched short laughs like is this girl for real? Oblivious to the tone of it she says "I know right" then asks me if I want it . I looked around thinking I was getting pranked or something cause this s**t is too stereotypical to be real and I just assumed I was being filmed. She shook it at me and gave me a "well?" look. So I said f**k it and took the sandwich, she then pulled out her student ID card and bought a c**p ton of french fries. That sandwich was awesome, I think the bread was homemade and it was stacked like a Dagwood. It had all kinds of expensive looking meats and Dijon mustard, serious gourmet s**t. I know this girls mother will never see this but I just wanna say someone appreciated that sandwich.

I come from a low-middle income family. I was friends with someone who received a red envelope (Chinese tradition) with easily over a thousand dollars inside, and he still complained about not being able to afford x and y. I'd be lucky to even have a proper meal everyday consistently..

This girl would always brag about how she’s been to every continent except Antarctica and that she’s visited so many countries

Then she wondered why people called her the rich kid and insisted she wasn’t rich.

In middle school we were asked to draw our homes for some assignment and hand it in at the end of class. A popular, extremely wealthy kid that sat behind me raised his hand and smugly asked the teacher for another sheet of paper because he couldn’t draw it all on one page. His friends just snickered but I was cringing.
Even at 12 I remember thinking it was such a snobby thing to say.

My fiance's cousin. He managed to crash 4 cars while still in high school because his father would replace them. When he moved onto college, he got kicked out of several apartments for owning a dog when they weren't permitted. He told me he didn't care though, since his father also funded his continuous stream of new housing.

I wouldn’t say rich kid but definitely spoiled brat who thought he was rich. Befriended him in 5th grade over our interest in the Yugioh trading card game. First time I hung out at his place I noticed just how littered with stuff his room was. Some even unopened.

I showed him some rare card that I had recently pulled from a pack. He got super jealous and angry that I wouldn’t trade or sell it to him. He immediately got up and walked over to the family computer and booted up a site where you could buy cards and various other toys and such.

Completely ignoring having me over he’s now on an online shopping spree adding stuff to the cart. After adding a few things he yells “where’s the credit card?” and immediately his older sister comes running up the stairs to yell “Kyle, mom said no more buying stuff online!” And closes the website and shuts off the computer. Kyle then proceeds to have a crying tantrum on the floor and I’m just standing there over him in shock at what’s happening and how he’s acting. I slowly stopped hanging out with him until completely avoiding him as his temperament got worse.

Kid wasn’t even rich either if I remember correctly both of his parents were cops.

Someone’s sister got $600 shoes so the parents got the other kid shoes of the same price to stop their complaining
Edit: it was a birthday present for the first kid i should’ve said that.

Knew this one guy at my college who didn't understand why everybody is so worked up about student loans. I remember him saying something along the lines of "why don't people just pay the tuition upfront." He was also quite sheltered.

This kid back in high school was whining (I mean literally whimpering) that he had to wait something like 6 weeks for his custom built BMW to come over from Germany.