Who teaches kids to be spoiled? Is it intentional, like do rich parents tell their children to not appreciate the smaller things in life through strangely backwards, sitcom-like life lessons? Or is it accidental, as in being given thousands of dollars of material items and not being forced to work for any of them is actually bad for children? Whatever the reason, we've all seen a kid that was perhaps just a bit too ungrateful for the lot they've been handed.
Reddit user, u/Hysterical_Realist, wanted to hear the worst of the worst when they asked:
What's the worst case of "rich kid syndrome" you've seen?
There Have Been Worse "Buy-My-Love" Gifts
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 drugie son to "run". Worked about as well as you'd imagine.
No Questions Asked
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I work for a dentist and her son is a spoiled brat. He was at the office one day because she had to bring him to an appointment later that day. He got bored and went out wandering around some of the local shops.
He came back a little while later and without any preamble walked up to her and said "give me $80". She asked him what it was for and he just repeated himself and she gave it to him.
Even A Kid Can Recognize That Kind Of Snobbiness
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.
And He's No James Bond
One of my college classmates wrecked his Range Rover over winter break and came back in an Aston Martin
Never Find A Bottom
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. From what I last heard, his Father is now paying for his long-standing drugg habit.
Always Another Line Of Income
My fraternity brother's monthly allowance of $2000 was canceled from his parents because he made a Few F's.
He then called his aunt for a separate allowance.
Signals Are All Off
A guy looked at my $2,000 beater car in college and commented that it must've been really cheap and guessed $15,000.
What Is Money?
I had a friend that had dance classes with me. Her family was crazy rich, and owned over 3 cars for their family of 3. She would just skip the dance classes when she felt like it, because it was too stressful for her.
These dance classes were crazy expensive, and I'll never understand how she could be that... entitled, I guess, to skip these classes which some other families are struggling to afford.
Everyone Gets Something
I go to a private school so I've seen a lot of rich kid syndrome. The one that is #1 is when this rich girl told me about how her older sister turned 16 and her parents got her a new Jeep. No big deal right? Nope.
This girl and her older brother proceeded to complain about how it was "unfair" that their sister got a Jeep and they go nothing (keep in mind the girl was 13, and the brother was 15) the parents finally caved and got the girl and her brother the new iPhone XS Max the day it came out to stop their complaining. Yeah. The girl is pretty annoying.
Need Me To Go Higher?
I am a nanny for these two little boys. Their mom has a screen time limit on their devices for 30 minutes. One time the younger one (6) told me he'd pay me $50 to give him more screen time and when I said no, he goes "fine $100."
Almost said yes but ultimately decided not to take bribes from 6 year olds
Not. Good. Enough.
This 15 y/o teen who refused to enter her friend's rented town house because "it wasn't fancy enough for [her]".
Smashing What Others Don't Have
Was sitting down to lunch in high school when we see an iPhone bouncing and smashing it's way down a concrete walkway. The owner walking behind it with an angry look on his face.
When I asked what happened, he said he was sick of his "outdated phone" (iphone 4S) and his mum would buy him the latest (iphone 5) if he broke it. I was dumbfounded
Always Shooting For The Freebies
I was hosting an art party and we launched a new line of chocolates. There were a lot of high rollers there but one little 7-year old girl came up and asked if she could have a box for free "because of who my dad is".
I had no idea who her dad was but what made it worse was the fact that she was still young and this was very obviously a habit.
What. A. Jerk.
our young, college aged waitress started joking about how she and her roommate were mothers to their puppy when we were out for a mother's day dinner.
my older cousin, probably the same age as her and never had a lick of real world experience, snarked "ew, she has a roommate..." after she walked away.
i piped up "not everyone can afford their very own apartment." she shut up, but i was disgusted.
Throwing It In Other People's Faces
A girl in 5th grade had 4 bodyguards, always had at least 100 and something dollars in her pocket, started flashing us with iPods, iPhones, etc. But that doesn't sound bad, right?
It wasn't, until one day a friend of mine didn't have money to buy food and this entitled b-tch said: "Well they gave me that money to buy food for the poor people." She said it in my friends face! With a f-cking smile on her face! My friend was crying the whole day.
Never Learning From Mistakes
There was a kid at my high school who's parents had bought him a brand new unused white 2015 mustang. not a week later he crashed it into a pole and totaled it, then he b-tched about how his parents wouldn't buy him a new one!
He must've got his parents to cave since about a month after the crash he got a 2015 red Ford GT!
If It Ain't Broke
One of my closest friends wanted her entire upstairs (a massive room that was already her game room) redone for her birthday, she was telling me how her dad wasnt gonna pay for it so i asked if she was gonna save herself and she said 'no I'll just cry til I get my way like always'
It worked
"But She Has It So I Want It!"
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Someone's sister got $600 shoes so the parents got the other kid shoes of the same price to stop their complaining
...ugh...
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.
Putting Out All The Wrong Signals
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.
Real life contains the scariest horrors you could ask for. So aren't we all living in a horror movie, in a way? At least, these people sure freakin' were.
MisterSnowman69 asked: What was a moment in your life that felt like a horror movie scene?
In the words of the legendary Mary Vivian Pierce in the film Pink Flamingos, “Murder merely relieves tension”. I’m sure the following Redditors felt differently.
Nothing scarier than the woods at night.
Went into a real deep woods hike for only the second time in my life.
My gps broke and had to rely on my compass. Got turned around a few times because I couldn't remember the direction I came from, and it was getting dark. Lost the trail way.
But the woods are weirdly silent in the dark and alone.
It was around 2am by the time I found the trailhead.
Darn foxes.
the simpsons react GIFGiphyMy friend and I got lost late on one foggy night in the Italian countryside. There were rats all over and every once in a while we heard someone scream.
I've never been more sure I was about to get murdered than I was that night.
It was probably a red fox that was screaming.
Could've also been a lynx, but they are much rarer in Italy.
At least she wasn’t speaking in tongues.
My mom is quite the sleep talker, but it's usually pretty short and incoherent when it happens. One night as a teenager, I woke up to her scream-yelling the Hail Mary prayer (my bedroom was across the house and upstairs).
Difficult to get back to sleep after that one.
Sometimes scary sh*t ends up just being funny coincidences. Super funny. Right?
Don’t give them any ideas.
I was exploring an abandoned mental asylum and then got the scare of my life when a scary looking person inside one of the rooms was just staring at me without moving. Turns out some joker had left a cardboard cutout there.
And now I have plans this weekend... Just need to find a couple of cardboard cutouts and to break into the local abandoned asylum.
Don’t you hate when that happens?
Evil Dead Horror GIF by Coolidge Corner TheatreGiphyI was driving home on backcountry roads at midnight in heavy fog. Like can't see 10 feet in front of you thick. Suddenly I see an all-white silhouette running in front of the car. Every hair on my body stood up. I immediately think "oh god, oh f*ck, it's a f*cking woman in white, I'm gonna f*cking die"
Nope just a drunk who dove into the ditch.
Gotta love paranoia.
When I was about 12, my parents went out for dinner leaving me home alone. We lived out in the country, on a private road with only three other houses, surrounded by cow fields and wooded areas.
I went into the the kitchen and glanced out the window towards the trees and there in the fading light I could see a person walking slowly through the woods. They were wearing all black, moving slowly and appeared to pause behind trees. My heart started pounding so hard in my ears I couldn't hear anything else and I was weak and shaky from fear. I froze and just watched them. Would they come to the house? Where were they going?
This was before cell phones but I suddenly remembered my mom had left the number of the restaurant by the living room phone. Slowly, I made my way towards the living room, trying to watch this stranger in the woods.
Just as I entered the living room, all the lights in the entire house went out. By this time it was nearly dark outside. I started openly sobbing and in the dark I heard a weird boom like noise. That was it, I ran to my parents room, hid under their bed and sobbed. That's where my mom found me hours later (it felt like).
Well, turns out the stranger in the woods was a stupid cow that had busted through a fence, the lights going out was from an accident a few miles away (hit the power line) and the boom was the pilot light in the gas stove. Man, I have never been that scared in my life though!
I have a lot of questions.
A naked man who was covered in blood chased me across a park at 2 in the morning. I was totally alone. He just wanted money for a bus (????) and luckily nothing bad happened but I thought I was going to die.
But of course, the genuine horrors do exist. And they aren’t scary in a fun horror movie way, they’re actually terrifying because they can happen to anyone.
A scary few seconds.
car chase GIF by Mayans M.C.GiphyI am a "baby" in a car seat in between cousins in backseat. Dad is driving. This is in the 80s and it is my aunt's insistence that I am in this seat even though I am like 5.
A sleeping semi driver is coming over into our lane and there is a cliff on other side. Basically my dad did some amazing driving but semi blew us up. I am uninjured sitting in the seat swinging my legs while everyone is unconscious. They all wake groaning. Dad doesnt wake up.
Long story short just minor scrapes and dad has broken leg. But the crunch of metal and those few seconds/minute of being the only "alive" person was quite fear inducing.
Glad they’re all ok now.
Two days after my now boyfriend told me he liked me he fell from a zip line and broke his back. Almost died. 6 months later he got into a car wreck from a drunk driver - almost died. 6 months after that, he passed out and had to have emergency brain surgery, again, almost died. I now have severe anxiety/separation anxiety/and ptsd. That whole year was a f*cking nightmare
Edit: we're both okay now, the brain injury was almost a year ago. But TBIs take a while to heal so he still has side effects. Thankfully our relationship is still strong; he's physically getting better and I'm healing emotionally too. Lucky for him, the trauma of the injuries has caused him to forget the majority of the pain and memories of those incidents.
ALWAYS wear a helmet.
Driving home from work at 23, listening to my favorite song.
I pull up to a red light, and see this guy on a motorcycle coming up next to me in the other lane. I rolled down my window to compliment his bike when he stops. He doesn't, and runs the red light. He hits a car going at least 55mph. His motorcycle shatters apart, he goes flying, hits the hood of another car, and lands on the ground and rolls into the curb (no helmet). The car he hit with his motorcycle was totaled. I had to step over his body to talk to the police. He was still alive when they got there. I regret not holding his hand. It was just a normal day, and all of a sudden it felt like the rug was pulled from out beneath me. He was only 18.
Edit: The song was Sunny by Boney M., for those curious
What did we learn today, kids? Foxes scream like humans, shadowy figures are usually cows or drunken rednecks, and once again, PLEASE WEAR A HELMET WHEN YOU RIDE ANY KIND OF BIKE.
Scary sh*t surrounds us. But where there is horror, there are heroes. So next time you think you see a scary figure in the woods, know that Bruce Campbell is probably right around the corner
Hypocrisy is everywhere; it's like a disease. And sadly everyone does it. Some of us indulge in smaller doses than others. But some people live their life by it. Like how can you support civil servants, like police, firefighters, etc... yet try to find ways to hide money in order to not pay taxes? Tell me... I'll wait.
Manga...
Hungry Night Court GIF by LaffGiphyItalian moms that say you're too fat then say I'm making grandma cry by not finishing my pasta.
Asian moms too! Not only that if you try to not eat, they make to go containers for you. Oh, sorry I have to leave, RUNS AT LEAST HAVE SOME FRUIT.
Phonies...
Celebrities positioning themselves as champions for social justice while launching a clothing line with no comment on the labor conditions their garments are made in.
Sexy Times...
The Porn Industry
Why is prostitution considered a crime, but it becomes perfectly legal once a camera is put beside them?
I think the first amendment helps with that one. There's been many a supreme-court case about whether porn is protected speech.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...
You can get away with WAY more crap, in general, when you're attractive.
But we all kind of aspire to attractiveness and it's not like it's attractive people's fault, exactly. So what is there to be done?
So true. Money and beauty are treated like virtues and they aren't. They're luck of the draw. It probably helps you to be a better person if people assume that you are gentle and clever just by looking at your face or wallet.
KIDS
GIF by MOODMANGiphyPeople screaming at you if you don't want Kids and Kids are the greatest thing in the World and then turn around and whine how expensive they are and how annoying yadda yadda.
Yeah see... humans are a mess. And too often then not, personal conviction and dignity are just a myth, or a punchline. Double standards have always been a way of life. And many of us have begrudgingly learned to navigate.
Fashion
Fashion Model GIF by NYFW: The ShowsGiphyIf a skinny person wears something out of the ordinary, it's a fashion statement and awesome. It can even just be something like a crop top or overalls.
But God forbid a fat person wear the same thing.
Distractions
The hypocrisy hypocrisy. People love to call it out but rarely notice it on themselves and if they notice it then it's something completely different or a distraction.
That's the worst. I hate that I have to hate that. But if I don't hate it, then the hate will just continue. So, really, my hate comes from my love of an end to hate. So anyone who hates my hate hates love. And we must hate anyone who hates love!
My Morality
My own personal hypocrisy; When I was a lot less well off financially, delivering pizzas trying to get through college, I kept a cup of coins in my car. When a homeless person would approach me for spare change, I gave them the cup. Most of the time it was nearly full, so there was probably 20-30 dollars in there.
Now that I have a good salaried job, even if I've got a few bucks in my wallet, I tend to not even make eye contact anymore. I know it's awful, I know it makes me crappy, but the last 4-5 years have made me a jaded craphead towards people in general. I used to be so hopeful and I wanted to help everyone, and tried to live a life that reflected that.
Now, while my general and political morality is pretty much the same, my personal morality has gotten more grey. I'd jaded, I hate people, I assume the worst of people I used to assume the best of. I don't really care about the strangers around me like I used to, but I still expect everyone else to.
Placing Blame
Victim mentality.
It's so freaking frustrating when it becomes entrenched. "You did this, it's your fault" "you should've known to do x, its your fault" Yeah bro your problems aren't my problems and if all you do is make excuses and blame me for them, it's not going to be my fault when you don't develop as a person and accomplish your dreams. I'm sure they'll find someone to blame though.
In D.C.
Donald Trump Reaction GIF by Election 2016GiphyPoliticians work part time, are given free housing, education, and health care, and exempt from the everyday violence we experience, but refuse to lift a finger to help us.
At this points most people running for a position in the government are only in it for the benefits of being a politician and the amount of money they can embezzle. Well in my country at least.
Just speak a truth and live it. Yes, it maybe hard. But what part of life isn't? Hypocrisy is just lying. Plain and simple. And it's a sin to lie.
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