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
GiphyI 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!"
GiphySomeone'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.
Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.
Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?
But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.
It would be so great to be sure there is something else.
But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.
Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:
"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"
Sensations
Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."
PeachesnPain
Recovery
"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."
"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."
"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."
good_golly99
Take Me Back
"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."
"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."
rayrayrayray
Free
The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."
TooReDTooHigh
This is why I hate surgery.
You just never know.
Shocked
Giphy"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."
Admirable_Buyer6528
The SOB
"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."
"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”
1-cupcake-at-a-time
Colors
"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"
Hannah_LL7
"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"
huntokarrr
The Fog
"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."
"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."
Fluffy-Hotel-5184
Through the Walls
"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."
"She's quite alive and well today."
Hot-Refrigerator6583
Well let's all be happy to be alive.
It seems to be all we have.
Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.
The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.
Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.
Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:
"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"
Redditors didn't see these coming.
Shiver Me Timbers
"I’m always cold now!"
– Telrom_1
"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."
– r7ndom
"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."
– mr_remy
Drawing Concern
"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."
– dee-fondy
"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"
"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."
– LizardofDeath
Unleashing Insults
"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”
"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."
– alanamablamaspama
Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight
"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."
– KeltarCentauri
"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."
– KatMagic1977
"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."
– Jaew96
These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.
Shopping
"I can buy clothes in any store I want."
– WaySavvyD
"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."
– ganache98012
No More Symptoms
"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."
– colleennicole93
Expanding Capabilities
"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."
– Ramblonius
People Change Their Tune
"How much nicer people are to you."
"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"
– LiZZygsu
"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"
"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"
– awholedamngarden
It's gonna take some getting used to.
Bones Everywhere
"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."
– Princess-Pancake-97
"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."
– bekastrange
Knee Pillow
"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."
– snic2030
"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."
– Strongbad23
More Mobility
"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."
"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."
– dma1965
People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.
But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.
That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.