17 Spoiled Rich Kids Who Got Humbled Really, Really, REALLY Quickly By The Real World
Growing up with a lot of money is a blessing, but some wealthy kids grow up with a warped understanding of how the real world works.
So, when Reddit user u/GhostRxm asked, "What was the best moment you've seen where the real world hit a spoiled rich kid?" I knew the stories would be interesting. Here are some of best ones:
1."I grew up with rich kids and still keep in touch with a few of them. One guy's father owned the most prestigious law firm in town. He said his life changed the moment he called his father from jail the second time he was arrested. His father said, 'Well, sorry to hear you got arrested, good luck,' then hung up. He said getting locked back into his cell was the singular moment that completely turned his life around."
2."I knew this rich kid from high school who went off to college and partied every single night. His parents found out that he was failing basically all of his classes, so they secretly drove up early one Saturday morning with the spare set of keys to the car they had bought him and just drove off with the car."
3."I knew a rich kid whose parents bought a car for him, and he treated it like absolute garbage. He purposely drove it really hard and generally abused it, confident that his parents would buy him the one he wanted after he destroyed the one they got him. Well, they didn't buy him another one, ever. He rode the city bus and bummed rides off of friends after that."
"He was the most entitled person I'd ever met. If he was over at your house, he would just help himself to whatever was in the fridge like it was some sort of paid buffet."
4."I had a roommate my freshman year of college that came from an incredibly rich oil family from the Middle East. I remember him having the hardest time adjusting to not having someone else prepare him food. I remember waking up one morning and going to the kitchen and seeing him try to eat eggs and toast he had just prepared himself. He asked me how I normally prepare fried eggs because his tasted really crunchy. Turns out he had just cracked the egg whole into the pan and prepared it shell and all. I couldn’t stop laughing but felt really bad for the dude."
5."I saw a college guy with a ridiculously expensive car rear-end this woman who drove an absolute beater. Her car was definitely totaled, and his wasn't looking that hot either. He got out and started screaming at this woman. She was in tears. He kept telling her that she was going to pay for this. When the cops came, I saw each of them give their statements. After that, me and, like, 10 people came forward and gave our witness statements. It sounded like each and every one of us put complete fault on him (which was the truth). When the cops went back to him, I saw his face just sink."
6."One of my college roommates was very rich growing up. I didn't realize just how rich until I had to explain to her what a coupon was in very extensive detail. On multiple occasions, she bragged that she wasn't even interested in her major (philosophy), or college in general, but she was at university because her parents were requiring her to get a degree, any degree, in order to get access to her trust fund. I don't remember ever seeing her go to class, and she eventually got expelled sophomore year over academic dishonesty. I guess this was the last straw for her parents because they cut her off pretty soon after that."
"This actually served as a wake-up call. She somehow managed to get a public health degree at a different school in spite of the academic dishonesty listed on her transcript. She's doing pretty well for herself these days. We've kept in touch, and last we talked, she was considering grad school."
7."There was this local business owner who put his son through college and more. When the kid graduated with multiple degrees, dad decided to retire and turn over the business to his son. The son brought his college cronies on board, had management all wear white cowboy hats and drive white pickups, and began revamping the business. The dad came out of retirement pronto, got rid of his son and his cronies. Years later, he bankrolled the son's run for state rep. The son lost. The dad died and left the business to his daughter."
8."I used to work at Starbucks, and there was a young woman that was just newly hired and in training. Mind you she was 20 years old, and her parents made her get a job. She grew up in a very wealthy family. On her first or second day, I instructed her to do the dishes to help catch us up for closing. She looked at me with these lost eyes and told me she didn't know how. Apparently, she grew up with housemaids and literally has never cleaned a dish in her entire life. I had to teach her step by step how to clean a dish."
9."While working in a casino here in Las Vegas, a herd of young women came to my window, and one proceeded to tell me about her great birthday party itinerary that her dad had paid for. For her 18th birthday. With no adult in the party. Just a bunch of teenage girls, out in Vegas. Where none of them could do anything because none of them were 21. I couldn't even check them into their reservation. They start yelling and screaming at me. I calmly call security, and security tells them they can either 'go play in the arcade' or leave and try to find a hotel off the Strip that will take them in without being 21. Their anger turns to tears, and the security guard was unmoved."
—u/anonymous
10."Freshman year of college, the guy across the hall from me was a spoiled rich kid from a big southern city. Old money clearly coming out of his butt. A couple weeks into the second semester, he and a buddy found a checkbook on the sidewalk. Stupid idiots decided to write themselves a check and cash it in the bank that the account is in. The teller immediately called the cops, and they both got arrested. We talked the night he got arrested, and he laughed and said his dad would 'take care of it,' and everything would be fine. That weekend, we met his dad as they moved everything out of the dorms since he got expelled. I guess daddy didn't take care of it."
11."This local rich kid had his SUV parked in a no parking area at a club. A tow truck showed up to tow it away, and the kid went ballistic, saying, 'Do you know who my dad is?' to the driver. After a minute or two of this, the passenger gets out of the tow truck and is a full patch Hells Angel biker. The biker 'politely' tells him it doesn’t matter who he thinks his family is, and the SUV is towed away."
—u/anonymous
12."When I was 16, my rich friend decided he was going to cook for me and another friend of ours. We had no idea he had never cooked before in his life. To start, he picked up an onion. I was on my phone on YouTube, so I stopped paying attention to him. Five minutes later, he just goes, 'Ugh, why do they have to wrap these so tight?!' He was talking about the onion."
13."I teach at a public high school, though it's in a fairly nice area. Because we serve a number of nearby towns, we have a diverse population ranging from poor to very wealthy. The lunch monitor told me that on the first day last year, a freshman girl sat at her table and ate nothing for the period. At the end of the period, she came up to him and complained that 'no one came to take her order.'"
14."Me and my sister grew up fairly well off. When my sister went off to college, my parents made her work a job to earn her own spending money. My mom got a furious call from my sister yelling that some people were taking money out of her paycheck, and that she was going to call them and get her money back. It was state and federal taxes. My mom just said, 'Good luck with that, and welcome to the real world!'"
—u/anonymous
15."This guy at my school offered to pay school security not to call the cops on him for smoking weed and doing coke in the bathroom, and he caught mad charges."
16."I knew this kid that came from one of those families, and because of it, thought he was untouchable. One night, he was out driving with some people, and he got pulled over by the cops. He decided it would be funny to get out of the car and run down the street as fast as he could. The cops, of course, start chasing after him, and after a few blocks, he stops, turns around, and says, 'Sike!' The cops did not find that funny at all and tackled him to the ground and arrested him. Nothing truly serious came of it because his parents had the money to handle it, but still, getting tackled by the police was a pretty hard hit of reality."
17.And lastly, "I was at a Starbucks, and this girl thought apparently people gave her parents free drinks and such for her all these years. The cashier told her the total, and she said, 'Wait, I don't get it for free?' She never realized her parents swiping their cards all those years was paying for her things."
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
