A spoiled child is someone who exhibits behavioral problems from being overindulged by their parents or other caregivers. You probably knew a kid like this in school: they couldn’t handle hearing ‘no’; would be a sore loser at whatever, be it a game, a test, a bet; and act like the entire world revolved around them.
Much of this delusional entitlement continues way into their adult lives, making them not the most likeable person in the room. But there are things in life called reality checks that put even the most spoiled of us in our place.
So when someone asked people on Reddit “What was the best moment you’ve seen where the real world hit a spoiled rich kid?” the stories started pouring in one by one. 15.6k comments later, we have some of the most entertaining cases where people who believe we owe them the world were forced to have a cold shower and wake up.
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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 it happened. 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.
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.”
About 10 years ago I was having a pint with a friend of mine. His family s**t gold I swear. I mentioned I was struggling with rent and bills while in College and he just said “get your mum to pay for it then mate?”. She’s disabled and we’ve never had real money.
He instantly realized what he said and did feel bad about it. I think it was the first time he really understood that not everyone has their parents to lean on financially.
Me and my sister grew up fairly well off. When my sister went off to college, my parents made her work a job for spending money. My mom got a furious call from my sister yelling that some people were taking money out of her pay check, and that she was going to call them, and get her money back.
It was state/fed taxes.
My mom just said “Good luck with that, and welcome to the real world!”
I saw Justin Bieber throw a fit and end up not getting what he wanted.
We have quarterly teambuilding exercises at my company where you basically go and play minigolf or some other activity capped at $25/person. Sometime between 2009 and 2011 (I really can’t remember exactly) my group just decided to go for a fancy lunch in Downtown Portland. After lunch we took one of our coworkers to the semi-famous Nike store which was a couple of blocks away and that was the day Justin Bieber happened to show up.
When he and his entourage arrived he said something somewhat loudly along the lines of “Y’all are going to have to leave for a bit ’cause I’m here to do some shopping” and some of his people acted like they were going to try and politely force the already-present customers out of the store so Bieber could shop alone but the Nike employees even more politely told him that was not possible. At that point Bieber lost it-I mean he threw a total tantrum because they wouldn’t shut down the store for him. The tantrum didn’t work and he and his folks left in a huff.
That’s really my only “celebrity in the wild” encounter and it’s freaking lame.
Somewhat distant relative spent all of his university years and twenties partying hard with the ~100-120K allowance his rich company owning father gave him each year. He’d travel the world each year going to Bali, Thailand, Europe, every year Oktoberfest, just rampaging.
At 32 or so he decided to settle an upscale ski resort area of the US and open a business with his hot gold digger fiance. When he went to transfer his money to his US bank account he noticed it only came to a few thousand dollars. He angrily asked the bank worker why she hadn’t transferred the entire amount only to be told that that was the entire amount. His father had cut him off without saying anything and he just hadn’t noticed.
Absolute flatline.
Freshman year of college – the guy across the hall from me is a spoiled rich kid from a big southern city. Old money clearly coming out his a**. A couple of weeks into the second semester he and a buddy found a checkbook on the sidewalk. Stupid f***ers 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 his dumb a** got expelled. Guess daddy didn’t take care of it.
Rich scummy injury lawyer’s kid was in my class in HS. Goes to college (mid size school in the Midwest) and gets plastered drunk (parents bought him and his friends alcohol since freshman year so nothing new) and RA says he has to write him up for alcohol in the dorms. Punches 2 RAs, then gets cops called on him and knocks a cop’s tooth out. Long story short his parents have to drive back 6-7 hours after one day to get him and he’s not even allowed to leave the state until his hearing. Last I heard he’s working at a fast food establishment.
Oh I have one!
I used to work at Starbucks and there was a girl 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 had 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 doesnt know how. Apparently she grew up with house maids and literally has never cleaned a dish in her entire life. I had to teach her step by step how to clean a dish.
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.
While working in a casino here in Las Vegas, a herd of girls came to my window, & 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 teenaged 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 & screaming at me, I calmly call security – and security tells them they can either “go play in the arcade” or leave & try to find a hotel off the Strip that will take them in w/out being 21. The anger turns to tears, the security guard is unmoved.
At a Starbucks and she thought apparently people gave her parents free drinks and such for her all these years. Like 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 I guess.
Dad buys a rich kid a Mercedes. It was pinkish (Salmon colored) so the kid [complained] about it. Dad took to away, sold it, and never bought him another car.
Rich brat had to buy his own.
Spoiled rich kid showed up to school in a $325,000 sports car. He was showing off, lost control of the car, and drove it through a brick wall and totalled it.
Saw a college guy with a ridiculously expensive car (can’t remember the model) rear-end this woman who drove an absolute beater. Her car was definitely totalled 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. He probably told them it was her fault and just found out that two handfuls of people just confirmed that he’s full of s**t.
I’ve never seen that many witnesses stick around for a simple traffic accident. I think the other people felt the same way I did: that kid was a douche and should be punished for what he did.
When I was little, my daddy owned an exotic pet shop in Texas. A college girl comes in and tells him that she needs a sloth so her sorority can win a contest they were having to get the weirdest animal.
My dad says, “No, you don’t want a sloth, it will destroy everything” but she insisted and said her daddy owned the city and would have him shut down if he didn’t get her the sloth. So he told her to come back the next day.
So he talked to a lawyer and they drew up a long agreement saying he wasn’t responsible for any damages, blah blah, and made her sign it and told her if she brought the sloth back, she’d have to pay shipping for it back to brazil or wherever it came from.
So the sloth comes in and the girls come get it, and they’re so excited, because they’re gonna win.
The next day, she comes in crying. It had shredded her clothes, carpets, wallpaper, beds, furniture, everything. She tried to get my dad’s shop to pay for the damages, tried not to pay the shipping going back, but she’d signed the contract. She tried to use her daddy about that, too, and mine said he could come down and see a copy of the agreement if he wanted.
welp.
I was one of those spoiled rich kids, and let me tell you, it leaves you with no social awareness. One of my best friends in High School once brought me to his home. I had to open my fat mouth and call his home trash-filled due to his step-father’s tendency to horde. His mother was within and politely asked for me to never visit again. I lost a good friend that day and have regretted it ever since.
I went to a very rich, predominantly white Catholic high school. One moment I remember was the wind absolutely being taken out of a girls sails when I explained to her why our school dominated the area’s skiing, golf, and equestrian competitions, but never anything else. For a lot of kids in that school, the moment they learned they were rich was the moment they learned that most girls don’t have their own horses growing up.
I went to school with a kid who always had a new fancy car or truck because his dad owned one of the biggest construction companies in the area. This kid was a major douche and double/triple parked his big trucks all the time. Once he got some sort of fast fancy car and went over 110 mph and was getting chased by state police. He had friends in the car that were telling him to stop and slow down but he wouldn’t. I believe he was also drunk. BUUUT he ended up crashing into a business doing a ton of damage. He got hit with 3-4 felonies. Driving over 100 mph is a crime in most states and he got multiple kidnapping charges because the passengers were freaking out. Dude never came back to school and I have no clue what he’s doing now.
Friend of a friend totalled his brand new luxury car by driving 2-3x the speed limit drunk, plowed into some metal railings, and destroyed the front of several storefronts in a plaza. Fortunately this was the early hours of the morning and nobody was around to get hurt. He got out of his car and decided to just walk it off as he didn’t care about the several hundred thousand dollars that the car cost. Cops found him, arrested him, shocked pikachu face when he realized that you can’t bribe the cops as easily in Canada, got deported because he was on a student visa.
I knew one who apparently couldn’t fathom how people live on a budget.
We used to hang out a lot at her insistence but she liked to eat at expensive places whereas I’d have no issue having my meals somewhere cheaper.
However, she kept pouting and insisting I stay. I said I couldn’t unless she wanted to spot me. She didn’t.
I then walked her through the math and showed her that the cost of my meals with her, everyday, totaled my entire wage for the month.
She didn’t stop pouting but from then on I could eat by myself in peace.
One of my college roommates was very rich growing up. I didn’t realized 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 uni 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.
I knew this rich kid from high school that 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.
Administration and faculty at a university refused a substantial offer of endowment money from a couple that wanted their son enrolled as an art major.
Their son couldn’t meet the minimum scholastic entrance requirements and he had little aptitude for art. Still, with their millions, he thought money would buy his way to an “easy degree” as an art major.
He was dumbfounded to receive a notice of non-admittance.
No joke here. Back in high school(90’s) this kid got a brand new Chevy Camaro. I had an old a** 80’s Pontiac Phoenix that had the straight six. It was by far not a racing car but this tool was just looking to brag at what he got compared to the busted cars we got. About 2 days later, while we were waiting at a stop light this idiot tries to race us as I am in my car and I pull up with my friends. He does starts by revving it really loud and tries to do a burnout. Mind you the light was red and the roads were not wet. So he managed to get a tiny burnout going, some smoke and what not…When his tires did catch traction, he went barreling into the intersection and smashed the car of the wife of one of the VERY FEW cops in my small city. Needless to say, that didn’t work out for him very well.
Local rich kid had his SUV parked in a no parking area at a club, tow truck shows up to tow it away and the kid goes ballistic “do you know who my dad is” etc. to the driver. After a minute or two of this the passenger gets out of the tow truck and is a full patch Hell’s Angel. The biker “politely” tells him it doesn’t matter who he thinks his family is and the SUV is towed away.
Knew a rich kid whose parents bought a car for and he treated it like absolute garbage. Purposely driving it really hard and generally abusing it, confident in the notion 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 f***er 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.
She would take days off of school to go on shopping trips with her rich Mother. When the recession hit, it was discovered her mother’s business partner was embezzling for years, and consequently, the mansion she grew up in was on the depressed real-estate market for years.
I went to community college in a very rich section of NJ. I was there because it was the only school I could afford at the time. Many of the kids there were there because their parents refused to pay full price at private schools when their kids had no idea what they wanted to do in life. However, the rich kids still drove M series BMWs, AMG Mercedes, RS Audi’s, big fancy pickup trucks, etc., and never paid for any of their own stuff.
In one of my classes a girl, who was 23 I believe, was complaining loudly that her daddy wouldn’t pay for her third manicure that month, and how she had it really rough that she had to pay for it herself.
Cue me and several other self-supporting students in the class explaining to her how the real world works for those of us not born with a silver spoon in our mouths. She was legitimately shocked to learn that some students pay their own tuition, rent, car insurance, phone bills, food costs, and yes, manicures too.
My best moment was when I got hired by a pair of Woodside, CA parents to transition their horrible 18 year old into the realities of “real life”, something that evaded both of them. My first action was to take away his platinum, limitless, credit cards. He threw a tantrum that lasted several days. “Where am I going to get money? ” Get a job. “My parents will fire you.” They didn’t. When he realized that boundaries & budgets had been set in stone, and that he not only had to pay the bills, the rent, but taxes too, he headed straight to college to wait out the next 4 years. He is still a little jerk, but at least he has a job and an education now.
One of my college roommates told his parents the trip we were planning (that they were paying for) was 400$ more expensive than it was so he could buy a really nice bong. In addition, they basically paid for everything he wanted – he had their credit card and ordered food on it at least once daily. He also would make 50$ purchases off the card pretty regularly.
Long story short they found out he lied about the cost of the trip. For whatever reason they still paid and let him go, but after the trip he could not use their card anymore. This dude acted like he lived the hardest life of all time afterwards, but eventually sucked it up. He actually acts way less entitled now, it ended up having a lasting positive effect for him (even though he wouldn’t admit it).
I’m trying to be a better man and not take delight in anyone’s misfortune but…
Rich kid in my high school totalled his pickup truck. Got pissed when parents wouldn’t replace it, so purposefully crashed his twin brother’s pickup truck cause if he couldn’t have one neither could the brother… not to mention all the legal stuff that I’m sure was fall out from doing that.
Anyways, kid disappeared. I assumed he went to jail or some equivalent.
Found out recently that no, he didn’t actually, his parents literally disowned him, like with the paperwork and everything and sent him on his way to fend for himself. And I have no idea how life turned out.
In a country with high alcohol taxation. Rich kids enter pub, like 10-12 of them, throw card at bartender, demanding shots.
“What would y’all like?”
“Whatever lol, dad is paying lmao.”
Bartender pours double J.W. Blues for all the brats and some randoms that they treated.
Brat with card had tears in his eyes when the tab came in.
“Dad’s going to kill me..”
I did enjoy the free whisky though.
I used to live in Paradise before it was destroyed by the fire, just like every town there are some rich people here. Most the rich people who went to my school were very humble about their parents income, except for this one kid named Daniel. Daniel’s parents were insanely rich and his dad was an HR at PG&E and he would not keep his mouth shut about it. He somehow managed to brag about money in every single conversation. About one month before the town was destroyed Daniel started bragging about how his parents spent a ton of money on a new mansion in Magalia (a town north of Paradise). He said his parents had sold their houses in San Francisco and New Jersey to be able to afford it. Fast forward to November and his new house is burned down along with the rest of the town. His parents had a small amount of money left so they rented a small apartment in Sacramento. His dad was laid off from PG&E in February and Daniel is currently living a middle class life in Denver.
I had a kid in my senior class of high school who was an absolute f***ing a-hole. His dad owned a construction company, and they had contracts with our city so they did very well for themselves. He was always talking down to anyone he wanted, but also he got his a** kicked a few times cause of it. Well he never did school work, was always getting kicked out of class for being a disturbance etc.
His dad one day came to the school, walked into his classroom and berated the f***ing s**t out of him because the counselor told him that he had absolutely no way of graduating, and needed to enroll in a secondary school. He took his car keys, his phone, and all the allowance he had given him minus money for the bus. He left school a couple weeks later, and I believe he moved.
Acquaintance in college got pulled over in Baltimore transporting an ungodly amount of weed from New York to campus (DC area). Clearly intent to distribute. He called his mom, an attorney in California, begging for help. She said she’d get back to him when her offices opened on Monday. So hot shot spent the weekend in Baltimore city jail.
I think he just got less dumb about his behavior. Successful business owner now.
While working as an EMT on the ambulance for probably the richest area in San Diego County, a judge had ordered a 15 year old resident of the area to do community service for vandalism he had committed. The community service was to report to the nearest fire department every saturday for a month and clean whatever the fire chief wanted him to clean for a few hours. He shows up the first day and the chief asks him to go ahead and polish the chrome parts of the fire engine. They take the kid downstairs to the apparatus bay and give him the spray chrome polish and some rags.
An hour or so later we checked in on him surreptitiously from a second story window and he was just standing there staring at the spray bottle in one hand and the rag in the other. When we asked him why he hadn’t started he claimed he had never cleaned anything in his life before and he ‘didn’t want to mess up’ the fire engine. We gave him a short tutorial and over the next month he probably learned a more useful life skill than any other up to that point.
Lawyer here, so details will be sparse, but I’ve dealt with this a loooot.
Rich parents have rich spoiled sh***y kid. But where this gets real brutal is when they’re immigrants, and the kid isn’t a citizen yet. Dealt with one guy who figured it didn’t matter if he was drunk and on drugs and driving, because his parents had enough money to buy him a new Very Expensive car if he smashed it.
Well, he didn’t smash it, just got charged with dangerous driving, flight from police, and various other nasty things. The look on everyone’s faces when I explained deportation was at stake was the moment they realized they could actually face real consequences that they couldn’t buy their way out of.
Well, they tried anyway. Didn’t like my telling them their chances sucked, so they went to someone who charges way more and still lost. I expect Junior is overseas now trying to figure his s**t out.
Friend in high school had two parents with pretty good jobs. She had a lot of name brand clothes, bags etc. She got a big solo trip abroad once a year. Her dad would buy the plane ticket and her mom would upgrade her to business class. I once invited her to come on a family vacation with me to Disneyworld. Note that this is a huge deal because we live so far away it takes 20+ hours and multiple airplanes to get there. She said “No thanks, it’s really far away and I can’t spend that long in economy class.” Last time I invited her anywhere.
She was all set to go to a really prestigious, expensive university in Switzerland too, paid for by both her parents. Then her mom died. Her newly single-income household wasn’t poor by any means, but all the little luxuries just weren’t there anymore. She still gets her big trip abroad (barely), but it’s only ever economy class now. She didn’t get to Swiss university because her dad couldn’t pay for it on his own.
I dated a girl in college who told me a story about her first day in public school.
She had been to expensive private schools and finishing schools as a child. Then they moved her sophomore year of high school. She went to the local high school which was actually a decent mix of rich and poor kids with a big heap of middle class kids. So it was a school where students actually got a good social education.
Her first day there she was terrified of black and Hispanic kids and ate her lunch in the bathroom. Eventually she found friends from the same social class as her and it got easier for her. But for the first few weeks she really had to learn what it was like to be around people that didnt have a maid and a driver.
Rich kid in high school whose parents bought him new cars every time he wrecked one, let him throw wild parties at their lake house etc.
He was asking why I didn’t show up to a particular party. You know, the whole “Don’t be a pussy” routine. I told him my parents had said no, I couldn’t go. He laughed and made a comment about my parents being overly strict. I just said earnestly, “Naw man, they’re not mean, they just care about me.”
He laughed, but I definitely saw a flash of understanding in his eyes before that.
Here’s a switch….highly successful local doctor/politician expects son to attend medical school and become doctor. Son opts out, gets job with new company called Costco, pumping gas. He’s been with that company ever since, just his regular pay raises and bonus checks give him a good life. He just didn’t want the high stress life his dad had.
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