What was your most blatant "I've got money" comment...

Well, if he had a pilot's license I could assume that he was just into aviation, so a couple of planes would make some sense.

If it's just to shuttle his friends around.. well, I kind of feel sorry for these types in some weird way. Having to struggle and work your ass off for something like that would make it much more rewarding. That and you probably won't be properly equipped with the tools to live up to your reputation or take the busines in new directions that would leave your personal mark on the world. That's what lifes about, right?

-Chris

 

Interesting point Chris

But in reality...they dont feel sorry for us. So we shouldnt feel sorry for them. Alot of these kids have to deal with things that can take a great effect on them. Say if one of their parents received some bad publicity, then sometimes the kids have to wear it. Also if there is any other problems, such as business fraud or similar, then they can also take their toll.
In the end, they are not normal kids. They are kids that are pressured into the adult world and in the long run, will pay a price for that.
My wife has worked with kids like this before (She works in PSYC). None of them are "model" people at all....

 

I live in the ghetto of Calabasas. My parents moved here 30 years ago before it got nice or had the convienence of a market closer than 10 miles away.

Of course, property values have gone up about 1000% in that time, so I milk the free rent during the week. Still though, not many kids drove anything over 40k when I went to school, and the most successful people I went to school with are the musicians we now know as Linkin Park, Incubus & Hoobastank. Everyone else just kind of faded away.

-Chris

 

I still have more respect for the people that strike out on their own and refuse a free hand-out.

I understand about problems they may have that I couldn't grasp, but they also will never know the fulfillment of those synapses firing away when you have to resort to shaking the change out of your couch to buy lunch.

C.

 

Yeah true that.
Tis the way the cookie crumbles my friend...
-mike


If anyone knows anything about the rich people that live in the SoCal areas, share your views in my Socal forum thread... "SoCal Subcultures"

 

Environmental Science Teacher: "Everyone lives downstream from somebody if you think about it"
Rich Friend: "Not if you live on top of a mountain."
Enviro Teacher:"Yeah but who lives on top of a mountain?"
Rich Friend: "Me, when I build my ski chalet. You can come visit."

 

I wanted to bump this thread. I found it interesting. With theses "rich kids", how many will have less money then they receive?

 

When I go to the Post Office, I emphatically declare, "I want FIRST CLASS stamps" as I smugly raise my eyebrows, look around, nod, lick my bottom lip, and raise up on my toes a few times, all this and much, much more before I turn around and say to the crowd, "Pretty impressive, huh - FIRST CLASS."


Try it. It's fun.

 

LOL...Good one!

Wes

 

Most recently, I put a check for something like 3 dollars and something cents into my account.

The teller snorted and made some snide remark about people needing to 3 bucks to make ends meet.

I looked at my dad and shrugged.

I think I saw her eyes bug out when she saw my balance.

I then asked her to transfer $5 to my dad's account.

For no other reason to make her jaw really drop.

It took three security cops and myself to peel her off of him.

Dad hates banks.

I use them mainly to see how people react to two-dollar checks .

 

Why would you keep money in a bank?

 

Funny

This threads a great read..

 

Well thank you very much!!!

 

Duh! It makes for better stories for F-chat!

 

When (much) younger (decades) our family was at Mauna Kea for the holiday. My sister and I were hanging out with some other brats and the conversation turned to "well I know so and so....". One kid said well I know a _____, to which my sister said "I am a _____." I practically crawled under a rock.

(not even the same last name, great grandfather....)

It still embarrasses me. - George

 

Wondered the same thing...then I thought maybe that's part of his 'most blatant "I've got money" comment...' he and his father have so much that they are able to waste potential earnings else ware to keep money in a bank to impress tellers with the fact they have got so much money.

 

I was at a party with a g/f. She was talking to a co-worker whom she completely despised and she was very drunk. Normally she would never say anything like this but on that night she was sauced. So to belittle the co-worker, she pointed to me and said, "Don't be impressed that he brought me here in a Porsche. Be impressed that he has another one at home."

Yikes!

And I don't recall where I first heard this next line but it probably fits the bill...

"There are two fundamentally opposed forces in the universe. One of them talks and the other one walks. I know which one I have. How about you?"

 

This thread was pretty entertaining.

Not that I'm hiring armoured trucks to take my money to the bank, quite the opposite, but, a couple weeks ago I slipped up. I got a call from one of those cash advance places, who asked me when I was going to come settle my bill. I have never been to a cash advance place, nor would I ever go. But, they had my name, and my address, and my phone number. Finally, after debating whether or not I was actually who they were looking for, or if they got duped, I started throwing out numbers and objects. It worked.

 

Hmmm, the best ones werent really comments

There was a chick in CT at an office across from mine back when I was 25. She thought she was a lot hotter than she was so she wouldnt even say hello to me in the common hallway.

So the first day I drove up in my new 308 QV the look on her face was priceless, like "Öh Sht, I Fckd up" LOL

Another time I was at a friends party & some guy comments on my black 308 out front & I say thanks its mine & he says in a biotchy tone, "Its not yours !!!" So I pulled out the key

 

While looking at a new home model about 6 years ago the realtor saw me wearing shorts and a t shirt. They said 'What sort of home are looking for, a townhouse?' I said 'No, single family with at least five bedrooms.' Then to scare me off they said 'They start at over $400,000, what do you do for a living?' I said 'That price is okay, I draw toilets for a living. But they pay me over $200k per year.' After that I left.
BT

 

I would have given anything to see the look on his face!

 

I also got a few checks cashed in the last year. One check for around $8000 was cashed and the teller asks if large bills are okay. I say no, it has to all be in $20s or smaller. When she asks why I say because McDonalds won't take the $100s anymore. Thinking back, that check would buy a boatload of Big Macs.
BT

 

I ordered my date a big mac, then offered her dessert. She looked at me like I was going overboard... so I pulled out the keys to my Kia and dropped them on the table, and said "I don't mean to brag... but I can afford it".

 

I'd dare say a heart attack's worth.

 

Nobody keeps more than $100,000 in one account at any bank. Any more is uninsured by the FDIC. A hundred grand hardly impresses a teller, there are little old ladies living on a pension that have that much in their accounts, in my line of work (funeral director) I see elderly couples and widows/widowers with these figures in their checking accounts EVERY day.