17 Rich Kid Tantrums That Are Incredibly Out Of Touch

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Recently, u/Katybee18 asked r/AskReddit, "People who went to private school, what was the best rich kid meltdown you've ever witnessed?" So we thought we'd share some of the responses.
"This one girl would always show off the new things her parents got her, then pick and choose who to share it with like it was a privilege. This one time they got her these heart shaped pastel-coloured chocolates. She waited until someone noticed them so she could tell the table about it, and then she took a bite. She immediately went to the bathroom and came back crying. It was soap."
"This was back in the '90s, so I don't recall exact car models."
"A kid threw a party with lots of drugs and lots of alcohol."
"Not really a meltdown but a 'what the fuck'."
"In junior high, we all had to wear uniforms. We hated them but everyone had to do it. Unless you were Greg who would wear a fake military uniform to school."
"Dude got gifted a new sports car from his dad. The dealership didn't have the colour he wanted so he had to wait two weeks. He threw a temper tantrum, screaming, cursing, and throwing things. Dead serious."
"I grew up in the late '90s, around the time the original Humvees became super popular."
"She only got a Toyota, and not a Tesla, for her quinceañera."
"A senior once got wasted and somehow ended up driving his car through a wall into the dining hall. Parents stormed into the school the next day with a lawyer and tried spinning the story that the 'school's parking lot had too many turns on the roads' which is how his car ended up in the lunch line. Somehow this worked; the entire parking lot was rebuilt, and the family 'donated' a new dining hall that now has their name on it."
"Went to culinary school with a rich girl."
"When I was in high school, someone arranged for THOUSANDS of rose petals to be laid out on the school lawn spelling this girl's name to ask her out to prom. This was while a plane flew overhead, towing one of those banners asking the question. He got rejected and freaked the fuck out. Parents were beefing with one another, people were telling the girl to just go with him since his family spent so much money. He was clowned on relentlessly. It was pretty hilarious."
"My daughter was in first grade and this affluent child had a complete meltdown because they were going to take a motorcoach bus to a museum three hours away. She screamed over and over that 'only trashy poor people ride buses'. Her parents, of course, drove her."
"A rich kid I grew up with backed his Porsche onto a Honda Civic, and just walked away from it. He was just being a POS. Not even kidding, a week later he had a new Porsche. His dad has a garage full of them."
"I went to a private boarding school in Massachusetts. There were lots of rich kids. I was there on Financial Aid. For some reason the rich kids were really hung up on the idea that they were poor. A group of boys was discussing whose family was the least rich. The conversation went like this: 'Well my family only really owns two houses, our ski lodge is technically a condo,' 'Well we have the apartment in Manhattan, the loft in Brooklyn and then a beach house in Montauk... So that's like only one house'".
"On her 16th birthday, her parents bought her a brand new car and brought it to the school parking lot to surprise her with it after school. Now the bell rings and everybody makes our way towards the parking lot so this is in front of the whole school."
"My wife taught at one for a long time, and had a lot of stories. My favourite was the girl who wouldn't be seen with the same purse two periods in a row and had a meltdown when she couldn't get to her locker between periods to switch out."
"Two of the kids at my school got into a fight over a parking place and one somehow drove his super lifted truck OVER THE HOOD of the other kids sports car. Fortunately, both of their parents bought them new vehicles so nobody learned any lessons."
H/T to u/Katybee18 and r/AskReddit for having the discussion!
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