“His first suggestion was a private jet so we can leave when we want.”

"Made friends with him since we shared some classes. Found that his parents had gone through a nasty divorce and he was living with his mom and grandparents in a very different situation than he was used to. Private schools and county clubs no more. 

I brought him home after school and we stopped at McDonald's for a couple of cheeseburgers because I was going to work. He was less than impressed by the quality and when we left he dumped his trash, tray and all, in the garbage. I explained to him that the trays get reused and he looked at me and asked, why?

After that, whenever we hung out it turned into a game of ‘taking my rich friend to do poor people stuff’ and ‘taking my poor friend to do rich people stuff’. He took me golfing, I took him fishing. He was a good guy, just completely out of his element. Hope he’s doing well today."

"Turned out they wanted us to fly out the same day to optimise their smart mansion setup because they were having guests over that weekend. When I mentioned the cost would be around $3k for emergency service, they just said ‘whatever, just fix it before dinner’. Meanwhile, I'm over here using the same ethernet cable I bought in 2019 and praying my router doesn't die because I can't afford to replace it this month."

"Anyway, my band traveled there, did a rehearsal in the blazing sun. We were all pretty beat and just wanted to rest up a little before the show that night. This guy insisted we all travel to his $30 million mansion so he could show us his fucking wine cellar. We are all working musicians. None of us drink fucking $500 bottles of wine nor do we care. He paid shit too."

"One guy was ordering a car and said, ‘Get me a lease on a (lower brand SUV), I need a car for the nanny. She's taking the kids to school in a Honda Pilot right now.’ Said it like he was adding pepperoni to a pizza, but it was like $2,100 per month. People would special order custom cars that cost more than two or three houses and keep them for less than a year."

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