The Craziest Things People Experienced At An Event With Rich Folks

Us Weekly has a section with photos of celebrities doing everyday things, called "Stars — They're Just Like Us!." It features things like trips to the grocery store, or picking up their kids at school, eating in a café, or picking up coffee.

While nepo babies exist, more than a few stars come from middle class families or even more modest means.

The obscenely wealthy from birth though... that's a whole other sphere of human existence.

Reddit user OrganizationKey8342 asked:

"What's the craziest thing you heard or witnessed at a rich people event?"

Make It Rain

"My wife works for bank, and unless you are management at a bank, you don't make sh*t."

"At her company holiday party a few years ago, the president of the bank comes out on stage and starts shooting dollar bills out of an air cannon."

"The site of a reasonably wealthy head of a bank shooting dollars at his underpaid (~$17/hour) employees, that they then have to scramble on the floor in their eveningwear to pick up turned my stomach."

"I don't know how a supposedly smart and successful person could be so tone deaf. It was gross."

~ Mr-Young

Oops!

"Having to chase someone down at a charity event because they paid a power bill for a family in need."

"The bill was $2,200, they wrote the check for $22,000, said they just heard wrong."

~ cantpanick86

Art Exchange

"Hot tip for anyone that likes art, the best place to see art in places like New York? Auction houses. They change their art every month, most of it will go into private collections and never be seen again, and they are free to visit."

"I've stood in a room at Sotheby's in NYC by myself with 5 or 6 Monets....probably $70-80 million worth."

"But the two crazy things I've seen is you won't even find rich collectors there. They send their assistants."

"And one time i was at Sotheby's and they were auctioning off a bunch of Tiffany vases. Some assistant was checking them out, flipping them over, bare hands, just almost tossing them around like Solo cups. I was shocked."

~ RudyRusso

All-You-Can-Eat Beluga

"I was invited to a corporate party in NYC. The party was at the Museum of Modern Art. They rented the museum for the evening."

"There was a caviar table you could go to and get as much caviar as you wanted. I was told that the caviar cost $5,000. This was in the early 90s."

~ paleoakoc20

Staff Of One

"I was hired to be a photographer at a wedding. They had rented the venue at a very expensive vineyard. There was a mansion there and as part of the deal the bridal party got to stay at the mansion. The owner is almost never actually there."

"I show up early the morning of the wedding, and I’m greeted by the butler. Who’s more or less exactly like what you’d think, but younger and not English. Throughout the day, I was all over the mansion taking pictures. During a lull I was chatting up the butler."

"The weird thing was that he said it’s shift work, that there are basically three of them (maybe another guy for filling in, I’m not sure) and it’s 8 hour shifts."

"So I was asking, since wedding stuff is kinda seasonal and it gets cold here, like if I showed up at 2am in January one of you would be here, all alone in the mansion, just knocking around on the odd chance the big guy shows up? And he was like yeah, someone’s always here."

"That just kinda blew my mind. Can you imagine just being the dude who sits alone in someone else’s mansion polishing the silver waiting to see if they show up?"

"85% chance I’d let my guard down and they’d catch me running around in my boxers dry humping the statues while blasting AC/DC or something."

~ Metalhed69

Filet Mignon, Again‽

"Not at an event, but at my then 9-year-old son's friend's house. They were VERY wealthy, and it was the Dad's birthday dinner. They were having fillet mignon steak, seafood etc..."

"Their two sons were disgusted that they were having fillet mignon steak-AGAIN."

"And one threw his away, and the other huffed off to his room and demanded his Dad (whose birthday it was) take him to get a pizza."

"Dad actually DID! And my macaroni-eating kid sat there scoffing his steak and witnessing the majesty of life."

~ Vegetable_Waltz4374

Ferrari Is His Car Guy

"My buddy took me on a cruise with our local Ferrari club. The house we went to was owned by a member who had 8 Ferrari's in his garage, at this house, he also had a real Michael Schumacher F1 car and a Ford GT."

"While we were there he unveiled his new car a custom built Daytona SP3 that was all completely custom. The base price of the car is around $2.2 million so with the customizations it was closer to $3 million the way he had it."

"The crazy part was the story he told about it, this was supposed to be an early build number car but it was delayed. He had to ask Ferrari about why his $3 million dollar car was taking so long while he was putting in another order for a completely custom Ferrari that is probably worth even more than that."

"Spending more money on 2 cars than I'll probably make in my whole life was a pretty wild story to hear while in a garage with cars that collectively are worth more than my family has made all together for a couple of generations really puts the wealth gap into perspective."

~ sirbobbinhood

Call The Governor

"The CEO of my company came down to visit our office and took all the managers out to lunch. He asked for an update on projects going on, and one person mentioned having been stuck in limbo because of the state agency not getting us the approval."

"He asked if anyone had tried calling the governor."

"After he looked around and saw a table full of blank stares, he pulled his phone out and did just that. Apparently, the governor is a buddy, and the situation was resolved the next day."

~ Infinite_Ground1395

Wealth Adjacent

"I was in the Peace Corps in Zambia. We used to hang out at the casino in Lusaka cause they gave you free food, drinks, and cigarettes while you played. We would play like $2 hands of blackjack just to get fed."

"But I went to the roulette table and some guy put down $10,000 in USD all over the table. Lost his spin and just shrugged his shoulders and walked away."

"Coming from the village where we shat in holes and pumped our own water, I was floored by the amount of wealth that existed right around from us."

~ Sure-Scarcity-2436

Sharing Is Caring

"A bar buddy was this rich, trust fund dude, but he didn't dress rich. He had a nice apartment and was the type to cover the bar tabs. In my single days, he would say, 'Hey OP, you want to go to New Orleans?'."

"He loved NOLA, and I was broke, so my answer was always, 'Um, I'm broke, so no, lol.' But he would say, 'No worries, I got you,' and book a private jet for 5 to 8 of us."

"When one of our buddies got laid off and got behind on his mortgage payments, he paid off his past due and gave him money to survive for the next 6 months."

"Dude was a good dude, but he loved his Ducati too much and unfortunately died from an accident."

~ skynetempire

On Daddy's Tab

"I worked a private event as a waiter, it was a rehearsal dinner. The father of the bride was telling everyone he chartered a private jet for his daughter and son-in-law to fly to Bali for their 6-week honeymoon, which he had also paid for."

"The jet was to stay there for their use for the duration of the trip, in case they wanted to visit other places if they got bored."

"The rehearsal dinner for 20 people was about 20k. Working that event was probably the most I ever made in one night at that job, certainly the easiest."

~ pleasantly-dumb

Twice As Nice

"When we were poor, our daughter went to a private preschool that was great for her disability and they accepted us at hardly any tuition in exchange for speaking at fundraising events for them on our daughter's benefits from being at the school."

"At their big fancy yearly ball dinner we were speakers and they sat us at a donor table. We were literally stealing dinner rolls to make our Carl Buddig sandwich meat better."

"At the auction portion, one of the ladies explained that last year she bid on and won the African safari, but she didn’t have anyone to go with her, so she donated it back to this year's event. As that vacation came up for bid, she goes 'wait, my niece loves animals and travel, I’ll take her' and she went and bought it for he second year in a row."

~ bzzltyr

Staff On Standby

"Learned about the yacht life. I once had super wealthy bosses, and they were talking about their friend who owned several buildings. And who had a big yacht."

"So the yacht was always ready to go. Which meant that it had a full complement of personnel, paid full-time, down to chefs and servers. It was basically a hotel at sea."

"The thing is, the guy rarely used it. So you had a boatload of bored people who had nothing much to do."

"If the guy goes to Europe, he would rather fly there and have the yacht head there ahead, just in case he felt like using it. Which wasn't all the time."

~ KarmicPotato

Watch the Movie

"My friend had a friend who is one of those 'crazy rich asian' type of dudes. Watch the movie and you will know what I mean."

"One day, this rich dude was driving his Ferrari in the toll road, my friend was in another car following him for a car meetup event. This dude crashed his Ferrari into another car, and then stopped on the side of the road."

"He went out, called someone and waited while smoking with my friend. He acted like normal, like nothing happened."

"In 10 minutes, suddenly there was a yellow Lamborghini came up. The Lambo driver went out, took the Ferrari key from the rich dude hands, and then sit inside the crashed Ferrari."

"The rich dude drove the Lambo and continue the journey. Apparently, the new driver will take the fall for every single crash-related problem."

"Oh yeah, police were there the whole time, and they did not bother to talk or approach the rich dude before the Lambo driver came up."

~ jembutbrodol

Collector

"I was a server at a really nice restaurant and ended up working a dinner in our private room for the president of a major movie production studio's birthday. One of the guests at the dinner was apparently a major producer and insanely rich."

"I heard them discussing how he had decided to collect EVERY BOTTLE of a very nice wine maker's specific vintage (to put into context this bottle would probably go for about $2,000 per in a restaurant, not sure what retail would be) and had a full time employee tracking down private collections and restaurant wine cellars that might have bottles."

"At that point he had over 4,000 bottles of the one wine, organized by serial number in a custom-made cellar."

"He told a story about how Martin Scorsese had badmouthed a franchise he funded, and when he later called looking for funding for The Irishman, he told him to 'go f*ck himself'."

"At one point in the dinner his assistant (one of three assistants sitting at the end of the long dinner table) informed him that the first truffles of the season had been delivered to some chef in Tokyo."

"So producer guy goes 'Great! Anyone want to go to Tokyo this weekend for a truffle tasting?' A couple of people said yes so he instructed the assistant to 'make sure one of the jets is available' for the trip."

"They stayed 3 hours after we closed. Bought every bottle of the same brand of wine (different vintage) we had in our cellar 'for the road', let me taste a 1989 Chateau Haut-Brion and tipped $3,600 for the lateness of their departure."

"Wild night."

~ ammonite13

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