DISPLAYS OF WEALTH

Reddit asked: “What is the most egregious display of wealth you’ve ever personally seen?” Here is what some people said:
– “I worked at a suit store, and one day a guy came in looking kinda schlubby, but I went to help him. He went to another store to check out some clothes and returned an hour later. He said no one at the other store paid any attention to him because he ‘looks poor.’ He then bought 10+ custom suits, 30+ dress shirts, 30+ ties, shorts, pants, shoes, the whole deal. The final bill was around $20k, and I made 10% commission.”
– “I was talking to a friend’s mom at a party. She said to me, ‘you know, after six weeks in our Tuscan villa, you honestly get bored of having people wait on you all day.'”
– “I was working at a small airport and a 737 passenger jet came in. The ground crew put some luggage onto it. A person with a dog got on the plane, then walked off the plane without the dog. The plane took off. This rich family sent their private 737 to pick up their dog.”
– “I was an art student working as a gardener in one of the wealthiest areas in my country. I remember one time standing in a bathroom and there was a Picasso hanging above the toilet.”
– “In college, a friend drove his $200k car to meet us at a party, got drunk, and had his dad’s driver come pick us all up. He just left his car at the frat house and didn’t even think to go pick it up again. Two months later he was notified that it had been towed and he had to pay to get it back. His response was ‘I bought another one last week anyway.'”
– “I know a girl who works as a fencing instructor, and one of her clients is an extremely wealthy family with two children. When the pandemic started two years ago, the parents literally bought an entire extra house just so their kids would have somewhere private to continue their lessons when all the gym facilities were closed.”
– “I interned for a wealthy CEO based in Houston. He was in Mexico and had forgotten his laptop. He paid me $500 — plus a plane ticket and a hotel room— to fly his laptop there so he could have it within 12 hours.”
– “I was working at a wealthy family’s event. They handed me a cup of tea while I was outside, and after the event I went into the kitchen to throw the cup away. I asked the wife where the garbage was and she replied, ‘I don’t actually know.'”
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s the most opulent display of wealth you’ve ever seen?