Redditors Share the Wildly Out of Touch Things They've Been Told

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Nov 7, 2023 6:00 PM EST

If you find yourself rubbing shoulders with the upper crust, it won't be long before they say something that they think will be relatable to everyone, but actually reveal their deep ignorance. The result can be a fun mix of amusing and insulting. Of course, being out of touch is not all about wealth, it can be any measure of removal from the everyman experience. I'm sure as heck out of touch with the sports world and have definitely made a fool of myself doing so. 

Recently, Redditor u/nlwfty opened the floor for others to share the most out-of-touch things they've been told, and the floodgates were open. In that spirit, let me share one from the annals of my life. An acquaintance, who had been born and raised in New York City once asked me if we had taxi cabs in Chicago. Girl, it's one of the biggest cities in the world, of course we do! 

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    r/AskReddit u/nlwfty • 22h What's the most out-of-touch thing you've heard someone say?
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    amboomernotkaren • 20h my boss once told me to have "the maid" drop my car at the shop. wtf!
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    Hopeful-Moose87 • 20h "I don't know why people get big mortgages. Just save up for a few months and pay cash for a starter home!"
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    NovusNebula • 21h Aren't you a bit too old to have a grandma?" A neighbor when I told her my grandma just passed away.
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    00 pjsans • 20h My dad (who is now the Director of Accounting for the school district I teach for) was talking about how my starting pay was way more than his starting pay. I said, "well, yeah... The cost of living has increased a ton since then." This straight up said "no it hasn't." He started working there in 1992. This conversation happened in like 2017 (about a year after I started working there). Again, he is the director of accounting.
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    blarg-zilla 19h "You seem sad" My mother to my sister, at her husband's funeral.
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    Heavens10000whores 21h ● With a hefty storm approaching England, a politician advised those in its path that they should maybe leave, and go to their second or third homes, to be safe
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    pastelchannl. 20h when people were complaining about not being able to afford housing/food/living in general, one of the Dutch ministers (I think he was a minister or at least the leader of a party) said something along the line of 'well, find a rich boyfriend then'. ah, yes, that will solve the crisis!
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    wildblue2 22h ● I went to an Ivy League college with lots of children of extraordinarily wealthy families. When discussing inequality and its effects on housing, my professor briefly mentioned how mortgages are out of reach of a growing number of Americans. The girl next to me stopped the class, and with a confused face asked the professor why people don't just buy their homes in cash outright because "surely the interest means it will cost them more over time." The professor was dumbfounded. I
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    so_not 18h "Rent is so expensive. You should buy a triplex and rent the other units out instead." Ma'am triplexes cost about a million. How on earth am I supposed to get approval for that if rent is an issue for me?
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    RhaegarJ 21h The wife of the business owner complaining to the employees about how she's underpaid for working there. She literally owns the building and her family make 300-500k profit a year. All while underpaying the rest of the staff.
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    Dirac_comb 19h "You won't be happier at work if we pay you more, but we need to figure out why workplace happiness is so low" coming from a guy that made 10x what I did, and was born into old money.
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    lomi08. 21h I was waxing a woman's eyebrows once and she was complaining that sometimes after she gets a massage the pillow leaves a circular indent on her face and she can't go out to lunch after. She then asked me if that ever happened to me? I was like maam i wax people for eleven bucks an hour; I'm not going out to lunch lol, let alone getting massages.
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    Zealousideal-Plan454 20h Mosquitos do not live or reproduce in stagnant water. The same person who said this also visited a swamp and a closed mini lake with clouds of mosquitos, and complained about the quantity and aggressiveness of said mosquitos.
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    cooldart61 20h A guy in college was trying to find common ground with us when we were discussing how difficult it's been paying for college "I don't have college debt, but my parents are forcing me to only choose 2 new apple product upgrades this year instead of 3."
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    Kittytigris 21h ● You should just go door to door to see if they're hiring. And don't take no for an answer! You need to call every day so they'll remember you! - again, courtesy of my mother, who last worked in the 80's before being a full time SAHM since. Other gems also include, 'you need to be happy to work OT, don't worry about the compensation, your boss would be happy with your dedication and promote you.' I couldn't convince her that things changed since then and working isn't like what
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    Thick-Worry5028 • 21h "What do you mean you've never vacationed in the South of France?"
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    TheRealVaderForReal 19h ● Celebrities singing "imagine" during Covid, as people are losing jobs and homes, telling us "we're all in this together". you guys. We're not all on the same boat. We're in the same store with different boats.
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    bumbo_hole 18h 'If folks buy 10-15 properties before they turn 30, then retirement will be a breeze. Sir I can't afford one property.
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    GR lluminiele 18h Here on reddit some woman said her partner got angry at her for getting her period on their vacation, because he was planning on having a lot of and she ruined it because she decided not to hold it.
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