'My house isn't that big, I only have 6 bedrooms': 20+ People who were wildly out of touch with reality

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 12, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

When you think about the phrase "out of touch," one specific person in your life probably pops into your head. Maybe it's that one nepo-hire coworker who whines about how bad the traffic was in the Hamptons this weekend. Or maybe it's a grandparent who can't go a day without telling their grandkids to spend money they don't have on items they really do not need. There are all types of people who are blissfully oblivious… just ask the hundreds of people who replied to this person's r/AskReddit question: "What's the most you've seen someone be so out of touch with reality?"

One person shared that they knew a woman who would take the loose change out of her clothing while doing laundry. She'd throw that money right in the trash, which horrified those around her. Since she came from a wealthy background, she just thought that no one bothered to save loose change (I mean, it does add up after a while!). There are a bunch of amusing anecdotes here, scroll below to read them all. 

Next, at this workplace, management declared that "no reasons for late are accepted," but it just led to their workers coming in exceptionally late without a care. 

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    What's the most you've seen someone be so out of touch with reality?
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    Unorthodoxy_af My father, by far. But the coin incident was the farthest from reality he's ever been. My dad collects coins, because his extremely Hungarian immigrant grandfather convinced him that the Bank (capitalizing it because to him, all banks are just one huge world bank) is determined to steal
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    all his money from him, so he has to have a backup plan. This in and of itself isn't too extreme; plenty of people choose self- sustenance due to a distrust in government and economics, but the real kicker happened when he tried to roll his coins. He has to order his coin rolls online because he doesn't want to go to the bank and get coin rolls because then
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    the bank will know how much money he's hiding from them. I'm not kidding. Anyway, he ordered a bag of coin rolls and waited about a month for them to come before he started getting curious where they were. He asked my mom to check the order tracking while he was at work one day, which led to this conversation: Mom: [Dad's name], it says here that the package made
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    it to [town we live in] two weeks ago, but got sent back. It says you gave no delivery address. Dad: Yeah, why would I do that? I don't want them to know where I live, they might tell everyone.
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    bada 4102 Went on a trip with an ex to asia. She didnt like it because she couldnt understand why people didnt speak english. So she would just yell at them, i need a napkin! Bathroom, where?!
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    I pretty much told her to have some respect for people. Talk to them politely. She got all mad and fussy at me the whole trip.
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    berfica Ok. so I was 15, and working at McDonalds. I was at the back window where you take peoples money. A customer came, and blew past the back speaker where you order. That was pretty typical, so I figured it was just a normal mistake. When they get to my window it is the very old lady. She smiles at me,
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    holds a grocery bag up, with frozen chicken and a two liter of soda. She holds out a 20$ bill and asks "how much for the chicken and soda?" 15 year old me didn't have the coping skills for this. I stared at her for what felt like forever. Finally I said "Uh, I think you're confused".. She drove off, with her car half way over the curb.
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    Filthy_Prank Someone I know thinks Soviet Union still exists and only our country left it.
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    Shalamarr My co-worker's 17-year-old daughter had her first job interview recently - it was at a movie theatre. When she got home, her mom asked how it went. Daughter: "I told them that I was only interested in a job that would let me work from home. That way, I can get snacks whenever I want."
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    I would have LOVED to have been a witness to the interviewer's expression at that moment ...
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    [... "My house isn't that big, I only have 6 bedrooms" -One of my classmates Edit 1: This amazed me because the average number of bedrooms people have in my area are 3-4 (UK), it was just the way they said it as if it wasn't a big deal.
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    Edit 2: This is a pretty big house in a fairly affluent area, the house is built further off the road (which is usually uncommon in the UK) and often referred to as a mansion in our friendship group, as a joke. Bedrooms are actual bedrooms and they also have other rooms such as an office etc. I'm not on the rich, it just amazes me that some who are very fortunate can be blindsided.
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    electric_stew My first job was running the cash register/drive-thru at a Hardee's restaurant. Now while nearly everyone that worked there was either in high school and/or in some stage of the recidivism process, this one middle-aged fella was a real gem. He claimed to have an IQ of 180, but refused to join Mensa because it was beneath him. Made
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    thousands of dollars selling cigarettes to underage kids while he was in high school, and of course he went on to serve in the military as a special forces commando. He never did explain how he ended up 300 pounds washing dishes in a greasy kitchen while detailing his life story to a scrawny 16- year old.
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    pachacutec About 3 years ago and I had a young woman, probably early 20s, come into the cafe I work at. She ordered herself and drink and a pastry of some sort. Her total around $6. She proceeded to hand me a 1 dollar bill and 6 quarters. I took the money and waited for her to procure more but she just stood there staring at me. I told her, "I'm sorry,
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    it's $6.87," or whatever. She says, "I know I gave you 7." | said, "No, this is only $2.25." She took the money from my hand and counted each item in front of me like I was stupid, counting each item as $1. I pointed to the quarters ans told her, "Those are quarters, not dollars." Keep in mind this person was obviously not foreign or anything. She had no accent and seemed completely American.
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    Anyway, her response was, "I know they're quarters, but they're dollars." She then proceeded to pick up one of the quarters and point to the word "dollar" inscribed on the bottom beneath George's head. At this point I was thinking, this is the single dumbest person I've ever seen or this is the worst con ever conceived, but she didn't give up. She demanded to speak to a manager. I got the manager
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    and he told her the same thing. She started getting visibly upset, and holding back tears. She might have been embarressed. Best I can figure is that she somehow never learned about money and change somehow and used it so rarely that she assumed quarters were dollars because technically the word "dollar" was on the coin.
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    WetHotTrots I work at a recording studio. The amount of people who think they're going to be the next big thing is scary.
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    p... My boss' daughter has 4 or 5 DUIs so they took her license away and installed the Uber app on her phone. She tells people she has a personal driver.
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    FunctionBuilt Got a good one. I went to school in At UBC for a year and lived in the dorms. One of the super rich Chinese kids that populated my school lived on the same floor as me. Her first day there she took a shower in the public bathroom and then just left all her clothes strewn about. She assumed the maid would come pick them up an wash them.
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    Threevetimesth... My sister was just telling me this story...She went to a private high school in a very nice area with very rich kids. One day my sister sees one of her friends crying and quickly runs over to her to ask what is wrong. Her friend, through sobs, manages to say 'Everything is just so unfairrrrrrr, I can't even believe my life!!!' My sister is so concerned
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    because this girl seems on the verge of a breakdown. After calming her down for a bit my sister asks again what is bothering the friend, thinking maybe someone died, or her parents are getting divorced... 'Well, you know my birthday is coming up, and so is my sister's....and well sobbing some more my parents are getting us both brand new range rovers, and because she is older breaksdown
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    SHE IS GETTING THE BLACK ONE BUT I WANTED THAT ONEEEEEEE!!!' The only thing my sister could do was say 'I am so sorry for you' and walk away. We still do feel bad for her...so detached.
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    Z... Do kids count? Cause when I was a kid I was on the swim team at an athletic club in a primarily rich area, with us being middle/lower class. The athletic club had a grill and I saw people all day going up and getting food just by showing their access card. I asked them what they did and they said "Just scan your access card and you get food."
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    Of course, in my mind that meant it was complimentary. So I started getting all sorts of food and snacks: frozen yogurt, slurpees, chicken fingers, cheese fries, smoothies, etc. Come the end of the month my parents get our membership bill and start freaking out. I didn't hear the beginning of the conversation and walk in just in time for them to wonder
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    where all these food charges came from. I, in my naivety, said "I got all that food but it's free right?" They told me it all had to be paid for. When I asked the other kids, they all said "No way it's free, I never have to pay." Turns it their parents were just so loaded they didn't care what the bill was it just got paid and they ate whatever they wanted, however much.
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    It was around that time I realized just how "out of class" I was compared to them.
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    B.. Some years ago, I worked in a mailroom. The boss of my boss was talking about one of her family members, who had some kind of emergency, and had to come up with $30,000. She said to my boss and I...and I'll never forget this: "I don't
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    understand the problem..l mean, who DOESN'T have $30,000 saved for an emergency?!?" ..... work in a mailroom. ', I Epilogue: I have been out of the mailroom for 8 years....l still don't have an extra $30,000 lying around.
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    KMApok We were at a table, 6 of us, eating. The conversation turned to jobs/employment. One of the guys, a rich kid that had most of his life handed to him, including his tech job at mommy's company, made the comment that he didn't understand why if someone couldn't find a job, they just didn't go back to school, get
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    a degree, and try some more. He couldn't understand two things. One, most family's cannot support an unemployed adult student for the time it takes to get a degree. Two, the jaw dropping one, was he thought that ALL colleges, EVERYWHERE, were FREE.
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    His 'logic' was that students go to college straight from high school and 'they don't have money' so how else could they afford school. We live in the U.S. and this guy was 27 years old! And we had to tell him school costs money......
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    i... My brother's best friend married a pretty rich girl. He said the first time he saw her do laundry she was going through her pockets and throwing her loose change in the garbage. She had no idea that people kept their change. Genuinely thought everyone just threw it away.
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    [... I live in london as a welfare rep for American students. Knowing that American college costs a bundle, and the programme to come over costs a load too, these students tend to be the richest and whitest of suburbia. One day the WiFi went down and I may as well have told them that there was no
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    drinking water in the U.K. About 40 students were knocking on my door telling. me it wasn't acceptable and that they were calling their 'daddys' to sort it "My daddy is a lawyer, so if you think you're getting money for this accomodation when I haven't had WiFi you've got another think coming." (that sorta thing!)
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    I tried to calm them down, let them know it would be back on in an hour or two when one of them said the following line; "You can't blame us for being upset, we grew up in 'THE FIRST WORLD'"... I was flabbergasted, not only did she talk about being from 'the first world' (who does that) like that is something to be proud of.
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    But her entire arguament was 'Everything in my life has always been easy and perfect... how dare you take. away the most minor of utilities for 3 hours' I despair
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    Stockholm-Syn... Not being able to use a desktop for e-mails, or handling two e-mail accounts, so that you have. to get all your professional e-mails on a private unsecured server.
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    u... I have a co-worker who once got visibly upset because I said he was about the same age as my parents. He's 51. My parents are 53.
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    I'd like to point out that I didn't just say this out of the blue. He asked how old my parents were, and I knew his age, so I made the comparison. He also said. things like "I work out you know, I'm stronger than guys half my age". Very much a man child in denial.
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    Gwenhidwy Me right now. Got told this morning that I have 17 days to write the remaining 50 pages of my thesis. And instead of having a panic attack and hyperventilating, I'm sitting in the library and watching Louie because I just wrote 2 pages of semi- coherent rambling.
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