Big Wallaby wrote:I know or have known plenty of rich people that are nice. Rich is not equal to Rude, because I know people from all over the income spectrum that are rude.
Randy B wrote:So true. But the people who are rich in their heart as well as their walet treat everyone with respect and unless you know their financial status you would never notice them from the general population.
Actually I suspect that the "rich=rude" folks are more likely to be wannabe rich and thus will take any opportunity to "impress" those around them by loudly stating their (alleged) financial status.
Personally I am more impressed by the former than the later.
Randy
Absolutely! Big and generous of heart= Good person. It does not matter whether thay have a fat wallet or big bank acount. Some good people do, some good people don't. It is NEVER the size of your bank account that determines WHO you are as a person. It is your heart and the upbringing of your parents. I adore my parents for bringing me up in a blue collar world with a very important lesson that I live by today and will always. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
My brother and I both have been financially fortunate, but THAT does not change who we are inside and it should not. Unfortunately, there are those who have bastardized my favorite saying to: Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you! These are the SGs and the jags we have to watch out for. I take it as my personal challenge to try to undo their beliefs sometimes when they are acting all high and mighty to others. They treat others as their servants or worse, their slaves and it is just these people I like to inject myself into the situation and play Politeness Police. :D:
Does not always work, but it makes them look like assholes in front of everyone else and they know it. Maybe, just maybe it will change one of them sometime...We can only hope...
I live in one of those neighborhoods where there are alot of noveau riche people. They bring out all their toys on the weekend, like their crotch rockets and rev them up at 7 and 8 AM on Saturday and Sunday morning. I just want to go down there and yank their stopcock!

Then the ones who drive around in the PINK...I AM NOT KIDDING!!!!!! Hummers.

There are two and neither of the owners are Mary Kay salespeople. They just have bad taste, That is a buttuglymobile! Pink Hummers all over the place! :barf: :bbbat: Get some taste people. Having money does not mean you can blind the rest of us or make us nauseous with your bad taste. I HATE this neighborhood. I will be so happy to leave it. I may even throw a party for Ralph and I, no one else since I don't want them to park that pink Hummer in my driveway!

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We won't even attend the **Home Owners Assoc. Summer picnic out in Prairie Dog town. We have a field with (a goose dropping covered shoreline) lake and hundreds of rodents known as Prairie Dogs all over the place and that is where they have their picnic. I am sorry, but I do not want to risk catching the plague from the prairie dogs as cute as they are. They are one of the sentry groups of animals for plague detection in Colorado. Course these nouveau riche people don't know about such things and go about setting up their picnic out there. I am sorry, but there is no way I am tracking in the fleas that jump off the Prairie Dogs into my house to land on my cats! NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN. Fools keep having their picnic there every Summer. Now NOT all Prairie Dog colonies have plague, but IF it going to show up in an area, the Prairie Dog Colony is the first place it will show up. And you will know by the dead Prairie dogs lying around. These are the same fool people who ALLOW their dogs to chase the Prairie dogs around. Idiots! I NEED to move away! They all probably think I am snotty and stuck up cause I NEVER leave the house. Why bother? There is nothing in this neighborhood that interests me. I have one lady I talk to and she has a slight learning disability and she is the one everyone else makes fun of. That is how it is. She is very nice, interesting and from Spain and I like her. She is hard to understand sometimes, but that's okay, so am I! :D: I just hate that everyone else treats her like an outcast! It sucks to see the attitude! Morons live here!
Susi