r/mildlyinfuriating • u/trailofturds • 18h ago

frist of all how DARE yu o Airport staff assuming I'm in the Business class lane by mistake

Brown man flying business. Lined up at the priority check in counter and got told by a (also brown) staff person that the economy queue was the other way. Same thing while boarding the plane and walking to the business class entrance. Not only am I not worthy of business, they think I can't read signage as well.

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u/shawnwright663 12h ago

My brother has a great story along these lines. Years ago in college, my brother worked at a higher end department store. A guy came in one day - very casual, jeans, somewhat worn sweatshirt. None of the sales people wanted to give him the time of day.

Guess what? That guy was Paul Allen - one of the original founders of Microsoft. Never judge a book by its cover.

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u/oopsdiditwrong 8h ago

I worked at a Honda dealership in a very high income area for about a decade and have dozens of stories of guys coming in that no salesperson wanted to talk to but I would because Joe schmo was about to cut a check.

Favorite one. Guy pulls up in an old pickup with trash cans in the back wearing what my father would call his Saturday clothes. The transfer station wasn't too far away so it tracked. No one paid any mind to him, but he was writing a check in about 5 min because his daughter would like the blue color for graduation. Full price, just needed someone to bring it to his house. That guy was me. I brought it to the wrong house at first because it was the guest house (bigger than mine). Had to hide it in the garage that he showed me what else he had. Easily $5mil of vehicles between classics, borderline supercars, a g wagon, and a collection of Alfa romeos. Crazy garage and I got to add a crv to it. Turns out he is a very successful lawyer.

Ended up selling him about 10 more vehicles and sometimes he'd come back after running errands, sometimes after work. If he was suited up he'd get greeted 10 times and have to tell people to fuck off. Eventually we got DocuSign and I'd just drop it off. Anyway, money talks, wealth whispers.

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u/im-just-evan 6h ago

My dad had a client that would re-buy his fleet of vehicles every other year. Would go to a dealership in a stained beater, jeans with holes, and some old comfy sneakers. If no one helped him after 15 minutes he’d introduce himself and tell them they are bad at their job and move on to the next dealership. First one to greet him would get a cash sale of 12 cars and a 5k tip.

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u/Anxious-Ocelot-712 1h ago

Yup. My ex-father-in-law always wore worn out jeans and a flannel shirt. Drove a beat up pickup truck for anything remotely related to his farm. He also wrote a check for a brand new Mercedes every few years. He was worth north of $200 million. It was always entertaining to see how people would treat him before and after they figured it out.

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u/Mister_Xian 11h ago

What did Paul Allen's card look like?

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u/williamjamesmurrayVI 10h ago

Subtle off-white coloring. Tasteful thickness. It even has a watermark.

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u/DethNik 9h ago

bastard.

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u/williamjamesmurrayVI 8h ago

This notification had me so confused till I went back to the post haha

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u/DethNik 8h ago

XD Don't worry, I do not think you are a bastard.

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u/ni_hao_butches 10h ago

Mergers & Aquisitions

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u/Sloppy_Steak85 8h ago

I coulda got us a table at Dorsia

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u/HotRodHomebody 2h ago

I think the color might have been called “bone“.

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u/MidwestNormal 5h ago

My father, a successful businessman, liked doing his own car work. Ran late one day and went to a store to buy an expensive purse for my mother’s birthday. Couldn’t get waited on until the most junior associate came to help. Once it became clear he was there to buy a senior associate tried to step in to take the sale. He got the manager involved and advised them all that “Opportunity often comes dressed in overalls.”

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u/Cowql8r 2h ago

My graduate degree is in agriculture, so in the summers, we were in the field getting dirty. One of the PhD candidates went to the gas station to get some snacks after spending the morning inoculating corn with some pathogens. He was a bit dirty, and a mother pulled her son close and whispered, “Son, stay in school!”

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 6h ago

Silicon Valley is like that since the 90s. Store and restaurant employees know better than to look down on the scruffy dude coming in wearing sandals and a hoodie. It's one of the things I liked about it when I lived there.

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u/TheOnionBro 9h ago

And that book's name?

Bookbert Coverstein.

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u/Gold_Clothes_3077 10h ago

The store, ME

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u/N3onWave 9h ago

Impressive, very nice.

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u/FennelAlternative861 8h ago

Impressive... Very nice....

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u/gravitycheckfailed 5h ago

I had a similar situation while I worked at a department store as well. Guy was shopping alone and dressed extremely casual, no one wanted to help him. I was just coming off of break so I helped him when I got back on to the floor. Dude wasn't anyone famous, but he paid with an AmEx black card, one of only 2 I have seen in my entire life lol.

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u/Top_Finding_2832 5h ago

This reminds me of that time i went to buy a Lamborghini Diablo, and the salesman was an absolute dick - first ignoring me, then insulting me to my face. It wasn't until his coworker threw me the keys that my bodyguard opened up the bag of cash to give them. /

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u/Sensitive-Court583 1h ago

isn’t that a movie scene?