I waited and I waited for help but all the rich people just stared at me and kept eating.

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145. Rich people see everyone around them as their servants.

I'll never forget the time I was the escort officer for a group of foreign Admirals and Generals who were having a meeting at the UN and staying at the Waldorf in NY. I was a young female LT (I think all female LTs got to be escort officers back then) I was required to wear my dress blues. I must say I looked stunning in them back then, after coming back from a very busy deployment, I was in great shape and had a lot of ribbons.

Well, I was continually asked by the very rich patrons of the hotel to help with their luggage, get their elevators or hold their door open. They all assumed I was a member of the staff at the hotel. I even had one women say she didn't know they had female valets. After telling the 3rd person that I was an officer in the Navy and not a hotel staff member, I just got to the point where I would ignored them and walk away. Well obviously the idle rich do not like being ignored because before too long I had the hotel Consignor asking me to leave because I was confusing the patrons.

Really? Here I was just getting back from a 6 month deployment, leaving behind my family and friends, protecting them from the communist threat, and they were going to kick me out of the hotel because the patrons couldn't be bothered to ask if I was staff before ordering me to do something. I ignored the Consignor and walked away.

Luckily, I left about 10 minutes later. I wonder if the hotel would have called the cops to kick me out, if I had stayed any longer?