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

[HiPointDem]

158. good story. i think most of us have had experiences like that, whether it was being snubbed

by the "cool crowd" (typically the upper-middle class kids whose parents owned businesses, had pools, etc) in HS to work experiences to others --

my elderly aunt would tell & retell the story of how they'd gone to buy a car in their farming clothes at the end of WW2 & the salesman had treated them like dirt (figuring, on the basis of their clothes, that they didn't have money for a decent car) & how satisfying it had been to plunk cash money down to pay for the car in full, the money painstakingly saved over some time.

we don't always clearly recognize them as "injuries of class," but they are, and they eat at you and infect you.

it's also interesting to me how touchy well-off people are about injuries to their own pride & dignity. you'd think wealth would allow them to sluff off such things, would breed some generosity of spirit, but they are (in my experience) if anything more touchy than poorer people and much more aggressive about 'righting' any slight to their persons.