This morning, a colleague whispered to me, “Mr F drives a Lexus to work, wow, he must be rich.”
Both my colleague and I take the public transport. During peak hours, commuting can be a nightmare. That’s when you really look at the drivers in their Lexus enviously (at least till they get stuck in the traffic jams).
I smiled at my colleague, and showed him this article I happened to be reading:
“One day I’d like to meet someone who is actually rich” by Jeff Hadenread at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141103134657-20017018-i-looked-and-no-one-actually-feels-rich-or-happy.
Here is a short extract from the article:
One day I’d like to meet someone who is actually rich. Sometimes I think I’ve found one but it always turns out I’m wrong. No matter how rich I assumed the person to be… within a few minutes I find out just how poor that person really is.
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By The Fifth Person • April 26, 2024
Hi,
I’m an educator too. Don’t mind if I share a story.
I had a colleague who once will comment that I’m a millionaire and I will reply that I am only if I sell my place of residence (all thanks to asset inflation) but I will have nowhere to stay.
He commented a couple of times and my reply is always the same.
Then one night, during a colleague’s wedding dinner, he said the same thing again but in the presence of my school VP. This time round, I had a good comeback line. I told him, “Yes I’m a millionaire. You want to know why I am and you are not? It’s because I drive a Latio and you drive a Volve S60.”
He never comment again ever since. :)