evolg:
An incident at an airport really put me off.

This one time I was traveling by a certain airline - lets call it Amirates. My flight was going to be more than 24 hours, so lets just say I was very comfortably dressed. Now I enter the airport and started walking towards the business class queue to check in my luggage. One of the staff members approaches me and tells me please join another line - the one for Economy Class passengers. I wouldn’t have had an issue but I had paid for this ticket and I did not find that reasonable. I let him know that I was heading to the correct queue. He asked me to show my ticket. I did. He says he’s sorry, puts on those happy faces, says a thing or two and tells me to have a pleasant flight.

While this might not be a big deal, I really felt bad that how people have this biased perspective on how rich and successful people are supposed to look and behave and would not accept that looks do not define a person.

Bisjosh:
First of all, u dress the way u wanna be addressed.

I have never been in that situation before.
though I dress good but many don't know how wealthy I am.

Modesty I guess...

KingAdegoke:
chai. I used to think only idiots are in nainland. now you a Dutch worker OMG. am respecting everybody from now on. before I use insult pursue my Jesus and die in poverty

chaaaiiiii

evolg:
An incident at an airport really put me off.

This one time I was traveling by a certain airline - lets call it Amirates. My flight was going to be more than 24 hours, so lets just say I was very comfortably dressed. Now I enter the airport and started walking towards the business class queue to check in my luggage. One of the staff members approaches me and tells me please join another line - the one for Economy Class passengers. I wouldn’t have had an issue but I had paid for this ticket and I did not find that reasonable. I let him know that I was heading to the correct queue. He asked me to show my ticket. I did. He says he’s sorry, puts on those happy faces, says a thing or two and tells me to have a pleasant flight.

While this might not be a big deal, I really felt bad that how people have this biased perspective on how rich and successful people are supposed to look and behave and would not accept that looks do not define a person.

5minsmadness:

Coldfeet:
I did it to someone, and to this day I still feel bad.

I was a phone sales rep way back and my typical day is filled with people wanting to see this phone and that phone plus I had to explain to them all that the phone can do

It's mid day I'm already exhausted from repeating myself over and over again! Here comes this guy...looking "ordinary" I've already said to myself that I won't waste my saliva on this person so I moved to another stall pretending like I'm not the one Manning the handset stand

I watchd the guy looking at the phones through the glass and staring around to see if someone will come and attend to him. Finally he walked up to me and said sister aren't you the one selling those phones? Or don't I look like one who can afford your phones?

To say I was embarrassed will be an understatement! I felt bad instantly.

Well I apologised and rambled some excuses to him, he told me to always give people the benefit of a doubt(obviously he didn't believe my ramblings) and not be quick at passing judgements.


That "ordinary" looking man bought the
Nokia 8800 which went for 180k
Nokia lipstick phone 80k
Motorola v3 silver 100k
And the Nokia twist and turn(Carl Zeiss camera) 75k! I was speechless.

He even gave me a generous tip too! I never forget that event it humbled me.

kayalla:


what re u saying? doesnt make sense

KingAdegoke:
hmm see your life?

richardoz:
Funnily enough, he answers 'king bla bla'... It's better to read comments than display foolishness!

Ranchhoddas:
Make we here word abeg. Once something has become the prevailing narrative everyone starts to echo it not minding whether it is true or false. How many billionaires do you know that ''dress like they are broke''. What does it even mean to ''dress like they are broke''?

Onegai:


Yes, they do. You think N20million is a big deal? There are plenty people who don't announce to the whole world "I have a private jet". A jet is a vehicle to ease business, it is in Nigeria people are carrying it ontop their head as a big deal, be going to Caverton airfield to snap pictures of themselves sitting in one. And like I said, you don't know these people. I can sit down here and easily demolish any argument you make by mentioning some lastnames in my immediate presence right now. Even a picture I can take will end this argument. But I'm in no mood to argue, so you're right, I have never seen a rich person, infact my definition of wealthy is someone who has bought a tokunbo keke. Happy?

Ranchhoddas:
Make we here word abeg. Once something has become the prevailing narrative everyone starts to echo it not minding whether it is true or false. How many billionaires do you know that ''dress like they are broke''. What does it even mean to ''dress like they are broke''?

bettercreature:
Don't believe everything you read on google,Rich people judge you by mere looking at you,nobody want to know if you have anything upstair!

5minsmadness:

Ranchhoddas:
Larry Page and Sergey Brin(Not brothers though), Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have an appearance of simplicity that stem from from their NATURE- they are techies/nerds. They will always appear 'simple' no matter how rich or poor they are. You should do a search of these people and see the kind of 'inanities' that these 'simple dressers' spend their money on. People derive their pleasures differently. My overall point is that we should not attack people who derive their own pleasures from 'dressing extravagantly' because a microscopic number of billionaires have decided to do otherwise; it has been the trend for the past few days and Nigerian celebrities are taking the most flak. I don't know much about Kate Middleton and I know that the Windsor family are not a billionaire family; they are millionaires at best. Dangote is always either on suit or that Hausa kind of dressing and there is nothing simple about any of that. You want make him wear chain?

Ranchhoddas:
I appreciate your humour but there are few untruths in your comments. Every private jet owner is required by law to register their jets so there is no way anyone can have a jet in Nigeria and ''not announce'' it. With a simple google search anyone can get the names of all the jet owners in Nigeria.This is the law. Not everyone buys jets for business, some people buy jets for pleasure. Any last name you think you have must show up something tangible on forbes.com or fortune magazine else it won't count. So cross-check very well.

ashjay001:



I no get beef with u o! But, u make one mistake, d Windsor family are actually billionaires, in dollars, if not in pounds! The buckingham palace, its heirlooms and d vast acreage is worth a $3b+!

Onegai:


That's why I like NL! what you don't know, you can come and argue wella. Soludo is a poor man, so are Sanusi and NOI, infact they are hoping Buhari offers them a job soon so they can afford schoolfees money. Please send them credit, that's why we don't hear from NOI she can't afford Airtel N1000 to browse and be posting on Twitter. Be believing everything you read in papers, eh.

Sambarry, one last one: my aunt's driver, tall big, goodlooking fellow who used to buy nice shirts and have his suit fitted to his body. Plus some ties her hubby gave him, he was set. He used to carry her jeep and go to Unilag to pick babes it was so wrong but once the girl sees fine boy and jeep and hears he works for a big company (technically true but...), na to spread legs be that. Chop and clean mouth fellow.

Evolg, it's our way to sum up people by appearance. It is what it is.

ashjay001:


U actually read like one of those vain pple being discussed! Can't jets be registered in coys name? How many billionaires aint on forbes list/s?


www.vocativ.com/money/the1/10-billionaires-you-wont-see-in-forbes/


Oga, keep it real!!

macminista:
come to yankee and see billionaires that dress so simple..its only in 9ja u see the opposite, noth saying looking good is bad tho

Ranchhoddas:
www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2012/06/07/queen-elizabeth-lives-like-a-billionaire-but-is-herself-not-quite-as-rich/#2a0dc5b34848

Ranchhoddas:
El Chapo is on your list. Go figure