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You Know They're Rich When...
This is the Mojo in the Morning podcast, powered by Michigan Auto Law, Auto Accident Attorneys. Visit autolaw.com. That's autolaw.com. Mojo in the morning show. We were just having a quick discussion that it was very funny. How did you know that somebody was rich or you thought that they were rich when you were a kid? Like, there's always those indicators, like if you go to a friend's house and you're like, "These people are rich!" I think there's a million different examples, but I think one of my favorites when I was growing up is did you ever walk into somebody's house? And I actually think this does apply to rich people, but also just normal houses. But if you walked in and they had a fully, and it opened up and you could see part of the hallway and the second floor was like a railing. I was like, "Ooh, rich!" I just like how you say, fully, because most people would say there's stairs going upstairs, you know what I mean? I like that. I think sometimes even in my last house, you could stand at the bottom of the stairs and look up to see the hallway. But you don't have, like, when you could have that opening and there was like a railway and you could see, like, a bathroom door and a bedroom door. Yeah, my friend Kelly had that. I remember thinking kids that, like, if I go over to a friend's house and they had a TV in their bedroom, I was like, "Oh, yeah!" And they were doing okay. If they had a TV with cable television attached to it, then you knew it. Not just one of those antennas? Yeah. Or a TV with a VCR. Ooh, that was always a good one. You could watch movies in your room? Remember the one that had it built in? It was like the little mini TV and the VCR was coming in there. Yes. Yeah, the combo. The 13-inch baby. Yes. Yes, he did, James. Six pixels on that whole screen. I also knew, like, I was at a rich person's house growing up if they had a refrigerator in their garage. Oh. I feel like it's much more comfortable. See, that was every Italian, and my family's Italian, every Italian, had that refrigerator. Did you ever go somewhere where they had, like, a new fridge in the garage? Or was it, like, the old decrepit, the one from the kitchen that sometimes didn't work? Or a matching fridge to their fridge in their garage. Yeah. There were some people, Shannon brings up a really good point. I'm talking about Italians. Some of Chelsea's family members had kitchens in their garage. They had, like, full-on kitchens in their garage. Like, 'cause they're Italians and stuff. So they had a place where you could actually cook. the sauces and the meatballs and then the fries and the brugels. I think that the wish one, the brugels, what is that? It's like a roll. I've never had. It's like rolled up steak, I think is one of this. It's really thin. I just remember the other one too is if you were a person that had a swimming pool. Oh gosh. Yeah. And it wasn't an above ground. It was a below ground swimming pool because I grew up on the south side of Chicago. And there's literally neighborhoods where it's nothing but above ground pools there, which are cool. But you were not the rich person unless you had them build it into the ground. Oh y'all song rich to me. I'm here for years. I'm here refrigerators. None of this crap. If you was a dude in the hood who had the basketball hoop, you was the rich. That was the one in the concrete, right? Even the pullout boy. If you had the pull out. Oh yeah, y'all had some money. Because everything I listed was things my friends had, not what was in my house. I didn't even have friends that had poiades and pools. Are you kidding me? Who had a pool in the tree? Are you serious? You got a day Kmart. Okay. Blow up one. Well, our thing was a clothes hamper. We used to fill up water in the clothes hamper. And that's how we used to have a pool. That was summer. It never did. It was always sprinklers. Sprinkler. Crazy Daisy, man. Crazy Daisy vibes. I need you to google. Another rich kid thing was if they had a designated area on their house for the kids to play in, that wasn't their bedrooms. Whether it was like a playroom or an extra bedroom. Yeah. Yeah. That's like the best. Rich. That was the best. I used to love my old house. We had an unfinished basement. And my kids thought it was so cool to go and play in the unfinished basement. Right. There's smoothers down there. Yeah. They could do like all that stuff. We used to do that. Until they went over to the kids' house who had the finished basement. Oh, yeah. And if they had a finished basement, they would come home and complain about how we had the house that was not cool enough for everybody to come down. So I actually got my basement finished and had a guy come and do it like on the side and stuff. And they never go down there? No. Well, yeah, they were kind of like, Oh, OK, this isn't as great. Like they can't ride their stuff because we were like, if you run into the walls, you're going to bust drywall and stuff. Yeah. Master Chipilla had a joke where he was about to leave one of his friend's house. And then his mom says, stay for dinner. He's like, no, I don't want to be here. And she was like, we're having stove top stuffing. He was like, Oh, he only saw it on TV. He's like, that's unbelievable. But with that too, the friends with the good snacks, the friends that had the really, really, really good, like anything little Debbie, I always had the off brand little Debbie, but anything little Debbie, you know, if you run into a pantry and they had Dunkaroos, I was like, you live in a zebra cakes, a man. Those are so a man to high. How did you know that the neighbor was rich? When they had hot pockets and gushars in their pantry and freezer and more than one bathroom. More than one bathroom in the entire house, right? Where am I going to the bathroom? You got to. That, that, by the way, is the best that you knew that you could actually duty in a bathroom that was the fans, the powder room. They call it the powder room for kids who had different lunches. When I went to school, I had a turkey sandwich every day. Same thing. It was the same thing, bro. But you saw my mess. We had gushars one day, Twinkies a different day. Yeah, a crustable kid. Oh, you got variety? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brad Yeager. Brad Yeager had his dad got him like one of those construction worker lunch boxes and it was with a big thermos and he would bring soup to school with him. Get out of here and open up the thermos at lunchtime, which was like one o'clock in the afternoon. And it would be steamy. I'm not going this kid's dad cared about. I had a Kroger bag. That was my lunch pill. So we grew up with six kids in our family. We would finally we're done with the top again. Oh, no, I got it. I'm going to share even if it's over. This is a very vivid memory. We would fight over snacks because there were six of us and we'd eat garlic croutons for lunch because that was the only thing that we left out through our lunches. Yeah, fire me. You know, that's a bad breath. I'm going maybe. I'm going to COSCO today because I got to get a bunch of water and stuff like that. I'm going to go to that business. Oh, you get bottled water. I'm getting yeah, but thank you. I'm going to that business COSCO in Southfield. I'm going to go down the snack aisle and I'm going to find snacks for the studio here for Kay. Please do. And can you imagine if I had to be gluten-free as a child? I would be deceased. I wouldn't have any food to eat. Yeah, you couldn't eat those garlic croutons, right? Literally nothing. You know what? When I got to high school, the lunch ladies called me veggie girl because I'd always ask for extra food. I'm like, bro, I'll get any at home. So I'm going to pile that thing up. Hey, do I eat here or I don't eat at all? I got sorry, I can keep going. I got in trouble with the snack line because I was taking an extra salad. The last day in school, the lady was like, no, I'm going to report you the principal who keeps stealing from the snack line. I'm like, I'm not stealing. It's literally here in front of me. I you're mad at me for eating salad. Like most kids don't even eat their vegetables anyway. Can I? Can I shout out? Can I shout out KP though in her family? Seriously. Six kids, single mom raising six kids. I can't imagine how stressful that must have been for your mom. I get it like eating and stuff, you know? Yeah. I know how three kids eat. I can't imagine having three more of these kids. I mean, at that point, she's like, if you don't make your lunch, you're not eating at all. And that's your fault. Yeah. So truly kids, meetings for lunches is not funny. Your desperation to tell the story to the people. I wish people could see the video of what she looked like. She was like frantically. I got to tell this. This is my childhood right now. By the way, do you feel therapy right now? Do you feel like you got it out? I'm actually going to charge each one of you a $40 copase. Man, like you had croutons for her. Matt, what's going on? How did you know that the kid was rich and that you that you were friends with? They have all the name brand cereal. The cereals that came in a box and not in a bag. Yeah. If your parents didn't mix the healthy cereal with the brand name cereal so that you get, you know, so that you had more cereal. This is just less of the good part. The berry ones are for the rich kids. I have berries. You had the berry one? We didn't skimp on cereal. Everybody's like those passionate people. Hey, what's up, Melissa? How you doing? I'm good. I always thought my friend was rich because I was people like the cleaning service. I would come in and clean their house. Oh, yeah. The cleaning person there. We had a cleaning person when we were kids. Ruby. Her name was Ruby. She was a bigger, you know, lady, big like white lady and she would come and clean the house and she drove a car that literally I'm not kidding you. When it left the driveway, it left sparks and stuff like that. It was wild, it was wild, but she was big Ruby. And for some reason, I always remember this. I always remember that my mom would give her like food and things like that after she would come clean the house. And all the kids thought that that Ruby was like my sister. Like they're like, I think that she might be. And I'm like, and then after the Arnold Schwarzenegger rumor came out of him or not rumor, but the he remember he cheated with the cleaning lady. I kept looking around to see if there were people that looked like Ruby. My dad was doing. Thank you, K people. She was sweet. She was a very nice lady. Ruby James. Brittany, what's going on? Hey, so we were actually the rich kids, but my dad would pack our lunches like you were poor and it was the most embarrassing thing ever. Oh, really? Well, that's how you knew you guys were the rich kids because your dad was saving money on stuff. He was smart. He was literally reusing like the bread bag. He would finish off a bread and then just pack my sandwich in it and wrap. Who didn't have a parent that did that? Yeah, what a bread. It has a dad who does that? You can't figure out that you got. I thought you were rich. If you got lunch sent to school with you, I had to get the free hot lunch at school. That's all I got. Yeah. It's funny because my kids. That was free for everybody. My kids always wanted the hot lunch. They always loved that and it would have fanged Chelsea. It's offensive. I make you guys good meals. High five casino. High five casino is a social casino with real prizes and big Vegas hits at high five casino.com. 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