Being a college nerd isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, you might have the grades and all the potential in the world. But people are still going to be downright cruel because, well, that's nerd life for ya.
One total jerk on Reddit just admitted to fully taking advantage of a super-nerd and wanted to know if that was at all understandable. To sum it up: Nope. It's not. But here's what happened.
The user detailed the whole incident in a really cringey post, writing. "My friends and I (18M) decided to plan a trip for winter break. We’re going to fly to a country in Northern Europe and spend a week or two there."
The post continued on, revealing that the group invited an extremely quiet and antisocial guy with no friends, but it wasn't to, ya know, actually be nice and perhaps befriend him. It was for another reason entirely: to use his private plane.
The despicable post continued, "I know from what other people have told me though and from googling his dad that his family is extremely rich." WOW. And yes, it gets worse: "His best friend is one of the guys we originally invited on the trip and mentioned before that he travels everywhere by private plane."
Here comes the BOOM: "So I invited the guy along on the trip. If we travel by private plane, that eliminates transportation costs, which is nice. He agreed to come."
It's one of those things that just makes you want to jump through your screen and save this poor (well, rich) college student from this group of horrible not-friends. But we can't. And the story just gets more upsetting:
"One of my friends going on the trip joked 'He must be so excited to have friends for once instead of j$$$ing off to his professor’s lectures alone in his room. At least we get to use his private jet.'"
A guy who is friends with the nerd overheard them (oh… wait, the nerd does have friends now?) laughing about it and called them out on their horrible behavior. The dude who posted clearly felt uncomfortable and knew how messed up the whole thing was, which is why he took to Reddit to try to justify his actions. Still, there's no possible way to make it all look reasonable.
This line is the kicker: "I invited him along hoping we could use his private jet, but I don’t think that’s bad really. And I do like him."
If you like him, maybe actually be his friend and stop worrying about what you can use him for? Just a thought!
It seems like the user who posted the thread hoping to have some people say, "Oh yeah, it's totally fine to use people for their money!" did know it was wrong all along. He later updated to post to say, "Okay, I feel really bad about inviting him mostly for the plane. I wasn’t trying to be malicious. But I wasn’t going to exclude him during the trip and I do like him. I could still become friends with him, even if we aren’t that close now."
LOL. Let's hope Super-Nerd knows better.
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