Redditer: What is your most cringey encounter with an elitist/pretentious person?

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What is your most cringey encounter with an elitist/pretentious person?​

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I’m bored, so I’ll start first. I was on a date with this guy who was nice and sweet. It was going well until he said, “Hey, guess which secondary school I came from. Most people can guess because of my accent.”

Yes, he did have a strong angmoh accent.

I had attended a neighborhood school, so I wasn’t sure what he meant by guessing from his accent. I answered with the only school I could think of…. “Raffles?” Dude immediately stopped smiling, as though I had said something terribly wrong.

He replied coldly, “I was from ACS. You can’t tell???”

Then he asked me, “By any chance, are you from RGS? You speak English very fluently.”

At that point, I was really turned off by the discussion about secondary school. We had both been working for almost ten years, so why were we discussing about secondary school?

I told him it wasn’t important, but he kept probing and refused to accept no for an answer. Finally, I told him my very lame, unknown neighborhood school, and he was like, “Huh?” LOL.

I’m curious to know if anyone has had similar or even more siao experiences

 

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Angmo accent asking a Childish quesstimate guess on type of School?

 

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