Bill Gates has forgotten he has $100,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars and is waiting in line for his burger.
A photo of American billionaire Bill Gates, taken on Sunday, 13 January, has appeared on Facebook. One of the founders of Microsoft Corporation stands on the street in a queue for fast food in Seattle, Washington. No bodyguards, no assistants. The man whose fortune is estimated at $100 billion is patiently waiting to place an order.
The photo was taken and posted on his page by Mike Gailos, a former Microsoft employee. He said it was a line at the very ordinary Dick’s, located on 45th Street in northeast Seattle. Gates was in line for the Drive-In window.
Gaylos left the following comment under the photo: ‘When you’re worth about $100 billion, running the largest charity in history and queuing for a burger, fries and Coca-Cola at Dick’s like the rest of us… that’s how real rich people behave, not posers from the White House with their gold toilet seats’.
Mike, however, was not surprised that his former employer wanted to buy himself a hamburger. What was surprising was that Gates chose Dick’s to do it. Previously, he preferred another fast-food joint, Burgermaster. Such an institution is not far from the first Microsoft office in Seattle. It turns out that Bill used to frequent it with his employees.
When other Facebook users saw Gaylos’ post, they immediately recalled that the billionaire, who currently ranks second on the list of the world’s richest people, used to frequent a very ordinary Harvard Exit cinema in Seattle with his wife Melinda. The cinema closed in 2015.
And another social network user told how in 2011 Gates met with students at the University of Washington. He treated everyone to hamburgers, bought just in Dick’s. At the same time emphasised: ‘I can understand the desire to have millions of dollars. There is a certain freedom in that, a meaningful freedom. But there comes a point when you have so much money that you can’t even imagine. And then what happens? And then, I have to tell you, comes the realisation that a hamburger remains a hamburger. It doesn’t change. Try it. I bought them at Dick’s because they hadn’t raised their prices yet.’
