Originally Posted by KimPossible
I've been where you are right now, but forget them! When I was 23 I drove a brand new 911 4S. You want to see pissed off ... put a 23yo (who looked 16) in a $80K car zipping around town! I had grandmothers giving me the finger. Then I realized that the only reason that these people were doing this is because they were sad that I was driving something that they felt they wouldn't achieve in a while lifetime. Of course, most also thought that my parents bought it for me - they didn't.
I think that the second reason is more likely to cause a negative reaction ... when someone gets something that they didn't earn, people are often jealous and/or upset. They likely assumed that you were a spoiled snob who had a rich daddy.
The worst thing about that kind of attitude is that we all would like to help our kids (either current or future) be better off than what we were, so unless you actually were acting snobby / "better than thou," there shouldn't be a negative reaction.