I suppose when you never answer the door, meet up with friends or buy nice clothes because rich people dress like shipwreck victims, you have nothing exciting to spend your six-figure salary on so you have to get your kicks somehow...and a person being a bit frosty with you is probably enough to send your anxiety into overdrive.
I'm glad it was bollocks because it would have been really spiteful if it was true. Hell, it was pretty spiteful from all the posters who thought it was real and were baying for blood over a bleeping car share that didn't even exist any more in the story.