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Back when I was in college I had a part-time job in some call center for a cellphone company, so I’d get calls from customers, and they were pretty evenly split between people who needed help with some minor tech issue, or people who had some issue with their bill or service.Many of the billing issues had to do with people who didn’t pay their cellphone bill on time and their service got suspended, and most of the time those people had terrible credit and that’s why the company only agreed to give them a very specific sort of contract that severely limited the things they could do and how much money they could owe as well as for how long before their cell simply stopped working, partly for their protection so that they wouldn’t rack up even more charges, but also because the company knew based on their credit score that they were terrible at paying their debts and it was a terrible business decision to allow some broke dumbass to keep racking up thousands of dollars in cellphone charges across months and months when they couldn’t pay, and often didn’t even intend to pay.So this one time some humongous ae of a lady called me demanding to get her service re-activated in the rudest way possible and, after checking her account on the system and patiently explaining the situation and suggesting she pay her due balance in order to get her line re-activated as soon as possible, she demanded to know how a total nobody like me working at a call center even dared to try to tell her, a successful and very important entrepreneur, what to do with her money and she let me know that my incompetence was causing her to lose business because her wealthy clients couldn’t call her phone.I was probably 19 or so at the time, and I admit I lost my cool at that point and I told her that I was a just a college student and this was my part-time job and, even so, I still had a much better credit score than her and, unlike her, I understood that paying my fg cellphone bill was my responsibility and I also knew how to read the contracts I signed, and no important businessman had a fg 150 dollar limit on their cellphone bill, and if for some unexplainable reason they did and it was indispensable for their job they’d simply pay it on time every month. She flipped her lid and demanded to talk to my supervisor, and to be honest she had pissed me off so much that at that point I didn’t care if I got fired, so I handed my headset to the supervisor.However, after listening to her version of the events and putting her briefly on hold to check with me, he promptly told her to fk off and pay her outstanding bill because the only way her service would be suspended was if she was more than a month late with her payments and that was completely on her, and to stop wasting everybody’s time trying to pretend she was some VIP and being an ae in order to get a service she was literally refusing to pay for despite having signed a contract because she was broke as fk, and hung up on her when she tried to argue. Then he just turned to me, handed me my headset and nodded before walking back to his desk like he was the Wolverine walking away from that exploding helicopter.Edit: Thanks for the downvotes from the Karens who got offended for some reason!
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I was in line about the fourth person back and this old lady was holding up the line at a Bed, bath, and beyond because she had a bunch of coupons that were expired and was demanding that they give them to her. Not recently expired, like expired over a year ago and she said she “didn’t notice”.Guy behind her with a thick New England does this:Guy: Just show em' yer special privileges card…Old Lady: I don’t have a special privilege’s cardGuy: why don’t you have one?Old Lady: I don’t knowGuy: do you think that’s because you don’t have special privilege’s?Old Lady: Blank stareEveryone else in line just started busting out laughing, when the lady finally figured out that the guy behind her insulted her, and there isn’t a goddamn thing she can do about it, she just walked out.Guy proceeds to put his stuff down and the cashier told him that she was going to give him 50% off on the sheet set he was buying.Dude was a legend…
The ‘Karen’ meme is known globally, but different people use the term lightly differently. For some of them, it’s a catch-all term for anyone who’s extremely entitled, to the point ofrudenessand delusion. For others, it specifically refers to cranky, older middle-class white women who have a very privileged background and use it for no good.There are some who believe the ‘Karen’ meme, which spread virally in the late 2010s, is sexist and ageist. However, much of the internet sees the meme for what it is often intended to be—satire.TheBBC reportsthat stereotypical ‘Karens’ (again, not actually people with that name) would be people who look down on service industry workers, are suspicious of vaccines, and are known to make racist micro-aggressions.They’re also known for ‘weaponizing’ their privilege, calling the authorities or asking to see someone’smanagerat the drop of a hat, and making up lies about other people to try to get their way.
The ‘Karen’ meme is known globally, but different people use the term lightly differently. For some of them, it’s a catch-all term for anyone who’s extremely entitled, to the point ofrudenessand delusion. For others, it specifically refers to cranky, older middle-class white women who have a very privileged background and use it for no good.
There are some who believe the ‘Karen’ meme, which spread virally in the late 2010s, is sexist and ageist. However, much of the internet sees the meme for what it is often intended to be—satire.
TheBBC reportsthat stereotypical ‘Karens’ (again, not actually people with that name) would be people who look down on service industry workers, are suspicious of vaccines, and are known to make racist micro-aggressions.
They’re also known for ‘weaponizing’ their privilege, calling the authorities or asking to see someone’smanagerat the drop of a hat, and making up lies about other people to try to get their way.
My brother held the door for a pair of older women walking into a store behind us. One of them screamed at him not to hold the door just because she was a woman. He replied, “I’m not. I’m holding it because of your age.”.
About twelve years back, I had a cow-orker who was former military. He did a couple of tours in the sandbox, lost his leg to an IED, and mustered out of the service. When we worked together he had a prosthetic leg, though it fit him well enough that he only rarely had to walk with a cane for balance. He didn’t have a handicapped plate on his car, he had a placard that you hung on your rearview mirror.Anyway, we were going to lunch offsite one afternoon. We pulled up at the deli and parked in a handicapped parking spot (as one does). He was in the middle of saying “Virtual Adept, could you go in my glove compartment and get my placard?” when a woman walked up to his side of the car, banged on the window, and began berating him for using a handicapped parking space, what do you think you’re doing, don’t you know there are crippled people in wheelchairs who need that (yes, she said that)…I wasn’t sure what to do, I was sitting there with my hand in the glovebox wondering what he was going to do. My cow-orker sat there for a good, long while, listening to this woman yell at him. Three, maybe four minutes at the outside. Total poker face, like he was carved out of stone.He rolled his window down. He pulled his pant leg up. He popped his prosthetic leg off and he handed it to her.
An aunt who’s always been critical of my weight since childhood said to me after not seeing for 5 years “How did you get so fat? You had such a great figure and you’ve really just…let yourself go.”I’d just had a kid.Me: “Gee, Auntie. You’ve gotten so old. Has life been hard? You used to look so average. Now you just look so…haggard.”.
Though it’s hard to find the exact moment that the ‘Karen’ meme was born, there are twomain theories, according to Know Your Meme.The first theory is that the ‘angry Karen’ stereotype became a thing thanks to the globally popular teenage movieMean Girls, released in 2004. In it, one character, Karen Smith asks Cady Heron, “So if you’re from Africa, why are you white?” In response, Karen’s friend Gretchen Wieners, tells her, “Oh my God, Karen, you can’t just ask someone why they’re white.”In 2017, there was a dedicated subreddit focused on calling out ‘Karens.’ And in 2018, Saturday Night Live even ran a segment about ‘Karens’ with actor Chadwick Boseman.
Though it’s hard to find the exact moment that the ‘Karen’ meme was born, there are twomain theories, according to Know Your Meme.
The first theory is that the ‘angry Karen’ stereotype became a thing thanks to the globally popular teenage movieMean Girls, released in 2004. In it, one character, Karen Smith asks Cady Heron, “So if you’re from Africa, why are you white?” In response, Karen’s friend Gretchen Wieners, tells her, “Oh my God, Karen, you can’t just ask someone why they’re white.”
In 2017, there was a dedicated subreddit focused on calling out ‘Karens.’ And in 2018, Saturday Night Live even ran a segment about ‘Karens’ with actor Chadwick Boseman.
I used to have a coworker who was strange.We used to go to the same BBQ joint every Friday, and without fail, my coworker would order a “wagon, no wheel”.The person working the register (usually someone different every week) never knew what he was talking about, so he’d have to explain that he wanted a Chuckwagon sandwich with no bun.We went through this every week for probably a year.One day, a new soda dispenser had been installed, and a guy was looking it over as we got our drinks.The guy asked us how we liked the dispenser, we told him that it was nice, and he thanked us, and explained that he was the owner of the place.My coworker immediately started ranting about how he needed to hire smarter people to work the register.The owner wanted to know more, and coworker explained that the never knew what a “wagon, no wheel” was.The manager asked, “What the hell is a ‘wagon, no wheel?“My coworker explained.“Jesus Christ!” exclaimed the owner. “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. What kind of idiot thinks he can make up names for things that aren’t on the menu?“Then he looked my coworker dead in the face and asked, “Are you some kind of moron, pal?“Coworker stammered that he wasn’t, and the owner said, “then quit saying stupid s**t to my staff. Order off the menu or get out.“We ate our lunches, and coworker never ordered a “wagon, no wheel” again.
When I was in long line for a new roller coaster, a group of guys probably 16 years old cut in front of us.. a bit later they even complained how long the line was.. I waited until we were almost to the ride and then when we passed a worker, I told them these guys cut in line… they were removed and waited for nothing. 🙂.
How do you personally deal with overly entitled people, Pandas? Do you do your best to ignore them or do you call them out for their behavior?
Was a male Karen. He would constantly call and berate us for perceived issues with network speed (it wasn’t us, it was his equipment). Then he escalated to pretending to cc newspapers in support emails, but since he was incompetent they weren’t valid. One day my boss sees one, they get into a brief back and forth with him telling him to stop being rude to staff, then finally my boss just sends a final message “Your account is £45 every three months, we do not need your business and so I’ve canceled your contract. Good riddance”. He copied the entire support team on that one, there was a cheer in the office.I miss working for that guy, he was one of the best bosses I’ve ever had.
I was on a super croweded bus, there was no where to move so people weren’t being allowed on.we get to a stop so people can get off and a man forces his way on. He starts yelling at people to get out of his way and trying to push people so he can get on. So this girl, who is around 16 and meets every stereotype one might have about chavs, pushes him back until he’s off the bus and yells something like “don’t push people you old c**t! There’s no room for you here!“I was so proud of her.
I’m telling this story for a friend who passed away suddenly several years ago, her name was Marcia. We both worked at a university as non-academic staff members. One day Marcia saw a student park in a parking spot that was reserved for faculty/staff, when she informed the student that she couldn’t park there, the student shot her the middle finger and walked off. Marcia called the parking office and had an officer come write the student a ticket. The student later appealed the ticket, but guess who makes the decisions on the appeals? Yep, that would be Marcia. I can still see Marcia’s sly grin when she told that story.
I worked at a wine bar one summer. My manager was serving a group of middle aged ladies, and one of them was being so rude to her. You could tell she was an impatient, entitled B. After my manager told her twice that she didn’t care for the way she was being spoken to, she kicked her out. A few customers cheered.She left a scathing review online. The owner replied and told her how multiple witnesses saw her rude behavior, and it’s disgusting she would treat others that way. Said she can take her attitude elsewhere and she was banned from his establishment. Right on!
This was 20+ years ago, on a Halloween weekend. A friend & I were headed to a costume party, and made a pit stop at Walmart. We were both in costume (he was Zorro, I was Uncle Fester). We were in the checkout lane, and I looked around me (I have anxiety, so I prefer to be aware of my surroundings). Behind me was a woman and her young daughter. I didn’t engage, but the daughter took one look at me and starts screaming bloody murder. The mom (our Karen) starts to unleash on me:“Who the fk do you think you are, walking around like that, scaring innocent people? Today isn’t even Halloween! You are a horrible fg person, and you need to take that off right now!“Me: “It wasn’t my intention to scare your daughter. How about this? Let’s compromise - I’ll remove my makeup, if you take off your mask.“Karen: “But I’m not wearing…. you son-of-a-bh!” She hits me square in the face. I maintained my composure, looked at the cashier and asked if she could page Security. Cops are called, Karen is escorted out in handcuffs.
Was at a Panera a couple months ago and a Karen was complaining about her soup and berating the help. Young girl behind the counter told her to f&@k off. It was hilarious. She’s still working there so I’m glad to see the young lady was not reprimanded too badly. I was snickering. Karen deserved it.
Worked at a DQ. Gave the wrong change, twice (oof) and the customer turned to his kid and said “see? That’s what happens when you dont go to college”.Highlight of the week when the kid, maybe 9 year old, says “that was mean”.Now I know I’m not smart, and it’s true I didn’t go to college lmfao, but that s**t cut hella deep.The dad did apologize to me and I give him props. Ain’t easy to admit you f****d up. Really I think he was just trying to make a point to his kid and he didn’t think about how it sounded. No hard feelings.But yeah new core memory lol I’ll never forget that feeling of overwhelming shame.
Not too long ago, im in line at Subway, and the guy ahead of me is throwing a FIT, something about a coupon for a free sub.The manager insisted it was expired, he can’t get a free sub. This man throws a huge fit, hes screaming, cops get called, he stomps out the front door, FINALLY, as I get to the register to pay.The cashier gave me my sub for free for being chill about the whole scene.
About 25 years ago I worked in a family-owned sub shop. A very drunk guy came in and rudely demand “half an Italian”. He didn’t specify cold cut, steak sub, or anything more, and eventually after some back and forth, it kind of seemed like he was asking for a cold cut. So we made it and gave it to him, and he payed for it. The guy could barely keep his eyes open he was so plastered, but it didn’t stop him from being loud, aggressive, and belligerent about everything. He had some history as an annoying customer, but it had never been anything this bad.Anyway, he pays for the food and then slides over at the front counter about 2 feet from the register. The person behind him steps up and starts trying to order food, but while this is going on, the drunk guy very sloppily opens up his sub at the counter, deconstructs the sandwich, flapping his hands around angrily, tossing shredded lettuce and tomato all over the place (including onto the other customer), and starts cussing up a storm saying something like like “isss fuggin st isssn what I order, guddammit…. I WANNA FUGGINHAFFF ITAAALLIAAANN—“Like mid-sentence the owner vaults over the counter, bends the guy over, aims him at the side door, and uses his head as a battering ram to literally throw him out of the place. Like the whole thing took 10 seconds, and he was back finishing taking the next customer’s order. It was like when Uncle Phil would throw Jazz out of the Banks’ house on Fresh Prince, it was glorious.Drunk a***e never came back.
When I worked retail, I was the guy that would go outside and bring the shopping carts in. One particularly busy day, as I’m bringing a round of carts in, I notice a little woman in her mid 40’s or so standing next to the area where the shopping carts are stored. I didn’t really think anything of it and just started putting the carts away.Without moving, she yells at me (from about 30 feet away, standing next to multiple available carts) to bring her a cart. I figured I must have misheard her since she was standing next to so many available carts, so I just looked at her and wavedshe looks shocked, yells “bring me a cart right now,” and snaps her fingers at meI laughed at her and walked back outside to get more carts, and she immediately filed a complaint about “a very rude cart boy” lol.
We were fly fishing in a park and a lady started harassing us despite the spot being perfectly legal to fish in. What she didn’t know was DNR was there doing license checks and stuff and when they came over to us she got cited for interfering with us.
An older guy in a pizza shop was yelling at someone because they parked “too close” to the shop which meant he had to walk farther- like he was genuinely mad that someone who arrived before him got a parking space closer than him. The person was ignoring him for the most part until he started calling them names, then they looked at him and said “oh go make a Facebook post about it!”.
A guy tried to cut in front of me as I was at the counter of a dg store. He took my things and started pushing them off the counter and put his things in the cashier’s hands. Cashier wasn’t sure what to do but I told the guy to fk off, what is he doing, etc and the guy loses it, says he was in front of me but he wasn’t. He literally walked in front of me while I was at the head of the line.It quickly escalates and the guy is close to yelling. Finally he says FINE I’LL SEE YOU OUTSIDE. I sigh, buy my things and I see out the front door the guy stomping around, doing a little tantrum like a toddler though he had a big bald spot (and a ponytail ha). I’m not sure what to do. I’m not going to back down but it’s in the center of downtown in a very public area and I don’t feel like going to jail just for defending myself.In the time it took to get my things together and walk outside to begin whatever’s going to happen, the guy is gone. I’m confused, walk out and look around and the guy is across the street, in cuffs and the cop is doing that watch-your-head thing as he gets him in the back of the cop car.I don’t really know what happened but I would guess he got so peeved off that I didn’t let him cut in front of me he started a beef with a cop and got arrested for it.
When I worked at a McD’s in a Walmart in the 90’s people would regularly leave mostly finished food on a table to go shopping as part of a scam. They would often come back to a clean table and demand an entirely new order for free. We’d usually just refuse and that was that. Anyway one time a Karen left some fries and a half-eaten nugget on a table. Took her drink with her and left to go shopping. We cleaned the table and like 10 minutes later she came back irate, screaming at us for throwing away her food and demanding a new meal. She waving her arms, screaming, threatening to tell the owner “how useless [we] were.” A co-worker of mine said, “Yeah? Tell him for $3.25 an hour I’m the best he gonna f***g get. Fk off.” She grabbed her cart and left.
Pepper spraying some older woman because she thought spitting on me while talking was intimidating.
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My parents recently passed there restaurant down to me… so I cleaned it up and presently its going good getting good money but then… this karen kame along and ordered some food,15 minutes later she comes back… ATE OLMOST EVERYTHING ON HER PLATE, AND DARED TO SAY THAT SHE WANTED A REFUND CUS ITS NOT HER ORDER… so I tell her (I’m also a cashier btw) I tell her that she ate most of it so she cant get a refund anymore, she starts screaming and in perfect karen fashion asks for the manger so I say “I am the manager what do you need” she looks shocked and just said she wants the CEO… me:” my parents owned it and passed it down to me so I’m the CEO”… she scoffs and walks away and just leaves without paying… so the police officers at the door of the mall the restaurant is in dash at her and she is forced to pay.
A guy was tailgating me in a semi. He was upset because I wasn’t going faster even though there was a city truck and another semi in front of me. Long story short he followed me into a parking lot and proceeded to call the cops ( I had asked him politely to leave) the cops ended up giving him a ticket for missing a tharp over the back of his semi loaded with rubbish.
I once worked as a barista at a coffee shop, and there was this one woman who was constantly rude to me. Once covid started, after the quarantines lifted, my boss had to step up and help around as there were almost no other workers besides me, and he realized how rude customers were as he was just managing the coffee shop and not actually dealing with people. At one point, while he was complaining to me about some rude customers, i told him about this woman and how she acted towards me and asked to refuse her any service. He just went, “Yes, sure, go ahead. If she has a problem, just send her here.“So the next day, when she arrived and demanded her usual, i just went, “Nah, im not giving you anything anymore” and sent her towards my boss as she started to curse at me, knowing full well he’s got my back this time and she’s not gonna get s**t.Btw that was the only coffee shop in the mall, and she was passing there every day. You had to walk a bit outside if you wanted a machine made coffee.
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My brother works in a gas station. He had a woman come in pitching because her card did not work at the pump, and she wanted to fill the tank, so she did not want to prepay. He told her nicely to just move to another pump. She did, and what do you know? Her card is not working again. She storms in as my bro has a line full of customers (luckily regulars), and she starts losing her s**t, stating she has important things to take care of. My brother looks at her and jolts and shakes his body, then tells her “omg I just felt the tectonic plates shift from the whole world starting to revolve around you” amd went back to his customers. The customers laughed, and she stormed off.
When I was 17 I worked at Sears as a cashier. We were in the process of switching over the signs that have the deals for that rack and a woman took a sweater off a rack with the wrong sign. She refused to believe that the sweater wasn’t going to be 50% off (the sign said 50% scarfs) and threatened to call the news channel on me for ripping her off. She stormed out of the store screaming about how terrible I was. Two minutes later the cutest old lady comes over and asks about the lady yelling at me. I told her she had stormed out and the little old lady goes, “oh dear, she was my ride.” The lady had left her poor mother behind in her rage. The little old lady had to wait for her to come back to get her. It was SO embarrassing for the Karen I couldn’t help but laugh.
I was at a bodega in NYC once and a woman was arguing with the clerk because they charged $5 for a pint of ice cream that she insisted was actually $4.50 because “the place three blocks away charges that.”She was holding up the line and after spending a solid minute letting her know that’s now how prices work, the sandwich I ordered got brought to the register and just so happened to cost $9.50.I gave them a $10 bill and after getting two quarters back I said “She obviously needs this more than I do” and started walking to the door.She turns to me and goes “You know you’re an ae, right?” and I got to hit her with “At least I’m not a fg idiot” as I walked out.It sounds too good to be true but I swear to god that’s exactly what happened.
I used to work at a fancier natural foods and vitamin store in the summer between college.There were a lot of Karens who came in, think: gluten free this and allergic to that type of Karen.Additional context: there is this local bakery company that makes insanely good gluten free bread. Every time we got it in the store it would sell out in a matter of hours, and we would usually get deliveries Tuesdays and Friday mornings, which most of our regulars knew about.This one lady comes in on a Thursday night, so essentially 0 chance of us having the bread in stock. She looked around for like 30 seconds and then came up to me and demanded the bread, like it was not a question, she literally just barked the name of the company at me. I told her where it was in the store but that it was very likely we were out of stock. She barely hears me and just goes ‘check in the back’. Now this was a small store so we didn’t really have a back stock room or anything, and we definitely did not keep local, individually delivered items in what little back stock we had. I knew it wasn’t worth explaining this to her so I got back to ‘double check’ knowing I won’t find anything. I come back empty handed and she demands to speak to a manager. So I go get the manager who tells her word for the same thing I did. Finally she accepts shs not getting her bread tonight, we tell her we usually get deliveries from the bakery Friday mornings, so if she comes back early tomorrow we should have some in stock.The next day she comes in at like 7pm (we opened at 8am) and demands ‘her bread’. I’m honestly not even sure if she recognized me or not, but I go through the exact same thing as the night before, apologizing, ‘checking in the back’ and explaining that we sold out before I even started my closing shift that day at 2. She’s not having it and again we go through the whole manager escalation thing. Eventually again she storms out without her bread (obviously) and we think that’s the end of it.The next day we get a call from the bakery that makes this bread, the guy on the phone says they’ve received complaints from a customer about us ‘refusing to sell their bread to her’. My manager explains the situation with Karen and I can hear the bakery guy laughing his a*s off on the phone. Apparently this lady had already been banned from their bakery location for making a scene and throwing things at employees and had been going around harassing every store that sells their bread in a similar fashion.My manager ended up officially banning her from the store a bit later and the look on her face the next time she tried to come in was so beautiful I will never forget it. I got to see the weight of the realization that her actions have consequences hit her square in the face.We found out a few months later that she was the ex-wife of the owner of the bakery…
Do male Karens count?Years back, my sister was in an accident that kept her wheelchair bound for a few months. Eventually, she started feeling well enough that she wanted to get out of the house, but still needed the chair.So, we took my mom’s car (nice car, nicer than 2 twenty somethings would drive) because it fit her chair best and went to a local store. We had a handicap placard because, you know, she was in a wheelchair. We get to the store and pull into the handicap spot. Off the bat, I notice an older guy (probably early 70’s) staring at us. Whatever.So I gather my stuff together so I can go get my sis' chair out of the trunk and then just grab my things once she’s in. I get out of the car and this guy comes over and starts SCREAMING at me - “How dare you park in that spot! That is for handicapped people. Whose placard did you STEAL? You young people have NO consideration for ANYONE other than yourselves” and on and on. I just let him ramble as a small crowd began to gather to see what the fuss was about. When he paused, I used the keyfob to open the car trunk, pulled out the wheelchair and opened it on the ground with a loud “THUNK.” The guy went SILENT and turned more red than a tomato, turned on his heel and just about ran off. Did he APOLOGIZE? No, of course not…
During covid I had to go to the post office. They had social distancing stickers on the floor and a sign that said masks required. The boomer Karen behind me wasn’t wearing a mask and she kept getting closer to me than I liked. I said something to her once and she said sorry and had a stupid fg grin on her face. We got closer to the front of the line and she crept closer to me again so I said something again and she tried to play dumb. She was like “what? There are other people not wearing masks”. I said something like “yeah, but they also understand what the stickers on the floor are for”. She got that stupid fg grin on her face again but didn’t step back so I said something about her not wearing a mask. I said “we are in a pandemic, most other people are wearing masks including the clerks”. That’s when the clerks spoke up to remind everyone to wear their masks and stay 6 feet apart. Karen and a couple other people who weren’t wearing masks didn’t have masks, she had to leave after waiting about 15 minutes.Made my day.
I had a road rage, “Karen,” get mad at me because I could park quicker than her at a coffee shop; she was in traffic behind me, and I was behind other people and just driving along. She was back there flipping me off, yelling at everyone to hurry up, etc.I pulled into the first spot I could find and walked on in; she parked pretty erratically and followed me inside, still huffing and puffing.I proceeded to pay for my coffee AND told the barista I was also paying for hers (she was too busy being mad to notice). I tipped the barista well and went on with my day; as I was picking my coffee up from the other end, I heard the barista telling Road Rager, “That girl over there bought your coffee…have a great day” “Karen” was LIVID, red-faced, and entirely out of sorts. I grabbed my coffee, smiled, and left.I felt SO great the rest of the day about how MAD she was about everything……
At a dog park with my German Shepherd early in the morning, and no one was there yet. An older woman came in with a smaller dog and began to passive-aggressively make it known that she wasn’t happy about my dog being there. Nevermind that my dog was fine & wasn’t bothering hers, but she picked up her dog into her lap when mine came near & was shooting me angry glares.Not sure what she expected from a dog park, but after ignoring the passive-aggressiveness for a bit while hoping someone else would come in, she said something along the lines of, “You really shouldn’t bring a German Shepherd to a dog park.” When I asked her why, she said something about it being frightening for small dogs. I explained that my dog was not bothering hers in any way, and that her dog wasn’t frightened, that instead it was that dog’s owner being paranoid. I also said my dog was allowed in the dark park and there was no size/weight limit, and her reply was something along the lines of, “Well if you are going to bring a German Shepherd here you should have her wear a muzzle for safety reasons.“By that point I’d lost all patience & snapped, “Someone should put a muzzle on you.” She left in a huff after that.
I was on a train in Europe travelling between cities and had bought a first class ticket. I sat in my assigned seat and was just hanging out as I had a long ride. A few stops later, some young lady comes on to the train, and immediately walks over to me and says I’m in her seat. Keep in mind, the car is completely empty beyond me and one other person. So I got up, moved to the seat directly behind her and sat down.The conductor went over to her and asked to see her ticket. She hadn’t bought a first class, but general admission. The conductor without a bat charged her the upgrade fee and she sheepishly paid without a peep.
I was in a bank in front of two complaining old women. I told them that I couldn’t wait to get older so I could complain half as much as they did. They shut up.
Flying home I have to take a short flight over the hill from Denver to my town. There’s always a mix of Texan second home owners and locals. A Texan family had taken up a row near the front. Local came on and just looked at the mom and sai, “yer in ma seat”. She started the tale of how there family was split up and didn’t want her kids in the way back blah blah blah.” The local paused for an uncomfortably long time and in the same exact tone as before went “yer in ma seat”. She tried again and for a third time he said, “yer in ma seat.” They moved.
I worked at a Hardee’s in college as a shift manager.Karen comes strutting in with a rolled up bag of food and a receipt. Asks for the manager. I ask how I can help. She goes on to complain about the food she had gotten was all wrong, and was gross. Her burger didn’t have the “fixings” (small burgers didn’t get “the fixings”) and then complained about the lettuce being wilted and gross.I asked to see the receipt. She’s fuming demanding a refund. I look at the receipt, it’s from 2 days ago. She then proceeds to pulls out a fish sandwich, opens the bun, shoved it in my face and yells “WOULD YOU SERVE THIS TO A F**G CHILD?!” At this point the only entire restaurant is watching this lady freak out about the “quality” of food she bought 2 days prior.I calmly and quietly look her dead in the eye and say “why no ma’am, I would not serve that food to a child. It’s literally 2 days old, and that’s just negligent”She stormed out, never saw her again. She called and complained the next day to our store manager. The whole thing was on camera, he just laughed and said “dont do that again, just give the bh a refund”.
I work for an alarm company and that’s colocated in a bowling alley and adjacent tavern, a very unique,surreal arrangement. Occasionally, I’ll stop in the bar for a beer after my shift just to unwind a bit. One time after a stressful work day I popped in for a drink and this insanely loud, obnoxious woman was in there with a group of coworkers carrying on loudly, demanding free drinks from the bartender who is a very friendly, passive young man. After about 15 minutes of this I couldn’t tolerate it any further so I shouted back"dammit woman! That was really fg loud! You’re hurting my eardrums for fs sake!” This angered her and she began to shout at me calling me ignorant and rude. She just couldn’t stand the idea of being called out for disturbing other patrons and just generally acting like an ae, in a fg bag of all places! Unable to stand another second of her st, I paid and began to leave. She shouts “where you going b***h”? To which I quickly replied ‘I’m going to Home Depot and see if I can buy you some class’I’m never too quick with comebacks but this was timed perfectly and her dumbfounded, slack jawed expression was priceless. If you’re acting obnoxious in a bar, don’t be surprised if/when you are inevitably called out for it.
I went to a Chipotle once when I was 19 and I was waiting in line behind these two women in their 40’s I would guess, and they were acting like high school mean girls who kept berating the young girl that was making their food. Complaining about the portion sizes, complaining about how she was making it, they even complained that she was stupid for putting both burritos in one bag because “how were they going to know which was which”…that was the final straw for me.I went off at them and told them they were ridiculously rude people who should be ashamed of themselves and should shut up, take their food, and leave. They were flabbergasted and mumbled some things under their breathe while glaring at me but they left. The manager came over to me and said my food was free and thanked me for telling them off because they’re not allowed to.
Walking out if an Outback and a group of Karen’s is being seated. They start saying how they’re going to get steak and tails deal this and that etc.Waitress comes over tells them the steak and tails is only on Tuesdays and they’ll have tonpat full price. Then shows them where it says it on the menu. They get upset and start pulling out their phones and the waitress just starts to walk off and tells them “Fine if you can find some ad saying the deal is for today I can help but I have actual work to do so I’ll be back in a few…“I was already halfway out the door so I didn’t see the fallout but it was quite the kiss off from that waitress and I give her props for how she handled it.
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