I went through a McDonald’s drive-thru once and the place was slammed inside and out. After ordering, I was asked to park next to the curb and someone would bring my order to me as soon as possible. A girl walked up to my car visibly shaken and as she handed me my food, she said something that made my heart sink: “Please don’t slap me.” I said, “What?” Apparently, the last lady she delivered food to yelled at her and slapped her across the face because it took so long. – Reddit

I was working at a gas station a few years back on the graveyard shift. It was around 1 am when a really heavy guy walked into the store with a brown bag on his head. He came up to the counter and showed me the brick he had in his hand. He said that if I didn’t give him the money in the register, he would beat me with it. Now, I am a pretty big dude, so I just smiled at him.

This set him off and he chucked the brick at me, but it flew right past me to the side. He then ran out of the store. I called the authorities and my manager. I told him what happened, and his response floored me. I ended up getting fired for not giving him the money…Apparently, it was policy to just give robbers whatever they ask for. I was a liability because I didn’t follow the procedure. What made it worse was that my son was just born and I was the only one working in my family at the time. – Reddit

Try dealing with Karen when you’re an officer. “Do you know who my husband is?” “You better not touch me. My husband is so and so” Yea ok, well tell me who your husband is on your way to the clinker, lady. Or Karen a military officer’s wife: “My husband is a captain. Where’s my salute?” – Reddit

I was the assistant manager at a large women’s clothing store, and we had a woman come in with some items and a gift receipt. Store policy is that item returns with a gift receipt are not given back in cash, they are given in gift cards. Madness ensues.

Karen gets so upset that she is forced to leave, and on her way out, she pulled the ultimate Karen move—she slams the glass door and it shatters. Since we had her information because she left her receipt, she was sent a bill for the door. – Reddit

I’m a former fast food worker reporting about a male Karen. He came through the drive-thru and handed me what I knew to be a fake $100 bill. I knew it was fake, but the process was to make sure the deposit box bill feeder didn’t accept it. Well of course it didn’t, because it was super fake. Naturally, the male Karen did NOT like what I was insinuating.

So he pulls around and comes inside, yelling and calling me names because I wouldn’t take his fake 100. He called for the manager and I bailed to the back because I wanted to leave the twilight zone. – Reddit

This happened to me at the pool today and I still can’t believe how infuriating it was. I walked to a shaded area to set up my chair. I’m conscientious about not taking up too much space so others can use the shade, too. People bring their own chairs or towels to sit on since the pool keeps the chaise lounges stored.

I noticed that there are five towels on the ground taking up nearly all the shade, but no one was using them. After about an hour of the towels being vacant, a Karen walked up and this is how the conversation went:

Karen, snarkily: Is this your chair?

Me: Yes. Do you need me to move it? Is there a problem?

Karen: Your chair is not six feet away from us. What is WRONG with you? What if I have a sick child?

Me: Okay, KAREN, then maybe you shouldn’t be at the pool in the first place. And maybe you should think about not laying five towels down to hog all the shade and then not using the space for at least an hour.

Karen: (Something nasty I couldn’t understand as I was trying to peacefully listen to my podcast again).

Me: (Flipped her the bird).

Karen: Oh, that’s a real nice gesture to use in front of your son.

Me: I’m showing my son how to stand up for himself.

She didn’t have a word to say after that. – Reddit

I was shopping in the Walmart grocery section when a Karen with two young children had her cart parked against the shelves on one side. I needed something that was blocked by the cart. She was shopping up and down the aisle, bringing things to her cart and then walking back down the aisle.

I politely stood next to her cart, waiting for her to move it. One of the times she came back to it, I even said, “I need something behind your cart”. Her reaction was chilling.

She ignored me. She then turned her back and started walking to the other end of the aisle again. I had been waiting there for about five minutes, so I pushed her cart about a foot, so I could reach my item.

With that she turned and screamed, “You touched my cart”! She proceeded to run back toward me yelling at the top of her lungs that I had no right to touch her cart. I told her I just moved it to get an item and told her to calm down. She screamed, “No, you calm down, you’re causing a big scene”! Then she walked off, screaming all the way that I touched her cart. – Reddit

My ex-roommate and I shared a place for two years and she was a real piece of work. She was filthy rich, entitled, and selfish. We bought common kitchen utensils, an IKEA side table, and a Black & Decker blender together.

She wanted to move out to her own place and was packing all her stuff. On the day she moved out, I wasn’t at the apartment, but when I came back the entire unit was dirty with trash all over. I had noticed that she hadn’t returned the mailbox key so I messaged her asking for it. Her reply stays fresh in my mind: “Pay me my share of the used items and take the mailbox key”.

I read it twice and replied, “You can take whatever you want but I am not paying you back your share. You have used the items for two years. I hope you understand how depreciation works”.

She was adamant and said she had contributed to the items and wants her 50% back. I patiently said, “You paid 50% and used it for two years. How do you think you will get back the money from IKEA if you return it now? Do you understand that the item isn’t gold that appreciates in value”?

She sent me a hate message in CAPITAL LETTERS saying how narcissistic I was and how God would take care of me. I informed my building management about the key and they were understanding of the situation.

Finally, Karen returned the mailbox key to the management and sent me a long text which I didn’t bother to read and ended up blocking her. – Reddit

My sister is a Karen. One of the worst. Sis had a very strange life. Three times she married rich criminals. She enjoyed a life of incredible (stolen) wealth: designer everything, five-star hotels in Europe, and one of her kids made it to the Olympic tryouts.

But it all came crashing down when she was around 60. She got a job at an airline ticket counter, on her feet all day wearing her Cartier watch, angry at the entire world for not knowing “who she really was”. She told me about a really bad day at work.

Ethel Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy’s widow and celebrity human rights advocate, walked up one day, threw her ticket on the counter, and went back to her cell phone call. How disrespectful!

My sister put on her “Officious Airline Employee Hat” and interrupted seventy-something Ethel Kennedy to ask lamebrain security questions. “Excuse me. Excuse me. Ma’am, did you pack your own bags? Did anyone you don’t know give you anything to carry on the plane”?

Ethel. Kennedy.

Sis got sat down and received a ferocious screaming rebuke by every airline exec at Logan Airport. – Reddit

I used to work at an Applebee’s. One of my tables was an elderly couple and what I assumed was their granddaughter. They ordered their food (steak, salad, and chicken fingers). In the kitchen, a random server, let’s call him Matt, was running people’s food because everyone was busy. Well, the table next to mine belonged to a server named Ashley.

Matt accidentally ran Ashley’s food to my table. He asked the elderly couple if they were at the table that had ordered a chicken penne pasta, onion rings, and a chocolate dessert, all of which were completely different than what they had ordered. They said yes, then. proceeded to yell at the manager about how their food was wrong and how bad of a server I was.

I hate people. – Reddit

I worked in retail for a bit during my senior year of high school and sometime after. I once had a customer rudely ask me if I had gone to high school. She even had the audacity to say that I was probably a dropout towards the end of a transaction. I was so stunned, I didn’t know how to react…then I just gave her an exaggerated shrug, a big, dumb smile, and I crossed my eyes as I handed her her bag. – Reddit

I was a hairstylist at a salon when this lady in her late 60s came in. She said she wanted to go a shade darker than she had, so I picked out a medium blonde. When she left, she was happy. That was around 3 pm. Then, around 6 pm she called us and said she didn’t like the color…She wanted to know if she could come back in at 8 pm to get it fixed. I told her she could come in first thing in the morning since we closed at 8:30 pm.

So the next day, at 8 am, she came in…but she was totally tipsy. Yet it was even worse than I could have imagined. While I was finishing up her highlights, she started screaming at me, telling me I made her look like “a freaking dog” and that her husband told her she couldn’t come home until she got her hair fixed. The latter part was weird because she told me earlier that her husband was blind…

Anyway, I was seven months pregnant at the time and she pushed me up against the wall, telling me I better fix her hair or her son-in-law, who is a well-known lawyer in Houston, was going to sue me. She was acting so crazy that the other stylist was freaking out. The guy that was in her chair even got up and told her to screw off or he was going to call the authorities.

She got in his face and started yelling at him, and then she went over to my client and told her that her hair color was beautiful and that she wanted her to be the same color. My client’s hair was actually darker than the lady’s, and it was still blonde. Anyway, I ended up fixing her hair and she thanked me at the end of the night. I sat in my car crying for an hour.

I regret not calling the police on that witch. I also wish I was able to thank the guy who stood up to her for me. – Reddit

I was in a McDonald’s during the lunch rush. This old guy in front of me started harassing the girl at the register who was obviously fairly new. He asked her where she was from and then asked her if everyone from her town was as dumb as she was. He turned to me after saying this and was just like, “Am I right?” I flat out told him right then and there that she was doing her best (during the busiest part of her shift, mind you) and that his jerk behavior wasn’t making things any better or easier.

When I got up to the counter, I told her I was sorry she had to deal with pricks like that at her work. – Reddit

I worked at Chick-Fil-A when I was 16. I was a cashier working the counter during breakfast. The manager hadn’t come back from the bank, so I didn’t have a lot of change left in my drawer. I had a line of a few people in front of me and so did the other girl next to me. I let the guy know that unfortunately, I wouldn’t be able to take his order at my register because I didn’t have any coins to give him as change.

I told him that the girl next to me would have to take him. Apparently, that was the wrong thing to say. He got super upset and started screaming at me, telling me how horrible and stupid I was. Apparently, I ruined his entire morning. He totally created a scene in front of everyone. On top of this, I was super emotional and I burst into tears. The owner came out and asked the guy to leave, telling him he wasn’t welcome at that Chick-Fil-A anymore.

I moved over to the end of the counter and started portioning out cheesecake while trying to compose myself and a few ladies came up to me to tell me I was doing a great job. That kind of restored my faith in humanity. – Reddit

A young woman walked into the cinema I worked at, and as always, I was at the ticket office. I sold her tickets to the show she wanted to see. She then proceeded to the ‘Candy Bar’ and ordered a cup of coffee—black, not too hot—and I offered to take it into her theater for her, to which she said, “That would be great!” Before I took it in, I decided to upgrade her cup to a mug, which was the larger of the two containers we offered, as we were pretty much out of cups.

I made her coffee and headed up the theater stairs to give it to her. I handed it over to her and she stared at me as if I’d just ended her firstborn. She shrieked in the packed theater, yelling: “DID I NOT ORDER A CUP?” I was shocked, but I rolled with it and said pleasantly, “I upgraded your coffee for free,” to which she replied, “I ORDERED A CUP AND IT’S WHAT I BETTER GET, MAKE ANOTHER ONE!”

So I grudgingly made her another coffee and brought it back to her. She then offered a snide remark: “Looks like you finally did it right!” Now, I know she ordered the cup and I was obliged to carry out her order for her, but for heck’s sake, isn’t a free upgrade a GOOD THING? – Reddit

I worked at a local sports bar and I had two men come in with their dates…and their children. The eldest child was running around the restaurant picking food off of people’s plates, while the middle child was changing the TV stations in the middle of baseball playoffs. The youngest child was sleeping on the table while the adults proceeded to drink margaritas.

I served them their food and as soon as the youngest child woke up to take a bite, he proceeded to vomit, covering the table completely. I attempted to be a hospitable server and I cleaned it up, expecting that the customers would be appreciative. Nope. They simply ordered more margaritas. At that point, I refused to serve them anymore (they each had two margaritas) because they were extremely disrespectful and I was not comfortable serving drinks to people who are responsible for getting children home safely.

That’s where everything hit the fan. These women proceeded to stand up and scream at me from across the table, saying, “You don’t know me, you want some?” Thankfully, I had my manager come over and kick them out. The kicker? Before they left, they poured out two full ketchup bottles underneath the table and left no tip. – Reddit

I was the only person on shift, which made me the de facto manager. Five minutes before closing, a woman came in and she was SO angry that we didn’t have any decaf coffee. She demanded to speak to the manager. I told her that was me because I was the only one there, and the coffee pots were cleaned for the night because we were closing up shop.

Her reply stunned me. She screamed at me and told me she was going to “find a real manager and get you fired”. She then threw half a cup of cappuccino machine sludge at me, and she was about to jump the counter. I was holding a hammer under the counter thinking, “Don’t do it, don’t do it”. I picked up the phone like I was about to call the authorities. She then left and I locked the door.

A few seconds later, she came back AND RAN FACE-FIRST INTO THE GLASS DOOR. LIKE A BIRD. What an idiot. – Reddit

One of my managers had to explain to a Karen, during a lunch rush, why she couldn’t take the onion out of the French onion soup. – Reddit

I had a raging Karen in the first lane of the drive-thru yelling at me. I just listened and listened, and when she was done I let her sit there a second. Then I said, “Ma’am, you can choke”. Not expecting that answer, she just drove off in shock. It could have gone totally different, but I’m glad it didn’t. – Reddit

I was on my way into a store and noticed a young mother with two small children walking up to the door from my left side. She was holding each child by the hand. As I approached the door I entered and held it open for her. Her reaction was seriously disturbing.

She proceeded to berate me for holding open the door! She screamed and cussed at me.

I simply replied, “I was only trying to be nice” and something like, “Nice language to use in front of the children”. Then I just continued on my way. I’ll never forget that, it caught me totally off-guard. – Reddit

After I finished my master’s degree in history, I received a teaching assistant position to help pay the bills while working on my doctorate. This story happened after we graded and returned the first written assignment.

I was doing office hours and expecting some students to come in with questions. I had graded before, so I had a little bit of an idea what to expect. Knowing the vast majority of the students were fresh, we all went easy on the first assignment. About an hour after returning the papers, one of the students stormed into my tiny space waving the paper in the air and announced, “I’m not going to get into law school with grades like these”!

My mind went blank. I just stared and finally sighed something like, “Yeeahh”?

I think I was silent long enough that he had time to realize how silly he sounded. I don’t remember what we talked about, but I do remember that he took the class more seriously after that and passed with a decent grade. – Reddit

I’d been working at a massage establishment and was wanting to find work closer to home, since I’d been having about a 45-minute commute to work every day. I got an interview for a closer place and scheduled it for 10am, an hour before my shift was to start.

On the way there, I ended up missing a turn, and after a little bit, realized my error and turned around. Once I was certain that I’d be late for work, I texted my boss to let her know that I was going to be late because of an interview.

Eventually, I arrived at work. With the other massage therapists currently in sessions, I was alone in the reception area. A lady came in to ask if we had something of hers that she thought she’d left behind after her massage some days prior. I began to look around, and the phone rang. I never could’ve predicted what happened next.

It was my boss. She screamed, “Rachel, you’re fired! You can’t pull that on me and expect to continue working for me! GET OUT OF MY SHOP”! Apparently she had sent a text firing me, but I didn’t see it right away because I had been looking for that lady’s lost item.

I hung up the phone, told the lady everything my boss just said to me, she apologized and wished me good luck, and she left. And, of course, so did I. – Reddit

I was standing on a crowded train and a pregnant Karen started screaming at ME because she had nowhere to sit. Me, the person who was standing because there were no seats. She started screaming like it was my fault. – Reddit

I moved to the Pacific Northwest last year and while I was finding the best spot to live I stayed at my mom’s house. I had a German Shepherd and was eager to explore the dog parks in the area.

I found a dog park not too far from the house. After running around for a while, my dog started to squat to use the restroom. I don’t normally carry bags on me because dog parks already have them for free but when I went to grab a bag, a lady started yelling from across the dog park.

She yelled that I needed to pick up my dog’s mess or we would get in trouble and she would report me. I was confused since the poop wasn’t even done coming out of his butt while she was yelling and I was clearly walking towards the bags.

The lady stood there with her hand on her hips, tapping her foot, giving me a dirty look, so out of sheer spite I stopped and decided I wasn’t going to pick it up now.

My boyfriend said he didn’t want to cause a scene so he went to grab a bag and the lady had the nerve to say, “That’s what I thought, I knew you weren’t going to pick it up” while continuing to put her hands on her hips, watching him the entire time and waiting till he picked up the mess. – Reddit

My first job was a cashier position at a certain theme park centered around colorful plastic building bricks. I was working at a shop that makes “driver’s licenses” for kids. Now, keep in mind that these were not meant to be high-quality photos. They were taken with a rather junky digital camera, then uploaded to our computer screens. The guests were then able to view what we were doing on the screens facing them, so they could tell us how to crop the photo into a headshot, choose their color scheme, etc. before we printed it on a plastic card for $5.

My job that day was to line the kids up for the photos, up to five at a time (hence the cropping). Anyone who has ever tried photographing kids, mainly ones under eight years old, knows that it’s near-impossible to keep them still for a picture.

This lady apparently thought it was supposed to be a professional photo shoot or something because she yelled at me for “taking the worst photos of her kids that she has ever seen in her life” and proceeded to make me take a few more pictures of just her kids—who were three and five at the time.

I managed to get one decent shot in after trying for nearly 10 minutes to get them to stand still. I then had the displeasure of ringing her up, where she still grumbled at the quality and the service. Then, as she was paying, someone else came up to ask me how it all worked.

Before I even had the chance to address them, Karen piped up. She told them: “This man here takes bad pictures of your kids and pastes the pictures onto a colored background and prints it out on a card for you”.

I just about lost it on this woman because it was so very obvious that I am not a man. It was clear she was trying to get whatever jabs in while she could because she knew I did nothing wrong and that I actually tried to fix whatever perceived mistake I made with her kids’ pictures.

I still have no idea how I stayed so calm. – Reddit

I was working in the coffee shop of a busy ferry. It seemed that all 2,500 people on-board wanted to come through my coffee shop and they were all ordering one thing at a time.

Karen stormed up to my till as I was serving one customer.

Karen: Are you on a go-slow or something?

Me: No, ma’am. I’m on a 14-hour shift.

Karen: Well, why is it taking so long.

Me: There’s lots of people in the queue.

Karen: Well, can’t you go faster?

Me: I could, but you’re stopping me from serving this lady.

Karen: I just want to buy this sandwich and a drink.

Me: As do the people in the queue.

Karen: Can’t I just pay for this now?

Me: This lady’s drinks are in the till, so not right now.

Karen huffed. She waited, angrily. I finished with that customer.

Karen: Well!? Can you serve me now?

Me: (To the lady who was next in the queue) Do you mind? (She didn’t, so I served Karen).

Lady in the queue who had heard all of this: Some people have no manners. – Reddit

A few years ago, I was living with my friends in a row house in Maharashtra. We were five girls, all working IT jobs with different shift timings. It had been smooth sailing for years…till we moved into this particular place.

Our neighbor was the biggest Karen we have ever encountered. She would scream at us regularly outside for stupid random things but the scariest was her coming to our door at 3am with her husband, thumping the door loudly and saying our going to the bathroom at night disturbed her sleep. She lived in another house altogether, but according to her, when we went to the bathroom, she would get disturbed because of the door noise. We girls couldn’t hear anything if we were in different rooms but apparently she could from another house!

She ordered us to stop going to the bathroom at night, as according to her, our parents hadn’t taught us how to close bathroom doors properly. – Reddit

I was talking to this elderly lady at Whole Foods in Spanish because she didn’t know the English word for ginger.

Here came Karen in a motorized scooter cart. In a rather vociferous tone, she said, “This is America, why don’t you speak English”.

Okay Karen, you’ve got legs, why don’t you walk? – Reddit

We attended an outdoor event at a winery this past weekend. Signs were posted to wear a mask in the public areas. Everyone was social distancing on the lawn. So while waiting in a long line for the porta-potty, there was an unmasked couple in front of a masked couple.

The masked woman requested that the couple in front of her wear a mask…and that’s when Karen erupted. She started yelling that she didn’t have one, she forgot it, she didn’t need to wear one…blah, blah, blah!

The line was getting longer, around 15 deep. The woman behind me said, “Notice how the guys are keeping out of it”?

Well…after the unmasked couple finished with their business in the porta-potty, the masked woman walked in and then immediately walked out and yelled, ”You peed all over the walls and floor”!

The guy just ran. – Reddit

I was at Best Buy years ago. I heard two people talking about a computer they were looking at and they had some questions. So I politely introduced myself and asked if I could help. I got them squared away and then went on about my business.

Then someone started clearing their throat. I didn’t think anything of it because I was engrossed in what I was doing. Finally, I heard an exasperated sigh and felt a rude tap on my shoulder. I turned around and saw a clearly angry lady standing there.

Me: Um…yes?

Karen: (Big sigh). I need help with a cell phone.

Me: Okay…

Karen: Well, are you going to help me?

Me: Ma’am, I don’t work here.

I couldn’t believe her answer.

Karen: Look, I know this isn’t your department, but I waited patiently while you helped that couple. I know you are just a lowly peon, but you could at least get me some help.

Me: Look, lady, I don’t work here.

Karen: That’s it, I am going to have your job!

And she stomped off. I shrugged it off and didn’t think about her again.

Five minutes later she came back with another guy.

Karen: I want this person disciplined. He was disrespectful, rude, and refused to help me.

Best Buy Guy: Ma’am, he doesn’t work here.

That’s when I had an epiphany. I looked down and realized I was wearing khaki pants and a blue polo shirt.

Karen: Good! I told you I would have your job!

Best Buy Guy: No ma’am, I can’t fire him, he’s not an employee. Now how may I help you.

But then she took her stupidity to the next level.

Karen: Oh, this is ridiculous, you stupid jerks are just sticking together. I’m writing to corporate to complain and I am NEVER coming to this Radio Shack again!

The Best Buy dude and I looked at each other and in almost unison said “Okay then” while watching her storm off. – Reddit

My brother and I were at Dominos waiting to pick up our delicious pizza. The staff were very busy and we had been at the counter, standing at the designated social distancing spot, waiting to be served for around five minutes. The social distancing spot was a taped line around a meter back from the counter.

Karen walked in and stepped in front of us. Assuming she had made a mistake I said, “Excuse me, we were actually waiting”.

She looked at me and said, “Yeah, but mine’s ready though”. As if that were somehow justification for pushing in. My pizza was ready too.

The most annoying part of the situation was that the staff served her straight away, though we’d been trying to get their attention for five minutes while our food was going cold. – Reddit

My neighbor was quite upset that I kept parking in front of her house. There’s 10 houses in the entire block and usually not more than half a dozen cars parked at any given time. I didn’t particularly do it on purpose, I just didn’t want to do a U-turn and didn’t think much of it.

One day, Karen came up to me and asked why I kept parking there and told me to park in front of my house instead.

Her demeanor and attitude were quite negative and hostile. I didn’t take it too lightly. We went back and forth and I pretty much told her, “It’s public parking”.

She wasn’t expecting that answer because she flew into a rage quickly after, accusing me of some conspiracy to possibly rob her.

Had she asked nicely, for whatever the reason, I probably would have complied.

She lost it and went inside the house, and called the authorities shortly after. As I was cleaning my car, the authorities arrived to inform me there was suspicious activity going on in front of her house. The guy was mad cool about it, laughed it off, and was on his way no more than three minutes after engaging with me—but the story didn’t end there.

About two years later, she came over on Christmas and brought me a small present and apologized, to my surprise.

Afterward, I stopped parking my cars in front of her house. – Reddit

I was working a shift at the discount store. I was a floor associate who knew how to ring. The supervisor called me up to help get rid of the line, which was weird because there were already four cashiers and four customers in line, so there really wasn’t a point to calling me up. I took the next person in line, because this supervisor was rather rude and I wanted to stay on her good side.

I started ringing up this lady who was just getting one pair of pants and also had a 10% off coupon. The coupon wasn’t working, so I read the coupon to make sure there wasn’t a limitation to it. There was nothing weird about the coupon and I explained to her that the coupon is not working. The lady was being rude, complaining that I was wasting her time.

I go over to the supervisor to ask for help. The lady snapped that we obviously got the coupon before, and she didn’t understand why it was taking so long. She was so rude, just for a minor inconvenience that wasn’t even our fault!

The supervisor said that she has never seen this coupon before. As the supervisor and I were trying to figure out what was wrong with the coupon, a random lady came up to the customer. Suddenly, Karen turned into such a nice lady. Once her friend left, she turned right back into the devil herself. I was thinking to myself, does your friend know how UNPLEASANT YOU ARE?! – Reddit

I teach 4th grade and today was the first day of school. Students are required to wear masks. I brought a pack of surgical masks to school in case a kid forgot theirs. A boy named Noah came maskless, so I provided him with a mask.

I explained to the kids about Covid and why they have to wear masks. I also talked about vaccines. Noah raised his hand and said that his mom told him vaccines are dangerous. I said, “You have to get vaccines to go to school. You’re vaccinated, and you’re fine, right”? He seemed to understand that vaccines aren’t bad.

At dismissal, Noah’s mom pulled up in her car. Noah goes into the car and his mom yells, “Why are you wearing a muzzle? Who put this on you”?

Noah calmly answered, “Mr. White gave me it, I gotta wear a mask to stop me from getting germs”.

She shouted at me, “HOW DARE YOU MUZZLE MY CHILD LIKE HE’S SOME SORT OF ANIMAL! HAVEN’T YOU HEARD OF FREEDOM? HE HAS THE FREEDOM TO BREATHE”!

“It’s a part of the dress code made by the school board. The kids have to wear masks so the Delta variant doesn’t spread”.

She yelled that Covid is a hoax. I told her that it wasn’t and that if she didn’t want her son to wear a mask, she should look into sending him to a private school. She responded by calling me a “liberal Marxist” and drove off.

I feel bad for her son. – Reddit

A woman asked me to do something I was completely untrained to do. Mind you, this was my first day actually working there after basic training. I asked her if she had a rewards card, she then said she did and would get it out.

After looking in her purse, she said that she wouldn’t bother trying to find it because it would take too long. Eventually, she paid. Afterward, she mentioned wanting points on her purchase. I explained to her that after payment has been made, points cannot be redeemed from the purchase. Her reaction was brutal.

She proceeds to rant about how it was all my fault because I “didn’t ask” for her rewards card, even though I had. We had the manager step in, and it turns out there was a way to solve the issue, but Karen wasn’t having it, so she waited in anger while telling the manager that it was all my fault that she didn’t get her points. It was also my fault for not knowing how to fix a “simple issue” and that because I didn’t know how to void orders and refund payments on the first day of work, I was “ill-prepared to work”.

I was 15. – Reddit

This woman was buying a bathroom vanity with no packaging on it. This wasn’t too big of an issue, but as I was trying to page the department for them to give me an item number, she hissed at me that she “didn’t have time for this”, that her “husband is waiting in the car so I’d better be faster than this”!

While I was trying to ignore her obvious self-entitled rage and just look up the item number on our company website, she suddenly pulled a manual out of the unit and slammed it down on the counter in front of me.

“Here”! she screamed. Normally, that wouldn’t do much but I realized there was a model number on the top-right of the page so I typed that into the computer and presto, there it was.

For some reason, she expected all this praise for taking the manual out, and because she was getting so hostile, one of my awesome coworkers came up and stood beside me in solidarity, and to help me feel safe.

When this woman hissed at us, “I’LL take the credit for this, thank you” I just casually replied, “We’ll both take the credit”.

She stared at me so hard she might’ve nearly had an aneurysm. I was shaking and red-faced after she finally left, and my coworker was so supportive about the whole thing, in total agreement that this woman was obviously a narcissist and didn’t know how to handle not being in total control of me the whole time. – Reddit

We were in a thrift store in Germany. I saw some pictures on top of a cabinet and couldn’t reach them to look at them.

I asked a lady that worked there if they could be brought down for me to look at them. That’s when this woman comes up to me and says, “Those are mine! You don’t need to see them, I’m going to buy them”! She practically yelled it at me.

I held up my hands in surrender and said, “No problem lady. You obviously need them more than I do”. The lady that worked there looked on without comment except for a look of commiseration. – Reddit

I had a couple of hormone-influenced Karen moments during the exhausting new mom phase after having my daughter. During that first month, I was blacklisted by our internet and cable provider after the screen froze on Disney Junior. I freaked out on a diaper company so fiercely after a diaper blowout and torn side tab that they sent me four boxes of diapers to calm me down. I was escorted out of my favorite coffee shop for yelling at them about being out of whipped cream. And I didn’t stop there.

I also cussed out the teenage boys up the street so badly (for the entire neighborhood to hear) for playing basketball during nap time that I didn’t get trick-or-treaters at my house for the next two years. Yikes! Glad that’s over. – Reddit

I was sitting in the park, watching Netflix on my iPad. The park was right in front of my house and my parents were watching me from inside.

Then came Karen. She said that I couldn’t loiter and asked whose iPad I was using.

I told her it was mine and started to get up to go home. I was confused how a child sitting on the grass at a public park would be loitering but I didn’t ask her.

“Come back here. You stole that didn’t you”? she said, grabbing my arm.

“Miss, please let me go”, I said, fighting back my annoyance.

“Give me the iPad”, she said, trying to grab it.

I didn’t let her.

My dad came running out the house and to my rescue. “Ma’am, your hands are on my child. If you don’t let go, I will call for help”.

She huffed and let me go. “You probably took the iPad for her anyway”, she mumbled, walking away. – Reddit