" She is proud of her behavior and still regularly tell people about it . We do n’t babble out anymore . "
Ahhh, Karens…We’ve all had the misfortune of dealing with them at some point (especially if a person has ever worked in retail), but imagine how terrible it would be to have a “Karen” for a parent? Sadly, that’s a reality for many people…
1.“Years ago, I was at the mall with my mom and sister, and we saw a pretzel shop that sold lemonade, so we walked over and bought three lemonades, then went to the food court to grab some pizza. We sat down, began eating, and noticed the lemonade tasted bad. My sister and I were thirsty and drank it anyway, but our mother didn’t drink hers and complained the entire time.”
2.“When my mother didn’t get her way after trying to return an item, she held her arms straight out to the side while walking out, so tons of merchandise fell off the racks and onto the floor.”
" It was a clothing store , so nothing bump , but it was still mortifying , and I could never shop there again . "
— atomic number 92 / PainfullyLoyal
3.“Years ago, my mother was acquainted with a neighbor who owned a local fast-food restaurant and constantly complained about how expensive the ketchup and sauce packets were.”
" One day , while picking up dinner for our family unit of five , my mother asked for supernumerary ketchup , and she was yield a low bag meet to the top with packets . She wrote down the employee ’s name , call the proprietor , and ratted the employee out for wasting money .
She is proud of this and still regularly tell people about it . We do n’t talk anymore . "
— atomic number 92 / Armydds
4.“My mom is an extremely judgmental and condescending person, but cowardly. She used to love talking sh*t about people right in front of them by speaking Spanish and assuming they didn’t understand her.”
" Then I returned to the cashier to recite her I had given her a expectant review article . She thanked me , and we exchanged a looking at , both of us knowing what I had done .
I was not about to let my mother succeed that day . She remembered the incident because she stopped talking about people in Spanish when they could hear her . Now , she saves her sh*t - spill until she is in the car with the window rolled up . Like I said , she ’s a Noel Coward . "
— u / Speed - O - SonicsWife
5.“My mom once hit the bumper of another vehicle in a parking lot. She was going to walk away, but some people who witnessed it called her out and told her to do the right thing. She made a huge deal about writing her name and number on a piece of paper to leave under the wipers. The witnesses entered the store while she was doing this, and the vehicle’s owners showed up around the same time, inspected the damage, said it wasn’t a big deal, and drove off.”
" Afterwards , my mother run low out of her direction to get into the computer memory , find the watcher , and yell at them to permit them know the owners were n’t mad .
She told them she should n’t have been made to leave behind a billet , and that they should have minded their own business . "
— uracil / Calm_Palms_41
6.“This is the first incident that came to mind, but there are so many: My mother saw a puddle of water on the floor of a shoe store and took it as an opportunity to fake an injury and sue. She pretended to slip and fall and splayed herself on the floor in front of the store’s entryway while moaning in ‘pain.'”
" Her playacting was so bad that everyone ignored her , and employees walk by her . Then she lead off wheel around on the ground , but was still ignored , so she give up and we left . "
— u / hello__brooklyn
7.“When I was 11 or 12, I won a ‘science award’ and a ‘student award’ because I had the second-best grades in the class. My mother was outraged that I received two awards while my twin sister didn’t win any, so she went to the school and raised hell. The school created a new category just for my sister and gave her a ‘music award.'”
8.“When I was young, I often accompanied my mom to the grocery store. One morning, she filled the cart with frozen pot pies. A store employee tried to stop her because they were on sale, and she didn’t leave any for other shoppers.”
" My mummy jostle the newspaper publisher ad in his facial expression and target out that there was no posted limit to the quantity you could bribe . She shamed him so badly that he brought out two more cases of grass Proto-Indo European for her to buy .
I enjoyed pot pies for the next year , but struggled with being embarrassed because of her behaviour . "
— uranium / CoderJoe1
9.“I played high school softball for exactly one season, and one season only because my mother’s version of ‘cheering’ was more akin to yelling, ‘Why did you miss that?’ Or ‘Do I need to come show you how to do that?’ I hated when she showed up to my games.”
" One daytime , a mate ’s mom was baby-sit in the bleacher near my mother . So when my mom began ' cheering , ' this lady courteously asked , ' Is all that necessary ? '
My female parent unleashed this epic Karen shakedown : ' Just because your husband wears a gun does n’t stand for I ’m afraid of you ! ' ( Teammate ’s dad was a constabulary officeholder ) . "
— u / SapphirePSL
10.“My grandfather, mother, and I went to a chain restaurant for cheap takeout when I was about six. My mother asked for an extra container of gravy, and when the cashier rang it up, they charged her $0.40. She lost it. She never asked if the price had gone up (it hadn’t), she immediately started berating a teenager overliteralpennies while she was buying $50 worth of fast-food chicken.”
11.“My mother used to go into stores she deemed ‘fancy’ and make the sales assistants wait on her hand and foot, waste their time by demanding to be shown multiple items, try on jewelry etc., then say ‘Well, I’ll have to go home and think about it’ and leave.”
" It was a form of free entertainment and attending for her . We were very poor , so there was no elbow room she could give anything she hazard to be interested in buying .
The bad part was that she ’d adopt a bogus swish emphasis and manner , which included being incredibly patronise and demanding because she believed it would make her seem richer and more of import . So gross . "
— u / Radiant_Cheesecake81
12.“My mom once requested a refund because her burger had one pickle instead of two. I just watched in embarrassment while she and the woman at the counter went back and forth.”
— uracil / Character_Bit_1491
13.“During Covid, my mom was an anti-mask ‘Karen.’ Towards the end of lockdown, she went to a local drugstore to pick up a prescription. Of course, she didn’t wear a mask inside, so when one of the workers (she described him as a teenager) came over to ask her to put one on, she threw a fit and used the infamous ‘I want to speak to your manager’ line. The manager gave in to her demands and she grabbed her prescription and left. After the ordeal, she called me to tell me what she did, as if she were proud of herself.”
14.“My mom has chronic health conditions, but she always yells and curses at the patient care techs in the ER. These techs aren’t equipped to de-escalate conflict, so they often yell back at her, and then she tries to act like they started it.”
" At first , I would seek to excuse that she has scare disorder and was probably have a panic attack , but then I realized she was also wee up hearsay about how rude the patient techs and nurses are , so I gave up . For all I care , they can pen ' hard affected role ' in her chart everytime she ’s there .
She was never like this when I was growing up , but my stepdad screamed at everyone , and my grandfather was a massive ' Karen , ' so I suppose she feel like she has to ' step up ' since they are n’t around to do it for her anymore . "
— u / Ekyou
15.“I’ll preface this by saying that this happened during an already bad situation, but I don’t believe it condoned this behavior: My grandmother had been sick while my mother and I were on vacation. We were getting ready to go to a museum when we learned she had passed away. We decided to go to the museum and enjoy our vacation as best we could because there was nothing else we could do.”
16.“My mom has hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), which is easily managed by eating anything.”
" She would purposefully go without eating to send herself into hypoglycaemic electric shock ( alwaysin public ) so she could garner attending and sympathy . I would often be admonished for ' not involve better care of your ma , ' even though I was a child and she was an grownup who was fully aware of her condition and how to manage it ..
Oh , and one time she pee-pee in a guy ’s bed because she was sore that he broke up with her . He broke up with her becauseshe sucks , and I can not underline enough that she was the problem . "
— u / IsabellaGalavant
17.“When I was younger, there were signs that my mother was a ‘Karen.’ I remember her changing my sister’s diaper on restaurant tables and getting mad at people who judged her. Situations like that were common.”
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