Generalizing from bad examples only proves you're essentially selfish. So maybe "all the damned people" aren't the problem. As they say, if you meet an asshole in the morning, you've met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, _you're the asshole._
Sounds like a Peanuts strip series where Linus wanted to be a doctor. Lucy told him that he couldn't be a doctor as he had no love for humanity. As Lucy walked away Linus screams at her "I do too have a love for humanity, it's people I can't stand."
That baby is definitely gonna get taken away from her with in 2 years or less, because she will insist on only vegan food, vegan baby products, and homeopathic home remedies.
If I was OP, I would've been tempted to say "Ma'am, are you on drugs? The methadone clinic is a few blocks down. But if you are hearing or seeing things that no one else sees, then I can take you to the mental ward down the hall."
I've heard of Karens who throw their purses, canned vegetables, and even a plate of food at innocent people. But now they're throwing dogs, what's next? Are they gonna throw their children at the narrator?
I don't remember where, but I DID once hear this really bizarre story about a parent who literally grabbed their small child by the ankles and swung then at someone else. I REALLY hope it was fake, but with Karens, you never know. I think it was on RSlash on TH-cam, but don't quote me on that.
At the point where she was demanding to put her baby in danger, I would've told her that her aura was black because she wanted to murder her own baby! I wonder if that would've shut her up! But your right. Hopefully the father of this child will wake up and get custody!
At least the woman in story two didn't bring the product to the store she sounds like the kind of person who would do that and still not see she's in the wrong place.
I'm kinda curious about what kind of toy she managed to break the first time trying to use it. Most of the ones I'm familiar with are rather self explanatory for operation.
She sounds stupid enough that she might think it's broke because it quit working when the batteries died. Her: You mean the batteries have to be replaced? Ohhhhhhh...................
@meh2510 or it's one of the cheap ones that the batteries hardly work correctly. I knew these cheap pill toys that the instructions KEPT THE BATTERIES IN PLACE to prevent it from not working. Yeah... ... ... garbage they went.
I work at a dog daycare and we recently had a couple drop their dog off with our newest assistant mgr for boarding and acted like they knew what they were doing. We require meet and greets and several days of daycare before a. Dog is eligible for boarding. The couple didn't even leave any contact info just said 'This is (name of dog) she's here for boarding' and left. It would have been so easy for someone to steal that dog. It turned out to be an easily fixable issue as the dog had been to a location with our company in another town, but it was a stressful weekend for mgmt while they tried to figure it out.
I do work as a manager at an adult store. We have a no return policy because obvious reasons. We have signs and the Florida statute about returns is on the receipt. Story 2 is amazing. I had two lovely ladies call the police on me because I would let them return their....product...
@JohnH20111 the cops were throughly annoyed having to explain the laws, but I don't know if anything happened after they left. Worst part is that the cops showed up in a few minutes, but when I got robbed, they took almost 45 minutes
Story number 2 reminds me of my wrong calls. Years ago I worked in a small hotel on the overnight shift that had a toll free number. The funny thing is that we were 888 and if you dialed 800 it was a call girl service. We got wrong calls so many times. Usually when you tell them wrong number they just hang up. We did have 1 crazy guy that refused to believe he dialed the wrong number. After he started getting rude/nasty about it after several return calls within an hour, I decided to grab his number from the caller ID, waited a few hours, and returned his call in the middle of the night for some fun. When a lady answered the phone I said I was calling from the escort company and we arranged for his request of “3 escorts ranging between 18-20 years old as requested and will be billing the provided debit card the hourly rate as requested under the false listing of Chevron fuel to hide the charges” I heard a smack and her cussing her husband out. Guess he’ll never be able to buy gas at chevron again without his wife giving him a full interrogation.
i did something similar with a telemarketer, because i answered the phone with “Hello, Menard Correctional Facility, Maximum Security Wing, Officer Jackson speaking, How May I Help You?” and the next thing i heard was ‘Click’ , and my now ex-friend was dying from stifling his laughter
OP in story one : That happens to the best of us I worked retail for close to 20 years started of kind, helpful and understanding, but the helping people like that has now made me to the point where I just don't care about anything anymore, also heard the same from people that worked for food services
Story 2: Classic "Wrong Number, Lady" story. That seems to happen a lot, either because of similar names, confusing 1 and 7, or the phone number changed hands and the caller didn't know
I used to work in an online adult shop for a long time. You can't even fathom the amount of people calling, complaining and sending back "broken" items to us, because they couldn't put in the battery the right way. Doctors, lawyers and judges included. The stupid was strong with these ones. Even if I told them the problem, they wouldn't listen because "Do you think I'm that stupid?" Yes, yes they were. Pro tip: If it turns on but very weak in vibration and doesn't respond to any inputs, you put the batteries in backwards. Just switch around their facing position and you're good to go.
I used to work at a University Help Desk. Whenever we would get a call about a computer not turning on my first question would always be "is it plugged in?" of course they would be offended and say "of course it's plugged in, what do you think? That I'm some kind of idiot?" Well I would walk across campus to see this PhD professor trying to turn on a computer that is not, in fact, plugged in. Happened multiple times.
I used to work in the cafeteria of a medical school. We had these big toasters where customers would place their bagel, and it would roll through the hot coils and out the other side. Well, one morning, the fire alarms go off and the toaster is on fire. I ran over there, and med student put her paper plate in the toaster. I just laughed and said, "And you're going to be a doctor."
Flight attendant story: And who wants to bet it wasn't even a delay, just a scheduled layover? The time and place to complain, IF THERE WAS A LEGITIMATE COMPLAINT, was while he was at Houston during the layover/delay. Same name stores story: I hope she kept the receipt. But if she had I would think the phone number would have been on it. In a way it would have been funny if she had brought her "product" in to return to the wrong store. The look on her face when she realized... Baby delivery story: I feel sorry for the poor baby. I wonder if Karen ever had any other children after that? Pet store story: Karen is lucky she wasn't kept there for the police. Since her dog didn't break OP's skin I doubt it would be put down, but Karen would almost certainly have received a ticket/fine for failing to control her dog/not having it muzzled. IDWHL story: From how OP describes how she was dressed and that she literally parked and came in at the same time with this bozo, he absolutely deserved all the ribbing he got.
I’m a nursing student and one day I was assigned a patient on a clear liquid diet so no true food until after the tests they needed where done. The patient did ask for food but I said I could ask the nurse to request a diet change from the physician. When breakfast came around, we hadn’t heard anything from the doctor so breakfast was chicken broth, tea, and ensure. The patient was telling me the breakfast was insulting but I did explain I had to wait until we heard from the doctor so the patient started throwing the breakfast at me and I didn’t know what to do except hope the ensure bottles didn’t break open while I was pelted with them.
Story 3: Uh…what the peck kind of reality did this woman come from? Like, "Reading an aura" sounds like something a self-proclaimed psychic would do. I doubt the kid's going to have a good home life. Karen's definitely not all there
I've been sick all week, so pressed play on this without my *usual cheer. My sister made me pause it, rewind it to the beginning, and, "Do it right!" So I paused it, went to the beginning, gasped, said, "Hi, friends!" cheerfully, and pressed play. She replied, "Perfect. Continue watching now." Your impact. LOL.
I had morphine with my second. After active labour it was worthless. When my son was born they were like, oh he’s sleepy from the morphine. Nah, little bud is just a sleepy guy. Like 90% of the time he just goes to sleep when he’s tired and you bounce him. His big sister on the other hand never slept well, lol
LOL. Was in Vegas this past weekend when a guy comes up to me and asks where the casino spa is. Then he looked closer and said "oh sorry, thought you worked here. You got a black jacket like the other workers". LOL I just said there's a security guard right behind you. He might be able to help. I was kinda 1/2 hoping he would be a Karen. 🤣
With the aura lady, would have been great to troll her with something along the lines of “that can’t possibly be my aura, my spiritual advisor is adamant that I am a (insert completely different color)” and be absolutely insistent on it.
*Last Story-* that totally makes sense about him trying to flirt with her! Dudes are getting worse and worse at flirting! 🙄 And what’s _really bad,_ is now people confuse *being polite with flirting!!!* 😒 If I’m nice to a guy, they think I’m flirting! Even though my hubby’s right next to me! 😳 (Lucky for me, my hubby knows the difference between flirting and politeness!) *I love my hubby!!!* 🥰😘❤️❤️❤️
Lol the second one: “Ma’am this is a candy store, you know with sugar, blue dye #5, yellow dye #12, artificial flavours and high fructose corn syrup. If you’re looking to fix your dîldõ you’ve called the wrong place”
All the stories where people do nothing after being randomly touched always confuses me, because I can feel awkward about sudden unwarranted touch even when it's someone I know, and I can SEE them. If I'm suddenly touched from behind, I'm immediately attempting to step away the contact, and I only **might** stop if it turns out to be someone I know. The fact that these crazies seem to think it's alright to touch a random person just makes my blood boil.
What if the person happened to be deaf? We tend to tap the other person’s shoulder or touch their arm to get their attention if they’re not looking in our direction.
Story 3: I wonder if they could find the "Spiritual Guru" and have them charged with impersonating a doctor. If anything had gone seriously wrong I hope they could be sued within an inch of their life.
Story 2 reminded me of when I worked at a West Coast Video store which has an adult section in a special back room. We'd get plenty of dads that would park their children in the kids section to look for whatever movie they wanted while he dipped into the back to find his "special" movie. (This was early/mid 90s when VHS rental stores were a thing). Our policy was to say the name of whatever movies being rented were due the following day before midnight, or the 3rd day at the same time frame, except for adult movies, we just said "Your movie is due, etc." Regardless if it's a lone renters or a das with kids. Fast forward to the late 90s and I'm working at a Blockbuster, which in its "Family Frendly" image didn't have an adult movie section. You wouldn't believe the amount of customers that I had to explain that Blockbuster didn't have that section, but I'd direct them to where West Coast Video is and exactly where to access the section they wanted. Lol! My favorite manager overheard me helping customers this way a few times and finally out of curiosity ask me how I knew this info (I'm a woman who was in my 20s through the 90s), so I told him. I was the only young woman working there who had zero Fs about putting rentals back, helping customers finding what they were looking for, etc. The best days were when new stocks of movies came in because it was just my boss and I putting the movies in black, blank cases and shrink wrapping the original boxes that the movies came in. Some came with "toys",and I'd get giggle fits telling my boss that these were the ONLY toys I've EVER seen which came with batteries included AND installed. 🤣🤣🤣 I loved that job way better than Blockbuster. My female coworkers were thankful and a little weirded out about me giving zero Fs about the adult section, and the guys (young and older) were just impressed. Good times with great coworkers. 😉👍
Story 4: Always call the police and press charges if someone harasses, intimidates, assaults you...or in this case gets you bit...never allow them to get away with this. Story 5: Again...another Karen/Kevin/Chad putting their hands on someone else without permission...not a good idea...like ever.
Years ago our land line was one number off from my dad's work. I answered the phone and they asked for my dad. I asked who it was. He said his name and company. I said oh! Dad took a vacation day but he was telling us how important what happend was. So let me call him. DAAAAAD MR .... IS ON THE PHONE poor guy on the phone was so confused. But I called the company. Me. Oh I know but you pushed 3 instead of 2 and got his home. Its ok. Happens all thr time. Poor guy on the phone..... what? Dad walked in. What's going on? Dad I know you said unless it's the president don't bother you but remember that business trip you were planing to help Mr so in so from x company. He tried to call work and got here. And I know it's super important. Also. I think he's confused about how he called here and got you instead of work. Also. Wouldn't want him to think he's not important and your doings calls. You just took a vacation day. By the end of the speel dads shocked the guy on the phone is like hu? So dad takes the phone. Yes this is so in so speaking. Yes you got my home number. Yes that's my youngest. They had a good chuckle.
I didn't go all Karen about it, but I did make a mistake about shop names when I moved to the UK. I was looking for a place that sold Plumbing tools and called a place called the Plumbers Arms, sounded an odd name but had plumber in it, turned out tot be a pub.
Story 2: Yup, you do need to be careful with store names. Reminds me of a story I heard about a Japanese travel agency that could never understand why they were getting all these weird requests from potential customers. Until a kind English gentleman visited the place and explained to them what "Kinki Nippol Vacstions" looked and sounded like to those who read it for the first time.😂😂
I have a good experience of IDontWorkHereLady. I was in a shop, and a woman asked if I work there. I said no and she said thanks. Then I asked what she was looking for, because I may know where It was. She said, and I answered "I know.", and guided her to what she as looking for. She was polite, then I helped her.
Thank God that Candy Shop Karen was buying for Personal Usage, I'd shudder to think what frame of mind she'd have been in if she'd accidentally bought some kids Adult Toys, assuming they "must be the latest thing kids eat these days.."!
I retired from nursing for health reasons about four years ago. I always wanted the patients without family or visitors. So many were so entitled. It was much easier without people around.
The candy store guy should have told her something like “you have to heat each piece so the tabs soften to reconnect. We usually recommend you microwave it for 30 seconds or submerge it in boiling water for 10 minutes.”
I have 2 bio kids I wasn't even offered morphine. I was offered an epidural but the anesthesiologist was on call and there was an ice storm and by the time he got there my son was born. I also requested one with my daughter and when they checked me it was too late.
Heh. Had a similar experience to the candy shop story. Used to work at a small store selling goth, punk and metal items. This went from corsets to spiked belts. Down the street was a fetish adult shop, and many of the customers there came to our store first, timidly asking for whips and stuff. I used to reply by picking up our most agressive studded belt and say "this is the only thing that cimes to mind. Think you want the shop down the street."
If I was OP in Story 2, I'd start telling THOSE wrong numbers to, "Bring it back in with a receipt for a Double Cash Refund.", and let them handle their own Clientele's complaints. And, if the other store caught on, tell them, we did what we could to help with complaints. 🤷🤷♂🤷♀😕
The ora lady!!!! Omg that reminds me of something years ago! So i have a farm and breed champion milking goats. This happened before we had that kind of stock and we were just getting into goats on the farm. Had to take a goat in (cant remember what for) to the vet. My husband already knew the problem but needed a vet to detail and treat the problem. Anyway, we get there and wait for the Dr to come out to the truck to look the animal over. He didnt listen to a word my husband said and went to “diagnose” the goat… by putting his hand on her back, closing his eyes, grabbing his annoyed nurse’s hand, and begins to “feel her energy” or something dumb like that. we wasted 10 minutes of him touching different parts of her back before he did any real diagnosing. The nurse would roll her eyes at him any time he wasnt looking lol. I felt so bad for that nurse.
Story 4: What you said about the kid or animal to the "employee" and they never come back, thats too true. If OP was one of those people (which she ain't) and Karen did this and never got her kid/animal back: Its her own fault
Morphine? During birthing? I gave birth to an 8 pound 14 ounce baby and tire doing so. I had previous health issues. I got no meds what so ever. I tried to go home following the birth and was told the baby would be kept overnight so I had to stay. I was going to nurse. I overheard the nurses talking about me as in..why can’t everyone be like her. I heard new moms making demands, ringing the bell off, and wanting a three day stay.
I can’t diss her on the aura part, well I mean I can diss her for being bad at it lol but to say that she can’t have an epidural but is demanding more morphine?? Yeah no that doesn’t track.
I had to look up what color exactly chartreuse...as well as how to spell it. It seems it's a light green/yellow combination 🙂 We learned three lessons. 1) That baby is going to have a hard time 2) There isn't a woman so crazy that some guy won't knock her up 3) When you are in enough pain, all your high ideals go out the window.
I had a coworker who had five kids. She only made it to the hospital once. She was a determinedly cheerful woman who was fairly philosophical about having very short labor.
Nurses encounter all kinds of people...I work with nurses a lot (but am not in the medical field myself) and there was this one story about a mother whose child is now going to live with a life-long disability, because she refused to get her child vaccinated (Polio). When the nurse questioned why she didn't bring her child in for the free vaccine (required for documentation purposes as up to that point the disease had been considered eradicated from our country, which is sadly no longer the case) the mother's response was, "Oh, I just didn't feel like it, I don't have time for that."
Make sure you call the correct number, AND make sure you listen to what the person picking up the phone says. I'd almost bet my house that the OP in that story said something along the lines of, "Hello, you've reached X hardware store, how may I help you?" giving the caller the perfect cue to say "oh, I"m sorry, I dialed the wrong number".
I guess I'm lucky! I've work in the grocery & retail for around 8 years and I can only go for 3 or 4 story. Like the time I heard them speak french (I'm in a french region) in the next alley and they arrive in mine and start speaking another langage, when they whisle at me to from 50ft to have some help instead of coming to me and ask like any other human being, the guys that didn't believe our store didn't sold a format of nails (probably the only one that rose his voice to me actually)... but no tentrum or "I'll get your job!".
If I was OP dealing with Woo Woo Karen, when she said her Birth Plan was decided in consultation with her Spiritual Guru, I'd have looked at her and asked "And just wear did your Spiritual Guru get their Medical License?" and then just flatly told her that the following demands are NOT going to happen as they are a danger to your baby... Yah, I'd have been "Fired" by her too but at that point, I'd see that as a WIN due to not being able to put up with her Insanity anymore and very likely about to lose what little Filter I have left... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
I would've threatened to have her restrained if she didn't shut up and follow what the doctors say. Then make good on that threat when she gets too rowdy.
Story 3 - "I paid to be here." I love how she kept throwing that around. Even if you Pre-paid for your service, you dont have full say in who is to treat you. All the staff work for the hospital, not you, no matter how much you paid for it. As to morphine, it's an extract from the seeds of opium poppy, that is what you tell people like that woman, will shut them up so quickly when they realize what sort of child you are about to bring into the world. Oh, and before anyone says that woman can fire someone.. That then just shows how stupid the US hospital system is to allow such to happen, because honestly that shouldnt happen. the person works for the hospital, not the woman, she doesnt pay their direct salary and in OPs words of saying they pay to be there, would mean that OP pays the woman, NOT the hospital.
Actually, the best part about NOT having Universal Healthcare in the US is that we CAN choose who treats us and we CAN fire a doctor from our care if we don't like them. They are employed by the hospitals or clinics BUT we fire them from "our team" of care givers and can choose someone else. There are soooo many awful doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, ultrasound techs, surgeons, etc that I have encountered... Ones who have a God complex, ones who refuse to prescribe medications, ones who think you lie about everything, ones who put fake notes in your medical report if you question them. If a doctor is not a good fit for you, it's your right to find a different one, even in the middle of treatment. We can refuse any treatment, choose an experimental treatment, see a specialist, travel to another state, etc whenever we want because we have health care that allows us that freedom. I have fired MANY healthcare providers and even had some fired from the hospital too for malpractice. You're completely wrong on this.
Story 3: I never understood birth plans. I’ve had 2 babies and my birth plan? Get them out safely and quickly. I don’t get the binders and super involved plans. And I 100% support epidurals over morphine.
Story 3 - My older brother is an MD. I used to hear his horror stories when he was in medical school, and it made me realize I had NO desire to follow in his footsteps! That woman sounded like a female version of "Oddball" from the movie "Kelly's Heroes" ("There you do with the negative waves again! Always with the negative waves!"). Story 5 - I agree OP should have called the cops. These days, I'm reluctant even to lay gentle hands on a woman I don't know, and that guy sounded anything but gentle.
Company policy may forbid it, but right at the end of "We don't carry any adult products" I would have rushed in with, "Thank you for your call. I hope Other Store solves your issue. Good day" phone down.
OP must’ve been so proud of all those things they came up with in the shower hours later that they wish they had said. The only thing missing in the last story was everyone turning around and clapping 😂
1) Well done OP. 2) OMG, some people are so stupid. 3) Oh good grief. 4) OMG, what an obnoxious idiot. 5) Good grief, what an AH. I also hope he learned a lesson. I do think OP should have reported him for grabbing her.
I have never been touched on the shoulder like that before. There was one time that I was working at a beauty college that a deaf woman that I was going to do a perm on touch me but I could tell that she was something was off but not in a bad way. You see I have very naturally curly hair from both sides of my family. So the big thing that I'd always get in the beauty colleges everybody asking me what size of perm I used. I would always joke it's natural it's a curse lol. But this deaf girl wanted to know how my hair was done and I don't know sign language so I had to write notes to tell her what I was going to do and stuff. It was a nice change of pace for a change at the school. She loved her perm that we'd settled on. Having all these old ladies wanting to look like Sophia petrillo asking you how you did your hair was something I was always asked.
The hardware store confusion reminds me of a time when one of my co-workers was trying to order a new shower to install himself. He'd been recommended a store called "R N (can't remember the exact initials) Golden". Guess what he put in the web browser search? Yep! "Golden Showers". He got some VERY interesting results. He also had to have a rather amusing interview with HR to explain afterwards 🙂
Story 3: What's worse than dealing with a Karen mother? Dealing with a hippie Karen mother. Someone really needs to tell her that the 70's are over. The last thing her baby needs is to grow up believing in essential oils and all that other hippie stuff.
I’m usually kind to medical students, because of the rare condition that I have I get asked to teach every time I’m in hospital. Until I was in for heart surgery in 2017 I’d never had a problem with any of them, or the interns I’d had either. This one fellow I had though 🤦♀️ who actually said to me “well in spite of what Dr Google…” 😠 I put him in his place in an instant. I’ve had this condition all my life, it’s not easy to live with, my mum also had it, and I’ve been taught by doctors who were TOP of their specialties, since 1974 when I was diagnosed. “I’ve had more years experience with this, than you’ve had hot meals.” He kept backing away toward my rooms window, crossing his arms across his chest. The senior nurse who was with him took over. I guess he failed that test.
I work at an Applebee's, I been working at it for 14 years. And over the many years and hours, I meet a lot of people. Even the first guests that visited the establishment when it opened. (Rip to all the first original Regulars I had the honors to Meet, Greet, Seat, and pretty much became family with.) Most of the guests I met are so nice. There have been some that are a little too nice and it gets Awkward and I do have autism so, It's even more awkward (Only the employees, a few guests that personally know me, and my Employers know I have Autism.) Other than that nobody else can tell or even know about it. These two older guys like about my uncle's and or grandfather's age wanting to give me Hugs don't seem to know. I'm still as polite as I can be, and since my job is being a hostess, I have to do my job quickly but making conversation with guests as I escort them to their tables with menus and specials including featured bar drinks and about the server they will have for their visit. Now these two both liked giving me hugs if they could. I always was kept a bit more quick and brief without skipping any of the regular details I need to script. I know a few servers see these guys as a bit too flirty with the female employees, and I have told them about these guys. There have been a few times one or both of them would try giving me kisses and one would land one on the top of my head. In my head, sirens blaring, and my soul just running like a spooked rodeo horse in a china shop. But I always kept my composure. Still smiling pretending nothing happened. Now, I have servers that don't like certain guests, and these two are no acception. After the one day these two snuck pecks onto my head, and I sat them. I seen a few servers looking very peeved and irritated with this, not only that this old lady and three other guests seen this and talked to a passing server, and after the server went to greet them and do their job and heading back to the kitchen, one of my managers soon gave the two guys a visit. Now I had no guests coming in at the moment so I was folding more kids menus and stalking them with crayons and then doing a walk around to do "Open Menu Count" I count the guest just sat and then tell the employees in the kitchen how many there are open. This helps them while they are taking on the food orders. As I made my way up one of the servers came and talked to me about the two guys. "Well, they should not be bothering or trying to touch you anymore. One of our managers just talked with those two." And yeah, it worked they stopped trying to give me Hugs or kiss me. Now They seemed to feel awkward, and have been refraining from doing anything else but give me very brief greetings and chat.
Story 4 : they shove kids/pets to stranger because in their eyes, they're not living beings, they're properties and deep down they don't care about what happens to them.... properties can be *replaced* after all..... Story 5 : once again, those kind of guys know they're not employee... they just want an excuse to powerflex and harrass a women. Bonus point if the woman is attractive and/or dressed fancy. And the commenter is so right. I've had a similar story (minus the karen part it was a genuine accident) a guy grabbed me by the waist from behind in a waiting line and by sheer reflex I crash his floating rib with my elbow (I do martial art, those reflexes are ingrained in us). The guy ended on the floor wheezing with his girlfriend dying of laughter in the background (she was wearing the same color as me) and my PANICKING MY SH*T OUT (in Belgium you can be banned from doing any martial art if you hurt someone like that and .... weeelll I technicaly COULD have broken something in his chest.....)
Security cameras are a god sent. It protects the innocent. It protects both men and women who are falsely accused. It protects both men and women who are being assaulted. Many innocent people have been assaulted or accused without evidence. I remember growing up being told how bad it is to lose your privacy due to security cameras. I am now mostly grateful.
"I used to be a people-person, but *people* ruined it."
Truer words were never spoken. I love humanity, except for all the damned people.
Too damn peoply out there
Generalizing from bad examples only proves you're essentially selfish. So maybe "all the damned people" aren't the problem. As they say, if you meet an asshole in the morning, you've met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, _you're the asshole._
Sounds like a Peanuts strip series where Linus wanted to be a doctor. Lucy told him that he couldn't be a doctor as he had no love for humanity. As Lucy walked away Linus screams at her "I do too have a love for humanity, it's people I can't stand."
There is actually a shirt out there that says exactly that
This reminds me of the lines from the Genesis song Land of Confusion:
"There's too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round"
Story 3: I feel so sorry for that baby. That pseudo-spiritual lunatic is going to screw them up so badly.
Guaranteed that Karen is an anti-vaxxer!
That baby is definitely gonna get taken away from her with in 2 years or less, because she will insist on only vegan food, vegan baby products, and homeopathic home remedies.
If I was OP, I would've been tempted to say "Ma'am, are you on drugs? The methadone clinic is a few blocks down. But if you are hearing or seeing things that no one else sees, then I can take you to the mental ward down the hall."
And this is how Atheists are born.
That Karen needs shock therapy, period
Karen: "if youre not an employee, why were you helping this person?!"
Me: "Because I'm a polite person. Unlike you!"
I've heard of Karens who throw their purses, canned vegetables, and even a plate of food at innocent people. But now they're throwing dogs, what's next? Are they gonna throw their children at the narrator?
Don’t give them ideas
I don't remember where, but I DID once hear this really bizarre story about a parent who literally grabbed their small child by the ankles and swung then at someone else. I REALLY hope it was fake, but with Karens, you never know. I think it was on RSlash on TH-cam, but don't quote me on that.
It actually happens quite often. Look into Entitled Parents and Just No Mother In Law. Karens are generally narcissists, and fit in those stories.
You need to hear more entitled parents stories, that definitely happens unfortunately.
It’s just one more method for Karens to HOUND the innocent. 😂
Story 3: I see a future call to CPS in her aura😳
no kidding
Her aura should be white, with tight straps holding her arms close to her sides.
At the point where she was demanding to put her baby in danger, I would've told her that her aura was black because she wanted to murder her own baby! I wonder if that would've shut her up! But your right. Hopefully the father of this child will wake up and get custody!
Last story: this should be the standard response to people who mistake people for worker so they can get a taste of what they do to people.
Story 3: Wow! Talk about a Momzilla! Don't know if that's a term, but if it is, she fits it to a T. I pity that kid with her as a mom.
At least the woman in story two didn't bring the product to the store she sounds like the kind of person who would do that and still not see she's in the wrong place.
I'm kinda curious about what kind of toy she managed to break the first time trying to use it. Most of the ones I'm familiar with are rather self explanatory for operation.
She sounds stupid enough that she might think it's broke because it quit working when the batteries died. Her: You mean the batteries have to be replaced? Ohhhhhhh...................
@meh2510 or it's one of the cheap ones that the batteries hardly work correctly. I knew these cheap pill toys that the instructions KEPT THE BATTERIES IN PLACE to prevent it from not working. Yeah... ... ... garbage they went.
thank goodness i retired from nursing when i did. it's patients like this can send you nuts. and yes, i've had to deal with an aura-reader!
I am a retired RN also; so sorry to say in 43 years I never had the pleasure of an aura reader!!
Did you unalive her?
nope. wasn't worth the effort.@@nalrashido
As only a care tech, I once had to babysit a pysch patient who said he could see people’s souls. Yes, he did it to me and asked why I was a demon.
Yeah, i'm Wiccan and that made me cringe listening to it. yesh. Its all good to have spirituality but spirituality doesn't trump medical science.
I work at a dog daycare and we recently had a couple drop their dog off with our newest assistant mgr for boarding and acted like they knew what they were doing. We require meet and greets and several days of daycare before a. Dog is eligible for boarding. The couple didn't even leave any contact info just said 'This is (name of dog) she's here for boarding' and left. It would have been so easy for someone to steal that dog. It turned out to be an easily fixable issue as the dog had been to a location with our company in another town, but it was a stressful weekend for mgmt while they tried to figure it out.
I do work as a manager at an adult store. We have a no return policy because obvious reasons. We have signs and the Florida statute about returns is on the receipt. Story 2 is amazing. I had two lovely ladies call the police on me because I would let them return their....product...
i’m surprised those 2 karens didn’t catch a case from the state
@JohnH20111 the cops were throughly annoyed having to explain the laws, but I don't know if anything happened after they left. Worst part is that the cops showed up in a few minutes, but when I got robbed, they took almost 45 minutes
Pity that poor baby
Story number 2 reminds me of my wrong calls. Years ago I worked in a small hotel on the overnight shift that had a toll free number. The funny thing is that we were 888 and if you dialed 800 it was a call girl service. We got wrong calls so many times. Usually when you tell them wrong number they just hang up. We did have 1 crazy guy that refused to believe he dialed the wrong number. After he started getting rude/nasty about it after several return calls within an hour, I decided to grab his number from the caller ID, waited a few hours, and returned his call in the middle of the night for some fun. When a lady answered the phone I said I was calling from the escort company and we arranged for his request of “3 escorts ranging between 18-20 years old as requested and will be billing the provided debit card the hourly rate as requested under the false listing of Chevron fuel to hide the charges” I heard a smack and her cussing her husband out. Guess he’ll never be able to buy gas at chevron again without his wife giving him a full interrogation.
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i did something similar with a telemarketer, because i answered the phone with “Hello, Menard Correctional Facility, Maximum Security Wing, Officer Jackson speaking, How May I Help You?” and the next thing i heard was ‘Click’ , and my now ex-friend was dying from stifling his laughter
@@JohnH20111 I sometimes do that with telemarketers, only I pretend to work at a morgue or a crematorium.
OP in story one : That happens to the best of us I worked retail for close to 20 years started of kind, helpful and understanding, but the helping people like that has now made me to the point where I just don't care about anything anymore, also heard the same from people that worked for food services
WHY WOULD YOU NOT KEEP THE DOG?! If I saw someone doing that, they *WOULDN'T* get their dog back. I'd make sure of it.
Last story, OP's reaction was probably enough to disabuse the guy of trying to "flirt" like that ever again.
Story 2: Classic "Wrong Number, Lady" story. That seems to happen a lot, either because of similar names, confusing 1 and 7, or the phone number changed hands and the caller didn't know
Or people being stupid.
But the woman didn’t even listen when OP told her it was the wrong place lol
OP should have invited her to the store... located at... store address.
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I used to be a people person but people ruined it...i freaking LOVE that.💙
I can definitely relate! 😊
I have a Tshirt with that saying on it. One of my favorites.
As a former L&D nurse that story happened all the time the longer the birth plan the more the C-section was likely
Animal control should have been called for Karen's purse dog because the dog bit OP.
"Assault with a deadly weapon"! 😂
I used to work in an online adult shop for a long time. You can't even fathom the amount of people calling, complaining and sending back "broken" items to us, because they couldn't put in the battery the right way. Doctors, lawyers and judges included. The stupid was strong with these ones. Even if I told them the problem, they wouldn't listen because "Do you think I'm that stupid?"
Yes, yes they were.
Pro tip: If it turns on but very weak in vibration and doesn't respond to any inputs, you put the batteries in backwards. Just switch around their facing position and you're good to go.
Even kids know that the flat end of the battery-the negative terminal-faces the spring. Those people need a sign from Bill Engvall.
I used to work at a University Help Desk. Whenever we would get a call about a computer not turning on my first question would always be "is it plugged in?" of course they would be offended and say "of course it's plugged in, what do you think? That I'm some kind of idiot?"
Well I would walk across campus to see this PhD professor trying to turn on a computer that is not, in fact, plugged in. Happened multiple times.
Or people who don't get that HEY YOU GOTTA CHARGE IT :D but only thing I don't like is when they don't list the battery life ÷_÷'
I used to work in the cafeteria of a medical school. We had these big toasters where customers would place their bagel, and it would roll through the hot coils and out the other side. Well, one morning, the fire alarms go off and the toaster is on fire. I ran over there, and med student put her paper plate in the toaster. I just laughed and said, "And you're going to be a doctor."
“I used to be a people person. But people ruined it.” This is going to be my new battle cry.
Flight attendant story: And who wants to bet it wasn't even a delay, just a scheduled layover? The time and place to complain, IF THERE WAS A LEGITIMATE COMPLAINT, was while he was at Houston during the layover/delay.
Same name stores story: I hope she kept the receipt. But if she had I would think the phone number would have been on it. In a way it would have been funny if she had brought her "product" in to return to the wrong store. The look on her face when she realized...
Baby delivery story: I feel sorry for the poor baby. I wonder if Karen ever had any other children after that?
Pet store story: Karen is lucky she wasn't kept there for the police. Since her dog didn't break OP's skin I doubt it would be put down, but Karen would almost certainly have received a ticket/fine for failing to control her dog/not having it muzzled.
IDWHL story: From how OP describes how she was dressed and that she literally parked and came in at the same time with this bozo, he absolutely deserved all the ribbing he got.
I’m a nursing student and one day I was assigned a patient on a clear liquid diet so no true food until after the tests they needed where done. The patient did ask for food but I said I could ask the nurse to request a diet change from the physician. When breakfast came around, we hadn’t heard anything from the doctor so breakfast was chicken broth, tea, and ensure. The patient was telling me the breakfast was insulting but I did explain I had to wait until we heard from the doctor so the patient started throwing the breakfast at me and I didn’t know what to do except hope the ensure bottles didn’t break open while I was pelted with them.
I didn't know that Ensure is a clear liquid.
The woman in labor story sounds like it could be an "E.R." episode! I can imagine poor Lucy Knight having to deal with this Karen!
Or an episode of House, just imagining 13 dealing with her makes me laugh. Lol.
Story 3: Uh…what the peck kind of reality did this woman come from? Like, "Reading an aura" sounds like something a self-proclaimed psychic would do.
I doubt the kid's going to have a good home life. Karen's definitely not all there
Fingers crossed baby didn't get left with her for long. She seems off her rocker.
God, I hope cps gets involved to deal with that Aura Karen.
OP With all due respect response is translation for ‘go kiss my a$&@‘.
All I could think of was that we may laugh at the absurdity but that woman actually brought another life into this world...oh my God...
What if her baby came out and was a chartreuse?
Story 3. My response would have been: 'Are you sure you shouldn't be in the psych ward, and not obstetrics?'
#3 Do American hospitals really put up with this kind of nonsense? 🤔🙄
I don't think it's exclusive to Wackyland.
Well, what's the alternative? /gen
What do other countries do, kick out a woman going thru contractions?
I've been sick all week, so pressed play on this without my *usual cheer. My sister made me pause it, rewind it to the beginning, and, "Do it right!" So I paused it, went to the beginning, gasped, said, "Hi, friends!" cheerfully, and pressed play. She replied, "Perfect. Continue watching now." Your impact. LOL.
I had morphine with my second. After active labour it was worthless. When my son was born they were like, oh he’s sleepy from the morphine. Nah, little bud is just a sleepy guy. Like 90% of the time he just goes to sleep when he’s tired and you bounce him. His big sister on the other hand never slept well, lol
LOL. Was in Vegas this past weekend when a guy comes up to me and asks where the casino spa is. Then he looked closer and said "oh sorry, thought you worked here. You got a black jacket like the other workers". LOL I just said there's a security guard right behind you. He might be able to help. I was kinda 1/2 hoping he would be a Karen. 🤣
The OB doc should have called in a psych consult.
With the aura lady, would have been great to troll her with something along the lines of “that can’t possibly be my aura, my spiritual advisor is adamant that I am a (insert completely different color)” and be absolutely insistent on it.
Use plaid.
Story 1 - That jerk wanted to bitch at OP for his lousy flight, well OP fired back. Well done.
*Last Story-* that totally makes sense about him trying to flirt with her! Dudes are getting worse and worse at flirting! 🙄
And what’s _really bad,_ is now people confuse *being polite with flirting!!!* 😒 If I’m nice to a guy, they think I’m flirting! Even though my hubby’s right next to me! 😳 (Lucky for me, my hubby knows the difference between flirting and politeness!) *I love my hubby!!!* 🥰😘❤️❤️❤️
Lol the second one: “Ma’am this is a candy store, you know with sugar, blue dye #5, yellow dye #12, artificial flavours and high fructose corn syrup. If you’re looking to fix your dîldõ you’ve called the wrong place”
Nope, crystal Karen should not be a parent.
The OP in the last one is definitely a theater kid. I mean, they continued just to entertain that one bystander. Definitely a theater kid.
All the stories where people do nothing after being randomly touched always confuses me, because I can feel awkward about sudden unwarranted touch even when it's someone I know, and I can SEE them. If I'm suddenly touched from behind, I'm immediately attempting to step away the contact, and I only **might** stop if it turns out to be someone I know. The fact that these crazies seem to think it's alright to touch a random person just makes my blood boil.
What if the person happened to be deaf? We tend to tap the other person’s shoulder or touch their arm to get their attention if they’re not looking in our direction.
Story 3: I wonder if they could find the "Spiritual Guru" and have them charged with impersonating a doctor. If anything had gone seriously wrong I hope they could be sued within an inch of their life.
Story 2 reminded me of when I worked at a West Coast Video store which has an adult section in a special back room.
We'd get plenty of dads that would park their children in the kids section to look for whatever movie they wanted while he dipped into the back to find his "special" movie. (This was early/mid 90s when VHS rental stores were a thing).
Our policy was to say the name of whatever movies being rented were due the following day before midnight, or the 3rd day at the same time frame, except for adult movies, we just said "Your movie is due, etc." Regardless if it's a lone renters or a das with kids.
Fast forward to the late 90s and I'm working at a Blockbuster, which in its "Family Frendly" image didn't have an adult movie section.
You wouldn't believe the amount of customers that I had to explain that Blockbuster didn't have that section, but I'd direct them to where West Coast Video is and exactly where to access the section they wanted. Lol!
My favorite manager overheard me helping customers this way a few times and finally out of curiosity ask me how I knew this info (I'm a woman who was in my 20s through the 90s), so I told him. I was the only young woman working there who had zero Fs about putting rentals back, helping customers finding what they were looking for, etc.
The best days were when new stocks of movies came in because it was just my boss and I putting the movies in black, blank cases and shrink wrapping the original boxes that the movies came in.
Some came with "toys",and I'd get giggle fits telling my boss that these were the ONLY toys I've EVER seen which came with batteries included AND installed. 🤣🤣🤣
I loved that job way better than Blockbuster.
My female coworkers were thankful and a little weirded out about me giving zero Fs about the adult section, and the guys (young and older) were just impressed.
Good times with great coworkers. 😉👍
Story 4: Always call the police and press charges if someone harasses, intimidates, assaults you...or in this case gets you bit...never allow them to get away with this.
Story 5: Again...another Karen/Kevin/Chad putting their hands on someone else without permission...not a good idea...like ever.
Karen's should not allowed to own dogs (or any other living creature, including plants).
Story 3: Pretty sure that Karen's aura was red - just like a clown's nose..
Karens are such a strange species. The entitlement is baffling!
Every time someone has mistaken me for an employee, they've been very nice and apologetic about it. I feel very fortunate for that.
Years ago our land line was one number off from my dad's work. I answered the phone and they asked for my dad. I asked who it was. He said his name and company. I said oh! Dad took a vacation day but he was telling us how important what happend was. So let me call him. DAAAAAD MR .... IS ON THE PHONE poor guy on the phone was so confused. But I called the company. Me. Oh I know but you pushed 3 instead of 2 and got his home. Its ok. Happens all thr time. Poor guy on the phone..... what? Dad walked in. What's going on? Dad I know you said unless it's the president don't bother you but remember that business trip you were planing to help Mr so in so from x company. He tried to call work and got here. And I know it's super important. Also. I think he's confused about how he called here and got you instead of work. Also. Wouldn't want him to think he's not important and your doings calls. You just took a vacation day. By the end of the speel dads shocked the guy on the phone is like hu? So dad takes the phone. Yes this is so in so speaking. Yes you got my home number. Yes that's my youngest. They had a good chuckle.
That guy calling the hardware store about butt plugs. OMG, I laughed so hard at that one. That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
Needing a hotel for a 5 hour delay? What a weak man.
I didn't go all Karen about it, but I did make a mistake about shop names when I moved to the UK. I was looking for a place that sold Plumbing tools and called a place called the Plumbers Arms, sounded an odd name but had plumber in it, turned out tot be a pub.
Story 1: Batman should have been one of the doctors, because this lady was bat crazy.
Needed Dr. Oswald Cobblepot, with his patented "French Flipper" technique. 😂
..I use to be a people person, but people ruined it... happen to me before I was 16..
Story 2: Yup, you do need to be careful with store names. Reminds me of a story I heard about a Japanese travel agency that could never understand why they were getting all these weird requests from potential customers. Until a kind English gentleman visited the place and explained to them what "Kinki Nippol Vacstions" looked and sounded like to those who read it for the first time.😂😂
Gods help the child that the insane Karen had. That kid is going to have a hard life.
LOL I so (not) sorry, but I started cracking up at the second part of the second story with the buttplugs.
I have a good experience of IDontWorkHereLady.
I was in a shop, and a woman asked if I work there. I said no and she said thanks. Then I asked what she was looking for, because I may know where It was. She said, and I answered "I know.", and guided her to what she as looking for.
She was polite, then I helped her.
Story 1. Ahh Hell Yeah!!! Girl you have done what I've only dreamt about. If I only had a brain, heart, or courage like yours.
Thank God that Candy Shop Karen was buying for Personal Usage, I'd shudder to think what frame of mind she'd have been in if she'd accidentally bought some kids Adult Toys, assuming they "must be the latest thing kids eat these days.."!
I retired from nursing for health reasons about four years ago. I always wanted the patients without family or visitors. So many were so entitled. It was much easier without people around.
The candy store guy should have told her something like “you have to heat each piece so the tabs soften to reconnect. We usually recommend you microwave it for 30 seconds or submerge it in boiling water for 10 minutes.”
I have 2 bio kids I wasn't even offered morphine. I was offered an epidural but the anesthesiologist was on call and there was an ice storm and by the time he got there my son was born. I also requested one with my daughter and when they checked me it was too late.
Heh. Had a similar experience to the candy shop story. Used to work at a small store selling goth, punk and metal items. This went from corsets to spiked belts.
Down the street was a fetish adult shop, and many of the customers there came to our store first, timidly asking for whips and stuff. I used to reply by picking up our most agressive studded belt and say "this is the only thing that cimes to mind. Think you want the shop down the street."
If I was OP in Story 2, I'd start telling THOSE wrong numbers to, "Bring it back in with a receipt for a Double Cash Refund.", and let them handle their own Clientele's complaints. And, if the other store caught on, tell them, we did what we could to help with complaints. 🤷🤷♂🤷♀😕
The ora lady!!!! Omg that reminds me of something years ago! So i have a farm and breed champion milking goats. This happened before we had that kind of stock and we were just getting into goats on the farm. Had to take a goat in (cant remember what for) to the vet. My husband already knew the problem but needed a vet to detail and treat the problem. Anyway, we get there and wait for the Dr to come out to the truck to look the animal over. He didnt listen to a word my husband said and went to “diagnose” the goat… by putting his hand on her back, closing his eyes, grabbing his annoyed nurse’s hand, and begins to “feel her energy” or something dumb like that. we wasted 10 minutes of him touching different parts of her back before he did any real diagnosing. The nurse would roll her eyes at him any time he wasnt looking lol. I felt so bad for that nurse.
Story 4: What you said about the kid or animal to the "employee" and they never come back, thats too true. If OP was one of those people (which she ain't) and Karen did this and never got her kid/animal back: Its her own fault
Morphine? During birthing? I gave birth to an 8 pound 14 ounce baby and tire doing so. I had previous health issues. I got no meds what so ever. I tried to go home following the birth and was told the baby would be kept overnight so I had to stay. I was going to nurse. I overheard the nurses talking about me as in..why can’t everyone be like her. I heard new moms making demands, ringing the bell off, and wanting a three day stay.
I can’t diss her on the aura part, well I mean I can diss her for being bad at it lol but to say that she can’t have an epidural but is demanding more morphine?? Yeah no that doesn’t track.
Nothing wrong with sage and lavender. Or proper meditation for that matter. Anything that helps mom relax without negative side effects is beneficial.
I had to look up what color exactly chartreuse...as well as how to spell it. It seems it's a light green/yellow combination 🙂
We learned three lessons.
1) That baby is going to have a hard time
2) There isn't a woman so crazy that some guy won't knock her up
3) When you are in enough pain, all your high ideals go out the window.
$50 says the mom got knocked up by her 'spiritual guru'.
@@scaillietThe one that wrote the laminated birth bible but didn't show up for the birth? Yeah, that's the one.
I always think of the C. W. McCall song, "Rubber Duck", with the "Chartreuse Microbus". 😅
her dog attacks op and she calls his dogs beast?
karens. i fucking swear.
I had a coworker who had five kids. She only made it to the hospital once. She was a determinedly cheerful woman who was fairly philosophical about having very short labor.
S3: I feel sooooooooo bad for that poor baby being born and raised by someone like that.
If I encountered that aura Karen, I'd quip at her: "Ric Flair called. He wants his woo back."
"Woo woo." That's going to be my new term for crazy people.
the other one is 5150
Nurses encounter all kinds of people...I work with nurses a lot (but am not in the medical field myself) and there was this one story about a mother whose child is now going to live with a life-long disability, because she refused to get her child vaccinated (Polio). When the nurse questioned why she didn't bring her child in for the free vaccine (required for documentation purposes as up to that point the disease had been considered eradicated from our country, which is sadly no longer the case) the mother's response was, "Oh, I just didn't feel like it, I don't have time for that."
Make sure you call the correct number, AND make sure you listen to what the person picking up the phone says. I'd almost bet my house that the OP in that story said something along the lines of, "Hello, you've reached X hardware store, how may I help you?" giving the caller the perfect cue to say "oh, I"m sorry, I dialed the wrong number".
I guess I'm lucky! I've work in the grocery & retail for around 8 years and I can only go for 3 or 4 story. Like the time I heard them speak french (I'm in a french region) in the next alley and they arrive in mine and start speaking another langage, when they whisle at me to from 50ft to have some help instead of coming to me and ask like any other human being, the guys that didn't believe our store didn't sold a format of nails (probably the only one that rose his voice to me actually)... but no tentrum or "I'll get your job!".
If I was OP dealing with Woo Woo Karen, when she said her Birth Plan was decided in consultation with her Spiritual Guru, I'd have looked at her and asked "And just wear did your Spiritual Guru get their Medical License?" and then just flatly told her that the following demands are NOT going to happen as they are a danger to your baby...
Yah, I'd have been "Fired" by her too but at that point, I'd see that as a WIN due to not being able to put up with her Insanity anymore and very likely about to lose what little Filter I have left...
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I would've threatened to have her restrained if she didn't shut up and follow what the doctors say. Then make good on that threat when she gets too rowdy.
If that woman had been in U.K. nhs she would have discovered all the staff had bright red aura then told to grow up !
Calling a hardware store about... butt plugs...
I wonder if those calls are recorded. YIKES!!! 😆😆😆
Story 3 - "I paid to be here." I love how she kept throwing that around. Even if you Pre-paid for your service, you dont have full say in who is to treat you. All the staff work for the hospital, not you, no matter how much you paid for it. As to morphine, it's an extract from the seeds of opium poppy, that is what you tell people like that woman, will shut them up so quickly when they realize what sort of child you are about to bring into the world.
Oh, and before anyone says that woman can fire someone.. That then just shows how stupid the US hospital system is to allow such to happen, because honestly that shouldnt happen. the person works for the hospital, not the woman, she doesnt pay their direct salary and in OPs words of saying they pay to be there, would mean that OP pays the woman, NOT the hospital.
Actually, the best part about NOT having Universal Healthcare in the US is that we CAN choose who treats us and we CAN fire a doctor from our care if we don't like them. They are employed by the hospitals or clinics BUT we fire them from "our team" of care givers and can choose someone else. There are soooo many awful doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, ultrasound techs, surgeons, etc that I have encountered... Ones who have a God complex, ones who refuse to prescribe medications, ones who think you lie about everything, ones who put fake notes in your medical report if you question them. If a doctor is not a good fit for you, it's your right to find a different one, even in the middle of treatment. We can refuse any treatment, choose an experimental treatment, see a specialist, travel to another state, etc whenever we want because we have health care that allows us that freedom. I have fired MANY healthcare providers and even had some fired from the hospital too for malpractice. You're completely wrong on this.
Story 3: I never understood birth plans. I’ve had 2 babies and my birth plan? Get them out safely and quickly. I don’t get the binders and super involved plans.
And I 100% support epidurals over morphine.
Story 4. If Karen had been stopped, the police called, the ctv checked, her poor dog might have been taken away for being "vicious".
purple is said to be intuitive and empathic
Story 1 - haha, pretty sure OP was quoting David Spade from that SNL flight attendant sketch. More emphasis on the "buh", Dark Fluff. Haha!
Story 3 - My older brother is an MD. I used to hear his horror stories when he was in medical school, and it made me realize I had NO desire to follow in his footsteps! That woman sounded like a female version of "Oddball" from the movie "Kelly's Heroes" ("There you do with the negative waves again! Always with the negative waves!").
Story 5 - I agree OP should have called the cops. These days, I'm reluctant even to lay gentle hands on a woman I don't know, and that guy sounded anything but gentle.
Five dollars says Aura Karen has a massive collection of crystals
Side bet: $1 for each one that's actually resin.
And probably practices homeopathy.
But not a massive collection of brain cells.
And is cheating on her husband/baby-daddy (if there is one) with her 'spiritual guru'.
And off her meds.
Company policy may forbid it, but right at the end of "We don't carry any adult products" I would have rushed in with, "Thank you for your call. I hope Other Store solves your issue. Good day" phone down.
I have sensory issues, so I hate getting touched randomly, especially when I am not expecting it. I get startled too easily.
OP must’ve been so proud of all those things they came up with in the shower hours later that they wish they had said. The only thing missing in the last story was everyone turning around and clapping 😂
1) Well done OP.
2) OMG, some people are so stupid.
3) Oh good grief.
4) OMG, what an obnoxious idiot.
5) Good grief, what an AH. I also hope he learned a lesson. I do think OP should have reported him for grabbing her.
I have never been touched on the shoulder like that before. There was one time that I was working at a beauty college that a deaf woman that I was going to do a perm on touch me but I could tell that she was something was off but not in a bad way. You see I have very naturally curly hair from both sides of my family. So the big thing that I'd always get in the beauty colleges everybody asking me what size of perm I used. I would always joke it's natural it's a curse lol. But this deaf girl wanted to know how my hair was done and I don't know sign language so I had to write notes to tell her what I was going to do and stuff. It was a nice change of pace for a change at the school. She loved her perm that we'd settled on. Having all these old ladies wanting to look like Sophia petrillo asking you how you did your hair was something I was always asked.
The hardware store confusion reminds me of a time when one of my co-workers was trying to order a new shower to install himself. He'd been recommended a store called "R N (can't remember the exact initials) Golden". Guess what he put in the web browser search? Yep! "Golden Showers". He got some VERY interesting results. He also had to have a rather amusing interview with HR to explain afterwards 🙂
No one asks me, "You THINK?" anymore as I always answer, "Yes! You should try it!"
Story 3: What's worse than dealing with a Karen mother? Dealing with a hippie Karen mother. Someone really needs to tell her that the 70's are over. The last thing her baby needs is to grow up believing in essential oils and all that other hippie stuff.
I’m usually kind to medical students, because of the rare condition that I have I get asked to teach every time I’m in hospital.
Until I was in for heart surgery in 2017 I’d never had a problem with any of them, or the interns I’d had either. This one fellow I had though 🤦♀️ who actually said to me “well in spite of what Dr Google…” 😠
I put him in his place in an instant. I’ve had this condition all my life, it’s not easy to live with, my mum also had it, and I’ve been taught by doctors who were TOP of their specialties, since 1974 when I was diagnosed. “I’ve had more years experience with this, than you’ve had hot meals.” He kept backing away toward my rooms window, crossing his arms across his chest. The senior nurse who was with him took over. I guess he failed that test.
I work at an Applebee's, I been working at it for 14 years. And over the many years and hours, I meet a lot of people. Even the first guests that visited the establishment when it opened. (Rip to all the first original Regulars I had the honors to Meet, Greet, Seat, and pretty much became family with.)
Most of the guests I met are so nice. There have been some that are a little too nice and it gets Awkward and I do have autism so, It's even more awkward (Only the employees, a few guests that personally know me, and my Employers know I have Autism.) Other than that nobody else can tell or even know about it. These two older guys like about my uncle's and or grandfather's age wanting to give me Hugs don't seem to know. I'm still as polite as I can be, and since my job is being a hostess, I have to do my job quickly but making conversation with guests as I escort them to their tables with menus and specials including featured bar drinks and about the server they will have for their visit. Now these two both liked giving me hugs if they could. I always was kept a bit more quick and brief without skipping any of the regular details I need to script. I know a few servers see these guys as a bit too flirty with the female employees, and I have told them about these guys. There have been a few times one or both of them would try giving me kisses and one would land one on the top of my head. In my head, sirens blaring, and my soul just running like a spooked rodeo horse in a china shop. But I always kept my composure. Still smiling pretending nothing happened. Now, I have servers that don't like certain guests, and these two are no acception. After the one day these two snuck pecks onto my head, and I sat them. I seen a few servers looking very peeved and irritated with this, not only that this old lady and three other guests seen this and talked to a passing server, and after the server went to greet them and do their job and heading back to the kitchen, one of my managers soon gave the two guys a visit. Now I had no guests coming in at the moment so I was folding more kids menus and stalking them with crayons and then doing a walk around to do "Open Menu Count" I count the guest just sat and then tell the employees in the kitchen how many there are open. This helps them while they are taking on the food orders. As I made my way up one of the servers came and talked to me about the two guys. "Well, they should not be bothering or trying to touch you anymore. One of our managers just talked with those two." And yeah, it worked they stopped trying to give me Hugs or kiss me. Now They seemed to feel awkward, and have been refraining from doing anything else but give me very brief greetings and chat.
I fell sorry for the baby of the woowoo mother.
Story 4 : they shove kids/pets to stranger because in their eyes, they're not living beings, they're properties and deep down they don't care about what happens to them.... properties can be *replaced* after all..... Story 5 : once again, those kind of guys know they're not employee... they just want an excuse to powerflex and harrass a women. Bonus point if the woman is attractive and/or dressed fancy. And the commenter is so right. I've had a similar story (minus the karen part it was a genuine accident) a guy grabbed me by the waist from behind in a waiting line and by sheer reflex I crash his floating rib with my elbow (I do martial art, those reflexes are ingrained in us). The guy ended on the floor wheezing with his girlfriend dying of laughter in the background (she was wearing the same color as me) and my PANICKING MY SH*T OUT (in Belgium you can be banned from doing any martial art if you hurt someone like that and .... weeelll I technicaly COULD have broken something in his chest.....)
Security cameras are a god sent. It protects the innocent. It protects both men and women who are falsely accused. It protects both men and women who are being assaulted. Many innocent people have been assaulted or accused without evidence. I remember growing up being told how bad it is to lose your privacy due to security cameras. I am now mostly grateful.