There were a couple of stories where OP didn't press charges and it did not go well with anyone. In one a Karen killed a puppy and in another the Karen ended up finally getting arrested and banned from 2 stores.
It's more common than you think Trynia. My wife was confined to a wheelchair about 12 years ago after a heart attack and two strokes, obviously affecting her mobility. I was her full time caregiver, and we were in a local Tesco store when the dreaded 'Ahemmmmm' came from behind me. Yep, the full stereotypical Karen decked out in full regalia. The store was a bit busy so quite a few people around. (This happened in the UK). Now the chair my wife was in was one that we bought, lightweight aluminium, with a really nice metallic blue paint job, since most standard chairs were a bit too big for her to be comfortable in (She was not very big). Anyhoo, out of her mouth comes 'You need to hand over that chair and let me use it for my daughter since she is tired'. One of those "wriggle fingers in ears to make sure you heard that correctly" moments. Stunned me into silence for a few seconds, but given that I had in my younger days been UK navy, you can imagine I have a pretty 'colourful' command of language. I had half the store in stitches of laughter saying the things to her that I did, not printable on Reddit regardless that I didn't use swearwords in front of the little girl. The poor daughter was almost in tears at her mothers behaviour and kept trying to tell us she is sorry. My wife beckoned her over and gave her a little hug, reassuring her it was not her fault. THEN the Karen tried to say my wife had assaulted her daughter. Thankfully security arrived with a couple of cops in tow. I am glad they appeared, because my blood was boiling, and I was getting to that 'losing it' stage. A few mins later after watching video and listening to some customers, the manager banned her from the store for life. Dunno if she was ever charged with anything and I never saw her again, but I often remember her daughter and feel sorry for the life she must have been living with a Karen for a mother.
@@stoopingfalcon891 I'm a Marine Corps veteran and can imagine... I probably would have had similar issues while in my wheelchair if I wasn't a very large Brown man. I have had people just pick up my cane and start playing with it, though. No, there's not a sword in it. And no, it's not for you to grab, especially since I don't know you. 😕
@@Spotastic9 Yeah I am 67m and have to use a cane. Parents that think my cane is a toy for their kids to play with never cease to astonish me. Tip for you if you don't mind me saying, make a lanyard (I use a dog leash clip and a shoelace attached to the cane that you can clip to your belt). Pretty sure as a marine you can come up with something similar. I am uk ex navy, but if permitted may i offer 'Semper Fi' for your service?
Having people believe im faking my illness is such a terrifying concept. An old man asked me if my cane was mine. The implication that it wasn't mine upsets me so much. Then there are the people who think they can play with my cane just because I put it down. No, get your hands off my mobility aid.
I'm sorry but I hope the gentleman who was injured by the woman over his walker sues for the highest amount possible. The last story, do not ever show your ID to a stranger. Call the cops. Let them take care of the accusers.
Also, do not ever show your ID to a cop. Call a lawyer. Let them take care of the accusers. EDIT: This advice is just for the US, since the cops here are, in general, bastards and don't help people, they enforce laws, and sometimes enforce made up laws.
You're forgetting that Karen would get that information anyway, especially if the Cops get involved. Seriously, if I was a Cop, I'd let her hear OP's age and date of birth at FULL volume over my radio and say "Now, unless you wanna try accusing ME, a POLICE OFFICER, of lying about this person's age, I'd leave of your own volition WHILST you STILL can.."
The story with the rollator is why I'm getting a forearm braced crutch because I'm terrified of entitled people taking my walker cause I'm young and don't look like I'm disabled. Also the other story with the Karen thinking OP was in high school should've been told "yes education is very important, you'd be a great example of why"
@ Maria S I know right… some people say the dumbest nonsense to me I’m high functioning autistic and don’t have a high “tolerance” for is “Karens” the proper term?!?
Story 3: I swear, disabled people seem to get the worst because they don't have the strength to protect themselves. OP in this case was harassed and practically shoved off their rollator, causing some bad injuries. At least the Karen eventually accepted her wrongs in court, though it probably would be because she had no way to get out of that.
My Nan uses a roller, stick AND scooter. Touch either one of those, and not only will I kick your arse, so will my Nan and she's 76! Edit:She was probably told by her Solicitor to show remorse, otherwise she'd be facing a longer sentence if she didn't..
I'm 37 years old, with one of those fun "invisible" disabilities. I have lumbar spinal stenosis. Basically the bones of my spine, instead of having a nice hollow in the middle for the cord of nerves, are caved inward and putting pressure on said nerves. It causes a LOT of pain and weakness in my spine, hips and legs. Walking or standing for more than a few minutes results in me bent forward until I'm basically putting my head where my hips are. I use a cane a lot of the time, just to help me stay upright, and give me some support. On a really bad day I have a walker. But on the outside I look fine, unless you have X-ray vision you can't SEE that my spine wants to murder me or cause me paralysis (which can happen as stenosis worsens over time) And I look young, I have a round face, and no real wrinkles or anything (yay skin care), and so far no one has challenged me over my cane or walker. I live in fear of one of these sort of things happening, because if they yank my stuff away, I'll hit the ground, and I don't respond well to aggression. I cry in reflex. So there will be a 37 year old woman on the ground crying like a baby and probably screaming because how else do you get people's attention? Honestly, I'm glad no one has done it, and if they do... Yikes. I'm scared of people as it is!
I was diagnosed with a chronic pain disorder when I was like 21, and even though I don't need a cane anymore (it's off with a younger friend of mine with a spinal injury), I did get stopped by one older woman one time when I was out by myself. Fortunately I live in Australia, and we seem to get less Karens, so she was nice and sympathetic after asking me why I was using it. Talked about her friends that have the same condition and about how hard it is, and giving me her best wishes I hope if someone asks about your mobility aids that they're just as nice towards you, because even the looks strangers give can be a lot to deal with 😔
Sound a lot like my daughter. She lost a leg in a bad accident few years ago. Most days shes fine walks around no problem, but some days its just awful for her, so she takes the cane out and we use the disabled spots. Thankfully no one has harassed her over it yet, but I dread the day someone tries to take that cane away. Because right after she falls, everyone around would likely get to see a Karen being beaten with a prosthetic leg. But even if its not clearly obvious, people who care see people struggling, most of us care, sadly there are Snooty's that well don't
I understand what you are saying and how some disabilities are not visible and how some people treat those who are not visibly disabled. I have been there myself - I have 16 herniated, deteriorated, and nonexistent discs in my back and neck out of the 23 total discs in the human spinal column, combined with scoliosis and arthritis of my spine. Severe pain 24/7 and doctors who refuse to prescribe any medications for the pain because only opiates are enough to reduce the pain.
Even employees can have very good reasons for not knowing where something is. They could be new, work in a different department, or the store could have very recently reorganized, just to name a few. Sometimes, I feel like we need to start an anti-Karen group that leaves a review like, “let’s unruly customers ruin everyone’s day without consequence” on any store that does that, every single time it happens. Until, management takes the hint and realizes that letting customers act like brats ruins their reputations and profits. Remember, it’s not Karen-behavior to politely try to deal with genuine problems.
That actually sounds like a great idea. Having reviews with 1 starts like "was extremely unprofessional by letting people have a tantrum/ruckus and rewarding them instead of removing them from the premises."
I work at a store, and a customer was yelling at me because I couldn't show him where the nail clippers were. I knew where they were, but I couldn't think when he is just getting mad at me for nothing. Luckily, another customer came to my rescue. When the yeller got his name clippers, he called me an it. I'm trans, and that warmed my heart, because most people call me Sir and stuff (it's annoying, but it makes sense as I still look male as a trans girl, expecially in my work clothes). Basically, it would have been easier not to yell at me for some nail clippers.
I gather that these "managers" are a product of times when "business advice" lectures harped on about customers being the most important resource for a business, with employees being 'way down the list in importance. This is ass-backwards. Without employees, and good employees at that, you could have as many customers as you can imagine but you'll still lose money due to lack of good service for them. First, take care of your employees, then the customer service will mostly take care of itself. To put it more bluntly, employees are a business' most valuable resource. Good employees attract good customers and more of them. Bad (or a lack of) employees and a lack of sensible but strict tactics to control problem customers will drive away good customers. The "Customer Is Always Right" mantra, besides being completely wrong and a misquote, has caused many businesses to go under. It will cause many more to go under and it's harming the profits of the remainder who subscribe to that ridiculous mantra.
I argue that if any entity of authority prevents you from having the necessary tools to defend yourself then they should be forced to take responsibility for your safety and therefore be liable in a lawsuit if they fail to protect you. So in your case if a store corporation or even just the manager prevents people from carrying tasers or knives or pepper spray and such then the law should be written so that if anybody attacks the employees the store shoulders the responsibility for damages and reparations because they actively prevented the employee from being able to adequately defend themselves. And I say this also for government entities and public spaces. If you go to a museum and they pat you down and take your knife and pepper spray away from you then if you get injured by another person who attacked you and I'm using him should be held liable.
Yeah, you argue that everyone on a plane should be allowed to carry a bomb to defend themselves from a terrorist with a bomb. Makes perfect sense. I guess you should ring the idiots who thought of nuclear non-proliferation and the idiots who thought reducing the number of nuclear weapons was a great idea and tell them. If nobody is allowed certain weapons, then suddenly you complain about the “level” playing field and cry it is stopping you from defending yourself. Because you need a taser (or whatever) … yet a 5 year old can tase you from behind and bring you down without any chance to react. Of course you’d be fine with that because you could not otherwise defend yourself.
Cold post. I googled "rollator walker".... You have to be really not right in the head to mistake a rollator walker with a wheelchair. Snooty represents the height of stupidity.
I have one. I should think the second she tried to push it with her daughter in the seat she would have figured out that she screwed up! Those things are made to be pushed in the OTHER direction and the seat is only there in case you get tired! You lock the breaks and turn yourself around to sit down! She was pushing it BACKWARDS! The handles aren't even turned the right way for you to push it from that side and the break levers go that way too! Only a total DIMWIT would think the thing is made to push in that direction with someone in the seat!
I have a relatively young friend who has just had to start using a walker sometimes. I'm 100% sure he worries about harassment when he goes out in public.
Agreed. The rare times I go to a store (I'm disabled, partly for some rather nasty breathing issues, and if I can I get things delivered because I know doing the shopping myself will leave me utterly useless for at least a few days) I am well aware that my doctor would prefer I use the motor carts, but I don't dare. I'm in my thirties, look younger, and am somewhat overweight, so I know perfectly well what people would *think* was going on. Being Karen-bait was bad enough when I was paid for it (working the customer service desk), I'm not about to set myself up as Karen-bait for no reward.
I'm a Marine Corps veteran and have needed to walk with a cane since I was 25, a wheelchair when I was 26, and a walker when I was 27. I'm almost 40 and still get strange looks from people or have them just come up and grab my cane thinking it's just for decoration or something. It's a lot to navigate sometimes, even after 15 years of it.
I had someone ask me if my cane was mine and it scared me but let me tell you, the worst part is when random people think that touching and playing with my cane is acceptable just because it's not in my hand.
@@GeeklingNo1 My friend is in his very early 40s and a borderline hipster, and he's been using a cane sometimes for a few years. A lot of people assume it's some kind of affectation.
Some of us it really is hard to tell. If you met me, you could easily assume I'm 13, not late 30's, and my daughters are my older siblings. That being said, the only person I should need to explain that to is a LEO in regards to car seat laws, since yes I am just barely over the height limit. Or questioning if I am legal to drink. Can't blame them I mean its their job to enforce the laws. The Karen's on the other hand, leave me the heck alone!
Back when I was in high school, I worked at a movie theatre and I had to deal with a middle-aged woman who didn't know the difference between a Nickle and a Dime. She paid in "exact change" but was 5¢ short. I informed her as she was walking away and gave me a Nickle. As I was putting it in the draw, she raised her voice at me "Where's my change?!" I responded "What are you talking about?" "I gave you a Dime, which is 10¢ by the way!" Because the coin was still in my hand, I lifted it p and said "This is the coin you gave me." She said "Yes, that's the coin I gave you, which is a Dime." Fed up, I said "This… is a Nickle. A Nickle is worth 5¢. If you look here closely, it says 'NICKLE.' Therefore, this isn't a Dime and therefore is not worth 10¢. Just because this coin is bigger doesn't mean it's worth more." I then dropped the coin in the draw, slammed the draw shut and said with a bit of a rude town "Now have a nice day and enjoy your movie." She walked away offended but didn't say a word.
Story 3: I'm living this same condition. Now with a pacemaker, after loosing massive amounts of weight, 50# in three months, weakness and dependent upon a portable oxygen device just to walk 30 steps, I have just recently had people in some stores wanting me to shut off the oxygen machine, saying it's too loud for close conversations or that my walker is taking up the space in isles they 'need' instead of asking me to move, I get rammed with their cart without apologizing. To anyone who is reading this, if you see this kind of 'Karenism' please step up and be the good neighbor. We have enough stress as it is and fighting ignorance is something we have had to put aside, just to accomplish the freedom of being self-reliant enough just shop for ourself.
Usually these stories of entitled people don't get to me, I just think about them rationally. But today I got angry and felt physically sick when listening to the third story. When Snooty attacked OP, she could've seriously injured a disabled person. And she just walks away and when confronted spins the whole story around to further hurt OP. Not only is she entitled enough to believe she owns the world and everyone owes her, but she's also so confident and mean-spirited that she's willing to take her violence out on disabled people. She's a menace to society and OP did the right thing by not letting this slide. Nobody should ever get away with this kind of behaviour.
The only people who should give a flying F about someone's age in a restaurant are the people who work behind the bar! Not the Karens who walk by outside!
Exactly. I don't mind a server or bar tender asking for ID and verifying the crap out of it. Because yeah I get it, it sure as heck looks to them like a 13yo just ordered a glass of wine. Or cashiers verifying it when I go to buy things. Same with cops. Its annoying being stopped yes, because they either think I shouldn't be driving or in a booster seat (yes im just barely over the limit). But it's all their jobs to enforce those laws, can't blame them. The Karen's that harass people like us, F them! I would love to know how they think someone made this their job!
And if she'd really been concerned, the correct thing to do would be to contact the employment authority in her state/country and report it as a possible violation so they could investigate. Or in other words, mind her own business.
I’ve noticed a common factor in almost every IDWHL where the Op is way too nice. Stop with that “oh sorry I don’t work here but I can go get you someone who does” mentality. If you don’t work there say that and if they give you a hard time go get an employee and tell the Karen to screw off. If they cut you off you cut them off louder
My last encounter was in a Lowe's hardware store. I was in shorts and a bright red tee shirt. I had just come from Wound care, and my legs were wrapped, up to my knees. I was using a cane to stand. Some old man interrupted me to demand 'here are the food processors?" I told him in no uncertain terms that I did ot work there, or anywhere else. I told him that the conversation that he had interrupted was with the daughter of someone that I had worked with, 20 years earlier. He scurried off, to find someone else to annoy. BTW, their stores do not stock Food processors. They are special order in the appliance area.
@@michaelterrell You don't have to explain anything you're doing in a store to anyone except possibly security, and hopefully they're not interested in your doings.
@@Kayenne54 He pushed me too far, that day. I am in pain, after a treatment for open wounds and it takes two or three days to adjust to the pressure from the triple layer dressing. I hadn't slept much for weeks, so I unloaded on him.
Pretty sure the 'theft of the rollator' was covered under the assault charges, as a disabled person's mobility aid is seen as part of that person and thus it was assault from the moment she touched the mobility aid in an attempt to remove it.
3rd story: I think she shouldve still been charged with stealing the wallet. yes she didnt know wallet was there but when you steal something...you are stealing the contents. if someone steals a car and doesnt know there is a baby...its still kidnapping unless then come back
One of the biggest values I was taught in Elementary School is to "treat people as you want to be treated." A lot of people seem to forget/ignore this as they proceed to be absolute asses to people and then wonder why nobody respects them.
Same for soldiers/veterans....like if I gotta break out the "knife hand" and my "army voice" means someone didn't get the hint the first time 🤣. They get the point the second time tho
Walmart is exactly why I now have a stun gun attached to my wheelchair (holster within easy reach, my state allows them to be carried for personal defence). Sometimes the wild heffalumps just need a little shocky-shocky to remind them no touchy-touchy.
I made a cattle prod when I was 13. It worked great on a six volt lantern battery, but with a decent power supply, it burnt out a 25W light bulb. I used it to stop a bully who was hurting younger kids on my street.
@@michaelterrell I'm assuming no footage of that exists, but in the off chance that it does, I'd love to see the look on that bully's face the first time he got zapped with it!
@@DamonNomad82 It happened in 1966, so no video or even 8mm film. I made a fake sword out of two strips of steel, with a layer of contact paper for insulation. A handle was made from a couple scraps of wood, Some lamp cord ran up my long sleeve to hide it. He was a couple years younger than me, but a head taller. He snarled, "I'm going to take that away from you, and break it." He grabbed it and let out a squeal that would have made a six year old girl giddy! Then he ran to his 'mommy' screaming for her to help him. She was there a minute later screaming that I was going to prison for trying to kill her baby boy. I just laughed at her! I was just 13.
@@michaelterrell Awesome! I had bully troubles as a kid, and they were only solved when I grew up to be very tall. No one wanted to mess with me or any friend of mine after that, for some strange reason!
@@DamonNomad82 I wasn't the biggest or baddest at my high school, but I had worked in a TV shop back in the '6s Those early, round screen color TVs were quite heavy. I carried them with no problem. I was attacked four times in high school. Every one of then learned not to screw wit me. I didn't like to fight, but that didn't mean that I couldn't. The biggest bully was a senior. He was the Captain of our football team. I knocked him down after gym class one day. He slid about 20 feet across the highly polished floor. I slammed the bag with all of his football gear into his stomach as he laid there and warned him to never make me mad. Then I challenged the 50 students and the teacher to try me. The teacher snuck off to his office, and I had 58 stooges trying to get out six doors that opened in, when the bell rang. I got mad one day near my 20th birthday and pinked up a Pontiac 389 short block. I wasn't afraid f fighting, I was afraid that I would kill some moron in self defense.
I think people need to start yelling for help the moment Karens start up on their BS. Don’t even give them a chance to finish speaking, just yell that you’re being harassed and get the attention of others so you have witnesses and help incase the Karen gets violent. I hate to think of what could’ve happened to that poor OP if they hadn’t had people around to help them up and listen to them. I wish someone there went off on that B for assaulting a disabled person. Also, I’m betting Snooty’s “designer” wardrobe were all fakes. Ain’t no way someone with cash like that shopping anywhere but Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s lol.
Story 2: OP did nothing wrong. They and friend had every right to fish there like everyone else and not allow anyone else to use their personal equipment. I'm glad OP was able to get sense into the EM they weren't an employee. Unfortunately even if entitled people realise they are wrong, won't apologise for their behavior. Hopefully it taught her a lesson, always smart idea to get both sides of the story beforehand to avoid problems occurring.
A rollator is a walker with a seat. It is not possible to sit on the rollator and wheel yourself around. A transport chair is similar to a wheelchair but it doesn’t have the large side wheels with which you propel yourself. You can either be pushed by someone, or you can propel yourself with your feet.
Actually you can sit on a rollator a roll around, although it's not suggested.but I've had to do it after brain surgery and there were no electric carts available bat the store.
Depending on your size you can sit on the roll later but you’re right you can’t wheel yourself around a person has to push you. It’s so obviously not a wheelchair, Heaven only knows what that woman was thinking the whole way around!
My mom had a rollator, but I haven’t seen this type since we got this for her 20 years ago. As a safety feature, if enough weight was put on it the brakes engaged automatically. It wouldn’t have been possible to move if she was sitting down, so she couldn’tg have gone careening down the hilly sidewalk if she decided to rest.
@@garysakamoto4007 - Anyone can scoot backwards a little bit on a rollator, but have you ever seen someone grocery shopping by scooting around on a rollator?
Why can't people just be nice? I always try to be nice to people (to the point that maybe I'm a pushover). I've worked in customer service. I used to misplace and lose my bank card all the time, so was constantly calling up my bank over the phone to talk to them. I was patient and nice and didn't stress or rush them, and they were really pleasant back. Kindness begets kindness, cruelty begets cruelty. BE KIND!
I got pretty sick and had to use a wheelchair for a while, and when strangers kept putting their hands on my handles, I started wrapping them in barbed wire. The amount of times a stranger reached for me and then said "YEOUCH!" and jerked away is uncountable, but never gets old. Don't mess with my mobility aid.
I feel like karens are just too prideful and arrogant to admit that they are wrong even when someone tells them that they aren't an employee many times over.
Narcissism in a nutshell. One of the biggest red flags telling you that you're dealing with a narcissist is that they will *NEVER* acknowledge that *they* are to blame for *anything* bad that happened, not even in the slightest, it will *always* be someone or something else's fault, not theirs. They are also obsessed with having control over others, so it infuriates and enrages them to either not have or to lose "control" of the people around them. And in the case of a narcissist who was previously in a relationship with a significant other, it is very common for them to turn into a stalker to try and re-establish control over them, and they will often play the victim and try to actually make you feel pity for them or to make you feel like *you* are the "bad guy", since they figure they could then exploit that pity/sympathy to manipulate you into giving them what they want. And if that fails, they will often then try to resort to damaging or outright destroying your relationships with your friends and family in the hopes that it will result in them being the only person you have left to turn to. They are an extremely toxic influence, and you should stay as far away from such people as possible, even if it means getting a restraining order against them, or finding some other way to keep them away from you. Even if you try to move away to get away from them, there's a good chance that they will simply try to hire a private investigator to track you down and spy on you so that they can continue to stalk and harass you.
Story 3: It really sickens me how far that dysfunctional snooty woman did taking the rollator from a disabled person showing no remorse for that person's medical condition and didn't care if he lived. This type of stuff happens A LOT to these disabled people which is why these white women Karen's attack these people because they see them as easy target to assault them and even worse, taking their lives and leaving them for dead. Karen's show no human remorse and WILL attack infants, toddlers, children, teens, adults, seniors and of course disabled people. They will even go far by taking lives not caring but only for themselves. There should be a law against these decay Karen's and show they CANNOT get away with everything
Concerning the witch who "confiscated" the walker. I don't know what State this occured in, but where I live, assaulting a Police Officer carries a minimum of 3 years mandatory in a State Prison, and that's 3 years per offense, so 2 officers? 6 years flat. She may have to answer the civil charges via video link from prison. How sweet.
judges seldom carry through in assault against police unless the officer is seriously injured. even then they try to blow it off. a cop i knew was hit by a car as a drunk driver tried to flee. in court the judge heard the driver was a baker, so he just sentenced the creep to bake her a cake. if it had been me, i would have brought that cake into court and thrown it at the judge.
There are certain people I don't mind making the assumption. Cashiers, bar tenders, servers, cops. Because its their job to make sure those laws are enforced, I get that. Now I wish I knew why random people think its their job to enforce tings, or why they even care!
I am amazed that the first Karen, with the non-fishing kids, actually listened to what you said. Remarks from Other People, usually just get ignored as they shout over everybody.
as a guy who uses a walker on bad pain days (or a cane on easier days or shorter walks) and happens to be pretty young stories like that scare the shit out of me 😱
Even though I don't use a wheelchair, I have had staff at the VA hospital stop me in a hallway and send someone to get one for me because I have trouble breathing.
That's true! I have a cousin who has to have a wheelchair for longer distance travel, such as going around a store or an outdoor public area, but is able to walk without it for short distances, like between different parts of her house. She attended a small, private religious college that hadn't had a wheelchair using student since the 1970s, and they had to update all their mobility accessibility features.
Scream your head off when someone grabs you aggressively. Don't attempt conversation with the crazy person. Don't try to de-escolate the situation. Scream your head off. "Help," "leave me alone," or just a terrified shriek will do. This is not a time to be polite. Make this a lesson an aggressive Karen will never forget. And press charges. I'm short with a very young face. I was happy to go gray, and I sure as heck am not getting rid of it.
I'm glad I've still got a solid set of pipes. Afraid I'd dislocate or at the very least sprain something these days if I tried to recall anything I learned waaaaaay back in Girl Scouts karate camp. Definitely don't have the balance for high kicks anymore.
First Story: That's a wise Karen by Karen standards because she knows how to yeet ASAP when she finds out she's about to be screwed. As for Snooty, if I were OP, I'll sue her until she's bankrupt if possible.
Man I hate when people say Karen is overused and change the name, using Karen makes it easier for everyone to know what’s going on without having to explain what they mean by a different name. It’s like an adjective at this point.
My mom and her mom were both blessed with looking decades younger than their actual ages. My mom got mistaken for a high school student on many occasions up until she was in her late 30s. When I was in high school (and my mom was 26 when I was born) some of my classmates who didn't know my family mistook my mom (in her 40s) for an older sister and her mom (in her early 70s) for my mom. I also look quite young for my age, though less so than they do, but I've never gotten any grief over it, possibly because I'm 6'5 (197 cm) and built like a light tank...
They sound like me, 4 foot 6, with a chest. For all the world I'm just an average middle school kid, and questioned regularly about all kinds of things. Best part is when people think my daughters are an older sister, that's funny. Its funny realizing just how much a kid legally isn't allowed to do being this small. But such is life lol.
Story 3, depending on where that happened, because Snooty used force to take the Rollator, she could be charged with Robbery, and considering the Victim's physical condition Aggravated Assault as opposed to Simple Assault, even before the Resisting, and Agg Assault on the officers during her arrest.
I'm glad to hear that the gentleman who had his rollator taken didn't have any serious injuries. It really amazes me that there are so many people out there who have this sense of entitlement. *shaking my head*
I work late nights a security guard, it's really boring , I appreciate your narrations to help pass the time, plus you seem like a really cool and down to earth person, what I like is that you don't just read the stories you put in your own opinions and stuff as well , thanks for the free entertainment and keep up the good work fluff!
I actually work as a cashier at the local shop where we wear Smurf-coloured vests, and I can vouch from just my 2 and a half months of working there that weird things always happen during my shifts.
Being a forgiving person is all well and good but you forgiven forget after the person has learned their lesson and are sorry for what they've done. If someone made an honest mistake and apologizes then you forgiven forget immediately but with that lady did with the roller Walker is not something that you forgive her for until she pays the price of her actions.
I'm glad the person pressed charges against the psycho Karen. Too often it seems like people think that not presses charges is taking the high road, but when a-holes act like that, they deserve to be punished.
The story from the Australian Police Officer reminding me of a similar incident happening to me, and it was in a Walmart. This was in 1999 and I had just gotten off duty and was still in FULL, dark blue uniform complete with highly shined, leather pistol belt, etc. I was looking for camcorder tapes (1999 remember) when I hear "excuse me" behind me. I paid no attention at first but this went on for several minutes until finally someone jerks on my right shoulder. I spun around in defensive posture and asked; "what is your problem." I was facing a women probably 70 years old. The woman stared at me and finally yelled, "are you going to ring me up or not?" It took a moment for this to sink in. I, in my most professional voice responded, "ma'am, I clearly don't here." She immediately yelled back, "then why the hell are you wearing a uniform?" At this point, I'm done. I turn to face her and began..."do you not understand what this badge says? Can you NOT read the patch on my shoulder? And, do Walmart cashiers wear pistols belts and carry .40 caliber autos? Before this...person...could say anything else, I said very sternly, "You actually, knowingly, assaulted a police officer. It's time that you left." The department manager, who was the wife of a brother cop, saw most of this exchange and escorted this woman to the door. Now...this story isn't done. About a month later, I was on patrol when this Lincoln Towncar blew through not one, but two red lights right in front of me. I hit my lights and siren and finally get her pulled over. I get out and walk over to the driver's window and guess who it was! And it gets better...she had a suspended driver's license AND a failure to appear warrant for speeding. This made my day!
7:14 When someone describes an uncontrollable 45 minute laughing session, I think of when Peter and Stewie, laughing the whole time, shove Lois into the back of the red station wagon, drive it to a pier, push it into the water, hitchhike a ride to a restaurant, eat their meal, and arrive back in their living room.
Story1: Australia doesn't have Walmart. The store mentioned is OfficeWorks, but there would be days where a taser would be handy for any Karen's straying around... :)
Honestly Karen's are a large part of why I'll take my anger issues with me to the grave. You lose the right to be treated with any level of decency the moment you have the audacity to treat someone as less than human. Becoming a monster and still being treated as human is a privilege that comes from those with saint-like hearts. A privilege. Not a human right.
I get it, in regard to having a young face. I moved to Jacksonville, FL to go to school. Got my apartment practically across the street from JU. Actually a street over, Justina Road, the school was on University . At LEAST twice a week I would be stopped by the police on my way to/from class asking me why I’m not in school. Where are you supposed to be? It drove me crazy! I’m 62 now and honestly, the “you’ll appreciate it when you’re older “ wore thin very quickly. Imagine my surprise when they started carding anyone that looked under 40! It happened to me this past week. My husband is STILL laughing! SMH!
I still get that at 35, sometimes its fun being 4 foot 6, but the almost daily questions directed at me or my wife from law enforcement get kind of old. Granted I know I look 12-13 and they're doing their job but still. Why aren't you in school, ma'am why isn't your child in a car seat, are you old enough to be driving/drinking/smoking/at a gun range. Yeah I get it I look that young, but doesn't make it any easier. Those don't bother me quite as much as the random people though asking the same questions, or where my parents are.
Story 3: I use a walker and have for the past 12 years due to the fact that I had lost all cartilage in my knees by the time I was 26, I'm 59 now. I also have 3 ruptured discs in my lower back. I've had people try to take it away from me 5 times in the past 12 years because either it "belonged to the store" or you don't LOOK disabled. The last time a sheKaren tried to take the walker I grabbed her by the front of her shirt pulled her face in real close and threatened to "do her bodily injury" and, I kid not, she actually asked what that meant as she had no idea. Fun fact: when I'm in severe pain I can get MEAN, ok not a "fun fact" but still a fact.
Sound like my daughter when her stump is bothering her. Give her a wide berth and just leave her be. But its understandable, since its not just pain its pain impacting mobility.
Your videos make me SO HAPPY!!! Especially on days when I'm feeling a bit depressed -- these stories and clueless Karens always makew me feel better about my life :) Much respect to you DarkFluff! Keep up the great work!!!
I always wonder when when the OP comes back with an update and says they don't know what happened with a court case. Every state that I know of has a victim's notification service that is supposed to keep them in the loop with all court hearings and procedures. On top of that, victims are required to be notified if a criminal is released of custody or any other status change. When I read stories like that, it always makes me wonder if it actually happened or is just BS.
Women on Mom's side of the family are *plagued* with being mistaken for much younger than they actually are. An aunt was mistaken for a teen mom by a cashier, Mom was accused of playing hooky *in her mid-twenties,* and an old lady gave my *quite* a look when she saw me in my Hardee's uniform. At least the old lady had the courtesy to ask how old I was. I was 17 at the time. She gasped and explained she thought I was *14.* Being a small, young-looking woman makes getting people to take me seriously *very* difficult.
Sounds a lot like my mom's family. She and her mom both looked at least 20 years younger than they actually were. Granted, I didn't have the same issues, as I am a tall, young-looking guy (though one who is a timid people-pleaser at heart). My size tends to frighten "Karen" types off, for some reason, at least if I have a serious expression rather than a friendly one.
@@DamonNomad82 Ha. Yeah. Pretty much. Dad said he never had much trouble with bullies in school because he developed an "I can destroy you with my mind" look early on.
Were they short women? I've found the short women in my family were thought to be younger than what they are... esp. me (doesn't even reach 5 ft). Once when I was 21 I was waiting for a ride outside the library and an officer pulled up because the city had a 10 pm curfew for under 16 and mistook me for being younger. I was talking about going on vacation to Austin once and a mgr overheard me and asked could I go alone. When I told him I was 26, his jaw dropped (literally, it was first time I saw someone do that in real life), He thought I was 17! I was 28 before they stopped carding me at stores.
@@Katzztar Fairly. Mom's 5-foot-nothing and I'm only three inches taller. The funny thing is that one of my sisters is also 5-foot-nothing and *she's* usually mistaken for my *older* sister. I'm the oldest.
For the lake story, when at the end op says that he laughs with his friend for 45 minutes straight, I imagine them sitting and laughing like Beavis and Butthead 🤣
As a person with mobility issues, I'd be beyond livid if someone wrenched my hardware out of my hands and walk off with it. Theft would be the bare minimum that person would get charged with
I was mistaken for an employee once "excuse me, do you work here? I wasn't in anything close yo the uniform "no" "o, sorry" that was the time before the Karens
I started allowing my great-grandsons (aged 7,8) to listen to these stories. It is important to me that they understand why their parents, my husband and I are always instilling in them proper manners. They are horrified at the behavior of these people. Even children can tell the difference.
Last story - It always saddens me when the accosted OPs have to pull out their paperwork to prove something to the entitled jerks. It's none of their business.
As someone who deals with this constantly, I can tell you its because she is just damn sick of it, and gave up fighting it a long time ago. You get used to, for lack of a better phrase, people assuming you are a kid and treating you as such. I don't mind servers, cashiers, bar tenders, and cops asking, and I'm used to showing them 3-4 forms of ID. Because yeah, it looks like a 12-13yo just ordered/attempted to buy a drink. Or a cop questioning, am I old enough to drive? Should I be in a car seat? But that's their job to enforce the laws. And honestly you learn to just work around those things. The random Karen, sadly, like OP Ive just given up, and have copies of 4 different ID's, address redacted that I show them. Like here, happy? Now leave me alone.
@@sparkplug1018 Yeah, when it's the police, or somebody whose job includes gatekeeping the minors from (say) the alcohol, I get it. It _is_ their business. It's the random Karens, as you say, that make me sad for people (apparently such as yourself) who have to justify their existence to these busy-bodies. Personally, I _think_ I'd handle it by ignoring them if they have no authority over me, but I am also not subjected to such behavior, so...I can't say for sure. Condolences.
@@segevstormlord3713 Unfortunately, when its a random idiot who one has a holier then thou attitude, and two thinks they've caught a "kid" doing something wrong. Ignoring them is next to impossible. Wish it was though. Its mainly why I don't go out alone, and just accept certain things, and try to avoid driving if I can help it. It is funny when a Karen tells my daughters to keep a closer eye on their little sister, we laugh about that every time.
@@sparkplug1018 Fair enough. I do think it'd be funny if the "kid" started asking them why they're touching them in "those places." And calling for help. Make a scene bigger than the Karen, and embarrass the heck out of him or her. Unfortunately, that still embarrasses the victim. :(
@@segevstormlord3713 Oh if I screamed, people would come running, but I also know the gravity of doing that. I just want them to leave me be, not get them in that kind of trouble.
Either the "Snooty lady" story is bogus, or there's been a gross miscarriage of justice. What she did in the story was called Robbery, and carries a HEFTY Prison sentence. Even a lenient judge would be hard pressed, under these aggravating circumstances, to give her less than TWO YEARS imprisonment. People have been jailed for LIFE for less! How did the manager not know his store didn't have 'rollators', nor know the difference between a wheeled Zimmer frame, and a motorized scooter!? Forgive my cynicism, but I live in the real world, and have for a very long time. I don't buy this yarn, despite it being as good a tale as it was.
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When someone lays hands on you unprovoked, ALWAYS. PRESS. CHARGES. Follow up on it and make sure the police do not dismiss it as a "harmless scuffle."
And always defend yourself.
@@someguy7629 up to and including deadly force if the situation calls for it. The only time you don't press charges is if Karen is in a body bag
Agree. The reason these entitled, dangerous Karens continue and escalate their behavior is that they get away with it over and over.
There were a couple of stories where OP didn't press charges and it did not go well with anyone. In one a Karen killed a puppy and in another the Karen ended up finally getting arrested and banned from 2 stores.
Yes. If you don't press charges, you deserve more Karens.
What is it with people thinking it's appropriate to steal walkers and wheelchairs? Seriously?
It's more common than you think Trynia. My wife was confined to a wheelchair about 12 years ago after a heart attack and two strokes, obviously affecting her mobility. I was her full time caregiver, and we were in a local Tesco store when the dreaded 'Ahemmmmm' came from behind me. Yep, the full stereotypical Karen decked out in full regalia. The store was a bit busy so quite a few people around. (This happened in the UK). Now the chair my wife was in was one that we bought, lightweight aluminium, with a really nice metallic blue paint job, since most standard chairs were a bit too big for her to be comfortable in (She was not very big). Anyhoo, out of her mouth comes 'You need to hand over that chair and let me use it for my daughter since she is tired'. One of those "wriggle fingers in ears to make sure you heard that correctly" moments. Stunned me into silence for a few seconds, but given that I had in my younger days been UK navy, you can imagine I have a pretty 'colourful' command of language. I had half the store in stitches of laughter saying the things to her that I did, not printable on Reddit regardless that I didn't use swearwords in front of the little girl. The poor daughter was almost in tears at her mothers behaviour and kept trying to tell us she is sorry. My wife beckoned her over and gave her a little hug, reassuring her it was not her fault. THEN the Karen tried to say my wife had assaulted her daughter. Thankfully security arrived with a couple of cops in tow. I am glad they appeared, because my blood was boiling, and I was getting to that 'losing it' stage. A few mins later after watching video and listening to some customers, the manager banned her from the store for life. Dunno if she was ever charged with anything and I never saw her again, but I often remember her daughter and feel sorry for the life she must have been living with a Karen for a mother.
@@stoopingfalcon891 I'm a Marine Corps veteran and can imagine... I probably would have had similar issues while in my wheelchair if I wasn't a very large Brown man. I have had people just pick up my cane and start playing with it, though. No, there's not a sword in it. And no, it's not for you to grab, especially since I don't know you. 😕
@@Spotastic9 Yeah I am 67m and have to use a cane. Parents that think my cane is a toy for their kids to play with never cease to astonish me. Tip for you if you don't mind me saying, make a lanyard (I use a dog leash clip and a shoelace attached to the cane that you can clip to your belt). Pretty sure as a marine you can come up with something similar. I am uk ex navy, but if permitted may i offer 'Semper Fi' for your service?
@@stoopingfalcon891 Of course. Thank you for your service, too.
@@Spotastic9 Respect brother.
Having people believe im faking my illness is such a terrifying concept. An old man asked me if my cane was mine. The implication that it wasn't mine upsets me so much.
Then there are the people who think they can play with my cane just because I put it down. No, get your hands off my mobility aid.
Parents are awful sometimes, "Oh, it's OK, just let Sally play with while you're not using it." Sometimes people are dumber than dirt. 😮
@@CarolHearn-qz5pxthis is why we should put defensive weapons within our canes...like swords and pepper spray. :D
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Or taser tipped..
@@Silveryfoxy hmmmm....ye
Okay, I know that other people can't play with it, but can I play with it?
I'm sorry but I hope the gentleman who was injured by the woman over his walker sues for the highest amount possible. The last story, do not ever show your ID to a stranger. Call the cops. Let them take care of the accusers.
100% agreed.
Also, do not ever show your ID to a cop. Call a lawyer. Let them take care of the accusers.
EDIT: This advice is just for the US, since the cops here are, in general, bastards and don't help people, they enforce laws, and sometimes enforce made up laws.
Last story, OP made a bad mistake of showing a Karen her ID.
NEVER give a Karen ANY of your personal information
You're forgetting that Karen would get that information anyway, especially if the Cops get involved.
Seriously, if I was a Cop, I'd let her hear OP's age and date of birth at FULL volume over my radio and say "Now, unless you wanna try accusing ME, a POLICE OFFICER, of lying about this person's age, I'd leave of your own volition WHILST you STILL can.."
Agreed. Tell the Karen to fro and myob.
@@flashstudiosguy they don’t give that information to an aggressor, what fucked up fantasy land do you live win?
Friend of mine printed fake business cards. Worked 3 times so far.
rollator story. since OP wrote that the daughter looked embarrassed is a good sign that she's NOT going to turn out like Snooty.
Poor OP with the Rollator: Why don't people scream out for "SECURITY!" when someone is behaving like Snooty?
I just throat punch them.
Because there's hardly anybody in stores nowadays. I doubt there is anyone in security in stores these days to find.
The story with the rollator is why I'm getting a forearm braced crutch because I'm terrified of entitled people taking my walker cause I'm young and don't look like I'm disabled. Also the other story with the Karen thinking OP was in high school should've been told "yes education is very important, you'd be a great example of why"
BURN! 🌶
👏👏 Excellent!👍👍
@ Maria S I know right… some people say the dumbest nonsense to me I’m high functioning autistic and don’t have a high “tolerance” for is “Karens” the proper term?!?
Story 3: I swear, disabled people seem to get the worst because they don't have the strength to protect themselves. OP in this case was harassed and practically shoved off their rollator, causing some bad injuries.
At least the Karen eventually accepted her wrongs in court, though it probably would be because she had no way to get out of that.
It would be a bad day for that karen. I have several assistants who don't take any sh*t
tfw ur disabled but would still throw hands even tho ur defeat may be inevitable
My Nan uses a roller, stick AND scooter. Touch either one of those, and not only will I kick your arse, so will my Nan and she's 76!
Edit:She was probably told by her Solicitor to show remorse, otherwise she'd be facing a longer sentence if she didn't..
@@flashstudiosguy “Probably”? Unless she treats the solicitor like other people, absolutely.
Sometimes i think : Am i the only one who would forcefully remove such a person and detain them (civil arrest) ???
I'm 37 years old, with one of those fun "invisible" disabilities. I have lumbar spinal stenosis. Basically the bones of my spine, instead of having a nice hollow in the middle for the cord of nerves, are caved inward and putting pressure on said nerves. It causes a LOT of pain and weakness in my spine, hips and legs. Walking or standing for more than a few minutes results in me bent forward until I'm basically putting my head where my hips are. I use a cane a lot of the time, just to help me stay upright, and give me some support. On a really bad day I have a walker. But on the outside I look fine, unless you have X-ray vision you can't SEE that my spine wants to murder me or cause me paralysis (which can happen as stenosis worsens over time) And I look young, I have a round face, and no real wrinkles or anything (yay skin care), and so far no one has challenged me over my cane or walker. I live in fear of one of these sort of things happening, because if they yank my stuff away, I'll hit the ground, and I don't respond well to aggression. I cry in reflex. So there will be a 37 year old woman on the ground crying like a baby and probably screaming because how else do you get people's attention? Honestly, I'm glad no one has done it, and if they do... Yikes. I'm scared of people as it is!
I was diagnosed with a chronic pain disorder when I was like 21, and even though I don't need a cane anymore (it's off with a younger friend of mine with a spinal injury), I did get stopped by one older woman one time when I was out by myself. Fortunately I live in Australia, and we seem to get less Karens, so she was nice and sympathetic after asking me why I was using it. Talked about her friends that have the same condition and about how hard it is, and giving me her best wishes
I hope if someone asks about your mobility aids that they're just as nice towards you, because even the looks strangers give can be a lot to deal with 😔
Sound a lot like my daughter. She lost a leg in a bad accident few years ago. Most days shes fine walks around no problem, but some days its just awful for her, so she takes the cane out and we use the disabled spots. Thankfully no one has harassed her over it yet, but I dread the day someone tries to take that cane away. Because right after she falls, everyone around would likely get to see a Karen being beaten with a prosthetic leg.
But even if its not clearly obvious, people who care see people struggling, most of us care, sadly there are Snooty's that well don't
I understand what you are saying and how some disabilities are not visible
and how some people treat those who are not visibly disabled. I have been there myself - I have 16 herniated, deteriorated, and nonexistent discs in my back and neck out of the 23 total discs in the human spinal column, combined with scoliosis and arthritis of my spine. Severe pain 24/7 and doctors who refuse to prescribe any medications for the pain because only opiates are enough to reduce the pain.
@@damien678
If local laws allow it, get a stun gun, and don't hesitate to use it. Second best would be a small air horn. Startle the Karen and summon help.
Even employees can have very good reasons for not knowing where something is. They could be new, work in a different department, or the store could have very recently reorganized, just to name a few.
Sometimes, I feel like we need to start an anti-Karen group that leaves a review like, “let’s unruly customers ruin everyone’s day without consequence” on any store that does that, every single time it happens. Until, management takes the hint and realizes that letting customers act like brats ruins their reputations and profits.
Remember, it’s not Karen-behavior to politely try to deal with genuine problems.
That actually sounds like a great idea. Having reviews with 1 starts like "was extremely unprofessional by letting people have a tantrum/ruckus and rewarding them instead of removing them from the premises."
You do realize corporate won't change policies over that? They'll just fire those already on the floor and make them deal with turnover rates.
I work at a store, and a customer was yelling at me because I couldn't show him where the nail clippers were. I knew where they were, but I couldn't think when he is just getting mad at me for nothing. Luckily, another customer came to my rescue. When the yeller got his name clippers, he called me an it. I'm trans, and that warmed my heart, because most people call me Sir and stuff (it's annoying, but it makes sense as I still look male as a trans girl, expecially in my work clothes). Basically, it would have been easier not to yell at me for some nail clippers.
I gather that these "managers" are a product of times when "business advice" lectures harped on about customers being the most important resource for a business, with employees being 'way down the list in importance.
This is ass-backwards. Without employees, and good employees at that, you could have as many customers as you can imagine but you'll still lose money due to lack of good service for them.
First, take care of your employees, then the customer service will mostly take care of itself.
To put it more bluntly, employees are a business' most valuable resource. Good employees attract good customers and more of them. Bad (or a lack of) employees and a lack of sensible but strict tactics to control problem customers will drive away good customers.
The "Customer Is Always Right" mantra, besides being completely wrong and a misquote, has caused many businesses to go under. It will cause many more to go under and it's harming the profits of the remainder who subscribe to that ridiculous mantra.
Ahhh but you are thinking logically Gax. That is how it works for right thinkers like you and I. Karenworld is a whole different universe.
Story 1: Pretty sure typical store employees don't get to have tasers as part of their equipment. One might argue that they should, though.
Hey, don't all store employees carry guns....? 😆
I argue that if any entity of authority prevents you from having the necessary tools to defend yourself then they should be forced to take responsibility for your safety and therefore be liable in a lawsuit if they fail to protect you. So in your case if a store corporation or even just the manager prevents people from carrying tasers or knives or pepper spray and such then the law should be written so that if anybody attacks the employees the store shoulders the responsibility for damages and reparations because they actively prevented the employee from being able to adequately defend themselves. And I say this also for government entities and public spaces. If you go to a museum and they pat you down and take your knife and pepper spray away from you then if you get injured by another person who attacked you and I'm using him should be held liable.
Yeah, you argue that everyone on a plane should be allowed to carry a bomb to defend themselves from a terrorist with a bomb. Makes perfect sense.
I guess you should ring the idiots who thought of nuclear non-proliferation and the idiots who thought reducing the number of nuclear weapons was a great idea and tell them.
If nobody is allowed certain weapons, then suddenly you complain about the “level” playing field and cry it is stopping you from defending yourself. Because you need a taser (or whatever) … yet a 5 year old can tase you from behind and bring you down without any chance to react. Of course you’d be fine with that because you could not otherwise defend yourself.
And if in AU it wouldn't have been a Walmart either as none in country, that I know of.
I imagine many of them wished it was so sometimes. @@lancerevell5979
Cold post. I googled "rollator walker".... You have to be really not right in the head to mistake a rollator walker with a wheelchair. Snooty represents the height of stupidity.
I have one. I should think the second she tried to push it with her daughter in the seat she would have figured out that she screwed up! Those things are made to be pushed in the OTHER direction and the seat is only there in case you get tired! You lock the breaks and turn yourself around to sit down! She was pushing it BACKWARDS! The handles aren't even turned the right way for you to push it from that side and the break levers go that way too! Only a total DIMWIT would think the thing is made to push in that direction with someone in the seat!
all she saw was something she wanted. if it were december in alaska she would have said it was a courtesy snowmobile.
@@davidkermes376 most likely!
I have a relatively young friend who has just had to start using a walker sometimes. I'm 100% sure he worries about harassment when he goes out in public.
Agreed. The rare times I go to a store (I'm disabled, partly for some rather nasty breathing issues, and if I can I get things delivered because I know doing the shopping myself will leave me utterly useless for at least a few days) I am well aware that my doctor would prefer I use the motor carts, but I don't dare. I'm in my thirties, look younger, and am somewhat overweight, so I know perfectly well what people would *think* was going on. Being Karen-bait was bad enough when I was paid for it (working the customer service desk), I'm not about to set myself up as Karen-bait for no reward.
I'm a Marine Corps veteran and have needed to walk with a cane since I was 25, a wheelchair when I was 26, and a walker when I was 27. I'm almost 40 and still get strange looks from people or have them just come up and grab my cane thinking it's just for decoration or something. It's a lot to navigate sometimes, even after 15 years of it.
I had someone ask me if my cane was mine and it scared me but let me tell you, the worst part is when random people think that touching and playing with my cane is acceptable just because it's not in my hand.
@@GeeklingNo1 My friend is in his very early 40s and a borderline hipster, and he's been using a cane sometimes for a few years. A lot of people assume it's some kind of affectation.
@@katphish30 what's a hipster???..is he hip???????..lol!!!!!!
Story 2: Karen's "logic" Makes no sense, if she "Owns the lake" then why don't OP file a complaint against her for disturbing the peace
If she owns the lake, and is going to sue when the kids get hurt, does this mean she is going to sue herself?
She never said she owned the lake though.. she just said her taxes pay his salary and that makes him her employee.
@@sparkplug1018 XD
Karens don’t have logic. Their brains are scrambled to think the world revolves around themselves.
People who attack the elderly or handicapped should be buried under the prison. I hope her daughter gets away from this sociopath, fast and far!
Story 4: Sounds to me like Karen is the real Dropout, she can't even tell the difference between a Student and an Employee
Some of us it really is hard to tell. If you met me, you could easily assume I'm 13, not late 30's, and my daughters are my older siblings. That being said, the only person I should need to explain that to is a LEO in regards to car seat laws, since yes I am just barely over the height limit. Or questioning if I am legal to drink. Can't blame them I mean its their job to enforce the laws.
The Karen's on the other hand, leave me the heck alone!
Back when I was in high school, I worked at a movie theatre and I had to deal with a middle-aged woman who didn't know the difference between a Nickle and a Dime. She paid in "exact change" but was 5¢ short. I informed her as she was walking away and gave me a Nickle. As I was putting it in the draw, she raised her voice at me "Where's my change?!" I responded "What are you talking about?" "I gave you a Dime, which is 10¢ by the way!" Because the coin was still in my hand, I lifted it p and said "This is the coin you gave me." She said "Yes, that's the coin I gave you, which is a Dime." Fed up, I said "This… is a Nickle. A Nickle is worth 5¢. If you look here closely, it says 'NICKLE.' Therefore, this isn't a Dime and therefore is not worth 10¢. Just because this coin is bigger doesn't mean it's worth more." I then dropped the coin in the draw, slammed the draw shut and said with a bit of a rude town "Now have a nice day and enjoy your movie." She walked away offended but didn't say a word.
Story 3: I'm living this same condition. Now with a pacemaker, after loosing massive amounts of weight, 50# in three months, weakness and dependent upon a portable oxygen device just to walk 30 steps, I have just recently had people in some stores wanting me to shut off the oxygen machine, saying it's too loud for close conversations or that my walker is taking up the space in isles they 'need' instead of asking me to move, I get rammed with their cart without apologizing. To anyone who is reading this, if you see this kind of 'Karenism' please step up and be the good neighbor. We have enough stress as it is and fighting ignorance is something we have had to put aside, just to accomplish the freedom of being self-reliant enough just shop for ourself.
that's when you fall dramatically to the floor and start screaming, "my back, my back! i can't feel my legs!"
Someday I want to hear that one of these Karen’s argued in court that she was right to steal a handicapped person means of mobility.
Usually these stories of entitled people don't get to me, I just think about them rationally. But today I got angry and felt physically sick when listening to the third story. When Snooty attacked OP, she could've seriously injured a disabled person. And she just walks away and when confronted spins the whole story around to further hurt OP. Not only is she entitled enough to believe she owns the world and everyone owes her, but she's also so confident and mean-spirited that she's willing to take her violence out on disabled people. She's a menace to society and OP did the right thing by not letting this slide. Nobody should ever get away with this kind of behaviour.
Public whipping would be appropriate.
The only people who should give a flying F about someone's age in a restaurant are the people who work behind the bar! Not the Karens who walk by outside!
Exactly. I don't mind a server or bar tender asking for ID and verifying the crap out of it. Because yeah I get it, it sure as heck looks to them like a 13yo just ordered a glass of wine. Or cashiers verifying it when I go to buy things. Same with cops. Its annoying being stopped yes, because they either think I shouldn't be driving or in a booster seat (yes im just barely over the limit). But it's all their jobs to enforce those laws, can't blame them. The Karen's that harass people like us, F them! I would love to know how they think someone made this their job!
And if she'd really been concerned, the correct thing to do would be to contact the employment authority in her state/country and report it as a possible violation so they could investigate. Or in other words, mind her own business.
I’ve noticed a common factor in almost every IDWHL where the Op is way too nice. Stop with that “oh sorry I don’t work here but I can go get you someone who does” mentality. If you don’t work there say that and if they give you a hard time go get an employee and tell the Karen to screw off. If they cut you off you cut them off louder
Even better yell out very loudly “No I will not go to the parking lot and make out with you!!!!”
My last encounter was in a Lowe's hardware store. I was in shorts and a bright red tee shirt. I had just come from Wound care, and my legs were wrapped, up to my knees. I was using a cane to stand. Some old man interrupted me to demand 'here are the food processors?" I told him in no uncertain terms that I did ot work there, or anywhere else. I told him that the conversation that he had interrupted was with the daughter of someone that I had worked with, 20 years earlier. He scurried off, to find someone else to annoy.
BTW, their stores do not stock Food processors. They are special order in the appliance area.
@@michaelterrell You don't have to explain anything you're doing in a store to anyone except possibly security, and hopefully they're not interested in your doings.
@@Kayenne54 He pushed me too far, that day. I am in pain, after a treatment for open wounds and it takes two or three days to adjust to the pressure from the triple layer dressing. I hadn't slept much for weeks, so I unloaded on him.
That mentality comes from having been taught proper manners and not being an inherently spiteful person
Pretty sure the 'theft of the rollator' was covered under the assault charges, as a disabled person's mobility aid is seen as part of that person and thus it was assault from the moment she touched the mobility aid in an attempt to remove it.
3rd story: I think she shouldve still been charged with stealing the wallet. yes she didnt know wallet was there but when you steal something...you are stealing the contents.
if someone steals a car and doesnt know there is a baby...its still kidnapping unless then come back
That’s a valid point. Thanks for sharing!
damn judges like to reduce or drop charges so they can feel magnanimous.
And I think theft of the prescriptions carries an even heavier penalty.
Yeah that was bullshit, theft is theft
All Karen's need to learn how to be RESPECTFUL. I don't enjoy being treated as if I am worth less than the dirt I walk on.
@Kevinbelcher if they were RESPECTFUL they wouldn't be called Karen's.
One of the biggest values I was taught in Elementary School is to "treat people as you want to be treated."
A lot of people seem to forget/ignore this as they proceed to be absolute asses to people and then wonder why nobody respects them.
@@silverflight01 I was taught the same thing treat others the way you want to be treated
That or a good smack to the head
The problem is that society doesn’t exactly reward people for being respectful.
Story 1: I feel like Police Officers are some of the only people who have the best protection against IDontWorkHere-Karens
Same for soldiers/veterans....like if I gotta break out the "knife hand" and my "army voice" means someone didn't get the hint the first time 🤣. They get the point the second time tho
@@JJsGA I’m laughing at the mental image of a Soldier telling a Karen; That’s no Way to treat your lieutenant Drop and give me 20! 😂
@@HaakonTheRayquaza 🤣🤣
Going drill Sergeant on them is the best entertainment available.
But they have to be polite. That's the frustrating part.
I was so hoping that the Karen who was looking for chargers got charges pressed against her...
Walmart is exactly why I now have a stun gun attached to my wheelchair (holster within easy reach, my state allows them to be carried for personal defence). Sometimes the wild heffalumps just need a little shocky-shocky to remind them no touchy-touchy.
I made a cattle prod when I was 13. It worked great on a six volt lantern battery, but with a decent power supply, it burnt out a 25W light bulb. I used it to stop a bully who was hurting younger kids on my street.
@@michaelterrell I'm assuming no footage of that exists, but in the off chance that it does, I'd love to see the look on that bully's face the first time he got zapped with it!
@@DamonNomad82 It happened in 1966, so no video or even 8mm film. I made a fake sword out of two strips of steel, with a layer of contact paper for insulation. A handle was made from a couple scraps of wood, Some lamp cord ran up my long sleeve to hide it. He was a couple years younger than me, but a head taller. He snarled, "I'm going to take that away from you, and break it." He grabbed it and let out a squeal that would have made a six year old girl giddy! Then he ran to his 'mommy' screaming for her to help him. She was there a minute later screaming that I was going to prison for trying to kill her baby boy. I just laughed at her! I was just 13.
@@michaelterrell Awesome! I had bully troubles as a kid, and they were only solved when I grew up to be very tall. No one wanted to mess with me or any friend of mine after that, for some strange reason!
@@DamonNomad82 I wasn't the biggest or baddest at my high school, but I had worked in a TV shop back in the '6s Those early, round screen color TVs were quite heavy. I carried them with no problem. I was attacked four times in high school. Every one of then learned not to screw wit me. I didn't like to fight, but that didn't mean that I couldn't. The biggest bully was a senior. He was the Captain of our football team. I knocked him down after gym class one day. He slid about 20 feet across the highly polished floor. I slammed the bag with all of his football gear into his stomach as he laid there and warned him to never make me mad. Then I challenged the 50 students and the teacher to try me. The teacher snuck off to his office, and I had 58 stooges trying to get out six doors that opened in, when the bell rang.
I got mad one day near my 20th birthday and pinked up a Pontiac 389 short block. I wasn't afraid f fighting, I was afraid that I would kill some moron in self defense.
I think people need to start yelling for help the moment Karens start up on their BS. Don’t even give them a chance to finish speaking, just yell that you’re being harassed and get the attention of others so you have witnesses and help incase the Karen gets violent. I hate to think of what could’ve happened to that poor OP if they hadn’t had people around to help them up and listen to them. I wish someone there went off on that B for assaulting a disabled person.
Also, I’m betting Snooty’s “designer” wardrobe were all fakes. Ain’t no way someone with cash like that shopping anywhere but Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s lol.
So many of these people get in over their heads because they don't want to be rude to a psycho hosebeast.
Story 2: OP did nothing wrong. They and friend had every right to fish there like everyone else and not allow anyone else to use their personal equipment. I'm glad OP was able to get sense into the EM they weren't an employee. Unfortunately even if entitled people realise they are wrong, won't apologise for their behavior. Hopefully it taught her a lesson, always smart idea to get both sides of the story beforehand to avoid problems occurring.
A rollator is a walker with a seat. It is not possible to sit on the rollator and wheel yourself around. A transport chair is similar to a wheelchair but it doesn’t have the large side wheels with which you propel yourself. You can either be pushed by someone, or you can propel yourself with your feet.
Actually you can sit on a rollator a roll around, although it's not suggested.but I've had to do it after brain surgery and there were no electric carts available bat the store.
Depending on your size you can sit on the roll later but you’re right you can’t wheel yourself around a person has to push you. It’s so obviously not a wheelchair, Heaven only knows what that woman was thinking the whole way around!
My mom kind of wheels herself in her rollator. Granted, she is basically scooting backwards, but it is possible.
My mom had a rollator, but I haven’t seen this type since we got this for her 20 years ago. As a safety feature, if enough weight was put on it the brakes engaged automatically. It wouldn’t have been possible to move if she was sitting down, so she couldn’tg have gone careening down the hilly sidewalk if she decided to rest.
@@garysakamoto4007 - Anyone can scoot backwards a little bit on a rollator, but have you ever seen someone grocery shopping by scooting around on a rollator?
Why can't people just be nice? I always try to be nice to people (to the point that maybe I'm a pushover). I've worked in customer service. I used to misplace and lose my bank card all the time, so was constantly calling up my bank over the phone to talk to them. I was patient and nice and didn't stress or rush them, and they were really pleasant back. Kindness begets kindness, cruelty begets cruelty.
BE KIND!
I got pretty sick and had to use a wheelchair for a while, and when strangers kept putting their hands on my handles, I started wrapping them in barbed wire. The amount of times a stranger reached for me and then said "YEOUCH!" and jerked away is uncountable, but never gets old. Don't mess with my mobility aid.
I feel like karens are just too prideful and arrogant to admit that they are wrong even when someone tells them that they aren't an employee many times over.
Narcissism in a nutshell.
One of the biggest red flags telling you that you're dealing with a narcissist is that they will *NEVER* acknowledge that *they* are to blame for *anything* bad that happened, not even in the slightest, it will *always* be someone or something else's fault, not theirs. They are also obsessed with having control over others, so it infuriates and enrages them to either not have or to lose "control" of the people around them. And in the case of a narcissist who was previously in a relationship with a significant other, it is very common for them to turn into a stalker to try and re-establish control over them, and they will often play the victim and try to actually make you feel pity for them or to make you feel like *you* are the "bad guy", since they figure they could then exploit that pity/sympathy to manipulate you into giving them what they want. And if that fails, they will often then try to resort to damaging or outright destroying your relationships with your friends and family in the hopes that it will result in them being the only person you have left to turn to. They are an extremely toxic influence, and you should stay as far away from such people as possible, even if it means getting a restraining order against them, or finding some other way to keep them away from you. Even if you try to move away to get away from them, there's a good chance that they will simply try to hire a private investigator to track you down and spy on you so that they can continue to stalk and harass you.
Story 3: It really sickens me how far that dysfunctional snooty woman did taking the rollator from a disabled person showing no remorse for that person's medical condition and didn't care if he lived. This type of stuff happens A LOT to these disabled people which is why these white women Karen's attack these people because they see them as easy target to assault them and even worse, taking their lives and leaving them for dead. Karen's show no human remorse and WILL attack infants, toddlers, children, teens, adults, seniors and of course disabled people. They will even go far by taking lives not caring but only for themselves. There should be a law against these decay Karen's and show they CANNOT get away with everything
Agree. The complete lack of remorse from the Karen was disgusting. I’m glad she got jail time. Hope her kid is being raised by a decent person.
Just for the record, I have met Black and Asian Karens, too.
Dark Fluff: "Strap your selves in..."
Me, already behind the wheel of my car: *cinches seat belt tighter*
Same here. Best home-work-home commute ever!
Concerning the witch who "confiscated" the walker. I don't know what State this occured in, but where I live, assaulting a Police Officer carries a minimum of 3 years mandatory in a State Prison, and that's 3 years per offense, so 2 officers? 6 years flat. She may have to answer the civil charges via video link from prison. How sweet.
judges seldom carry through in assault against police unless the officer is seriously injured. even then they try to blow it off. a cop i knew was hit by a car as a drunk driver tried to flee. in court the judge heard the driver was a baker, so he just sentenced the creep to bake her a cake. if it had been me, i would have brought that cake into court and thrown it at the judge.
@realozark2349 how do you know she was a witch did she have warts on her nose and a broom?????????????
Story 4: Never assume an age (well, anything) based on looks. If anything, the Karen needs some more education.
There are certain people I don't mind making the assumption. Cashiers, bar tenders, servers, cops. Because its their job to make sure those laws are enforced, I get that.
Now I wish I knew why random people think its their job to enforce tings, or why they even care!
I am amazed that the first Karen, with the non-fishing kids, actually listened to what you said. Remarks from Other People, usually just get ignored as they shout over everybody.
as a guy who uses a walker on bad pain days (or a cane on easier days or shorter walks) and happens to be pretty young stories like that scare the shit out of me 😱
Woman here who uses one for nearly 15 yrs. I've been lucky I've not had such an encounter because that scenario does scare me
I love the "I don't work here" reddit stories!!! Thanks Fluff for always providing us with these awesome stories.
Story 2: I would have yelled out "bye idiots!" Seriously. What gave them the idea someone who was fishing worked there?
most wheelchair users are ambulatory, which means they can stand and walk but typically not for long. _they are not faking it._
Even though I don't use a wheelchair, I have had staff at the VA hospital stop me in a hallway and send someone to get one for me because I have trouble breathing.
That's true! I have a cousin who has to have a wheelchair for longer distance travel, such as going around a store or an outdoor public area, but is able to walk without it for short distances, like between different parts of her house. She attended a small, private religious college that hadn't had a wheelchair using student since the 1970s, and they had to update all their mobility accessibility features.
Scream your head off when someone grabs you aggressively. Don't attempt conversation with the crazy person. Don't try to de-escolate the situation. Scream your head off. "Help," "leave me alone," or just a terrified shriek will do. This is not a time to be polite. Make this a lesson an aggressive Karen will never forget. And press charges.
I'm short with a very young face. I was happy to go gray, and I sure as heck am not getting rid of it.
Just scream 'ASSAULT' at the top of your lungs, and repeat as needed.
I'm glad I've still got a solid set of pipes. Afraid I'd dislocate or at the very least sprain something these days if I tried to recall anything I learned waaaaaay back in Girl Scouts karate camp. Definitely don't have the balance for high kicks anymore.
First Story: That's a wise Karen by Karen standards because she knows how to yeet ASAP when she finds out she's about to be screwed.
As for Snooty, if I were OP, I'll sue her until she's bankrupt if possible.
Listening to the wheelchair story and I am shaking...I am so angry. God! Glad OP pressed charges! I hope she pays thousands of dollars to OP.
Story 2: This woman's entitlement seems to reach new lows. OP is fishing so he must work there? How did she make that leap of logic?
Man I hate when people say Karen is overused and change the name, using Karen makes it easier for everyone to know what’s going on without having to explain what they mean by a different name. It’s like an adjective at this point.
Those karen's in these stories PISS ME OFF.
When something happens with these people, ALWAYS press charges! They NEED to be locked behind bars the moment they assault or rob you.
We don’t have Walmart here in Australia. If police officer was getting office supplies, they probably would have been at Officeworks.
Crikey! A certain area of the world seems to be filled with total tools - and not even useful ones!
My mom and her mom were both blessed with looking decades younger than their actual ages. My mom got mistaken for a high school student on many occasions up until she was in her late 30s. When I was in high school (and my mom was 26 when I was born) some of my classmates who didn't know my family mistook my mom (in her 40s) for an older sister and her mom (in her early 70s) for my mom. I also look quite young for my age, though less so than they do, but I've never gotten any grief over it, possibly because I'm 6'5 (197 cm) and built like a light tank...
They sound like me, 4 foot 6, with a chest. For all the world I'm just an average middle school kid, and questioned regularly about all kinds of things. Best part is when people think my daughters are an older sister, that's funny.
Its funny realizing just how much a kid legally isn't allowed to do being this small. But such is life lol.
Story 3, depending on where that happened, because Snooty used force to take the Rollator, she could be charged with Robbery, and considering the Victim's physical condition Aggravated Assault as opposed to Simple Assault, even before the Resisting, and Agg Assault on the officers during her arrest.
Story 3: OP sue her for the maximum allowed. I doubt an arrest changed her.
I'm so glad we don't have a noticeable Karen population in my country, the "wheelchair" Karen must be on the top 10 list of the century
I'm glad to hear that the gentleman who had his rollator taken didn't have any serious injuries. It really amazes me that there are so many people out there who have this sense of entitlement. *shaking my head*
I work late nights a security guard, it's really boring , I appreciate your narrations to help pass the time, plus you seem like a really cool and down to earth person, what I like is that you don't just read the stories you put in your own opinions and stuff as well , thanks for the free entertainment and keep up the good work fluff!
I actually work as a cashier at the local shop where we wear Smurf-coloured vests, and I can vouch from just my 2 and a half months of working there that weird things always happen during my shifts.
Best person for quality entertainment 10/10 would easily watch for the rest of my life
Being a forgiving person is all well and good but you forgiven forget after the person has learned their lesson and are sorry for what they've done. If someone made an honest mistake and apologizes then you forgiven forget immediately but with that lady did with the roller Walker is not something that you forgive her for until she pays the price of her actions.
I like to imagine how these stories would end if we added a taser into the hands of the Op.
Karen:*Entitled insanity*
Op: And then I tased her.
I'm glad the person pressed charges against the psycho Karen. Too often it seems like people think that not presses charges is taking the high road, but when a-holes act like that, they deserve to be punished.
Last story: at the end, I would have add "But apparently, you didn't graduated Proper Manners School, may be you're the dropped out"
Me: man humanity can't be that dumb and cruel.
Story 3: *Hold my beer*
The story from the Australian Police Officer reminding me of a similar incident happening to me, and it was in a Walmart. This was in 1999 and I had just gotten off duty and was still in FULL, dark blue uniform complete with highly shined, leather pistol belt, etc. I was looking for camcorder tapes (1999 remember) when I hear "excuse me" behind me. I paid no attention at first but this went on for several minutes until finally someone jerks on my right shoulder. I spun around in defensive posture and asked; "what is your problem." I was facing a women probably 70 years old. The woman stared at me and finally yelled, "are you going to ring me up or not?" It took a moment for this to sink in. I, in my most professional voice responded, "ma'am, I clearly don't here." She immediately yelled back, "then why the hell are you wearing a uniform?" At this point, I'm done. I turn to face her and began..."do you not understand what this badge says? Can you NOT read the patch on my shoulder? And, do Walmart cashiers wear pistols belts and carry .40 caliber autos? Before this...person...could say anything else, I said very sternly, "You actually, knowingly, assaulted a police officer. It's time that you left." The department manager, who was the wife of a brother cop, saw most of this exchange and escorted this woman to the door.
Now...this story isn't done. About a month later, I was on patrol when this Lincoln Towncar blew through not one, but two red lights right in front of me. I hit my lights and siren and finally get her pulled over. I get out and walk over to the driver's window and guess who it was! And it gets better...she had a suspended driver's license AND a failure to appear warrant for speeding. This made my day!
Karen's have never heard the expression: "don't judge a book by its cover."
7:14
When someone describes an uncontrollable 45 minute laughing session, I think of when Peter and Stewie, laughing the whole time, shove Lois into the back of the red station wagon, drive it to a pier, push it into the water, hitchhike a ride to a restaurant, eat their meal, and arrive back in their living room.
Story1: Australia doesn't have Walmart. The store mentioned is OfficeWorks, but there would be days where a taser would be handy for any Karen's straying around... :)
You could be fined for not following social distancing rules? That’s so stupid. Glad I don’t live there lol
They couldn't pay me enough to live in Australia. If the laws don't kill you, the wildlife will!
I think that was in the covid times...
@@laurahudson8210 still dumb!
Darfluff: "hello my wonderful beautiful friends"
Me: "I have friends?"
That fishing one was crazy 😂
16:07 - Good! Always press charges!
If I ever saw that happen in story 3 that Karen would've been on the floor. Also, it seems like Karens always attack cops
I wholeheartedly agree the daughter had nothing to do with all this chaos and I hope she in a better place than she was before
Honestly Karen's are a large part of why I'll take my anger issues with me to the grave. You lose the right to be treated with any level of decency the moment you have the audacity to treat someone as less than human. Becoming a monster and still being treated as human is a privilege that comes from those with saint-like hearts. A privilege. Not a human right.
I wish, just once, I could run into a Karen. I'm definitely not shy!
Story three: She got what she deserved. THE AUDACITY OF THAT...THING! ಠ_ಠ
I get it, in regard to having a young face. I moved to Jacksonville, FL to go to school. Got my apartment practically across the street from JU. Actually a street over, Justina Road, the school was on University . At LEAST twice a week I would be stopped by the police on my way to/from class asking me why I’m not in school. Where are you supposed to be? It drove me crazy! I’m 62 now and honestly, the “you’ll appreciate it when you’re older “ wore thin very quickly. Imagine my surprise when they started carding anyone that looked under 40! It happened to me this past week. My husband is STILL laughing! SMH!
I still get that at 35, sometimes its fun being 4 foot 6, but the almost daily questions directed at me or my wife from law enforcement get kind of old. Granted I know I look 12-13 and they're doing their job but still.
Why aren't you in school, ma'am why isn't your child in a car seat, are you old enough to be driving/drinking/smoking/at a gun range. Yeah I get it I look that young, but doesn't make it any easier.
Those don't bother me quite as much as the random people though asking the same questions, or where my parents are.
Story 3: I use a walker and have for the past 12 years due to the fact that I had lost all cartilage in my knees by the time I was 26, I'm 59 now. I also have 3 ruptured discs in my lower back. I've had people try to take it away from me 5 times in the past 12 years because either it "belonged to the store" or you don't LOOK disabled. The last time a sheKaren tried to take the walker I grabbed her by the front of her shirt pulled her face in real close and threatened to "do her bodily injury" and, I kid not, she actually asked what that meant as she had no idea. Fun fact: when I'm in severe pain I can get MEAN, ok not a "fun fact" but still a fact.
Sound like my daughter when her stump is bothering her. Give her a wide berth and just leave her be. But its understandable, since its not just pain its pain impacting mobility.
Reply: "It means that I'll smash your face in so far that you'll be able to smell that your shit does stink after all without having to turn around!"
I would have used the public info to call CPS on snooty as well
Your videos make me SO HAPPY!!! Especially on days when I'm feeling a bit depressed -- these stories and clueless Karens always makew me feel better about my life :)
Much respect to you DarkFluff! Keep up the great work!!!
“Effect” the results of something happening…”Affect” emotional attitude.
"What can I use?" Well you could be our bait for shark fishing.
Shaking my head so much at these stories, I think I might need a neck brace.
I always wonder when when the OP comes back with an update and says they don't know what happened with a court case. Every state that I know of has a victim's notification service that is supposed to keep them in the loop with all court hearings and procedures. On top of that, victims are required to be notified if a criminal is released of custody or any other status change. When I read stories like that, it always makes me wonder if it actually happened or is just BS.
Or they can just not be in the States, you know
Women on Mom's side of the family are *plagued* with being mistaken for much younger than they actually are. An aunt was mistaken for a teen mom by a cashier, Mom was accused of playing hooky *in her mid-twenties,* and an old lady gave my *quite* a look when she saw me in my Hardee's uniform. At least the old lady had the courtesy to ask how old I was. I was 17 at the time. She gasped and explained she thought I was *14.*
Being a small, young-looking woman makes getting people to take me seriously *very* difficult.
Sounds a lot like my mom's family. She and her mom both looked at least 20 years younger than they actually were. Granted, I didn't have the same issues, as I am a tall, young-looking guy (though one who is a timid people-pleaser at heart). My size tends to frighten "Karen" types off, for some reason, at least if I have a serious expression rather than a friendly one.
@@DamonNomad82 Ha. Yeah. Pretty much. Dad said he never had much trouble with bullies in school because he developed an "I can destroy you with my mind" look early on.
Were they short women? I've found the short women in my family were thought to be younger than what they are... esp. me (doesn't even reach 5 ft). Once when I was 21 I was waiting for a ride outside the library and an officer pulled up because the city had a 10 pm curfew for under 16 and mistook me for being younger.
I was talking about going on vacation to Austin once and a mgr overheard me and asked could I go alone. When I told him I was 26, his jaw dropped (literally, it was first time I saw someone do that in real life), He thought I was 17! I was 28 before they stopped carding me at stores.
@@Katzztar Fairly. Mom's 5-foot-nothing and I'm only three inches taller. The funny thing is that one of my sisters is also 5-foot-nothing and *she's* usually mistaken for my *older* sister. I'm the oldest.
Pfft, get this. I'm already 3 whole decades(that's 30 years)old, yet I don't look a day older than the teenage years XP (about 14-16)
For the lake story, when at the end op says that he laughs with his friend for 45 minutes straight, I imagine them sitting and laughing like Beavis and Butthead 🤣
Imagine mistaking a plain clothes officer... For an Officeworks employee. Because yes, Fluff, that's where OP no. 1 was accosted. Not Walmart.
Always love your stories Darkfluff, but here in Australia we don't have Walmart. The store OP was talking about in story 1 would be Officeworks. 🙂
Hey look…a person wearing a buttoned down shirt in Walmart, they have to work here! Let’s just ignore the gun and other stuff…
Story one, in Aus we don’t have Walmart, he was likely in officeworks
As a person with mobility issues, I'd be beyond livid if someone wrenched my hardware out of my hands and walk off with it. Theft would be the bare minimum that person would get charged with
It always amazes me how brave people are grabbing strangers.
Putting hands on someone is a great way to end up leaving in either an ambulance or a hearse...
All karens are psycho. Always press charges against them, always.
I was mistaken for an employee once
"excuse me, do you work here?
I wasn't in anything close yo the uniform "no"
"o, sorry"
that was the time before the Karens
I started allowing my great-grandsons (aged 7,8) to listen to these stories. It is important to me that they understand why their parents, my husband and I are always instilling in them proper manners. They are horrified at the behavior of these people. Even children can tell the difference.
Last story - It always saddens me when the accosted OPs have to pull out their paperwork to prove something to the entitled jerks. It's none of their business.
As someone who deals with this constantly, I can tell you its because she is just damn sick of it, and gave up fighting it a long time ago. You get used to, for lack of a better phrase, people assuming you are a kid and treating you as such.
I don't mind servers, cashiers, bar tenders, and cops asking, and I'm used to showing them 3-4 forms of ID. Because yeah, it looks like a 12-13yo just ordered/attempted to buy a drink. Or a cop questioning, am I old enough to drive? Should I be in a car seat? But that's their job to enforce the laws. And honestly you learn to just work around those things.
The random Karen, sadly, like OP Ive just given up, and have copies of 4 different ID's, address redacted that I show them. Like here, happy? Now leave me alone.
@@sparkplug1018 Yeah, when it's the police, or somebody whose job includes gatekeeping the minors from (say) the alcohol, I get it. It _is_ their business. It's the random Karens, as you say, that make me sad for people (apparently such as yourself) who have to justify their existence to these busy-bodies. Personally, I _think_ I'd handle it by ignoring them if they have no authority over me, but I am also not subjected to such behavior, so...I can't say for sure. Condolences.
@@segevstormlord3713 Unfortunately, when its a random idiot who one has a holier then thou attitude, and two thinks they've caught a "kid" doing something wrong. Ignoring them is next to impossible. Wish it was though.
Its mainly why I don't go out alone, and just accept certain things, and try to avoid driving if I can help it.
It is funny when a Karen tells my daughters to keep a closer eye on their little sister, we laugh about that every time.
@@sparkplug1018 Fair enough.
I do think it'd be funny if the "kid" started asking them why they're touching them in "those places." And calling for help. Make a scene bigger than the Karen, and embarrass the heck out of him or her. Unfortunately, that still embarrasses the victim. :(
@@segevstormlord3713 Oh if I screamed, people would come running, but I also know the gravity of doing that. I just want them to leave me be, not get them in that kind of trouble.
Story 3:
Plot Twist: Snooty did end up living in a box... from 6 feet below...
Either the "Snooty lady" story is bogus, or there's been a gross miscarriage of justice. What she did in the story was called Robbery, and carries a HEFTY Prison sentence. Even a lenient judge would be hard pressed, under these aggravating circumstances, to give her less than TWO YEARS imprisonment. People have been jailed for LIFE for less!
How did the manager not know his store didn't have 'rollators', nor know the difference between a wheeled Zimmer frame, and a motorized scooter!?
Forgive my cynicism, but I live in the real world, and have for a very long time.
I don't buy this yarn, despite it being as good a tale as it was.