‘This is why I hate people’: Pizza Karen thinks waitress is a teen mom, tips heavily, then demands money back

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 14, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

No one said tipping should be about whether or not you're the mother of the crying baby in the restaurant. Rather, tipping should always just be about the service, and you know, because it's the right thing to do. But that's not what this Karen did. She was tipping the waitress heavily because she thought she was a teen mom. In fact, the baby in the restaurant was actually the manager's kid, and the waitress was just checking on the baby every so often to make sure everything was ok. 

 

When Karen returned to the pizza place a week and a half later, she was astounded to discover that the baby did not belong to the waitress and immediately demanded her money back. Thankfully, the waitress stood her ground and didn't put up with any of Karen's nonsense. Keep scrolling below for the full post!

 

For more, here is another story about a crazy Karen at a hotel. 

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    Food - "Customer wants me to pay back my tip."
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    Font - Customer wants me to pay back my tip. S This happened about a year or two ago. I used to be a waitress in a small pizza restaurant. It was fun, I made lots of friends and I knew most of my customers on a first name basis. Sometimes the owners of the restaurant couldn't have a baby sitter for their son, who was about a year old at the time. So, they would set up a crib for the baby up on the floor, and I would often make sure he was okay. I didn't have to, because his mom was doing it too,
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    Font - Fast forward a week and a half, and they come in again and ask where my baby is. I said "oh, he's not mine. But he probably has a babysitter today." The one woman then get extremely upset with me, saying I should have clarified he wasn't mine. I said "I'm 16. If I had a child, trust me, things would be a lot different." She began yelling, saying they wanted her tip back, and I should clarify each time there's a kid here that it's not mine, because it's very misleading. I told them that I
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    Font - PipeInevitable9383. 4 days ago So you AREN'T a teen mom?! How dare you ! Make this worker put "childless" under name tag so I don't tip her more. 379 Reply Share
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    Font - WeirdNonHuman OP. 4 days ago I know! How dare I. Should be ashamed of myself. 145 Reply Share
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    Font - daylily61 4 days ago You certainly didn't owe her your tip back. Tips are based on the server's level of service and the total of the bill, not on what the customer assumes about the server's private life. 204 Reply Share
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    Font - WeirdNonHuman OP. 4 days ago Yeah, and I didn't give it back either. Had no plans to, considering I had already spent it on gas and my car payment. 124 Reply Share
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    Font - MrsMurphysCow. 4 days ago I'm an old woman -75 next month. And I swear by all that is holy that I do not understand other old women like this. Who cares if it was your kid or not? I would have tipped you extra because you were doing your job well and taking time to check on the baby. And who is so dumb to think that an employee in a busy restaurant would even be allowed to bring their young baby to work? Sounds like these ladies have spent too many years swallowing too much alcohol, mindi
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    Font - JustanOldBabyBoomer. 4 days ago I presume that Entitled B got PERMA- BANNED! 59 Reply Share WeirdNonHuman OP. 4 days ago She 100% did. 48 Reply Share
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    Font - measaqueen 4 days ago This opposite reminds me of the Family Guy episode when Meg pretended her younger brother is her son to earn extra tips while working at a diner.
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    Font - txparrothead58. 4 days ago Brings back memories. There was a local Italian restaurant near us when our daughter was a small baby. We went there for pizza every Friday evening. Often, the nice young ladies working there would carry her around so we could eat.
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    Font - MrDaburks 4 days ago FWIW I've heard of people running scams in this way. They tip using counterfeit bills, then come back a few days later, find some asinine thing to make a big issue out of, and demand their tip back. Not the case here, I think, but it does happen.
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    Font - Iceman_001 4 days ago The lesson here is, tip based on service and not because you feel sorry for the "single teenage mother"!
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    Font - Robot Mustache - 4 days ago So basically if you are even near a baby, you need to whip out a bull horn to notify everyone in the vicinity that the child is not yours about every 5 minutes or so. Maybe have a device that beeps like a truck backing up if you start walking near a child that isn't yours? Maybe have a strobing light too?
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    Font - Fitz_2112 4 days ago NTA. How dare you ruin the narrative this woman built up in her mind about giving charity to the poor teen mom. You don't owe her
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    Rectangle - Leather_Captain1136. 4 days ago You messed up Karen's good deed, she literally tried to make you pay
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    Font - Didntwakeuprich. 4 days ago This is why I hate people. The utter nerve is astonishing. I'm glad they got kicked out and glad you were able to shuffle that to someone else (but sorry they had deal with Karen at all. She can go drown in her own vomit
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