'You were rude to me': Karen gets unreasonably angry over a kid's meal

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Jun 11, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

If you work in retail, customer service, or the service industry, sooner or later, you're going to run into a confoundingly indignant and angry individual who is going to ruin your day—leaving you thinking about this interaction for years to come. It's just a matter of sheer statistics; talk to enough people in a day, and sooner or later, at some point, you're going to have a grown adult having a full tantrum in the center of your store like it's some kind of performative art piece.

This Karen took offense to the fact that her order wasn't explicitly as she had intended it to be but failed to see how her continued ineffective manner of communication (which caused the problem in the first place) was exacerbating the problem. But the customer is always right, so she became increasingly frustrated at her inability to manifest the meal of her dreams growing increasingly angry at the situation.

Read on for this story, originally shared on Reddit's r/entitledpeople subreddit. Next, check out this entitled customer who threw a fit after realizing she had to wait in line like everyone else.