"I am rude? I. AM. RUDE?": Airport Karen loses it when a couple doesn't give up their seat at the terminal, so they turn the tables on her

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 21, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Traveling should be a fun adventurous time for you and your partner. Sure, planning everything can be stressful and getting there can be exhausting, but even those parts are still pretty exciting. As long as you go into it with an open mind and ready for any sort of hiccup on the road, you're going to have a great time. However, there are the occasional Karen situations that can put a heavy damper on things. This poor couple, according to the Reddit post, had a Karen encounter first thing. They were early to their flight, so they were the only ones sitting at the terminal. A Karen and her mother come barreling in reeking of entitlement. The husband of the couple was in the restroom, so the wife was sitting there in her own seat with her husbands things next to her in his seat. The Karen demanded that she remove her husband's things so she could sit there. Instead of getting flustered and red-in-the-face like the go-to for Karens, this woman looked her directly in the eyes and turned the tables so hard on her. Satisfyingly, it worked so well, the Karen huffed and puffed and sat somewhere else. Read how it all went down below! 

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    Font - Posted by u/Hainkpe 15 hours ago Entitled Flyer S Many years ago, my husband and I had to fly from Portland, Oregon to Washington, DC.
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    Font - Our flight was at 9 am, so we arrived a bit early to get breakfast. We arrived at the gate with about an hour and half to go before the flight. The gate was empty. Not even a gate agent had arrived. We chose a three seat couch facing the walkway of the
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    Font - terminal. My husband was sitting at the end, I was in the middle. He got up to go use the restroom and I was left with his coat, books, and our bags. I stayed in the middle, but I put his coat and his book in his seat.
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    Font - Down the cooridor comes a woman walking with a porter pushing an older woman in a wheel chair. The woman walking said in a very loud voice, to put her mother there and she was going to sit there. I heard her but stopped paying attention. The woman
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    Font - walks up to me, tells me to move my husbands coat and book so she could sit there. I looked at her and laughed. I told her to go sit somewhere else. I was not moving my husband's things. She got nasty. Told me I was being rude and that I should move.
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    Font - I told her to "hit the road" and "no means no." She started to yell so I said she was rude and to leave me alone. That did it. She started repeating over and over that "I am rude? I. AM. RUDE?" The poor porter. He pushed the woman in the wheelchair over near
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    Font - the gate and left. The woman stood there for a long time glaring at me asking how she was she being rude. She finally left when my husband walked up and sat down. He asked me what happned, so I told him. He looked at the
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    Font - woman then said with our luck we would be seated next to her on the plane. Thankfully we weren't, cos I would have got off the plane.
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    Font - defenestrayed. 15 hr. ago I hope she was just passing through Portland. We prefer people with a lot more chill here.
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    Font - LoubyAnnoyed 10 hr. ago I must admit that as a disabled flyer the number of people who sit in the first row of seats at the gates at my airport that are labelled as priority
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    Font - seating for the disabled is astounding. The reason they do it is because the priority seating signage is ridiculously hard to see. I really hope this was the case at your airport.
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    Font - ApprehensiveCut9809. 9 hr. ago In 1993, my new wife and I were living in Killeen, Texas and attending a movie at an older movie theater.
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    Font - It's one of those huge ones with only one screen. We were the only ones at that matinee movie. This theater probably held several hundred moviegoers, and we
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    Font - were the only two people in the theater. Just before the movie started, an older couple of women (probably pre-Karens) sat directly in front of us carrying on a loud conversation as the
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    Font - previews started. We got up and relocated a few rows in front of them. They were so rude, but really, they were entitled to sit wherever they wanted to sit. It
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    Font - just seemed odd to sit directly in front of the only two people in the theater, especially if they were going to talk during the movie (which they did).
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    Font - OddSetting5077 · 2 hr. ago I arrived early at some kind of museum experience. Picture a room full of long benches where you sit a watch something or other happen (I can't even
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    Font - remember). I was the first person in the room, sat about a foot from the end of one of 20 benches. Older woman (daughter?) enters the room guiding an even older woman who was struggling to walk
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    Font - and plopped her down on that tiny bit of bench to my right side. I thought."interesting" as there were 19 other benches plus 8 feet of bench to my left
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    Font - The daughter stands behind me with her mom right next to me. As it gets time for the show to start the daughter begins this shuffle behind me..moving back and
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    Font - forth..I realize it's her way of signalling that she wants my seat. I get up and turn to her and tell her "you were so rude to expect me to now move when the room was empty and you could have sat your mother
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    Font - anywhere". Daughter looks at me gobsmacked, frozen in shock. Her mouth was literally hanging open.
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