'Don't get smart with me': Top Karens of the Week (January 31, 2024)

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 31, 2024 8:00 AM EST

If you work in a customer-facing role, you have probably collected a treasure trove of experiences with Karens. Perhaps you have had far more upsetting encounters with these infuriating individuals than you would have liked. Or perhaps you find the whole thing entertaining and are able to handle these kinds of entitled humans without very much emotional damage along the way. If that's the case, then you are a far more well-adjusted adult than I could ever be. That's because when I encounter Karens at work, in my neighborhood, in my family encounters, the interactions haunt me for what feels like an eternity. 

These folks were able to get their Karen encounters off their chest by sharing their experiences on Reddit's r/F***YouKaren subreddit, an appropriate place to vent and to cope after these unfortunate confrontations. Keep scrolling below for this week's top Karen stories. When you're done, here are some petty pet peeves.

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  • 01
    Gamer Karen Folgen Antwort an @NintendoAmerica I've been a big fan of Nintendo since 1889, and I gotta say, you've fallen off. Your games don't have the same sense of fun, whimsy, and engagement they did in the past. It seems like you're more focused on collecting checks than truly making immersive content that we would enjoy. I have decided I'm unfollowing, boycotting, and filing a class action lawsuit. And if you think I'm lying, I know some of the top lawyers in the country.
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  • 02
    stungun_steve. 5 days ago I think they're serious. After all, they've been a fan for over 130 years. 803 Reply Share
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  • 03
    Kodiak01 5 days ago We have top men working on it right now. Who? Top... men. 197 B Reply Share
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  • 04
    TEAT psychobarista. 5 days ago Is this a troll that went wrong? What happened here? 91 Reply Share Mischa0711 OP. 5 days ago I saw a similar one shortly after. It was from the same Account under a different Tweet from nintendo. There they mentioned how they played with the playing cards during the
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  • 05
    No, you cannot bring your pet dog into the museum. I work at a museum in a large US city, doing interpretation. One of our tasks, which we all rotate through, is checking tickets at the front desk and letting people know where they can leave their bags, etc. Yesterday, during a rush period, I looked up from helping some folks and noticed that a group had just gone through the entrance to the exhibit area without showing their tickets. I stopped them politely and saw the tickets in question - and
    via u/MissMarchpane
  • 06
    I asked her if it was a service dog, and she said no, at which point I told her that I was very sorry but we only allowed service animals in the museum. She looked confused and said, "what if I carry him?" "No, I'm afraid he can't go in," I replied, beginning to genuinely wonder if this woman had been living her apparent 40- or 50- something years up to this point under a rock. What museum allows pets in the galleries?
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  • 07
    She huffed a bit and then started grumbling - keep in mind, the entrance area was very busy this whole time - about how "90% of those service dog vests are fake" and "they were trying to be honest and do the right thing." Not sure how she expected that to work for her; we appreciate the honesty but you don't get Dog Entry points for not lying.
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  • 08
    Eventually she took the dog outside while her kid went through the museum... Then came BACK in and once again tried to enter the museum with her dog. When I called her, she asked if she could sit on a bench in the waiting area outside the galleries holding him. Since we are more lenient about pets where there are no fragile objects, I agreed. She then proceeded to intermittently watch loud YouTube videos on her phone until her son was finished, at which point they left.
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  • 09
    TL;DR- grown woman baffled and upset that a museum wouldn't let her walk her pet dog through the galleries on a leash, or bend the rules because she didn't lie about him being a service animal. Edit to clarify: I LOVE dogs. Like. I'm the person who will interrupt conversations with friends to point out a cute pup walking past. But...time and place, lady.
    via u/MissMarchpane
  • 10
    But They Need Me!!!!! Saw a post on another forum and it reminded me of this... Back in the day when cell phones didn't exist and pagers weren't common yet, I worked as a receptionist for a medium sized medical group. It was my job to answer the phone (15 lines), then transfer the call to the correct person. Some departments had their own direct numbers and some did not.
    via u/StinkyFeet205
  • 11
    One of the ladies who worked in the billing department had 3 children (age 8-16?). They would call multiple times after school EVERY SINGLE DAY asking to speak to their mom (the most I counted between 2:00-5:00 were 8 calls). If I forwarded the call to the department and no one answered, it would come back to me and I would take a message. Some examples: We're out of peanut butter. She didn't wash my pants. There are no butter knives in the drawer.
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  • 12
    One day I realized that the constant multiple daily calls had stopped. This is what I found out later... Mom had tried to get me fired, by going to the department manager and claiming I told one of her kids to "F-off" and hung up on him (nope). Since I never heard about it until after the fact, I'm sure the manager didn't believe her. What he did do was give her the number to his private line so her kids could bypass me, call him and he'd transfer the call to her.
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  • 13
    Because his office was down the hall from the department, he had NO idea how many calls she was receiving. Apparently, that plan only lasted a couple of days until the manager decided no more personal calls during work hours unless it was a broken bone(s), barfing, blood or death emergency. She had a major meltdown about how her "babies needed her!!!!!!" and blamed me for no longer being able to receive calls.
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  • 14
    For months and months afterwards every time she passed me, she would glare. If looks could O, I'd be dead now. It's been 40+ years, but I bet her kids are still butter knife. looking for a d
    via u/StinkyFeet205
  • 15
    Karen Another Karen with nothing better to do Florida woman sues Hershey for $5 million, says Reese's candies don't have carved designs 1/2
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  • 16
    < Reese's A side-by-side comparison of a Reese's pumpkin peanut butter candy and the wrapper it came in. 2/2
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  • 17
    chill_winston_. 1 mo. ago "Excuse me! I ate your Skittles product and did NOT taste a rainbow!" 117 Reply Share
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  • 18
    The_Real_Selma_Blair. 1 mo. ago At least she's wasting her own time and money with a frivolous lawsuit and not harassing people in a shop or something. 123 Reply Share
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  • 19
    Mad at the wind blowing Karen So, I was working my very first job. And it was the 90s, before the term "Karen" got its slang meaning. But the behavior is still the same. I was a teenager, doing janitorial work at a local deli. It was winter, or as wintery as the city I used to live in got. Mostly, it was a lot of wind. In Fact, on this day, it was in excess of 40mph. But I still needed to go out and sweep.
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  • 20
    I still can hardly believe, that in 40+mph wind, people will still sit outside to eat. Some are unfazed and others just hate it the whole time, but persist for some reason. It's beyond me. Dirt and trash is blowing around. The sweeping was mostly grabbing trash that gets caught, and to dust away dirt that piled up in random spots. And tables still need to be wiped down regularly.
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  • 21
    So, I was on my third sweep of the outdoor eating area and some guy in business clothes that were wildly flapping in the wind, was outside trying to have lunch. It kinda looked like he was summoning some mysterious power or something dramatic like that. As I made my way past his table, he pointed into the wind and shrieked "Where is that wind coming from?"
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  • 22
    I looked down the street, and pointed in the same direction, then asked "You see that giant fan?" There actually turned out to be a tall antenna with one of those drum things on it in that direction?
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  • 23
    In surprise, he yelled "What?" I think he may have actually believed me for just a moment. Then he scowled and angry repeated his question. I can't remember the words I used, but I gave him the textbook definition of wind that is memorized in Earth Science class. "Don't get smart with me!" he yelled back.
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  • 24
    After he told me not to get smart with him, I just said "Okay. So the wind is actually coming from that giant fan over there. We pay a fee to the city for it!" As I walked off, the guy yelled "Why would you do such a thing? I'm gonna complain about this!"
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  • 25
    For kicks, I told my boss about it right after. He just laughed like he'd heard it before and said he's heard that one since he was my age, doing my job, when his dad was still running the business.
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