'You told me to handle them, hence I handled them': Entitled mother loses it after shopper gets her kids thrown out of the store

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 10, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

It takes a certain kind of parent to let their kids run amok in a store. We understand that kids can get rowdy; that's inevitable. We also understand that this mother may have tried to calm them down in the past to no avail. That being said, once they start tampering with the store products and once they start actively disrupting other customers, it's time to take control and at least attempt to restore order.

Not only did this woman refuse to try, but she ended up offloading her kids onto another customer at the store. Clearly, she had enough and was offended by the customer's request for her to calm her kids down. Thankfully, the customer knew exactly what would get this entitled mother to pay more attention to the situation at hand. The customer's daughter bore witness to the whole encounter and shared her side of the story via this thread on Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about some office Karens who got their comeuppance. 

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    MON "How dare you teach ME how to parent?" U.S.LNAVY
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    Entitled mother tells my mom to handle her kids M OC I posted this in r/Entitled Parents but someone commented that it counted as malicious compliance too, so I'm posting it here as well.
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    My (17f) mom (41f) took me out to get makeup the other day, for a friend whose birthday is coming up.
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    We entered the store and all was going really well. I was checking out concealers while my mom was on the other side of the shop looking through various shades of lipsticks.
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    Enter Entitled Mother (late 20s, f) with her devil spawn. I say devil spawn because her kids were misbehaving wildly, and she didn't bother even once to tell them to stop or something. Not even a minor rebuke. I say devil spawn because that about sums these two kids up. They were running wild around the shop, throwing testers around and being a general nuisance.
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    My mom stepped in when the kids started poking their slimy little fingers into the lipstick testers. I get it, they're just testers, but EW. People are likely going to use those to decide whether they like the shade or not and GOD KNOWS where those fingers have been. Like, one of them was legitimately picking his nose minutes ago.
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    My mom, having four kids of her own, looked around to find their parent. EM was the only one in the shop besides us. My mom called out to her and this is how the conversation went:
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    Mom: Excuse me, are these kids yours? (I know, very obvious, but my mom is a VERY polite person, so it's not odd to me) EM: yeah.
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    Mom: Can you please tell them to stop touching the testers? They're not toys. EM: if it's such a problem, why don't YOU handle them?
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    Oh, boy. My mom left the shop for a few minutes, and signalled me to not follow her. She came back with two buff security guards in tow. The kids were still poking their fingers in the testers. The guards walked up to the kids, and in the deepest baritone ever, one asked "Excuse me, what ARE you doing?"
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    The kids looked terrified and cue the waterworks. EM immediately stormed over and began reprimanding the guards for "scaring her poor wittle angels". She then saw my mom nearby.
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    EM: you did this! (At this point she was practically hissing like a cat) How dare you teach ME how to parent? Mom: (in an eerie monotone)you told me to handle them, hence I handled them.
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    She screamed more obscenities at my mom, the guards, anything around really, but the guards weren't having it and told her to leave. She created quite a scene but Thank everything that is holy, she left. My mom had quite the story to tell at dinner. A rather comedic encounter with an Entitled Parent.
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    Dripping Snarkasm. 12 hr. ago Your mom is gold, and you can tell her I said so!
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    Judgmental_puffer. 12 hr. ago Your mom is a bad ①! I would have never thought of the guards. Pure genius
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    Scared_Fruit8486 OP. 12 hr. ago guess she is what we could call a "veteran parent" (I have 3 other siblings younger than me)
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    ununseptimus · 12 hr. ago "How dare you teach ME how to parent?" That would imply she actually learned anything.
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    Hot-Blueberry6832. 12 hr. ago please tell your mom that I want to be her when I grow up
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