Guy upgrades parking pass to get even and take Male Karen's prime parking spot: 'This is what happens when you act like a Karen'

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    "Male Karen yells at me for being in his spot. Fine, it's my spot now.
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    Male Karen yells at me for being in "his spot". Fine, it's my spot now. I work from home full time and rarely drive unless I'm grocery shopping or out for an appointment. In my complex, there are "non-reserved" spots and "reserved" spots in the underground garage, all of which are NOT assigned. As long as you have a "reserved" sticker on your vehicle, any of the "reserved" spots (which are all labeled "reserved") are fair game.
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    I have a non-reserved sticker, because it's $40 cheaper than the "reserved" pass. I was coming back from an appointment and turned into my neighbor's "reserved" spot so that I could back my car into the open, "non- reserved" spot behind me. Lo and behold, male Karen in his rusty 2007 Rav4, starts honking at me for being in "his spot", telling me that "I can't park there" because I don't have a "reserved" sticker. I told him I was only backing out.
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    I probably should've let it go, but his Karen-ness me off so much. As I was getting on the elevator, I quickly realized he only wanted to park there was because it was RIGHT NEXT to the elevator. A lightbulb went off in my head and I made my way to the rental office (it's in same building) and ask to upgrade my parking pass. It's an extra $40 I'll be shelling out but it's worth the petty revenge.
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    I'm waiting for him to leave for work tomorrow so I can move my car into "his spot" and leave it there for god knows how long. There are perks to being fully remote. Tl;dr: Male Karen yells at me for being in "his spot", I upgrade my parking pass and leave my car in "his spot”.
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    Edit: I didn't realize this would have blown up the way they did, as I was only using this as a way to vent! Thank you all for the rewards and for those who reveled in the pettiness with me :)
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    sweetaco This is the pettiness I look for 3.9K ☐ Reply ↑ Share
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    -Swade- Several years ago I lived in a tower apartment complex. Parking was ample (provided you paid) but there were no assigned spots. You can imagine this led to a fair amount of jockeying for the primo spots. Now personally I don't mind walking. I'd rather have "reserved" spot farther away because I know it'll be there and I don't have to waste time searching. So I'd always head as far back as possible and take whatever I found.
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    Cue 6 months in and some contractor (comcast etc) had an oversized truck with orange cones around it for a couple days. I thought nothing of it, after all I was parked far away from the primo spots, which is where a comcast truck should park too. But after a few days they left only for a single cone to be left behind "blocking" a spot. "That's weird," I thought, seeing the single cone clearly labeled 'comcast' placed in the middle of a spot, "they must be coming back next week."
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    But they never returned. Instead the spot that had previously held the cone would always be occupied by a black Audi. And it was easy to tell because the Audi had a personalized plate. Now as a fan of reserved spots I didn't mind. If all this person wanted was certainty we could have been parking neighbors forever. But this particular person would use their cone to "upgrade" the spot when they could. So if they saw a better open spot when they left they'd toss the cone down and return and take t
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    Well you can imagine within a few weeks they were almost at the "best" spot right next to the trash room and the elevator up. But I'd been watching their climb. So I waited until the day they finally had their cone in the absolute best spot! And during prime parking hours no less. Did I take their spot? No! Of course not. (That's a good way to get your car keyed). Instead I drove past it on my route towards the back, parked, and walked to the elevator. Glancing around I made sure the coast was c
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    As you might imagine that primo spot was taken by someone else. And I got to see the black Audi with the personalized plates parked back near me. Their ire I'm sure directed at the person in "their" spot, not at some rando who had watched their climb and fall from the back. > ↑ 2.3K 2.3K Reply ↑ Share
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    CandylandCanada This is what happens when you tick off the person who has just enough disposable time and income to your chain. 2.2K Reply ↑ Share
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    xiinya OP. He f around and is about to find out. 1.1K Reply ↑ Share
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    [deleted] Once I worked at a company with a garage under the office. We had a garagemanager. He wanted to 'guide' cars in the morning to the parking spots most far away from the door. Why? Nobody knows, since there was no good reason, but he liked it that way. To guide, he used cones and one big cone with a plate on it with an arrow, to tell you which way you had to drive.
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    One day, he forgot to put the cone with the plate on it away and after my work was done, I walked to my car and saw it there. The manager only worked in the mornings, so he was gone by this time. I looked and nobody was there, since I worked late that day. I took the cone, with the plate, and tossed it in the backseat of my car. At home I put it in my shed and kept it for years.
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    The next day an e-mail was send to everybody working in the office-building if anyone had seen the cone with plate. I never spoke up and after that we were able to park just where we'd like. Everybody happy, except the manager... Ө 274 ⇓ Reply ↑ Share
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    Teal Housewife This is GLORIOUSLY petty. I love it. 160 Reply ↑ Share
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    Hallows Eve666 Lol this is what happens when you act like a Karen. Good for you for not putting up with it. I did a similar thing when someone honked at me for my parking spot at the mall and began to freak out like a Karen also. I was about to pull out and leave but instead I just put it back in park, got back out smiling at them and went back into the mall for a coffee and shopped around a bit more for some birthday gifts for my husband and sister... Moral of every story- Don't be a Karen lol

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