Craft store Karen accosts fellow customer and accuses them of being an employee of the store: 'She accused me of just not wanting to help her'

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    "I finally snapped..."
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    I don't know where your custom order is L This happened to me several years ago, but I just found this subreddit and decided to share. Around Halloween I usually go shopping around for new skulls/skeletons to add to the bone pile. I was in a Joann Fabrics dressed in complete black with a skeleton hoodie on, and at the time the workers there wore a green polo and khaki pants. I'm just minding my own business deciding if I really needed that $20 werewolf skull or buy smaller skulls for less, my ar
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    She didn't move by and suddenly started asking where her special order of a custom flower pot was. I ignored her thinking she was talking to the person on the phone, when she repeated it again but louder. After the third time she then said (to the person on the phone) "I can't believe this is ignoring me". That got my attention, so I looked around thinking there was an employee nearby that I hadn't noticed but her glares were at me.
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    She processed to tell at me for a manager, so I told her the obvious "I don't work here" which upset her even more. She accused me of just not wanting to help her, called me a again, and was shouting out for a manager. I finally snapped and said something along the lines of "I'm just here to get boned and go home." (Not a spelling error, I did say it that way) Then gestured to my outfit, explaining no employee would be dressed as weird as me.
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    The manager came after all the shouting, listened to her ranting about me being a bad employee and using dirty language towards a senior citizen. The manager was an awesome guy who apparently had a bad day because he asked if she wore glasses because anyone could see I don't work there. He asked how he could help her and then informed her she is in JoAnn's and that they don't do custom flower pots. After getting her away from me, he gave me $5 off my werewolf skull. I still have that skull in my
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    SlutForDownVotes · 6 hr. ago "...using dirty language towards a senior citizen..." Senior citizens are a protected class when it comes to age discrimination. OP is clearly an equal opportunity user of dirty language. I don't see the problem here.
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    trafdlo 4 hr. ago My 80yo MIL is my primary source of knowledge for Spanish swear words. I don't know how I ever got. through life not knowing "coño".
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    TeslasAndKids · 6 hr. ago Dude, Joann's entitlement with the older crowd is real... I find the cutting counter area to be the worst of them.
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    Yourmomdrums · 2 hr. ago True facts. I used to work the cutting table and notions at JoAnns and the boomer set were either sweet as pie or absolute nightmares with no middle ground... and the sweeties would go nightmare in a snap if one thing went wrong.
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    • Repulsive_Army5038 4 hr. ago LOL. A senior citizen in JoAnn's told me about CRAFT days - Can't Remember A Thing. And now I'm older and know understand exactly why she how she felt.

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