'If they had just been a little kinder I would have let them know': Impatient Karens push passenger at security, then forget their laptop

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 26, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Airport security can bring out the worst in people. Unfortunately for this passenger, he had to endure a packed security line where every flight was getting delayed and people were gracious enough to let folks with less time before their flights to get to the front of the line. Unfortunately, not everyone was gracious, and this passenger, who was already dealing with time constraints, was pushed and shoved by two impatient Karens, who just so happened to be on the same flight.

After the Karens cut this Redditor on the security line, one of them forgot to retrieve their laptop after she went through. The TSA agent asked the Redditor if they knew who the laptop belonged to, but the Redditor decided to say nothing and to give these Karens the comeuppance they deserved. Once the boarding process began at the gate, they finally realized that their laptop was missing. That's what you get for projecting your stress onto others rather than treating those around you fairly.

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    Remember to be nice to people So last year I was catching a flight from Berlin to Dublin.
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    Anyway, for some reason the airport was at a standstill. It was taking 3- 4 hrs just to get through security. EVERY flight was delayed.
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    In the ensuing confusion people were letting others forward who had a flight that was about to leave. I will mention that people were really really kind. So anyway, they let
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    me through so I could get to security earlier so I could hopefully make my flight. They do this for about 4 of us.
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    Sooo we get to the front, mind you the 4 for us are going to the same flight. As I am taking my laptop out, this lady and her friend come in front of my
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    but she makes snide remarks and pushes me out of the way (more like a light shove) generally being r Now I
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    understand that everyone is stressed with this massive delay but we're going to the same flight and I'm moving as fast as I can.
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    Anyway they go through before me, in the rukus they caused one of them forgot their laptop in the tray. Security asks if I know who it belongs to and I say no (even though I saw them forget it).
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    Now as we are walking to our gate they realise that they've lost a laptop and the airport is a mess. I
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    see them start to look everywhere and retracing. their steps and asking people around them if they saw the laptop. I just
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    looked at them stress about it and run around like headless chickens. Turns out we were on the same aisle. They were
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    complaining the whole time about how they will have to contact the airport etc to locate the laptop. If they had just been a little kinder I would have let them know
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    they forgot their laptop in the tray. Remember to practice kindness.
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    Tasty-... 5h ago. "Oh, I saw a laptop in Security, but I assumed you were super-efficient as you pushed us out of the way - so it couldn't have been yours..."
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    bigmikeyfla . 6h ago. Ok that was petty. It must have made you feel really good to see them going crazy trying to find it. You
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    could have waited until the last minute and maybe they would have missed the flight by trying to go back to security to look for it.
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    Always_B_B... 3h ago. • Had a guy push in front of my wife and I at an airport. We said excuse me, which caught the attention of the TSA agent and said he was for cutting the line.
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    He said oh you have regular tickets, I have first class, which by the way had already boarded. The TSA agent told the guy he had to go to secondary screening,
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    which was a big deal then. The TSA agent then whispered to us, "this is how we deal with people" with a wink. This what happens when you think you're important.
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