'She was just expecting me to move': Karen tries to force passenger to give up seat for entitled 8-year-old kid, passenger won't budge

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 20, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Karens seem to go out of their way to make themselves known on public transportation. Whether it's starting an argument over an invasion of their personal space (they're usually in the wrong here) or talking loudly on the phone, these are people who feel compelled to make a scene wherever they go.

Here, we have a parent who has clearly raised her perfectly healthy but endlessly annoying 8-year-old son to be just as entitled as she is. A passenger, the person who shared this Reddit thread, saw the Karen and her kid enter the subway and they immediately made eye contact. The Karen slightly gestured for the passenger, who was tired after a long day at work, to move for her kid, who was again, perfectly healthy and old enough to be able to stand on his own for a bit. The fact that she didn't even feel the need to politely ask the passenger to move says everything we need to know about who was in the right here. Thankfully, the Redditor was confident enough to deny this entitled family what they wanted. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about a group of literal army Karens.

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    23 Street Q
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    AITA for refusing to give my seat to a lady and her child? I (23F) was on my way home from work on the subway, totally exhausted. My company
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    had organized a sports event that I was busy with all day. My commute is pretty long-about 50 minutes. Luckily, I got a
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    seat and was about to doze off when, at the next station, a lady and her young boy (who looked about 8 years old) got on.
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    The lady was carrying her son, even though he looked perfectly capable. of walking on his own.
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    She walked straight toward me and motioned with her head for me to get up. She didn't even say anything, and it felt like she was just expecting me to move.
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    The boy wasn't a toddler ―he looked around 8 years old, so I didn't see why she was carrying him.
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    Something about her face triggered me, so I bluntly said "no." She seemed surprised and started.
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    talking about how someone my age should give up their seat for a mother carrying her child.
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    She also made a few comments about how the younger generation is disrespectful. The lady
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    herself looked like she was in her late 30s, and again, the boy didn't seem to need to be carried at all.
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    A few people gave me dirty looks, and I felt awkward, but I stayed in my seat. However, once I got off and was walking home, I couldn't shake the feeling that maybe I was in the wrong.
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    AITA? Update- I was sitting in a regular seat, not a priority seat. And yes, I actually saw the child running and jumping around on the
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    subway, shouting at times. It's not just an assumption—he seemed perfectly fine. The mother didn't bother to discipline him while he was shouting. Someone
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    else eventually offered her a seat, and after that, she just sat down and started talking on her phone, probably complaining about the younger generation.
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    Ancasta... • 7h ago • NTA. The woman picked you out of all the other people who were seated.
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    She made a decision on sight that you didn't need that seat. If there was a reason her child needed it, she should be aware
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    enough that other people might also have hidden disabilities that she doesn't do that. She could also use words
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    to say 'my son has a disability, are you able to give up your seat?'
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    Benefici... 7h ago • Nta If she politely asked id consider it, however the head
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    motion and the entitlement, she can stand for 10000 years as far as im concerned lol
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    wheelar... 7h ago. Absolutely NTA. It's clear from the added info that the lady was just trying a ploy to get a seat.
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    Just because you're young doesn't mean your needs matter less than those of a fellow regular passenger, also plenty of young people have invisible
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    dis es or S injuries. She and others had no way of knowing if you were one.
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    The simple fact is the priority seats exist for people who are elderly, disabled or pregnant/wrangling a young child, and
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    people like myself who need one usually ask politely. She chose to target you in a regular seat
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    because you're young, you had no obligation to return her disrespect with accommodation of her entitlement.
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