Karen driver mocks a helpful bystander as he changes her flat tire, he puts the flat tire back on her wheel and drives off, leaving her in the cold: 'You can call a tow truck'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 26, 2024 7:00 AM EST

We all want to be the type of people who help others without a second thought, but that is much easier said than done, mostly because people can be pretty ungrateful, which deters others from offering a helping hand.

There is a reason why we found a term to describe those entitled people who think they are owed everything, and that is because the world is full of them. So it is not surprising that right when you decide you are going to help someone else, that someone ends up being a full-blown Karen.

The good samaritan in this Reddit story was unluckily met with a Karen after deciding to pull over and help a broken-down car on one cold morning. The car had a lot of issues OP (original poster) couldn't help with, but he was able to help change the tire, which he thought would be appreciated. However, the Karen who was driving the car didn't like that OP wasn't able to magically fix her car completely, and she decided to tell him that.

This behavior made OP take his good deed right back, and leave Karen to fend for herself, keep scrolling to read the complete tale.

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    Pulled over to help a broken down car this morning.
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    Live in New England, its a high of 21 degree today. Freezing dothly cold. I was on my way to work this morning and saw a car with hazards on in entry to gas station. I pulled over,
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    parked across from them beside a pump and offered my assistance. I'm not a car guy, but have changed more than enough flat tires in my day that I can do it with ease.
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    Noticing that their tire was flat I grabbed my jack and got down and was talking to them (two women) through the wind cutting to the bone. They said "we have a flat and our
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    check engine light is on too, running real funny". I said "sorry to hear, maybe someone inside can take a look at it I don't know the first thing about engines". The
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    driver woman then looks over at my car, (a yellow dodge charger that's 19 years old, not a high end sportscar or anything fancy by any means.
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    it's just yellow so it stands out), and says "you drive a car like that and expect me to believe you know nothing about engines? yeah okay".
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    And looked away from me as if I disgusted her. You best believe I IMMEDIATELY started lowing the jack and putting that flat tire car right back down where it was and walked away. I told them "best of
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    luck" and got back into my nice warm vehicle and drove to work, which I was now late for. Hope they learn some manners before the next time
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    they break down. Change your own d.....n tire since you want to cop an attitude with the one good Samaritan helping you out.
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  • I don't know how to change a tire, so the few times when I found myself at the side of the road with a flat tire, I had to completely rely on the goodness of strangers' hearts. You can bet that every single person who offered to help me was met with utter gratitude. I could never treat these people as if they owe me something, and I wish everyone in the world felt the same.

    How hard is it to just say ‘Thank you’? Why must these people act like they are the center of the world? 

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    HUNGWHITEBO125 • 2d ago • Top 1% Commenter takes a special kind of person to insult the person helping them when they are under NO obligation to do so lol
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    Head_Razzmatazz7174 • 2d ago • They are from the generation where the guys that had a sports car spent hours in the garage working on them. What they forgot was it wasn't just one person, it was a group, and only one or two of
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    them really understood what was going on under the hood. The rest just stood around and learned what not to do so they didn't totally jack up the engine.
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    JacktheJacker92 OP 2d ago • Yeah man, I know many from that generation but sadly my father wasn't one of them, and other than put in gas or change a flat i'm useless with auto repair.
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    garrulouslump •2d ago • Edited 2d ago • I'm not defending her at all, but I definitely read this as a young, teen, likely sarcastic girl trying too hard to be teasing/playful and instead coming off as r de? Either way she learned a lesson D
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    JacktheJacker92 OP • 2d ago · No she had to be mid to late fourties. if anything she looked kind of affluent, and I'm sure she took one look at me in a hoodie and work boots and just assumed
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    I was a mill laborer (which funny enough, I am) and that I would know how to fix a car just because I look like a greaser lol.
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    ktatsanon • 2d ago • Even if you pulled up in a fancy sportscar, that doesn't automatically mean you know anything about engines. Good for you for walking away. They can call a tow truck themselves. People are way too entitled these days.
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    manilenainoz 2d ago Did you see her reaction?
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    JacktheJacker92 OP • 2d ago No sadly, I slunk out kind of defeated feeling honestly, like "why did I even bother". I said best of luck and left, maybe they thought I changed it that quickly lol.
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    • Tieger66 2d ago • maybe they were actually insulting his car rather than complimenting it "if you can keep that 19 year trashbucket running, you should have no trouble fixing ours!"
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    JacktheJacker92 OP.2d ago Lol maybe. The were all classy and driving an infinity so you totally could be right.
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    dinoooooooooos 2d ago Did they ever even say thank you?? ② I live in New England too- it's so cold outside. I would've been so over the moon happy anybody
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    even stopped in these times. Who wouldn't think that's a scam or start of a robbery. Good for you, let em learn a lesson hopefully. Maybe it sticks.
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    JacktheJacker92 OP • 2d ago Nope, not once.
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    Redsquirreltree • 2d ago. I would pay good money to hear the conversation inside that car while those two realized what they had done.
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    JacktheJacker92 OP • 2d ago • I dont think they had the self awareness to ever come to that realization.
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    aquainst1 2d ago • Good. For. YOU! Some people shout 'stupid' while saying something else.
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