Entitled lady hassles random woman at the thrift store, so woman buys every single pants in that Karen's size: ‘It cost me less than $30… One of my proudest petty moments.'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
May 10, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

If you have ever been thrifting before, then you know the kinds of weirdos and Karens those places can attract. It's like a beacon for entitlement—though, you can argue any service industry/ retail/ customer service place is that beacon too… Imagine it's a Sunday, you just got paid, you treated yourself to your favorite iced coffee and decided to go to the thrift store. Maybe you'll find the fit of a lifetime for under $20! But then you get there and another customer decides the want to ruin your time shopping. So they follow your every move and even try to take the items you look at away so they can have them. Like, what in tarnation? WHY?! 

 

This is exactly what happened to an avid thrifter who came to Reddit to share the experience. However, she didn't just let it slide or walk away, she had revenge in her mind… 

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  • Long story short, she bought every single pants the store had in the Karen's size—which is HILARIOUS. Bravo on that epic petty move. The whole story though truly makes it even more satisfying. Was this Karen at that thrift store just to make this lady's day a nightmare? It seems so… 

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  • "Petty revenge on a thrift store weirdo!"

    I am a pretty avid thrift store shopper. I thought I had seen it all! I will talk to anyone and I am also a freak magnet so, there is always something. I wear
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  • plus sized clothing which always has a smaller and more limited selection to chose from. While looking through shirts a woman was clearly grumpy that I
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  • was where she wanted to be looking. She kept getting right in my personal space and kept moving my shopping cart aggressively. I
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  • walked through a few more aisles and started looking at pants. Low and behold my new best friend shows up and begins doing the same thing. This
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  • time, as soon as I pass over a pair of pants she keeps ripping them out of my hands while I move them down the rack. After about 4 pairs I look at her
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  • and say "boy, this is weird". She does it 2 more times and I am over it. I grab the rest of the pants that are in the size we are both looking for in my cart. Every single pair. I didn't
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  • care what they looked like or even if they were in the right place. There were about 15 pairs left. I had a 50% off coupon, loyalty points and this thrift store is actually
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  • reasonably priced so it cost me less than $30. I sorted them at home and re- donated the ones I didn't want. One of my proudest petty moments.
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  • CoderJoe1 You metaphorically pantsed her.
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  • avid-learner-bot That's one way to handle a persistent annoyance, though I wonder how the thrift store staff reacted to the chaos, did they just shrug it off or did they have their own stories about shoppers like that?
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  • SordoCrabs I was working for an online retailer, and had a customer in our e-chat that was being obnoxiously stupid, hemming and hawing about whether to order a piece of jewelry that was low in quantity. She didn't have any questions about the gem, the metal used, none of that. It was very much "Should I order it? Or no?", and I was firmly "I wish I could tell
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  • you- I don't know your sense of style well enough to venture an opinion. I do notice that we have very few of these left, though." It was the afternoon, and people can cancel orders risk free before midnight passes on the order. I told her as much, but she was still holding my ass hostage in the live chat for utter nonsense. So, while I was typing to her on my work computer, I pulled up our website
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  • on my mobile, and ordered the absolute last unit of the bling in question. "Goodness ma'am, I am sorry to share that this item has sold out. I hope that it makes a return in the near future if you decide to add it to your collection." and she ended the chat soon after that. I cancelled the order while on my lunch break.
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  • FreddyForshadowing You work any kind of retail job long enough, you'll have plenty of stories like this. Doesn't have to be a thrift store, it could be just your regular retail store. Maaaaany moons ago, in what seems like another life, I worked at a fast food place. I was working the drive through taking orders
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  • and money. It's Christmas Eve day and some lady comes through with her kid because nothing says nice holiday meal like cheap greasy hamburgers. Anyway, she hands me a bunch of gift certificates that were like 2-3 years old, so I shouldn't have accepted them in the first place because they expire after 1 year which is written on the certificate. I'd been in that job for over a year and saw a
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  • bunch of people get promoted who started after me, and who couldn't even do some of the simple extra sh like put syrup in the shake machine or swap out the syrup bags for the drink dispensers, even some people who quit, went to work somewhere else, then came back. It was close to the end of my shift, Christmas Eve, so I just didn't give a f when I'm only making a tiny bit over
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  • minimum wage. She hands me like $15 worth for maybe $10 worth of food, and then gets extremely ped off when I hand her back the unneeded gift certificates. It's also written on the certificate that they can't be redeemed for cash. She starts yelling at me about how I'm ruining her Christmas and then floors it to the next window, all like 15 feet, to get her food. Couple minutes later a manager comes
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  • back and exchanges the gift certificates for cash out of my drawer, so I can only imagine the lady was still raving. That was all caught on a security camera, so the most I'd get in trouble for was accepting the expired certificates, but no one said a word about the whole incident to me.
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  • Anyway, moral of the story is... there are a lot of crazy people out there. My experience has taught me to try to be patient with retail employees. There are limits and exceptions of course, but as long as they don't seem to be actively trying to screw with me, I try to let it go.
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